Order of Man - 100： 100 Deadly Survival Skills ｜ Clint Emerson

00:00:00.100 Unfortunately, in society today, your ability to survive has become more important than it ever has.

00:00:04.980 So whether you're dealing with an active shooter, a natural disaster, or a medical emergency,

00:00:09.320 your likelihood of having to think on your feet will likely become a reality.

00:00:13.340 And as my guest, Navy SEAL Clint Emerson says,

00:00:15.800 the wrong place at the wrong time has now become any place at any time.

00:00:20.100 Today, he shares with us some common survival threats,

00:00:22.480 the importance of self-rescue and self-reliance,

00:00:24.820 the four Ds of home defense,

00:00:26.120 and how to develop your own personal threat protocol on this, our 100th interview episode.

00:00:31.860 You're a man of action.

00:00:33.340 You live life to the fullest.

00:00:34.800 Embrace your fears and boldly chart your own path.

00:00:37.720 When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time.

00:00:42.200 You are not easily deterred or defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.

00:00:47.240 This is your life.

00:00:48.340 This is who you are.

00:00:49.700 This is who you will become.

00:00:51.080 At the end of the day, and after all is said and done,

00:00:54.520 you can call yourself a man.

00:00:56.920 Gentlemen, what is going on today?

00:00:58.100 My name is Ryan Michler, and I am the host and the founder of Order of Man.

00:01:01.120 Exciting news today, guys.

00:01:02.560 This is our 100th interview episode,

00:01:05.520 and after interviewing 100 of the world's most successful men,

00:01:08.680 I can tell you that one of my biggest takeaways

00:01:11.280 is that I still have a ton to learn about being a better man,

00:01:15.000 and that is what we're all about here.

00:01:16.660 So if you want to be a better man, you are in the right place.

00:01:19.740 Now, I've thought pretty hard about what I wanted to do for episode 100,

00:01:23.680 and I thought about somebody interviewing me.

00:01:25.680 I thought about 100 lessons I've learned.

00:01:27.860 I thought about everything I possibly could,

00:01:30.060 and quite honestly, the thing that I kept coming back to

00:01:32.940 was that I had a high school football coach,

00:01:35.340 and he used to tell us after we scored a touchdown

00:01:37.160 and got a little excited,

00:01:38.540 he'd tell us,

00:01:39.240 act like you've done it before,

00:01:40.840 and act like you're going to do it again.

00:01:42.020 So with that said,

00:01:43.480 I decided to make this show the same as any other show I've done,

00:01:47.880 because as excited as I am about hitting this 100th episode,

00:01:51.160 the interview episode milestone,

00:01:52.960 we're only getting started, guys,

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00:01:56.000 So with that said,

00:01:57.280 if you do have some suggestions or ideas

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00:02:06.800 and we'll see what we can do.

00:02:07.780 Now, let's just jump right into the show today.

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00:03:03.180 Now I want to introduce you to my guest today.

00:03:05.480 I'm honored again to be introducing you

00:03:07.540 to Navy SEAL

00:03:08.320 and New York Times bestselling author,

00:03:09.840 Clint Emerson.

00:03:10.580 This actually marks the second time

00:03:12.200 that he's been on our show.

00:03:13.860 And since our first conversation

00:03:15.160 was such a hit,

00:03:16.320 I thought I'd invite Clint back on the show

00:03:17.740 to talk about his latest book,

00:03:18.980 which is 100 Deadly Skills Survival Edition.

00:03:21.340 And as I said it before,

00:03:22.240 Clint served as a Navy SEAL for 20 years,

00:03:24.560 including an attachment to SEAL Team 6

00:03:26.780 and the NSA.

00:03:27.860 So you know he's qualified

00:03:28.680 to talk about some of the information

00:03:29.920 that we're going to be getting into today.

00:03:31.720 Clint also runs his own company,

00:03:33.180 Escape the Wolf, 0.67

00:03:34.260 which is geared towards helping businesses

00:03:36.220 deal with crisis.

00:03:37.060 In fact,

00:03:37.740 he and his team recently

00:03:38.780 ran some security training

00:03:40.300 and consulting for President Trump's inauguration.

00:03:42.720 Guys,

00:03:43.320 you're going to really enjoy

00:03:44.060 what Clint and I have to share with you today.

00:03:45.760 And you're going to walk away

00:03:46.520 with some very actionable strategies

00:03:48.320 that you can and should use

00:03:50.400 should you find yourself

00:03:51.420 in a crisis situation.

00:03:54.700 Clint,

00:03:55.100 what's going on,

00:03:55.520 brother?

00:03:55.680 Thanks for joining me on the show again.

00:03:57.040 Hey,

00:03:57.380 how you doing,

00:03:57.920 Ryan?

00:03:58.220 Thank you for having me back.

00:03:59.640 You bet.

00:03:59.920 Round two,

00:04:00.440 right?

00:04:01.100 Yeah,

00:04:01.360 that's awesome.

00:04:02.100 Yeah,

00:04:02.280 it is.

00:04:02.620 It is.

00:04:02.940 I've been following you,

00:04:03.760 obviously,

00:04:04.000 since we had first talked earlier in the year

00:04:05.960 and you've got a different book.

00:04:07.760 It's along the same thread line,

00:04:09.720 but it's the Survival Edition,

00:04:11.260 which I think is important.

00:04:13.460 I think we haven't talked about it too much on the show

00:04:15.600 and so I'm glad to talk with you about it today.

00:04:17.500 Great.

00:04:17.940 Yeah,

00:04:18.260 I love it.

00:04:19.040 So I want to kick things off.

00:04:20.640 We just get right into it.

00:04:21.500 I want to kick things off with a quote

00:04:22.660 that you had put in the book

00:04:23.580 that I think will give us the context

00:04:25.320 and the framework for the discussion.

00:04:26.860 And it was Carl Sagan.

00:04:28.060 It says,

00:04:28.360 Extinction is the rule.

00:04:30.420 Survival is the exception.

00:04:31.800 So out of all the quotes

00:04:33.160 and all the stuff you could put in the book,

00:04:35.180 why lead off with that?

00:04:36.320 Tell me a little bit about that.

00:04:38.280 Well,

00:04:38.620 if anyone lives long enough,

00:04:40.600 you know,

00:04:40.880 when you're talking about timeline,

00:04:42.780 you know,

00:04:43.020 you're going to face a threat

00:04:46.300 or a crisis at some point in your life.

00:04:48.840 And when that happens,

00:04:50.360 because it will,

00:04:51.260 if you live long enough,

00:04:52.480 there's really only two options.

00:04:55.020 And that is,

00:04:55.520 you know,

00:04:55.800 you're either going to survive it

00:04:57.020 or you're not.

00:04:58.340 And so all of us

00:04:59.900 are going to face something

00:05:01.040 at some point in time.

00:05:02.500 And that quote really represents,

00:05:04.860 you know,

00:05:05.160 that the timeline of life.

00:05:07.580 It's,

00:05:08.240 you know,

00:05:08.420 eventually you,

00:05:09.680 we will die,

00:05:11.380 you know,

00:05:11.680 and hopefully it's of natural causes

00:05:13.480 and old age,

00:05:14.300 not something that could have been prevented.

00:05:16.980 And so the book focuses on preparation

00:05:19.460 and response

00:05:20.520 to all of the big headlines

00:05:23.260 that we see out there these days.

00:05:26.480 I think it's really important.

00:05:27.680 And here's the other question though,

00:05:29.180 is we get so bombarded with news

00:05:31.580 and I think a lot of it

00:05:32.960 is probably not as sensational

00:05:35.440 as it's made out to be.

00:05:37.160 I mean,

00:05:37.360 are there some common threats

00:05:39.720 that we should really be prepared for?

00:05:42.360 Well,

00:05:42.660 I've been,

00:05:43.580 in all the talks and discussions I've had,

00:05:46.180 everything from,

00:05:47.040 you know,

00:05:47.740 law enforcement to,

00:05:49.480 you know,

00:05:49.700 even school teachers,

00:05:50.940 there's one thing that

00:05:52.240 has become,

00:05:53.680 I think,

00:05:54.200 common.

00:05:54.660 And I'm not a paranoia guy.

00:05:56.320 I'm not a,

00:05:57.100 you know,

00:05:57.380 wear foil on your head

00:05:58.420 and,

00:05:58.640 you know,

00:05:59.020 wait for aliens to come.

00:06:01.000 And I,

00:06:01.280 and I'm not a,

00:06:02.040 I'm not a categorically,

00:06:03.940 I'm not a prepper either.

00:06:05.160 It's a,

00:06:06.080 so I try to,

00:06:06.840 everything's all about reality

00:06:08.020 and,

00:06:08.760 you know,

00:06:09.280 the potential of facing something

00:06:10.700 and how you're going to deal with it

00:06:12.120 properly in order to increase

00:06:13.880 your survivability.

00:06:14.220 So,

00:06:15.680 you know,

00:06:16.260 one,

00:06:16.660 one thing that holds true is what,

00:06:18.280 you know,

00:06:18.820 used to be the wrong place,

00:06:20.360 the wrong time has quickly become any place at any time.

00:06:23.740 And I think that is the piece that people just need to start kind of embracing and understanding that,

00:06:29.600 yeah,

00:06:29.920 eighties and nineties,

00:06:31.100 it was kind of like this wrong place,

00:06:32.560 wrong time.

00:06:33.380 But now it's like any,

00:06:34.720 any place,

00:06:35.220 you can be a church,

00:06:36.040 you can be at school,

00:06:36.900 you can be at a mall,

00:06:37.780 you can be anywhere on this globe.

00:06:39.280 And there's going to be the threat of a lone wolf or,

00:06:41.640 you know,

00:06:42.520 some ISIS actors that,

00:06:44.280 you know,

00:06:44.800 want to kill a bunch of innocent people so they can make the headlines.

00:06:47.580 So you just have to kind of embrace the mentality that now it can happen anytime,

00:06:51.940 anyplace.

00:06:53.340 And yeah,

00:06:53.640 I think the media probably sensationalizes a lot of stuff.

00:06:57.860 And,

00:06:58.100 you know,

00:06:58.580 now with social media becoming a main media platform,

00:07:02.380 that increases it,

00:07:04.300 you know,

00:07:04.540 even more so where you're,

00:07:06.280 we feel like we're seeing all these bad things happening,

00:07:08.920 all the time.

00:07:10.060 But the reality is bad things have been happening all the time,

00:07:12.920 you know,

00:07:13.640 since the creation of this planet.

00:07:15.340 So it's just,

00:07:16.700 it's just much easier to kind of televise it and push it out on all the different

00:07:21.440 bandwidths that are out there.

00:07:22.880 Sure.

00:07:23.200 And then,

00:07:23.560 well,

00:07:23.680 then the other side of that is you have to compete with,

00:07:25.740 you know,

00:07:25.900 the quote unquote fake news that we see so much of too.

00:07:28.460 And now you're trying not only to be prepared,

00:07:30.200 but decipher what's actually happening and what is not really happening.

00:07:34.620 Yeah.

00:07:34.820 Without a doubt.

00:07:35.500 The fake news thing,

00:07:36.300 I guess,

00:07:36.620 is obviously has some,

00:07:39.260 has some power behind it and it's unfortunate,

00:07:41.680 but you,

00:07:42.240 you,

00:07:42.600 that's each individual has responsibility to vet the information they read and

00:07:47.800 see and,

00:07:48.680 and you vet it beforehand.

00:07:50.880 Last night,

00:07:51.580 for example,

00:07:52.080 I get a lot of things sent to me and then people say,

00:07:54.260 Hey,

00:07:54.340 can you blast this out?

00:07:55.500 Right.

00:07:55.800 Yeah.

00:07:56.200 It's a concern.

00:07:57.820 Last night,

00:07:58.560 you may have seen it.

00:07:59.580 It's going around like,

00:08:00.380 Hey,

00:08:00.580 if gang members have this new tactic as part of their initiation.

00:08:04.800 And that is if you see a,

00:08:06.540 you know,

00:08:06.920 a young child on the side of the road needing help and tells you that child says,

00:08:11.980 you know,

00:08:12.180 take me to this address.

00:08:13.200 And then you show up to the address and you get,

00:08:15.520 you get killed or you get beat by these gang members.

00:08:18.080 You know,

00:08:18.560 it's basically saying,

00:08:19.320 Hey,

00:08:19.940 don't take the kid to that address.

00:08:21.520 Take them to the police station,

00:08:22.900 which right off the bat,

00:08:24.280 one,

00:08:24.640 that's what you should do anyway.

00:08:25.960 Right.

00:08:26.260 Right.

00:08:26.900 But number two,

00:08:27.900 the whole thing is a hoax.

00:08:29.300 It just,

00:08:30.060 the gang members are not doing this.

00:08:31.580 It was just something that was,

00:08:32.620 has been put out on social media,

00:08:34.640 supposedly from Dade County down in Florida.

00:08:37.240 And it's all fake.

00:08:38.480 It's just,

00:08:38.920 it's just all BS.

00:08:40.140 So beware.

00:08:41.100 Yeah,

00:08:41.300 no,

00:08:41.480 that's true.

00:08:41.900 And in this case,

00:08:42.680 it actually ends up being maybe more of a positive because if you run into that situation anyways,

00:08:47.120 whether it's fake or real,

00:08:48.720 like now,

00:08:49.240 you know the right thing to do,

00:08:50.220 right?

00:08:51.180 Exactly.

00:08:51.860 Exactly.

00:08:52.220 It's like common sense,

00:08:53.460 you know,

00:08:53.640 people,

00:08:54.260 you know,

00:08:54.580 just like they say,

00:08:55.360 common sense isn't so common these days.

00:08:57.460 That's true.

00:08:57.980 So how do you vet this information?

00:08:59.600 You talk about making sure and the responsibility we have as civilians to vet this type of stuff.

00:09:05.320 How do you suggest we do that?

00:09:06.720 First,

00:09:07.240 I mean,

00:09:07.420 Google is a powerful tool.

00:09:08.700 I think we all know that now we have to give it its legitimate purpose and its,

00:09:14.000 its capability and,

00:09:15.660 in doing,

00:09:16.400 in vetting information or seeing what's real and what's not.

00:09:18.520 So what I did when that came through is I literally,

00:09:21.860 you can take the entire,

00:09:23.180 I cut and pasted the entire paragraph and then pasted it right into the Google search bar.

00:09:29.520 And then that will automatically pop up every article using all those words and then that,

00:09:35.720 and all those words in that order.

00:09:37.700 I mean,

00:09:37.900 I think people know this by now.

00:09:39.260 And then immediately the first thing was from Dade County,

00:09:44.260 Miami,

00:09:44.880 the sheriff's department,

00:09:45.980 they put out that it is a hoax.

00:09:49.220 And then the next thing you're going to do is you're going to look,

00:09:51.820 is it coming from reputable sources?

00:09:54.240 You know,

00:09:54.440 is it from,

00:09:55.300 you know,

00:09:55.480 whether you're a Fox person or a CNN person,

00:09:58.480 those are the next steps.

00:09:59.760 And kind of,

00:10:00.820 you know,

00:10:01.020 is it coming from a reputable,

00:10:02.400 you know,

00:10:02.840 media or news agency?

00:10:04.700 Yeah,

00:10:04.980 no,

00:10:05.160 that's a,

00:10:05.540 that's valid.

00:10:05.960 And then just stopping for a second and probably just thinking for maybe 60 seconds

00:10:10.660 longer than you normally would.

00:10:11.860 Right.

00:10:12.760 Exactly.

00:10:13.340 I mean,

00:10:13.560 it's,

00:10:13.920 you know,

00:10:14.840 well,

00:10:15.060 yeah,

00:10:15.400 just be,

00:10:16.440 uh,

00:10:16.600 keep it simple.

00:10:17.540 Usually,

00:10:18.120 you know,

00:10:18.440 answers will pop out.

00:10:19.800 Yeah.

00:10:20.020 Cause I know I've seen on Facebook things like,

00:10:21.840 oh,

00:10:22.100 if you want to keep your car running longer,

00:10:23.940 pour sugar in the gas tank and you know,

00:10:25.840 people actually do this stuff,

00:10:27.080 you know,

00:10:27.280 it's crazy.

00:10:27.820 Oh yeah.

00:10:28.380 Yeah.

00:10:28.760 It's unfortunate,

00:10:29.720 but yeah,

00:10:30.500 America's a smart,

00:10:31.820 but not that smart sometimes.

00:10:33.000 I imagine too,

00:10:35.100 like you talk,

00:10:35.880 obviously you're talking about a hundred skills.

00:10:37.460 This is a completely different set of skills right here and all of them are valid,

00:10:41.320 but I imagine too,

00:10:42.720 there's a lot of crossover between one skill,

00:10:45.520 for example,

00:10:46.080 situational awareness and then how many other skills or situations that I could actually

00:10:50.560 could come to play in.

00:10:51.740 Right.

00:10:51.960 I mean,

00:10:52.200 are there a few baseline type skills that we should be developing that will cover

00:10:57.640 the broadest spectrum of something that might happen?

00:11:00.080 For the most part.

00:11:02.260 Yeah.

00:11:02.800 I mean,

00:11:03.060 it really breaks down to three big things that every guy should kind of pay attention

00:11:08.060 to.

00:11:08.460 And that's,

00:11:08.860 you know,

00:11:09.660 man-made,

00:11:11.140 non-man-made and medical events.

00:11:13.360 Right.

00:11:13.680 So man-made events is these day,

00:11:17.100 the most popular is,

00:11:18.240 you know,

00:11:18.360 like an active shooter situation,

00:11:20.000 um,

00:11:21.100 or a bombing of some sort.

00:11:22.640 Then in the non-man-made is going to be your natural disaster.

00:11:26.660 And it's obviously seasonal right now.

00:11:28.940 You know,

00:11:29.400 we just had that surge of tornadoes at the end of the summer.

00:11:32.820 You know,

00:11:33.080 you know,

00:11:33.340 you're going to have hurricanes and we're moving into blizzard and the,

00:11:37.120 uh,

00:11:37.500 the Arctic blasts that are going on across the nation.

00:11:39.880 So,

00:11:40.280 and then of course,

00:11:41.680 medical events,

00:11:42.500 you know,

00:11:42.740 and the medical event supports both the man-made non-man-made stuff.

00:11:47.220 So the book is broken out really into those three big categories so that if you

00:11:52.340 find yourself even lost in the middle of nowhere with zero technology all the

00:11:57.440 way to,

00:11:58.060 you know,

00:11:58.500 ransomware all of a sudden pops up on your computer,

00:12:01.160 you can solve your own problems,

00:12:03.640 prevent any further exploitation,

00:12:05.320 and then obviously prevent it from happening ever again.

00:12:10.140 And I really like what you said there,

00:12:11.260 solving your own problems.

00:12:12.440 I mean,

00:12:12.620 cause that,

00:12:13.000 that places the responsibility where it belongs.

00:12:15.160 I know there's a lot of people who would,

00:12:16.640 for example,

00:12:17.480 rely upon first responders and the response time might not be what you need it

00:12:21.540 to be.

00:12:21.940 There may not even be anybody around.

00:12:23.340 You may not have communication.

00:12:24.320 So really becoming self-reliant,

00:12:26.340 uh,

00:12:26.880 in order to handle these types of threats,

00:12:28.220 right?

00:12:29.180 Exactly.

00:12:29.760 Both books are all about self-rescue,

00:12:31.980 self-reliance.

00:12:32.720 The FBI did a study where it was like,

00:12:34.300 Hey,

00:12:35.020 you know,

00:12:35.280 of all these different hostage situations and these victims of different crisis and

00:12:39.280 asked them pretty simple questions.

00:12:41.720 The results that came out in the most common answer of what are you going to do?

00:12:45.340 Or what were you thinking?

00:12:46.260 They thought,

00:12:46.920 well,

00:12:47.200 I'm either going to be rescued or I'm going to die.

00:12:50.600 Most of them didn't think about self-rescue or being self-reliant.

00:12:55.580 And,

00:12:55.680 uh,

00:12:55.980 yeah,

00:12:56.460 I mean,

00:12:56.760 it's really when people get into that,

00:12:59.060 you know,

00:12:59.320 fight or flight mode,

00:13:00.540 we use the words fight or flight,

00:13:02.840 but the reality is most people just sit,

00:13:05.560 they barricade down and they hope for the best.

00:13:07.760 And,

00:13:08.160 uh,

00:13:08.760 when the reality is you need to be far more offensive,

00:13:11.180 not defensive in these situations.

00:13:13.460 And you've got to take some ownership in your own security posture.

00:13:17.000 And if you've got to crack heads,

00:13:18.620 crack heads.

00:13:19.280 If you've got to jump out a window,

00:13:20.940 jump out the window.

00:13:22.020 Obviously you've got to look at your,

00:13:23.440 look at your surroundings and start looking for exits,

00:13:26.960 start doing the right thing.

00:13:28.180 Is this human nature or is this a growing trend that maybe we're not as self-reliant as we once were?

00:13:34.760 Well,

00:13:34.920 the trend I'm seeing,

00:13:36.340 you're seeing,

00:13:36.840 everyone's seeing when it comes to any kind of event is their protocol.

00:13:41.740 Personal protocol these days has become,

00:13:44.340 maybe I'll call 911,

00:13:47.060 but for sure I'm going to film this and I'm going to post it.

00:13:51.460 Interesting.

00:13:52.000 And now with Facebook live,

00:13:54.500 as we just saw in the news with the beating of that kid,

00:13:57.660 it was all Facebook live and it was all about the popularity contest of social media

00:14:04.560 and how many likes or whatever I can get out of this and pumping it out onto the airways

00:14:10.340 as quickly as possible.

00:14:12.380 And,

00:14:12.400 and it,

00:14:13.340 you know,

00:14:13.600 then you and I both know 9-1-1,

00:14:16.360 then start solving your own problems until they get there.

00:14:19.380 Not 9-1-1,

00:14:20.540 film it,

00:14:21.080 post it,

00:14:21.560 or sit there and wait.

00:14:23.240 You've got to start doing something.

00:14:25.320 Right.

00:14:25.440 I mean,

00:14:25.720 the priority you would think would be,

00:14:27.660 to stay alive rather than to get some accolades for what I just posted or I was the first one to break this story,

00:14:33.820 right?

00:14:34.620 Right.

00:14:35.160 I mean,

00:14:35.620 it's,

00:14:35.980 it's amazing.

00:14:38.020 The number of people that will put themselves at risk just so they can get the good picture,

00:14:42.100 the good video.

00:14:42.900 It's,

00:14:43.320 it's getting a little out of control.

00:14:45.140 So in the,

00:14:45.960 in the video that we had just saw that you're referencing,

00:14:48.920 is there anything that you saw that the kid who was,

00:14:51.360 you know,

00:14:51.580 bound and,

00:14:52.300 and being abused is,

00:14:53.640 was there anything from your perspective that he might've considered doing differently?

00:14:57.280 I know you don't know the entire story.

00:14:58.720 I'm just curious what you have to say about it.

00:15:00.740 Yeah,

00:15:01.100 I think it,

00:15:01.840 it all starts with,

00:15:02.820 you know,

00:15:03.600 preventing yourself from being in that situation from,

00:15:05.840 from the get go,

00:15:06.760 right?

00:15:07.100 I mean,

00:15:07.960 pay it once again,

00:15:08.760 you go to the basics,

00:15:09.580 you're paying attention to your surroundings,

00:15:11.000 you know,

00:15:12.200 what is the third party?

00:15:13.320 What is the third party awareness in the area that you're in?

00:15:16.740 You know,

00:15:17.220 me after being a seal for 20 years and traveling this globe,

00:15:21.260 you know,

00:15:21.520 a lot of times by myself,

00:15:23.280 third party awareness became very crucial,

00:15:26.640 you know,

00:15:26.840 whether it's squatters on the side of the road that are watching you drive by,

00:15:30.120 or it's the grandma sitting up in her window because she doesn't have TV,

00:15:34.500 but she knows what time everybody walks by on her sidewalk every day and paying

00:15:41.140 attention to what people are paying attention to,

00:15:44.340 or paying attention to the people in your environment and asking yourself,

00:15:48.440 do I fit in here?

00:15:50.060 If you know,

00:15:50.640 am I,

00:15:51.160 am I a potential target where I'm sitting right now and what I'm doing?

00:15:56.040 And,

00:15:56.580 uh,

00:15:56.780 you got to ask yourself these questions as it relates to the people that are

00:16:00.180 potentially looking at you without even knowing you and passing nothing but

00:16:04.260 judgment or targeting you.

00:16:06.640 So you're talking about a dirty word here,

00:16:09.400 which is profiling,

00:16:10.480 right?

00:16:10.700 Is essentially what you're doing.

00:16:12.480 I'm,

00:16:13.000 I'm,

00:16:13.300 I don't want to put words in your mouth,

00:16:14.500 but that's what it sounds like.

00:16:15.340 So how do you even confront that?

00:16:17.860 Whether that's in your own mind or anyone else in this overly dramatic and

00:16:22.080 sensitive environment in which we live?

00:16:24.760 Yeah,

00:16:25.180 it's kind of,

00:16:25.840 it's actually,

00:16:26.380 it's the reciprocal of profiling,

00:16:28.780 right?

00:16:28.980 Because what,

00:16:29.720 what you're doing is you're asking yourself,

00:16:32.860 all right,

00:16:33.080 what do people think of me right now?

00:16:34.880 It starts with looking in the mirror before you walk out the door.

00:16:38.260 You know,

00:16:38.600 am I wearing big iconic logos on the front of my shirt that make me stand

00:16:42.500 out?

00:16:42.800 Am I wearing bright colors that make me stand out?

00:16:45.060 Am I,

00:16:45.800 am I wearing things or am I accessorizing myself with things of high value that

00:16:52.180 might get me targeted?

00:16:54.420 So it's projection and demeanor management before you walk out the door.

00:16:58.640 When you know exactly where you're going,

00:17:00.700 if you're going to work,

00:17:01.520 we know that that's a certain dress,

00:17:02.920 but does it have to be the Louis Vuitton purse or can it just be a black

00:17:07.440 standard purse?

00:17:08.340 I mean,

00:17:08.600 let's face it,

00:17:09.100 you're going to work.

00:17:10.020 So it's,

00:17:10.540 it's,

00:17:10.940 you got to really take a look at yourself before you even put yourself in

00:17:14.260 these environments and then prevent people from,

00:17:17.820 you want to be the gray guy.

00:17:18.960 You want to be invisible.

00:17:20.620 You want to be non-threatening.

00:17:22.680 You want to be the person that if for every guy that travels and sits in

00:17:26.900 like an airport,

00:17:28.260 especially like international flights,

00:17:30.500 you're sitting in that airport.

00:17:31.720 There's a lot of people that pass by that you never notice and that's who you

00:17:35.380 want to be.

00:17:36.700 Interesting.

00:17:36.840 Yeah.

00:17:36.980 Cause that was my next question.

00:17:38.100 Do you want to be the guy who,

00:17:39.240 who has the demeanor of don't screw with me or do you want to be completely

00:17:42.980 invisible?

00:17:43.520 So you kind of answered that question.

00:17:45.620 Yeah,

00:17:45.860 it's invisibility,

00:17:46.840 but you still need to be confident,

00:17:48.480 not cocky.

00:17:49.180 And you know,

00:17:50.500 let's face it,

00:17:51.220 the guys that look tough,

00:17:52.920 act tough,

00:17:53.640 you know,

00:17:53.840 look at me,

00:17:54.260 but don't look at me,

00:17:55.040 look at me,

00:17:55.840 but don't look at me.

00:17:57.260 Right.

00:17:57.640 If you look at me,

00:17:58.340 I'm going to kick your ass,

00:17:59.180 but I want you to look at me.

00:18:00.660 Cause I've got my,

00:18:02.060 yeah,

00:18:02.300 I've got my hair a certain way and I'm wearing this very tight t-shirt and I

00:18:07.040 want you to look at me,

00:18:08.020 but if you look at me,

00:18:08.960 you know,

00:18:09.160 I'm going to kick your ass. 0.99

00:18:09.880 So you want to prevent that whole piece.

00:18:12.800 And it's funny is like team guys or seals are notorious for this shit.

00:18:17.480 Like look at me,

00:18:18.240 but don't look at me.

00:18:19.420 Look at me.

00:18:20.220 I want you to look at me.

00:18:21.120 I want the women to look at me, 1.00

00:18:22.360 but don't look at me.

00:18:24.600 Yeah.

00:18:25.120 Yeah.

00:18:25.440 I think what you're talking about here is,

00:18:27.220 is actually being a man of substance,

00:18:29.460 right?

00:18:29.760 Having something underneath that's building this true confidence versus I'm going

00:18:33.160 to put on this persona so I can fake people out.

00:18:36.000 Exactly.

00:18:36.580 Yeah.

00:18:37.100 You're nailing it,

00:18:37.920 man.

00:18:38.020 It's just a,

00:18:39.300 you just want to be like the total wolf with the sheep skin on the outside,

00:18:43.760 you know,

00:18:44.200 just blend in,

00:18:45.280 but knowing that you're confident,

00:18:47.620 ready and can,

00:18:49.280 uh,

00:18:49.880 it can get some shit done when,

00:18:51.320 when,

00:18:51.740 when,

00:18:52.060 when things go bad.

00:18:53.300 Which I think is obviously the point of the book.

00:18:55.640 You know,

00:18:55.920 you got to be prepared.

00:18:56.860 You got to train,

00:18:57.520 you got to be ready for this stuff,

00:18:59.480 but how do you not allow this to consume your life?

00:19:03.560 Cause we all know the guy who's the prepper or the one who just takes it to

00:19:07.980 the absolute extreme and he's no longer functional in the rest of his life

00:19:11.600 because this has taken over.

00:19:13.160 Yeah.

00:19:13.420 Good question.

00:19:14.060 Yeah.

00:19:14.200 It's,

00:19:14.520 it's really about adopting some habits over time.

00:19:18.140 This isn't something you just turn on overnight.

00:19:19.900 You have to,

00:19:21.020 I always compare it to like our seatbelts,

00:19:23.140 you know,

00:19:23.500 there was a time when nobody wore seatbelts and then now you don't even

00:19:27.860 remember putting it on or taking it off.

00:19:29.720 And that's kind of what you have to do with anything security related because,

00:19:33.940 you know,

00:19:34.600 it's not convenient.

00:19:36.080 There,

00:19:36.240 there's nothing,

00:19:37.020 convenience and security are polar opposites,

00:19:41.240 right?

00:19:41.480 If something is very secure,

00:19:43.220 then it's probably not very convenient to get in and out of.

00:19:46.940 And the same thing,

00:19:48.100 right?

00:19:48.320 If it's something is very convenient,

00:19:50.100 then it's probably not that secure.

00:19:52.280 So it's a balance.

00:19:53.780 It's a balancing act.

00:19:54.680 So it's better to just give yourself,

00:19:56.820 Hey,

00:19:57.040 you know,

00:19:57.260 I'm going to focus on projection and demeanor management for the next couple

00:20:00.900 of months and adopt it to where it becomes like a seatbelt and putting it

00:20:05.680 on and putting it off.

00:20:06.580 And I don't even remember,

00:20:07.820 but it's a part of my lifestyle now.

00:20:10.300 And,

00:20:10.700 and it's going to,

00:20:11.880 over time,

00:20:12.820 if you slowly incorporate these things and make them all habits,

00:20:16.380 then you're going to be,

00:20:17.460 you know,

00:20:17.720 far better than 99% of the people that you're walking around.

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00:21:33.700 Now let me get back to my interview with Clint.

00:21:35.660 Well,

00:21:38.420 I think a lot of people are looking for the quick fix.

00:21:41.080 Hey,

00:21:41.300 what little tactic or what hack that's a popular term?

00:21:44.280 What hack can I implement right now that will immediately produce the

00:21:47.300 results I desire?

00:21:48.620 And I think what you're talking about is adopting a lifestyle as opposed to

00:21:52.360 trying to game the system.

00:21:53.940 True.

00:21:54.580 And even though the book is full of like,

00:21:56.200 you know,

00:21:56.560 quote unquote hacks,

00:21:57.480 right.

00:21:58.740 Keeping it simple,

00:21:59.700 keeping it digestible,

00:22:00.760 using everyday things around your house or in your environment to get,

00:22:03.920 get things done.

00:22:04.820 But you know,

00:22:06.420 but when you talk about how you carry yourself,

00:22:10.060 whether,

00:22:10.400 and even just,

00:22:11.220 I mean,

00:22:11.340 let's face it,

00:22:11.900 situational awareness.

00:22:13.040 I mean,

00:22:13.220 if you just tried to pay attention to everything all the time,

00:22:15.600 you,

00:22:15.820 you wouldn't be paying attention to anything.

00:22:18.160 So it's,

00:22:19.500 and it's,

00:22:19.900 and it's a total drag and energy sucker,

00:22:23.160 you know,

00:22:23.780 on your brain as well.

00:22:24.920 So you just got to adopt everything slowly.

00:22:28.060 And yeah,

00:22:28.700 like you said,

00:22:29.300 make it a lifestyle.

00:22:30.400 What are some of those common habits that you said you,

00:22:32.480 you need to start working in situational awareness?

00:22:34.820 Awareness,

00:22:35.700 demeanor management,

00:22:36.760 anything else that comes,

00:22:37.740 comes right off your mind?

00:22:39.760 The most important piece,

00:22:41.580 especially for guys who adopt is,

00:22:44.160 is learning to put your ego in check.

00:22:47.480 It really is your ego that drives the,

00:22:50.100 a lot of the train here.

00:22:51.540 When you put yourself out in the environment,

00:22:53.400 your ego dresses you each day.

00:22:55.880 Your ego is what walks you down the street.

00:22:58.880 Your ego is what makes you talk the way you talk.

00:23:02.600 So learning to kind of subdue it.

00:23:04.920 It's okay to be confident.

00:23:06.440 It's okay to have all these different strengths,

00:23:09.420 but when it starts to exude,

00:23:12.100 you know,

00:23:12.700 and it starts to come out and people start noticing it,

00:23:16.740 that's when your ego,

00:23:18.200 you know,

00:23:18.400 your ego kills,

00:23:19.600 especially in our community.

00:23:20.900 It's a big saying.

00:23:21.900 And,

00:23:22.140 uh,

00:23:22.780 you don't want your ego to get ahead of you.

00:23:24.720 You don't want your credibility to get ahead of you.

00:23:27.040 Um,

00:23:27.400 you just got to keep yourself in check,

00:23:29.340 I think is the first big piece of the equation,

00:23:31.940 because then that,

00:23:33.240 that branches off into so many lifestyle things that you're probably doing each day.

00:23:37.960 How do you know that your ego is getting in the way?

00:23:40.460 Cause we put boxes around ourselves and we have these little environments and that we operate.

00:23:44.200 We don't even know.

00:23:44.840 We don't ever look in the mirror.

00:23:46.260 So how do you know when it is your ego that's actually becoming a problem for you?

00:23:51.220 Uh,

00:23:51.740 I think a lot of people know.

00:23:53.180 I mean,

00:23:53.520 if you're the guy that's,

00:23:54.760 you know,

00:23:55.180 spending 20 minutes trying to figure out what you're going to wear,

00:23:57.900 uh,

00:23:58.860 and you're using entirely too much product in your hair,

00:24:01.640 then you're probably a guy that's really worried about your perception and based on looks.

00:24:07.960 If you're that guy,

00:24:09.080 you know,

00:24:09.560 you got to kind of tamper that shit down a little bit.

00:24:13.040 Um,

00:24:13.400 if you're going to the gym because there's mirrors,

00:24:15.940 well then,

00:24:16.820 you know,

00:24:17.080 I would say that you're there for the wrong reason.

00:24:19.560 You want to build functional strength so that you can handle yourself properly in a crisis.

00:24:23.860 You want to be able to carry your own body weight plus someone else's in,

00:24:28.060 in order to get out of a dicey situation or a crisis,

00:24:31.460 whether it's a natural disaster or a man-made,

00:24:34.600 you know,

00:24:35.100 um,

00:24:35.740 event.

00:24:36.280 So I think,

00:24:37.600 you know,

00:24:37.800 it's just a matter of really,

00:24:39.480 truly looking at yourself,

00:24:41.720 um,

00:24:43.080 stepping outside yourself and looking back is probably the better way of putting it.

00:24:47.000 And then correcting yourself slowly,

00:24:49.820 but surely and measurable over time.

00:24:51.820 Yeah.

00:24:52.260 And I think what you're talking about too is,

00:24:54.000 you know,

00:24:54.360 your motivation,

00:24:54.960 right?

00:24:55.340 Like what is your motivation for engaging in whatever exercise you happen to be engaging in

00:24:59.160 at any point?

00:25:00.280 Right.

00:25:00.800 Yeah.

00:25:01.060 If you're working out because you just want to look good,

00:25:03.180 well,

00:25:03.640 you know,

00:25:04.020 then you probably need to put your ego in check.

00:25:06.760 It's okay.

00:25:07.380 It's okay to look good.

00:25:08.460 Right.

00:25:08.740 But you just don't want to be doing things.

00:25:10.460 You just look good.

00:25:11.260 You want to be doing things for other reasons.

00:25:13.280 Well,

00:25:13.540 and you know,

00:25:14.020 and then the other side of that is if that's the motivation,

00:25:16.320 how long is that actually going to last?

00:25:18.100 Yeah.

00:25:18.360 Like you can't sustain that over a long period or even a lifetime,

00:25:21.200 which is what you probably should be doing.

00:25:22.880 You're dead on.

00:25:23.740 Well,

00:25:24.160 so you talked about the three sections.

00:25:26.460 So man-made,

00:25:27.300 non-man-made and then medical events,

00:25:29.100 but then you break it down even further.

00:25:30.720 Like you've got a personal preparedness,

00:25:32.800 navigation,

00:25:33.320 you've got a lot of different things in here.

00:25:34.520 Was there a certain section that you really enjoyed talking about,

00:25:39.220 discussing,

00:25:39.800 coming up with some of these tactics that you've gone through?

00:25:42.000 Yeah.

00:25:42.280 You know,

00:25:42.560 the,

00:25:42.800 the home security portion I thought was turned out really good and it's a lot of

00:25:48.320 information most people don't know.

00:25:50.520 And I enjoyed kind of putting that together because I think it's,

00:25:53.740 it's under,

00:25:54.940 you know,

00:25:55.580 discussed when we talk about everything from whether it's a,

00:25:58.920 a violent act inside your home or burglary or a burglary while you're gone.

00:26:06.100 These are things that people,

00:26:08.120 you know,

00:26:08.280 they get alarm systems and they,

00:26:09.840 you know,

00:26:10.140 they lock their doors or they think they're going to go buy some really high

00:26:13.100 security locks and that makes a difference or something.

00:26:15.120 And I wanted to shed some reality,

00:26:17.340 you know,

00:26:17.580 into the home security world and,

00:26:19.420 and give them some good tactics that,

00:26:22.060 that help to counter, 0.94

00:26:23.840 you know,

00:26:24.540 any aggressors coming your way.

00:26:26.480 Sure.

00:26:26.760 What are some common mistakes that you see most people make when it comes to,

00:26:30.020 cause I think what you use the term,

00:26:31.800 oh,

00:26:32.620 defending your domain,

00:26:33.900 right?

00:26:34.060 Is that what you're referring to here?

00:26:35.140 Yes.

00:26:35.620 Yes,

00:26:35.940 exactly.

00:26:36.660 So what are some common mistakes you see?

00:26:39.020 I think people focus a lot on alarm systems and locks,

00:26:42.760 locks being kind of like a,

00:26:44.680 they are a sense of security,

00:26:46.200 right?

00:26:46.520 It's a,

00:26:46.920 it's a dead bolt that goes into a door frame or a strike plate.

00:26:51.940 And then it retracts,

00:26:53.680 it goes in and out.

00:26:54.340 And people feel like if they've got a really good lock on there,

00:26:56.460 then somehow they're more secure.

00:26:57.580 The bolts themselves are the same pretty much across the board,

00:27:00.720 no matter what brand dead bolt you buy,

00:27:03.440 right?

00:27:03.520 That chunk of metal that goes in and out is exactly the same.

00:27:06.920 So what are you buying?

00:27:08.120 You're buying,

00:27:08.880 you're buying a lock,

00:27:11.420 which is a hugely five pin tumbler lock.

00:27:15.080 And so you can buy one that's very difficult to pick because it's got,

00:27:19.900 you know,

00:27:20.100 different kinds of pins inside and bad guys don't pick locks.

00:27:23.960 Right.

00:27:24.220 So kicking doors,

00:27:25.160 break doors now,

00:27:25.900 they kick the door.

00:27:27.660 So I,

00:27:28.900 you want to have locks,

00:27:30.180 but the,

00:27:30.780 where you need to concentrate is reinforcing the frame of your door,

00:27:33.940 which if you use,

00:27:35.300 you know,

00:27:35.620 two and a half to three inch wood screws and drill those things in all the 0.71

00:27:40.800 way around the perimeter,

00:27:41.880 especially on the hinge side and on the deadbolt side,

00:27:44.400 that's going to reinforce the strength of your frame.

00:27:47.160 So that,

00:27:47.760 that one mule kick to break your door frame and get your door open, 0.98

00:27:51.660 you just turned into five in order to have your door kicked in.

00:27:55.320 Which gives you some time and space,

00:27:56.780 right?

00:27:57.540 Exactly.

00:27:58.080 It gives you audibles,

00:27:58.880 right?

00:27:59.380 Kick one, 0.95

00:28:00.020 hopefully starts to wake you up.

00:28:01.500 Kick two, 0.93

00:28:02.120 definitely makes you go,

00:28:03.140 okay,

00:28:03.300 what's going on?

00:28:04.540 Kick three, 0.94

00:28:05.340 okay,

00:28:05.580 I'm grabbing my gun or I'm grabbing a light.

00:28:07.940 Kick four, 0.90

00:28:08.520 I'm calling 911.

00:28:09.820 Kick five, 0.96

00:28:10.960 you're already ready.

00:28:12.220 You know what I mean?

00:28:12.720 So you're creating audibles,

00:28:14.920 you're delaying,

00:28:16.140 you know,

00:28:16.440 there's the big D's of,

00:28:17.860 of defense,

00:28:18.680 right?

00:28:18.880 You want to one,

00:28:19.880 you want to deter them.

00:28:20.880 So,

00:28:21.180 okay,

00:28:21.340 somebody walking by my house,

00:28:22.680 I see cameras.

00:28:23.580 Okay,

00:28:23.700 I'm not going in that house.

00:28:25.480 You want to delay them.

00:28:27.300 So delaying could be anything from how you illuminate your home on the outside to obstacles you put in place.

00:28:33.580 You know,

00:28:33.680 it could be bushes,

00:28:34.460 hedges,

00:28:35.040 you know,

00:28:35.320 bollards,

00:28:36.040 planters,

00:28:36.760 whatever slows them down on their,

00:28:38.380 as they approach the home.

00:28:40.520 Then you want to deny completely,

00:28:42.360 which comes into more fortifying your home,

00:28:44.600 the doors,

00:28:45.020 the windows,

00:28:45.780 security systems,

00:28:46.500 all that.

00:28:46.880 And then of course,

00:28:47.820 detained.

00:28:49.160 And if you can detain them or get them detained,

00:28:52.680 and that's the next piece.

00:28:53.860 So what those four big D's do is create eccentric layers of security.

00:29:00.480 And if you just use some common sense,

00:29:02.460 you can do that without spending a whole lot of money and breaking the bank.

00:29:05.620 you know,

00:29:06.520 you know,

00:29:06.780 a lot of alarm systems are great,

00:29:08.500 but the problem is they're put in by technicians,

00:29:10.500 not by security guys.

00:29:12.580 And there is a difference.

00:29:14.560 And so sometimes cameras aren't put in the right place.

00:29:16.900 Sometimes keypads aren't put in the right place.

00:29:18.880 Sometimes panels are put in horrible places and any educated bad guy will

00:29:23.340 come in the house.

00:29:25.500 Keypads are beeping and they're going to the panel.

00:29:27.720 The panel is the brains of the system and that should be hidden.

00:29:30.280 It should be like in the top wall of a closet,

00:29:33.900 like in a bedroom that you don't use.

00:29:36.900 Sure.

00:29:37.740 They're not going to look there with where they're going to look is they're

00:29:39.940 going to look in the laundry room.

00:29:41.080 They're going to look in the master bedroom for the panel and sometimes even

00:29:44.220 the garage.

00:29:44.900 And then they're going to go disconnect the backup battery.

00:29:47.180 And the nine one one line.

00:29:49.200 And then,

00:29:50.420 you know,

00:29:50.600 now they can sit in the house all day long and not worry about the cops

00:29:53.420 showing up.

00:29:54.040 I like what you're talking about.

00:29:54.840 Cause what you're talking about too,

00:29:55.900 is like these added layers that you're talking about.

00:29:57.780 And I think that's important.

00:29:59.160 Cause I've heard,

00:29:59.760 I'll hear security guys,

00:30:01.020 alarm guys will say a dog's not going to do anything.

00:30:03.340 And then a dog owner is going to say,

00:30:04.580 Oh,

00:30:04.720 you don't need a security system.

00:30:05.800 You need a dog.

00:30:06.420 And it's like,

00:30:06.820 why do you have to choose one or the other?

00:30:08.660 Right?

00:30:09.440 Yeah.

00:30:09.740 So I did some interviews with like straight up professional burglars and the

00:30:14.760 two things that kept them away from a home was animals and kids.

00:30:19.800 Both of them are very unpredictable.

00:30:21.600 So even if you don't have kids and you put a,

00:30:24.040 a huffy big wheel or a tricycle in your front yard,

00:30:27.480 it's going to keep the bad guys away.

00:30:30.540 Illumination is a big one,

00:30:32.060 right?

00:30:32.400 Light your house up.

00:30:33.600 Cause they,

00:30:34.400 you know,

00:30:34.640 you want to make that bad guy feel naked if he's standing anywhere near your

00:30:38.100 house.

00:30:38.680 And that's what,

00:30:39.580 that's what that lighting does.

00:30:40.940 And if you don't want to spend the money on alarm system,

00:30:43.180 then have a guy come out,

00:30:44.960 have him give you a quote.

00:30:46.140 He's going to have the yard signs and the stickers.

00:30:48.980 He's going to have them leave those behind.

00:30:51.640 And if for those females or you guys out there that have a, 1.00

00:30:55.420 have a,

00:30:56.160 a girlfriend live in an apartment or whatever,

00:30:58.740 tell her to put a pair of size 12 cowboy boots outside her door and that'll 1.00

00:31:03.860 keep all the sexual predators away.

00:31:05.700 Interesting.

00:31:06.300 Yeah.

00:31:06.460 I never thought about that.

00:31:07.320 Yeah.

00:31:07.420 This is a lot of cool stuff that you could just think like little minor stuff,

00:31:10.160 right?

00:31:10.820 Oh,

00:31:11.000 it is.

00:31:11.460 Cause you know,

00:31:12.300 every bad guy does his own form of reconnaissance.

00:31:14.540 So you basically want to tell a story that,

00:31:17.580 that makes them move on to the next house.

00:31:19.620 Yeah.

00:31:19.940 Yeah.

00:31:20.220 You don't want to be the,

00:31:21.060 cause they're going to go after the easy target,

00:31:22.380 right?

00:31:22.600 And you don't want,

00:31:23.140 you don't want to be that easy target.

00:31:24.800 Yeah,

00:31:25.040 exactly.

00:31:25.480 They're going to,

00:31:25.800 and the other piece of this is guys that are coming at night typically are

00:31:30.220 coming for you guys that are coming during the day while you're at work

00:31:33.420 are coming for your stuff.

00:31:35.280 So you kind of,

00:31:36.300 you break it down to those two kind of those two genres of bad guys.

00:31:40.980 And then you start placing in your,

00:31:43.100 your layers so that what works at night works during the day and then you're

00:31:46.720 good to go.

00:31:47.400 Yeah.

00:31:47.860 Well,

00:31:48.100 the reason I like the two books is just because it is very consumable.

00:31:52.140 It's digestible,

00:31:53.040 easy little fixes,

00:31:53.920 but then it gets you thinking creatively about your situation and you could in

00:31:58.840 turn,

00:31:59.820 you know,

00:32:00.100 create a new solution that maybe you didn't even know existed before.

00:32:04.000 Cause you're thinking in the right mindset now,

00:32:06.340 right?

00:32:07.100 Exactly.

00:32:07.780 It's,

00:32:08.140 it's,

00:32:08.420 uh,

00:32:09.180 we want,

00:32:09.720 I,

00:32:10.100 I certainly want everyone to become kind of Martha Stewart's of their

00:32:13.760 environment.

00:32:14.300 You know,

00:32:14.860 what I,

00:32:15.640 what I put in there is just,

00:32:17.900 it's,

00:32:18.260 it,

00:32:18.400 it works.

00:32:19.520 Each skill will work for you,

00:32:21.220 but it's on you to kind of,

00:32:22.780 um,

00:32:23.820 adapt it to where you live and what you do and,

00:32:26.980 and then get those creative juices flowing.

00:32:29.960 And heck,

00:32:30.640 before you know it,

00:32:31.340 you're coming up with probably brand new ideas and you can write your own hundred

00:32:34.320 deadly skills.

00:32:35.240 Right.

00:32:35.720 Right.

00:32:36.840 Yeah.

00:32:37.800 Well,

00:32:38.260 so the other,

00:32:38.960 one of the other sections that I really liked was about surviving in the wild.

00:32:41.660 And I liked that you broke it up into environments or,

00:32:44.740 or areas like I'm,

00:32:45.740 I'm a mountainous desert type area.

00:32:47.500 So I could go straight to that stuff that applies to me.

00:32:50.080 Talk to me a little bit about maybe some of the skills that we should be aware of

00:32:53.620 when it comes to surviving the wild.

00:32:55.860 Yeah.

00:32:56.220 So I put that section in there cause I felt like a lot of the,

00:32:59.840 the very few survival books that are out there are very repetitive of things that have

00:33:05.340 been pulled from old army FM manuals,

00:33:08.680 you know,

00:33:09.040 survival books of the SAS and the United States army.

00:33:12.340 So I wanted to kind of ramp it up and give it a modern touch.

00:33:16.640 So,

00:33:17.680 you know,

00:33:18.000 those sections,

00:33:18.940 uh,

00:33:19.780 surviving in the wild really are applied to the people that it's not really about a

00:33:24.580 camping trip going bad.

00:33:26.100 It's about,

00:33:27.080 I took a wrong turn and we hear it all the time where,

00:33:29.980 you know,

00:33:30.640 these people,

00:33:31.100 they,

00:33:31.380 they take a,

00:33:32.100 they follow their GPS is,

00:33:33.680 they don't bother looking at maps anymore.

00:33:35.220 They find themselves all of a sudden on an unpaved road during a blizzard.

00:33:39.460 Um,

00:33:39.900 they get stuck because their GPS said,

00:33:42.020 take a right here.

00:33:43.380 And,

00:33:43.900 uh,

00:33:44.080 now they are there for the long haul and they have no idea what to do or how to

00:33:49.280 survive in those situations.

00:33:50.560 Well,

00:33:50.920 if you're going to spend the night in frigid environments,

00:33:53.600 and that's only just one example.

00:33:55.080 So I've wanted people to start thinking ahead,

00:33:57.940 you know,

00:33:58.140 you have floor mats and,

00:33:59.500 you know,

00:34:00.020 seat fabrics and all these things around you that can actually keep you warm.

00:34:03.860 And,

00:34:04.100 and especially the floor mats are made of like,

00:34:06.580 you know,

00:34:07.200 basically plastic and you couldn't ask for a better insulator,

00:34:10.620 right.

00:34:10.880 To keep the heat around you.

00:34:12.120 And,

00:34:12.880 um,

00:34:13.360 you know,

00:34:13.840 there's so many little tricks I've,

00:34:15.480 I've kind of put in there and,

00:34:17.920 uh,

00:34:18.320 it applies to camping trips gone bad,

00:34:20.140 but it's more so for,

00:34:21.640 you know,

00:34:22.040 just took a wrong turn.

00:34:23.240 And now you end up in the middle of nowhere lost without a,

00:34:26.120 without a,

00:34:26.620 without a phone signal.

00:34:27.760 And that's what I like.

00:34:28.860 I mean,

00:34:29.020 you're talking about just being prepared up front,

00:34:31.620 doing the,

00:34:32.220 doing the work up front so that you don't get caught with your pants down

00:34:35.220 essentially.

00:34:35.840 Yeah.

00:34:36.360 It's,

00:34:36.880 it's 100% about being more proactive and preemptive and taking some

00:34:41.060 ownership.

00:34:41.940 You know,

00:34:42.580 the,

00:34:42.720 the skills that used to be just common to,

00:34:47.640 you know,

00:34:47.920 our grandfathers,

00:34:49.240 you know,

00:34:49.800 people scratch their heads.

00:34:50.900 I did an interview with a,

00:34:52.240 with definitely a millennial and,

00:34:53.900 and she was like,

00:34:54.980 Oh,

00:34:55.180 so I didn't know you could use stars to navigate.

00:34:58.060 And I was like,

00:34:59.120 Oh boy.

00:35:01.680 Yeah.

00:35:02.480 So I'll have to watch that interview.

00:35:04.120 Cause that can be an interesting one.

00:35:05.920 Yeah.

00:35:06.820 Yeah.

00:35:07.040 So I made sure,

00:35:07.860 you know,

00:35:08.060 to kind of bring back skill sets that really are basic,

00:35:13.200 but,

00:35:13.560 but obviously adding a new twist and a new set of education so that people can

00:35:17.720 apply them to today's,

00:35:19.160 today's world,

00:35:19.920 today's threats,

00:35:20.660 today's issues.

00:35:21.700 Right.

00:35:21.880 And what's cool too,

00:35:22.660 is that like,

00:35:23.640 and I told you this last time we had our conversations that my oldest boy,

00:35:27.140 he's eight,

00:35:27.560 we can sit down and we can talk about this.

00:35:29.280 We can even do a lot of this stuff together because he's in scouting and a lot

00:35:32.160 of this stuff will pass out scouting requirements anyway.

00:35:34.620 So it's pretty cool to be able to do it together.

00:35:36.000 Oh yeah.

00:35:37.660 That's awesome.

00:35:38.360 Cause that's,

00:35:38.920 that's the other piece of this that I did.

00:35:40.400 I could have never predicted when I put these books together is how

00:35:43.300 influential they are with kids.

00:35:45.780 And,

00:35:46.320 uh,

00:35:47.080 which is great because now you're instilling these things in them,

00:35:50.760 um,

00:35:51.520 early on and it will truly make them,

00:35:54.460 you know,

00:35:54.900 ready for,

00:35:56.000 for life's challenges without a doubt,

00:35:57.840 especially scouting.

00:35:58.740 I'm a big scout guy.

00:35:59.560 I was an Eagle scout too.

00:36:00.860 Right on.

00:36:01.180 Yeah.

00:36:01.320 Right on.

00:36:01.960 One of the things I wanted to ask you about too,

00:36:03.920 as we kind of wind down here is,

00:36:05.500 and this isn't necessarily a skill that,

00:36:07.480 that,

00:36:07.760 that you put in the book,

00:36:08.460 but I wanted to talk with you about overcoming for maybe not having the right

00:36:13.060 term,

00:36:13.460 our emotions in the spur of the moment and thinking more clearly,

00:36:18.020 thinking more logically about things.

00:36:20.320 because I think sometimes we get,

00:36:21.700 you know,

00:36:22.300 foggy when,

00:36:22.980 uh,

00:36:23.780 shit hits the fan.

00:36:24.600 So how would you suggest somebody maybe deal with a threat that they might be experiencing

00:36:28.440 and,

00:36:28.780 and not get into that haze?

00:36:30.660 Yeah,

00:36:30.880 that's a good question.

00:36:31.780 So,

00:36:32.400 you know,

00:36:32.920 staying in control of your emotions and even physical reactions is,

00:36:38.280 uh,

00:36:38.980 is huge,

00:36:39.600 right?

00:36:39.920 This is something that goes with sensitizing yourself to situations before they happen.

00:36:45.540 Right.

00:36:46.020 So you,

00:36:47.400 you know,

00:36:47.680 the whole what if thing game,

00:36:49.120 we all,

00:36:49.460 we,

00:36:49.600 I think it's overused,

00:36:50.800 but it's underutilized and people don't,

00:36:53.520 what if enough,

00:36:54.500 you have to literally think about bad things happening to you,

00:37:01.040 but even better,

00:37:02.540 think about bad things happening to the people you love.

00:37:05.620 And that is going to have a direct line from what you're thinking in your mind to your emotions.

00:37:12.680 Without a doubt.

00:37:13.560 If I think about my little girl,

00:37:15.300 like getting kidnapped,

00:37:16.440 for example,

00:37:17.700 it immediately gets me all kinds of fired up.

00:37:21.460 Right.

00:37:22.180 And so when you think about things,

00:37:24.040 think about them in the terms of it happening to the people closest to you and sensitizing yourself to this.

00:37:29.840 And then you,

00:37:30.480 before you know it,

00:37:31.220 you're kind of calibrating your mind,

00:37:32.880 your emotions,

00:37:33.460 emotions and everything that,

00:37:34.820 that could become obstacles for you in the moment.

00:37:38.560 Now you're sensitizing them.

00:37:40.040 You've got them calibrated and it'll allow you to react in a more logical,

00:37:44.420 rational manner,

00:37:45.280 but this isn't going to happen overnight.

00:37:47.160 Just like anything else,

00:37:48.320 you've got to kind of always do this.

00:37:50.060 And so what I do is anytime I'm,

00:37:52.360 I'm out and about,

00:37:53.940 I am literally going,

00:37:55.240 all right,

00:37:55.620 let's say,

00:37:56.800 you know,

00:37:57.040 I'm at this stop sign and some idiot wants to come up and carjack me,

00:38:00.360 or I'm at an ATM machine and somebody wants to carjack me.

00:38:03.460 What would I do?

00:38:04.540 Okay.

00:38:04.860 All my doors are locked.

00:38:06.040 First thing,

00:38:06.560 my windows are up except for the one that's in use.

00:38:08.940 You know,

00:38:09.440 I still have it in drive.

00:38:10.960 I just have my foot on the brake.

00:38:12.600 We,

00:38:12.980 we tend to get very lax and then we get distracted.

00:38:16.560 And then before you know it,

00:38:17.640 we're vulnerable.

00:38:18.220 And so it's,

00:38:19.900 you got to implement,

00:38:21.320 it's once again,

00:38:21.880 you're implementing all these little things into your,

00:38:24.380 your as daily habits.

00:38:25.980 And before you know it,

00:38:26.960 they become have true habits.

00:38:28.640 And now you're increasing survivability.

00:38:30.900 You're sensitizing yourself to,

00:38:32.560 and you're reducing those opportunities of being vulnerable when bad things happen.

00:38:37.920 Right.

00:38:38.060 That's that deter phase that you're talking about,

00:38:39.960 right?

00:38:40.800 Exactly.

00:38:41.380 Yeah.

00:38:42.000 Well,

00:38:42.320 Clint,

00:38:42.500 we're,

00:38:42.740 we're winding down on time and obviously we're not even getting into the full depth.

00:38:46.120 Just,

00:38:46.480 just go get the book guys.

00:38:47.600 I mean,

00:38:47.800 check this out.

00:38:48.380 Like I've read both of them.

00:38:49.540 I go through them with my boys and we just have a great time going through this stuff.

00:38:52.580 And then it's practical too,

00:38:53.600 which is what I appreciate.

00:38:54.540 So as we wind down,

00:38:55.620 Clint,

00:38:55.780 I want to ask you for the second time,

00:38:58.460 what does it mean to be a man?

00:39:01.380 Well,

00:39:01.720 as it relates to our discussion,

00:39:03.000 I have to say one,

00:39:04.400 when it's time to be violent,

00:39:07.140 be aggressively violent.

00:39:10.460 Two,

00:39:11.140 if you have the opportunity to be prepared,

00:39:14.400 then you should,

00:39:15.660 you should always take the opportunity to prepare yourself the same way you prepare a meal or you build a fire or you do anything.

00:39:24.820 Be as prepared as you possibly can,

00:39:28.220 especially when you have time to do it.

00:39:30.260 It's better to do it now than to go,

00:39:33.420 oh shit,

00:39:34.160 in crisis and wish you had done it.

00:39:36.920 And the other piece is response.

00:39:40.020 Have a response.

00:39:40.660 Have a response to any situation already kind of thought out.

00:39:46.140 It's much better to have your decision made before crisis than to be making decisions in crisis.

00:39:54.320 So be violent,

00:39:55.520 be prepared,

00:39:56.160 and always have a response.

00:39:58.280 Awesome.

00:39:58.720 Love it.

00:39:59.100 Powerful stuff.

00:40:00.080 Well,

00:40:00.240 if someone wants to buy the book or learn more about the work that you're doing,

00:40:03.080 because I know you've got a couple of businesses,

00:40:04.840 Escape the Wolf, 0.67

00:40:05.520 Shadowgun Works.

00:40:06.260 If you want to talk about any of that stuff and direct us where we need to be,

00:40:08.820 please let us know right now.

00:40:09.780 All right.

00:40:10.960 So anything book related is at 100deadlyskills.com.

00:40:14.700 All the social media stuff is there along with links to buy the book.

00:40:18.780 If you happen to be a guy working at a company that needs policies,

00:40:23.760 whether it's workplace violence,

00:40:25.140 crisis management,

00:40:26.280 any of that stuff updated or any kind of vulnerability stuff done,

00:40:30.940 that's escape the wolf.com.

00:40:32.940 We'll come in,

00:40:33.800 we'll assess the company,

00:40:34.880 and we'll build out tailored workplace violence,

00:40:38.120 crisis management type policies so that the employees are better protected.

00:40:43.820 And then of course,

00:40:44.680 Shadowgun Works is new.

00:40:46.100 We're building custom guns,

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00:40:50.880 You open it up,

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00:40:55.660 every kind of job you can think of will already be done for half the price of

00:40:59.760 what you would do if you went and bought a regular gun and sent it to eight

00:41:02.560 different people over eight weeks period of time to get the

00:41:04.860 stuff done to your weapon.

00:41:06.100 Okay.

00:41:07.060 That's it.

00:41:08.100 Good.

00:41:08.260 We'll make sure we link all that up because that's a lot,

00:41:10.100 but all worth checking out.

00:41:11.600 So we'll make sure we link that up.

00:41:13.100 Clint,

00:41:13.220 I got to tell you again,

00:41:13.960 I appreciate you and the work that you're doing.

00:41:16.500 Obviously,

00:41:16.920 I appreciate your service to this country and,

00:41:18.740 and,

00:41:19.040 and I want to thank you for showing up again and having this conversation with

00:41:22.520 us.

00:41:22.660 Thanks for joining us.

00:41:23.880 Hey,

00:41:24.100 thank you,

00:41:24.620 Ryan.

00:41:24.920 And thanks for making men,

00:41:26.980 men again.

00:41:29.360 There you have it,

00:41:30.040 men,

00:41:30.180 Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author,

00:41:32.340 Clint Emerson,

00:41:33.040 sharing with us a bit about what it takes to be,

00:41:34.860 ready for whatever crisis life has to throw at us.

00:41:37.300 So go pick up the book and it's first one while you're there.

00:41:39.780 If you haven't already,

00:41:40.700 I think you're going to enjoy it.

00:41:41.640 And I know you'll get a ton of value from it.

00:41:43.620 Again,

00:41:43.960 just a quick reminder about our second live event,

00:41:45.620 the uprising.

00:41:46.140 We're going to sell out 25 spots this year.

00:41:48.180 I think we've got again,

00:41:49.360 three spots left and I want to see you there at the end of the day.

00:41:52.400 We're going to be competing in some activities,

00:41:54.220 some challenges,

00:41:54.920 all of those challenges and activities and exercise are going to be exactly what

00:41:58.760 you need to get your life to the next level and get you out of the rut that

00:42:02.160 you might find yourself in at this point.

00:42:03.380 You can learn more and claim your spot at order of man.com slash uprising.

00:42:07.240 Gentlemen,

00:42:07.700 I look forward to talking to you on Friday for our Friday field notes,

00:42:09.920 but until then take action and become the man you were meant to be.

00:42:13.480 Thank you for listening to the order of man podcast.

00:42:16.280 You're ready to take charge of your life and be more of the man you were meant to be.

00:42:20.060 We invite you to join the order at order of man.com.

Order of Man - February 14, 2017

100： 100 Deadly Survival Skills ｜ Clint Emerson

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