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00:00:00Have you seen this chart before?
00:00:05I have seen that chart.
00:00:06I'll explain it to you.
00:00:07So it's the prevalence of violence perpetrated by IQ standard deviation, so 70 to 79, 80
00:00:19to 89, all the way up.
00:00:20And basically it's asking the following question, have you been in a physical fight or deliberately
00:00:27hit anyone in the past five years?
00:00:29That's the question.
00:00:30And the prevalence as a percentage is linear going down.
00:00:36And when you get to the middle of the distribution, it's somewhere between 11.4 and 7.9%.
00:00:41So what's that?
00:00:42Let's call it 10%, something like that.
00:00:4410% of people with 100 IQ have hit somebody or been in a physical fight within the last
00:00:50five years.
00:00:50And it goes down and down.
00:00:52But if you're talking about wanting somebody who has got quite elite mental capacities as
00:00:58well, 5.2% between 110 and 119, 2.9% between 120 and 129.
00:01:07And I saw this tweet that said, the percentage of guys with 130 plus IQ who both enjoy books
00:01:12and bar fights is incredibly small.
00:01:14And that is why you can't mass produce elite special operators for the military.
00:01:21Yeah, it tracks.
00:01:23I don't have 130 IQ for sure, but I do like reading books and punch people in the face for
00:01:28sure.
00:01:29Nothing wrong with that.
00:01:31Nothing wrong with that.
00:01:33They're way more constrained than you would imagine.
00:01:36And then sometimes they, um, a lot of times you don't want them to be like, to me, my special
00:01:44operations guys don't have flat top haircuts.
00:01:46They don't blouse their boots.
00:01:48They don't say, sir.
00:01:48They don't salute.
00:01:49They have all the ability to do those things, but the job's filthy.
00:01:52Like why would, why would I, I don't want a Ken doll doing that job.
00:01:55Is it seen as sort of unnecessary, uh, pump and circumstance and, uh, ritual that doesn't
00:02:07contribute to the outcome, like to, to jump through those hoops, to do the.
00:02:12Oh, you mean play the song and dance?
00:02:14Yeah, of course.
00:02:15Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, I know.
00:02:16So the clean shaven, the no tattoos and stuff like that.
00:02:20They only do that as punishment.
00:02:21Anytime anybody does anything wrong, cut your hair, shave your face.
00:02:24It's why we hate it.
00:02:25That's why most guys, when they get out, they grow a beard, grow their hair out.
00:02:27They're like, I am sick of this.
00:02:28I'm never doing that again.
00:02:29Okay.
00:02:30They run that for a year and then they shave it all and whatever.
00:02:33They go back to normal.
00:02:35But no, I mean.
00:02:36It's the, you can't tell me what to wear mum equivalent of being in the special forces.
00:02:40Have you ever seen the meme?
00:02:41It's got a bunch of green berries sitting around, hands in pockets, hands in pockets.
00:02:45The only reason I went this selection, I want to be able to put my hands in my pockets
00:02:48and spit Copenhagen on your floor and grow a beard.
00:02:50And no, like I, I want to be a one percenter.
00:02:53Mm-hmm.
00:02:53Yeah.
00:02:54And you're allowed to do special things.
00:02:55You said, uh, it's more lawless than people might realize.
00:02:58What do you mean by that?
00:03:02Everything's black and white.
00:03:04Special operations find a way to live in that gray area, but gray area navigation tours run
00:03:09in every 30 minutes.
00:03:11We will find a way to navigate through the gray area to get to the end state.
00:03:14As long as we know what the why is, what we have to get accomplished, we'll find a way
00:03:17to get there.
00:03:19And sometimes it's not pretty, but I mean, I'm pretty honest, I'll break every rule in the book
00:03:24right now if it puts a team in a better position, even if it puts myself at a disadvantage or
00:03:29threatens my career, maybe even my life.
00:03:32If it's good for the group, I'll do it anyway.
00:03:34But not lawless in a sense, like people don't, people aren't murdering people.
00:03:39There's no rape, not a lot of drugs anymore.
00:03:41Like, but not, uh, there's not a whole lot of guys who transition to be police officers.
00:03:49Too constraining?
00:03:50Too constraining.
00:03:52I don't want to be constrained.
00:03:53I, I don't like it because everybody asked me when I got out, like, well, I don't want
00:03:56to be a cop.
00:03:57You can go to FBI.
00:03:59Absolutely not.
00:04:00I love those guys.
00:04:01They're amazing.
00:04:02Nothing but respect.
00:04:03I can't do that job.
00:04:04I'm in the gray area too much.
00:04:06You understand?
00:04:07But I'm open and honest about it.
00:04:08I don't hide that a bit.
00:04:08I think this is what I was trying to get at before when I said, um, the modern world being
00:04:12incompatible with some of the ugly parts of war, that, um, if you're focused on outcome,
00:04:18if you're focused on the ends, the means can sometimes become up for debate and the ends
00:04:27are often not scrutinized, but the means are by people.
00:04:30Does that make sense?
00:04:31Mm-hmm.
00:04:31Yeah.
00:04:34And I'm trying to find a way to word this.
00:04:42I've never seen anything in my military career that I would even put morally questionable on
00:04:47any level, not for a cop, not for a fireman, not for a school teacher, everything has always
00:04:51been above board, but there are times where you just want to hoist a black flag and start
00:04:56slitting throats.
00:04:57You just do.
00:04:58Right.
00:04:59I can't believe we're going to put this dude in the back of his helicopter and let him
00:05:02lose.
00:05:02I, I, I can't believe we're going to let him do it.
00:05:05Because you know that he's a bad guy.
00:05:06Yeah.
00:05:07Or some of the things you see, some of the things you know that you're doing, you have,
00:05:11because it's not an assault on you, but some of the stuff they do with children.
00:05:14It's just, it's so disgusting that if I, if I didn't have that flag in my arm and I was
00:05:20just a tourist, I'd kill you.
00:05:22If I get away with it right now, I just kill you.
00:05:24But because I have this flag on my shoulder, now I can't.
00:05:26And now I resent the flag because I can't do to you what I know needs to happen to you.
00:05:29How does that feel, that systemic constraint when you've got righteous anger?
00:05:40It's hard, man.
00:05:41It is.
00:05:42It's hard, especially when you've lost friends or, you know, extortion one, seven happened
00:05:49in August of extortion 17, had a whole troop get killed.
00:05:55Kilo got shot down, killed everybody on board.
00:05:5731 guys having to back those guys up on deployment in that exact same place, living in their beds.
00:06:03If I'm being told, I just wanted to kill everybody and to not be able to do it.
00:06:08It's hard because you have the opportunity.
00:06:11It's like, he's not doing anything bad now.
00:06:16Okay.
00:06:17I guess I got to put you in handcuffs or you're on a helo, drop you off here.
00:06:19They'll put you in a detention center for 10 days.
00:06:21They'll release you.
00:06:22Like, okay, they wouldn't do that to me.
00:06:26If they wrapped me up and put me in handcuffs, they would saw my head off in 15 minutes.
00:06:29Now we all know it.
00:06:31It's not fair.
00:06:33Have you been tracking this fallout after Rob was on Andy's show talking about the Osama raid?
00:06:41Yeah.
00:06:42What do you make of that?
00:06:47I hate the fact we're even talking about it, if I'm being honest.
00:06:50Like, they did such a good job about not talking about it.
00:06:53I mean, Rob was my first team leader.
00:06:56So, I know Rob.
00:06:59I owe a lot to Rob because Rob drafted me and brought me in.
00:07:06I wish nobody would have ever said a word.
00:07:08When they left to go on the raid, I didn't know where they were going.
00:07:11Were you on compound or whatever it's called?
00:07:13I was in his team.
00:07:14Yeah.
00:07:15So, you didn't get chosen?
00:07:16No.
00:07:17Motherfuckers.
00:07:17Two juniors.
00:07:18Yeah.
00:07:19How?
00:07:20You know, we'll say we rack all the teams.
00:07:22We'll say there's seven guys.
00:07:24One to seven.
00:07:24They took twos and above and took them all from every team.
00:07:28Oh, interesting.
00:07:29It's the first time they ever did it.
00:07:31So, it's closer to being in.
00:07:34How many people in total are?
00:07:37Can't talk about it.
00:07:38Okay, fine.
00:07:39We'll talk about it off screen.
00:07:40Way less than you think.
00:07:41Cool.
00:07:42So, it's closer to me, what it sounds like.
00:07:44I'm loving the sports analogy.
00:07:46It's more like having a league of teams.
00:07:51And then you've got the Steph Curry or the Kevin Durant from each team.
00:07:56Yep.
00:07:56And then you're able to take the top filtering.
00:08:00Does that not create, surely that must create a-
00:08:03A lot of animosity, a lot of resentment.
00:08:06Some of that, but complex.
00:08:08Yeah.
00:08:08Because you know, hang on, who the fuck?
00:08:10What?
00:08:11I'm number fucking six, am I?
00:08:13More so, complexity that the verticals of the teams have got culture baked in.
00:08:21And as you start to take people, I mean, perfect example.
00:08:26When players come together to play for their national team, when they've played for rivalrous local teams, that doesn't always work well.
00:08:37Like, and sometimes a team which has the maximum player stats for each individual player, but not the cohesion, doesn't necessarily perform as well as a vertical team that does have the cohesion with somebody that's got less experience or whatever.
00:08:56Look at me, sat in the stands talking about how the special forces should be around.
00:09:02I mean, that's how it's always been around.
00:09:04Take a team, take a troop, take a squadron, whatever it is, and you go out and do the thing.
00:09:08They cherry-picked from inside of the same squadron, and none of us knew.
00:09:12I don't know.
00:09:13If we knew they were spinning up on something, and they would tell us, like, it's some bullshit training mission, like, it was my first cycle.
00:09:19I had just gotten through selection, and all of them were like, enjoy your first rotation.
00:09:23He's like, you ain't missing shit.
00:09:25Trust me.
00:09:25This is going to be a dog and pony.
00:09:27We're going to waste our time, and nothing's going to happen.
00:09:29I promise you.
00:09:30About five days before they went to go do the thing, we all came in, had a big blowout.
00:09:36You know, dudes are buying new watches, buying $1,000 sunglasses, because they didn't think they were going to come home.
00:09:40We all thought they were going to go get Gaddafi.
00:09:43So when Obama walked out and did the Newton's announcement, I was in my living room with my wife, with my shooting buddy, on speakerphone, and as soon as they said it, screaming, like, so proud.
00:09:53Because you knew that that was-
00:09:54Oh, yeah.
00:09:55Oh, so happy.
00:09:56Never been more proud of my fucking life.
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