Escape the Enemy - Clint Emerson

[Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening welcome to International Spy Museum my name is Vince Houghton I'm historian and curator here at the Museum we we love nights like this a chance to kind of go a little bit outside of our comfort zone I think that's one of the one of the most entertaining things this is not something that 20 years ago not that we were here with celebrated our 15th anniversary but 20 years ago if there was a spy museum it's unlikely you'd have an event like tonight mainly because back in the day back out in the 20th century and the 90s and before there was a pretty clear line of demarcation between what is considered traditional intelligence activity and special operations they dabbled a little bit they played in the same sandbox every so often they borrowed each other's toys but for the most part they had their own little fiefdom since 9/11 that line has vanished evaporated is gone there's very little distinction anymore between what is a job for a special operator and what is a job for an intelligence case officer or intelligence paramilitary officer people like Clint did operations that back in the 80s would have been considered something for CIA operations officer and people within CIA operations guys are doing things today that would be considered a that isn't that's what the Green Beret is supposed to be doing or what a seals supposed to be doing maybe not a seal I know you guys are special but what's wonderful about this and I think what you're gonna see carried through into the opening of the new museum and about a year from now is that we're fully embracing this line is disappearing line I think that you'll see a lot of that represented in the new Spy Museum that the fact that it doesn't exist anymore that it's not it's everyone's in the same sandbox playing with the same toys and fun toy as they are so let me introduce to you our speaker tonight clint emerson who is a founder of escape the wolf a company focused on workplace violence prevention in response your thing is doing and it's totally not mine thread identification and crisis management he continues to catalog self-defense skills while developing unique durable tools in products for personal in home security he is the author of the New York Times best-selling book hundred deadly skills the seal operatives guide to eluding pursuers evading capture and surviving any dangerous situation and its sequel a hundred deadly skills survival edition the seal operatives guide to surviving the wild and being prepared for any disaster prior to this Clint spent a twenty year career in the United States Navy where he was a member of SEAL team 3 and the United States Special Warfare Development Group which sounds pretty innocuous in pedestrian until you realized that this is the fancy name for SEAL Team six during his time as a seal he was temporarily tasked with duty at the National Security Agency and has worked closely with other members of the intelligence community again telling you a little bit about the fact that everyone's in the same place all working under one big happy family so without further ado let me introduce to you clean Emerson thank you hi I already know tonight I came out of the cold and all those icy snowy streets out there the weather guys here they're pretty accurate or not know that same in Dallas it's like there was supposed to be like some blizzard and there's nothing it's but it's colder than it is here down south so that should make you happy right then Nathan and Carol make it through the doors there they are okay see there's this I had this procrastinator list because it sold out so then like John back there these guys and some other guys they all got special treatment coming through the door because they in sign up in time right well thanks for having me here the Spy Museum does a great job kind of keeping everything remembered as it relates to espionage and stuff and now moving into Special Operations with the new building it's always a delight to come speak and the seal thing I think personally it's gotten kind of out of hand how many people knew what seals were five years ago five yeah okay keep your hands up ten years ago ten years 15 15 you're still now it's getting a little thin now because about 15 is when the war started right we started getting popular okay now twenty years ago twenty years and it's getting thinned out 25 okay yeah now we're really thinned out all right so you know for me I found out about seals when I was what ten years old traveling the globe am I you know I grew up overseas and was in Germany and ran into the seal and he told me this long story turned out to be a hundred percent fraud I based my whole life on a fraudulent story and an airport in Germany and he told me some cool stories and then when I became an adult and went to the SEAL Teams and looked it all up turned out it was old false you know probably along with him being a seal because it's like one of the most fraudulent jobs out there right now you know and I don't know why I mean if I'm gonna live but I can win it I'm a doctor a lawyer maybe no nowhere I mean lawyers we got in the room we got a couple yeah lawyers they're right there with the IRS right and then yeah so you got what three hundred out every out of every three I don't know where they got this ratio three hundred and sixty six to one so every three hundred sixty six guys you meet that say they're seal their fraud okay that's how bad it is right now this whole stolen valor thing so always assume they're full of crap until they prove otherwise right and there's a bunch of questions you can ask you know what the questions are determine if someone's a seal or not what's that what's your buds class so buds is basically water demolition seal training and if they say something to the effect of alpha for for two it's all [ __ ] okay at that point you're like all right this guy's a fraud because they go sequential numbers right you know they started with whatever one at some point and then now they're at like in the 300s okay twenty no 40 60 let's say 1963 January Kennedy said we could be seals so you do the math pleasure 50 60 years something like that and we're only into the class 300 right now all right so for me you know getting popular you know with the seal thing right yeah did it did anybody listen so this is what I had to go with right magnum p.i anybody know magnum p.i before he became working for what's his name Higgins yeah that rich guy right driving a Ferrari right the seals do only if you write books I'm just kidding so they yeah he was a his character was a former you know Vietnam vet you know so I was like oh yeah so after I was you know I heard the story about seals then you start researching and you go to the library and you look at that thing called like a card catalog whatever you know and then you got to go find it in a library and uh you know they didn't have much they had this one book I remember that was like blue and had a had like a pretty cool picture of guys coming out of the water with their dräger on you know and it was a picture book perfect right cuz I don't like to read it would like to read in here no that's why I put pictures in my books it just makes it easy right and I must read that thing a thousand times you know and and then you had shows like this where you're always hoping for each episode just to keep alluding to that whole seal thing but they very rarely did it you know they'd show every tool every now and then a flashback and order him and his boys what's his name TJ that flew the helicopter and yeah it was the other little guy who's he is he like an Rick was he like an EOD guy or something no no anyway that's what I had to go with okay it's not a whole lot then he had this thing come out right the movie Navy SEALs all right so I'm sitting there looking at this thing remember what he was saying at this point anybody you're welcome but we didn't exist and you never heard of us because this guy was like man you guys are amazing he's like we didn't exist we're never just this operation never happened and I'm gonna kill you later if you say anything whatever the hell whatever they said right and that was kind of uh I was like yeah that's kind of cool but this movie like one of the others they're the one was the other one valid or something valor well the other Steele movie that came out I was like all active Valerie yeah and it this one was supported by Naval Special Warfare and so was that one you know so that's why there there's somewhat accurate I hate to say that with a Charlie Sheen guy but you know it's true somewhat accurate oh we talked about politicians while we're in DC right yeah everybody know who this guy is Jesse yeah so I showed up to buds and this dude was wearing a tie-dyed tank top a pair of UDT okay he's not in the Navy anymore been out for a long time and he had his receding hairline that went about halfway back his head but he had a long braided ponytail that went down to like the crack of his butt and I'm like running and he look hey man my guy he looks familiar he was at that movie predator and uh he's like what class you're gonna like class 203 and I'm like I need to go right he wants to talk once he telling me how he was a utt guy and this and that and anyone was pretty funny but uh then I think somewhere along the way he's he's gone crazy right huh something but he was cooling this you know remember that this [ __ ] will make you a sexual Tyrannosaurus I'm just talking about like Copenhagen or something oh yeah then came along this all right anybody watch this movie remember this moment GI Jane right God aren't we sick of seals at this point yet right it's like it's like crazy anyway we had the first female go through I think it's been a couple months now and uh Naval Special Warfare is push to get females and all of Special Operations kind of did this push and I think the one the one woman that like made it all the way through the screening and everything she made it two weeks through pre buds I think you know she but we should put everything she had into it but never actually made it to the first week of SEAL training but they gave it the noble effort well I was gonna turn that off okay sorry about that completely unprofessional but that's how I am we're gonna be hit touching on religion sex drugs how much everybody makes in the room you know all those things you're not supposed to talk about the first time you meet them we're gonna do that tonight okay all right but yeah seals seals are like the whatever their fan did whatever people it's like it's like the spotlight is on the seal community for last I don't know how many years 10 15 years straight but let's not forget you know you had John Wayne Green Beret right and I'd have to say he's probably one of the one of my favorites so far that's represented the Special Operations community and then of course you know Chuck Norris never chock don't divorce Iran I got although it got all the glory there for a while with I don't know what there was like 20 Delta Force movies right at some point oh and then of course everyone's favorite Rambo see so the army got any army guys in here yeah yeah guys have one football like the last what two three years yeah that's pretty good out of 15 that we beat you that's okay though I get it you guys I think that I heard I was talking to someone they're saying West Point finally allowed a certain weight level to start entering into West Point hence the reason why now they have bigger football players I guess up till then you couldn't they had some weight restriction thing going and now the last three years they've been allowing to go recruit you know bigger solid guys and now they're actually a little bit of competition for the Navy yeah anyway so then there's Rambo yeah there you go still looking good alright and then the final part okay everybody loves this one right Oh Jay can't go anywhere without at least talking about Oh Jay every five to ten years depending on when he's getting out of prison but most people don't know it that picture of him was when he was on set for a remake of a movie called frog man and he had extensive knife fighting training for that movie prior to this incident and then when they wanted to bring the guys in that train demand knife fighting they legend has it they magically disappeared to an island with a lot of money and so you know the gloves didn't fit but I mean he had extensive knife fighting trading for that movie the movie never went anywhere most people don't even know that it was made and never went to the big screen because this incident of course happened but uh yeah he was not a frogman he tried to be alright moving in tonight right you always heard about me I grew up overseas hence the reason why I'm dressed up like an Arab right there then I wanted to be a ninja okay I've heard this before you know I found out if you go kill someone as a ninja it's called murder so I decided to be a seal all right and you got to be a seal you hang out in the water for six months trade cold wet sandy we do this thing called nut to butt off a lot you start to appreciate it right where everybody puts their nuts to each others butts and you stay warm okay we did that a lot and then you get through it six months later you get some advanced training all right these DC crowds are always tough the guys just stay stoned go anyway this is how was last year - you're gonna loosen up by the other night because your asses are getting taped up all right so the you sit there for six months you're cold wet sandy then you get some advanced training and you slowly start becoming a seal and it's not tell about you know somewhere between three and four years that you don't feel like a new guy anymore but you're still a new guy right you're always a new guy and putting that whether it's self-induced or it's your peers around you're reminding you that you're a new guy keeps you always on edge keeps you always on your toes making sure you're always learning training hopefully keeping you humble and I don't that work but um yeah and then you three or five years later heck now you show up at the USS Cole and this was the wake-up call for me personally you show up at this thing and you see a hole on the side of a us one of the most advanced you know destroyers you could drive a bus through that hole you can only see half of it at the water line 17 kids killed on that thing and then at that point I was like wow this is actually all real you know I was in it and what 94 and then that happened you know it took years but prior to that we were doing a lot of other stuff we're operating but it sure as hell wasn't as much as soon as stuff like this started happening then things cranked up for all the Special Operations I always like to honor guys I always honor I've been honoring Glenn a lot lately because of Benghazi you know that when we did a couple of deployments together stayed in touch all the way up until he on that last trip and and we all know the story right got attacked him and tied both were SEAL team 3 guys and they did the government contract thing but this is a picture of him and Iraq when we were doing these basically anytime he found a Scud or anything he basically blew it up and destroyed it so we took a moment took a picture Glenn was a great guy we can't I mean anybody know Glenn in here cuz he was probably the world's biggest best friend there wasn't him still to this day you will never meet someone that everyone says well how was my best friend no that was my best friend oh that was my best friend because he was that great a guy and he made you feel like he was your best friend without a doubt and he meant every bit of it but this guy had lived life if we're even joined the Navy he had hitchhiked across this country following the Grateful Dead probably smoked a lot of pot then he made his way up to Alaska work on a fishing boat then made his way down in California worked in a micro micro brewery or something sat around a fire on a beach in LA happened to be with some seals seals were like you should be a seal he's like okay and so he joined the Navy and I ended up at Team 3 with us he was a pilot he and I would go once I got my license we go fly from time to time and overall great guy you know he grew up boxing wrestling he was one of those guys who was good at everything and always made you go [ __ ] anyway ladies uh he was awesome all right moving on so wrote some books hundred le skills is what they look like escape the wolf was actually the kind of a kick off I put this thing together because in the government there wasn't any books out there that said this is how you blend in when you go overseas this is how you kind of do things and threat reduction risk mitigation you know how to act how to be we're gonna cover some of that tonight anyway the book is what turned into the company and now I I deal a lot of do a lot crisis management stuff for fortune 500 nonprofits mega churches private schools you name it hundred deli skills is really just a consumer level version of escape the wolf because it's how do I get you guys to be more self-reliant self rescue oriented well you put it in a book and you hope and you make it really easy you know you can thing up learn skill hopefully you retain some of it and if a good day goes bad or then you're ready right and that's the goal that's the goal for tonight I'll start moving through this pretty quick so we can get to all that tight Eyez and tape and good stuff right and put everyone got lockpick sets when you came into the door right if you didn't they're back there in a bucket but make sure you have them you'll need them in a bit mm-hmm any questions so far I like to keep this stuff discussion based if you want to throw something at me you can if I offend you I'm sorry all that good stuff right anything yet okay good all right moving into it so threat reduction starts with awareness we hear awareness all the time it's kind of overused but really underutilized because what are we going to do I hear people that talk about awareness especially situational awareness like scan your environment scan your environment you know how much there is to scan around here you know or yours oh you break dairy into zones and then scan from near to far near far near to far our brains aren't set up to aggregate all that data okay it's not a computer it's an organic thing shove in our skull and some of us or got good ones some of us get bad ones like me but you're relying on your brain to take all that information in and somehow pull threats out of it is crazy right so first thing really is how do you break down awareness you look at yourself okay so guys like who wants to volunteer phone tears okay you come up come on get on the stage mm-hmm let me pick someone red I'll take red right there yep Rena red oh he's looking behind him like oh he's on look I mean he's over here come on and say Jack I'm gonna light yeah so personal awareness uh maybe we need one more let's see you guys are kind of casual even dress up for me that sucks Oh just kidding I didn't dress up for you either uh anybody dressed up from work yeah back there that's yeah tie jacket yeah good all right hmm so when we talk about threat reduction it starts with looking at yourself in the mirror before you walk out each day and I'm gonna really try to do this out offending anyone okay but our ego what happened to the okay because he's our ego is what dresses us in the morning right whether you think so or not we all want to kind of stand out look different and then and everybody else that we're around or we just want to look good we don't look like slobs you know it's kind of normal it's difficult to go and pick out neutral colors hey I want to blend in I don't want to be targeted and and make sure that it's the if you're sitting at an International Airport we notice people we would notice some people that walk by and then we don't notice a whole lot of people that walk by and there's reasons for that and you want to be one of those grey people that walk by that no one notices but our ego tends to be the one get in the way so she has a little bit of a ponytail so starting from the head down like when we're talking about security ponytails are great handles for bad guys right if I can control your head I control the spine if I control the spine to control the body this is basic MMA am i standing it on something that okay so you know a ponytail is you know it's great because it's easy sometimes I put this mop into a little like thing on my head my daughter calls it a nod or something I don't know I only do it cuz what I'm working on a run with my hair in my face I look like an idiot there you go so but that handle you know what right off the bat is kind of a security thing right for women we were just talking tonight about this red line rape that happened you know we're gonna dig into it later you guys hear about that here locally how many how many people from DC I'm assuming a lot because you're not laughing just kidding so working down what do you think do you think she's pretty neutral on how she looks do you think she blends in no I think she stands out coat yeah but I yeah it's good right it's got stripes is that appear to be gold on her wrist you know could it be maybe maybe not right but what's something good going on here pants right vice the skirt when we talk about females you know it's you know increasing that security posture sometimes it's like you guys don't want to wear the things that do increase your security posture because you know maybe you don't wear pants suits and all that crap every day neither would i if I could wear skirts I would boots she's got she's got shoes on that she can run or fight in you know right now it's winter so it makes it easy to have kind of the right things on but overall security posture wise she's good she could probably take a jacket and switch it out with something that's more less patterned all right we want to stay away from logos and same brands and all that kind of stuff but overall good right yeah thanks okay all right bright colors what do you think about bright colors yeah my guys it's the first thing your eye catches you what are those high-heeled shoes with the red bottom that women want them what are they called that's right I always say Louis Vuitton no boo-boo-boo-boo what you say anyway those things stand out women pick up on that kind of thing and then you can't run you can't fight in them but that red man it's like the one thing you notice about those shoes and you know that they're what like six hundred dollars so I'm crazy so the colors even if it's on the bottom of your shoes or whether you're wearing it up top it stands out it's bright and it makes it easy now there are some cool features to this you know like if there's surveillance teams out there and there's or just let's just call it a stalker it really makes it easy for a stalker to keep track of you at much further distances right because now it's just that red sweater red sweater and he can kind of keep track of it much further away which increases distance and you can use that to your advantage because the minute you walk inside a store and you take the red off and come back out what's he looking for and what has he done with his distance he's increased it so if you think you know you're being stalked or followed and you have anything on that stands out that they can be tracking you by well now you can turn around is it against them to then blend in as you walk out the door and hopefully elude that person right it's just little things jeans are good he's got clothes heeled shoes he doesn't look like he has any expensive stuff on I'm good to go yeah oh good just blend it in right would you notice him or no what do you think the red right that's about it okay all right and this guy's Dress for Success right yeah so ties you know the suit in itself around here environment dictates is this common where we're at right here yes okay so it actually turns out it's not that big a deal but if you're traveling internationally and you show up in a country where this isn't worn all the time but you just feel like or better yet the government or your company requires you to dress a certain way when you're sitting in business business class how many people have ever had to do that because the company requirements are government requirements you know it doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna work for you when you land where you're getting to write clothes so shoot our clothes own shoes good close toed shoes nothing really invaluable on but depending on the environment he could stand out or he blends in right sound good okay that's just some examples of personal awareness we'll see if this thing stays on it okay now when we talk about cultural awareness you know I'd say here in DC even New York these big mixing bowls you have everyone and their mother around here so culture awareness should be somewhat high in this town you know what maybe some of the protocol and etiquette is for certain cultures and what you can and cannot do to offend someone right and it seems you know we got the number one guy in this town that he's good at offending everybody regularly but that you know it's how he rolls and you know I don't know if we're gonna change that but it goes a long ways to respect the culture that you're in respect the people that are there regardless of your thoughts regardless of politics that business card you get from someone could be the very one business card that could get you out of a jam because the State Department is not coming anytime soon okay that makes sense any State Department folks in here sorry okay and then of course third party awareness so this is no matter what when we look at the people on the stage you look at yourselves we can all look each other and form an opinion and then all of a sudden we start judging right and I don't even need to know you but that third party awareness is always there and that's ultimately what you're trying to kind of neutralize and defeat when you talk about people targeting you so the more you can blend in the less you stand out that third party awareness piece starts to go down and that is the goal you take your cultural awareness your personal awareness your situational awareness and you drive all those up and then hopefully you drive this down and in this crowd is where you know is where the criminals are it's where the foreign Intel the law enforcement in that country where their second income is bribery's it's all of those things you're sitting there watching you judging you and determining whether or not you're worthy target or not okay so increased situational awareness which is really just paying attention these days and you can't pay attention to everything but what you can do is kind of sensitize and calibrate your brain to what the bad guys do and then look for those things because that's a lot easier to look for what's coming your way than to sit here and just constantly I mean if we were all scanning our environments which we don't because our heads are doing this but if we were you still wouldn't be able to see anything coming your way because if you're truly trying to pay attention everything then you're seeing nothing at all right so we learn what the bad guys do and the areas that we go and then we know all right I'm sensitized to it I calibrate my awareness and now I'm looking for those things potentially happening to us then there's the common sense stuff right if you're in Times Square and you see a bag sitting by itself for more than 10 minutes or so on the side of the street then that's the whole see something say something right that's common sense stuff but when we talk about criminal tactics that exist in certain areas those are things you got to research a little bit before you go and then now you know what to look for I talked a little bit about determining whether someone's you know trailing you or not but it all boils down to pattern of life does anybody know what pattern of life is it's it's it's the habits it's your daily grind we're gonna do a little exercise right now everybody's gonna draw down your pattern of life so if we can start handing out a bunch of blank sheets of paper don't take a pile from your side take one pass it around the pile for this side take one pass it around mm-hm and then we got sharpies up here that you might have to share and all that good stuff but there should be plenty of paper so our pattern life for some people you can see this looks a lot like this right I go I start at home I go to work and I go to the gym and I might go to dinner and then I go home how many full-time moms we got in here full-time moms no no okay there's part-time moms is it part-time full-time mark time if you're divorced hey yeah so Joe is the Pens come around I want you to if you have your own that's great and get started early cheaters and then draw your home to draw what your pad and a life is what you do on a daily rhythm so it's the place and you probably know what time you leave and when you arrive and all that good stuff especially if you're relying on the metro right take a moment we'll take what two three minutes give or take maybe more all right so your pattern of life is you guys all know your pattern of life very well what are some common denominators we heard just in the six or seven people that we heard talk nine times you know your times right okay we're gonna get that in a second where you go is it really all that different for us you know you get up if you got kids you're dealing with kids first then you're going to work and then you're dealing with kids and then you're coming home right so that triangle we live in how often are you treading all over it over and over and over again raise your hands you're just tread in the same routes same times same places day in and day out you've got a job that keeps you moving around all that great you're naturally your pattern of life is you know basically unpredictable and that's where you want to be so a time you leave to the environments you go to the distance between all of those and then of course back to your demeanor leads to an acronym real simple called Ted time environment distance demeanor right so if you want to be unpredictable you got to change up your times you got to change up the environments you go to you got to change up the distance distance for when you live in a triangle is just change the routes some of them might be a little longer some of them might be a little shorter but at least you're changing them up from time to time and then of course your demeanor right how you carry yourself if you're blending in you know you're trying to be the gray guy and not wearing all the flashy stuff we're driving the flashy car if you're using public transportation great because now you're just surrounded by everyone else and that helps with that risk mitigation and stuff now I went out to foul and you guys don't wear Fallon is Top Gun and all that so I had those guys draw their pattern of life and this is this is what I got it was [Laughter] you know I mean these Navy pilots I'm telling you I mean I don't know what their fascination is with these phallic symbols but they draw them in the sky this is their pattern lives like yeah I go to work I do it I fly I go to the gym I fly some more I go pick up chicks you've got chicks and then I go home right but I mean I don't know yeah it's a Navy thing I guess anyway so changing your time changing the environments changing your distance and making sure your demeanor is always kind of offset is only going to help you and that's natural that's out because we're not talking about being paranoid you know that's that helps with making up the difference where your awareness may lack right because you're just your pattern life's just all over the place bad guys when they want your stuff you know they're they're coming during the day when you're gone and all they want to know is when you're leaving and when you're coming home so they know how much time they have to ransack your place if they want you then they are without a doubt focusing on the routes and the times and the people and the places you associate with and then they turn terming your vulnerabilities in the best place to attack what we call the X and you never want to be on the X for any given period of time you always want to get off the X as soon as possible so what I challenge you with now that you know you're paralyzed we've talked about it start looking for the X and what do you think the X is going to be defined by the the best place for someone to take advantage of you what do you think those kinds of places or characteristics are going to be go ahead I am out when you're alone where a third party awareness is down right is that kind of what we mean there's nobody to watch there's no witnesses right what else you don't have an out yeah you're in a confined environment potentially like this red line act where she was on the subway by herself with that guy and no one else all right and then she was raped you know well well well the Metro is moving it's crazy what else incumbered yeah you're being yeah kids groceries a phone yeah your awareness is zero right what else on your phone yep distractions anything else so the anatomy of like your typical ambush is gonna be where there's elements of surprise right so you can look at your routes and go all right this would be a good place to probably attack me right now right because no one can see it no one can hear it and that's what they're looking for they're looking for that best place it could be right when you're leaving work or right when you're leaving home early in the mornings doesn't sound like anybody's getting up too early around here I mean you're leaving nine o'clock yeah that's fine that's I mean as long as when it's busy and you're leaving during those times that's even better right so everybody kind of getting to getting shifted this whole thing it's a it's um it's very difficult we're creatures of habit you know we get in it we fall into these routines and we just do a day in and day out and we get to the weekend but to make your week a little more interesting you can start varying this stuff up you know you can if you always assume that you've got somebody stalking you're you're under surveillance then you're always gonna be okay because you're gonna be always checking the things that are that matter and you're gonna be identifying those ambush points and making sure you're not sticking around those areas too long whether that ambush points a parking garage or driveway you know it could be the fact that when you walk home it there's an alley you walk by that you could get drugged into if you stay in hotels a lot you're traveling a lot in your room is placed near a stairwell you know you could get drugs straight into the stairwell you know the fire escapes that's a great place for you know bad guys come in through those doors and then they also snag people throughout those doors making sense okay any questions so far any of that anybody have a particular concern issue you know that they deal with on pattern life no good okay moving on so I'll try to break this stuff up right you're going to sleep and now it's time to wake up to like some story time right so this one I was just telling the story last night because I forget my stories and then I will remind me of it and I'll tell it so these are ribs they're rigid hull inflatable crafts and they're you know they got these diesel cat engine jet motors with bucket systems that can turn on a dime they can go like whatever 60 miles an hour crazy you know and they always like our drivers like to go as fast as possible on the roughest sea state so that you break your neck and break your back and everything else we sit in this back area right here and then you have the engine covers and then you have you know the guys that are driving and comms and all that good stuff I'm kind of making fun of myself with this but it's alright so I'm standing on we're doing over the beach training right and we're showing off it's a during the day it's just training and OTB is when you get off the boat and you swim in and I'm standing there and I've got what we use for most waterborne operations you'll use like a chai calm or ak-47 because they actually fire when you come out of the water where if you use something with higher tolerances the odds are it might not fire so if you would just want to swam with a weapon that can get tossed around the surf zone get full of sand and all that good stuff aks try calms those kinds of things will still fire when you come out of water so I've got that thing sitting right here but the unique thing about is you have to put those on fire in order to lock and load it right so there's a charging handle and you I hold the fore grip but pull it back and then I let go it starts firing holes rounds into the bottom of the bar and so I grab the safety and I shove it up and it stops firing okay anomaly weird what's even worse is there's like a Admiral standing across from me who was there to watch the seals go across the beach and I'm kind of like oh yeah I never in the best thing though it kind of made me feel a little bit better about the whole thing one I didn't shoot myself in the foot which was great because you never want to be the guy that he literally shot himself in the foot not once but like four times but somehow the bullets managed to go in between my feet into the engine cover engine cover and below that is engines right so I'm like damn this sucks can I just get in the water and get the hell out of here right and my chief is looking at me what the [ __ ] just happened and I'm like all this is communicating through our eyes right and uh I'm kind of like what do I do now I don't know I just had like this crazy malfunction with my weapon and Admiral and he's like if you mess with guns long enough that kind of [ __ ] will happen I was like oh thank god god the water went away what turns out so we have these roadies and chest harnesses and where you have these flaps that cover up your magazines and all your gear that you're wearing on your chest well it happened to be sitting just right where a little piece of nylon was kind of pulling on the trigger already right so then when I cranked it back it was ready to fire and I just started firing the in the boat fortunately the engine covers are made of like Kevlar and so the engine didn't get touched and then we did all our stuff we came back we had a debrief we figured out what happened it was an anomaly event but you know went still the Jackass that did that in front of the Admiral who were there trying to impress right life's a competition everything's a sales pitch even for us right like we got to show these guys our leaders how good we are and and hope that they use us when we go on deployment that didn't probably help too much but it was kind of a weird accident and so that night the boat guys called me over and like hey we got something for you I'm like all right and I go over and they have lacquered the holes for me and they said do you think you could just put your signature right next to the holes I'm like all right I sign it and they lack her over it and that boats probably still roaming around with my signature and my bullet holes in it so anyway yeah that was fun I didn't live that down for like a year all right moving back in okay we're gonna try and keep you keep going through this so when we talked about we talked about awareness we talked about you know your pattern of life and how important those things are and now you start talking about some of the you know current things that have been going on I try to fill this thing and these are all illustrations out of the book by the way makes makes it easy right pictures pictures so some of the more unique stuff that's been going on the scams ransomware how many how many people have been working for companies or agencies that ransomware has been an issue yet a couple yeah we got half a dozen people in here right so you're familiar with it right you don't want to be the employee that clicks on that link and all of a sudden all thousand computers lock up because of you right so that's the first step is awareness with what you're clicking on but I know the deal we just start clicking sometimes quickly click I just need to get through these and you end up clicking on the wrong thing and all of a sudden you get alert comes across your screen that basically says hey we've encrypted all your files and we'll unencrypted this stuff or decrypt it for you if you give us like 300 bucks and it's usually a pretty cheap fee because what they're doing is they're sending that thing to thousands of people they're all gonna pay because that's sometimes for a lot of businesses that's just the standard operating procedure now just to pay it but there are some things to do if you're personally attacked and that's what this focus on if you don't have the money to be given these guys then the first thing is a three to one or any IT folks in here yeah so three to one rules they're probably very familiar with it if not it's just a backup systems on saving your information these days a lot of us already do it you don't even know it so the first one is the cloud right the cloud is not you know a cloud you know its servers and they're all over the place and they're like national assets and all your information is stored there and so you want to back it up so the cloud would be like Dropbox you know Google Drive all those places and you can have those things set up to automatically backup everything you're working on right number two is an external drive hooked up to whether it's your laptop or the tower that you have at work and then that thing when you buy them how you can buy from for nothing these days with terabytes of memory and you can program it to backup everything you're doing all the time and then of course you know the device you're on is backing up things now you've got three layers but here's the thing is if the device you're on is affected now you've got your two areas that you can rely on you can literally move that out of the way grab your other laptop or another computer whatever login and keep business keep your personal life moving forward make sense that's a three to one right if you're a victim of it at home or wherever and all of a sudden you get that disclaimer and you don't want it to go network-wide this is very difficult because you're racing against something that travels you know if it's fiber then it's traveling at the speed of light so good luck but you can power down unplug everything try to just get off the net do anything everything you can to prevent your terminal from affecting everyone else's okay so power cables everything gets unplugged basically gonna go crazy at your cubicle and hopefully save the day right but those are just some basic steps that you can take and for longevity sake you're saving that stuff up in different places backup to the backup you know the whole mantra is one is none two is one you know so always have your backup right so this one's becoming more and more popular there was actually someone there was a woman here in DC I think it was like a month ago here inferred maybe it was Virginia this virtual kidnappings they're becoming more and more popular it's a scam they tend to focus on folks that maybe aren't so technologically savvy and they tend to hit you know the elderly that have grandchildren and they will call you up and say we have your grandchild we're holding them for ransom and then they'll go on to make just terrorized this person having them believe that they have a loved one and they've got them and then they keep you on the phone for an extended period of time and they make you drive around and pull money out of ATMs and do all this stuff anybody know anyone that's this has been effective a couple here right yeah kind of handful of people in here words this has happened to him so it's big more and more popular but there are some distinguishing different the end state is is you go collect all this money and you hand it off or they'll use you know different online you know anonymous transactions stuff you know and then you'll give them all the money and then there was absolutely no one kidnapped a lot of times they'll focus on someone who's traveling so especially if you're flying overseas and you're on the plane for you know that the LA if I'm the bad guy and I know how she's gonna be on the plane for the next six hours because she posted it all over social media at the airport on my way to London you know so that's the first step don't do that now they know you're in the air for like whatever what is it from here it's like six hours and less than that but they know they have that amount of time to work with to call everybody else and try and get money right and then those people don't know they thought you were going to London but maybe you got captured before maybe all of a sudden what raises a lot of questions and your loved ones minds and then they'll just go pay the money so distinguishing differences on this we're gonna work backwards on the prevention side is just don't post what you're doing where you're going any given time if you want to post all the great things you got going on in your life do it after the fact you know don't post real time wait and tell you've already left and now you can post it right and then that one whoever's watching it keeps them off balance you know ex-boyfriends girlfriends mmm-hmm you know but uh now you go working our way up you know the real versus virtual how do we determine the differences right well I tell you what a guy that's calling that has done a true real kidnapping is not staying on the phone that long it's gonna be quick and it's gonna have demands and the money is gonna be more than a couple of hundred bucks or what you could pull out an ATM machine right because with them they're thinking their calls gonna be traced they're trying to control the situation as much as possible by limiting the information to you other than proof of life proof of life is another big distinguishing difference between the two if someone's keeping you on the phone for a long period of time and you say prove it and but they don't that's another sign that this thing's probably all be us and it's just one big scam they're just trying to take advantage of you emotionally really you know and then of course if they're calling if they really want you to believe that they have someone you love what phone you think they're gonna call from that person's right but instead they're probably Colin from some other no no caller ID type phone or they're using a burner phone or burner cards you know all that kind of technology that's out there for bad guys to use so the difference is is all about the time the amount of money and the phones that they're using the call from but this become more more popular if you have heard of it now you know okay okay time to wake you up again right story time so this is me building rapport yeah holding hands yeah it's just funny I remember these sayings that they say about seals like you guys know languages like we don't need to know languages we're not talking when we get there that's kind of true it really is I mean you show up is like okay everything done yeah you're done with an extract okay let's go get on the helicopter but there are times when you have to build rapport this story behind this is actually kind of funny so I'm over building rapport and I'm walking around with these guys and we're walking around their town and it's dirt roads as you can tell a lot of dudes carrying ak-47s really weird you don't want to be in that environment but I was I don't know voluntold to go the environment and so I'm walking around in there introducing me you know and I can't speak the language so I'm just like okay we're doing this thing I wish I could give you all the details but I can't but anyway I'm being introduced to a lot of people in town and towards the end I'm like hey what are you what are you telling everyone he's like oh don't worry I'm telling them you're a Danish veterinarian when he's like everyone loves the Danes no big deal like okay that's cool all right so you know later that night done with work done with whatever we're doing and I'm in my motel it's like a moat I call it a motel it's not really a motel right the menu was pretty pretty extensive it was camel mm-hmm spaghetti because thank God the Italians had colonized the area like decades before us right so at least there was spaghetti option bolognaise with like I don't know I was like mayonnaise on top it wasn't even like red or white sauce and but you eat it and then I get a call right and it's like yeah I don't really want to I don't really mean to alert you but you need to get out of there as quickly as you can there's about a thousand angry people headed your way and I'm like huh and so I kind of go out the back door jump in a car make my way out to the middle of nowhere or I hope a plane shows up to pick me up kind of thing right and it turns out that like timezone wise a newspaper had come out that some Dane had drawn yes right drew ala like part man part dog okay an illustration you guys all heard about this yeah and what is the odds of him coming up with phase a Danish veterinarian and then turning around and this thing happening and I'm like you know about to get my head cut off basically so there was a lot of drama involved in all this but it's just a you know the bad wrong place wrong time wrong like introduction altogether and uh yeah it's kind of funny after the fact all right okay so now we're getting into the more active we have you know there's the there's the threats we try to allude everyday that are very sad satyam cyber and tech oriented and while we're on Tekken before we get in I don't want to forget some of this stuff so the great thing I'm gonna hand this stuff around you guys can pass around technology you can buy it all online it's super cheap borders are gray right and get whatever you want these days so one of the things that it what's funny is this technology in here is like 15 years old so like this little pinhole camera this thing the end of it is like the size of a pen and I'll let it pass around the room okay you guys take a look at that thing that's 15 year old technology and you can buy it online for a reasonable amount we're talking not even not even probably 30 bucks okay it's full color CCTV gets high resolution and it literally could fit in the end of a pen right this technology just continues to get more and more gets faster smaller cheaper as we know these these these three guys going around are SIM card readers that you can open purchase right so if I get a hold of your phone I pull the SIM card out I stick it in this then I stick it in my laptop I take everything off of your phone which is important to know because you don't ever want to just let someone have your phone borrow your phone use your phone and especially if you leave it laying around if you travel a lot you leave it in the hotel room so you can go work out or whatever or you leave it charging you know you're leaving it vulnerable to have every bit of information sucked off of it and so we nicknamed these things like I think sucking dongles or something out of them but slurping slurping dongles so a slurping dongle is any basically smart USB that you program it to suck everything off of any device you have so the SIM card will slide right into these things pull all your data that means your text phone numbers your contacts SIM cards continue to have more and more information on it depending on your providers and this stuff is readily available right there on the internet all you gotta do is google it tracking devices other technology that can be used against you you know in considering tracking laws or really gray you know if you wanted to go stick this on someone's vehicle and see everywhere they're going where who there's who they're hanging out with what they're doing you can do it and there's a there's very few laws depending on States and all that good stuff protecting people so you have some that are loggers and then you have some that are actual real-time tracking devices so the real-time tracking devices actually have a sim card in it and you can dial in basically through apps these days and then it'll show you that vehicle on a map and tell you everything about it great for keeping track your teenagers or them keeping track of you it's you know it just depends on who's who's better at technology so these things like I said they're readily available it's good to know about all this stuff and like I said this is all old stuff the new stuff is smaller faster cheaper better but be aware of it now when you talk about like tracking devices where do you think tracking devices are gonna be if they're put on a vehicle yeah they're gonna go into the frame they have to stick to metal first and they got to be able to see the sky they have to get a signal to work and so the user will either know that or not and then so you can stick it to the frame near the rear axle wherever or you can just throw it under the driver's seat or passenger seat and it can sit there just as fine and do the same job so you you know looking for these types they I'm not saying go out looking check your vehicles but yeah it might be a good idea you never know especially we got crazies in your life mm-hmm anybody got crazies in our life crazy yeah they're all over the place yeah all right so now moving now we kind of move out of all those tech threats and you know we know that the zeros and ones out there in the digital world can be just as threatening these days as actual you know bad guys with pulses okay bad guys without pulses not an issue bad guys with pulses yes we got to worry about them so active shooting this has been a big one run hide fight everybody heard of that run hide fight you're hearing it more and more it's starting to actually catch on there's a lot of different other some other mantras out there but that one's probably the most popular X is the easiest it's in no particular order that's one piece of that you need to know it's not run if I can't you know fight you know it's whatever your environment will permit so if you're on a train in Europe it's a confined environment or if you're in a bathroom in Orlando in a nightclub then you're probably limited to fighting okay right the environment dictates on the run if you're gonna run if I want if I want to make a shot very difficult for myself and I've got targets where I'm changing elevation and windage right so people think it's crazy to run zigzag patterns but it works for someone who's trying to actually because the further you get away that's changing elevation and then if you're zigzagging that's changing windage right so just that little bit makes him go I never mind I'll go over here and shoot the easy guy right so and that's the goal is to be a hard target you know don't make it easy on them and then of course on the hide this is something you can pay attention to like these pillars right here knock up knock on that thing for me it it's solid right it's got a pole running through it it's got to be structural so if someone was coming into here to shoe do you think that would be a good thing to hide behind or your chair right so you want to pick the things that stop bullets ideally now not everybody can fit behind that so you get lucky he gets lucky you know some people just get lucky because they happen to be sitting near the thing but then it's okay now get out of sight right you know I can't get my sights on you then I can't shoot you so look for cover cover stops bullets if you can't do that then get out of sight right and that's what the hide is all about any questions on run hide fight okay so the precursor to all this is anybody ever heard a shot fired indoors yep could you determine where it was coming from no a shot fired indoors becomes almost like omnidirectional right it's like sound underwater sound which are sound travels like 10 times faster under watering but you can't tell where that sound is and it's the same thing when gunshots are fired indoors so somebody can be shooting let's say that exit door down that long hallway where the bathrooms are they could launch around and it would sound like you stand out right behind you so a lot of times what happens when shots are fired in people tend to just run away from what they perceive the gunfire is coming from and in reality sometimes they end up running into gunfire so you have to ID where that shooter is you have to figure out where the bullets are coming from and then make sure you get you know increased distance increases survivability right that's the ultimate goal any questions on that okay all right now we got ya back to waking you up with story time right so this is any Street and in the Middle East really you know what is Trump call this Wow hashtag [ __ ] right I wouldn't label at that I've been to a lot of places that he'd probably consider a [ __ ] but they're all like you know some of them made that culture is kind of cool and uh and there's a lot to learn from all that stuff you know I grew up in Southie growing up doing the hatred thing you know I hate these people I hate this culture and led me to being a seal I'll hit that but you know and then when you become the adult version of client you go you know what these are everyone's got their own thing going you know and you if you don't like it who cares if you like it great if you don't you don't you just we all live our own lives right so another interesting story so you guys I was uh I was checking in for work overseas and I go and I meet with my who I'm gonna be working for I get my phone I get some money you know it's a great reception right give me all the things I need and then I get in my car and I go down the block and I take a right-hand turn and once again a mob of angry people right and you guys remember Arab Spring yeah this was the kickoff to that okay and I happen to be surrounded by it and I'm in my car and the wheels start coming off the ground like this right like wow I didn't know this vehicle could do that all these people pushing it left to right left to ride and they're yelling and screaming and a couple of them have some ak-47 slung and I'm kind of getting concerned like wow all the things I've done in my life and this is how I'm gonna get ripped apart by this crowd right and I'm looking at the the car that was given to me I'm looking at the gas tank it's on empty yeah I'm kind of opening my phone I flip it open it's a flip phone right and I open it up and I'm like oh there's no SIM card they didn't give them to me yet they're like yeah use the money go buy some sim cards and so I've got absolutely no gas no way to communicate and I'm being rocked back and forth in my vehicle right and there's really nothing you can do at this point kind of look at everybody like I'm not the bad guy I'm not the bad guy so first thing is like I could grab my embassy badge and kind of like let me say Embassy and then I'm thinking like oh that might not work so I kind of put that back down right and they don't they're looking at I don't care and when we talk about projection demeanor management sometimes you need to look for that right so I start really paying attention because I'm actually truly getting nervous at this point and I see a set of what I call sympathetic eyes right there was a guy he had a uniform on I think he was probably law enforcement or military that was there to probably control some of this protest but as you know they're not controlling those protests there's no controlling it once it starts and he's kind of looking at me and I'm kind of looking at him and then I'm like Universal sign to get people or maybe to help you out is this like you want some money and he looks at me in his eyes get a little big I'm Michael good and I'm like go to the door and so he kind of goes over to the door and he takes off his ak-47 he points it at everybody that's near the passenger door and it opens up a little bit of a bubble so he can open the door and get in I'm taking a little bit of a risk here right letting us do him with a gun but I figured that was better than well I don't have any other options really you know if you floor it it runs it turns into like the walking dead you see what happens when you run over zombies right you get high acts on me and it wasn't gonna be good if this American ran over all these protesters you know turns an international incident okay I can't run him over darn but you know I rely on the next best thing sympathetic guys he gets in the car and uh and then he takes that Nek 47 he points it at the windshield and people start moving out of the way and I start slowly picking up speed and take the first turn get to a gas station I drop him off at giving the money and Here I am literally two three blocks away paralleling this nightmare and it was like nothing was going on just two or three blocks away from one minute you're like oh my god I'm gonna die here too huh I can hear the birds mmm filling up gas and everything's normal and then that was that right but social unrest can be obviously a very dangerous environment to be in and so you know paying attention to what's going on in the media and the challenges is overseas a lot of times the media isn't as good as we are error and catching every little thing that happens on Twitter and then here or there there's very little to go by or there's a language barrier and you don't know what's going on and most of time they don't even know what's going on right so you just have to be aware of that and so when we talk about now the opposing side that social media are big crowds and now with low tech high profit attacks where they're using trucks to run over people make sure you're never part of that big body of people you know usually there's satellite groups that you can kind of put yourself with the smaller groups and stay off the sidewalks and near the roads because those are obviously the avenues of attack you know and then in the rest of the time you know like we had New York where you just jumped up on the sidewalk and started running over people on bicycles well then you're just gonna really just you know just pay attention these days right so it kind of goes both ways big bodies of people whether it's a protest or a concert just stay away from the the bigger body it goes stay with the satellite little smaller bodies of people and it's gonna be a lot safer for you all right now we get to our homes right we talked about our pattern alive in our home is our main domain work is the second place right where does most of your violence occur either at home or at work home we can always say you know domestic violence becomes workplace violence a lot it's usually I would say probably 75% of the time domestic issues become workplace issues workplace issues can very easily become domestic issues as well so these are the two environments where we need to be as most cautious but especially our homes because we can control that sometimes the offices we work in the buildings we're at we can't control it we can make suggestions it doesn't mean they're gonna make any changes right so your perimeter starts way out with your neighbors and the idea is is you want to push your perimeter out as far as pit as far as possible you know I know that anytime we're rolling into a neighborhood overseas this sometimes they knew we were coming you know 10 blocks in because everyone talks to each other which is the one thing we don't do all that often anymore how many of you are like good friends with your neighbors it's rare very few of us there was very few hands that went up and literally that is just the way to go you got to go out and start talking to the people that surround you they're the ones that are gonna let you know if something's going wrong especially once you guys get on one text message together you can really look out for one another so that's where it starts right now as you move that perimeter into your yard bad guys don't like anything that's unpredictable so kids animals right if you don't have kids put some what's that yeah sure good one or better yeah just lean a skateboard up next to your front door right give the impression that there's kids okay dogs get one if you don't put the beware of dog sign somewhere you know it really does when they're going out and they're doing their little surveillance to determine who they're gonna who's house they're gonna hit first or next or whatever it really is all about what the house tells them it's not about what you they see you leave and then they look or is it really empty are there people still there are there kids still there if you're I keep putting it out I've said it a hundred times you may have already heard it if you're a single woman you know and get yourself a pair of size-12 cowboy boots okay you put them outside your front door okay make sure they're dirty we call them shit-kickers in Texas okay for a reason so put them out in front door put a pair out your back door that'll keep those sexual weirdos away okay the next thing is now as you approach the house a little bit closer illumination notice we're still talking about your perimeter right so light that place up at night there isn't there is no me being you know the professional bad guy in every country we went to you didn't like light we don't like light on us we don't to be in light neither do bad guys here in this country right you so light it up light that perimeter up they feel naked if they actually walk into that light bubble and that's what you want and you want them to move on somewhere else okay now we're getting to the door so we all have doors and you know insecurity it's like people tend to think that it's like the alarm system and the locks are like the most important thing and it's not you can put an ADT sign out front and not have one alarm not one sensor in your house or even alarm system and that'll do just as good a job just as effective ATT stickers the sign I'm not saying to have the salesman come to your house and take all this stuff and then not hire them but you could because they kind of they kind of they'll give it to you because even if you don't buy something it keeps their competitors away from your house or hey so get the sign get the stickers stick them all over the place you're good to go kind of sort right now the doors you want to make the doors difficult to get into and that's not going out by like a multi lock or a Medeco I mean those are great high security locks but they have their place what you want to do is reinforce the door frame so you can replace all the screws that are holding the hinges in the door or holding the door to the hinges and the hinges to the frame and you can replace all the screws in your strike plate with three-inch wood screws because right now they're probably only like an inch and a half right but three-inch guys replace all that then take your door frame on the locking side and about every foot put in the three inch wood screws okay now when someone's trying to kick your door in its gonna become very very difficult for them right you just reinforced everything and it's anchored to studs you know so you got to send long enough screws and get to those studs and that's the whole purpose of the longer the better with the wood screws making sense yeah okay so now you're reinforced your door you got your now of course the pattern of life of the house these die these days with all the automation and it's cheap highly recommend everything's digital now you got nest products that are out there so you can literally have your house do the same pattern life that you've got going right now we all start downstairs the living room the news goes on we're fixing dinner or watching the news those lights are on and then maybe after you know the ten o'clock news or whatever you're doing is done now you're moving up everyone's moving upstairs or moving towards bedrooms so lights are going off other lights are coming on the beauty of all that automation is you can program those to turn on and turn off the exact same path even when you're gone so your house is telling a story that is exactly the same as if you were there and that's kind of the goal you know all those old analog timers are great but the digital ones you can program it's kind of like ten relays in it so you can have your lights go on and off at ten different times and you just program it okay so that's just a little bit on that I could keep going on the house stuff but you know the other piece once again we've hit it before social media don't do anything real-time make sure everything is in the past yes so weather stripping on the base there's a lot of criminal tools that they use to get into different places and so increasing the weather stripping on the perimeter to the door so that there is actual pressure against the door when you want to lock it that pressure plays a role in defeating some of those tools the weather stripping across the bottom prevents some of the what's known as under the door tools so they'll make tools that slide up under the door and then come up to the doorknob and actually open the door and they go in right and they do it blind because if I'm looking at the doorknob on the outside I can move that tool over and imagine where it is on the inside and then get in that way but the weatherstripping kind of makes all of those tools kind of obsolete okay I can sense yeah any other questions that I didn't cover it's all over this thing all right the intrusion side of the house just like I said I truly believe in the tactical nightstand okay how many guys have tactical nightstands in here yeah now I don't know about in DC but mine you know you got like an ar-15 you've got a couple of different pistols the one thing I highly recommend you add living in DC and you guys like hate guns right well Frank you guys hate guns right yeah so the next best thing for you is probably either either oven cleaner or wasp spray okay it shoots like 30 feet make sure when you use this stuff it's in your house don't carry it in your purse it's a felony as soon as you walk out of your house and you use it on you can use mace because it's all-natural products and the bad guy won't get hurt but if you use oven cleaner or wasp spray in your house you will blind them for life you'll probably burn their lungs out they'll have a miserable recovery and they'll never see anything for the rest of their life okay but make sure you do that in your house because if you do that to somebody outside your house all of a sudden you're the bad guy for using it on the bad guy and it's a felony okay so a wasp ray oven cleaner nightstand you can shoot them really far away all right it's better than better than mace right mace mmm but remember anything you have in your house make sure you know where it's at make sure that you have positive control and you can use it cause anything you've got can be used against you and if you're not you know proficient with these types of things then don't even bother right so tactical one-eyed stands always is the first and that goes hand-in-hand right so you're sleeping at night you've reinforced your doorway kick number one you wake up oh god what's going on kick number two you're like tactical nightstand open drawer oven cleaner kick number three you're standing at your front door waiting for them kick number four you're like hurry up I gotta go back to bed kick number five you spray him and you close the door and lock it again right and off he goes okay making sense all right all right if you can't do all that then you got to have some prep right you're gonna have a plan you can have rally points for your family this is something you can have fun with you know you have your plan you know hey get your kids you can drill this stuff we drill things at work we drill things at school but how often do you drill anything in your own house for your own personal security zip zero all right because they won't happen to me right no it might happen to you and it's not about being paranoid it's just being a little prepared and it doesn't take long to go all right if something happens we're gonna go over to the neighbour's house first because I'm talking to them now and I've told them that hey we're all part of each other's plan right I'm gonna have maybe a phone and some keys that are that are always available I know where they're at you know these are great for calling for help hitting the panic button on your car creating noise creating witnesses letting people know that there's something bad going on right then you've got your your different you know escape tools if you need be these days if you live in a multi multi level building you've got all kinds of cool collapsible fire ladders and stuff and allow you to escape easy those can also be used if a bad guy comes in not just for fires having a safe place in your house this applies to natural disaster but also can apply those bad guys especially if you've got young kids and stuff you know you have to go rally them up because they're not at the age yet to follow your plan then you may not have time to actually get out of the house but you can lease designate a little safe spot safe site that you can lock yourself in and call 9-1-1 and get the help you need lights we tend if we hear something crazy or someone when we do we wake up we turn on the lights okay don't turn on lights keep it as dark as possible you know your blueprint of your home better than anybody else and when you turn on your lights you're telling them one where you're at two that you're coming and then you're lighting it up for them too so now they can see what's going on if they've never been in your house and you keep it dark it allows you to maintain the advantage make sense of course weapons we talked about that the tactical nightstand and then you know ending with your rally points if you have alarm systems you know it costs a couple extra bucks everything works on a network now so to put a panic button in your bedrooms or you know in at different areas you can put them all over the place now it's not like they get a wire it anymore right it's all on your network so you can put buttons and all kinds of cool stuff everywhere and just cost a little bit more money but it might be worth it if a good day goes bad all right there okay all right story time right so this is uh this is in Tikrit we'd like this is one of Saddam's palaces we took a coal away we took this place it's our home now picture you do that right but I do want to highlight some guys you got Glenn over here that we talked about before Matt is another guy that he was a extortion 17 everybody know about that a helicopter went down full of seals got shallow sky with a lucky RPG man was a Texas kid great dude a laugh that you could hear a mile away and the story I remember the most with him is uh we we were we had we were receiving fire there's what we thought was an ambush turned out it was just your friendly Marine Corps but you know we're getting lit up it's tracer fire were like tracer fire that's that's usually Americans it's coming from all directions and we were inside their perimeter and they just I guess communications didn't work out too well they didn't know we were there so they thought we were like bad guys in the center of their of their perimeter bad night but we went to the center of the perimeter so we could get some rest we're like oh we can jock down we hadn't slept in like five days we can like take a break right so as soon as we're about to like actually get some rest knowing that we had this perimeter watching hell for us all of a sudden we get lit up right and and Matt was in the middle of taking off his H gear right and so his arm the fire gunfire erupts and then he is taking it off but then his arm gets stuck because he tried to actually put it back on right we knew oh no it's time to work right and his arm gets stuck and I'm trying to help him undo this we both end up on the ground I'm still doing the same exact motions but we're on the ground and we're both just laughing our asses off during this whole event because it was just kind of surreal and funny that you know one of the Humvees you know got full of holes and there's bullets flying over and we're kind of laughing about this H gear issue and there's a memorable moment that you know most people don't get to experience together and but it was uh you have these weird moments you know it's not about like ooh we did this and we did that and it's these little things these little you know events that happen with your guys that really is what matters and stands out the most it's not about like the operations themselves as much as it's the guys you're doing it with you know you hear that all the time but it's so true and the fact that we were both laughing so hard this whole event just made it even more fun so anyway sick we're sick we're sick people all right yeah so now you get to the point we have to respect the element of surprise we've talked about how being more aware how you dress how you project yourself how to be less of a target your pattern of life we sensitizing into some of the threats and the tactics these bad guys use whether it's in the cyber world or in the physical environment but sometimes you just get caught off guard because you can't pay attention to everything and you find yourself in a really bad situation so we talked about the different kinds of violent crime you know they say overall it's going down in the United States but you know the media does a good job keeping a lot of it up you know at the top of the list so we feel like we're in a really violent time of our life I think most of it just gets more attention than it used to and abzan flows just like anything right so you have to take all that at a grain of salt depending on where we are on a timeline of life but regardless violent crime is the last thing we want to be involved in and so if you find yourself you know outnumbered outgunned or receiving severe blows to the head it's a good time to temporarily surrender the last thing you want to happen is be knocked unconscious and then wake up somewhere and you have no idea how you got there you have no idea where you're at and they've had time to reinforce the restraints they've had time to strip you down and take everything away from you and you just don't want that to happen so it's very difficult to say you know at some point you have to give up or you have to surrender because it's totally against anything that we would do and we would never do that in a gunfight but when you talk about out on the streets and you talk about you guys and you're not professional soldiers then of course you're not gonna your life is more important than that fight you're in and so the goal is to stay alive so outnumbered outgunned taking severe blows of the head the goal is to stay alive temporarily surrender so that you can maintain control even though they think they've got control and that's what leads into this whole restraint restraint defeat thing is you're gonna set yourself up for success when it's time to escape because unbeknownst to them you're the one at that point taking control of everything and they have no clue and that is the ultimate goal make sense okay of course when the fight you have to fight we know we have to fight at least a little bit then it's all about creating witnesses third party awareness you know the whole reason cops show up and they say police and they yell it and they announce themselves is they are creating their own witnesses right they want people to see what's going on just in case especially the solo officers you know if they're out there alone they want people to see what's going on so that hopefully maybe if they get themselves into a bind but they're also doing it legally but they are doing it so they create their own witnesses and as a victim or a potential victim then you're doing the same thing you want as many people to wake up and look out the window or stop or hopefully help like not too many people are helping these days they're taking the time filament right video it and put it on Facebook they're not taking a whole lot of time to actually helping and it's not that every person in this room has to put themselves in harm's way but you should at least do something you we're all first responders whether you like it or not so you just got to decide are you stopping the bleeding or you stopping the bad guy and you probably should make that decision now which one you want to be but you need to be one of them right because you could find yourself in one of these situations really quick whether it's active shooter or just one-on-one so you know being loud some of these principles are nothing new fighting using what you've got on you improvised weapons you know I talked about the zebra pen a lot I have nothing to do with that company but it's really the only good steel barrel pen out there it's all one piece of steel and you know you can stab somebody all the way to their femur if you need to and trust me that that probably that doesn't hurt I mean that hurts it's that uh that's that's not at all fun so staying conscious staying alert putting forth the effort to win but you're setting yourself up for escape we're gonna get into that next and get you guys out of those seats so going back to this redline thing you know and I just kind of heard some of this as I got here so you know the woman on the train she's late-night Metro and she's on there by herself ends up getting raped right but she took the time to like I guess during a moment of time she left his DNA on a piece of tissue and left it behind or they found it DNA match they're able to bust the guy right so when you talk about you know that confinement period you know where you're literally being taken prisoner especially what's kidnapping or whatever the hell it is these days it's all about human trafficking so younger women are the ones Valle nerble of this but leaving that DNA trail okay you don't remember the two girls that the guy took for a hike you know we talked about this earlier too is all good refresher stuff but the two girls that kind of went on this hike with that guy he took him out in little nowhere but she knew that it probably wasn't gonna end up good but she took the time to take a picture of that dude when she dropped her phone and that picture was been used now as far as I know or timeout today I don't know if any would confirm the guy hasn't been found yet but at least she left that evidence behind right and these are horrible things to talk about but if it ever happens and you know whether or not it ends well you want to at least leave a trail so that you can be found you know especially for these dogs these days you know the law enforcement all the parts and pieces to the investigation you'd be surprised I mean the capabilities that are out there so the DNA under the fingernails leaving things every place you go leaving something behind it doesn't take much to do it leaving in places that can't be cleaned up or in obscure places that they wouldn't think about cleaning especially up high you know they tend to you know bleach the floors and do this and do that but they very rarely clean the walls or clean the corners so anytime you can put something away so that can't be found or cleaned and great okay makes sense okay all right so yeah you can read them who wants induced who wants to take okay so pair up we're gonna keep this roll what's our timeline we still good everybody okay okay good we're doing good so I want everyone to pair up okay good time to meet someone new you know and you're gonna get its gonna get real interesting here in a second roll up your sleeves if you've got sleeves all right the first one we're going to do and we'll wait to hand this will hand this out in a second so the number one restraint right in the world is duct tape right it's cheap it's rarely available I got a whole roll of it which equates to approximately four to five people right if you do both hands and legs just so you know if you guys want to go out let's grab four or five people you know just so you know one roll hands feet about four to five people okay just kidding all right now now I kind of know all right so we'll start with a volunteer voluntold she's voluntold to come up thank you very much we're gonna do a little demo then you guys will pair up and you're gonna do it to each other okay come on up yeah your name crystal okay once you finish the rest you know the story one there we go look at that all right so whilst roll your sleeves up now we talked about setting yourself up for escape right so everybody you know hold your hand right or hold your wrist sorry open your club open close open close what's happening to your wrist it's getting bigger smaller bigger smaller bigger smaller so the beauty of that is you're presenting to your bad guy with open hands and your wrists as close together as possible okay so I can't do it some people can put their whole forearms together but not me my shoulders are broken like ten times over so yeah look at she can do that so close together is great Anne's hands open so you get hit in the head hit in the head or a house surrounded by guns it's like okay stay alive okay okay okay okay right you put your hands up you're temporarily surrendering but you're taking control as soon as you do this right here okay so she's gonna do that hands up yep kind of there all right hands together yep as close as possible there you go job so no so we're going one two three now remember two bad guys you can put this stuff on messy and this is why when you have an opportunity to escape you escape as soon as possible because you don't want to get to a point where they can reinforce all these restraints make sense so we do how many of our raps it takes just to keep her under control okay this is good acting I like it good job all right uh-huh so now you get to a point where all right I'm thrown into the trunk of the car whatever the case is I'm in there if it's mm or yeah okay mm or three yeah 2003 ish I think is when US automotive companies required to put a handle in a trunk release it was actually the law was intended for kids that have been playing hide-and-go-seek and died in the trunks of cars so I guess it happened enough to where they put handles but these are great too if you get kidnapped right so you look for the handle if it's been disengaged some bad guys are smart enough to do that and now you're gonna break away all the molding you're going to attack the locking mechanism or you're grabbing the spare you're grabbing the jack you put that jack in you crank it up and you bust that whatever it takes to get out there's lots of tools in a trunk you just got to know that they're there find them use them make sense okay of course yeah yeah it's dark yeah you're just working on your survivability I mean yeah it's not gonna be a great environment trust me you're like this so you you have to take the time you take the time to think about this ahead of that's why we're talking about it right now right yes ma'am it used to be older if you know you're in an older model vehicle then you can get to the taillights really easily the new manufactured vehicles your taillight assembly group is literally plugged in to that cut out of aluminum of the vehicle right so it just snaps in and all there is is enough room for the wiring harness to fit in through the trunk and then be covered up by all the molding so if you find that wire harness and then you find the light you'll find out there is no there's a hole like this big you're not fitting anything out but if it's an older model vehicle then yeah once again another thing you can do is kick those back seats down whether it's an old car a new car you're looking for the release you're looking for the release on the back seats if there is not brute force kick kick kick and they're gonna know so ideally you're escaping at a stop sign or a stop light you know as soon as you start kicking seats and they might start taking action so when you do that you got to be ready to move right you're gonna kick those seats down you're gonna invade that passenger compartment you're going out those rear doors in some form or fashion keep in mind those seat belts when they go down the seat belts get in the way and they're a mess so you have to weave your way through that just to get out of the car or your hands are purple okay all right so holding your hand out in front of you right we're gonna put them out hi I level go ahead put way out there and she's got a lot of clothing on so this will still work the idea is is we're going to shear this apart because it's a very narrow this is the apex if you will right and we're gonna force the apex apart using your body as like a wedge and it's gonna be with brute force so you're going she's gonna rock at these elbows past her ribcage and her wrists right through her chest and it should shear this just like is if I cut it with a pair of scissor so together at the count of three one two three so if you look if you look at it I mean it looks like it's been cut all right so the do's and don'ts if you get taped up is don't sit there and do this what it does is it starts to bunch up all of us have moved right and we've all put tape on boxes and then what happens when you let it bunch up then you're like cussing right if you don't have a pair of scissors you like whatever and you're trying to get that apart and the more you bunch it up the more it becomes like rope like much more difficult to like cut to do anything with so the last thing you wanna do is get it all bunched up on your wrist it takes away from this technique it makes it much more difficult okay that was with five wraps all right you can do it ten reps and the it's still gonna be the same result good job thank you very much alright now you guys gonna tape each other up and do it with one another only keeping it like maybe five wraps or you can work your way up and put you know do one or two wraps then four wraps much as you want to lose hair on your wrists cuz it's gonna be painful alright alright so there are some good questions you guys finishing up feel free to finish up no rush make sure you tape her up real good there you go there was a wine as hey if this doesn't work you know there is nothing a hundred percent about any of this it's restraint defeat criminals magicians you know they do it for a living right they get out of this stuff I mean a lot of this stuff you know when you go back to like Harry Houdini's original book it shows how to do a lot of this type of stuff and as you practice it then you get good at it how many of you this is a good crack it's roughly a hundred people exactly so we get a good percentage going how many people got out of it and it worked that's probably 75 percent of the room give or take right now if your buddy went ahead and wrapped it all nice and neat and all that kind of stuff then it increases its difficulty if you're a female and you got boobs it kind of messes with how the approach if you will to your chest so that's why with guys it almost is where any guy in here it didn't work with one two three okay so you know maybe it's how it was taped up did you kind of figure out why it didn't work did you eventually get it no no okay so you know in it like I said it's still taped down so like I said it's this when you're talking about life and death and this type of stuff there is no hundred percent like solution it gives you some skills that you can work with and hopefully leverage to get yourself out of that situation but at the end of the day you know you just gotta there's depending on the situation you're gonna find out that your creativity thinking outside the box reacting quicker rather than later is always a good idea and you always always always want to escape as soon as possible like stop signs stoplights getting out of there quickly do you not want to get to that first stop where they reinforce all this stuff and strip you down right okay so I think you get the point but good questions good concerns but ultimately you're on your own nobody's coming okay all right zip ties ok now you're moving up in the world and if your wrists don't feel bad already they will in a minute so we're gonna pass these out you just pass the bags grab two a piece same technique okay you might be a lot more successful with this this plastic snaps when you have that Brisson says Linux and the explosives were always use we use the word Bruce Ansel as a shattering effect you're you're not trying to like slowly break you're trying to like very quickly so when you rock it those hands I mean rocket it's got to be fast it can't be this isn't a slow motion technique make sense so fast fast fast with lots of power alright so on that one let's do a good everyone that was able to break their way out of those things oh yeah yeah that's probably seventy seventy-five percent of the room again so it's good I mean that's a good ratio for those of you that didn't like I said adrenaline you know if that kicks in you're gonna be able to pick up cars I mean you know if you're a mom you're definitely gonna be able to get out of those things right so some of it is a little shrink some of its technique some of it could be just you know me I got horrible joints and they only let me let me do certain things right so there's a lot of factors that go into this but the majority of you're getting at the rest can just practice it at home on Valentine's all right so now I had a good question about the the larger tie ties so the vulnerability on these zip ties is where the two connect or they where they meet right that's where it was breaking it's not the locking mechanism right that little gateway and the grooves it's snapping in the middle but it's usually where you know the where that shearing effect takes a place as it meets your body but on the big big ones like even law enforcement grade ones you might not get so lucky or you might just you know break your own chest trying to do it so as they get bigger I say at least try once try twice and then the other way out is bobby pins okay this is the there's destructive ways of getting out things non-destructive this is a non-destructive way and so we're going to talk to this one so we have time to pick locks okay but ultimately we all know that is the way zip ties work it's a it's a ratcheting system it's just like a pair of handcuffs it has grooves it has a gate the gate sits there at an angle that's why it's one way because that gate is slanted it's plastic and it click click click click click but it won't let you pull it out right so all you're gonna do is take a bobby pin all bobby pins have a little piece of rubber on the end like it's almost like for safety right you're gonna peel that off bite it off and then straighten it out and then you're gonna put the bobby pin inside in between the gate and the grooves and that obstruction allows the zip tie to then just free flow and it really is that simple so I'm gonna give you the bobby pins you guys can practice this you know later on if you want them they'll be up here instead of the taking up time passing them out right now if you want bobby pins they're yours to have just you can put them in your lockpick kit and then when you talk about where to put these for guys or traveling or whatever you can do bobby pins are great you can put them on your waistline you can put it on the cuffs of your of your shirts you can hide them in a lot of places and no one will ever see the damn things right so and they can get you a lot of a lot of different issues okay and all the different skills in the book you'll see bobby pins you know a couple of times and just this alright okay now everyone's got lockpicks right so we're going to talk through the anatomy and physiology of a walk okay and sometimes this can be confusing so I'm gonna deliver it as as simple as possible okay there's a lot in the lock world this is a full time job you know you got the locksmiths you know I think people assume that they're like special operations intelligence were like invented this whole lock-picking thing no locksmiths right there are locksmiths out there that can get you into any lock and they didn't work one day for the government all right just so it's said so for centuries now every bad guy's been trying to figure out how to get by a lock and that's what has increased security over time right to where now you got some pretty high speed like high security locks and you know it's like pins inside of a pen and you've got those dimple keys making it more and more difficult to bypass these things with you know all kinds of different techniques so tonight we're gonna focus on the picking and the raking mostly raking for you guys since you're new to this you understand the concept of how a lock works the lock can itself we're using padlocks but it's the same whether it's a padlock or the lock on your front door okay five-pin tumbler x' guy named Yael and I got to get Yael locks he invented the five pen tumblr like back in 1856 or something so and this is a quick set key you can tell the difference between different key manufacturers and lock sets based on the bow of the key so that's quick set how many of you guys have those on your key rings raise your hand design yeah it's a horrible lock but it's super cheap so a lot of people put them on doors or the houses that you probably bought okay now Schlage Schlage has more of a pyramid kind of like stair steps to the top and then stair steps towards the towards the actual blade makes sense how many gosh leg okay the other half of your so that's a much better lock okay as far as telling tolerances and manufacturing goes all right so now you've got the key the key goes in the key way and what the key does on a five-pin tumbler meaning there's five channelized areas where there are pens inside and when you look inside a key way you'll see these pens in there right everyone's seen that right your key is pointed so that it can push that first pen up and continue to glide into the key way your cuts are where the pens drop into they drop into those cuts you know you see those teeth those are those are actual key cuts and if the trough is where the pen falls into alright now they call it a five pin tumbler lock but there's actually 10 pens in there just to confuse it even more okay and that's because you have you have the bottom pens and then you have top pens and then above the top pins or Springs and that's what keeps the Pens engaged and push down into the keyway now the bottom pens are all different sizes and guess what that height of the bottom pen matches the depth of your cut right so the bottom pin falls in to the depth of the cut and if they all match what it does it's all your top pins at the same exact height and then it puts the top of the bottom pins all at the same height right because they're all different lengths but they're filling all those cuts and so everything now is even which creates a shear line which allows that cylinder to turn the top pens stay up in the Bible the bottom pens stay with the key just making sense all right so now it can turn so essentially the wrong key will not put everything at the right combination of heights you will not have a shear line if you don't have a shear line then the cylinder will not turn so your goal when you're picking or raking a lock is to kind of try and emulate the bow of the key right the bow is where we're creating tension to turn the key to turn the cylinder right so you're gonna have in your kit this little l-shaped it's called a tension wrench or a tension tool it's gonna go into the bottom of the key way and it's going to put pressure it acts like the bow but of course the cylinder is not going to turn until you now take either one of your picks and put it in there and start lifting the Pens up to shear line if I lost anyone yet so go ahead and I'm gonna there's gonna be certain picks I want you to pull out I'm gonna grab mine alright so I'm gonna pass these out a second but just for the sake of demonstration you know we have these are master padlocks when you buy them at Walmart it's gonna say high security then it's gonna say like like I don't know some crazy we're like unpickable or whatever you know now there is that's that's great terminology and it's good sales pitch stuff but the reality is it's pickable so you have a pic and the pic it's better for me to refer to this drawing you know it basically hooks at the end there's different kinds of pics the one on the drawing is different than what you have in your kit but it's got a small bend at the end it doesn't have any of the squirrelly stuff once you've found it it looks very simple it looks like you know a dentist tool all right a little pick and Bend slightly up it has no jagged edges yes ma'am they're numbered mine are numbered really I know that numbers I don't know tell us what number it is oh yeah you guys have different ones than me you guys got the good ones what the hell yeah so this number eight looks good maybe oh my only hold on let me see the five I had a feistel too much let's go with two to the two yes let's go with two okay Wow numbered you guys are lucky jeez all right and then your tension tool you should have a couple it's this little springy lookin get the one that's the lower gage it's smaller when you're dealing with small keyways imagine you're shoving all this stuff into the keyway so some of your tension wrenches or I'm gonna know how many are in this kit if there's one tension wrench three how many are in there to get the one that's not as wide like the smallest gauged tension wrench yeah so no not this this l-shaped thing don't worry about that though with this guy right here this other l-shaped thing tension wrenches this guy right here everybody got one okay all right okay yep good yep that's it yep got it got it all right so these are the two but we're gonna kind of mess with all right and so the idea is once again leverage in the illustration you're sticking the tension wrench in okay you're gonna use your finger to load it you're putting a ton it you're putting basically you're taking that that cylinder and your binding though the Pens right I'm putting pressure against all those pins that are in there right now and by binding them now I can feel them much better when I stick my pic in there and I can actually push each one up when I give you the padlock so I want you just to stick the pic in and count all five of those of all five of your pins in there so you know what it feels like you'll feel that spring tension against each pin right and where this becomes important where do you think this becomes important right if you're being in a if you're being held padlocks and chained to something or you have access to the lock and you can scrape up the tools once you understand the concept you don't have to have lock picks to pull this off right you can have paperclips work even taking bobby pins and using those it's a matter of creating the tension on the cylinder binding the picks lifting each pit each pin binding the Pens lifting each pin and you'll actually hear them click from time to time right and when that click that's when you've pushed hopefully all right just once again there's no 100% lock picking all right you've pushed the top pin into the Bible leaving the bottom pin with what it thinks is a key and you're getting them all picked at the same time and then the cylinder will turn right so the best way to learn is we get these locks passed out and you start going now one last thing to rake something okay the rake tool let's go ahead and get a number on that and you could put the rest of the stuff away so for raking it's gonna look like kind of a snakey like pregnant belly looking one maybe this maybe uh yeah this guy right here number seven a seven yeah seven let's go with seven that it can be your rake tool okay and so I'm going to talk about raking real quick which is there's different rake tools you can go through and kind of play with all these different picks but really the hook pick and then that rake tool or the two that you use the most you put that tension in there and like I said it's never a sure thing put the tension rake back and forth but why I'm limited because of whatever this whatever kid I ended up with but uh you're gonna put it in and you're gonna rake back and forth and it's basically a figure eight motion as I'm going in so kind of going in and coming out going in coming out going in coming out if you don't get it within a couple of strokes then you take the tension off your tension wrench let all the pins reset and then try again so we're gonna get these things passed out and then it'll just start playing okay so if you just will take yeah I'll just take the bin and start handing each person a lock I don't know if we got a hundred but we got close so keep in mind this is like one of those skills that you've gotta like sitting around watching TV and this is what you do you go oh look I just opened the lock so it can happen that quickly and then freakin two minutes later it'll take you thirty minutes okay that's that's the world of lock picking okay you're putting the tension wrench into the bottom of the keyway okay bottom the key way you're using your finger to create tension and then you just start raking those pins okay figure eight motion is the most popular is sometime it'll work usually maybe right off the bat and sometimes it won't there's different kinds of locks coming around and you'll notice that the key way there's not a whole lot of space that's why you want to use like the smallest picks you have so it gives you more ability to move around once you're inside the lock okay I need one over here I guess yeah go ahead you once you pick it and pop it lock it pass it around you can just there's all kinds of different ones we roaming around here I'll get you started here okay so this L side goes in the bottom key way so that you ended up with a small key way lock so its see how it's eating up a lot of space and you're putting all the tension on there then you're using this guy see that pen you see the pin right there a tough those are your pens so now you're gonna start lifting them you know that there's one right here in front there's one right behind it there's five of them and so putting tension on here and you're kind of just going back and forth okay well pick it and then heat it to a friend and then you just keep I heard somebody open yeah there you go good that's a sound of success man it feels good doesn't it if you go and you pick and then you can't you start raking okay and now I'm applying tension breaking tension raking and just get that motion going tension and when you release it resets the Pens it allows the springs to push all those pins back to normal and then you break again then you let off brake again let off rake again and eventually gonna get the right combination is kind of the goal oh you got the small walk see these these are big gauged so yeah you're putting that in okay then you're putting that tension right so it's binding your pins and then let's use this this rake one right here we're gonna rake this thing and you're literally just going in and you're trying to rake and get the right combination so that the so that the cylinder turns you can tell I've been doing this for years and sometimes it happens right off the bat sometimes it takes time there's a little you know 50% luck involved in picking locks that's why it's not the first choice when you're breaking into somebody's house okay yeah the first choice is like called impression a key ok that's your first choice that's when you that's when you basically know it's almost there I can feel it see it's boring see it's not keeping your attention you know you're young you need instant gratification these smaller locks is the smaller key way makes it difficult for the larger tools would you get if you see what I'm doing right you're applying tension hitting those pins if it doesn't work let off let the pens reset and try again okay but you're feeling those pins the more you you're sitting around on your coffee table and you go buy a bunch of locks from Walmart literally you want to sit there and feel those pins while you're watching TV and all of a sudden you'll learn like what all five pins feel like and then boom the lock will just start opening nobody's got success so far raise your hand okay we got yeah I got a couple all right I did throw some confidence locks into the system okay they do have five pins they just been picked like a thousand times by a bunch of CIA dude no yep so I weigh I would hold it here's the tension okay it's important to note the tension Keys Tim to turn to the right right clockwise so you want to stick your tension tool in the bottom of the key way and then apply to the right so the cylinder is binding everything to the right then start picking those pens if it doesn't open let the Pens reset you'll hear audibly all the Pens go click a click back into place okay let off and then you try again push them each one up one the time if you don't want to pick then you just start raking it right okay you can so you pens are numbered one through five one being closed as the key way you can start anywhere you want 10 use tend to start at number one the closest one there are tolerance issues there's a whole science to this trust me but I'm kind of giving you like the wham bam thank you ma'am on this it's uh this is definitely why you got a kit go get yourself some locks around the house and you just start playing you get it success yes I love that sound there you go and here's the other thing the part that stinks about this is sometimes you'll have picked it but you just didn't have enough enough tension to actually make it go pop and unlock so he felt it and then he was like oh I pushed it a little further and all of a sudden it opens but every lock is different it's called tolerance and it all takes place at manufacturing these cylinders have those holes cut into the five holes cut in the top of a cylinder because it's a round surface those holes aren't in an exact line some of them are a little to the right little bit of left so if you look at a cylinder a lock cylinder they're a little off so now when I create that tension or I bind those pins some will bind immediately and some won't bind until you've picked some of them first making sense because everything is machined a little bit off and that's why high security locks have higher tolerances and are much more difficult to get into lower tolerance locks are easier to use some of these techniques on but like I said not guaranteed hey I hear any over there hey click boom yes if yeah if anybody wants any sign book yeah okay so we're gonna we'll start to wrap we go I think we went long right yeah okay so while you guys are still picking you know when you get done will collect them will collect the locks at the end down at the bend down there QA you guys while you're picking QA QA and you want to questions answers you want to put your warm ease on and get the hell out of here what's up yes what you I'll be I'll go back there and sign books and no worries any questions security seal sex what okay yep hey yeah yeah we need more time okay so good EDC items everyday carry has become really popular right we all here EDC if you haven't it's everyday carry now you can have every day carry kits that are specific for the environments you're going into there are things kind of eliminate the you know basically increase your survivability type stuff especially around town you talk about criminal threats of course bobby pins you can put them everywhere no worries you got plenty up here take them while you can of course LED has become nice simple easy cheap you should have it it's not just for looking around in the dark but it's also a great signalling device because LEDs like visible to a mile away right and you can put these things everywhere razor blades razor blades once again you can put one in your left sole shoe of all your shoes one thing when you're bound together if your hands are bound in front or behind you can always still get down to your shoes and get some means of escape right razor blade handcuff keys it's the third handcuffs are like the third most used restraint by criminals and but fortunately for us they they tend to buy the peerless cheap ones they're not vying like the law enforcement grade but it's a flag and a post key way right the flag in the post key way still allows you to kind of get out of most I'm not gonna say all because there are handcuffs out there that don't take the the standard key and you know bad guys are buying cheap crap but overseas there's other kinds of handcuffs as well that where this key won't work just saying it out loud but 75% of the ones that a bad guy might use on you here in the United States gonna be off the internet and this key will work on it right plastic handcuff Keys nonmetallic they're meant for hiding behind buttons and other places but I can tell you right now there's not enough metal and this thing to set off anything at TSA all right yeah oh we got the lock good whistles whistles are still great sounds cheesy but when technology goes down you can't text someone or call for help you know if you're buried in rubble and whether it's natural disaster or even a bad guy you can still at least get the attention of someone with this thing and then of course once again relying on technology this is going a little far but these micro compasses getting your cardinal bearings knowing north south east and west or being able to pull it out and determine which way the bad guy is taking you if you're in the trunk because most of these little concealable compasses glow in the dark right so that's kind of a crisis management type EDC me personally being from Texas you know I've I've got a gun everywhere I go oh man yeah so guns are always like first option it'll just really eliminate the problem altogether you know and if you're in the right then you're gonna be right if you're in the wrong you're going to jail I mean that's on you though you know knowing how to use some of the stuff you've got you carry purses and man bags and all this stuff those straps are great for locking down door closers I've done a couple of videos on YouTube if you want to look them up so all these commercial doors have a big arm closure so the door closes behind you you can wrap your belt wrap anything around that thing and it'll literally kind of lock that door temporarily to give you time to get away or keep the bad guy out I mean there's so much you probably have on you right now that you can use an emergency situation you just don't realize it right okay another question or am i eating up too much time anyone anyone yep none of them just kidding oh yeah Nathan no no I don't know I have one bin Laden's dead I remember that one used to be poppy is he really dead no he's in my basement yeah how many people have you killed I don't know who cares hey question for me the probably the most like that anxiety thing you know you hear about the anticipation of death is worse than death itself was probably like pull comp so in dive phase where you have all your gear on you're going back and forth on the bottom of the pole and the instructors coming like shark attack you and tie your hoses and knots and all that and take your air away and the funny thing about it is if you go to the surface for air that's considered quitting so you stay down there you fix your problems you put your gear back on and then you keep going and they shark attack you again they shortcut a queue again and as long as you're putting everything back on remaining calm and doing it in a certain order then you pass when they decide that they're done harassing you that's pretty much it but it's a lot of fun after you pass you're like wow that wasn't so bad after all for the guys that failed you know they're late usually laying over the guys the dedicated guys that basically start doing the Funky Chicken you know you know that's that's the Funky Chicken right underwater you run out of air you're panicking but they will stay down there right they're not gonna quit and so what's called redlining and they just go mmm and they pass out and all the instructors go down and grab and breaking the surface so the guys that you know who didn't make it usually are laying on the side of the pole over there you know with CPR going on you're like watching I go what the hell and that's like your turns next that's always fun nice question okay good yeah okay oh god you know what they change the signs it happens to be my dad like some 13th one right like a year ago and I'm that weird when akka wakka talk a walk or whatever I went Sanjit arias though and I don't follow that crap I was just making you guys do it landmarks are always great you know and keeping track of them as you move it's far better than a compass you know like mountains and oceans is kind of nice you start macro and work your way down to the smaller things you're talking in urban environments and the buildings and different lights and illumination you know sometimes you don't even need to know the street or the thing you just remember those features but it's a matter of paying attention I mean basic navigation and relying on your landscape is far better than anything else out there because GPS is we tend to not really know where we're at until we get there right we know where we're going but we really don't know where we're at when we're following the path because we're not paying attention and we're relying on that technology but so pay attention to those landmarks whether it's day or night so that if technology goes south on yeah you know at least had a backtrack out of it yes yeah yeah you know I don't know how the hell they determine this stuff but to me like yeah I get it that helped things people like oh god I don't want to get involved in that you know and yelling fire I mean I guess we're dependent all I know is you have to get people's attention and whether it's yelling help or fire get people's attention create witnesses make noise be loud be big right get big when they're trying to handle you you know that's all I can say on that that I heard that and I was like oh I mean at the end of the day whether it's all about the people that hear you if someone hears fire here's help and another kind of person is gonna help you then you hope they come right anything else before we walk down there I'll sign some books and guys can okay well thank you for coming night I hope you learned something I appreciate your time and yeah I see you wear whatever [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music]

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Length: 126min 29sec (7589 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 21 2018