DJ Shipley

ritual that doesn't contribute to the outcome to jump through those hoops to do the oh you mean play the song and dance yeah of course yeah yeah yes sir no sir the clean shaven the no tattoos and stuff like that they only do that as a punishment anytime anybody does anything wrong cut your hair shave your face that's why we hate it that's why most guys when they get out they grow a beard grow their hair out they're like i am sick of this i'm never doing that again okay they run that for a year and then they shave it all and whatever they go back to normal

Have you ever seen a meme?

It's got a bunch of green berets sitting around, hands in pockets.

Hands in pockets.

The only reason I went this selection.

I want to be able to put my hands in my pockets and spit Copenhagen on your floor and grow a beard.

No, I want to be a one-percenter.

Everything's black and white.

Special operations find a way to live in that gray area, but gray area navigation tours run in every 30 minutes.

We will find a way to navigate through the gray area to get to the end state.

As long as we know what the why is, what we have to get accomplished, we'll find a way to get there.

And sometimes it's not pretty, but I mean, I'm pretty honest.

I'll break every rule in the book right now if it puts a team in a better position, even if it puts myself at a disadvantage or threatens my career, maybe even my life.

If it's good for the group, I'll do it anyway.

But not lawless in a sense, like people don't, people aren't murdering people.

There's no rape, not a lot of drugs anymore.

Like, but not, uh, there's not a whole lot of guys who transitioned to be police officers.

Too constraining?

Too constraining.

I don't want to be constrained.