MONK-TAO Live Stream #90: Brotherhood And Fraternity

Greetings gentlemen and welcome my brothers thank you very much for joining me here once again today at whiskey stills and tumble weeds for your monk towel live stream the way of the MiG Tao monk as always I want to thank you very much for taking time out of your day and

Out of what I’m sure is your busy weekend to spend a little time with yours truly out here in the sticks and also as always we are coming at you live from the foothills of the beautiful Canadian Rocky Mountains here in southwestern Alberta on this fabulous Saturday February the 1st the first day

Of the new month so hopefully you men out there had yourself a good week enjoying your weekend here thus far trust everything is going your way and as per usual we’re gonna you know the usual song and dance for getting ease into this thing slowly

Here and if some of the fellows a chance to make their way over but the notifications do their thing man that just cracks me up these days till then of course once again I want to thank you for joining me here today it’s not too bad of a day out there in my

Neck of the woods we’ve had rain actually mixed with wet snow and that’s because it’s well above zero well above zero Celsius forecast for today’s plus seven and I think it are it’s already around +5 4 plus 6 so not too shabby especially for this time of year this

Time last year we were in the minus 20s Celsius so yeah this is pretty good pretty good so I see we’ve got a few of the fellows that are already kind enough to make their way over here uh let’s see what key supremacy is here howdy Chui CJ

And aap 5:30 are here as well howdy fellas and of course the mighty make tower warrior helping to keep an eye on things for us so welcome and thank you my brothers for joining me and of course for those of you that will tune in later

On and the lurk squad shout outs as well thank you for taking time out of your day as I mentioned earlier to come by support yours truly so for today on this Saturday February the 1st episode number 9 zero the big 900 here for your monk tau livestream today I wanted to discuss

The idea of brotherhood and fraternity and yes ap five-thirty saying we should discuss the chroma virus a little bit yeah we may get into that a little bit I do have prior engagement earlier later on today early this evening so I can’t go too long here today I’m probably only

Gonna go for about an hour and a half or so but yeah we can definitely dip our toes into those waters a little bit for sure hey Jeff burns is here he says how you go on a yeah good Jeff in Canada we say good day and our

Brothers down under g’day g’day mate yes who could Jeff oka old Steve Hoka Hoka doesn’t have to worry about the coronavirus he doesn’t have to worry about putting on n95 3m mask he doesn’t have to worry about goggles gloves ear protection any of that stuff Hoka is he’s got the immune system of

King Kong see we’ve got Mito thread here as well how do you thread good to see you arm of Thor I always a pleasure there thank you very much for for popping in so as I mentioned we’re just gonna slowly have ease our way into this thing

Here today and I don’t know like oh do you fellas get notifications at all anymore when I go live me generally I try to you know I schedule it in advance and I try to have the stream itself go on a public notification you know at

Least 15 minutes to an hour maybe prior to going live but I don’t know if notifications even go out at all because I often put stuff up as posts from my channel and you know just sharing links for different videos or stuff like that and I don’t think those are being seen

At all by too many too many of the fellows so I don’t know you tube you know who tubes with their games all the games that they love to play so all I would do is reiterate once again the idea to make sure that not only you’re doing yourself a favor but

Do the favor for all your favorite content creators and make sure that you’re subscribed or still subscribed to your favorite channels make sure that you know if you want to be notified for any of their uploads or any of their postings and that sort of thing make

Sure you hit the bell and all that song and dance all that rigmarole so I don’t know seems pretty ineffectual when it’s you know anything that has to do with you know focusing on on men’s issues man’s topic of discussion meet au red pill even any is sort of the manosphere type

Stuff it doesn’t seem to matter because it’s all shadowed band and that sort of thing and I mean that’s something that I you know something that when I started this channel almost four years ago now and started uploading content and hosting live streams that’s something

That I knew I would have to contend with but of course over the past a year or two especially it’s gotten much worse right so all we can do is just every once in a while like I said make the rounds to your favorite channels go to

That channels home page on the who tubes make sure that you’re still subscribed to that channel or even unsubscribe and re-subscribe a lot of times that may show that you’re subscribed but you are in fact not there’s all kinds of goofy games going on with that and all you can

Do is try to do the best that you can to give that algorithm the middle finger try to screw that algorithm a little bit CJ says he got a notice so okay well he pieces he got one too okay well that’s that’s shocking shocking that’s actually kind of surprising but

You know that’s good news good to hear at least so we before we dive into this yeah I want to address the coronavirus a little bit I have to admit that I’m not as well-informed as some other some of our other brothers here maybe I would recommend of course tuning into Mattel

Values over at his channel because he’s been working very hard to keep all of us informed and he’s he tries the best to his ability to sift through the disinformation and misinformation you know do his due diligence if you will to make sure that he’s trying to get us the

Most accurate and the most up-to-date information as possible but with that being said yeah you will certainly address some some of those issues here today first and foremost of course I would caution all of you men as I always do to keep a level head maintain you know a realistic level of

Logic and understanding do your own homework try to get your information from multiple sources of course try to try to avoid the one-sided lopsided a point of view or opinion that’s being broadcast out there from the mainstream media outlets and try to get your information from alternate news sources online and whatnot

Of course even though you know the old who tubes here can be obviously as we know very skewed there’s a few ways around that there’s a couple of channels that you could subscribe to that kind of try sidestep all that for us in advance right like I’ve mentioned of course

McTell though he’s doing a fine job over there he’s been going up for every day for about a week now at least trying to bring us information I for me personally I I subscribed to a channel here on on the who tubes called Canadian prepper

Because he he is also on top of the situation and he made a very good point actually as if you’re going to type into the search window at the top of the YouTube page you know coronavirus he suggests to go down and filter it so you filter it in

Terms of first of all you click on it gives you options whether you want to go by the the hour the day the week so I would click on maybe the day and then you can also filter it by channel so you click on channel and what that will do

Was it’ll give you only channels that are discussing only that topic and only of that let’s say that day if that’s the filter that you’re using and then and that allows you to scroll through and eliminate all the you know the CNN channels you know all the mainstream media channels you can

You know scroll past that and get to get to the needy greedy get to some of the perhaps the more accurate stuff or stuff at least that’s been dissected a little more in a little more detail scratching a little bit or deep you know digging a little deeper than just scratching the

Surface and regurgitating or parroting echoing a lot of the same crap that you see on you know the major news networks or what have you so that would be the first thing that I would do is to make sure that you know you’re getting your information in a the most informative

And logical way that you can don’t get caught up in all the hype and all the hullabaloo you know again all that misinformation and disinformation there’s a lot of stuff out there that I mean it’s it’s hard to sift through and it’s hard to quantify what we’re getting

And it’s hard to qualify what we’re getting you know so the more filters you can put up there you could at least try to weed out and get get a little bit more of an accurate understanding the second thing I would caution you is of

Course not to get caught up in all of the the you know the sort of panic that seems to be out there every day more and more the level of panic the level of you know sort of bombastic three-ring circus point of view of delivering the information you know don’t get caught up

In all of that yes we may be seeing video or pictures coming out of some areas of China where there are um you know they’re digging up roads in and out of certain towns or cities or putting up barriers or checkpoints and all of that sort of thing but even though the world

That we live in is getting smaller and smaller over the past you know fifty to a hundred years it’s still a pretty big place that we live in and China is still very far away for most of us in the West rate when it comes to Europe you know the United

Kingdom Great Britain and and of course over here in the new world right kannada nadia and our brothers to the south in the US and in Central and South America but with that being said there’s still a lot of travel still a lot of national and international flights zipping and

Bebop and around all over this swirling ball and thus in outer space so say be mindful make sure that you’re not you know just just be aware of your own state of mind you know make sure that you’re not slipping into that that ideology of panic because when you start

Feeding that panic now that becomes a pretty big monster pretty quickly and then your your logical clear thought ends up taking a backseat of course the other thing the third that I would recommend of course is make sure and I’ve been saying this since day one it’s something that I practice I’ve been

Practicing for a long time in my life is make sure that your preps are in order it’s never too late to start prepping long term food storage and first-aid equipment water purification and filtration systems making sure that you have contingency plans if you know crazy stuff starts happening like the power

Going out or your your access to different services be you know dry up or become non-existent so and this is just sound advice for any man at any time right it’s always good just to make sure that you have for me my rule of thumb this is at the bare minimum three months

Of long term food storage six months is better a year is even better still but you know you’ve got a you’ve got to be realistic you got to do these things in baby steps unless you’ve you know you’ve got tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars at your disposable at the

Disposal I don’t expect anybody to go out and and buy you know one year’s worth of of all this stuff all in one shot of course gotta be got to be realistic about these things but baby steps chip away at it slowly and indeed make sure

That you have your your preps in order you know that old saying right hope for the best and prepare for the worst many of us myself included are former Boy Scouts and what is the motto to this very day of the Boy Scouts and that is

To be prepared and that of course means being prepared for all kinds of events that could come your way anything from you know contagion type things like this corona virus or any other airborne or waterborne contagion but also just being prepared for natural disasters man-made disasters you know I’ve I’ve mentioned

As well in the past you know you’ve got to tailor that to the area that you live in so if you live in the desert you’re not gonna prepare necessarily for avalanches or heavy snowfall right but where I am I do prepare for avalanches and the heavy snowfall the power going

Out which has been known to happen there’s no volcanoes or earthquakes where I am so I don’t have to worry about that kind of thing so you know as easy and as basic as it may sound it’s good to just take an hour and sit down

Literally with a paper or notepad and a pen and and prioritize different different events that can happen that are specific to your area in your region and plan accordingly in in that sort of pecking order of importance right the azan the zombie apocalypse that should be the very bottom of your list let’s

Get real here the chances of us in the next six months to a year walking around in a sort of Walking Dead type scenario are pretty slim so you know if you live in California for example you know top eater list should be preparing for things like earthquakes

And everything that can come along with that you know maybe civil unrest would be next on your list especially in California where you have a bunch of you know the leftists running around with their agenda and they’re all hyped up and you know run around like mad fools

And again you know these aren’t these aren’t things that I expect anybody to go out to you know your local price club and load up hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of food and candles and batteries and flashlights and and then go into your local sporting goods store

And loading up on ammunition and knives and guns and all that all in one shot right what I started doing years and years ago was just whenever I would do my weekly grocery shop and and go to the grocery store you know if I I plan on

Spending a hundred bucks I would just add on an extra 20 bucks and that extra 20 bucks would go to you know things like write bags of rice bags of dry beans canned goods that have long shelf life now make sure you check your dates your best before dates some of those can

Be stretched of course right if you you buy let’s say cans of tuna for example and the best before date is two years from now well if you store that in a cool dark sort of a climate-controlled type of space like if you have a basement or a root cellar or a

Crawlspace in your home you know you could probably stretch that as an extra six months to a year it’s not you know as soon as that that best-before date switches over it’s not like it’s instantly gonna go bad it’s it’s a very very long drawn-out process before that

Food becomes inedible right for the most part it just starts to slowly lose its its flavor its texture and slowly starts to lose its nutritional value but again that doesn’t happen at the flip of a flip of a switch as soon as the best-before date expires right

Even 20 bucks for a lot of people these days you know can seem like a lot of money so you know if you’ve got to cut that in half to ten bucks or even cut that in half again to five dollars you know you can uh you can go to price

Clubs you can go to discount supermarkets you know and five dollars can get you you know a two pound bag of rice and a couple of cans of tuna and if you just do that every week or once every couple of weeks before you know it you’ve got three months worth of food

And again like I said three months is a pretty ideal bare minimum you know you can you can hunker down quite well for three months quite easily I think you know and then once you’ve got that established then you can start building on that right you know if you’ve got a

Little bit more disposable income I you know at your fingertips you know you can buy yourself a food dehydrator or a food freeze drying machine and then you can make your own long-term food storage sort of MRE type things right we buy the mylar bags and the vacuum sealer and you

Can prepare your own very tasty very nutritious meals that if they’re freeze-dried can last up to thirty years if they’re dehydrator they can last up to 15 to 20 years of course these machines and these systems are a little bit more expensive right you can spend upwards of 1,500 to 2,000 dollars or

More but you know if you pardon the pun if you squirrel away a little bit out of time and save up don’t extend yourself beyond your means you know before long you may have enough in a separate bank account or something like that just through six months or a year of savings

Tighten your belt a little bit and do without certain luxury items and then you can funnel that towards things like food dehydrators or freeze-dried machines and that sort of thing but also dollar stores and that sort of thing or a great resource you know just but I wouldn’t necessarily

Say for food items because the reason they’re able to sell them so cheap is because the the expiry date or the best before date doesn’t have as much of a longevity right rather getting two years at a can of tuna you may only get a year’s worth before that best before

Date but things like candles and flashlights that don’t require batteries they’re just the crank flashlights you know things like that bottles of alcohol that you can use to make your own alcohol stoves and all of that sort of thing you can get a bargain discount stores dollar stores very very easily

And of course as always you get what you pay for so when it comes to things like flashlights batteries knives means of self-defense such as whistles crossbows bows and arrows firearms and ammunition you get what you pay for so you know I would recommend maybe spending a little

Bit more and avoiding the bargain crappy stuff especially for tools like multi-tool knives you know like Leatherman nor Gerber knives and multi tools and that sort of thing compasses and whistles and you know ferrocene rods and all of that it’s it’s best to spend a little more batteries so that you know

Sometimes it is something to be said for name-brand when it comes to equipment like that especially when you know your own life is at stake you don’t want to roll the dice on your own well-being as a man of course and that’s something that we talk about here let me tell all

The times your own personal well-being as a man that should be that should be first before most but at the end of the day you don’t want to blindfold yourself and just randomly throw darts at a dartboard and hope for the best you know you’ve got to have a good plan so again

I reiterate what I said what I mentioned a few moments ago take some time to sit down and physically write down a plan for yourself make a list of priorities and then make a list of items that are going to fulfill those priorities for you and

Just give you a greater chance for your safety and again that can be anything that can be anything from you know a heavy storm whether it’s snow or a thunderstorm that knocks out your power for a week – you know – you know uh you know a pandemic or some kind of major

Statewide province-wide disaster or nationwide disaster or some kind of global disaster and you know of course it’s it’s one thing to stock up on all of these things and it’s one thing to say yeah I’ve got you know I’ve got means to start fires and you know and

I’ve got my alcohol stove but it’s one thing to have them and another thing to to have the knowledge in the skill set to use them so don’t just buy that stuff and leave it in the package and throw it in a bag or in a Rubbermaid container

Rubbermaid bin in the corner of your bedroom and leave it that you’ve got to use these items and make sure that you’re well-practiced well-versed make sure that you’re very familiar with how to use these things you know matches and lighters do run out ferrocene rods you know Flint steel and all that sort

Of thing they take a long time to run out so make sure you know how to use that sort of thing properly make sure that you not only know how to start a fire with matches but that you also know how to start a fire using you know a

Ferro rod and all of that and and you know if you don’t if you live in an area that they have access to wooded areas or over the country where you can practice these things and you know they practice in your backyard or you know if you live

In a condo or an apartment building or something like that in the city core and you don’t have the backyard go to a friend’s place or a relative’s place and ask them if you can practice these things in their backyard and of course I would also just quickly mention to be

Aware of prying eyes don’t load up your pickup truck with a year’s worth of supplies and backup to your garage and you know for Joe Blow neighbor and all the world to see you unloading all the stuff into your home because then you’re just painting a giant target on your

Back so make sure that you’re discreet discretion is a better part of valor here and you want to make sure that that’s another important step to ensuring your safety because when the [ __ ] does hit the fan you don’t want every Tom Dick and Harry come kicking

Trying to kick down into your door to get at your stuff you know when what Chicken Little is running around and the sky is falling and people are screaming and yelling because their hair is on fire you know that’s when it comes time to say okay you know what I’m gonna be selfish

Hey you know that’s when being selfish is is a good thing and you’re gonna look after yourself and ensure your own safety and of course these are all decisions that you have to make if you want to help your neighbors or if you want to get involved in some kind of

Local prepping group in your community then then that’s up to you so you know these are all very common-sense things that I think many of us should be practicing all the time and as I said before it’s never too late to start right it may seem like it when you watch

A lot of this there’s crazy stuff on on the news or on the who tubes you know of what’s going on in China and all that that you know you’re starting to see a lot of footage already now were stores the shelves are becoming empty and people are starting to panic

At that point it’s too late right I could say it’s never too late to start but at that point it is too late of course the the general rule of thumb is you know within three days or so you know you know roughly 72 hours most food stores whether it’s your local little

Convenience store or food store whether it’s a big-box big chain grocery store three days three days worth food and then their shelves are empty and I know this from personal experience I’ve worked not only in smaller community food stores but in large big-box chain grocery stores and I got

To tell you they don’t have back rooms anymore like when a customer says oh can you check in the back to see if you have any more of these can the soup yeah no sorry there is no backroom there there is no built-ins sort of warehouse at the back of grocery stores anymore

They they were all run on a just-in-time delivery service where as your items are being scanned at the checkout counter or at the till those barcodes into the system and the system automatically reorders those items so three days three days tops so you don’t want to be that that guy

That you know two or three days in you’ve suddenly realized that you don’t have fresh water and you don’t have enough food now you’re having to fight all the screaming drooling masses for those last packs of bottled water and cans of soup so so with that being said

Once again I want to welcome you to whiskey stills in tumbleweeds and thank you very much as always for joining me here for your muck towel live stream the way of the McDowell Munk on this Saturday February the 1st episode number 90 here and I wanted to discuss

Brotherhood and fraternity and that kind of ties into this whole you know prepping things well you know if you can get in touch with some good men that are in your area that are of like mind and are already perhaps thinking about or have already started some kind of

Prepping group that you can get involved with I would suggest of course as always that you make sure that you have something that you can bring to the table something that you can offer to the group and you know do your homework with that group to make sure that it’s not

Just a bunch of good old boys with lots of guns and that’s it make sure that it’s a very diverse group of people with a diverse skill set and all of them in their own way has something to offer the group and something to bring to the

Table you know people that are good with machinery or mechanics you know people that are gonna be able to keep the generator going or your windmills going or your solar panels going you know somebody that’s maybe in the health health industry doctor or a nurse or even a you know worst-case scenario a

Veterinarian somebody that’s good with gardening or farming or horticulture or somebody that knows how to to germinate seeds grow plants and harvest those plants they know what’s you know what’s easy to grow and what’s the most nutritious for your area you know all of these things are things to consider

Right probably somebody that’s in law enforcement or in the military or retired law enforcement or retired military it would be good as well video has a very good understanding of security and you know things like putting up safety perimeters all of these things are important so if you

Have any of these skills to offer it might be a good idea to get a group together in your area or in your community you know and when the chips are down it doesn’t matter meet our or not it doesn’t matter when the chips are down it’s just a matter of being safe

And trying to realistically focus on that light at the end of the tunnel and making sure that you have a better chance of coming out on the other side whether it is three months six months a year five years even you know depending on the severity of the situation will

Depend of course on how long it is before you’re able to come out your hobbit hole if you will and start to reestablish things right so as we move along here of course I just want to once again just take a second to welcome all the fellows that have taken some time

Out of their day you know that we can the join me as I mentioned earlier arm of Thor is here as well as me tell life CJ you also we got in here today arm of Thor make tough threat is here of course the mighty mchte at war helped

You keep an eye on things for us ap 5:30 is here as well and then once again to those of you that are gonna tune in later on those of you that are listening in lurk squad once again thank you for your support I always appreciate that I’m just gonna

Scroll through the comments here I’ve haven’t really been paying attention in your comments and the chat here just to see some of the fellas are talking about when it comes to this coronavirus and this you know this whole being prepared thing yeah cambium yeah that thin layer just

Under the bark yet most most trees have you know an outer bark and then an inner bark and a lot of those trees that inner bark that cambium is edible I mean it’s not going to be super delicious it’s not gonna taste like a banana split or an

Ice cream sundae but I mean it’s you know it’s gonna give you some nutrition you can eat it raw it’s best of course to boil it and soften it up makes it a little easier to just to digest you know a lot of what we call evergreen trees

Around here pine and spruce trees they’re their inner bark is edible maple trees birch also uh pine needle if you make what’s called Bush tea which is predominantly made from pine or spruce needles have up to ten times the amount of vitamin C that you get from citrus

Fruit so if you just you know gather yourself up a bunch of the very tender light green tips of the pine pine needles the pine boughs or the spruce boughs you know he boiled that up and you make a bush tea and you drink that it doesn’t

Taste terrible I mean it tastes like pine but it doesn’t taste terrible it kind of has that minty piney sort of taste to it and you know that’s very very high in vitamin C yeah that’s again yeah redundancy for starting fires right so you don’t just want matches and

Lighters and Ferro rods and all that magnifying glass is very good magnifying glass is very good because as long as you’ve got a half decent amount of sunshine you can focus that sunlight and start a fire very easily arm of Thor says that me the list of prep materials

Ended up being 57 items yeah yeah and that can easily happen again with three dozen sees you know you know Mike again my sort of rule is that two is one and three is two right so four is best so if you have four ways to

Start a fire and you know that’s really it’s like three you know in your mind if if you think of it as three but you know it’s four then you’ve got the safety net built-in right it’s kind of like on your on your car for example right you know

You’ve got four tires on your car but most vehicles you have you know that extra tire in this spare tire in the trunk of your car or underneath your vehicle right so you’re thinking they’re driving on when four tires but really you have five so five is four

And of course it’s always up to you to evaluate again the situation your specific situation in your region a lot of cases you you may not have to bug out right everybody’s always got this romantic idea that oh I’ve got my bug-out bag and if things get bad I’m

Just gonna wander off into the woods and live off the land yeah we’re good freakin luck for most people out there most people out there would die with within a week or less you know even the most hardened of people it’s a whole different kettle of fish once you’re out

There in the woods and and you know you’re out there exposed to the elements even if you’ve got a pre you know a pre-established established destination even if you’ve got yourself some kind of shelter already out there whether it’s a log cabin they built years ago or an old

Abandoned hunting or fishing cabin that you found and you fixed up whatever the case may be you know it’s all it’s a whole different ball of wax once you’re out there so there’s this stupid romantic idea that as soon as you know the first sign of trouble oh I’m just

Gonna grab my bug-out bag and head out into the woods and I’m gonna be just fine yeah well you know I’m 50 years old and I’ve been in the woods practically my whole life and even I would hesitate to do that my bugger location is of course out in

The mountains but that is depending on the situation that’s not my first plan oftentimes your first plan is best to just what’s called hunker down rather than bug out some people call it bug in but you know you’ve gotta weigh your options and you’ve got a you gotta

Figure out what’s best in that scenario do you bug out or do you hunker down you know do you get yourself burrowed in tight like a tick and wait for things to blow over because it could be something that’s only gonna last a week or two right or if it’s something that’s

Extended time period you may want to bug out or you may want to do a combination of the two you may want to hunker down for two weeks until the you know the initial panic the initial like I said people running around with the hair on fire freaking okay yeah you know what’s

All that’s over with and all the riots and all that kind of slow down you know then you know under the cover of darkness you know then you slip out in you bug out right and again ideally more than one buggy bug out location is is preferable but not everybody is has

That scenario for me I don’t actually I mean I have a a set bug at location and I do have alternate locations but those aren’t established where I have means to or I don’t you know these other locations these these backup bug locations don’t have waste for me to

Make electricity right like my main bucket location we’ve got solar panels and windmills and generators and and all of that and you know just you know structures right we have buildings if you will to stay in but my alternate locations do not they’re just locations that I’ve scouted out and I know that

There’s a water source nearby and there’s a fuel source in terms of trees dead trees that I can cut down or dead trees that have fallen that I can use for firewood but I don’t have a shelter out there or a cache or anything like that tucked

Away in there it’s just that if things go south that my mean buggit location these are other areas that I can go to an explore but then I’m back at the back to square one right it’s a clean slate I would have to build a shelter and I

Would have to start stockpiling this firewood and I would have to all of a sudden try to reestablish making sure that I’ve got you know all the disciplines that you would practice in a in a bugger situation you know your sound discipline your late discipline

You know you don’t want to have a big jet allowed generator echoing through through you know the mountains if you know if you’re trying to be quiet and you’re trying to ensure your own safety you know you don’t want to be plumes of smoke from your campfire necessarily

Billowing up into the sky I mean that’s just a giant red flag you might as well just have a neon sign pointing to where you are right but there again there’s a lot of resources up there you know on the who tubes there’s a lot of channels out

There that you can I’m sure for every state in the United States and for every province in Canada probably for every country in the West there’s probably a YouTube channel with a survivalist or a prepper or a you know you know primitive skills type of guy who’s got a channel

Right so if you you know if you live in Colorado for example then you know try to find a channel or some kind of some kind of resource that’s tailor-made for your area that for Colorado write a Valhalla’s here welcome good to see Valhalla is always yeah like for example

I I recommend Canadian prepper all the time but you know if you live in Florida watching Canadian prepper maybe 20% of what he talks about will apply to you the rest of it is just garbage for you so there’s no sense you know watching every single video that Canadian prepper

Uploads on his channel if you live in you know in Florida or in Texas I mean the gear review could apply of course and a lot of the basic common-sense survival skills stuff of course but you know again Canadian prepper is gonna focus on the climate and the surroundings and everything that’s going

On up here Canadian Adia so a lot of that isn’t going to apply to – you know anybody that doesn’t live in that area you know and even for me not all that applies to me because I’m in Alberta and he’s over in Saskatchewan the next

Province over to the east of where I am so again it’s a little bit of a different environment there than it is here yeah we still have harsh winters and all that but you know it’s there’s a different ecosystem there even when it comes to the edible wild edible plant

Life and a lot of the small and large game it’s different like they don’t have a lot of mule deer and a lot of moose in Saskatchewan until you get into the northern regions but here in Alberta we have a TLD mule deer we have antelope we have moose

We have elk because we’re so close to the mounts Oh salut mon frere Bob the monkeys here as well yeah the yellow fever that’s right so I’ve on my channel I’ve got a couple of videos where I’ve gone out to the property that I have out in the

Mountains there and I’ve you know filmed myself foraging for wild edibles and showing what you can eat and what you can’t and what to avoid and and you know good common sense stuff but you know again that’s very specific to my area right so even even a fellow crazy Canuck

Like like Bob the monk some of that might not apply to him because he may not have some of those wild edibles where he is right he’s in the capital region close to Ottawa so you know yeah he’s got dandelion that he can eat and

You know a lot of the berries are gonna be the same but a lot of its gonna be very different so you know again it’s very important to to take the time to explore these resources and make sure that you know I can’t stress it enough make sure that it’s it’s something for

Your area for your region whether it’s your ecosystem your state or your province or the part of the world that you live in right yeah rocket stoves are good for reducing almost eliminating smoke for sure another thing is called a – called a Dutch fire I think where you did a fire

Pit down into the ground and they need to guess a hole 6 to 10 inches away from your fire pit hole like for example you your main fire pit hole is let’s say 16 inches to 24 inches in diameter and down about 12 to 16 inches down on the ground

And that’s where your fire will be and then you know 8 to 10 12 inches away from that you dig a smaller hole down right beside it and then you make a little tunnel going from the smaller hole to where your main fire will be and

What that does is with your fire being down in a hole you can you can do a lot to eliminate the smoke you can do a lot to defuse the smoke the smoke isn’t as noticeable it will still produce almost as much of the same amount of smoke but

You can disguise that smoke a little more easily because it sits down in a fire pit but with that access point from that other hole that you’ve joined through that little tunnel underneath what that does is it still feeds your the fire the oxygen that you need I

Can’t remember I’m sorry the the proper name of it escapes me I think it’s called the Dutch fire pit or something like that but no not in doubt you know not a touch of it Hey look at that shingles is here not as shingles good to see you

It’s always good to see shingles course our old friend traversable traversable philosophy houses well howdy trav so yeah these are you know these are things that are important and you know these are this is again it ties into the topic today if you know Brotherhood and fraternity these are these are things

That many of us in you know the manosphere therein meet Taos circles if you will these are things that many of us already have the skill set on so if you’re if you’re you know perhaps not as practiced or as well-versed in some of these things you know reach out to

Similar McTell brothers that do have this skill set and have this experience so most of us that are quite familiar with these kinds of things are more than happy to share this knowledge this is something that many of us that practice survival skills or bushcraft skills that

Sort of thing or many of us that go out hunting or camping or hiking fishing you know it’s a passion of ours and we love to share this passion and the more the merrier when it comes to that sort of thing and that’s part of the the Brotherhood of the fraternity amongst us

Is McDow is that we all want to share this information to to help strengthen that bond that already exists amongst us I mean we’re already a group of like-minded men so if we can continue to help to build up our brothers in any way whether it’s helping them to get back on

Their feet after a terrible event in their personal lives you know breakup of a marriage or the crumbling of a long term relationship with a woman being dragged kicking and screaming through the family court system all of that is important and of course what goes hand

In hand with that is sharing a diverse amount of skill sets like survival skills hunting skills fishy scales so if you’re not as what’s the term I’m looking for if you know it’s confident let’s say in a lot of these these these methods then you know reach out reach

Out like for me for example my email is in the About section of my my who tubes channels main page so you could shoot me an email I check it at least once a day often more than that you know I’d be more than happy to lend any kind of

Advice or answer any questions that you have when it comes to survival skills out in the bush you know wilderness skills hunting fishing trapping to some extent although I don’t have as much experience with trapping but even things like orienteering I’m making your way through the bush so you don’t get lost

Kind of build temporary shelters how to build more permanent shelters these are all things that are part of the the Brotherhood and the fraternity that many of us are more than happy and very excited to share with our brothers yeah and that that’s probably one of the

Largest concerns for any of us as men isn’t it CJ is that the you know being worried about the other people and that’s any one man women it doesn’t matter at this point like I said when when [ __ ] hits the fan make tower or not that’s that’s you can obviously take all

The the things that you’ve learned all the things that are in your meat out to about from your experiences that you already carry on with you and apply that to your situation because many of it is very common-sense oriented stuff and of course it’s it’s always with with

Well-being as a man being first and foremost but when it’s all said and done you have to worry about other people and it’s not just going to be women that are gonna be screaming and crying and begging for help it’s gonna be other men too you know and sometimes the biggest

Toughest men out there or the first ones to crumble when the actual stuff hits the fan if you will you know the biggest toughest guys oftentimes are the first ones to fall so it’s a matter of finding common ground and and you know I have finding some unity and sharing ideas and

Making sure that we as men are moving together in a positive direction so if that means you know shooting off some emails and sending some messages out there to some of your brothers that you know have some these skills and some of these experiences absolutely it’s very important because um you know what

Eventually a lot of people are gonna follow this romantic idea as I mentioned earlier you know strapping on their their butter bag and their tent and their sleeping bag and marching off into the woods and they think they’re gonna shoot deer and Gophers and and grouse

And go fishing and you know drink from these clear clear babbling brooks and streams and that come from melted glaciers up in the mountains and they’ll be able to just make fires and make their own jerky and just live forever like some kind of Grizzly Adams or some

Kind of Jeremiah Johnson out in the woods and be fat and happy let me tell you there’s a channel that I discovered a couple of months ago here called – called now Greg ovens Rocky Mountain bushcraft I think is what it’s called and this guy’s about my age he lives

Very close to the area where I live and much like myself he’s been out in the woods almost his entire life and he just finished a 30 day survival challenge out in the Rocky Mountains where he had to live off the land just from the wild edibles you can forage and anything that

He could catch he cook and even he lost 30 pounds he wasn’t starving but he was eating a lot of fish and eating a lot of wild edibles he didn’t have any success at all with snares he didn’t catch a single thing with snares he set up multiple snares using multiple different methods

To try to catch to try to snare squirrels and Gophers are up here what we call prairie dogs she called him Gophers in the US and no luck whatsoever no he had some he had some luck with trot lines for fish and of course he

Brought a fishing rod with him so he was able to catch fish from a lake that was up there and also from some rivers and streams that were up there but even you know battle-hardened survivalist guy like that you know he had a tough go and

That was only a month you know and he was only about 20 miles no not even I think he’s ten miles from his truck he drove his truck as far into the bushes he could and then he left his vehicle there and then he humped it in further into the

Bush until he and his partner he was with there with another another fella who was also very very well accomplished and had a lot of skill set with survival to them worked together as a team and they even they had a tough go so you know you gotta think there’s gonna be a

Lot of people that they may hunker down for a couple of weeks and then they’re thinking they’re gonna bug out too out in the woods and there might be where you are so all of a sudden you have may have these invading hordes of people that don’t know what the hell

They’re doing wandering into the woods they’re gonna get lost they’re gonna start screaming yelling they’re gonna scare away all the wild game or they’re gonna come in there shooting like like Rambo shooting everything that moves and before you know it you know the the deer the moose the elk the grouse the ducks

The squirrels whatever it is that you planned on living off of has now been scared away or has been chipped away at slowly by these knuckleheads that are out there thinking that they’re you know some kind of survivalist and eventually they’re gonna die after a week or two so

You know they scare away all the deer that you know you could live off of for extended periods of time you know and then they die so it’s like thanks you scare away all the wildlife and you know there’s a bunch of you know dozens of

Jackasses out here in the woods and now you’ve you haven’t been able to make it so now you leave or you die out here in the woods and now now my resources are much thinner than they would have been right so it’s best to have that skill

Set and a practice that skill sit and have multiple plans in place for sure hey Matt downers here how do you Matt welcome a honda solo long time I’ll see you good to see Honda solo as well howdy Honda yeah that’s SIA that sort of touches on

What I was talking about eight pieces there are so many people now that the animals would get wiped out if everyone had to survive in the wild yeah and again people that don’t have those survival skills but have lots of guns and lots of ammo and think that

They’re Rambo or whatever will initially they’ll come marching into the woods and they’ll start blasting everything that moves and you know they’re gonna be using up all the resources and they’re still not gonna make it so now your chances of surviving I’ve just gotten much slimmer because of a bunch of

Dumbasses that you know follow this romantic idea of marching out in the woods and living out their their days like Jeremiah Johnson until the smoke clears right is that is that right CJ CJ says a white-tailed deer almost went extinct in the Great Depression not a white-tailed deer for the most

Part are they tend to favor the prairies or the Great Plains as you call them in the u.s. up here we call the prairies you see a lot more whitetail deer in you know the sort of flat lands of the wheat fields wheat and barley fields and the

Corn fields here in Alberta and begin Saskatchewan in parts of western Manitoba mule deer tend to like more wooded areas generally speaking so yeah and in the American Midwest and the Great Plains rate you go from roughly in and around just a little bit west of where Travis there in Ohio out to

Roughly he software I am into Montana just before you get to the American Rocky Mountains it’s gonna be even for the most part white-tailed deer so yeah during the American Great Depression that’s where that that was the Dust Bowl area too right so you know you have a

Concentrated sort of calamity like the Dust Bowl in the same area where there was a lot of white-tailed deer you know and farmers and ranchers always being very much of the mindset of having the ability and the skillset to live off the land in a pinch and of course having you

Know if you’re a farmer or rancher most farmers and ranchers that I know have rifles and shotguns so of course they’re going to turn their sights of their firearms on to any of the wildlife that they can to try to get them through those tough times and during the Great

Depression in the Dust Bowl yeah that makes sense the way tailed deer you know the population would have dropped dramatically for sure so once again I want to thank you very much for joining me here and welcome you as always – whiskey stills and tumbleweed for your mug towel live stream the way

Of the McDowell monk episode number 90 the big nine zero here on this Saturday February the 1st as always coming at you live from the foothills of the beautiful Canadian Rocky Mountains here in southwestern Alberta Canada Nadia and today I want to just shift slightly from

This topic and discuss a little bit of the main topic at hand here of brotherhood and fraternity you know finding common ground and unity and and sharing ideas and sharing a common goal or a common direction as men of meat Taoism as like-minded men that have all chosen to walk this path and

Specifically because I see that a traversable a traversable philosophy our old friend Travis in the chat and this is something that traveling I’ve been talking about sort of behind the scenes and private chats over the past couple of weeks and that’s to try to re-establish a stronger sort of a

Unified front as McDow and especially in specifically getting more into the the monks if you will right that monks label which I going back years ago was something that was sort of coined or applied to us a celibate macao and it was meant to be sort of a pejorative or

Meant to be sort of a shaming word right that you know the monks have kind of taken it to extremes there you know there are extremists in their behavior in the way they think by choosing the path of abstinence and celibacy and you know avoiding any kind of sexual contact at

All and of course well I wouldn’t encourage detailed discussion of your your you know your sexuality as a man that’s you know it’s getting pretty personal and it’s pretty freakin gay if you asked me if somebody comes up to you and starts talking about your your

Privates and your bits and your [ __ ] and balls and how often you dip your wick and get your noodle wet you know if some guy starts talking about my junk I I tend to lean that and this guy’s gay man but I’m not using gay is a again as a

You know as a pejorative as well I mean there’s nothing wrong if a man’s gay you know that’s that’s his personal life is none of my business you know uh you know it’s it is what it is but you know this this initially this term the monks was

Sort of coined or used as sort of again this sort of a shaming tactic where as fellows like trav and myself and others have fully embrace octone engage of course many of us embraced not only the idea behind the abstinent and the celibate man but that term monk itself

And I fully embraced it and I know trab has as well so much so that we kind of jokingly with tongue planted firmly in cheek kind of kind of make fun of it ourselves in some respects very often in traversable streams he will you know do

The the hand signal of the mick towson below the street sign there you know the go your own way go your own way men all your sins are forgiven right which does have sort of religious connotations to it but done in a joking way right and myself of course with my avatar being

You know the squirrel wearing the Buddhist monks robe and my opening sort theme music that I have on beginning of all my streams and of course the beginning of of all my videos does have very religious overtones but I think most of us in Macau understand that formal organized religion is just

Another one of those systems within the systems that I that I often make reference to you know the one of those ideologies one of those institutions one of those the tools that are used to try to either steer us back onto that plantation or to steer us back into that

Trad con way of thinking right where you know you know get together with your soul mate with that woman and get married before in a church before the eyes of God and before all your family and loved ones and this formalized ceremony and be fruitful and multiply

And have children and grow old together you know and these of course are a lot of the ideas many of us have shunned when we’ve chosen to walk this path when we’ve we’ve chosen to embark on this new life that we’ve built for ourselves as

Men but at the same time I think that the term monk and again this sort of humorous sort of sarcastic ironic spin that we’ve put on it with these religious tones helped to sort of disarm that way of thinking and trav and I have often discussed the idea that while it’s

Important for all men who who follow this this philosophy this idea this lifestyle who get involved in this group if you will of asmik Tao you know to to show some solidarity to find that common ground and to support one another with share ideas and unity in a common

Direction I think there are many McDow many content creators many men that you know visit those channels and get involved in those live streams or comments on those videos that that do share that idea but I think it’s also important for many of us who identify I guess for lack of a better

Term identify as the quote monk unquote for us to also take it that one step further for us to to to sort of put up that that that brave front to to share in that solidarity in that unity and that that encompassing idea that we that

We’ve all subscribed to and I think it’s important and one of the reasons why that trav and I discussed was because of course every day every week every month and every year we’re seeing more and more men come to Macau they they find out about that acronym that men going on

Their own way that M GTO W acronym and which is great because the information is there it’s very well established there’s more and more men now that are discovering it and they’re learning about it and they’re gaining a very very good understanding of what it means to

Walk this path however with that being said within that there’s always that age-old problem that we’ve been experiencing for since day one and for a long time now that you know with any sort of group with any sort of commiseration of men and coming together of a large number of men and whenever

There’s those men are associated with any kind of name or label it’s very easy for somebody to hitch their wagon onto that label or that name and they perhaps are not as their mindset may not be as virtuous as some others they may see it

As sort of like the flavor of the month they may see it as the new sort of trend that they can just hook on to and try to use that to their own selfish advantage as opposed to using it more as a sort of a building up themselves and and

Rediscovering their lives as men and I think that there’s a big difference between being a selfish man and being a man who puts himself first you know being selfish can very often be a negative mindset and have a lot of negative traits because well you of course put yourself first foremost as a

Man it’s to the detriment of others whereas I firmly believe that we in micked out we do put ourselves as men first but we’re we’re individuals who are part of a larger group so we understand the importance of helping our brothers along as well and that’s why

You know I titled this the stream Brotherhood and fraternity because it is very much like a brotherhood i aya will always address you men as my my brothers and it is a sort of a form of fraternity you know a fraternity being sort of a formal group of like-minded men you know

And goes well beyond the term fraternity in terms of colleges and university type fraternities it’s much more than that and I think it’s very important for men who who’ve embraced this this not only the McDowell acronym but embraced that that label of Munk to to have a unified

Front to show some of that solidarity and to come together and share that like-minded idea that we do have as as abstinence and celibate men and it’s very important to to help to project that idea to other men and as well that to truly be free and to truly break

Break out of those shackles from my experience it is best to set aside all of what I call those personal relationships with women and when I say personal relationships with men I I don’t just mean sexual relationships with women I also mean friendships with women I

Still find that it can be very hazardous even if it’s purely platonic or a purely platonic relationship woman there’s still that gun is always in the room there’s something that you could say or do whether it’s completely innocent completely inadvertent that she can either take the

Wrong way or she can twist to her advantage so that gun is still oh he’s there in the room and all she has to do is point it and pull the trigger hashtag me too and all that crap and next thing you know you’re finding yourself in front of a judge you’re in

The back of a squad car or behind bars and that’s something that I would I would never wish upon any men is to find himself within that situation because now you’ve come full circle you’ve done all this hard work to try to reestablish some sense of freedom for yourself as a

Man in your life and also know that rug that rug is pulled out from under viewing you back to where you started and then some because not only of those freedoms and your personal life being taken away but now your physical freedoms are removed too now you’re

Behind bars you’re in jail you’re in prison you know or you’re in front of some judge who’s not more than likely gonna be of the same mindset as you are or as some of your McTell brothers may be more than likely that judges is if he’s a man he’s gonna be married he’s

Gonna have that gynocentric ID in his head everything is gonna be all of his eggs are gonna be in the basket of the importance of appeasing the woman and if that woman’s a judge wealth I don’t think I need to expand any further on that opinion or that idea of my

Brother’s so I think as we move forward as men here and for men that identify or refer themselves as McTell monks I think it’s very important for us to kind of step our step up our game if you will because a lot of times again I said

That’s you know people a lot of people come to McDowell it’s there’s new men there’s discovering this idea discovering this idea this philosophy this lifestyle whatever you want to call it which is good and there’s more and more men that are creating content because like myself they want to to give

Back to that that thing that helped to save them to help to save their lives they won’t want to repay what they feel is that that debt that they owe or they want to pay forward that that could fortune if you will but with that of course you

Know again there’s always going to be people that while on the surface they may pair it all the the talking points all the bullet points they might bark out a lot of the the correct terminology but behind the scenes you know it’s just because they see it as some trend some

Flavor of the month that they can cash in on whether it’s actual cashing in on or whether it’s just you know using that term you know something that they can use for their own selfish benefits so you know that’s where you see a lot of seriously a lot of men that you know

They they you know tag hash tag all their videos and all their content to Macau this make towel that they put it in all the titles of all their videos they host streams like many of others do but you see that it’s peppered with perhaps what I would consider to be bad

Advice for any man who’s looking to gain a better understanding of this path that we’ve chosen right there giving dating advice or stuff like that not not advice to avoid dating but how to try to fool the system and to still be successful in dating and to try to you know up your

Odds and being successful with dating whereas we in McDowell have a deeper understanding and have really unpacked these boxes a lot with a lot more of a critical eye now we understand that there’s really no way to be able to strap on those ice skates and be able to

Skate around on that thin ice no matter how much you think you might be aware no matter how much you think that you might be good at skating good at playing hockey it’s the nice it doesn’t matter your skills it doesn’t increase your safety it doesn’t increase your chances

It doesn’t increase your your success rate and getting your dinky stinky okay so the I’ve used this tournament it’s perhaps a little harsh but I think a lot of times that well has been poisoned and unfortunately with as many new men that are coming to Macau many of them are

Exposed to the wrong the wrong ideology of what that that acronym is supposed to represent you know so they’re taking a sip from that already poison well so I think it’s once again getting back to what traversable and I were talking about it’s very important for for us as

As the the quote the monks of the mcdow’s to to up our game to be you know to to have a little bit more of a higher profile and I think that it is it’s just as important for any man who comes across this acronym on the who tubes or

Elsewhere to be exposed to the the true beneficial ideas of what we discuss around here as opposed to just you know hey here’s how you can get laid and maybe or maybe not pay the pay the piper in the end because that’s still rolling the dice that’s still gambling and I’ve

Always said that my life as a man is not a game it’s not a game of chance my life as a man is not a game of blackjack or a game of craps in Vegas it’s it’s not a sitting down with your buddies and playing poker or playing board games

Okay but my life is not monopoly my life is not Trivial Pursuit I like to as much as possible not take unnecessary risks and therefore roll the dice and play games of chance with my own personal well-being as a man and that would never advise any man to do that either so I

Know that step up is often demonized as being shaming language but I’m gonna use it here in a positive way that I think that it’s very important for many of us who identify or have embraced this term it’s how a monk that we due up our game that we do step up that

We do kind of sort of raise our flags a little bit more and become a little bit more high-profile and to unify and share our ideas and the direction that we think that this thing should be going so for every a person out there who is uploading videos or hosting live streams

That identify or embrace the the acronym of mgtow but are still giving dating advice and still giving just bad advice in general I think for every one of them there should be one of us who are a quote monk unquote who are doing the same thing and that’s something that traversable and I

Have talked about where we would love to see a lot more of you men out there who are the Midtown monk ideology start trying to do it you can if you have that desire to upload content host live streams or even upload videos it doesn’t have to be every day it doesn’t even

Have to be once a week like I try to do but ideally it would be great where travel and I were talking about was ideally it would be great that have one guy that goes on on a Monday another guy that goes on on a Tuesday another guy Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

And so on and so forth whether it’s a live stream or whether it’s uploading a video let’s say let’s say they you know I do i do my Saturdays right and let’s say Trapp does Sundays well then it would be cool if somebody like I don’t know Victor von Frankenstein does every

Monday or you know somebody like you know monk music commits to every Wednesday for example and that’s the thing I use the term commit because it is it is a commitment and it’s something that it’s going to take some discipline and I’m not a hundred percent there are

Times when I have not been able to stream on my regular day so I try to move it to a different day if I can and I try to give you fellas a heads up if it’s if it’s going to be on a different day but for the most part it’s the same

Day every week for me and I hope that you fellas over the over these past months in these past few years you know I’ve come to realize that okay you know whiskey’s gonna have his stream once a week on for the most part the same day

Every week come hell or high water right and just as a side note here of course IV I do see that V V F Victor von Frankenstein is in the house so I just want to give him a shout out of course is always having Victor von Frankenstein

I’m good to see as always I did see another one of our brothers popped in here as well now force J burns is here there he is not a forest yeah we are walking targets but yeah we are value in motion I like that we value in motion

And that’s the thing is being in constant motion not letting yourself become stagnant as a man often referred to to spinning your wheels in the mud that’s not gonna get you ahead in life that’s not going to get you as a man moving forward and therefore that’s not

Going to provide any help to your brothers your your brother that Brotherhood that fraternity of men that’s not going to either help them by leading by example or by actually helping them on a one-on-one basis if one of these brothers comes to you for advice right so ideally of course it

Would be great to every day of the week whether it’s morning afternoon evening night time doesn’t matter ideally it would be great that for for a and I again ideally a different content creator every day of the week either a hostess stream or or upload a video and

It would be great if of course if that man would be a man who’s who’s embraced this monk label if you will again these these other guys that are talking McDow and perhaps aren’t necessarily what many of us would would embrace is being a make tau you know they’re all over the

Place they’re all over the news they’re all over all kinds of social media and they’re blabbity blabbity blah blah and some of its good some of it is pure [ __ ] some of it is just a big steaming pile of burning garbage so unfortunately it seems like the drama

And those big piles of burning garbage get more attention you know the drama draws draws people in like moths to a flame for some reason and it seems to me that a man who is whose McDow a man who’s chosen and walked this path would be a self actualized man a man that

Practices what Travie calls that introspection what do I refer to as practicing quiet contemplation so it seemed to me that a man who’s of that mindset would do all that he could to avoid being drawn to that flame to avoid that that screaming and yelling three-ring circus that drama that the

Pile of burning garbage and you know that old saying save that save the drama for your mama drama is what women thrive on drama should not be what a man thrives on and seeks out and puts valiantly with it’s not a virtuous thing to try to build up men and bring men

Along with you with drama as the underlying foundation because that’s shaky ground and much like you know that thin ice that you these men are trying to skate on it’s hard to build a big strong house on a shaky foundation so and I and I understand that it’s you

Know this this call to arms if you will it’s not easy right I mean you don’t have to be some super talented guy I’m not really talented when it comes to broadcasting right I don’t have any kind of broadcasting degree or anything like that you know it’s that that may not be

Your strong point perhaps you know hosting live streams isn’t isn’t your strong suit perhaps creating a video writing down a nice script and and recording it and doing the audio editing uploading it as a video with some cool images whether it’s a slideshow presentation or wherever the case may be

You know maybe audio video isn’t your thing I mean it’s not my strong suit by any means but there’s other ways that you can support some of the men that perhaps do have that skill set right like many of you right now you come to my streams

You support me in the in the in the chats I you know you you always leave very constructive feedback whether it’s constructive criticisms or whether it’s you know you know giving me some positive positive support many of the fellows that I see here I see over at

Raps channel I see over on V DFS channel I see them McTell values I see them over at music and for every familiar face I see I see newer faces as well and it’s very important I think to bring those men into the fold of what I think is is

A safer way to walk this path and that’s to embrace that that that life of the celibate and the abstinent man because you say what you want about everything else when you choose that path of celibacy and abstinence you no longer are distracted by the one thing that’s

Going to put you in harm’s way more than anything else and that’s that personal relationship with women right friendships and dating and cohabitation and getting engaged and getting married these are all things that we know and have proven by the stats that are regurgitate it over and over and over

Again to be the most harmful thing for a man out there especially in the Western cultures today these are some of the tools that I refer who’s McTell tool belt with trav cozier McTell toolbox see traps been at it longer than I have so he’s got a toolbox

The tool belt isn’t quite enough for somebody like trav but you know I think yeah you’re picking up what I’m laying down here my brother’s you know so of course you know it does take some resources right it does take you know a half-decent system whether it’s a

Desktop or a laptop it does take you know Internet it does take a microphone or something like that and it does take perhaps some audio and video programs or apps to help you to do some of this editing of course and I’m not expecting

Every man to just to run out to you know Best Buy or a freaking Radio Shack or whatever the hell’s out there or or go on to amazon.com and buy you know $300 microphones and $1,200 computers and you know of course you know reasonable again just like what we were talking about

With being prepared when it comes to emergencies you’ve got to do it in small realistic incremental steps to get that ball rolling and once the ball is rolling you know then you can move along with a little bit more momentum you know so it could be is something you know

Again you know not every guy’s gonna have the resources or the means or even the time to sit down and host streams or upload videos but you know maybe you guys can send some of us emails or comment and say hey excuse me hey Victor Von frankestein next week do you mind

Talking about this or hey whiskey do you mind talking about that sort of a topic or hey trav I’ve been having problems with this that or the other is that something that you can discuss your next stream or in your next video so again that that’s you guys being brought into

The fold in your own way that’s you men having that common ground and supporting that unity and those shared ideas and moving together in that direction so I’m not saying you know there has to be a 50 or 100 guys every day of the week and every week of

The month and every month of the year uploading videos and hosting streams each of us have our own skill set each of us have our things that were confident in and things that we know that we can contribute in some way or another just scrolling through the chat here

Just see what the fellows are saying here I think one of the guys did say that kind of touched on what I was talking about where you know sometimes it’s just a matter of us oh here it has four state burns there it is whiskey would you consider taking

Listeners content contribution I mean would you review it edit and maybe read a monologue sent by us or something like that I know it sounds like some extra work no that’s exactly the type of thing I’m talking about for us so for example if you don’t have a mic or if you don’t

Feel that that your forte is you know uploading videos creating videos or hosting live streams and that’s fine there’s nothing wrong with that we all have our own individual skill sets as men we’re all unique and different in our own ways again that’s Macau isn’t an

Echo chamber or no red this isn’t a cult or real think the same at the same do the same things that’s the beautiful thing of mikta is that we are moving forward with our shared ideas in a common direction we’re doing it as individual men as independent men so

Yeah for example if you’ve got you know something that you know let’s see first let’s say you’re a great writer let’s say you’re really good at organizing your thoughts putting pen to paper and writing down really succinct ideas and really getting your thoughts on paper really well and so then that’s something

That you can email or submit to somebody like traver or VV F or monk music or myself and then we can go through it and maybe we can edit it a little bit or streamline it or add stuff send it back to you so you could have final proof and

Say yeah that’s exactly I was talking about whiskey alright perfect and then that’s something that I can upload a video with and I could say today’s video is brought to you by force Jay burns that’s that’s the type of thing I’m talking about forest absolutely outstanding yeah it doesn’t

It doesn’t necessarily travel and I were talking about this it doesn’t necessarily mean that all of us all have to do videos and do live streams but for some of us I think it’s important that we should some of us do have the gift for the

Have some of us are very good at the audio video some of us are very good at video editing and I’m not even all that great I mean my live streams you just see it’s just my avatar with stream yard and that’s it right it’s nothing fancy

Even if I upload a video it’s nothing fancy it’s just my edited audio with you know sort of a slideshow type of images that go across the screen just so it’s not the same boring image and that’s it but other guys are really good other guys are really great at at you

Know the screen sharing and putting up you know samples of articles that they’re discussing and and all that like VV FS a lot better than I am at that sort of thing any Rob C is here honey row so but sometimes all it takes is just a phone just having a decent phone

With a decent camera on it right and you can record your own little video on your own phone then you plug your phone into your laptop or your computer you can upload it to your YouTube channel you can set it to private so that you can

Watch it yourself first and see if you need to do any editing and as and if you if you create a check like you have a happy YouTube account then you can create a YouTube channel and YouTube actually does have some built-in tools that allow you to do some editing once

You’ve uploaded video before you switch it from private setting to public setting you can add background music you can edit out the beginning and the end of the video or you know it shows you pressing the button or whatever but I mean as long as the the message is there

And the content is there for the most part it that doesn’t have to be super polished it doesn’t have to be super fancy it doesn’t have to be television or movie quality cinematography and production value right I mean yeah you know a lot of that is great because it

It helps to keep men engaged and help to keep men focused of course I like Travis doing great stuff with his green screening with the stream yard program so it looks great because the backgrounds are very enticing and very very axing right like if he puts one of the

Images that traffic puts in the background is that sort of nice forested wooded area which is just a picture that he took of a spot that he likes to go in his near is near his house so it’s very calming and very relaxing sometimes that’s all it takes but I mean you know

You don’t have to be freaking you know Steven Spielberg or whatever right I not asking guys to be yeah yeah downer you know I’m not Scorsese and I’m not expecting them to be Martin Scorsese or acquaintance Tarantino but you’ve got great ideas and your strong suit is

Putting pen to paper and getting those ideas down then yeah you know uh if you want to collaborate with somebody maybe I don’t know maybe Matt maybe Matt down or isn’t good with audio/video stuff but he’s good at writing stuff down and then they’re down Rob see maybe he’s good at

You know the audio busy video so you guys could team up together maybe Matt can write down all of his ideas do all the editing of of the words and the topic then he emails it to Rob and then Rob’s egos and and does the actual audio video portion of it

So it’s a great collaboration yeah man under that’s you know that’s it’s it’s very easy yeah yes EJ kind of you know kind of monks going their own way I mean we don’t want to leave any man in the shadows we don’t want to leave any men behind absolutely not but I Drive

And I did sort of discuss the importance of of stepping out of the shadow of a lot of the shenanigans that are going on there with with guys that are giving maybe not necessarily the most helpful and the most beneficial advice and then you know and then stamping it with me

Atomic Tom McDowell all over the place right which to be honest is why I came up when and coined the term monk tau I mean that’s my own term that’s my own creation that I made up and it’s because when I started seeing the the make tau

Acronym being hijacked what I did was I doubled down on the make tau but then I also went step further and created my own sort of term or whatever monk Dao Dao being in in Chinese being the the way or the path and monk

So the path of the monk or the way of the monk monk tout of the way of the McTell monk and it kind of sounds like it kind of sounds like meet Tao monk that I will meet title they kind of sound the same you know I mean I’m no

Freaking genius it was just something that kind of came to me and I thought ah yeah that works so now I use both I tagged all my I hashtag all my videos make Thao and monk top so if you type monk Tao in the search engine at the top

Of the who to search page search engine there in the little box if you type in MOC Thao all bunch of my videos and livestreams are going to come up now of course you have to be familiar with me and my channel and who I am or what I talk about to underst

To know that I use that term but the sneaky thing about it is that if anybody’s researching monks or Taoism my videos are also gonna come up he said Sperling’s here I said he says a guy like me needs to take a break from social media every other week but I

Still love you guys and I thank you for being here yeah and that’s the other thing too is that that’s important and that’s something that I often address is that part of the definition of this acronym of Nick Tao of men going their own way

Is not that you sit in front of a computer and upload McTell content that’s not what being a Mick Tao means you know it doesn’t mean that if you don’t do that you’re not a big top that’s that [ __ ] that’s a big pile of [ __ ] it’s just that some of us

Started off participating in in Macau by commenting on videos that other content creators uploaded right that’s how I got my start was commenting on traversable videos commenting on Howard Ayers videos back in the day and then when traveied have a stream I would I would you know I would get the

Notification that travel is having a stream so then I would you know kind of throw my two cents in in the chat on his live streams and that’s how I got started and then guys like trav and back in the day Howard air when they were having their

Streams sometimes they would after while they invited me on so once I got a microphone which I saved up for to get a decent little microphone you don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars my little blue Yeti snowball cost me $80 Canadian on Amazon so once I got a you know saved

Up for a little while you know if you know about a week or so okay had enough squirreled away again pardon the pun I had enough squirreled away or then I ordered the mic and once I got it you know I was able to plug it

Into my laptop at the time and you know then I was able to accept the invitations from from HD or from traversable to to be a guest on their live streams and then after a while these guys start saying you know what you really have something to say I think

You really have something to offer have you ever thought about doing your own content and I thought I don’t know because I I don’t know anything about computers and videos and trap said look at me do you think I do you know trav himself you know he said like look man

Like I know wha you know I’m never Scorsese myself right but it’s it’s it’s the message it’s the idea and that’s what’s important and that’s what I’m talking about when I make reference to this this Brotherhood to this fraternity to finding this common ground and having this unity in these shared ideas and

Moving this together in a positive direction so I think for most part most quote-unquote make tile content creators here on the who tubes are pretty easy to get a hold of like I said on my channel I’ve got my email there so you can email me and I like I

Said I check it at least once a day but more often than not it’s two three five times a day and I know trav is very easy to get ahold of often all you gotta do is put a comment in somebody’s latest uploaded on their Channel you know hey

You know I’ve got an idea for a topic that maybe you can talk about can you contact me here’s my email or whatever right then again there you get that collaboration going and that’s part of that fraternity that’s part of that Brotherhood that’s part of that building

That solid foundation so that it’s not a house of cards that will just collapse in the frickin wind somebody blow on some hot air we can still be an independently minded individual man but still walk amongst a group of men who share a common goal and a common

Interests common ideas again I have to reiterate that’s the one of the many beautiful things about mikta that’s one of those check marks in the plus sir in the wind column of mikta is that we encourage men to think for themselves to to expand their horizons for themselves

As men for their own benefit and then also subsequently for the benefit of their brothers that’s why it’s it’s not an echo chamber like this leftist narrative for this these feminists or whatever you want to talk about it’s not a cult or a religion it’s it’s more than

That because we encourage that that independent way of thinking and exploring things for yourself if freedom seekers here as well how do you freedom thanks for uh thanks for popping in says hey man could dear from you support is lacking almost everywhere else thanks man well it’s certainly my pleasure

Absolutely and no need to thank me whatsoever in fact I’m the one who should be thanking all of you my brothers for coming by here weekend and we go dance and supporting me and supporting other content creators here on who tubes and and not just make tout content creators but you know smart

Content content that encourages you as a man to think right so like a lot again going back to some of these prep or channels well this is smart content that’s realistic that you can apply for yourself as a man a lot of this stuff is great stuff

It’s got good meat on the bones that you can sink your teeth into and again put that in your make tell tool belt or your me tell tool box and use that to your advantage to build yourself up and keep yourself moving forward in that positive direction I mean honestly there’s there’s always

Going to be people out there that are gonna want to hitch their wagon to what they see is a good idea and they’re gonna use it for their own nefarious needs right there they’re maybe not going to be as virtuous or as righteous in their in their ideas and in and

They’re in what drive and what drives and that’s something that we’re always going to have to deal with and you’re gonna have to deal with these situations all the time and it’s good practice for you to deal with it out and what I call out in the real world when you step away

From that keyboard and that computer monitor like sits Burling alluded to earlier these are the things that help you to be able to dissect things with a little bit more of an analytical mind and being able to again prioritize what’s important to you as a man and

Your well being at the end of the day if you’re not well as a man you’re not gonna do anyone any good yourself or any of your brothers that’s the bottom line and we’re gonna see man come on we’re gonna see men go but if there’s again that that strong foundation that good

Concrete core that the house can be built upon well at least if the house itself falls down that that foundation will always be there and it can be built upon again and again and again would a lot but that stone that concrete will always be there right look at what they

Refer to as these monolithic structures that are out there that are thousands if not tens of thousands of years old right the the pyramids or some of the Incan and mayan structures in South America and Central America Stonehenge in England these things have been around for thousands of years why because

They’re made out of stone it’s a lot harder for that sort of thing to be chipped away and worn away termites each stone how to Smurf so once again my brothers are one oh well communal whiskey Stills and tumbleweeds and as always I want to thank you very much for joining me here

Today for another one of your motile live streams the way of the McDowell Mok episode 90 here today on this Saturday February the 1st as always coming to you live from the foothills of the beautiful Canadian Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta today we were discussing among other things brotherhood and fraternity

Showing some solidarity and some unity as men like-minded men and unfortunately my brother’s I I believe I’m gonna have to start winding this this thing down here for today as I mentioned earlier in this stream like do you have prior engagements that I have to get ready for

Here in the next half hour or so so I think I’m getting ready to wind this thing down here for today but probably for the next five or ten minutes or so if any of you fellows of course have any questions or any suggestions just quickly put it into the chat here and

I’ll share it with everybody on the screen and as always I want to thank you very much for coming by and sharing your support not only for for old whiskey hair out here in the sticks so here in the tumbleweeds but for all you men and everything that you do all the

Contributions that you make there’s no greater levels of importance here okay it’s not like a content creator in Macau is more important than a fellow coming by and just showing their support by commenting sharing some of their ideas and chats or in comment sections even just hitting that like button and

Sharing a video does much more than fellows will ever ever know so don’t ever think that you’re not doing enough my brothers and that’s not what this isn’t about this isn’t me trying to crack the whip and say that that you men have to do more I’m just saying that for

Men out there who are really kind of on the fence of whether or not that they want to perhaps dip their toe into creating content or boosting streams now is just as good a time as any to step out of the shadows into that spotlight and of course I will

I will always be there to support you and encourage you I know traversable philosophy will as well because he has said so and he continues to to repeat that idea he said that to me and privately in person and I know that he echoes that on all the

Content that he he uploads on his channel as well so okay so I think that looks like that who’s gonna do it so I think that’s gonna wrap things up in a nutshell for old whiskey here today of course as always I want to thank you once again

For joining me here today at whiskey stills and tumble weeds for your Montel livestream as always I appreciate that support my brothers it’s it’s always my distinct honor and my pleasure to host these things with you every week and I was certainly once again want to thank

All of you for taking time out of your your week and your weekend and what I’m sure for many views butter your morning your afternoon or your evening it’s been a little time out here in the sticks with yours truly I can’t say enough how much I appreciate

That my brother so once again tip of the hat to you and much obliged and of course as always and if you haven’t already and as mcdowell warrior is always kind to remind please like and share the stream and again do yourself and your favorite content creators here

On the who tubes a favor and make sure you still subscribe to all those channels that you enjoy and once again as well as always I will leave you with this small reminder the 5 commandments of the natal monk that I try to follow and those would be to build your wealth

To maintain your physical and mental well-being to forge strong friendships with like-minded men to learn or do something new every day and of course last but not least to avoid personal relationships with women so once again thank you very much my brothers for joining me here today

Have yourselves a great weekend a great week and a good day and we’ll talk to you again real soon all right take care Thanks you

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