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Chapter 1: What is the purpose of the Andy versus Michael series?
What's up, everybody? Welcome back. As per popular request, Michael and I are going to sit down again today and we're going to talk about whatever Michael brings to the table. And he often tells me that he's overly prepared and that he underwhelms me and perhaps he underwhelms you. But man, what a wild juxtaposition between somebody two decades younger than me.
And quite frankly, I've actually come to really enjoy these Andy versus Michael series. I don't know what number we're on. And what I'm thinking about doing occasionally, and perhaps let me know in the comments if this is something you would want to see. I do fall out of Fridays where I sit down and I answer from my perspective questions that are sent in. But perhaps...
Given our two decades of difference in life, I was thinking about bringing Michael in from time to time and just sitting down and answering those questions collaboratively with him. Not always, but occasionally. So it wouldn't really be an Andy versus Michael. It would just be a full auto Friday with occasional Michael input.
And I don't know how to abbreviate that properly, so we'll have to figure that out a little bit later. But that's it. Now, stay with me. Give me 90 seconds. Let's pay the bills here. Ladies and gentlemen, this episode is brought to you by Peak. That's right. We're going to be talking about tea. And if you know anything about me, you know I'm more of a coffee guy.
Chapter 2: What are the benefits of Peak tea?
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Chapter 3: What are the differences in perspectives on violence?
I don't know. I mean, I have heard of some pacifists that are that extreme that say, even if somebody is attacking me, there's no need for violence. And to me, that just is wild. What if they have kids?
My question to them is, OK, you have children. They're here. And this person now, it's a pedophile in a Ronald McDonald suit with a massive 12-inch dong hanging out of his pants. I know you're digging this visual. Where this is coming from is just straight prefrontal cortex. That's Leah's question for me, not yours. And he's got a sack lunch. You don't know what's in the sack lunch.
It's probably tapioca and a tiger's tail sticking out the top of it. And he's coming for your kids. And he's going to grab them and pull them into a van down by the river. And it's the last time you're ever going to see him. I mean, does a pacifist let that happen? I mean, I would certainly hope not. I would hope not too. That's why I would love to understand the backstory of that person.
I would want to understand kind of their station in life. I mean, here's my thing. I don't think – I'm not here to tell anybody how to party. I'm not here to tell anybody how to live their life. My personal stance is that you should avoid violence at all costs. For one, you can get hurt. You can win a fight and still end up in the next ambulance that comes by.
We live in a litigious society, so there's a chance that you could have legal consequences and ramifications as well. You could get into a fight with somebody who's carrying a weapon, whether it be an edged weapon or a gun. Personally, the edged weapon scares me a lot more. Yeah, I –
Just spend two minutes on Google images looking at knife injuries and you will never want to be on the other end of a knife. Not that being on, you know, it's a false choice, but would you rather be stabbed or shot? Option C, please, which is run away and have neither. Don't be violent, but then you have to be as capable as possible. So then when the times for violence occur,
You can handle your shit. Yeah, for sure. I mean, the down by the river scenario. I mean, if you think a cop is going to get there in that amount of time, at which point you would just be kind of outsourcing your violence anyway. Yeah.
I don't know what people think.
Somebody still has to get violent. Yeah. I don't know what people think the solution is to that. I mean, again, live your life how you want to live it. I would want to have a pretty deep conversation about how that woman arrived at her position. I can understand the UFC. For people, you know why I like the UFC? Because I do jujitsu.
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Chapter 4: How do pacifist beliefs conflict with self-defense?
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Let's get back into the show. Tyler rented it among several other movies that he didn't ask for permission to rent or buy on my account when he was back from college. Haven't heard from that little fuck stick since he went back to college. I'm sure I will when there's something that is needed.
Of course, of course.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of martial arts on violence perception?
Yeah.
It's not for her. I enjoy it. How about you go have a rewarding and enriching life doing what you want to do. Yeah. And I will do what I want to do and do those things. And guess what? We can totally cohabitate on this earth. Yeah. But, uh, don't call me when old Ronald McDonald's coming out. Crazy thing to go to. But yeah.
I mean, have you ever seen one of the, have you ever been inside a McDonald's? I have. Yeah. Okay. Have you ever seen the statues around McDonald's? Yeah. No, they're, they're a little creepy. Yeah. A little, a little weird. A little weird. Always around kids. Just saying.
Look into it, bro. Jumping on the conspiracy bandwagon.
I'm just saying, let's just look into it. If you, that was your particular proclivity and those are the people you were targeting. You're not going to spend your time at an old person's home. Yeah. No, I mean, that's fair. Yeah.
Yeah. Um, do you keep your rifle from the military?
As in, do they allow you to keep it? No, you do not. Oh, really? Nor are you allowed to use personal weapons in the conduct of your military service as well.
Okay, so only issued weapons.
Only issued weapons. And I believe that is something to do... I'm a little over my skis on the exact regulation that might limit that. I think it has something to do with the Geneva Convention, the rule of armed conflict or law of armed conflict. However...
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of firearms storage and safety?
And then there's some people like, holy shit, that person's probably going to change the world. Both of those people can improve their station in life. They have a different glass ceiling. So whatever you have, it can be taught. And honestly, we don't teach it in the training pipeline. There are some really... What I'm about to say, I'm not trying to make this sound easy.
There are some easy mental approaches that if you can wrap, no pun intended, if you can wrap your head around them, they can change the trajectory of your life because it'll prevent you from throwing in the towel when your body is screaming at you that you need to, because that's not actually the time that you need to throw in the towel.
Just because your body is telling you that you need to quit or somebody's screaming at you that you should quit doesn't mean that you should. That nobody can make you quit except for yourself. You learn those a little bit later on. And I don't even know if it would make a difference if we taught it before, because it's something that requires practice.
But the people who understand that, I mean, they can appear to be incredibly mentally tough. And maybe they are. But it's more their approach, their mental approach, their self-talk, how they are viewing and parsing their goals and their view of time, the combination of those things
I mean, it can make you appear as if you are tougher than most people because the normal metric is who quit and who didn't. Yeah. What if somebody has a little bit more, a better mental approach? Does that mean that they're tougher or does that mean that they have tools that make them look tougher? So I'm saying it's really, you know what I mean?
There's no metric. Very nuanced. Yeah.
I never really thought of it that way. Yeah. I don't really think of anything. Dude, you know, I've known each other for years. There is nothing exceptional about me. Besides your retardation. I tried to get a disability rating for that. And the military said it was a preexisting condition. So they refused to rate it. Damn it. I know. We all have our cross to bear. I know.
They're like, no, that's actually been since birth. So you can go ahead and just sit with that one. We did you a solid by letting you come in in the first place. So you can carry the lunch pail on that one for the rest of your life. All right. Let's see what else we got. Do you think you would make it through buds? What do you think? So looking at it, I'll give you an overview, right? Yeah.
There's three phases. Okay. First phase, second phase, third phase. In the military's brilliance for a long period of time before my time, they went third phase, then second phase, then first, right? Because why not do shit backwards? Of course. It's in San Diego. I think they have completely rebuilt the areas that the SEAL teams exist in.
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