Shawn Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer is a book about a man who saved 27 men stranded in the Antarctic for 2 years, kept his crew alive, and saved the lives of 27 other men stranded with him.
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00:00:35.000I've decided to follow Cuomo's rules and stay away from my family.
00:00:42.000I saw Cuomo said that he's not going to visit his sister because she's from out of state and it would be a great gesture of love for him not to see her on that day to keep her safe.
00:00:53.000He's okay with his 89-year-old grandmother.
00:00:56.000That's because he likes to kill old people, apparently.
00:01:39.000Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer.
00:01:43.000And he was a sailor, a captain, sea captain.
00:01:47.000His boat was stuck in the Antarctic for two years, but he kept his crew alive, saved the lives of 27 men stranded with him in the Antarctic.
00:01:57.000So it's written mostly by these two women who are like finance people, and they've noticed that his rules are great for business, great for making money.
00:02:09.000So in the book, they have his diary and the diary of the sailors on board, and you learn a lot about him.
00:02:15.000And then these two women have done a great job of putting it all together.
00:02:19.000But I thought this was an interesting example of what makes him a special guy.
00:02:23.000And I asked my dad, by the way, I go, you were a bleeder, a manager of a lot of projects.
00:02:40.000I don't know why he told me to get this book.
00:02:43.000Even while he was training all the men to do all the ship's work, the boss was observing, that's what they call him in the book.
00:02:48.000The boss was observing everyone's personality.
00:02:51.000He wanted to put each person in a long-term job he enjoyed and for which he was best suited.
00:02:56.000He watched as each took care of the dogs on a rotating basis, then selected dog team leaders.
00:03:02.000Shackleton figured the best work came from those with a particular interest in the job, and the dogs benefited from the dedicated care of one owner.
00:03:29.000Sorry, Ord Lees, hired as a motor expert, was a pack rat and obsessed about the possibility of running short of supplies.
00:03:35.000The crew members knew that if anything was missing on the ship, it would likely be Ordley's pillow or bed.
00:03:42.000So Shackleton made this hoarder the storekeeper.
00:03:46.000To some, it seemed like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse, but Shackleton knew this job would allay Ordley's anxieties and prevent the possibility of having to deal with other problems down the road.
00:03:56.000Ordley's was delighted and said, it is awfully fortunate for me that Sir Ernest, Sir Ernest Shackleton, should have put me on to this work, which is so especially congenial to me.
00:04:11.000He wasn't as experienced or talented as, say, that shithead Ben Ratner, who started the Proud Boys just out of his sheer shittiness, but I knew he was determined.
00:04:21.000He learned all the stuff in the studio by being an intern.
00:04:26.000Not someone who took it in school or who's doing it because it makes money.
00:04:30.000You want the guy who's obsessed with that kind of stuff.
00:04:33.000And tomorrow we'll be announcing a new show where you can see the intro and you'll be very impressed with his handiwork.
00:04:41.000But because we're having Thanksgiving alone, we just ate at McDonald's and I want to talk to you about what's happening with your family on Thanksgiving because I believe family is paramount.
00:04:56.000It is the most important thing in your life.
00:05:00.000And we're all pretty good with our parents, aren't we?
00:05:03.000We're not great with our in-laws and we're not great with our siblings, I've noticed, through the Trump era.
00:06:52.000That's not even what you call like ruins, right?
00:06:56.000When they're, you know, like abandoned castle or something.
00:06:59.000She ruins every family vacation or family get-together.
00:07:03.000The family dynamic with my sister reminds me of the 1980s Twilight Zone movie scene, It's a Good Life, where everyone is nervous because a little shithead kid has mental powers and nobody wants to upset him because he will banish them to hell or remove their mouth.
00:09:40.000Now she lives in LA with her UCLA professor husband, who I really like.
00:09:46.000While on vacation this summer, I was having a conversation about guns with my other brother-in-law, and my sister came in and decided to start lecturing me about Trayvon Martin.
00:13:38.000That's why I'm reading this letter first, because I don't blame you for getting pissed.
00:13:42.000Plenty of my friends have gotten pissed.
00:13:44.000My family, personally, my family, my parents and my brother, we're all on the same page, so there's no problems with that.
00:13:51.000But I have other relatives where it's an issue.
00:13:53.000And yeah, when they start attacking my family or my parents or my wife, well, they never attack my wife because she's not a big Trump person, I want to flip the whole fucking Thanksgiving table over.
00:14:34.000You know, you said that they're not sending any rapists from Mexico, but I looked at the stats here.
00:14:41.00080% of the girls crossing the border get raped.
00:14:44.000And here's Vincente Fox in 2000 explicitly saying we're sending criminals and rapists over the border because we don't have room in our prisons.
00:14:53.000So I can see where my, can you see where my confusion came from?
00:15:04.000Anyway, this is him losing his temper.
00:15:06.000I told her how out of line she was and on and on.
00:15:10.000But this started a huge fight between us.
00:15:12.000Lots of yelling, screaming, and her acting like a complete insane person to my brother also.
00:15:18.000She was out of her mind yelling fuck and getting an inch away from my brother.
00:15:22.000I've seen this before with Trump derangement syndrome in people's homes where they just, they start with a normal argument and then you bring up something on your phone saying that's not it and they just go fucking nuts.
00:15:36.000And I think it's because they know they're wrong and they haven't done their research and that makes them feel insecure and they're so used to being in the Facebook bubble.
00:15:45.000And Tucker talks about suing Facebook and social media for separating us as people and providing these bubbles where we're never confronted with any data that contradicts our beliefs.
00:15:59.000It's so they've been in a boxing ring sparring with toddlers and then they get to a real professional fight and they get punched in the face and they freak the fuck out.
00:17:24.000Like, they should get different rules?
00:17:27.000You could give them, like in Islam, a woman's say is less valuable than a man's, so she needs twice as many witnesses if she saw a rape or she was raped.
00:17:51.000And then my favorite analogy that I've used a million times is you're at a bar, the black guy sits down next to you, same teams, same complaints.
00:18:01.000You have everything in common with him, and he likes the same subjects as you, and he wants to talk about boxing, and so do you.
00:18:08.000Why would you deny yourself that interesting conversation?
00:20:04.000Shiniqua or Roshanta, that's not just a black name, that's a specific part of blackness that says, I don't want to be part of American culture.
00:20:18.000I got my own little pirate ship I built.
00:20:20.000And those people tend not to assimilate well into a working group, as Shackleton probably would notice if he was having everyone try out various jobs.
00:20:30.000So it's a lie that those people were racist because they saw the names.
00:20:35.000If they saw Michelle Jackson, they go, oh, good.
00:21:54.000Well, it's being recorded, so make sure you're ready for the whole world to hear whatever you have to say.
00:21:59.000Well, I watched Rudy Giuliani there giving a testimony to the Pennsylvania state legislator, and he's got overpowering evidence of fraud in the election.
00:23:10.000Well, I haven't had the evidence from several other states, but his lawyer maintains that's the same thing happening in at least another five states.
00:23:24.000And they always seem to be swing states.
00:24:19.000Obviously, the number of counted mail-in ballots being significantly larger than the number of mail-in ballots actually sent out is obviously fraud there.
00:25:31.000So I think to me, I don't know if they'll ever come to this conclusion, but to me, the only thing they can do is ignore all ballots that haven't been validated.
00:25:47.000And do you think that could win the election for Trump?
00:30:30.000Like my uncle, my dad's brother, told my grandfather he got into college and then he took the money and would go to the pub every day and just play pool for years.
00:30:43.000He would have a book bag with the same books in it and go to a non-existent college, which was actually a pub.
00:31:52.000My mom told me about a month ago that she wanted to come home for Christmas and I wanted to rip into her, my sister, right there, but I didn't.
00:32:01.000I'm going to confront her because I don't want her to hijack Christmas and make it fucking miserable.
00:32:05.000Christmas in our family is about God, kids, and relaxation.
00:33:36.000I have this conversation in my head about a million times, going from completely pissed, where I tell her if she pulls that shit during Christmas, I'll pack her family up and send her ass back to LA.
00:33:44.000I am the oldest brother, and as she points out constantly, the alpha male in the family.
00:33:55.000So, as the alpha male, you have to be big enough to play dumb.
00:34:01.000Now, with her, you can't really play dumb because you've already shown all your cards.
00:34:07.000So I would just take her husband aside and say, dude, this constant politicking, Trump derangement syndrome, whatever you want to call it, it's ripping my family apart.
00:34:46.000This is the scenario that de Blasio wants.
00:34:49.000This is the scenario that most COVID fucking phobics want.
00:34:55.000But if you're having dinner with your family on Thanksgiving and you're not six feet apart and you're drinking and singing, you were clearly on the same page when it comes to COVID.
00:35:04.000So if, I bet there's not a lot of liberals joining their families this Thanksgiving or this Christmas.
00:35:11.000But if there are, they're clearly pretty sane and are not brainwashed by all this propaganda.
00:35:58.000Some of them had pre-existing conditions.
00:36:00.000And flu seems to have magically disappeared.
00:36:04.000I think a lot of flu stats are in there.
00:36:06.000So once you take away all of those factors, pre-existing conditions, olds, fats, over-reporting, the flu, and you look at people like you and I, going outside is more dangerous.
00:36:20.000And what I would say to my fellow, to my family members at the COVID thing is to say, look, if you're old, if you're fat, I could see, there might be some olds and fats at the table though.
00:36:32.000If you're very old and very fat, I could see, yeah, say very, so fat people don't get mad at you.
00:36:37.000Very old and very fat people, I could see it.
00:36:56.000Okay, so here are some tips for dealing with the left when it comes to various subjects, because you're going to see people you haven't seen for a while.
00:37:07.000It's like Facebook has become Medusa, and it takes whatever your views are, and it locks you there like stone, and they can't waver from that.
00:37:15.000So immigration to them is, we're a nation of immigrants.
00:37:20.000We need to open our borders, and they do the jobs Americans won't do.
00:37:24.000And right now, Trump is so racist, he hates them, he thinks they're all rapists.
00:37:45.000So just the same way you would with a 12-year-old who's talking like an expert and he doesn't know you're a mechanic and he's telling you about cars.
00:38:28.000Like, just like we always say with NA, NAA, play it out.
00:38:33.000In NA, they say, if you have a beer, then you're going to have a shot, then you're going to buy Coke, then you're going to get heroin, then you're going to die.
00:38:40.000You know that's the sequence of events.
00:38:42.000So with immigration people, I always say, okay, so they come across the border, and then it's a guy and a four-year-old girl.
00:38:52.000I either let them go or I put them in some sort of holding cell, a cage, as you put it.
00:39:00.000It's got to be a place they can't get out of.
00:41:23.000They noticed that basically women voters and a large part of the American public is very unhappy with the thought of people being separated from their kids.
00:42:12.000Just because your town has a rapist in it doesn't mean you're saying everyone in that town's a rapist, but they noticed when the town sends the rapist somewhere that they're sending their rapist.
00:43:17.000And the reason you're pretending to be a lesbian is because you're fat, and you're fat because you're lazy.
00:43:21.000And no one wants to fuck you, so you just get a girl, and now you can get laid and still pretend that you're some sort of visible minority.
00:43:29.000And you, the girl with the shaved head, you're just boring and kind of ugly.
00:43:33.000So you shaved your head and you pretend you don't want the boys that don't want you anyway.
00:49:04.000Racism was, we built this country on slavery and we stole it from the Indians.
00:49:12.000The Indians stole it from the Indians.
00:49:14.000The Indians were a tribe, a nomadic tribe, a group of nomadic tribes fighting each other, killing each other, mass graves, shooting each other with arrows after they were dead, so they would be immobilized in the afterlife.
00:49:36.000They were just another tribe for 400 years.
00:49:40.000I think it's racist to single them out.
00:49:42.000Just because they won, eventually, they fought with the Indians, they fought against the Indians.
00:49:47.000I got a painting right here, the Battle of Fort Decayne, where we have the French and the Mohicans ganging up against a white tribe called the English.
00:53:09.000Black slaves were the most expensive slaves and therefore in the slave hierarchy they were the more refined, the more valuable, speaking of less valuable.
00:54:58.000I don't know how to break it to most gays, but there's no phobia there.
00:55:03.000You know, Adam Corolla pointed out something.
00:55:05.000He goes, to a normal straight guy, the idea that a man isn't remotely interested in tits or vagina and he pumps men in the butt, that's very, very weird to your average guy.
00:55:18.000What does the average guy think of that?
00:55:39.000Even when I was a kid, you had Paul Lynn, you had Liberace, you had the village people, you had Rip Taylor, over-the-top raging homosexuals.
00:57:13.000And then the trans thing, if they start blasting with trans science, like I saw this video where this woman was doing a PowerPoint on trans and what pronouns she likes.
00:57:21.000If that happens and that person's in your home, you are dealing with mental radioactive waste.
00:58:08.000My dad's already covered that pretty well.
00:58:12.000I would say I actually made a list of real evidence you could quietly say.
00:58:19.000So here is some points you could memorize.
00:58:23.000The big picture though, like what Tucker said is they've been stealing the election for four years.
00:58:30.000Big tech has got in there censoring conservative voices.
00:58:33.000I'm gone, Milo's gone, Laura Loomer's gone.
00:58:36.000Anyone fun who's pro-Trump is gone, mentioning Proud Boys is verboten, anything that praises Alex Jones, Nick Fuentes, they're gone, gone, gone, gone, gone.
00:59:07.000So they've been changing, they've been rigging the system for the past four years.
00:59:13.000So that's inarguable proof right there.
00:59:18.000But here's some little points you can casually, quietly say.
00:59:22.000And I like to start things in these tense situations with, my understanding is, or I read an article that said, or I thought I heard someone say, I know I sound like a total pussy, pussyfooting around here,
00:59:38.000but you're not a pussy if you're playing dumb and you're actually doing 5D kraken chess.
00:59:44.000Many counties had little or no population increase, but votes were up about 50%.
01:01:21.000I mean, it's funny because I started this show saying don't go near politics, but I guess what I'm saying is someone's going to get drunk and you're going to end up down that alley at some point.
01:01:30.000So here's what to do if you end up there.
01:02:00.000If you want to dive deep, you could talk about how the Proud Boys take in blacks and gays who get rejected from their friends for being mega because the liberals are remarkably intolerant of Trump supporters.
01:02:14.000You know, I know a gay guy who came out in New York City and he's lived in an area in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where there was a few gay bars.
01:02:23.000And he would just regularly visit them.
01:02:25.000You know, there's probably three gay bars in all of Williamsburg.
01:02:28.000You must know all the bartenders there and all the knights and the karaoke knights.
01:02:31.000He was just part of, hey dude, how you doing?
01:03:18.000Well, didn't the guy who start Charlottesville, wasn't he a Proud Boy?
01:03:21.000No, he infiltrated the club twice by lying and was kicked out for being alt-right when they discovered that he was.
01:03:29.000That was like that article the other day that said, Proud Boys is like a gateway drug because we found a bunch of Nazis that were involved with them.
01:03:50.000And then when they bring up Heather Heyer, of course, you explain Dwayne Dixon, who spooked James Fields right before he sped off in his car.
01:04:41.000Half the country is going through this Trump derangement syndrome, and it's looking pretty good for Biden.
01:04:48.000Like, at least I'm still supporting Trump, and we still do election gate coverage every day.
01:04:52.000But let's accept there's a possibility that Biden gets in.
01:04:56.000I mean, they're already celebrating it like they've won.
01:04:58.000And if this is how people Act when they've won, and as far as they're concerned, they have.
01:05:05.000They're insatiable, they're not going to stop, they're nuts, they're going through a crazy phase.
01:05:09.000And what do you do with mental illness?
01:05:11.000You don't tell them to fuck off and scream at them, you try to work with them, you try to help them emerge.
01:05:17.000It's sort of like de-brainwashing someone in a cult.
01:05:20.000You know, I remember I had a friend who sleepwalked, and he said, if I start sleepwalking, just explain to me how what I'm doing makes no sense.
01:05:32.000So he ran down, he told me an example.
01:05:34.000One time I was sleeping, I was at home, and I ran downstairs, and I screamed at my older brothers.
01:05:38.000I said, hey, a stampede of married women are chasing me.
01:07:42.000And I realized, oh, the witch, the evil spirit that makes him sleepwalk, whatever that little part of your brain is, recognized that he was being threatened.
01:07:52.000And it said, there's some guy out there trying to ruin you by saying logic kills you.
01:08:10.000Everything I've just laid out in this episode hopefully works.
01:08:14.000And Jamie realizes that a stampede of married women, married racists, can't be chasing him and he'll go back to bed.
01:08:21.000But it's highly possible that the monster inside of him in the Trump derangement syndrome will lie, mention there's two posters that aren't there, and calmly go back to bed.
01:09:08.000But do not sever ties with your family.
01:09:10.000Be thankful that you have your family.
01:09:12.000Be thankful that we live in the West, in the epicenter of freedom, where blacks, gays, women, visible minorities, handicapped, trans, nowhere on earth are they more free and have more opportunities than they do right here in the West.