The Art of Manliness - #252： Deadly Survival Skills From a Navy SEAL

00:00:00.000 brett mckay here and welcome to another edition of the art of manliness podcast well last year

00:00:18.860 i had a fellow by the name of clint emerson on the podcast he's a retired navy seal and he came

00:00:22.700 on the show to talk about his first book 100 deadly skills the seal offered his guide to

00:00:27.000 looting pursuers evading capture and surviving any dangerous situation it was one of my favorite

00:00:31.680 episodes from last year and a favorite of listeners as well well clint back with another

00:00:36.260 book filled with deadly skills this time around it's 100 deadly skills survival edition the seal

00:00:41.480 operative's guide to surviving in the wild and being prepared for any disaster in it he along

00:00:45.940 with aom illustrator ted slampiak show readers how to survive in any environment they might find

00:00:50.500 themselves from the desert to the mountains to the sea the book also covers how to manage disasters

00:00:55.600 at home today on the show clint and i talk about the mindset you need to survive any deadly scenario

00:01:00.720 including how to create a tactical nightstand yes a tactical nightstand how to combat clear your home

00:01:05.960 if you want to do that and what to do in a carjacking that and much more stay tuned for this for a fun

00:01:11.800 action focused podcast after the show is over check out the show notes at aom.is deadly skills one

00:01:18.460 clint emerson welcome back to the show hey brett thanks for having me it's awesome to be back yeah

00:01:28.820 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

00:01:33.100 100 deadly skill skills the seal operative's guide to looting pursuers evading capture and surviving any

00:01:38.800 dangerous situation and we got a lot of positive feedback from that episode uh people loved it and

00:01:45.580 your book has gotten a lot of positive feedback in the with the rest of the public uh this was a book

00:01:51.900 that became a new york times bestseller sold like hotcakes i mean what do you think accounts for the

00:01:58.940 popularity of this kind of subject where you know you were in the first book you were talking about how

00:02:03.120 to do anal concealments and uh how to survive you know active shooter situations which i can understand

00:02:09.620 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

00:02:14.460 was fun but there's a lot of actually practical information in there but what do you think is

00:02:17.980 what's what itch are you scratching here with the book well with that first one i mean as you noted it

00:02:24.440 it it had some taboo stuff and taboo cells i mean but the bigger piece of it is it followed the theme of

00:02:31.200 a violent nomad which is you know trying to push people to be a little more self-reliant be more

00:02:36.500 reliable on themselves vice relying on 9-1-1 or people around them and uh kind of give them some skills

00:02:43.740 that are you know nefarious in nature and most of them developed by bad guys and you know the goal

00:02:49.560 really was hey if you know the bad guys offense then you can create a better defense you know this is

00:02:54.300 the basics to you know solid warfare so that first book um certainly hit a bunch of stuff that was

00:03:03.260 entertaining but at the same time informative and that's that's kind of the the overarching goal is you

00:03:10.420 want to give people information that's you know easily remembered and digestible and you know give

00:03:16.800 them just what they need to know without all the other rhetoric and uh do you have any ideas sort of

00:03:21.840 what your readership was like i mean it's i'm sure it's i mean if it made the new york times bestseller

00:03:24.940 list that doesn't mean it was just like the the survival prepper prepper guys are buying it these

00:03:29.560 were like average joes from every walk of life i imagine yeah i mean it's it's uh it became a you know

00:03:36.080 there's some strategy as you know with books you know coming out in october before the holiday season

00:03:41.660 it's a great stocking stuffer but at the same time you know there's you got a group of men that have

00:03:47.560 it sitting next to the toilet and then you have uh families that have it sitting on the coffee table

00:03:53.200 and then you have you know um people that travel business that you know carry it with them everywhere

00:03:58.980 they go um and i was surprised by the number of females that enjoyed the book um because they felt like

00:04:05.100 the skills all those skills is something really anyone can do um and i think a majority of the

00:04:11.280 people that bought it uh were also looking for something new if you look at you know yesterday's

00:04:18.660 survival books they really don't cover today's threats and between you know the first book and now

00:04:25.800 definitely the the second one um you've got 200 solid skills that uh are that really become a playbook

00:04:35.100 when dealing with any kind of crisis or threat that may come walking your way right so yeah you got

00:04:41.340 a second book out uh again like with the first you teamed up with ted slampiak the guy who does a lot

00:04:46.380 of our illustrations on the art of manliness uh it's 100 deadly skills survival edition and concentrates

00:04:52.780 as the title says on being prepared for surviving just about any scenario in the wild in urban areas in

00:04:58.880 your home um so first question there is how does and i think you kind of mentioned it earlier that

00:05:04.640 the yesterday's survival book isn't they're not as they're not that they're kind of outdated so how

00:05:10.420 does the modern landscape make survival a more complicated business than say you know 20 years ago or

00:05:17.520 even like going back you know to primitive times yeah i think it's interesting um you know one

00:05:24.160 the over the bigger issue these days is complacency and i think we touched on it last time i know i

00:05:30.440 touched on with everybody i've talked to and we are leashed to technology and between technology and

00:05:38.200 just natural human behavior to be somewhat to take shortcuts and be lazy um and always looking for

00:05:44.020 the answers at our fingertips um has really just sucked all of our basic human instincts you know kind

00:05:51.160 of away from us and you know when you talk about old school survival skills that you know our fathers

00:05:59.260 and our grandfathers used to know and it was kind of just common knowledge today no one really knows

00:06:06.260 how to do it anymore nor do they want to learn it because they feel like they can just google it

00:06:10.640 and um but the problem is is when you know when the lights go out the power goes down or you know

00:06:16.400 bigger state-sponsored cyber attacks start to emerge you'll find yourself in a very primitive

00:06:21.640 situation except the difference is is you won't have the knowledge you won't know how to deal with it

00:06:27.060 um there's been you know plenty of natural disasters like you compare it to something like katrina

00:06:34.740 where they were surrounded by water but none of it was drinkable and no one knew really what to do

00:06:41.920 with all that water in order to make it drinkable so you know even though the book breaks out

00:06:46.720 skills in the wild the reality is the wild can be in urban environments it just really depends on

00:06:53.480 the crisis that uh that that you know brings it in right that point about cyber attacks that's

00:06:59.180 interesting because i think that's going to be a bigger problem we just experienced one a few months

00:07:03.180 ago that took out a big portion of the internet like i know it affected our store there was a ddos

00:07:08.580 attack and our store was down for pretty much the entire day yeah yeah it's i think you know we

00:07:15.440 don't give it the credit it deserves and when you talk about state-sponsored stuff coming our way

00:07:22.360 whether it's russia or china um or even if it's just you know organizations that are you know anti-usa

00:07:29.840 uh you people forget that it's their cyber infrastructure that controls water transportation

00:07:35.960 you know power grids um all of it can be hacked and then turned off in a split second and then

00:07:43.980 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

00:07:49.440 can't log in you can't get on your computer you can't even turn on the lights um those are those

00:07:54.200 moments when you might want to have some skills in your back pocket right uh so uh to to counter

00:08:00.300 that to be ready for the situations where the wild comes to you right for whatever reason you

00:08:05.960 advocate for people to make themselves crisis proof uh so what are i mean let's talk about mindset of

00:08:12.120 becoming crisis through i mean what is what is the mindset that people need to develop in order to

00:08:16.200 become crisis proof as you say yeah you know we talk about awareness all the time but really

00:08:22.680 it still anchors to that you know you have to start paying attention the way i break down awareness

00:08:29.520 is you know your personal awareness that's your projection and demeanor management how you dress

00:08:33.840 how you walk you know a lot of things you write about you know that you know what makes a man a man

00:08:38.560 um and how do you do that without your ego dressing you each day you know our egos dress us and want us

00:08:47.680 to you know basically be different than the person next to us on the subway and when in reality you've got

00:08:55.760 to be the gray guy and so it all starts with your personal awareness you know literally looking in the

00:09:01.000 mirror and going all right what am i telling everyone by what i'm wearing um how i talk uh and what i do

00:09:08.500 my mannerisms um and then from that you know then you get into like third party awareness you know

00:09:14.020 understanding that people are looking at you watching you all the time um and and they're forming

00:09:19.600 you know they're forming opinions and judging you without even knowing you and i think we all know

00:09:24.960 that that occurs but you can manipulate it to a certain degree especially when we're talking

00:09:29.000 talking about man versus man type threats out there then you have situational awareness which you know i

00:09:34.880 think is overused verbally you know and you know it has it we always articulate yeah situational

00:09:40.300 awareness but how often do people actually become more situationally aware and how do you make it a

00:09:47.420 habit um like putting on your seat belt there was a time when no one wore seat belts um and they put

00:09:54.100 annoying buzzers inside your cars and then they you know you can get a ticket and then over time

00:09:59.580 it's become something you do and you don't even know you do it and that's kind of where you got to

00:10:04.640 get awareness it's not about okay i'm going to pay attention all day today because that's energy

00:10:08.480 consuming you you have to kind of piecemeal it a little bit you know like all right on the hour every

00:10:13.620 hour especially while i'm driving i'm going to kind of look around and make sure i know what's

00:10:17.040 going on and slowly introduce it into your into your world so that it then becomes a habit more

00:10:22.640 naturally and then and then of course cultural awareness so you know what's going to offend

00:10:28.220 people what doesn't offend people and making sure you understand the do's and don'ts to the

00:10:34.280 geographical location you're standing on if you combined all of that together now what are you

00:10:39.440 doing you're projecting something much different you're paying attention to things you're you're

00:10:43.920 actually getting educated to a certain degree on kind of the do's and don'ts whether it's third

00:10:49.500 party awareness or cultural awareness and before you know it mentally now you are you know these are

00:10:55.640 all kind of like things you can control uh and now you're you're reducing all of your threat

00:11:01.900 vulnerabilities and hopefully reducing crisis because you know most of the time the clues and the cues are

00:11:08.140 right there staring us in the face and it's not until after the event the incident or the crisis that

00:11:12.880 you go bang your head against the wall going god i saw that coming but i did absolutely nothing about 0.55

00:11:17.300 it right so it's a great uh breakdown of the mindset i mean what about the like big picture

00:11:22.960 skills right so the skills you need for different situations are going to vary right whether you're in

00:11:27.300 a desert situation or you're surviving a tornado or you're surviving a riot or whatever but i mean

00:11:34.200 are there bigger picture skills that can cross over to all these different domains that you need to

00:11:38.820 have in your back pocket yeah i think you know when we're talking mentally you know this is something

00:11:45.460 that's not going to be conditioned just by reading a book or overnight it's it's a level of confidence

00:11:50.260 that you've got to have um knowing that all right um you've gotten educated you've got some sort of

00:11:56.800 education in in you know different you know whether it's using the hundred daily skill playbooks or

00:12:02.440 you know experience that you know that you've accumulated over your life you combined all that

00:12:08.060 together and it's all about the confidence that you have when you face these these events and

00:12:13.540 taking control of what you can control you know it's the only things we can truly control when it comes

00:12:21.140 to any kind of event is preparation and response and so mentally you're literally running through

00:12:28.460 okay what can i do right now when i have plenty of time and zero stress that can make me more

00:12:36.060 effective more efficient increased survivability when something bad happens that's all about the

00:12:41.340 prep you know there's things you can do and there's a way that you can think about things you can what

00:12:44.980 if it you know and run scenarios then on the response side which is the other piece you control those are

00:12:51.080 those are decisions that you've already made and now all you do is act them out when a good day goes

00:12:56.920 bad and so i think if people are mentally you know immersing themselves into that what if

00:13:02.520 worst case scenario okay what can i do to prep for something like this whatever that event is

00:13:08.160 and then how would i properly respond to it geez you've just you've just done far more than the

00:13:15.480 average person to be prepared for that event and not only are you preparing yourself now you probably

00:13:21.940 have thought about well okay it's not about just me it's also my family or maybe the people around me

00:13:27.180 and you're actually you know doing something instead of just sitting there right so it sounds

00:13:31.800 like you're getting your ooda loop in gear before the event actually happens before you have to make

00:13:36.540 a decision oh yeah you definitely you know the ooda loop's great for you know dealing with whatever's

00:13:42.960 going on at that moment but yeah you certainly i mean it's a proven fact that you do not want to

00:13:48.820 make decisions in crisis you want to have that stuff already figured out so all you do is act on those

00:13:53.840 decisions you know any decision made in crisis is going to be a 50 50 chance whereas if you kind of

00:13:59.100 think them through and have your decisions already figured out um when you've got more of a clinical

00:14:04.380 you know where you have plenty of time and zero stress you know that's the ideal spot to make your

00:14:11.020 decisions and then if something bad happens you're good to go right so let's get more specific here

00:14:16.920 specific tools and skills a man would want to adopt to learn in order to increase his preparation

00:14:21.420 for a crisis so in the book you cover you go over gear and skills for every environment from the

00:14:27.140 desert to the arctic to the sea and more but let's start at home you have a section devoted to your

00:14:32.260 home that's where stuff can happen disasters can happen um we talked about an everyday carry last time

00:14:39.240 for the the violent nomad uh to consider um but you talk about in the book creating a tactical

00:14:45.300 tactical nightstand uh so what items should a guy have close at hand for his tactical nightstand

00:14:51.800 well you know the one that's uh illustrated in the book and what i talk about is kind of overkill

00:14:57.240 so yeah it was a lot of stuff yeah it's giving people options right i mean we have you know varying

00:15:04.400 degrees of you know people so you know you have lethal non-lethal means of uh dealing with let's say

00:15:11.820 an intruder and so you want your nightstand to kind of represent and have readily available

00:15:17.560 you take your nightstand you really look at it as you know your your kit right you can use it a lot

00:15:22.680 of guys already do this but i kind of wanted to formalize a little bit with options um so you know

00:15:28.880 you you've got to have basic life support basic defense stuff you know um it's you got first aid you

00:15:34.960 can have that there you can have anything everything from a baseball bat to you know you know a firearm

00:15:41.500 of some sort um and then of course you can have you know like in the illustration i got body armor

00:15:47.180 you know you've got you know everything from you know i would always pick bear spray over something

00:15:52.980 like mace you know bear spray has that distance it's got a more potent level of of pepper in it

00:16:01.080 and uh and still just as uh if not more effective than you know mace that you know squirts you know

00:16:08.780 you got to be intimately uh you got to be very intimate with someone to get that mace across

00:16:14.100 whereas with bear spray you can shoot it 30 feet away and if you don't have any of those then it then

00:16:18.420 i then i have some improvised stuff like what you know wasp spray or oven cleaner he's going to cause

00:16:23.740 permanent damage to a guy um but if he's in his in your house then he deserves it um but the big

00:16:30.060 legal takeaway from that is don't think for a second if you use wasp spray or oven cleaner and you carry it

00:16:36.300 like your purse or in your car well now you're talking about a whole that's that's actually

00:16:41.280 breaking the law most people think that would be okay if you can use mace but it's a difference

00:16:45.540 between pepper and chemicals um so when it's your own house your own domain you can get creative with

00:16:52.100 how you need to take care of an intruder and what you put in your tactical nightstand right so you need

00:16:57.900 a concealed wasp spray to walk around the city with your wasp spray can

00:17:02.000 yeah the license a conceal wasp spray license yes otherwise it's illegal and that's that's kind

00:17:09.320 of most people don't know that so whatever you whatever you use to defend your home is going to

00:17:14.460 be 100 legal no matter whatever it is because it's your home it's your domain but as soon as you take

00:17:19.340 some of those creative ideas outside your home you can actually go to jail for it all right so don't

00:17:25.280 get creative outside your home well the other thing on there that i think is extremely useful and

00:17:29.560 completely underrated is a flashlight near in your nightstand yeah yeah i mean i you know as you

00:17:37.540 know i've got some interest in the zero trace flashlight which is you know it's waterproof you can beat

00:17:42.180 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

00:17:49.640 so many things a lot of people want to turn on the lights when they hear a noise in their house reality

00:17:54.200 is is you know your blueprint better than anyone else so keep that advantage for you

00:17:59.100 keep your lights out um you using a flashlight you don't want to use it like a spotlight and

00:18:04.760 light everything up because it's giving up your location it's giving a bad guy a place to shoot

00:18:09.040 so you want to use it sparingly and you also want to hold it away from your chest get it out away from

00:18:14.900 your body um when you're using that flashlight because if shots are fired you want them to go

00:18:19.520 you know high and right by you know at your torso and a common mistake is is to kind of you

00:18:25.560 you know hold it at chest level and point it out in front of you um but that's literally just giving

00:18:31.020 bullets you know a place to fly to and you don't want to do that um but you can also use it as

00:18:36.920 deception too you know you can use it to blind a guy and then quickly move you know you turn it on

00:18:42.140 turn it off and move out of the way um in order to give yourself different advantages um tactically if

00:18:48.740 you're having to deal with an intruder in your home but the book certainly lays out you know and of

00:18:53.020 course ted did a great job depicting you know the kind of like day and night with his illustrations

00:18:57.940 um even though the book is kind of you know black and white drawings yeah let's talk about uh home

00:19:03.240 invasion right this tactical nightstand is there in the event that someone comes into your home

00:19:09.060 illegally to to do you and your family harm so i mean how often do home invasions occur is it a

00:19:15.320 common thing or is it pretty rare it's actually on the rise right now for some reason um you're hearing

00:19:21.340 more and more reports of it and what used to be you know okay someone there's two kinds of predators

00:19:27.380 really and this is very general but it's a good rule to follow anybody who's coming to your home

00:19:31.680 during the day wants your stuff right burglars attack homes during the day because they know

00:19:37.180 everybody's at work and at school there's uh you know it's more predictable um whereas someone coming

00:19:44.000 to your home at night typically wants you or wants to harm you so that's your two divisions there

00:19:50.080 between day and night and you know how you how you deal with that obviously is going to be dependent

00:19:56.560 on who you are and where you live and um but the goal is is having a plan you know having some things

00:20:04.240 prepped having a proper response um and then you know having to deal with that as it comes you know i

00:20:12.280 talk about fortifying the home um and it's it's it's more than just your property you know there was

00:20:18.000 plenty of times overseas before we went into a target some targets just knew we were coming no

00:20:23.960 matter how great we were at being stealthy or you know clandestine with our movements and our actions

00:20:29.020 and the reason being is because you know people overseas still operate and you know know that it

00:20:34.500 you know quote unquote takes a village and uh so they're watching everyone's looking out for one

00:20:40.320 another and it seems these days in our neighborhoods no one really even talks to each other much less have

00:20:45.040 each other's phone numbers so they can text one another if they see something strange in the

00:20:48.780 neighborhood so that's where i begin is hey start talking to your neighbors start building you know

00:20:53.940 some alliances with one another and start looking out for each other so that if something strange

00:20:58.120 rolls through the neighborhood you can let everybody know um and second to that is you know i i put in

00:21:05.460 there me as a professional predator i'd look at targets determine their vulnerabilities and then figure

00:21:11.300 out how best to exploit them and so i put the reciprocal of that in the book you know um and

00:21:17.340 it's all about lighting up your you know the exterior of your home the more light there is the better

00:21:22.580 because that makes anybody's creeping up to your house feel completely vulnerable and naked to a

00:21:27.900 certain degree and they want to deal with it um if you talk to like professional burglars they avoid

00:21:33.540 homes that have like toys in the front yard because kids are unpredictable they avoid homes with dogs

00:21:38.920 because no one wants to deal with a dog they avoid homes that have signage in the front yard

00:21:43.580 you know that says alarm system that's clearly visible from the street you don't want someone

00:21:49.220 coming up to your door to determine whether or not you got good locks or a security system

00:21:54.160 you don't even want them you want them to keep them as far away as possible you know so a lot of

00:21:59.060 people will focus on locks and yeah i got an alarm system so i'm good to go but both of those systems

00:22:04.300 are literally tested you know the bad guy has to test that it means he's already too close and and

00:22:10.460 we don't want anybody getting that close we don't even coming in our front yard you know so you want

00:22:14.340 to push people out with some of these tactics and if and for all the single women that potentially 1.00

00:22:19.640 are listening you know i always say put a pair of size 12 athletic shoes right at the front door

00:22:24.780 to keep the sexual predators away you know all right so yeah you want to so light light is the light is

00:22:30.160 key illumination is definitely the number one you know when we're talking about you know at night

00:22:37.320 people sneaking up and doing whatever it is they're going to do um and during the day you know having a

00:22:43.060 if they i don't even know if they make big wheels anymore but it doesn't matter if you're a parent or

00:22:47.600 not you've got some kids toys out in the front yard uh that'll keep most of your professional

00:22:53.580 burglars away because it's just once again is there a stay-at-home mom is there not is there kids there

00:22:58.460 right now i don't know i'll move on to the next house so uh you have a section in there about how

00:23:03.160 to combat clear your home um that seems like it'd be a pretty dangerous thing to do i mean under what

00:23:08.860 circumstances would you want to do that and under what circumstances would you not want to do that

00:23:14.280 yeah you know we i think a lot of people that own guns first of all they they know that okay i hear a

00:23:23.420 noise or somebody kicks in my door um you know i'm grabbing my gun i'm calling 9-1-1 and then

00:23:30.180 that's kind of where it stops so i wanted to make it very clear to people that hey you know there's a

00:23:36.400 right and a wrong way of clearing your home if you choose to do so and this is a very personal decision

00:23:42.480 this is for the alpha males out there i mean yeah they're going to call them priority is to get help

00:23:47.320 and get it coming but if help is 15 minutes away or you live even even more rural and you know help

00:23:54.100 is you know 30 minutes away well then there's certain things you're going to have to do for

00:23:58.200 yourself and there's a lot of factors here right if you live alone then sure you can you're you're

00:24:03.420 alone you're an alpha you're an alpha kind of guy i'm going to clear my house i'm not running

00:24:08.400 but if you have family and kids then obviously maybe you know your primary plan is to get everybody

00:24:14.520 out of the home into safety um but for those moments where you feel like you're going to clear

00:24:21.080 the house or you can't run or you can't hide um or you know help isn't coming anytime soon

00:24:26.760 then i wanted to let people know like or at least show them and give them some guidance on how to pie

00:24:32.300 doorways and how to pie corners properly so that you're not putting yourself right in someone's sights

00:24:38.200 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 0.82

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 0.90

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 0.93

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 0.97

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 1.00

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

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The Art of Manliness - November 16, 2016

#252： Deadly Survival Skills From a Navy SEAL

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