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Episode Date: April 23, 2021

You know the deal, rapid-fire Q and A submitted by the listeners. My co-host today is a relationship and tactical expert...Mike Glover! 1. How to stay married as a member of the military/first responder 2. If we could go back in time and fight in any war, which war would it be 3. Would we consider returning to Iraq or Afghanistan in a non-combat/tourist capacity 4. The top 3 things to consider to encourage a culture of preparedness 5. Mike's go-to fast food stop, and specific order 6. As an Asian American, how does Mike deal with racism 7. What are you going to do if they come for your AR's Enjoy

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I'm looking at danger close now. All right, Mike. You know the rules. Oh, gosh, here we go. Well, usually we do a five-minute time cap, but we're just going to go ahead and take these where they go. Variety of questions submitted by the listeners. Well, most of these were drawn from the post that I put up saying that you were on your way here. So here we go.

Question number one. Our specialty relationships. Okay. How do you stay married as a military first responder? I think you're both divorced. But what would have taken to stay married? to your wives. Thanks. Another career.

Man, that's good. Communication. Balance. The typical answers that you see in relationships. But I think what I've seen most often fail is the lack of communication and what's about to transpire in that career field. And then when that doesn't happen, what you see is people not meeting. expectations and then hey you're supposed to be here because you're supposed to support me emotionally

and you're not here so I slept with this dude well that's not how it's supposed to work but that's how basic human needs work so and I would say also I mean I can't speak for you Mike in your ex-wife because I never matter you need to make sure that you take time to find the right person you know relationships all being different there's an equal sign in between the two but It's two parts of an equation. There's a lot of mistakes, I think, military make younger in life. There's a reason there's predatory lenders just off the most military bases, right? So you can get a 30% interest rate as a fucking E5 for your new Corvette that you don't need.

Yes. And then take it to a strip club and marry a fucking dependipotamus. And if you don't know what that is, just go ahead and look it up. I'm not going to go and break that down for people. You get like a pay bump. You do get a pay bump. Yeah, there actually is a financial benefit to getting married early. And I'm not saying that happened in either of our lives, but I have seen that happen in quite a few people.

people's lives, don't be in a rush. Take your time and find the right person. That is the advice that I would actually give myself. And I've been asked that question. If I could go back to my younger self, you know, what would I say? And one of the things would be get married later in life. I have such a better understanding of who I am now at 43. And I've had these conversations with people. And I think they all resoundingly agree if they come from our background. The job will suffer last. Everything will implode. And if you're going to make that decision to go down that path. I'm not saying be selfish, but just consider the impact on other people. I don't want to, I, you know, I didn't, I didn't get married with the intention of getting divorced. Was it the

fault of my occupation? No, it wasn't causal, but was it corollary to it? Yes, it absolutely was. So solid advice. That's a good one. Communication is, is key. Yeah. Do you use some of the words that we made up on our episode that we did? Lots of whee's and me's and, I think you'll like this one. If you both could go back in time and fight in any war, which would it be? Now, that's the question. I'm going to add something to this. And you could take one weapon system with you. What would it be?

Oh. Because that adds a different flavor. Man, so. I know you're a history of warfare. Like we were talking about the deuce, which was, I mean, substantially different than the Oon. I'm talking about the WWs, of course. I would like I would want to be

like the SDG 44 is one of my favorite ones but the Stomgavere but that was a German weapon system so let's not put myself in that predicament I if let's just say I would do Mac V-Sog Vietnam

RPD so a cut barrel RPD which they used drums I think a hundred round drums and there was a I can't remember the variant of round was like five was it five No, it was a, I'll look that up, but it's, the RPD with a short barrel was like a street sweeper. And they were able to fire it from the hip and just mow down the entire triple canopy. That would be, I want to do that.

Why, uh, not, I don't think enticing is the right word, but why would you land on the Vietnam conflict? You know what? I think, look, I hate the jungle. I hate the heat. With a passion, I hate it too. Like, if you could find me like a moderate war, and temperature-wise, I'd be in that where I was in like board shorts or something. Yep.

But the reason I would choose that is because the historical importance of the evolution of special operations with combined operations with Navy Seals, Green Berets, and even force recon and getting it on. And I think those are more remote fire bases, which I experienced in Afghanistan on a different scale, a scale that's not as aggressive and is epic, that whole feeling of being in the Wild West, being remote and just doing your shit, being primal, is the best feeling ever had in warfare. Like, doing direct action in itself is like a feeling, but being remote and living austere

off the grid where you're dependent only on yourselves and your team, man, those MacVee saw guys, they share those same experiences in their books. and I like that life What war was the Red Baron in? Was that the Oon? Ooh, that was, so the Red Baron was... Is that like World War I? I want to say, so World War I was

1917, 18. I don't know if that was. I think that was earlier than that. I want to fight in the war where the Red Baron was. Really? And I want to... Do you like pizza? No, because I want to be a pilot. And I want to fly in those biplanes and triplanes.

The one's made a paper machine. Fuck yeah. And the weapon I would bring back would probably be a flamethrower so I could fly up next to my enemy and I would flame them with my flamethrower and I would want to have like a full satchel of grenades because those guys when they were done with their air-to-air fighting they would just drop shit out of the open canopy on top of people. So it was World War I and Von Rich Chalfin. Zero percent chance you said that correctly. He's the ace of aces of war. But the first actual close air support mission ever conducted was in one of these planes

where a dude flew from Italy to Libya and dropped the grenade and reported he flew back and he said he killed some dudes. Bullshit. That's what I would want to do, but I would want twin flamethrowers on the wingtips. So it'd be a fire-breathing dragon from the sky that nobody had seen.

They would only see it once because your chances of survival on that would be one and done. But that'd be then von Luftenberg or whatever he's saying. He died in 1918. So that's what I would take. I would take a paper mache airplane in World War I with two flamethrowers. That's ballsy. Okay.

I didn't know we knew we were going to get taken out. That might change mine. Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't want to get taken out, but if I have to, if that's my only choice, flying that airplane, I love flying planes, so that would be my choice. With flame throwers, that's your weapon, is flame throwers? Yeah, man. That's crazy.

They had wooden propellers. I mean, I would keep it pointed away from those. You have your pilot's license? Yeah. That's, man. Damn, your shit's just over 3,000 flight hours. Do you have your, do you have your sailing license? Your captain's license?

I fucking hate the water. Do you? Yeah. You're a Navy sale. That's what you guys live in the water. Or it's because you've been around it so much. I've had enough. I don't need small vessels or craft of any kind.

But how much, let's be serious, how many waterborne operations and how much time did you spend the water as a seal? Pre-9-11, quite a bit. Total number of waterborne operation zero. Damn. I know. I've actually done a waterborne operation. in Iraq off the Euphrates.

Does it count if you're riding on a SWIC? I was going to say, don't say falling in a shit river as a waterborne operation. I took 160, it flew us in, we transferred into a swick boat, we drove down the Euphrates, and then we got off like a foot on the land, hit a target, drove back, and did it reverse. It was cool.

I put asterix next to waterborne operation. You had some other shit in there too. This one I was interested to get your thoughts on. Would either of you be interested in ever returning to Afghanistan or Iraq in a non-combatant role and how do you think that experience would make you feel in light of your past service there? So I went back to Iraq as a CIA guy.

I'm going to call that still a service role. Yeah. And it was fucking weird, though. Like, I actually got compromised by one of my guys that I had trained in Baghdad. And I'm sitting in a land cruiser and we make eye contact. And I look at my riding partner who happened to be another dude that I operated with that same unit. It was the B-23, the commander's an extremist force. And I looked at him and he looked at me and I went, I went, Dan, that's fucking.

And whatever, you know, I was like, that's Amud. He's like, probably Muhammad. It was probably Mohammed. Ahmed or Mohammed. So he looks left and I look at him and I'm like, fuck, he's coming. Is he walking towards me? He's like, he's walking towards you. I'm like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

So run on the window, I'm like, bro, what's up? And he's like, what are you doing here? I'm like, what are you doing here? And he's like, oh, I'm in the CIA. I'm like, what? He's like, oh, I'm in Iraqi CIA. I'm like, oh, yeah. Me too.

You too, man. But I'm actually going back to Iraq. Really? Yes. I'm doing a documentary on the Iraqi counterterrorism force. No shit. I'm going back to Erbil. We're flying into Erbil, but it's probably going to be a winner.

So probably November, December time frame. You know they have snowboarding there? Yeah, it's epic. I'm dead serious. There's videos of people snowboarding in Irbyl. And Erbil is like, dude, Urbill was awesome. I love Erbil. I didn't spend much time there.

Pass through. Yeah, it's freaking awesome. I've only done one rotation in Urbill specific, but Erbil is amazing. And look, I want to tell a story of ICTF and their epic accomplishments with special operations, including Tier 1, the SIF.

We bred those guys from scratch in Jordan. We fought a war with them. And then when we left, they fought the war by themselves. They had assisting and advising, caste, close air support. But if it wasn't for those dudes, Missoule would be ISIS occupied.

And they sacrificed their lives. I even raised money once for one of the dudes that was killed for his family and had the money shipped to his brother who was a sergeant major in that unit and gave him Western Union like 5Gs just to help their family because he sacrificed his life. That whole story, we're going to go to Missoull, tell the story of how they took Missoull. We're going to go to Urbill, talk about the ISIS coming in,

and we're going to go to Baghdad and talk to the chain of command, which includes the general who used to be alive when I was operating, but he passed away. But the general and the country team actually gave us permission to go in there and do it with open arms and access. No shit. Which is, I'm taking the opportunity, man. How about Afghanistan?

Would you ever have any interest in going back? That's a tough one. Like, the most beautiful country I've ever been to is Afghanistan. Agree. It's, I, on, I've only done two or three rotations of Afghanistan. I did a nine-monther there. And on that nine-monther, I was in. next to the Hindu Kush

and traveled all over that area which is beautiful like Osama bin Laden's land right? The other side of that I was on in Kunduz on the west side of the Hindu Kush and had the same experience epic. A lot of killing bad guys I don't know if I'd feel safe enough

to be able to do that not for me personally but with people that I would go with I actually got invited to go to Pakistan with Surfer Magazine to do a to do protection for a guy pre-COVID COVID kind of jacked that up

but we were going to actually go to Afghanistan I got a buddy buddy who started the Van Life movement Foster Huntington cool books on Van Life by the way his grandfather was in the mountains of the Hindu Kush doing wreckies during World War II

because they were they were surveying land for stuff related to the war as an OSS guy and we wanted to go retrace all all that stuff. I just don't think it's secure enough. I think we get fucking our heads chopped off. Yeah, I agree.

I would actually, I would enjoy going back to both just to go back from a completely different optic. Afghanistan's got some sick wingsuit base jumps. I'd like to rip some of those mountains. Really? Yeah. And you could go grenade in each hand.

Yes. I'm back, bitches and drop those things. You'd have to pull pins before you jump, though. So, yeah, I don't know if they'd allow me to do that. but I actually would be open to go back and I think with the distance that I have from my service, it wouldn't be any, you know what I mean? I think it actually would be

I think it would be a nice little ribbon on the book. You know, close it up, final chapter, put a ribbon and just, I mean, I definitely feel like I have moved past my experiences there. I mean, they largely made me who I am and they help and they inform my thought process and opinion, but I think going back would be a nice closing loop on it. I think the

Vietnam error vets who return back to Vietnam and World War II have said that same thing. Just closing the loop and just getting that feeling, reliving some things, remembering some people, and then just walking away. This one's straight in your wheelhouse. If you had to share the top three methods or ideas to encourage a culture of preparedness among civilians,

what would those look like? What would those look like? It seems more difficult than it should be. The three top... Top three methods or ideas to encourage a culture of preparedness among civilians. Oh, okay. So let's go.

with the top three. The first one is that disasters and catastrophes are equal opportunists. They don't care who you are. So the idea that a segment of the population is more prepared because they're more rural or white people who are who are preppers, like that idea removed from your head. It doesn't care what you look like. It will eat your lunch and destroy your life. Number two is that the idea that preparedness is paranoia is completely false. Paranoia is what you have when you're insecure. And when you lack information, you become more insecure, which means you become more paranoid. You replace that with understanding, technical understanding, tactical understanding,

and then develop a understanding of how things work in preparedness. you become less paranoid, more confident, and that could be part of your everyday life. And the last component is when you introduce this, it needs to be a lifestyle, but it doesn't need to be scary. I like to, you know, Trojan horse these tactics and techniques into recreation, because recreation, if you're somebody who likes recreation like me, I like to overland because I like to get the fuck away from people.

But if I'm overlanding away from people, that means I need to be prepared. for that worst case contingency, and by benefit, I am setting myself up for success, for everything in between. So make it part of your recreational life as well. I don't think I can add to that.

I mean, you are the experts in this realm. Why does this thing, sometimes it makes noises at me, Mike, and I don't. It is saying something. That doesn't sound like a good sound either. It's like, you fucked up. What's Mike's go-to road trip fast food stop?

And what precisely does he order? I had to cherry pick this. Chick-fil-A. Because you, you film a lot on the road. Yes. Talking, which also, by the way, I think is illegal. You shouldn't text and drive or film videos and drive. I see you doing that shit all the time.

I'm like, this is a grip a pistol, and I'm driving my knees. I see you do that shit all the time. I'm like, God damn, he's doing it from his car again. Yeah, so go-to-road-trip fast food, and precisely what do you order? So my go-to is Chick-fil-A, and I hate being in places like, this place doesn't have a chick-fil-a. There's one down the road. There's one around up the road.

In Kalispa? Yeah. I will be there. today. That's my, I'm going to that before the airport. My on the road is Chick-fil-A, it's a number one, which is a standard chicken sandwich with pickles, extra pickles, with one mayonnaise packet and one mustard packet on top of that. So I get a little, it's like the moderate yum with a little of a mustard in between. And then I get a Diet Coke and I make it large. And then when I'm with George, when we road trip, he likes to do this thing I call.

fry tax. He feels like since he's holding the bag, he could steal my fries. And when you take one Chick-fil-A fry, which is the size of a waffle, it's like taking half the bag or half the box. It's like the size of this. It is literally that. Yeah. Delicious. It's about that size. Yep. But that's my, and I used to do before COVID, I would get an ice cream cone, a small, because I don't want to be obese, so I don't get a large. So I take a small and I would eat that before I go into the mill. But now they do cups. What's the theory behind that? Well, the theory is I don't want it to melt, but I want that goodness is Chick-fil-A. Man, if I can get a Chick-fil-A sponsorship, that would be great.

Do they have an off-menu selections like In-N-Out does? You know what I'm talking about, the hidden menu? They do, but it's not, it's everything that's on the menu, just different variations of that. Well, that's not exciting at all. It's not. The breakfast is good for that, too. I mean, they have good, if you haven't done biscuits, chicken biscuits from Chick-fil-A for breakfast, please do that. Do they offer it all day long?

They don't. Assholes. Detriment. And they're not open on Sundays. They are not open on Sundays. Which bums me out, but, you know, they stick to their principles, and I like that. If you, when you're heading up to the airport, it goes straight down Main Street. Which is like two minutes from here, by the way, right?

It's like 50 minutes. Okay. But if you go straight up Main Street on your left-hand side near Cabellas, you're going to see the filet of chicken. Really? There's a Cabellas here, too? Yeah. Dude, we're not like... Well, I mean, Calisbell.

Antarctica. Well, I went to a bookstore. This guy has 50,000 books, local bookstore. Where? And it was right downtown. It was like two minutes from here. Wow. There's one that's right here that's called the Something Shelf, which is a nice bookstore. This place was a hole in the wall. And it was like hole in the wall. And it had the best inventory of books. I actually bought three books from there and super cool. Very interesting. It's making that noise at me again. Here we go. We got two more. And then I'll get you out of here to get to the airport. Chick-fil-A. That's what I'm thinking about now. You've both spoken emphatically about the military as a true meritocracy. I'm curious about Mike's Asian American experience, having left the military and navigating judgment from Joe Public. How does he handle overt and sometimes subtle discrimination and racism? Very well. I like it. Look, if I grew up in an Asian American home, if you have an Asian parent, especially a mom,

you live in the racist household in America because Asian families are the racist. Because they don't like any racist besides Asians. And then within the Asians, there's more racism. It's more racist in Asian culture than it is outside of Asian culture. Because Asians don't like Koreans don't like Japanese. My mom hated my Japanese friends and would always make me secretly compete with them. But they're my friends, Mom. No, no, no.

You beat them. That's like, Mom, this is at World War II. This is like we're just hanging out. We're playing basketball. So what I've realized is that component of culture in Asian American culture has set us up for being very neutral in a racist dispute between whites and blacks, which is weird in the first place, right? Not every black person is black. They're Haitian. They're from Jamaica.

They're from a lot of black places. I'm trying to figure out like African-American black. But the same thing with the white people. There's like you know Norwegians and if an if a dude comes off the boat and he's from Sweden and he's white He's not a redneck Confederate racist asshole. He's a fucking Swedish dude. He doesn't know what the fuck like so That whole thing is funny to Asian Americans and so we play both sides of this and what I realized as a kid is They used to call me wonder like wonder bread on the basketball court when I played basketball as a young kid growing up in Florida with all black kids because I went to all black schools and I'm like I'm like the token white person but I'm not even white like I look Asian and and they're like confused

so they're like you're fucking wonder but I could hang out with the black kids and then I could hang out with the white kids and because my dad was a redneck so I think one Asians are more resilient when it comes to racism I also think we are it's big partly because we're the most oppressed people I mean everybody's oppressed but Asian culture has some deeply rooted oppression, especially Koreans during the World War II by the Japanese, by the Chinese. And even in the Korean War. So my thing is, look, we're all in this together. Despite your fucking race, if you want to align yourself with race, you're making a mistake because that's

not how it works. Asian Americans don't give a fuck. This idea that, what was it called, the big attacks on Asians they had the saying like stop Asian hate Yes I have seen that There's a new fucking emoji on Instagram Like that's gonna help anything I don't even see that as a systemic problem

What I see that is media Taking one or two isolated instances and wanting to start Social Justice campaigns to build their analytics And somebody's like well Mike Why aren't you standing up? Standing up against what? My whole fucking family's Asian Not one of my Asian

family, like I'm actually Asian. Now, one of my Asian actual family members had said, Mike, this is happening. We're being attacked. Not one. And I have a shit ton of Asian family members and Asian American family members in the U.S. So again, I don't buy into the bullshit. I'm just happy to be the neutral race.

The neutral race. Yeah. Because you're the most racist. I can be. I'm allowed to do that. Asian Americans are given permission. What do you think when you hear people talking about institutional racism and United States or in policing.

It's bullshit. It's all contrived. It's all things. It's all talking points for people to build personas, their reputation, their brand, their fucking media corporation. It's all contrived. Racism,

when people talk about anti-racism, that's the most comical shit to me. It has to do with biology. We like to segregate in tribes. Now, does your tribe happen to segregate with like-looking people? Likely yes. Does that make you racist? No, that means you're tribal just like everybody else on the fucking planet You don't see white or black tribes in Africa assimulating with white people

That's not how it works you don't see new new guinea tribes a simulating with fucking anybody that's not how it works So tribalism which means segregation Is a natural component to biology and just because we're doing that in in different facets doesn't mean people are racist because I live in a neighborhood that happens to be the majority white doesn't mean I'm a fucking white racist asshole It just means I live in a fucking neighborhood and and mostly I'm just paid attention to what I what's going on in my life and not the demographics or analytics of everything that's going on Racism so funny Last question in the theoretical But increasing likely situation that ARs and similar weapons are banned and mandatory bybacks are enacted how would you

guys handle that situation and would you voluntarily turn in your firearms? If not, how would you handle interaction with law enforcement if they came to your home for your firearms? So first, I'll placate to the question because he asked if you just played like it pretended like it happened. One, it will never happen because the benefit of the United States of America is the decentralization of government with the federal government being. dislocated from the states and their ability to enact power and assert dominance over a state. That's why we have states in the first place, by the way. So we have a decentralized approach to governance in the first place, which means that the government, one, they don't have the capacity

and capability to come in en masse and do a sort of warrants across every firearm owner in America, which is tens of millions. I would love to know what organization people think would do that. Yeah, nobody has, nobody has the ability to do that in manpower. It's a logistics problem more than, more so than anything else. So never going to happen. Two, your local sheriff with your local government likely is saying, fuck that, we're not doing that. And then three, if that happened to me, I'm not giving up shit. I'm just not giving up anything. You want to come knock on my door, we'll have the conversation. And I'll say, listen, this isn't happening. Now, if you decide it's going to happen, I won't go there because I don't want to, um, incite, um, incite. And I'll have

violence or talk about violence, but it's just not going to happen. There's few things in this world that I'm willing to fight for, and most of them have to do with my freedom, liberties, and this country. And that would be one of them. What do you think about the legislation that I just heard they're trying to push through when it comes to, what was it, ghost guns? There was something else. First of, have you ever seen a ghost gun? So fucking dumb. Well, and I look at, I look at proposed legislation from the perspective. It usually will follow after. incident and I will look at it from and I'm not saying this is the correct way to view it but I'll think to myself is what's being proposed would it have had any impact on what had happened or what

is driving this legislation and almost always the answer is fucking no and so I don't understand I don't understand the the actual end state that they're looking for I mean it starts to make sense like and I feel tinfoil hattish to say it where it's just a mechanism of control yeah what's a tactic to also um it's a tactic to appease their base because it like you take a ghost gun the other one was the brace and the other one was the background expand expanded background checks those three things are the most dumb legislative things that don't affect really a gun owners in America right um the the brace is stupid it's always been dumb an SBR short barrel rifle short barrel rifle is called now you can have a brace

and they're saying that the brace can join with a pistol which is they're talking about AR pistols, by the way. They're not talking about the pistols with the chassis. That might fall until the same line of legal stature, but they're talking about the AR pistol that has a brace. Nobody, one, uses the brace as it's intended to use. So people say brace. The legislators actually think they're talking about the brace attached to the forearm. But so they're not using it in the first place. And then the ghost gun, I've looked at the statistics for how many ghost guns have been used in murders. And there's like zero statistics, which means it's more likely not an issue whatsoever. But it's a great talking point. It is a good talking point because you're like,

there's domestic terrorists building ghost guns in their garage off the books. You should be worried about the tens, if not hundreds of millions of pistols that are in circulation on the books that are in our inner cities that are killing African American kids. Yeah, I agree with you. I don't I don't think it'll ever get to a place where this situation will play itself out. And I think people worrying about this situation leads to a goddamn ammo shortage for me that I can't find hunting rounds. They're fucking up, man. Well, they're buying into that media narrative, and that's the reaction they're looking for. But look what it's done.

I mean, it's boosted gun sales. The last surge of gun sales was in 2016 with Hillary Clinton. And the surge happened because Clinton and Obama were on this, on this base. wagon of gun control and then that record was beat last year and those record gun sales happen to be across the political line in the spectrum got another one for you we have time for some more this one's good would you rather have fingers for toes or toes for fingers I would rather have uh toes for fingers no no fingers for toes for toes like toes so you can climb shit so climbs like a monkey yeah and you just wear bigger shoes and you don't look weird

I've seen guys with thumbs that look like toes. Fucking gross. All right. Let's dig into here. And so we have on old social media. There were some juicy ones. Yeah. But we went through many more than I thought we would actually relatively quickly.

So you said before you go to the range two to three times a week. Is it a flat range? And what are you working on? Same for Mike. So what do you do when you go to the range? For myself, I work on fundamentals. I will spend a good amount of time. coming from concealed, not working on anything crazy other than standing in front of a target,

indexing my pistol and putting round on target and multiple versions of that. So for me, it's almost always fundamentals and then sometimes I'll get out there and fuck around and blast steel. But I try to go, in the recent months it's dwinded a little bit just due to the weather, but I was going at least two times per week to the range. But I'll test myself against kind of like the gold standards, the L.Prez. From the draw, I have a range belt, but I also have, you know, the concealed holster and to me almost everything comes back down to your mastery of the fundamentals this high speed Gucci gear isn't going to do you shit if you can't get your gun out of the holster yeah yeah yeah i'm the same way i just focus on fundamentals and uh so i have a breakdown of fundamentals

that's for gunfighting it's grip trigger control stance and alignment for fundamentals of marksmanship it's seven to nine fundamentals like when you practice and hone fundamentals it's like going to the gym with a plan if you're just going there and you're just throwing shit around you're not developing an understanding of where you're at and where you need to be. So I use pro timers, scoreable targets, different drills, and I work these technical scripts. When I do self-defense draws off of a drawstroke, I typically like to use a narrative in my head because we never perceive threats via audible sounds. We never hear pro timers, you know, fire, shoot, go. We have to make the decision on perception. So I develop a script in my head based on

a narration of a scenario, and then I draw the pistol, and then I act. And act involves a technical drawing from concealed, and also lateral movement. So I practice a lot of movement moving off the X dynamically and pushing my body left or right. And that that advantage allows me to force the shooter, who's the bad guy, to push the gun and manipulate the gun across a plane. that in conjunction with stress sometimes I'll do a little mini stress shoots like actually in Washington State we did a stress shoot where we did work out

for a five minutes through burpees basic functional fitness type exercises elevating our heart rate and then do those same drills those fundamental drills like El Prez do it with stress implemented and then what you'll see is in a performance

curve like 70 to 80 percent you're faster you're more accurate and then if you want to really push it you get yourself into that 90% BPM bandwidth and you'll start making mistakes. And performance will start going down the other end. It will start going falling off the map. Thoughts on the ethics of military leaders bullying soldiers into getting the still voluntary COVID vaccine. Going so far as to offer four day weekends, limiting mileage on leave and not allowing them to enter DFACs, which is a chow hall.

What the fuck does DFAC stand for? Dining facility. Yeah. Nailed that. Nailed it. or gyms without being able to provide a COVID card. Interesting. So offering incentives for the military for Joe's,

for lower-enlisted, has always been a thing. Back in the day, it used to be, I think it's called S. I don't know why this is a snapping in my head, but I think it's called ARP or SRP. And it used to be like the commander would come out and say, hey, we're setting up allotments for you to donate part of your paycheck, a couple bucks to your part of your paycheck,

per paycheck to these nonprofits. And if you did that, you would get a pass for four days. So we had fucking Joe's going like, oh, dude, I'll do $10 a paycheck. So $10 per paycheck. Meanwhile, they're making like $12 a paycheck. They're broke as shit. And they're getting that four-day pass. But you had some commanders that wouldn't even let you leave unless you did that.

So when I got anthrax, I was told you are non-deployable without anthrax. So I was like, all right, hook it up because I'm going down range. I'm killing bad guys. So there's incentives. This whole COVID thing is kind of different to me because there's not enough data. The anthrax vaccine, I don't know if we had a lot of data on the anthrax vaccine, but we know there was a potential threat down range. There's not a potential threat down range when you're isolated with the same dudes that

you're going to war with who have all been COVID tested. If you're intervening with indage, that's different. So there's different parameters that are built around that. Most likely with me aligned with not enough fucking information. So I don't like bullying period. I think it's a poor tactic and poor way of driving people to do stuff. But I think it's despicable. I don't think that that should be happening.

And I would say this, I don't even know if it's happening, but likely it is. Because that's just how the military rolls. I've seen it actually in a few places. Yeah. And people have reached out to me about it. Yeah, again, I'm not a fan of the bullying at all. I put my anthrax vaccine in the garbage and had the Corman sign it.

Did you? I wish I did that. Hypothetically. Did you have any adverse reactions? Well, I had two, I had a couple of them and no reactions, but the rest of them, based on people's feedback. You waved off on the full series? Well, I waved off on the full series and had it signed off on it because I was like, fuck that. And then one of my 18 deltas signed off for me.

What is one area of preparedness that people identify as preppers may often overlook? Physical fitness is the most. That by far. Yeah. Guys like to show how cool they are with their guns, their kit, because it displays well. I think the biggest issue, and this is going to be something that we're going to concentrate at Fieldcraft, because we actually have the concept. and the apparatus for teaching through fieldcraft survival fit on IG.

I think what I see, like let me give an example. In Washington, I did a five minutes of exercise, which puts you for the in shape person in about five minutes, it puts you in about a 70% bandwidth where you should be performing optimally. So what you'll see is more accurate scores technically than you would see sitting idle at 70 beats per minute. So we accelerate the performance, but then people start who are not, shape start falling off. So what the diagnostic is, is you determine, you take 10 people,

you get the same interaction physically, which is the same physical stress, you put them in a technical scenario, and then you see the baseline of the person who's fit as it correlates with their technical output, their score. So you got a score and then they're BPM. So if you got a guy who's 170 beats per minute and he's scoring perfect, but then you got a guy who's out of shape, Or not, don't even look at the shape. Look at the person and they go, they're 190 beats per minute, which means that they're a higher threshold for mistakes because they're hitting the red line.

And they have a score of 60. Then the correlation is the fitter you are, the more likely you are to be technically proficient at what you're doing. So you take that and you take 10 people and five of them are out of shape. That's what I'm seeing on civilian courses. But I'm seeing the sexiest guns. the coolest belts, but people who aren't necessarily like, you look at them and you're like, that's an obese person. They just don't have cardiovascular baselines. They don't have the

ability to, they don't even understand breathing tactics. And so they're getting overwhelmed. I mean, half of the group that I did a stress shoot with in Washington was laughing and joking and say, fuck this, this is bullshit. But what I told them after the fact in the AER, because I'm never a dick about it, because it's their money, which allows. of tactical companies don't realize they chew them out like their fucking Joe's. I say, guys, look, you paid to come here to do this. The reason you're laughing is because that's a neurological response to you being overwhelmed physiologically. You're out of shape. You suck. And so what happens is you start doing dumb shit. You start laughing. You start joking. You say, fuck this. And then your

resilient starts diminishing and you fucking quit. All that means is you're going to die in a gunfight. Yeah. Because, and then, and so I don't give a fuck what you do from here on out, but let me tell you what I'm not going to do is stroke your ego and tell you you're the best. A lot of you guys need to get not fat and you need to start working on your cardiovascular fitness. That's everybody, by the way, but more so the guys who suck the worse. And if you sucked, go home and learn that lesson and fucking be better. Yeah, if you disregard the old combat chassis, the human body, it's going to fall apart on you. You're going to die with the most sexy gun still in its fucking holster.

it's not the look Definitely not Gravy seals Meal Team 6 The Green Benignés They're out there Which is rare The fucking thick blue line

They're out there They're out there And it's not acceptable Last question Thoughts on the Diversity Officer For Socom So he resigned

The guy resigned Because Just I guess more would be The thoughts on the Principle of having That person in place In the first place Diversity

And so one sure, after we've selected, right? So part of the problem I have was Socom's diversity officers, they were looking at diversification pre-selection, right? So one, I think diversification for green berets and special forces, but also other services is important. So if I go out and I recruit from the infantry, if I recruit from the infantry, 98% of the infantry is white. So if you want diversity, Like third group used to be Africa. When I went through the Q course, I knew I was going to third group. So I was a, I spoke Korean or I could read and write Korean.

They sent me to French. So I was a French speaking Korean and an African-based unit that was deploying to Afghanistan. I mean, that totally didn't even have a reference for who the fuck I was, right? They don't go, hey, let's take all these Hispanic dudes who have a Spanish background, who have Latino culture ingrained in them, and send them to some. seventh group to focus on the area of operation in South America. That's smart tactics. What I think this person was being put in position for was creating diversification, not setting up the success of diversification. I agree with you. Meaning saying, hey, where my Latino dudes at? Okay, you're over here.

Where the fuck are my Asian Americans at? Okay, well, let's start recruiting from those pools of dudes and saying, hey, there's this whole world that's called the Green Berets where you can come and operate in your culture and then build rapport better because you understand that culture. That's diversification the right way. Diversification and trying to intently and purposefully

without even looking at the selection class or the selection rate, bullshit. I think it's, and that dude who was doing it was political, toxic, a whole bunch of bad things, which is why I put him on blast, and I'm glad he fucking resigned. Fuck him. That's the best ending ever.

Yeah, I think so. If we chugged this bottle of whiskey, that would be... Well, we got to get you to Chick-fil-A before that. All right, Tommy, thank you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Thanks for taking the time to tune in, whether you're listening on an audio-only platform

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