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06 Mar 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
What's up everybody. I'm back. I went with the closer closeup angle for today. Some people were saying that the wide one looks impersonal. How do you please everybody? Does anybody have an answer to that? I would love an answer to that. So I don't know. You let me know. Is this one better? I don't like being this close to my face, being able to see the creased lines in my forehead.
Somebody said one in one of the comments, my forehead looks like it has an eight pack. Is that good or bad? Does that mean my forehead is working out good? Or does that mean I need to hit my sister and get like two liters worth of Botox? Which is, I wouldn't do that anyway. I am what I am. So anyway, traditional Q&A for today. Any updates on anything I've been up to?
I just did Jocko's podcast, episode number 530. For those of you who have... supported me. I think last Friday, actually, I talked specifically about a request to support the new book coming out April 14th, if you can. For those of you that have, awesome. Thank you very much. I'll put a link again in the show notes. Jocko, for those of you unfamiliar, His first episodes, I didn't realize this.
He said, when I was on episode 64, I was the 12th guest he had ever had. And up until then, a lot of it was, I don't want to say book reviews, but it kind of was book reviews or dissecting and going through chapter for chapter. And in talking with my wife, she was saying they're her favorite episodes. So That's what we did.
For any of you wondering what the book is actually going to be about, what's going to be in the book, we didn't cover the entire thing, but I sat down and the book was there and it was fully tabbed out and we chatted about it for nearly four hours. So there's that episode 530. Find it where you can find all of your podcast stuff. And into that, let's just do a traditional Q&A.
Before that, thought for the audience. As the production of the podcast continues, there are times where it ebbs and flows a little bit. Sometimes I'll have two in the can or the next week's is going to be recorded the week before. And sometimes it starts stretching out a little bit.
And it's a little bit of a double-edged sword because you don't want to sit on the things, especially if it's a timely conversation. I'm curious the audience's thoughts. I know a lot of people like the full auto Fridays. I didn't even realize how many people actually like them, but the feedback is consistent.
What would people think if there's a lot of episodes in the can of doing one Friday guest episode, the next Friday Q&A? So that way I can kind of work my way through that. I don't necessarily want to commit to doing three podcasts per week, even though I enjoy doing the Q&As, which I'm about to do. I'm just trying to figure out a structure and I don't know the right answer for that structure.
So any listener feedback would be appreciated. Would you rather me release if I'm going to do two conversational episodes in a week on Monday and Wednesday or flip-flop them on the full auto Friday or the negligent stuff that I do with Michael? And that's it. So let's dive in. Today's episode is brought to you by Fabric by Gerber Life. It's the beginning of 2026. It's a new year.
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Chapter 2: What essential items are included in an EDC fanny pack?
Let's say you're... I mean, there's so many, again, to reference the conversation I was having with Jocko, we talked a little bit about McRaven's speech about making your bed in the morning, which isn't about actually making your bed. It's about starting your day with a disciplined act.
I don't know your physical limitations, but there is something that you are able to do every single day that you can start your day with. Pick a metric of success that you can achieve. Not achieve without trying, but maybe start with achieve with lower than Herculean effort. And then you can build on top of that. If you can walk, you need to go for a walk 30 days straight.
If you miss a single day in that, you get to restart and you get to build upon that until you hit 30. That doesn't seem like much because I'm telling you it's not much. And we all have time in our day to go for a walk, but set that as a goal and accomplish that or start at seven, whatever you need to do. Maybe 30 is too much for you. Do 15. If 15 is too much for you, do seven.
If seven is too much for you, do one and then layer that until it's two and layer that till it's three, until it's seven, till it's 14, till it's a month. And then we can start talking from there. Once your body is back underneath you and you're feeling better and you're not in pain, even though you are using weed to combat the nausea you've been experiencing, if we can get that to go away.
You need to start putting the weed down and you need to start training, right? The military is not a place to mix substances and service. And you need to be clean in both mind and body before you go into military service. So, and again, that's another reason why I'd put you out for 12 months. You need to get that out of your vernacular. Smoking weed needs to be completely gone.
If you can't do that, if you can't put it down, then I would tell you that maybe your goal is unreasonable because those two things are not going to work well in parallel. And you can change this, you know, I've never done anything in my life. You can change that. You can change that by taking the approach that I've laid out for you. And again, it doesn't have to be
This is an approach I'm laying out for you knowing nothing about your living situation, your financial situation, social situation, any of these things. So don't take the approach that I have given you as prescriptive. Think of it just as a framework that you can either attach things to or take things off depending on what works for your life, right?
Let's use these as ideas, but do what is actually working for you. And remember, layer those towards your goal. Use that desire to join the Marine Corps. And then you should, of course, have another goal, which is to be graduate bootcamp as your long-term goal.
I'm here to tell you, if you are able to accomplish that, you will never again be able to say or write that you have never done anything in your life. Marines as a group have such and a esprit de corps out of all military services. It is a community, it is a brotherhood and a sisterhood, the camaraderie.
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Chapter 3: How can someone overcome setbacks while pursuing a military career?
I genuinely do not like being around her and her now husband. However, the family gets together almost weekly. If you are at a place or get to a place where where you legitimately cannot be around these people without it going sideways, you have a choice in that, okay? Yes, this is your family too, but this is the biological family of your wife.
And if there is more value brought to her by attending these family events, even if she has to go by herself, if there's more value in that, then the potential risk of you coming in this continuing to blow up, you indeed still do have a choice, right? You cannot control other people, but you cannot, you can, again, you cannot control other people, but you can control yourself.
There are times where the decision to not put yourself in that environment are probably the right one. And it might be beneficial to both sides. It might be healthy for you to take a little break from the family activity. It may not be right. So this is something that you're going to have to kind of keep a pulse on.
But if you just can't do it, you need to have a conversation with yourself and ask yourself, what is my wife worth to me? I think I know the answer to that question, everything in the world. So you might need to let her go on these on her own. Would she be on the receiving end of some BS potentially? Would you maybe get a little shit talked about you when you weren't there? Probably. Who cares?
Especially if it maintains your sanity. And maybe with a little bit of a break, a little bit more time, a little bit more context, a little bit more perspective, things can start to improve. Maybe her family, when she realizes she's coming without you, will realize the deep impact that this is having on you and your relationship with their daughter.
And that will be the spark that allows them to think about their actions and potentially change. And maybe not. But That's the only metric of control you actually have. You cannot control somebody else. You cannot mold your wife's sister into the person that you want her to be. And quite frankly, man, stop trying. Focus that energy on yourself.
You had better be the absolute best version of yourself humanly possible before you start saying these type of things and basically lining out a framework of how the sister should live her life. Consider that. So that's the advice I have or perspective. The family conversation is probably going to be difficult.
But it'll be more difficult if you go into there pre-cocked, already frustrated, already saying like, this is going to suck. This isn't going to accomplish anything. Go in there with a light heart instead of a heavy heart, man. Go in there and tell yourself you're going to listen twice as much as you talk, whether you are hearing things that you agree with or not.
You can stand up for your principles without being an asshole, right? You can listen to somebody explain where they are coming from without arguing with them and trying to change their mind because you just don't agree. All of these things are possible. And I highly recommend that you give them a try. So do me a favor, email me back after this.
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