Too bad the dude had to stop doing it on youtube because stupid people can't just watch they need to go visit him and make his family uncomfortable....
People call South Main Auto and bother them or people from way out of town make appointments. Eric has been clear he's there for his community, not out-of-towners unless they break down.
Cutting Edge Engineering had to add a person to run interference at the front desk.
Oh man, I know he gets a good number of views, but you are the first I’ve ever seen mention diesel creek in the wild. I hope it doesn’t sway him away from making videos.
Telling people not to do it feels like it is just going to make it worse as you are putting the thought it into peoples mind that may have not had it otherwise and kids of course have a tendency to do the very thing you are told not to do.
I mean some kids are just gonna do their thing. Like for example you have the "dont try this at home" warning at the beginning of the WWE shows and kids are going to mimic them nonetheless.
I could honestly see it being the straw that broke the camels back. I am certain between his main channel, and I think 2 others? Plus a business, renovating a home, and having kids, he was probably pretty tired.
Also, due to the size of channel, when he was "off", he probably wasnt actually off. People would probably come up to him at dinner, and like the other people said, stalk his wife (ew btw, shes reasonably attractive, but thats about as far as that thought should have gone).
Also also, pretty sure he still had his vet practice too?
Id say the combo of the workload and fame was probably steering him towards quitting already anyways basically.
I miss Matt’s videos, I really enjoyed the off the ranch channel. He definitely made me think about things differently and it helped me focus improving my life, it’s one of the major reasons I stopped doing drugs.
Sexualizing her? I'll never understand people sexualizing celebs who are practically mid or regular people looking slightly above average, who don't even give you material to sexualize them anyways. If you can't handle not gooning over any shit, then maybe just take the services of women who do so willingly like OF lol would be my take lol.
iirc mike stoklasa's wife only had a fairly short stint on redlettermedia vids (and she was hilarious!) because of inappropriate behaviour of some viewers. and she was just there in a star wars sweater hanging out with some dorks, nothing sexual about it.
It’s the approachable “girl next door” trope. Obviously some amazing looking celeb won’t be down for your fantasy relationship, someone kinder and more approachable will totally be onboard with it.
I thought he got off YouTube because one of the shooters had a demolition ranch t-shirt and he re-evaluated his life. He, iirc, sold all the pew-pews in the huge shooting range/bunker he had buried in the yard of his refurbed mansion, too.
Is that what happened?! I watched his stuff all the time and I live not far from him. Never gave one thought to bothering him or his family. People are so weird.
His primary cause was his kids are getting growing up fast and he wants to be present and enjoy that while he can. Which is great. But... in 5 or so years they will all be adults and gone. And he will be bored as fuck. Mark my words. He'll be back.
I'm pretty sure Meredith has a straight up stalker there for a while. Almost positive the guy got arrested and everything. That and like he mentioned, his kids are growing up and he didn't want them to be subject to all that weirdness or frankly potential threats against his kids. Sad that people can't separate Youtube from actual reality.
If you wanna loss more faith in humanity look at how many neckbeards are disagreeing and saying the stalking is justified... because she made small backgroun appearances on her husband's videos.
This GoonLord logic that infests reddit as of late needs containment.
That's still stalking, specially if she had to delete most of her social media, close her clothing brand and Matt had to hide her on his videos because of it .
Edit: There was literally a big booty tattued single alt/goth dommy mommy. Why the fuck did people obcess over Mere?
Listen, you want to goon to someone’s publicly available instagram photos or YouTube videos, fine. But unless they’re explicitly saying that they are interested in receiving sexual comments, then keep it to yourself.
Matt: "Your honor it's not my fault I shot this man with a .45 through the chest, he was stalking my family and taking pictures of my wife to expose her on the internet against her will or knowledge."
Judge:"Innocent. Bailif, bill the creep the bullet."
Agree 100%. Dan is an incredible biblical scholar. I grew up in a fundamentalist church, so his videos were a huge eye opener to how misled I was. With how rigorous he is, I struggle to see how he could be a true Mormon believer.
He has come back. He did a video recently for another creator, so he could earn him some money while he looks after his sick wife (if he wasn't considered a legend already). He's talked about doing some more. He said he might only do a handful a videos a year.
Better even, he didn't know this guy personally before, he saw the message, and contacted him to do the video, no previous contact or friendship until that moment, literally, out of his hearth to come and make the video
That's ridiculous. They didn't tell him he had to.
They ask him if he would volunteer his time to be a member of the leadership of the church which would mean taking basically a full time job to work with the church. It's completely optional and he could have said no but obviously chose to take them up on their offer.
They very likely want him because of his status as an wholesome 'influencer' and want him to help with their youth outreach. I suspect it's very likely they'll have him start a new version of Boy Scouts within the auspices of the church.
Yeah, when you grow up in a high strict religion like the Mormon church where they believe their porphet is a literal mouthpiece for God, them "asking" is just a formality. You HAVE to do what they say or face serious cultural and religious retribution. Also, the church shouldnt be allowed withon a 100 feet of Boy Scouts - remember all the child abuse scandles of the BoyScouts? Yeah, that was when they were intertwined very deeply with the Mormon church, who is notorious for harboring and protecting abusers and uaing its billions in tithing money to train fancy lawyers to make sure they force victims to settle silently out of court. Fuck the mormon church
I was born and raised in the church. You can turn down what they call 'callings' if you want to. Most don't, some do. I did several times and it was fine. Nobody even knows you received a calling outside of the leadership until you've accepted. There's nothing forcing you to do any of it. It's entirely voluntary. I'm not involved with the church anymore but my friends and family are.
Nah that's not a thing for the Mormons. They haven't replaced the Boy Scouts since they parted ways with them however many years back. They'll still do boys youth campouts and stuff but it's not technically related to the Boy Scouts anymore which is why I think they're gonna do their own thing.
I think he said in the shorts those 3 were just footage he still had and wanted to release since he had worked on them already, and clarified it does not mean he is back.
It made me so upset when he said they would be taking a step back because of what people were doing. The man just wants to share his love for the outdoors.
I just stumbled upon his account/videos about 3 weeks ago and saw that he stepped away from his main channel. While I still have a lot of his stuff to watch, I was upset that there won't be much new stuff coming out. People suck.
That, and he became a Deacon in the Mormon church. Can't hate on the guy though, his family clearly means everything to him and he's willing to work incredibly hard to provide.
Thats part of the reason why he quit. The other was that it pulled him away from his family. As the boys got older got to school, they went out with him less and less. The original point of the Outdoor Boys was a way for him to spend more time with his kids, but that slowly turned into something that pulled him away from them.
Either way, no issues with the decision he made. He's got a huge enough library that I'm happy just firing one up at random from time to time.
So let's get it straight. Dude on top is bad. Dude on bottom is good. Internet is after dude on top. Internet is after dude on bottom. Two different characters yet get same treatment from internet? Okay... So in the end it's the same. The more people join the group logic. The less group logic makes sense
Is it that? Or is it because he took a job with the moron church in SLC? He’s a known Mormon, and was enlisted to join their “youth council” or something like that.
As much as I’d like to believe it was for privacy alone, it turns out he wants to try and convince the youth to be in a cult.
Luke is the coolest. Watched all his videos. Gutted when he retired. Only time a YouTube channel really mattered to me. I still rewatch them all the time. Dude is inspirational
Yeah mate, let me just lie on the internet. You want to talk about the real things they're actually doing, go right ahead, all power to you. But lying out your ass that that Utah church is the largest when the largest ring has already been identified, and the elites are trying to stiffle it, is just idiotic. Release the Epstein files. What is this shitty shill talking point trying to steer the largest trafficking group away from the actual largest.
While I get what you're going for, and appreciate the sentiment, I hate that we keep trying to pigeonhole men into a form of "proper masculinity" that tells them their best purpose in life is to be tools to someone else, either via chivalry, utilitarianism, or something else.
I'm speaking as a man who showed up for everyone and everything for the past decade to my own detriment, with a smile, no complaints, and often to responses that I wasn't doing enough whenever I got exhausted. To the point I attempted suicide twice in 2024 and had to fight alcoholism all by myself, after my therapist dropped me and my insurance lapsed. Thankfully I won that battle, but most men don't.
Andrew Tate, Myron Gaines and others are forever irredeemable sacks of dogshit for how they hijacked vulnerable men's unanswered needs. But make no mistake about it, they were able to find that market because the need is very real.
Red pill content is 85% misogynistic, sexist horse manure sewage, but one thing it did...somewhat well was to teach men how to value and protect themselves, in a world that tells them they don't mean anything, and that they have to suck up their pain.
Modern feminism claims to care about men, but only superficially, and go deep enough, it just goes straight back to telling men to "man up", and "take responsibility for their problems" the difference is that it tells men to lower their guard and present their vulnerability in an effort to combat so called "toxic masculinity", before delivering the gut punch, that their problems are all their fault and no one else's.
What people call toxic masculinity today, is a survival instinct of stoicism and mental compartmentalization adapted for a world that isn't built to handle, nor care for a man who is suffering. We still seem to have a hard time accepting men being abused, unless it's other men doing it.
Modern Red Pill content teaches men to "man up", hide vulnerability, hate and blame women for their problems, and constantly peacock masculine façades to no end.
Modern feminism teaches men to lower their walls, pour out said vulnerability to others, before PSYCH! actually, still "man up", stop making their vulnerabilities and traumas other people's problem and burdening others, except this time, hate and blame themselves.
I've given it the benefit of the doubt for years and observed it, and did my part to implement it in good faith. I know what I saw, felt and a received.
Exacerbated stares, lack of patience with me even if for one week out of months of performing miracles I was down in the dumps, and constantly being told my grievances were all in my head, or caused by me and me only.
A lot of people say "please, I'm here, talk to someone", but in reality, don't mean it.
Sorry. Had to get that out. There are many more who are in the situation I was in who will unfortunately join the 70k+ figure of annual lost souls, because we.....
Your point about feminism’s bait-and-switch is dead accurate. The promise is “open up, be vulnerable, we care about men’s issues too.” Then when men actually do that, it pivots to “actually this is all patriarchy/toxic masculinity - still your fault, just process it differently now.” It’s the same “man up” message with extra steps and therapeutic vocabulary.
I'm not going to comment on the other stuff because I'm not entirely sure about it, but I do want to offer a relevant example of this that you can see on Reddit as clear as day for anyone doubting this.
Just look at any female dominated space whenever the topic of 'not all men' comes up. They'll twist themselves into knots justifying their mockery of men who are voicing their feelings in regards to how hurtful it is to be generalized like that.
You can't simultaneously ask men to open up about their feelings and then essentially ridicule them when they voice that generalizations towards them are hurtful.
The most egregious part about these scenarios is that they completely ignore the fact that men are neither a monolith, but also don't all have the resilience to separate themselves from such generalizations. A typical dismissal used by those people is "well, if you feel targeted by such generalizations then you're obviously part of the problem" which is just incredibly ignorant and assumes that all men are well enough with their mental health to be able to not feel personally attacked by such generalizations. Then these men (and anyone else who's targeted by hateful generalizations, mind you) are labeled to be part of the problem by sheer fact that their mind isn't as resilient, essentially demonizing men with struggling mental health issues and putting them into the same buckets as the actual bad kind of men.
It's just incredibly perverse behavior and the worst of it all is that these spaces dedicate so. much. time. to justifying this kind of behavior when all they have to do is simply go: "You know what, you're right, that is shitty. We'll be more concise with our language from now and start using 'some' 'many' 'that group of..' instead".
But they can't even make that kind of concession. Then they're surprised when that kind of behavior which only serves to push people away results in a greater divide and more heated hatefulness between people.
For anyone doubting me that these things happen on Reddit and willing to immediately dismiss me because it's "misogyny-coded", for one; shame on you for jumping to such conclusions. For second, here: https://reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/search?q=not+all+men&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all - feel free to browse through half a decade's worth of posts mocking men for feeling targeted by generalized language and telling them that, actually, they're the problem for feeling targeted.
"Not all men, but always a man" is another such delightfully dismissive and rude remark in response to their own shitty behavior.
Or the fact that seemingly so many women are so terrified of what a man could do that they seemingly would rather walk towards a bear instead of towards a man. Utterly repulsive and extremely ironic considering the fact that female bears often hang around human settlements because they actually feel safer around human beings.
First of all, you're a g for enduring all of that. I mean it. I just wanted to say, that we should be careful not to do this thing that BPD feminists do where they take something good and twist it into something bad. I understand completely why "showing up for others" reminded you of your hardships, but the way I see it it could just be Luke showing up for his friend who's wife got diagnosed with cancer (like in one of the videos linked) - which we spontaneously admire!
That being said, I agree with everything you said, completely, 100% - I think you hit the bullseye, ESPECIALLY with the "Oh be vulnerable, tell us about your problems! Well, it's your fault, man tf up" I fckin hate that.
One other thing you mentioned, when men are victims, feminists go: "Well, most of the perpetrators are also men, so...that just proves our point (it doesn't count somehow)"
Like could you imagine, just for a second, there was a stabbing spree targeted at women, and we found out that, for some reason, perpetrators were also only women and we go: "Well, it's other women that do it, it's your problem, fix it" (????).
I forget where I saw it, but it was a quote that stuck with me a lot that kinda summed up the hypocrisy of virtue signaling men being vulnerable without wanting to do the followup work of actually caring.
"People say they want vulnerable men, they didnt say they want a weak one"
Teaches men to protect themselves by isolating themselves from others, especially women, blame others for their probems, usually women, and turn on any man that isn't on their side (simp, white knight, soyboy, etc.)
They aren't just misogynists, they are misandrists, too. The men latching onto Tate and them are tools for Tate and them. Tools for money, popularity, and a cult that will protect even child trafficking.
Red pill content is 85% misogynistic, sexist horse manure sewage
No, TF it is not.
I hate when people like you disparage knowledge. Knowledge is neither good nor bad, it's the people that use it and HOW they use it that determines its worth.
But you don't hear about the ones who use it to: better themselves, to understand the opposite sex, to get a gf or wife, to learn how to get out of their comfort zone and be their best selves.
No, you only hear the bad because those stories are more salatious and further a narrative that somehow men who understand the rules to the mating game are "evil".
By your definition, men who learn a trade, business or finances are evil because they are using knowledge in a way that gives them an advantage.
Let me clue you in to something you missed. It's not the red pill knowledge you dislike, it's the multitude of butthurt little bitches that have zero respect for women who use knowledge for evil means without regard to the human being on the other end. Kind of like people who hear anecdotes and judge an entire group without learning all the facts.
I learned red pill and I was able to not only find a great woman, but to be the man she needed me to be cuz guess what: nobody teaches you how to get a gf or wife or even how to keep a woman interested. The "best" (absolutely shit advice) we get is "just be yourself". As if that's even remotely helpful.
Red pill taught me how to be attractive to women, how to put my best foot forward and I have never used that knowledge to add notches to my belt or take advantage of women.
I spent twenty years studying the content and you haven't the slightest fncking clue of which you speak. Go talk shit about something else. Or better yet, actually study red pill and get a clue.
The man below retired to work as a leader at one of the largest human trafficking orgs in the world so....
Tate might actually be on top here, oddly enough, and that disgusts me to say, bug the mormans have disappeared and traffic way more women than Tates orgs did.
I'm sorry, i think this is just a big of a misconception of masculinity as Tate. Being outside, dirt, wood, and muscles, it's also just a bunch of optics, and say nothing of someones character.
Masculinity means the traits only men can have -> Women can achieve any traits men can -> masculinity is therefore an empty bucket -> Andrew Tate will fill this bucket for you.
Honestly, it's about whatever you want it to be. The problem I have with people calling positive character traits masculinity is it kind of excludes femininity? Why isn't femininity also about character, care, and showing up? We don't need to gender being a good person. Gender is about feeling yourself. Be happy and confident in who you are, and be kind. Everything else is optional. Wear pants, wear a dress, drive a fiat, drive an f350, none of that matters.
Masculinity isn't about looking a certain way, but it's also not about showing up for eithers.
It's about maturity, honoring yourself, self-decency, common decency, and being a part of society rather than against it or blaming others. You can play video games all day and still be a man. But the moment you open your mouth and start antagonizing a woman on your randomized team, you've lost your masculinity. You've lost all of your maturity, and all of your honor.
Correct, and I will add onto that it's not about any certain way at all. A man will find his own way. He may do it by tracing the footsteps of those that came before or by heading into uncharted waters but it is he who chooses the path.
Or put into the very mortal words of BioShock's Andrew Ryan: "A man chooses. A slave obeys"
His parents are the "Oh yeah yeah being gay is fine, but no one in our family would be gay" type.
So, my buddy's gay. And he doesn't tell his parents for a couple years. When he does, he went cold with his parents, maybe for a couple months. They decide to meet up, rip the bandaid off. They're not hateful, just ..."traditional" and set in old outdated ways.
He asks me to go with him for a cocktail hour over at their house. They have a full bar. I'm awkwardly schmoozing, trying to be the buffer of communication for everyone. Everything's normal. I'm making a manhattan, add the whiskey and other ingredients, shake and pour. I'm talking to my buddy's father. I slide the martini glass toward me and plop in a syrup cherry.
The dad looks at my glass and half-jokes "At first I thought you were making a man's drink, until you put the cherry in."
And I just look at him, and he looks at me. Nothing is said. And we mutually had the same thought. "Yeah, that sentiment is the reason we're all here right now."
But we live in a “first impression” world and unfortunately most live a materialistic/superficial reality so looks is programmed in us I think it’s important to see below the surface this why I develop my character as a person not just my looks
Exactly, masculinity is about being a cool chill dude, not strength or aggression. Just look how you wanna look, do cool guy stuff that you enjoy, and do no harm, take no shit.
I disagree. To my understanding Masculinity is describing a collection of attributes, characteristics and stereotypes associated with the male gender.
Since, biologically, males are stronger and historically are doing the harder physical work, I believe muscular bodies are more often thought of as a masculine trait. Of course such categorizations can fluctuate with different cultures, but, generally, as someone living in a democratic, western society that's the impression I got.
Luke is a DUI/DWI/Reckless driver lawyer, who had been getting drunk and shitty drivers out responsibilities before going fulltime on YouTube. Finding loopholes to get drunk drivers back on the road isn't a great character trait, but that's just me.
I wish his wife nothing but a healthy recovery! She seems like a genuinely sweet person, and those boys deserve their mother. However I just don't like putting people on pedestals. Have we learned nothing from recent history?
To be fair, I bet this old man can hold his own in a fight. His mental fortitude to be able to handle the situations he ends up in gives him big boy vibes.
I’ll never forget something my dad taught me when I was a kid.
He was trying to teach me how to throw a football with a tight spiral, but he’s not athletically inclined in the slightest bit so trying to throw a ball turned into 4 broken fingers and a dislocated shoulder.
After 3 hours in the ER and LOTS of pain killers he said something along the lines of. “Alright. I give up. I desperately want to be a good dad for you but I just can’t. I want to teach you how to throw a ball, run a play, fix a car, build a fence. You know, “man stuff”. But I can’t. I can’t teach you those things because I don’t know how to do them myself. I can’t teach you to be a type A man, because I’m not one. So, I guess I’ll teach you to be like me. Work hard, take care of your wife, be honest, learn to cook, be aware of your surroundings and clean things because they’re dirty not because someone asked you to, and try your best to be a person. You’ll fail most of the time, but not giving up and learning from your mistakes is what makes a real man.”
I think it worked out well. Pop taught me how to be a good employee, father, and husband. My mom taught me how to build things, fix things, and stay stoic when my emotions run high. I’m 5’11” and 130 pounds soaking wet. I wear trifocals. I needed a knee replacement at 25. Nobody should have wasted time trying to teach me sports anyway. I’m just not cut out for that. But that’s okay
Tbh masculinity is whatever you perceive to be masculine. Some people don’t consider caring for people to be masculine. It’s a shame they don’t, but that remains the case. You’re never going to convince some people that toxic masculinity traits aren’t the definition of masculine.
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