This week, Bill is joined by comedian Greta Thunberg to discuss her new $15 million Netflix deal, AOC's recent interview on MLK Day, and the Women's March in Dallas, TX. Plus, Bill and Bill discuss the latest on impeachment and what they would do if they were running for president.
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00:07:22.000The contest is between moderates and progressives.
00:07:25.000And the paper felt the two were the most effective advocates for each approach.
00:07:28.000And some, by the way, even feel that a joint ticket with the two women could bring sort of these two rivaling factions in the DNC together.
00:10:01.000And in preparation for the public funeral, where people can pay their respects, the coroner has said that he's worked incredibly long hours, citing 10 hours to have Diego stuffed, 12 hours polishing his shell, and 20 hours required to wipe the smile off his face.
00:13:34.000Many Hong Kong mothers have actually been traveling to give birth where their babies can be eligible for the United States citizenship, and the woman in question wasn't actually pregnant, but when she told the airline, they didn't believe her.
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00:14:24.000All right, so I guess you'd call this entertainment news, and we'll be talking more about AOC and impeachment, which I really don't want to do, but we always have to touch on impeachment because that's the only thing.
00:14:32.000The singer, I don't feel like I need to describe Madonna.
00:14:38.000The artist, formerly known and currently known as Madonna, Madonna's cancelled upcoming tour dates after announcing that, of course, she's fallen ill.
00:14:47.000To be clear, doctors say that it's nothing serious and that soon Madonna will again be, to her old self, a wrinkly old whore.
00:16:40.000Trivia winner, I think you have it there, Court of Black Garrett, is Phil Bates on Twitter, who correctly answered that I was psychoanalyzed by Jordan Peterson.
00:16:50.000So you will get something in the mail.
00:16:55.000So, first we have to hit on impeachment.
00:16:57.000I'll try and hit this really quickly because not a whole lot has changed, but there are some processes that you should probably know about.
00:19:17.000And teaching, by the way, as well as learning.
00:19:18.000When I have to do research to go through some of these meat segments, or deep dives as people call them for you guys, I learn as well, so it's exciting.
00:20:03.000That's the one that you have to dissect and ridicule so that people see the absurdity for what it is.
00:20:08.000Same thing here, if people are just focusing on Klobuchar or Warren, and I understand they're way further left, I think it's important to still recognize that Bernie and now AOC, these are the movement candidates that you need to be more concerned with.
00:20:20.000So, that being said, at an event that was commemorating Martin Luther King Jr., Yes.
00:20:26.000One of them nailed a thing to the door of the church.
00:20:39.000Another thing that I've been really thinking and sitting with today is that there's this gun rights protest that's happening down in Richmond.
00:20:52.000But here's the image that has struck with me the most about that.
00:20:55.000Is that when we go out and march for the dignity and the recognition of the lives of people like Freddie Gray and Eric Garner, the whole place is surrounded by police and riot gear without a gun in sight.
00:21:14.000And here are all of these people flying confederate flags with semi-automatic weapons and there's almost no police officers at that protest.
00:21:25.000Which, by the way, I know you're thinking, is this old from last year?
00:23:11.000Well, KK Mile, you're going to go to Pence, right?
00:23:12.000Pence is just going to be dipping them back into shock therapy like Electoral Island.
00:23:18.000And that's when you come down, you look at the Second Amendment, you go, who do you want to decide?
00:23:21.000Do you want the government to decide who can defend themselves and who can't?
00:23:24.000At a certain level, we know that there are restrictions under the Second Amendment, but not the kind of restrictions that are being pushed by the left.
00:23:30.000And it's almost as if, you know, she forgets, like, guys, every time you guys get together and march, a town usually gets lit on fire and looted.
00:23:35.000So maybe we need a few more people there to keep you under control.
00:23:39.000And by the way, you guys does not mean stupid people like AOC.
00:24:16.000So, again, which side would really need more police at their events?
00:24:19.000Not to mention the little fact that an Antifa member tried to firebomb an ICE facility after being inspired by AOC's concentration camp rhetoric.
00:24:42.000Well look, and this is the same event that right before this, right before we played that clip, they were praising the work that was done in Ferguson and also by Antifa.
00:26:01.000You are for not only completely open borders and no wall, but against not deporting, we're not talking about dreamers or children, you are against deporting serial violent felons, provided that they currently live in sanctuary cities, and you're against sending back criminals who are in our prisons illegally?
00:26:19.000Well, you must mean the Democrats are more, what, they're more moderate on abortion, say, for things like limitations that most Americans, even who identify as pro-choice, like 20-week limits, I don't know, maybe the First Tribe.
00:26:50.000You're talking about the dissenting opinions in Heller v. D.C.
00:26:52.000and the entire Democratic Party who want to make all semi-automatic firearms illegal?
00:26:58.000Hold on a second, do you mean Democrats are moderate on taxes and they believe in a progressive tax code where, I don't know, maybe like 37% in the top bracket or maybe our corporate tax should be comparable to other nations like Sweden?
00:27:10.000Oh no, wait, you're okay with a 90% tax and you want us to have the highest corporate tax in the industrialized world?
00:27:15.000I just, I think there's a disconnect, you crazy, horrible human being.
00:27:25.000They were just talking about there in that clip right before it too, that you can't, she's like, I don't believe that you can capitalism your way out of these problems.
00:27:31.000We have to get Medicare for all onto the floor for at least a vote.
00:27:34.000I'm like, that's not a centrist policy.
00:27:36.000To give everybody, it'd be fantastic, give every American a million dollars right now, they would probably be better off, but we would also be broke.
00:27:48.000Well, I do like the fact, you remember she was kind of lambasted for the amount she spent on Uber black SUVs driving around in the campaign.
00:27:55.000Yeah, it sounds like capitalism did her bad.
00:28:11.000Sounds like the turtle humping a work boot.
00:28:17.000Treats them as, treats us as full citizens because the United States doesn't.
00:28:23.000You know, my own family, it's like they had all of these emergency backpacks ready to go with torches and MREs and rations because they knew that no one was going to come.
00:28:57.000This goes back, lest you have forgotten, all the way back to 2017 with San Juan Mayor.
00:29:03.000He was claiming that Trump was withholding relief aid.
00:29:05.000I don't know if you guys remember that.
00:29:07.000But if you recall, actually it was the mayor who hadn't attended any meetings, and Puerto Rican officials had, they completely failed to coordinate delivery of the supplies, so even those that they had received remained completely unopened.
00:29:18.000Look, in that picture right there, that's a press conference in front of unopened supply boxes!
00:29:25.000That's like Donkey Kong Country's banana hoard!
00:29:30.000Where whenever could these supplies be?
00:29:33.000It must be because Americans hate Puerto Ricans.
00:29:37.000Of course, and the supplies actually sat so long that some of them you couldn't be used anymore.
00:29:42.000Well now, okay, so with the recent earthquakes, this is obviously what we're talking about, thoughts and prayers of the people of Puerto Rico.
00:29:47.000Puerto Rican government has repeated the same cycle with loads of supplies remaining in warehouses, not being distributed to those in need.
00:30:20.000He just came out suckling on a bottle of Jack.
00:30:23.000I think one of the problems that we see in cases like this, it's much more fashionable and politically expedient to bash Trump and say that this people group is against you than it is to actually go out and do the work of distributing supplies.
00:30:33.000Well, no, I think what's really important here, and yes, you're right, but the problem with Puerto Rico is not the United States.
00:30:41.000It is the bloated bureaucratic government that You, AOC, view as the solution to all problems.
00:30:48.000When you talk about taking out big businesses, when you talk about fair distribution, when you talk about more centralized regulation, who are you talking about?
00:30:56.000The exact kind of people, government officials, mayors, governors, I don't know the entire, maybe it's a part, Puerto Rico, I don't know exactly.
00:31:05.000The point is, you want them to be in charge of these disasters, exclusively.
00:31:10.000You want them to be in charge of medical aid.
00:31:12.000That's also why you want to Take away taxes and status from churches, who, by the way, provide an overwhelming amount of relief to a lot of these foreign countries.
00:31:22.000We did it here with Hurricane Harvey at one point, and they don't want us to.
00:31:26.000Because, by the way, lest you forget, the argument is, well, you just did that so it's a tax deduction.
00:31:46.000I always wonder about those arguments because then it's the argument that we should discourage charitable donations by taking away that small, tiny, de minimis incentive.
00:31:56.000Because that's going to encourage more.
00:31:59.000The whole idea is take it away, tax more, put in the game for the government so that they can sit on the supplies.
00:32:04.000But I thought the government was the one that wasn't sending the aid correctly.
00:32:07.000That's just because you were raised in the era of Mao.
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00:32:51.000All right, I think we have more of this broad.
00:32:56.000You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern-day slave wages, and in some cases real modern-day slavery, depending on where you are in terms of food production.
00:34:20.000They go, well, it's fair trade because if you don't pay fair trade, these people in these countries, we don't realize they're being exploited.
00:34:47.000So they're not being paid an American minimum wage.
00:34:50.000You need to provide the scale and the context.
00:34:52.000And on top of that, this goes back to AOC's false claims, the living wage claims, which doesn't really mean anything because it changes every single year.
00:35:00.000They were debunked by Washington Post last year, lest you think that it's fake news.
00:35:03.000The company, of course, that Alexandria Ocasio-Nina Pinto, Santa Maria Cortez, the one that she always takes aim at, is Amazon.
00:35:13.000for not paying its employees a living wage. These evil billionaires, right? They didn't make these
00:35:17.000companies. They just sat on their, uh, what was it? Love seat? They just sat on their love seat.
00:35:20.000Yes. They just really pretty much, uh, they sat on their bean bag. Didn't make these companies
00:35:26.000where there are now hundreds of thousands of people who have jobs. Right. Amazon alone employed
00:35:35.000And by the way, you want to know what AOC would do where she's talking about this, if someone like her.
00:35:39.000So it's not necessarily about AOC because she probably won't make it to some kind of serious national platform as far as president or something like that because she's crazy.
00:35:58.000Do you want to know what someone like AOC would do if they were in power nationally as they b**** about Donald Trump in one of the most burgeoning economies that we've ever seen?
00:36:06.000Look at her district in New York, where she gave Amazon the boot despite the overwhelming support of her constituents wanting to bring Amazon in along with its 25,000 jobs at, below a living wage mind you, $150,000 average annual salary.
00:37:25.000The same Nike famous for exploiting sweatshop labor conditions in other countries that we don't allow in our capitalist system, by the way, here in the United States.
00:37:33.000But it's okay when it's Nike because they support sodomy and this asshole.
00:37:53.000We'll put you on a poster at Dick's Sporting Goods!
00:37:56.000You know what I do find interesting is, remember when she talks about, you know, on the backs of black and brown workers who are not paid a living wage?
00:38:17.000The idea that these companies aren't also contributing, so is she saying that all the social media companies that are making billions of dollars, they're the ones that are the problem, we should break them up and not allow them to have the control they have?
00:40:10.000In case you've forgotten, Amazon was a bookseller for a long time.
00:40:14.000It didn't become what it is today accidentally.
00:40:17.000I don't agree with his politics, but what gives me the right to take anything from Jeff Bezos?
00:40:24.000This is the concept they want to take from people, AOC, who've actually worked to create something.
00:40:29.000It would be, to give you a more kind of direct comparison, I think I was talking with a researcher, Reg, who's brilliant, and he's so strong, he squats like 630 pounds, he's like a competitive powerlifter, at 180 pound body weight.
00:40:40.000I said, imagine this, if we could put on just sort of these helmets, like I think you've seen them in Star Trek, where you switch bodies, and you've done all of this work, and for eight years you've worked to create this total so you can compete on a national level in powerlifting, and all of a sudden I just go, And I suck up your power, because here's the thing.
00:40:56.000She's talking about giving us your power.
00:40:58.000Well, we see with Puerto Rico or the government, even the United States.
00:41:02.000They don't give up the power once they've taken it.
00:41:31.000These people who want all of the power, as she just said, haven't earned it.
00:41:35.000It will collapse, and they will fold under the weight, and subsequently, the American people.
00:41:41.000And I don't understand why, if someone had to work to create this, let's even go back to Jeff Bezos, I don't agree with his politics.
00:41:46.000Why is it immoral for Mr. Bezos to want to keep what he's created, but it's not immoral for you or me to want to take it?
00:41:54.000Again, displacing this power from billionaires, you're going to displace it to people who made Puerto Rico happen.
00:42:00.000And you know, to people Let's go through this personally, here.
00:42:04.000I guess this is what you want to say, give up the power, and I'm not a billionaire, but this company would be in the same tax bracket, that's something that people don't tell you.
00:42:12.000No matter what I did, by the way, not taking a paycheck, not taking a salary, not being paid a dime for this show for two, three, four, five years, building it up, sleepless nights, running it out of my den, then an old massage parlor, in case you haven't watched behind the scenes is what it was, we found out afterwards, we're like, why are there no outlets in here?
00:42:30.000I have no idea why we rented this office, now I get why the rent was low, to move to a new office.
00:42:36.000We went from one employee, to three employees, to five employees, now to fifteen employees, who all make, by the way, significantly above a living wage.
00:42:44.000But because this was successful, because I built something that actually adds value, it's inherently immoral.
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00:49:30.000Alright, we'll talk about that during the break a little bit, some stories on that, because of course people who don't know Jocko Willink.
00:49:36.000Not only highly decorated military background, but an accomplished jiu-jitsu fighter as well.
00:49:43.000Alright, so, Jocko, first off, tell us about your new book, which you did not send to me, and how it differs from these, you know what, let's just Yeah, there you go.
00:50:20.000In both those situations, I take questions from people.
00:50:22.000And I would get asked the same questions over and over and over again.
00:50:25.000And what I realized is that People might understand the principles, but they're not quite sure of how to actually apply them.
00:50:34.000And so I would get asked the questions.
00:50:37.000I took all those questions down over the years and I eventually wrote down all the leadership strategy and tactics that I used Wrote them down in a book so people can open up the book, see the problem that they have, and then find a solution to that problem.
00:51:06.000It's for leadership, and it's simple, straightforward, step-by-step, how to improve your leadership capabilities.
00:51:12.000Well, let me ask you this, because you say that you've gotten a lot of questions.
00:51:14.000And I ask this because your books are pretty clear.
00:51:16.000I mean, they're pretty in-depth, the ones that I've read before.
00:51:19.000So, do you find, especially being seen as someone who's relatively intense, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn, are people afraid to ask you questions in real life?
00:51:26.000Do they feel, are they worried that it might be a stupid question?
00:51:36.000Okay, so the first book, called Extreme Ownership.
00:51:38.000You know, someone might say, and the premise is, if you make a mistake, or if a mission fails, or a project fails, then you actually take ownership of it.
00:51:46.000So I'd get this question all the time.
00:51:48.000They'd say, hey Jocko, what if I take ownership of the problem, and I say it's my fault, and then the team looks at me, and they say, yeah, you're right, it is your fault.
00:53:07.000So what that means is on the battlefield, yeah, you and I are supposed to cover an area.
00:53:12.000Well, we don't take one little section and say, okay, everything to the right of that, I'll cover, everything to the left of that, you cover.
00:53:18.000No, we actually say, we open it up so we have a little bit of overlap.
00:53:22.000So on a team, when multiple people are saying, well, okay, the supplies didn't get here on time.
00:54:10.000When they go, I didn't get the logistics right, and they want people to go, no, no, no, no, you did great, no, no.
00:54:15.000People are like, oh, yeah, yeah, you actually didn't get them right, because that's why it took so long.
00:54:18.000And then their ego goes, wait a second, it wasn't my fault.
00:54:21.000I should have, well, actually, it was your fault.
00:54:23.000That's the thing about extreme ownership.
00:54:24.000Extreme ownership isn't just lip service, like, well, if I say it's my fault, Everyone will ignore me and give me a pass.
00:54:30.000That's not what happens, and it shouldn't happen that way.
00:54:33.000So it sounds like this book could, I mean, part of it could be substituted with just being married.
00:54:39.000You just say, it's my fault, and your wife says, absolutely, and then you go on your merry way and avoid making her cross.
00:54:46.000So people align these things, and I know you said it joking around because you're the comedian and all this stuff, you're supposed to be funny.
00:55:56.000I have a very old neighbor who lives in the house with the lights off, and all he does is come out to trim his bushes and sort through my mail.
00:56:12.000Yeah, Johnny was bringing it, and he's like, hey, your mail was in so-and-so's mailbox again.
00:56:17.000I want to get to sort of Iran and soul mania a little bit, because you have some insight there that I'd like to kind of sort of, I guess, I guess, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:56:27.000You know, right now we have an incredible economy that's been really doing well the last few years, but we also have 1,300 CEOs who've stepped down in the past year.
00:56:36.000And as someone who works with a lot of CEOs and people in positions of power, executive power, particularly with businesses, why do you think that is?
00:56:43.000It's something that I haven't necessarily been able to figure out.
00:56:46.000Well, when a company's doing bad, then that Blame is going to shift to the CEO, which is where it should shift.
00:56:55.000When a company, when a team is not doing well, it's the leader's fault.
00:56:59.000And if the leader doesn't do things to reverse that course and get things on track, yeah, they're going to feel a lot of pressure to step down.
00:57:35.000The next mission they would go on, next training mission, everything would be smooth.
00:57:40.000And that's the impact of leadership, of good leadership.
00:57:42.000So when you see a company that's not doing what they're supposed to be doing, they're not performing well, eventually the board or the chairman of the board or the investors are going to turn to that guy and say, yeah, we don't want you anymore.
00:57:55.000And they can call it stepping down, but they're getting fired.
00:57:57.000Oh, is that what... Because I was going to say, that would apply if the economy were doing poorly or these companies are doing poorly.
00:58:01.000But if you look into it, some of these companies are doing pretty well, like most companies are right now, and CEOs are stepping down.
00:58:07.000But you think that a lot of that is maybe stepping down?
00:58:11.000Well, I mean, you know, you might also have people that have done enough and they've grinded it out for 18 years and they're going to take some time.
00:58:18.000I mean, I don't know what particular cases that you're talking about.
00:58:21.000Maybe it is people that are just ready to step down and enjoy some other part of their life.
00:58:43.000And the reason that they're doing well is because they're humble, and that's why they're coming to us asking for help because they want to improve their leadership, and they're humble enough to ask for leadership.
00:58:51.000When we work with companies that are not doing well, We show up there.
00:58:56.000The board tells us to go and talk to the company.
00:59:47.000I have problems sleeping, so I'm always up at 4.
00:59:49.000But I also understand that this is not a pace that I've been maintaining for the last couple of years I can do forever.
00:59:54.000Sometimes the people who are in positions of leadership are the last to know that it's maybe time for them to take on a different role.
01:00:01.000And it's not because they're incapable, but it's because maybe they're in a different stage of their life.
01:00:05.000And I ask you this because a lot of fighters are the last to know that they should stop fighting.
01:00:09.000How do you think people who are successful and disciplined and intense, how do they recognize that it's their time to move on?
01:00:17.000And how do you think you'll ever have to make that decision, you know, yourself?
01:00:20.000Because, yeah, you're jack-a-willing now, but at some point you're going to get old and you went gray young, so it works for you, but it's not going to be there forever.
01:00:29.000You mean I'm not going to be gray forever?
01:00:30.000You're going to have nothing there forever.
01:00:32.000It's going to be Dick Cheney in about eight years.
01:01:06.000We used to say we always want to work ourselves out of a job.
01:01:08.000So I want my The two platoon commanders that are working for me, I want them to both be able to step up and take my job and do a better job than me.
01:01:25.000You know, Sole Mania was obviously recently in the news.
01:01:27.000What is your opinion on that situation and sort of the Irani influence on the war with your direct experience?
01:01:35.000Yeah, so with my direct experience, especially my second deployment when the Iranians were, so this is now 2006, I was in Ramadi, which is in western Iraq.
01:01:46.000I stayed in Ramadi in Albuquerque once.
01:02:03.000It was a Sunni area, so there wasn't a huge Shia influence other than the military, the Iraqi military was mostly Shia soldiers.
01:02:13.000So it was Shia soldiers coming into Ramadi with us Working amongst the Sunni populace, fighting against a predominantly Sunni insurgency in that area.
01:02:24.000As far as the Iranian influence there, it was less.
01:02:28.000However, during that time, and increasingly through 2007, 2008, 2009, the Iranian influence increased a lot, especially in and around Baghdad.
01:02:39.000There's a place called Sadr City, you know, it's an awful place.
01:02:43.000And all over Baghdad, surrounding areas, the Iranian influence was making these These IEDs, which are called EFPs, which means Explosively Formed Projectile, and where a normal IED would not penetrate the skin of a tank or of an armored personnel carrier.
01:03:04.000Those EFPs would absolutely, they would penetrate the armor and they would kill everyone inside or kill or wound people inside.
01:03:11.000And these, the Iranians, Soleimani, they were specifically manufacturing these, shipping them to Iran, teaching people how to emplace them properly.
01:03:20.000And he was accountable for the deaths of, I don't know what number, I think they say 600 Americans, but it's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Americans.
01:03:30.000This is an evil, human being that needed to die, and I'm glad he's dead.
01:03:35.000Well, and I know that you've said that, so how would you, and I know you often avoid sort of speaking on politics directly, which I appreciate because you're in a position of leadership where you can influence people of all stripes, but how would you sort of respond, or what's your reaction to a lot in the media and some on certain sides of the political aisle right now portraying Soleimani as kind of a respected Irani military official, and a lot of people have condemned President Trump for the action he took.
01:03:59.000So there's a couple things that I've said.
01:04:02.000First of all, he was not just an enemy.
01:04:04.000Soleimani was not just an enemy of American troops in America.
01:04:08.000He's an enemy of his own people, of the Iranian people.
01:04:11.000This is a guy they've killed, and again, you don't know what the real numbers are, but In the neighborhood of a thousand, maybe more, maybe less, protesters, people that are standing up against the Iranian regime, have been killed in the last six months.
01:04:25.000The Iranian people do not want this regime in power.
01:04:29.000And so when he gets killed, what did we see?
01:04:31.000We saw the Iranians rising up in the streets and the protests against the downing of the Turkish airline, once again, that they immediately lied about, kind of changed their story.
01:04:42.000But the Iranians don't want this group in power.
01:04:46.000So we killed someone that's an enemy to Americans and an enemy to the Iranian people and you know one of the other things that I said was I said that this was a gamble.
01:04:58.000And okay, maybe that's not the right word choice, and maybe I should have explained it for some people that were looking to pounce on everything that somebody says that's positive about President Trump.
01:05:09.000I will say, I would defend it because I think you're right.
01:05:11.000Listen, and I think most people don't understand that's a leadership language.
01:05:14.000People in positions of leadership, you're always somewhat making a gamble.
01:05:17.000You're trying to make as educated of a bet as possible because a lot of people don't know this.
01:05:21.000If you're handed sort of a handbook from an employer, Yeah, so I guess I'm not walking it back, but maybe a better word to use would be, hey, it's a risky move.
01:05:58.000And the other example that I used was Obama getting bin Laden.
01:06:03.000Obama gave the order to go into a sovereign country without telling that military that we were going to go in there and kill someone that was there.
01:06:42.000This was a big gamble for Trump to take.
01:06:44.000I would say maybe not as big of a gamble in some ways because he didn't really risk any American lives, but everyone America has been so scared about what the reaction of the Iranian regime would be for 40 years.
01:07:29.000Well, I think you're talking about a tactical retaliation, but I think we're pretty clear on the fact that, as far as the moral conundrum that's been presented, that it wasn't.
01:07:38.000It wasn't really a gamble as far as, eh, is he, is he not a good guy?
01:07:42.000But hey, before we go, wouldn't it have been cool, we're talking about gamble, because it's always a roll of the dice, if someone, right before they shot Osama bin Laden, said, oh, we rolled the dice, it came up six.
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01:10:43.000The thing I love about this breed of dog, too, I was talking with Jaco about this, and I thought it was relevant to today's sort of, you know, I'll come back here so you guys can see me a little more clearly.
01:10:52.000All right, Betty, I'll be back in a second.
01:10:54.000Talking with Jocko, you know, a lot of times it sort of comes up, this topic of strength or what it is to be a man, and what I love about these dogs, Betty is coming up on close to 100 pounds, we had it with Hopper as well, is a dog that is very capable, but controls it.
01:11:10.000You see that with Betty, it's very important that we train Betty properly, the same thing with Hopper, because we all live by Betty's mercy.
01:11:15.000I told that to Cordoblack Garrett, we're like, we're really fortunate that she doesn't just Rip one of our limbs off or our face like a chimpanzee on Xanax and red wine with a clicker might be a dated reference But there's something to be said For and I think this is the way you should live for bridled strength
01:11:35.000I think people sort of misconstrue folks like Jocko or like Jordan Peterson or myself when I talk about the importance of masculinity, the importance of being a good man and a strong man.
01:11:46.000And I think a lot of people misinterpret this idea of meekness.
01:11:50.000Meekness, really, and I think Jordan Peterson has talked about this, means being incredibly capable.
01:11:57.000With a sword, for example, but keeping it sheathed and not using it unless you have to.
01:12:01.000For example, right there, Betty could absolutely tear my hand off if she so wanted, but she lets it go because I request her to.
01:12:10.000And that's because there's a relationship of authority and submission, one that's appropriate.
01:12:16.000You can't bridle strengths that you don't have to begin with.
01:12:20.000So when I talk about strength, and when I talk about how important that is, and when I talk about bridal strength, what I am saying is, and I've talked about this before, you know, if you want to have self-confidence, do you know what you do?
01:12:33.000There's nothing else that can replace true self-esteem.
01:12:35.000You can ban red pens all you want so all of your tests are corrected with blue markers and you never get an F. You can equalize all soccer scores all you want.
01:12:46.000You're never going to have self-esteem until you get really, really good at something.
01:12:52.000And you're never going to be strong, and I don't just mean physically, though I think that's important too, you'll never be strong or excellent at everything or anything If you don't work at it day after day and put in the reps and grind it out for measurable progress.
01:13:08.000And you know what's so sad about that?
01:13:10.000What's really sad, and this goes back to the idea of bridled strength, which I think is the only way to live.
01:13:14.000I mean, I'm speaking to men mainly because that's what I know.
01:13:18.000Is it people who never get excellent at anything?
01:13:23.000They never have the opportunity to bridle it.
01:13:25.000They'll never know what it feels like to be incredibly capable but also in control and not have to use... Betty just nut-tapped the cameraman with the squeaker toy.
01:14:48.000That tells you there's some other work that you have to do.
01:14:51.000Because it is one of life's most rewarding experiences that you can, and those who haven't experienced it, that you could possibly imagine, is having the ability to utilize strength, to be powerful, and choosing to not.
01:15:06.000And if you aren't making that decision, that just means you're weak.