#252： Deadly Survival Skills From a Navy SEAL
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On this episode of the Art of Manliness Podcast, former US Navy Seal Clint Emerson is back with another book filled with deadly skills. This time around, it's the 100 Deadly Skills Survival Edition, the seal operative's guide to surviving in the wild and being prepared for any disaster in it.
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brett mckay here and welcome to another edition of the art of manliness podcast well last year
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i had a fellow by the name of clint emerson on the podcast he's a retired navy seal and he came
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on the show to talk about his first book 100 deadly skills the seal offered his guide to
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looting pursuers evading capture and surviving any dangerous situation it was one of my favorite
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episodes from last year and a favorite of listeners as well well clint back with another
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book filled with deadly skills this time around it's 100 deadly skills survival edition the seal
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operative's guide to surviving in the wild and being prepared for any disaster in it he along
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with aom illustrator ted slampiak show readers how to survive in any environment they might find
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themselves from the desert to the mountains to the sea the book also covers how to manage disasters
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at home today on the show clint and i talk about the mindset you need to survive any deadly scenario
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including how to create a tactical nightstand yes a tactical nightstand how to combat clear your home
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if you want to do that and what to do in a carjacking that and much more stay tuned for this for a fun
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action focused podcast after the show is over check out the show notes at aom.is deadly skills one
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clint emerson welcome back to the show hey brett thanks for having me it's awesome to be back yeah
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so i mean it's been about a year since you're we had you on the show uh you came out with your book
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100 deadly skill skills the seal operative's guide to looting pursuers evading capture and surviving any
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dangerous situation and we got a lot of positive feedback from that episode uh people loved it and
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your book has gotten a lot of positive feedback in the with the rest of the public uh this was a book
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that became a new york times bestseller sold like hotcakes i mean what do you think accounts for the
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popularity of this kind of subject where you know you were in the first book you were talking about how
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to do anal concealments and uh how to survive you know active shooter situations which i can understand
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because that's that's a thing or like how to bury a dead body uh i mean i sure i'm sure a lot of stuff
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was fun but there's a lot of actually practical information in there but what do you think is
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what's what itch are you scratching here with the book well with that first one i mean as you noted it
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it it had some taboo stuff and taboo cells i mean but the bigger piece of it is it followed the theme of
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a violent nomad which is you know trying to push people to be a little more self-reliant be more
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reliable on themselves vice relying on 9-1-1 or people around them and uh kind of give them some skills
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that are you know nefarious in nature and most of them developed by bad guys and you know the goal
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really was hey if you know the bad guys offense then you can create a better defense you know this is
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the basics to you know solid warfare so that first book um certainly hit a bunch of stuff that was
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entertaining but at the same time informative and that's that's kind of the the overarching goal is you
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want to give people information that's you know easily remembered and digestible and you know give
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them just what they need to know without all the other rhetoric and uh do you have any ideas sort of
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what your readership was like i mean it's i'm sure it's i mean if it made the new york times bestseller
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list that doesn't mean it was just like the the survival prepper prepper guys are buying it these
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were like average joes from every walk of life i imagine yeah i mean it's it's uh it became a you know
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there's some strategy as you know with books you know coming out in october before the holiday season
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it's a great stocking stuffer but at the same time you know there's you got a group of men that have
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it sitting next to the toilet and then you have uh families that have it sitting on the coffee table
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and then you have you know um people that travel business that you know carry it with them everywhere
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they go um and i was surprised by the number of females that enjoyed the book um because they felt like
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the skills all those skills is something really anyone can do um and i think a majority of the
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people that bought it uh were also looking for something new if you look at you know yesterday's
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survival books they really don't cover today's threats and between you know the first book and now
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definitely the the second one um you've got 200 solid skills that uh are that really become a playbook
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when dealing with any kind of crisis or threat that may come walking your way right so yeah you got
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a second book out uh again like with the first you teamed up with ted slampiak the guy who does a lot
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of our illustrations on the art of manliness uh it's 100 deadly skills survival edition and concentrates
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as the title says on being prepared for surviving just about any scenario in the wild in urban areas in
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your home um so first question there is how does and i think you kind of mentioned it earlier that
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the yesterday's survival book isn't they're not as they're not that they're kind of outdated so how
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does the modern landscape make survival a more complicated business than say you know 20 years ago or
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even like going back you know to primitive times yeah i think it's interesting um you know one
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the over the bigger issue these days is complacency and i think we touched on it last time i know i
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touched on with everybody i've talked to and we are leashed to technology and between technology and
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just natural human behavior to be somewhat to take shortcuts and be lazy um and always looking for
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the answers at our fingertips um has really just sucked all of our basic human instincts you know kind
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of away from us and you know when you talk about old school survival skills that you know our fathers
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and our grandfathers used to know and it was kind of just common knowledge today no one really knows
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how to do it anymore nor do they want to learn it because they feel like they can just google it
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and um but the problem is is when you know when the lights go out the power goes down or you know
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bigger state-sponsored cyber attacks start to emerge you'll find yourself in a very primitive
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situation except the difference is is you won't have the knowledge you won't know how to deal with it
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um there's been you know plenty of natural disasters like you compare it to something like katrina
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where they were surrounded by water but none of it was drinkable and no one knew really what to do
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with all that water in order to make it drinkable so you know even though the book breaks out
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skills in the wild the reality is the wild can be in urban environments it just really depends on
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the crisis that uh that that you know brings it in right that point about cyber attacks that's
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interesting because i think that's going to be a bigger problem we just experienced one a few months
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ago that took out a big portion of the internet like i know it affected our store there was a ddos
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attack and our store was down for pretty much the entire day yeah yeah it's i think you know we
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don't give it the credit it deserves and when you talk about state-sponsored stuff coming our way
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whether it's russia or china um or even if it's just you know organizations that are you know anti-usa
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uh you people forget that it's their cyber infrastructure that controls water transportation
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you know power grids um all of it can be hacked and then turned off in a split second and then
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that's when you're left with oh now what do i do you know you can't you can't use your devices you
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can't log in you can't get on your computer you can't even turn on the lights um those are those
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moments when you might want to have some skills in your back pocket right uh so uh to to counter
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that to be ready for the situations where the wild comes to you right for whatever reason you
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advocate for people to make themselves crisis proof uh so what are i mean let's talk about mindset of
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becoming crisis through i mean what is what is the mindset that people need to develop in order to
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become crisis proof as you say yeah you know we talk about awareness all the time but really
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it still anchors to that you know you have to start paying attention the way i break down awareness
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is you know your personal awareness that's your projection and demeanor management how you dress
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how you walk you know a lot of things you write about you know that you know what makes a man a man
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um and how do you do that without your ego dressing you each day you know our egos dress us and want us
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to you know basically be different than the person next to us on the subway and when in reality you've got
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to be the gray guy and so it all starts with your personal awareness you know literally looking in the
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mirror and going all right what am i telling everyone by what i'm wearing um how i talk uh and what i do
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my mannerisms um and then from that you know then you get into like third party awareness you know
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understanding that people are looking at you watching you all the time um and and they're forming
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you know they're forming opinions and judging you without even knowing you and i think we all know
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that that occurs but you can manipulate it to a certain degree especially when we're talking
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talking about man versus man type threats out there then you have situational awareness which you know i
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think is overused verbally you know and you know it has it we always articulate yeah situational
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awareness but how often do people actually become more situationally aware and how do you make it a
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habit um like putting on your seat belt there was a time when no one wore seat belts um and they put
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annoying buzzers inside your cars and then they you know you can get a ticket and then over time
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it's become something you do and you don't even know you do it and that's kind of where you got to
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get awareness it's not about okay i'm going to pay attention all day today because that's energy
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consuming you you have to kind of piecemeal it a little bit you know like all right on the hour every
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hour especially while i'm driving i'm going to kind of look around and make sure i know what's
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going on and slowly introduce it into your into your world so that it then becomes a habit more
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naturally and then and then of course cultural awareness so you know what's going to offend
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people what doesn't offend people and making sure you understand the do's and don'ts to the
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geographical location you're standing on if you combined all of that together now what are you
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doing you're projecting something much different you're paying attention to things you're you're
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actually getting educated to a certain degree on kind of the do's and don'ts whether it's third
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party awareness or cultural awareness and before you know it mentally now you are you know these are
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all kind of like things you can control uh and now you're you're reducing all of your threat
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vulnerabilities and hopefully reducing crisis because you know most of the time the clues and the cues are
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right there staring us in the face and it's not until after the event the incident or the crisis that
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you go bang your head against the wall going god i saw that coming but i did absolutely nothing about
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it right so it's a great uh breakdown of the mindset i mean what about the like big picture
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skills right so the skills you need for different situations are going to vary right whether you're in
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a desert situation or you're surviving a tornado or you're surviving a riot or whatever but i mean
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are there bigger picture skills that can cross over to all these different domains that you need to
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have in your back pocket yeah i think you know when we're talking mentally you know this is something
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that's not going to be conditioned just by reading a book or overnight it's it's a level of confidence
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that you've got to have um knowing that all right um you've gotten educated you've got some sort of
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education in in you know different you know whether it's using the hundred daily skill playbooks or
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you know experience that you know that you've accumulated over your life you combined all that
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together and it's all about the confidence that you have when you face these these events and
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taking control of what you can control you know it's the only things we can truly control when it comes
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to any kind of event is preparation and response and so mentally you're literally running through
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okay what can i do right now when i have plenty of time and zero stress that can make me more
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effective more efficient increased survivability when something bad happens that's all about the
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prep you know there's things you can do and there's a way that you can think about things you can what
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if it you know and run scenarios then on the response side which is the other piece you control those are
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those are decisions that you've already made and now all you do is act them out when a good day goes
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bad and so i think if people are mentally you know immersing themselves into that what if
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worst case scenario okay what can i do to prep for something like this whatever that event is
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and then how would i properly respond to it geez you've just you've just done far more than the
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average person to be prepared for that event and not only are you preparing yourself now you probably
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have thought about well okay it's not about just me it's also my family or maybe the people around me
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and you're actually you know doing something instead of just sitting there right so it sounds
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like you're getting your ooda loop in gear before the event actually happens before you have to make
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a decision oh yeah you definitely you know the ooda loop's great for you know dealing with whatever's
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going on at that moment but yeah you certainly i mean it's a proven fact that you do not want to
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make decisions in crisis you want to have that stuff already figured out so all you do is act on those
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decisions you know any decision made in crisis is going to be a 50 50 chance whereas if you kind of
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think them through and have your decisions already figured out um when you've got more of a clinical
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you know where you have plenty of time and zero stress you know that's the ideal spot to make your
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decisions and then if something bad happens you're good to go right so let's get more specific here
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specific tools and skills a man would want to adopt to learn in order to increase his preparation
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for a crisis so in the book you cover you go over gear and skills for every environment from the
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desert to the arctic to the sea and more but let's start at home you have a section devoted to your
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home that's where stuff can happen disasters can happen um we talked about an everyday carry last time
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for the the violent nomad uh to consider um but you talk about in the book creating a tactical
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tactical nightstand uh so what items should a guy have close at hand for his tactical nightstand
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well you know the one that's uh illustrated in the book and what i talk about is kind of overkill
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so yeah it was a lot of stuff yeah it's giving people options right i mean we have you know varying
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degrees of you know people so you know you have lethal non-lethal means of uh dealing with let's say
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an intruder and so you want your nightstand to kind of represent and have readily available
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you take your nightstand you really look at it as you know your your kit right you can use it a lot
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of guys already do this but i kind of wanted to formalize a little bit with options um so you know
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you you've got to have basic life support basic defense stuff you know um it's you got first aid you
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can have that there you can have anything everything from a baseball bat to you know you know a firearm
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of some sort um and then of course you can have you know like in the illustration i got body armor
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you know you've got you know everything from you know i would always pick bear spray over something
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like mace you know bear spray has that distance it's got a more potent level of of pepper in it
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and uh and still just as uh if not more effective than you know mace that you know squirts you know
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you got to be intimately uh you got to be very intimate with someone to get that mace across
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whereas with bear spray you can shoot it 30 feet away and if you don't have any of those then it then
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i then i have some improvised stuff like what you know wasp spray or oven cleaner he's going to cause
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permanent damage to a guy um but if he's in his in your house then he deserves it um but the big
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legal takeaway from that is don't think for a second if you use wasp spray or oven cleaner and you carry it
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like your purse or in your car well now you're talking about a whole that's that's actually
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breaking the law most people think that would be okay if you can use mace but it's a difference
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between pepper and chemicals um so when it's your own house your own domain you can get creative with
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how you need to take care of an intruder and what you put in your tactical nightstand right so you need
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a concealed wasp spray to walk around the city with your wasp spray can
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yeah the license a conceal wasp spray license yes otherwise it's illegal and that's that's kind
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of most people don't know that so whatever you whatever you use to defend your home is going to
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be 100 legal no matter whatever it is because it's your home it's your domain but as soon as you take
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some of those creative ideas outside your home you can actually go to jail for it all right so don't
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get creative outside your home well the other thing on there that i think is extremely useful and
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completely underrated is a flashlight near in your nightstand yeah yeah i mean i you know as you
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know i've got some interest in the zero trace flashlight which is you know it's waterproof you can beat
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people's skull and skull with it and it still works it's it's bright as hell and uh you know so there's
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so many things a lot of people want to turn on the lights when they hear a noise in their house reality
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is is you know your blueprint better than anyone else so keep that advantage for you
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keep your lights out um you using a flashlight you don't want to use it like a spotlight and
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light everything up because it's giving up your location it's giving a bad guy a place to shoot
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so you want to use it sparingly and you also want to hold it away from your chest get it out away from
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your body um when you're using that flashlight because if shots are fired you want them to go
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you know high and right by you know at your torso and a common mistake is is to kind of you
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you know hold it at chest level and point it out in front of you um but that's literally just giving
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bullets you know a place to fly to and you don't want to do that um but you can also use it as
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deception too you know you can use it to blind a guy and then quickly move you know you turn it on
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turn it off and move out of the way um in order to give yourself different advantages um tactically if
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you're having to deal with an intruder in your home but the book certainly lays out you know and of
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course ted did a great job depicting you know the kind of like day and night with his illustrations
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um even though the book is kind of you know black and white drawings yeah let's talk about uh home
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invasion right this tactical nightstand is there in the event that someone comes into your home
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illegally to to do you and your family harm so i mean how often do home invasions occur is it a
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common thing or is it pretty rare it's actually on the rise right now for some reason um you're hearing
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more and more reports of it and what used to be you know okay someone there's two kinds of predators
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really and this is very general but it's a good rule to follow anybody who's coming to your home
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during the day wants your stuff right burglars attack homes during the day because they know
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everybody's at work and at school there's uh you know it's more predictable um whereas someone coming
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to your home at night typically wants you or wants to harm you so that's your two divisions there
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between day and night and you know how you how you deal with that obviously is going to be dependent
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on who you are and where you live and um but the goal is is having a plan you know having some things
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prepped having a proper response um and then you know having to deal with that as it comes you know i
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talk about fortifying the home um and it's it's it's more than just your property you know there was
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plenty of times overseas before we went into a target some targets just knew we were coming no
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matter how great we were at being stealthy or you know clandestine with our movements and our actions
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and the reason being is because you know people overseas still operate and you know know that it
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you know quote unquote takes a village and uh so they're watching everyone's looking out for one
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another and it seems these days in our neighborhoods no one really even talks to each other much less have
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each other's phone numbers so they can text one another if they see something strange in the
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neighborhood so that's where i begin is hey start talking to your neighbors start building you know
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some alliances with one another and start looking out for each other so that if something strange
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rolls through the neighborhood you can let everybody know um and second to that is you know i i put in
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there me as a professional predator i'd look at targets determine their vulnerabilities and then figure
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out how best to exploit them and so i put the reciprocal of that in the book you know um and
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it's all about lighting up your you know the exterior of your home the more light there is the better
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because that makes anybody's creeping up to your house feel completely vulnerable and naked to a
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certain degree and they want to deal with it um if you talk to like professional burglars they avoid
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homes that have like toys in the front yard because kids are unpredictable they avoid homes with dogs
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because no one wants to deal with a dog they avoid homes that have signage in the front yard
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you know that says alarm system that's clearly visible from the street you don't want someone
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coming up to your door to determine whether or not you got good locks or a security system
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you don't even want them you want them to keep them as far away as possible you know so a lot of
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people will focus on locks and yeah i got an alarm system so i'm good to go but both of those systems
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are literally tested you know the bad guy has to test that it means he's already too close and and
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we don't want anybody getting that close we don't even coming in our front yard you know so you want
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to push people out with some of these tactics and if and for all the single women that potentially
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are listening you know i always say put a pair of size 12 athletic shoes right at the front door
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to keep the sexual predators away you know all right so yeah you want to so light light is the light is
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key illumination is definitely the number one you know when we're talking about you know at night
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people sneaking up and doing whatever it is they're going to do um and during the day you know having a
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if they i don't even know if they make big wheels anymore but it doesn't matter if you're a parent or
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not you've got some kids toys out in the front yard uh that'll keep most of your professional
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burglars away because it's just once again is there a stay-at-home mom is there not is there kids there
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right now i don't know i'll move on to the next house so uh you have a section in there about how
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to combat clear your home um that seems like it'd be a pretty dangerous thing to do i mean under what
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circumstances would you want to do that and under what circumstances would you not want to do that
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yeah you know we i think a lot of people that own guns first of all they they know that okay i hear a
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noise or somebody kicks in my door um you know i'm grabbing my gun i'm calling 9-1-1 and then
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that's kind of where it stops so i wanted to make it very clear to people that hey you know there's a
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right and a wrong way of clearing your home if you choose to do so and this is a very personal decision
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this is for the alpha males out there i mean yeah they're going to call them priority is to get help
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and get it coming but if help is 15 minutes away or you live even even more rural and you know help
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is you know 30 minutes away well then there's certain things you're going to have to do for
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yourself and there's a lot of factors here right if you live alone then sure you can you're you're
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alone you're an alpha you're an alpha kind of guy i'm going to clear my house i'm not running
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but if you have family and kids then obviously maybe you know your primary plan is to get everybody
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out of the home into safety um but for those moments where you feel like you're going to clear
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the house or you can't run or you can't hide um or you know help isn't coming anytime soon
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then i wanted to let people know like or at least show them and give them some guidance on how to pie
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doorways and how to pie corners properly so that you're not putting yourself right in someone's sights
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um because the goal with you know clearing your home is to clear it you know safely where you can
00:24:45.160
determine you know what the what the current security posture is make sure you are looking out for
00:24:52.380
yourself first um and not put yourself you know right in someone's sights so um clearing a home is
00:24:59.800
is isn't a uh isn't i wouldn't consider it advanced at all but it's just giving given some simple
00:25:06.860
tactics on kind of the do's and the don'ts and talking about the fatal funnel and you know where
00:25:12.220
people's eyes are attracted to you know in a combat clearance situation which is doorways you know and
00:25:17.700
you kind of want to stay out of the doorways you want to pie them properly you can look at a large
00:25:22.340
percentage of a room um just by pying a certain way and and how you sidestep and how you leverage your
00:25:30.700
gun in your field of view what do you mean by pine you're basically slicing if you if you're coming
00:25:37.500
around a corner you're using the corner that wall you know um to one conceal yourself but by
00:25:45.440
sidestepping away and not just you're not just button hooking around a corner and trying to tj hooker it
00:25:51.180
you know what i mean so you know we're not you're not trying to do that you're literally dissecting the
00:25:57.180
room while still leveraging the corner of a hallway or of a room to protect you protect yourself and
00:26:05.380
shield yourself but still being able to to dissect the room in pieces and clear it from from head to
00:26:11.860
toe um and it's it's hard to verbally describe it and that's why the illustrations do such a great job
00:26:19.760
and along with the narrative right so another uh sort of similar to home invasion is carjacking
00:26:26.840
uh is this a common thing or is this becoming less common and it's if it does happen to you like
00:26:33.420
what do you do yeah this is more of a opportunistic you know kind of predator's skill right this is
00:26:40.720
someone maybe on the run that's uh needs a vehicle um but it's also becoming um they're becoming
00:26:49.060
they're probably happening more often overseas than here in the u.s so anybody who travels will
00:26:54.820
benefit from some of those skills um but it's also happening at like atm machines where you you know
00:27:00.000
to drive up atm machines where you're more vulnerable um so there's three really scenarios
00:27:05.480
that can happen you know you're you're walking to your vehicle and somebody says hey you know give
00:27:10.000
me your car give me your keys uh there's you know the more the one that we think about the most is
00:27:16.980
you know you're driving you stop at a red light stop at a stop sign all of a sudden there's a gun
00:27:21.280
pointed at you at the driver's window and then there's another tactic is coming in through the
00:27:26.720
passenger door all of a sudden somebody's sitting next to you with a gun to your head um where they're
00:27:31.740
making you the driver um so there's different scenarios and different ways to deal with it but
00:27:38.500
the big takeaway is knowing that you're driving a you know anywhere between a four to six thousand
00:27:44.820
pound weapon um and when you're talking about that external threat and you're in the you know
00:27:50.060
you're in the cabin of your own vehicle um one everyone needs to know that there is all terrain is
00:27:58.080
drivable and anytime you go to any of the offensive or defensive driving schools i mean you'll hear that
00:28:03.340
more than anything else all terrain is drivable so what does that mean sidewalk that's sidewalks
00:28:09.140
grass you know you're not confined to the white and yellow lines so you have to think kind of outside
00:28:15.840
the box we get kind of stuck you know there's a sidewalk there you know but you know you can drive
00:28:20.140
right over that if you need to but in order to take advantage of drivable terrain you have to give
00:28:25.880
yourself space so when you're driving especially maybe in high threat areas or you're traveling overseas
00:28:30.880
or maybe you're doing business in mexico city i mean it just kind of really depends where you're going
00:28:36.060
and what you're doing but you want to give yourself plenty of space between the vehicles in front of
00:28:41.240
you and around you so that you can leverage that drivable terrain if somebody shows up at your
00:28:47.140
driver's side window with a weapon and so once you have that drivable terrain now if a gun breaches
00:28:53.640
that kind of the threshold of the driver's side door or window you can trap that weapon and hit the gas
00:29:00.880
at the same time and when i say trap i mean literally you're grabbing that weapon and pushing it to the
00:29:05.660
dashboard and then pushing the gas and driving out of there um that guy is not going to be able to do
00:29:13.340
much as soon as you do that and then of course once you start driving keep driving and you know get
00:29:20.180
yourself out of danger get yourself off the x right what happens in the event say the guy gets in the car
00:29:25.540
and got the gun to you i mean what what should be your strategy then um you know i always push you
00:29:32.680
know you're always looking for the first opportunity of escape you never want to let yourself get to
00:29:37.080
the second or third stop um you know that's when survivability and chances of escape become
00:29:44.320
increasingly more complicated so the sooner you can you know literally you don't even need to throw
00:29:51.520
the thing and park you know as soon as you can slow down get out um if it's someone approaching you
00:29:57.640
like a parking garage situation you know it's i put in there you know you need a kind of a distractor
00:30:02.780
and then increased distance you know so whether that's throwing your keys not necessarily at the
00:30:06.880
guy but throwing them off to the left and then you run right you know it's a typical kind of juke left
00:30:11.920
go right movement um and this is where identifying cover becomes so important you know we talk about
00:30:17.900
cover as anything that stops bullets concealment is equivalent to like you know the curtains in your home
00:30:22.900
you stand behind it yeah you're hidden but it's not going to stop a bullet so you know this is where
00:30:28.000
once again going back to awareness you know you're constantly kind of looking around the difference
00:30:33.060
between cover and concealment and you want to always identify cover and if you're in a parking
00:30:37.400
garage situation large structural pillars you're throwing your keys one way you know you're going to
00:30:43.580
run from pillar to pillar to pillar increasing distance between you and the threat and if it's truly
00:30:49.020
your car they want give it up i mean that's that's number one just like your wallet there's there's
00:30:53.640
no there's nothing more precious than your life so give it up it's insured and just get your just get
00:31:00.060
the distance between you and them of course if you're a concealed carry kind of guy then you know
00:31:05.780
and the guy's already got the draw on you well at that point you just have to decide you know if
00:31:09.840
you're gonna take that risk as well and draw your weapon and blast the guy but you know sometimes
00:31:15.260
for you know the average guy that's doing business every day and doesn't carry any weapons then
00:31:20.760
yeah throw your keys one way you run the opposite and uh get away from them so in the last book the
00:31:27.380
first book you talked about active shooter situations um and you revisit again in this book i'm curious has
00:31:33.680
anything changed from you know the first time you wrote the book to what you put in the book this time
00:31:39.660
around well this time the first time around was kind of more holistic in nature you know it's kind
00:31:46.480
of like just run hide fight and that's you know a philosophy that i teach in my day job and also
00:31:52.100
you know um the fbi supports 100 and uh you know i got a lot of people out there that you know have
00:31:58.740
different acronyms different things but really it boils down to you know running if you have if you can
00:32:03.180
run you should increasing your distance from a shooter is always a good thing um if you can hide
00:32:08.880
you know then hide behind things that stop bullets and make sure when you hide know that it's temporary
00:32:14.580
you don't want to be a sitting duck uh and then of course fight you know if you're going to fight
00:32:19.880
fight as a team improvised weapons are everywhere use them um if you're going to take down someone
00:32:25.160
and that's where it rolls into okay now book two i talk about active shooter takedowns you know how to
00:32:32.140
trap that weapon um how to take someone down properly you know it's basic mma macro big motor
00:32:41.380
movements because fine motor movements aren't going to work under stress you know so we want to be able
00:32:46.460
to you know you look at the bottom of the spine the top of the spine you have your head you have
00:32:51.940
your hips and the way you control the body is either you control the hips or you control the head
00:32:57.540
so you know one person is designated for head or hips and then another person's designated for the
00:33:03.340
weapon i go through and illustrate just some examples you know there's no right and wrong when
00:33:07.860
it comes to this stuff it's just when when when right so and then i took it a little bit further
00:33:13.000
and we're talking about theater shootings stadiums stadium uh shootings um you know i kind of break down
00:33:20.360
different tactics and giving people more tactical mindset you know that you don't want to go with the
00:33:26.040
flow necessarily when you when people start you know panicking you know sometimes it's better to
00:33:31.740
you know obviously get down and id the shooter um because the last thing you want to do is run
00:33:38.500
towards fire which a lot of people do when they panic um because they just hear the shots they don't pay
00:33:43.840
attention to where they came from um so i kind of start really digging down into some different tactics
00:33:51.340
that people can leverage in different environments in the second book which which really boils down to
00:33:56.240
the headlines we keep hearing about it in the headlines so this second book i wanted to tackle
00:34:00.820
everything that's in the headlines right so uh another skill you talk about going back to cars is
00:34:07.420
a sinking car right you're driving maybe a bridge collapse and you're underwater in your car
00:34:13.840
how do you escape a sinking car yeah i still find it uh concerning and entertaining that you know you
00:34:24.420
watch the news uh and see people being swept away you know by these uh flash floods and i'm just it
00:34:31.880
baffles me that people continue to think they can drive a vehicle uh through you know potentially five
00:34:39.120
not current cruising across the street you know it's just it's the opposite of hydroplaning you know
00:34:45.000
it's uh it's the water pushing you instead of you sliding across and i don't think i think people
00:34:51.900
underestimate this stuff uh all the time um but it can turn it really can go bad very quickly so
00:35:00.200
i'm giving options to people one reroute if you if there's traffic and everyone's trying to just
00:35:06.420
you know slowly motor across this you know the rapids in front of them you know don't be that
00:35:12.440
guy you know go ahead back up reroute there's always another route but if you find yourself
00:35:17.580
channelized or the traffic's so bad you can't back up or you didn't give yourself any drivable terrain
00:35:22.620
then um okay you know you you or somehow the you know things go bad and now you're being swept away
00:35:30.460
you know one a glass break tool in your vehicle is number one and have it in a compartment that you
00:35:36.880
can get to you don't want it sitting in like you know the cup holder to where you know any major hit
00:35:42.400
and it's going to end up on the floorboard and you can't even reach the thing um two know that hey
00:35:47.100
power windows you know get them open create the exits um sunroofs create the exit uh you you you have
00:35:55.060
time as long as you can control the panic um knowing the difference between like you know the
00:36:00.640
your front your windshield and then the you know the rest of the glass of the vehicle it's two
00:36:06.020
different kinds of glass don't waste your time time trying to kick out a windshield um or break it
00:36:11.560
you know it's better to go for your passenger or driver's side windows um break them and go out
00:36:18.540
sunroofs obviously if you can go out that way um but then i go through all right now okay how's what's
00:36:23.940
some other ways you know there's the common sense ways then there's some other ways your headrest if
00:36:27.200
you if you literally dislocate it pull it out and we actually got to do it where you you know you take
00:36:32.260
the you know headrest is really just two bars stuck down into the seat you can you can remove the whole
00:36:37.100
thing and the bars have points on the end um or the rods and you wedge it between you know the the
00:36:43.460
molding where you're at the bottom of your door and when the glass meet you kind of turn it into a
00:36:51.100
fulcrum stick it down in there pull back and boom the glass will shatter and out you go
00:36:55.660
and it's important to note the two different kinds of glass right you have safety glass which is your
00:37:00.540
passenger windows front and back right driver's side windows all your side windows um but your
00:37:06.740
windshield is is is tempered it's it's set to it's or it's laminated sorry and so it's it's built
00:37:12.280
to withstand projectiles flying at it i mean that's why the windshield is a much different kind of
00:37:19.720
treated glass and it's the last one that you want to try and shatter or break because it's very
00:37:23.900
difficult um so always aim for like passenger driver's side windows when you talk about breaking
00:37:30.060
a window and getting out but ideally you have these windows already open and you're giving yourself
00:37:34.300
an easy means of escape and understand the dynamics of a vehicle too you know when you talk about deep
00:37:39.360
water you know the engine end of the vehicle is going to sink first and you kind of want to get out of
00:37:44.880
the vehicle and go away from the weight you know so if you're in a sports car and your engine is in
00:37:50.760
the rear well then you're going to get out and go towards the hood and if uh if your engine is you
00:37:56.780
know obviously in the front like most vehicles well then you're going to get out and move towards the
00:38:00.800
trunk um so there is some logic in all this but you know most people forget it under stress
00:38:06.240
that's why it's important to kind of think this stuff through um so that if it ever happens
00:38:11.200
you know what to do so another scenario that you you covered in the book that i'd never heard of
00:38:16.120
before that was interesting is this idea of virtual kidnappings uh what's a virtual kidnapping and how
00:38:22.380
do you handle those yeah so these are on the rise um and what it is is one big hoax and it relies a lot
00:38:29.200
on someone understanding or knowing your pattern of life these days we put our pattern of life all over
00:38:36.380
social media and that's why it's important not to you know post everything real time no one needs to
00:38:43.380
know that you're you know at the airport right now or no one needs to know that you're uh you know on
00:38:49.140
vacation or that you're traveling abroad um because this is all pattern of life information that uh bad
00:38:56.520
guys use especially for virtual kidnappings and just a couple of weeks ago in the national news was um
00:39:03.260
a mom who thought her daughter had been kidnapped and so what these guys do they'll they'll call you
00:39:09.440
up and they'll say hey you know we've got your daughter um and then they'll give you a series
00:39:15.800
of directions and have you go around from atm machine to atm machine and then either give you a
00:39:21.200
drop site or use some kind of you know western union you know money transfer um and they'll do that
00:39:28.980
and so they terrorized her basically for five hours straight here she's thinking her daughter
00:39:33.080
um had been kidnapped when the reality is her daughter was still exactly where she was and that
00:39:38.940
was at school um but what these guys it's important to note you know the difference between a real
00:39:44.820
kidnapping and a virtual one the virtual one where no one's been kidnapped but they have you believe
00:39:50.820
that they've got your kid um and then you of course a parent that knows that loves their kid or
00:39:57.820
anything i mean any concern whatsoever is going to do what someone says on the other line
00:40:01.240
but just keep in mind it's one big hoax so knowing the differences between a real kidnapping and a
00:40:08.700
virtual one is important so a virtual one they're going to keep you on the phone for as long as they
00:40:13.820
can because they don't want you to get off the phone and check in with your loved one whereas a real
00:40:19.980
kidnapping they're going to call you from your daughter's phone just to you know that that sends the
00:40:26.420
message okay it's a call from on from my daughter's phone and it's someone else on the line saying i
00:40:32.060
have your daughter and they're going to keep their phone calls very short um so caller id and time on
00:40:38.400
the phone are big indicators of whether you're dealing with a real world event or a hoax okay second
00:40:45.100
the amount of money they ask for if they're asking for hey go to atm machines and pull out a couple
00:40:50.280
hundred bucks here and there you know you might get a thousand bucks out of it it's probably virtual
00:40:55.280
because a real kidnapper they're relying on big big money so they're they're they're not spending a lot
00:41:01.540
of time on the phone because they don't want to be tracked traced um and then they're asking for big
00:41:06.660
big numbers they're probably going to ask for you know have you drop it at a drop site um and then with
00:41:12.980
the virtual they all use a lot of like social engineering and and just psychology and play on your
00:41:18.720
emotions and that's really what it is is one big emotional hoax and they'll tell you hey you know we're
00:41:24.540
watching you we're going to watch you when you go to the h machine we're watching you the whole time
00:41:28.520
if you hang up you know we're going to kill your daughter it's it's a horrible event but it's becoming
00:41:34.280
more and more popular now and so this is where it goes back to social media you don't need to post
00:41:40.360
what you're doing when you're doing it you know especially if you're flying from new york to london
00:41:43.740
everyone knows it's a five-hour flight you know that's five hours that a loved one cannot communicate
00:41:48.600
with you and these guys are pretty smart they won't go deal with the mom and the dad they'll
00:41:55.080
they'll hit the grandmother the grandfather and work them because they're going to be a little
00:42:01.680
probably further disconnected from what the what the loved one has actually got going on and they're
00:42:06.720
going to do nothing but believe this person because they're older and they think it's real and
00:42:10.880
you know they're they're they're probably easier to trick so anyway the book breaks all this down
00:42:16.140
and illustrates it you know with uh with great illustrations kind of depict the difference
00:42:21.600
between the two right well hey clint we've uh there's a lot more we could talk about i mean like
00:42:26.340
like i said in the book or being in the podcast uh you talk about how to survive in desert situations
00:42:31.080
arctic uh on a deserted island things like that um so where can people find out more about the book
00:42:37.340
and your work uh all of the links to buy the book is 100 deadly skills.com that's 100 deadly skills.com
00:42:45.500
and the book is sold where all books are sold i mean whether it's you're at the airport or
00:42:50.400
barnes and noble um you can pick one up i highly recommend actually getting the book because they're
00:42:55.360
built you know they're built to uh withstand blood and water no yeah it's a nice it feels like a
00:43:02.260
survival manual yeah well hey clint this has been a great conversation thank you so much for your
00:43:06.200
time it's been a pleasure hey thank you brett my guest today was clint emerson he's the author of the
00:43:10.520
book 100 deadly skills survival edition you can find that on amazon.com and bookstores everywhere
00:43:15.840
you can find out more information about the book at 100 deadly skills.com also check out the show
00:43:20.100
notes at aom.is deadly skills where you can find links to resources where you can delve deeper into
00:43:24.580
this topic well that wraps up another edition of the art of manliness podcast for more manly tips and
00:43:40.640
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