Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Good morning. Wow. It has been a week. It is early, early morning Thursday, the day before this comes out. It's been a wild one. Went down to Texas, linked up with Mike Ritland, did an episode of his show. I was on episode 10 early on with him. We repeated that. Decided he needs to come back up for another episode as well, so I think I'm going to have him back on in February.
Got back a bunch of podcast stuff scheduled for yesterday and... 50 to 70 knot winds sustained in the Flathead Valley. Hundreds of trees went down, power went out. Yeah. Do you know what's hard to do when the power is out? Record a podcast. And I guess you have a couple options. You can wait for the power company, which they were out there busting their ass.
I mean, there was a combination of tree people and power people, and I'm sure they were working together. You could wait for them. You could freak out, which is fun. You should do that a little bit from time to time. Or we ended up MacGyvering it, going to Lowe's, solving it with a credit card. Almost everything is solvable with a credit card. Get some generators ready.
some 100-foot extension cables, heavyweight ones that can push some juice, and hook up everything in the studio to generators that are out a window, hidden behind an air conditioning unit on the roof of the building, hoping that it doesn't make too much noise. So we were able to get one done. Yeah, but here we are. It's been a long one. I got a little carafe of coffee.
I got a coffee setup in the studio now. It's not a big deal. appropriate size cup for those of you that are audio only you won't see that this is about the size of a thimble because although i have a coffee setup i forgot to bring a good coffee mug Today's episode of the podcast is brought to you by Helix. Still standing. This could be the easiest ad read I do.
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Chapter 2: What issues arise from a law enforcement officer's perspective on hate?
And I'm sorry, I respect somebody who is willing to do that. Again, I don't respect the person. I don't respect the ideology, but I respect the fact that they're willing to do that. And hate doesn't help any aspect of that. Hate is not going to help you in your role in law enforcement. And I need you to take a step back here for a
And I suspect you probably do realize this, but imagine that you are a teabag, right? For the men out there, they're laughing because they're like, yeah, I'll teabag somebody. It's not what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about a set of Adriana goggles here, okay?
I am talking about like one of the sponsors I've talked about on the show many times, Peak, even though that's a horrible example because they don't actually use bags of tea, right? Theirs is a mixable teabag. I think people are getting the point though. A traditional, we'll call it an Earl Grey, a very traditional English tea.
If you put it in water and you just dip it in there, it'll change the color a little bit. But if you put it in there for hours, it is going to steep and it is going to become a darker and darker and darker and darker color of water. Is it still water? Chemically, sure. Are there a lot of additives to that? Is the taste going to be different?
Is it going to be changed because of the amount of time they spent in that environment, the tea? Yes. You are the teabag in this situation. You are the person. Your occupation is unique in the fact that you constantly interface with these people. And that is going to have an impact on you.
That is going to have an impact on the way that you view the world, the way that you view humanity, because you are seeing a side of the coin of humanity that – Almost nobody does. And you're seeing it at such a level so consistently, so constantly. How could it not change your perspective? Now, if you recognize that's happening, that's a good thing, right?
Understanding where you are and maybe why you are starting to feel this way is a good thing. Letting that turn into hate is not going to help you. And I'll say this as well. And this is true of People in the military as well. You're not Batman, okay? You're not some comic book character archetype that is designed and on earth to right all wrongs and solve all problems, okay?
It is your job to do your job, which in the role of law enforcement, a lot of times on the car, it says protect and serve. That's a motto. And I'm glad that that is the motto for a lot of law enforcement organizations. But your job is actually to uphold and enforce the law.
And if you can keep it in those boundaries, and again, the reason I said that to the military as well is, you're not wearing a cape and shield either in the military. You have a job, you have a role. It is your job to execute that role to the best of your ability. It is not your job if you're at a tactical level to solve strategic problems.
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Chapter 3: What personal experiences shape views on law enforcement and society?
I'll leave all the details out of it. But this was a combination of what would be considered for some people a pretty traumatic or at least scary event and involving people. Special operations people and support personnel who probably had no expectation to go outside of the wire. The reactions were very different when this kicked off.
Some people clicked right into work mode and went and did the best they could to engage the problem. Others were completely paralyzed. I'm talking... Unable to move, standing, shaking. And this is without any level of judgment, by the way.
I'm just talking about the differences in one situation that it can have on individuals based off of who they are, where they are in their life, experiences in life, tolerance to stress, exposure to trauma, level of training, all of these things.
I saw people move rapidly towards solving a problem and other people who were unable to move to the point where one of those individuals left country because of not, I'm not gonna say just that situation, but a culmination of stress leading up to that point. I would say that was the metaphorical straw that broke the camel's back. Why is that the case?
I think we're all different size cups and we all have different abilities to deal with stress and trauma. But if you don't deal with it, guess what's going to happen?
30 years later, something in the modern day can bring back up all of those lovely treasures that we as men like to dig a hole with a big shovel, throw them in, jump on top to make them as flat as possible, and then just stuff them down there with weights and then rebury them. That's been my experience. If you don't deal with your stuff, your stuff will eventually come back and deal with you.
And guess when it usually happens? The least opportune time for your life and what's going on. It's not going to happen on your best day. This stuff hits you on your downward slope. When you've gone over the bell curve, you've had just an amazing experience and now real life is coming for you. A nice little uppercut right in the ball sack, maybe a swift kick in the ball sack as well.
Ladies, I'm sorry, I don't know the equivalent. Um, That's when these things happen. And man, that is not when you are at your best. Or actually I'll just speak for myself. That is not when I'm at my best to deal with things like this. So I don't know why you have imposter syndrome. There's no reason for anybody to have imposter syndrome, unless you are actually being an imposter.
You are trying to pretend to be something that you're not. But I find those people actually don't have imposter syndrome at all. They're just psychopaths because they don't care about the outcome or impact on other people. They're in it for themselves and what they can get from it. So they don't worry about having imposter syndrome. They're just trying to be the best imposter humanly possible.
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