Jocko Podcast - Jocko Underground: Is It Possible to Get The Actual Truth From Modern Media?

Episode Date: July 13, 2026

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This is the Jocko Underground Podcast number 221. Sitting here with Echo Charles, we have questions from the field, from the front lines, from the troopers, and we will provide you with either answers or recommendations or at a minimum courses of action to follow to stay on the path. That's true. So before I'll say it again, a lot of these questions, you just take the principal from it. By it yourself, maybe you got the same question in principle. You know what I'm saying? It can be helpful. I like it.

Trust me. I'm pointing that out to everybody. I'm here to tell you. I'm here to tell you. All right, first question, chaka. Today, I was thinking about removing distractions to clear my mind while trying to also stay informed. How do you find a source of truth to what is happening in the world? Is that even possible with the mainstream media so divisive and deceptive and big tech, so readily threatening censorship?

Thank for all you do. Really enjoy listening to the new topics on the underground. Well, first of all, check out podcast, Jocko podcast number 537. It's called What's Going On? Because we really kind of go in depth on this. Because the bottom line is that everything is a headline right now. Everything is spun. They need news.

They got 24-hour news cycles. They need news. And in order to get you to pay attention to the news, they give you the most emotional headlines that they can. And the most emotional headlines. the easiest emotions to utilize is number one fear it's the easiest one make people afraid number two anger those are the those are the two easiest things to get you spun up and get you emotional so everything is catastrophic everything is everything is a breaking news story everything's an urgent report everything's a major update everything's an important announcement

everything is a developing story everything and one of the metaphors that i'm made on podcast 537 is imagine that you're announcing an MMA or you're watching an MMA fight and the MMA fight starts and the two fighters go to the center of the cage and one of them throws a jab and misses and now imagine that the announcer goes oh my gosh he missed that jab he's doomed his strategy is terrible I can't believe he didn't train properly his his coach is an idiot his career is over because the guy missed one jab We all know that one jab means almost nothing in a fight. Almost not nothing, but almost nothing.

And yet the headline from the MMA announcer is that he missed the jab and he's doomed. Well, that's what we see in the news all the time. We see just catastrophic emotional headlines blown out of proportion. And by the way, the first report is always wrong. So and so is the second report. And so is the third report. And so is the fourth report. They're all wrong as individual headlines.

As individual reports are all wrong because there's only one perspective. It takes time to gather a bunch of different perspectives and figure, paint a more clear picture, not a perfect picture, but a more clear picture. And the way that you get more perspectives and you is you give a little bit of time and distance from an event happening. So an easy way to give yourself a little bit of time and give the, you know, the, you know, news a little bit of time to sort itself out is you don't need to check the news every five minutes you don't even need to check it every 10 minutes you don't even need to check it every hour you don't

even need to check it every 24 hours you don't nothing's going to happen that's going to impact you in the news in the next 24 hours okay you want to check it every once every 24 hours fine once a day seven o'clock at night give yourself 15 minutes to figure out what the hell's going on in the world and and by the way 99.9% of the time none of it's going to impact you at all and and listen things that can and are going to impact you guess what they will start to rise to the surface and you'll start to see them every day so instead of getting lost amongst the bullshit catastrophic headlines that get thrown up don't allow that to have that to have happen. Just check your news once a day for 15 minutes. If it's that crazy of a catastrophic situation,

you're going to hear about it again tomorrow and the next day and the next day. But most of the things you won't hear about them one day and you won't hear about them again. This is a 24-hour news cycle. They make up a bullshit headline every 20 minutes. Catastrophic, crazy fear-mongering headline is coming at you. So check the news. Check some right wing, check some left-wing sources, check some conservative sources, check some liberal sources, and don't believe any of them because they're all full of shit. Just, you know, get some, try and try and see if there's any facts in these stories. But you won't know that they're, you won't know the truth in the facts. The way that you do is over time, time and distance from stories, you'll have an idea, an idea of what happened.

You won't know exactly. We still don't even know what happened in major events. We don't know what happened. Less news is more news So that's what I'd say Don't don't get bogged down in the stuff It's all it's all data It's all just little data points not true not facts

Just data just it's just it's just Highlights from different sources But I don't know Some big trustworthy person that's out there That's telling it like it is I don't know So don't listen to any of them Listen to all of them don't listen to any of them that's what I would say yeah that over indexing nowadays on the

entertainment which I respect that it exists I understand that well kind of deviates from like the ideal as far as what you're saying how yeah you want to you need info on some on stuff that's happening in the world you need the info that's one thing but when you want when you turn on the news that's something else it's entertainment yeah yeah as you point out very often to me. Oh, yeah. The stuff that you're watching in your phone and on your TV, it's all entertainment.

I don't care what they call it. It's entertainment. You know, it's sadly ironic, I guess, in a matter of speaking, is the entertainment part of it works. And I say it works. And I mean this, where if they don't make it entertainment, if they don't make the headline, like stimulate you in that way or whatever. a lot of times we'll be like, oh, that's boring.

Of course, bro. I'm not going to look. Of course. So it kind of defeats the whole purpose of the news in a way. You see what I'm saying? Well, yeah. It's like, it's almost like the news channel becomes ineffective because no one's going to watch. Is you what I'm saying?

So it's kind of like they have to do it. See what I'm saying? So it's like a little catch 22. It's kind of like, oh, I hate when they do that, but they have to do it. Otherwise, I ain't going to watch it. So it's like, bro, what are you even talking about? You know, not this guy, but I'm just saying it. You know, Eiffram Mattos, he's got his little video YouTube podcast called The Overwatch with

Eiffram Mattis. And it's totally good to go. I like it. He's very unemotional about the whole thing. He's kind of just stating the facts. He's a conservative guy. So you're going to get a conservative slant to it. But like, I like what he's doing right now.

Yeah. You know, that's cool. It's solid. Check out A from Mattis. Matos. Overwatch Watch. Don't get too crazy on the news.

It's not news. It's entertainment. Remember that. Remember that. Or if you really want to get nuts, as far as like, no, no,

I just want the facts straight up. Like, stop filtering, stop polluting these factual things with like your opinion and spin and take and all this stuff. Just go and chat GPT. Chat GPT has spin, bro.

No, no. But if you ask it not to have any spin, you say, hey, of this case. You think it'll just you think there's a it's it'll do spin just I've seen all kinds of bias in chat GPT for sure yeah yeah so but if you from my experience I don't I don't look into that kind of stuff like news and you know that whole thing but if I say hey don't sugarcoat this thing because I understand it sugarcoat stuff just by default. Have you seen the guy on Instagram that like

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