Chapter 1: What topics are introduced in the beginning of this episode?
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From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, security specialist Gavin DeBecker. Plus the news with Alicia Krause.
And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. A choice to get on mandates. You get it on, man. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. Gavin DeBecker is our guest. He's an author, security specialist. And raconteur, I'm just going to say that in advance. I want to know, I'm so fascinated in... Security seems more now than ever. Does that sound about right? It does.
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Chapter 2: How does Gavin DeBecker describe the current state of security?
But they do it out of a certain amount of responsibility and obligation and maturity, things like that. Let's not forget love. And love. I remember when I raised 10 kids, eight adopted and my two birth sons. And I remember when the first boy was born, it was our birth kid. You're getting up in the middle of the night. You're not getting enough sleep. I obviously had other responsibilities, etc.
And I literally never felt pissed off or bothered or annoyed. I was much more robotic. You're up, you're 2 in the morning, you're changing the diaper, et cetera. And so I remember many, many times my wife would say to me, well, all parents do that. And I'd say, let me correct you with a little story. All parents don't do that. There are plenty of parents who don't want to participate.
Yeah, well, I think this is how I've always sort of described my family. There are things you would like to do and then things you wouldn't like to do. And then there's things you do for your kids and then do for a homeless guy or someone you didn't know or someone else's kid. You know, somebody said, you want to make your kid scrambled eggs? I go, yeah, I'll make my kid scrambled eggs.
So they said, what about that stranger guy's kids over there? You want to make them? No, that's not. I'm not. I don't love making scrambled eggs. I'm just going to make them for my kid. So my parents just sort of did things like everyone was a stranger. So if they wanted to do something, then you might do it with them, but use the stranger rule.
Would you want to save for college for a kid you don't know? And the answer would be like, no, I'm not. I'll spend that money. That's my money. That's what you do. So they would just apply that to people that didn't know. That's how you kind of know what they did and they didn't do. What you learn is you learn to leave them alone. Real fast. Kids are like stray cats. Like no milk.
And that's awesome. Keep moving. Go to the next house. You move on. But you're 9 or 10. You can't physically leave. But you just sort of ignore and go find food other places. And then at some point, you turn 18. And then that's it. I think that's a... Obviously, we had different experiences. But certainly, a lot of what I learned as a kid about... behavior.
You know, there's a kid who will, dad will come home and he'll go immediately to the refrigerator and pop open a beer, and the kid knows he could predict the whole rest of the night. He knows how work was that day. He knows what's coming. So the ability to perceive mood. My sister and I used to meet at the front door. We'd get back from school.
She was in another school, and we'd meet at the front door at 315, and we'd both say, you know, whoever got in first, what kind of mood is she in? Right, right. And so the mood was a very important thing. And by the way, this is said with recognition of the many –
wonderful contributions my mother made in my life, both the ones that I wouldn't recommend that other parents do, and the ones that were just intentionally favorable. But the reality is that for lots of kids, in a way, my story is much easier. Because my story you can look at objectively and you can say, oh, this kid got beaten up a lot. There were guns firing off.
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Chapter 3: What personal experiences shaped Gavin DeBecker's career?
between parents and upbringings and fathers. For a species, it's kind of bizarre. I was just spending time with a friend of mine in Texas, and he told me two stories about his dad. And I marveled at both of them because they were both something my dad would have never done, good or bad. He said...
when he would, during the summers, the kid was on a farm, ranch, you know, I don't know, 11 years old, 10 years old, he'd get him up in the morning and he'd go, now listen, we're gonna go around the ranch and we're gonna make a punch list of stuff that needs to be fixed or mowed or pulled or whatever, and then I'm going to work and then you're going to fix all that stuff and pull those weeds and whatever.
And said, all right, so his dad would get him up at seven in the morning, they'd go drive around the ranch and make a punch list. He said one day he came back. Then he'd drop him off at the house and dad would go to work. But one day dad forgot something and turned back around to come back to the house only to see this guy sleep. You know, he got back into bed. He did what everyone else would do.
And he just got back in his bed and went back to bed like an 11-year-old. And he basically woke up to his dad beating him with a belt. which it sounds so absurd when you become a dad. First off, just the absurdity of me telling my son, here's what you're going to do while I'm at work all day, we're already into some sort of fantasy realm.
But the idea that I would just walk in and he'd be sleeping and just quietly take my belt off with the big buckle on and just start whooping on him while he's asleep is insane. But then... And my dad would never do that. But later on, he told me a story of something my dad would never do either. He was out dirt bike riding. His dad got him the dirt bikes, the motocross bikes, XR75, Honda YZ80s.
I still remember them all because I wanted them so bad, but I never got near one. But he was out racing these things, and he was getting beat by the other kids. He was riding the Honda, the red bike. These guys show up in these green bikes, and they were, like, whooping everyone's ass.
And he says, Dad, you know, I can't beat these guys, but I think what we can do is take my Honda, and we can put, like, a pipe on it and jet the carburetors and fix it up so I could compete with the green bikes. And the dad just goes, well, how about we just get you a green bike? which I was like, I was blown away by the belt.
I was more blown away by the dad going, I will just get you the Kawasaki then. And these kids, they both sounded equally as insane to me knowing my dad. Yeah, I hear you. Well, where you started with that was saying you were amazed at the variety of parents and parent experiences. Or within one dad. One day you're beating on him, the next day you're getting him a Kawasaki. I agree.
And that, of course, is part of the challenge of having rough parents. is that it's the same person who gives you love and sustenance and care, but it's the wrong day or the wrong mood or the wrong drug or the wrong moment or not enough sleep or just got fired or whatever it may be.
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Chapter 4: How does Gavin DeBecker explain the impact of childhood experiences on adulthood?
maybe something could have been done, but how do you prevent a bullet? Something could have been done. But not by those two dudes walking next to him, right? Well, it really depends. Positioning is literally everything, like in real estate, you know, location, location, location. So if you are, if you, you know, we all look at public figures all the time and see where the protectors are.
We saw President Trump get shot on stage where the nearest Secret Service agent was 45 feet away. That's pretty damn far away. Right. And so if you are very close, either very close to the shooter or very close to the target, you can make a big difference. And which direction you're looking in and many, many strategies that go into anti-assassination work. I'll tell you this.
You know, for a successful assassination, typically, of a protected person, now that executive you're talking about was not a protected person, of course, but of a protected person, hundreds of things have to fall into place for it to work well from a security point of view. And really, for an assassin, hundreds of things need to fall into place for it to work in terms of the assassination.
And the odds are actually far more in the favor of the target than the assassin. I'm talking again about people with protection. Now, people without protection, that's a whole different deal.
Yeah, well, I guess it's assassination protection because most people think of just some big dude walking next to you trying to get into the club or walk you out to the car as you get out of the club or something. But that's not going to do anything in terms of assassination. It would be luck, meaning it would be luck if the person happened to be looking in the right direction at the right time.
But for the real thing, which is what my company does, the real thing, where we have targets who are profoundly at risk, the... The whole energy is different.
It's basically an athletic function, which is you have a contest between somebody who's going to raise a handgun or a knife, rifle I'll talk about in a minute, and a young, fit, not a retired cop who's out of shape, but a young, fit protector who needs to be in the right place and needs to understand not to be shy, et cetera. Rifle attack... A little bit different.
We both, obviously, we all witnessed this sad shooting of Charlie Kirk. And assuming for a minute that we can believe the official narrative, and I'm only going to hold on to it for this one example, but assume that's all true, then it's possible that a $29 pair of binoculars would have made an enormous difference because there wasn't sufficient focus on the distant rooftops.
And in the South, in America... Rifle attacks have been more prominent, JFK, Martin Luther King, Larry Flint, et cetera. And in the North, it's been typically handgun attacks. That's mixed up these days in that people are using every kind of weapon they can get their hands on. But could that assassination have been prevented? Yeah, very unfortunately, yes.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of government narratives in wars?
I'm not commenting on the – because there's always a narrative to these wars. But everybody who was so opposed to it is – OK, fine. Yeah. Or what we saw happen with left and right. Right. The left were not the neocons and then the left became the neocons. Right. And the right. In other words, people are you know, you use the word lemmings.
We're social animals and we follow information and we nobody wants to be the one who who like my family in covid. We were I was at the kids school. And they were not allowed to touch the door handle if they wanted to go to the bathroom.
Chapter 6: How did the COVID-19 school policies impact families?
The teacher had to get up with plastic. And you couldn't have the fourth graders and the tenth graders together, even though they came in the same car. Sure. You couldn't have them together on the playground, right? Sure, sure. And I was standing at the school, and I thought, ah. I'm never coming back to this school again as long as I live. And we started our own little school.
We got 21 kids, and slowly my family would start to just stop wearing the masks in places. And people would look at you. Sometimes somebody, you know, the typical one was a flight attendant would tell you to move it up so it's higher over your nose. Then you'd take it down to drink. I mean, the whole thing was liquid. Mask up in between bites. Exactly. And you could eat the pizza.
But you couldn't touch the box it came in. I mean, the madness of it all. Absolutely crazy. I'm curious. I don't even know what Joe Biden knew exactly. I think he believed everything. You think they got him to believe. I do.
Chapter 7: What are the concerns surrounding mass vaccination?
And I have a dear friend who's in the new administration. And when he got to. His agency, he said that most people were really true believers, were really true believers in the whole narrative of the need for mass vaccination. I mean, this is really mass vaccination. This was billions of doses of a brand new product. Yes. Right. That had not been tested on human beings.
And I don't know if you've had Robert Malone on your show, but. He's a dear friend of mine, and he was the original developer of mRNA. Yes. And dead set against it. We should have listened. They were deplatformed immediately. Oh, my God. Of course. He did a— He did a – it was before Rogan. It was that show Dark Horse with Brett Weinstein. Oh, yeah. He was destroyed.
All those doctors are my friends, by the way, who took such heat around COVID. Oh, yeah. It was easy. It was super easy for me. It's why are they wanting this person to shut up so badly and then maybe I should listen to them. And then also – For me, Fauci outed himself when Jim Jordan was talking to him in front of Congress and he wanted him.
He asked him about Black Lives Matter rallies and he wouldn't answer. And I said, oh, this guy's compromised. And you remember they said, actually, it's a public health issue. All right.
They should be allowed to march. They should be allowed to march. Right, right.
So I was like, all right, these guys are all compromised.
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Chapter 8: How does the discussion of whistleblowers relate to government accountability?
Yeah. Rochelle Walensky said open schools and then got her hand slapped and then went back and said don't open schools. And I was like, this is all abundantly transparent or evident to me. Do you remember that book I said I'd never mention again? That book right there, Forbidden Facts? That has so much about how the government does that game using the Institute of Medicine. Right.
Gavin Newsom shuts the beaches. Which was, by the way, the place to be. Vitamin D, wind, and it's ours on top of that.
Right.
So why? Yeah, it's ours on top of that. But the Target store, which is air conditioned and is circulating every virus and keeping it nice and cool for you, that was open. Right. So what is he – now, he doesn't believe in it. Because he's going to the French Laundry and he's going to the SoFi Stadium with no mask and eating.
And maybe his kids aren't vaccinated. Right.
Oh, the Rochelle Walensky thing where she's talking about her son and he can't go to camp and she wants everyone to get vaccinated, but she won't let her son go to camp. I'm like, how about you get your son vaccinated and then let him go to camp? It was all over the place. But what is Newsom doing when he's closing the beach? Well, the same as all the mayors. The mayors went nuts everywhere.
Right. You know, you'd go to – in the beginning when courthouses were still open all over the country, you'd go and they'd aim a thing at your forehead to take your temperature before they let you in. It's all the exercise of power. And if you run for public office, you have – certain limits on your power. When that cap is taken off, you're going for the fun now.
So for example, if we take the U.S. Constitution, you remember that? Anyway, I'll tell you about it later, but it was once very important. But anyway, if you take that, The citizens can do whatever they want that is not specifically illegal, and the government can do only that which is specifically – they cannot do anything except that which is specifically made legal.
Well, obviously, all that's gone. So mayors and governors and every health official, they would go as far as they could go. And there was even a contest, right? If you were a governor of Hawaii, we're going to be the state that makes you – prove that you got the vaccine before you come into the state. We're going to be first. By the way, San Francisco was the first city to do lockdowns.
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