Am I the only one that says, "This was my favorite episode/interview yet!" after each interview. Each one gets better and better. I really enjoyed this content.
Excellent, I've been a cop and I had to learn this on the street over the course of 32 years. He's spot on, it works... it drives the people around me nuts, but awareness can save your life.
Waiting for a new Mike drop podcast is worse that waiting on gun parts that are 4 days late when you paid for 2 day shipping... lol can't wait keep up the good work Mike!!! plus your introductions the best!!!
New subscriber. Great show, worth every minute. Thank you, Mike and Yousef, for your service to this country, and for the cause of freedom. From a retired dog trainer: retrievers/gun dogs. God bless America.
Excellent show today with you and Yousef , very informative considering all of the BS going on in today's world! Really enjoyed hearing about his upbringing between Kuwait and the USA and the patriotism he felt for this country, which to me sounded like he had more than many who were born here! Kind of sad to think that as this seems to have become more the norm these days and at 64 I'm beginning to wonder just how in the world this younger generation is going to be turned around?? There is such a lack of respect as it seems to have died after your generation? Not sure of your age, but I think I'm 15 or 20 years older, but we're both from Waterloo and were brought up much differently than a lot of the kids today (not meaning yours), but I think you know what I'm saying?? I just hope things get turned around soon... Thanks again for the great video and for all you do...
Lived in Okinawa for 4 years and it was and still is, the best place I’ve ever been. Crazy how that works huh? Love the channel my man. God bless you and the USA 🇺🇸
Mike you're really great at captivating your audience really fast at the beginning without giving them a chance to click away before they are already too interested. Good work on the intros!
Mike, I cant handle these long gaps without you! It is too much! then alone day, it is like Christmas, you are a guest on 2 podcasts (Granger Smith and fuck, who was the other... Demolition Ranch, lunkers maybe) and then a podcast premier for this episode!
I have spent the past few months listening to all of your podcasts, except for the dog training ones, those are for later. This interview was wonderful. I am going to the facebook group now
on the PTSD front. i agree with mike on the free will and decision making. However as someone who has seen the affect different traumatic things have on people, the actual physically injured soldier, police officer, person etc, does make a difference in their mental outlook.
I could say this is my fav episode but I could say that everytime a new episode is released. I'm thankful everyday that I discovered Mike and the Podcast when I did because I had been going downhill ever since being medically retired from the Army in 2013. I have been in a totally different fight then I was accustomed too since getting out and frankly its been a far worse enemy than anyone I faced overseas! Slowly but surely with determination and a never quit attitude, I've started coming out of my own personal hell. Ill give Mike and his show it's due credit every chance I get because I was on the brim of bowing out, not quitting but I had been conditioning my mind to believe that I just had to live like I had until my time on earth ends. That's pretty fucking sad but I couldn't ever kill myself. Thanks Mike for everything you do and just know you're my hero!🙌🙌👍👍
This was a great podcast... never heard of this man before but glad Mike introduced me to him!! Very smart man with some awesome stories from his childhood. Really great to hear. Looking forward to you having Nick Irving the "Reaper" back on again!
No substitute for human to human training in a "live situation" when you are training for SA more investment but more actual skills and retention is proved better over time.
Thanks for another great fucking interview. Never would have known that this bloke a kid who witnessed the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 would over a decade later serve in the Marines as an infantry soldier. Awesome stuff. I served in Iraq when this bloke was a kid and his story is compelling and sincere.
My wife and I drive semi trucks together for a living. We travel all the hot spots east of the Mississippi river for rioting and I constantly ask myself what I would do in a bad situation. Thanks to the information here I will be rethinking most of my strategies and reactions.
People watching for years will teach you tremendous amounts of human activities and habits. Very scary shit sometimes when you have nobody to tell but have the info....
I’ve always been this way but the average person thinks you’re weird. It’s served me very well but very hard to convince family and friend how important or completely coincidental it may be. It’s always been chalked up to past experiences and being a bad person to just being cognitive of obvious but casual evidence.
When you have real depression you can't control your emotions hardly ever you know how you once in a while can't control your emotions well imagine that being we can't control our emotions but once in a while we can that's what having depression is like Mike
Hey Mike I just came across your channel and really love your work, I'm on my third pod cast. I have a question, when Yousef Badou told the story about Rome and the pocket pickers It related to me. I went back to brasil after 14 years and had a similar situation in the bus inside the airport, a couple guys with no bags, regular clothes and just scanning around, I notice it right away and I made eye contact to make sure they knew I was awake. Here is my question is it better to make them see that people are aware or just avoid eye contact so that your not single out? Thanks again for all the good content.
Have you ever tried to not think about something that was in your face 24 hours a day? Think about it depression is in my face 24 hours a day how do you not dwell on that
Hey Mike! Can you try to get Karl Erickson on the show? He has some great stories about guys bringing back home 5 pristine world war 2 motorcycles! 😂🤣😂
Great guest and content; I can't get enough of this tactical crap. But what I really want to know is: How did Mike's conniving friend posing as a VIP pay back all his secret service poseur friends! C'mon, Mike D-I-S-H !
I was playing pool at a bar and there was some yelling I looked over and a waitress and dude were fight then 2 guys ran over and I just saw them trying to hold his hands straight up like he had a gun I just duct a little behind a corner everybody else ran to see what was happening
You should have ED Caludron on the show... he's got some amazing insight on Mexico working with China right now. We have to be careful China is at our door step. We have been at China's door step for a while but recently they are making big moves.
It's supposed to be enemy induced, not stubbing your toe while in a warzone. At least his injuries were from getting tossed by an IED. He was just lucky that it didnt open up the LAV like a tin can per usual.
Yahshua - you know Him as Jesus - was born to a virgin, turned water to wine, taught, healed the sick, raised the dead, casted out demons, walked on water, and calmed the storm, among many other things. He was killed, and three days later He rose from the dead. Forty days later He ascended into heaven where He sits at the right hand of the Father. He is returning very soon, but before He does, Satan, the devil, is coming to pretend to be Jesus. Satan is an angel, and he will have certain supernatural powers with which to try to fool everyone. He will, for example, be able to make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men. He will only be on earth a short time before the real King of Kings, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, returns. When the real Jesus comes we will all be transformed into our spiritual bodies at the same moment. Jesus came to offer forgiveness of sins and eternal life to anyone who believes and calls on His precious name! ...the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God - Romans 3:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 6:23 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - John 3:16-18 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. - Matthew 26:6-13 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. - Zephaniah 1:14 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. - Luke 9:56 the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23 Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself..
I got a Purple Heart for burning my hand on my M-60 Echo 3’s red hot barrel. They should have told me more often that’s what that big oven mitt was for. Dang ole Corps. (JK) Semper Fi to all of my ground-pounding fellow grunts. 👍. OooRaah!
If you Carry a firearm and haven’t read Left of Bang, don’t listen to Yousef’s Left of Bang podcast, or otherwise intentionally keep your situational awareness knowledge/awareness/skills sharpened, you’re just asking for trouble and maybe even inviting it in
Bountiful "Pandora" is this man's hell on earth?! And just think the whole premise of that movie focused on the ones who want to harvest everything and suck it dry. We need more tree hugger types that get balance & sustainability but this is the wrong place to dialogue about that, isn't it. lol
I was apart of the involuntary recall at MOBCOM during that time and the motherfuckers that showed up with mohawks and piercings were hilarious. Guys shitting on vehicles and in closets, you know regular grunt shit. Good times. Great interview.
I'm always aware of my surroundings and people think I'm weird because I'm constantly looking left right behind me but trust me I haven't killed anybody yet so I don't think I ever will I know I won't unless my life is in danger of course but I'm always looking around for psychos especially if I'm going to the ATM or something I'm always aware of my surroundings and I'm always checking my six so you're wrong about it sorry buddy
A Charlatan the guest is he is imo.. Read any 30 year old Neuro Linguistic Programming book and learn 90% of what he is talking about. Human behavior and recognizing it and what it means. If there is anything to gain here, it is pay attention and act accordingly after reading the 10 dollar books available on the subject.
Am I the only one that says, "This was my favorite episode/interview yet!" after each interview. Each one gets better and better. I really enjoyed this content.
Loved this one!
Honestly I still think this is my favorite episode
Excellent, I've been a cop and I had to learn this on the street over the course of 32 years. He's spot on, it works... it drives the people around me nuts, but awareness can save your life.
I do this for a living his expertise is spot on especially the baseline and people to show indicators that are out of that place
Can’t believe you got Robert Downey Jr on the podcast... keep up the great work Mike
Waiting for a new Mike drop podcast is worse that waiting on gun parts that are 4 days late when you paid for 2 day shipping... lol can't wait keep up the good work Mike!!! plus your introductions the best!!!
@L Train45 I don't get it
Mike, I wish you would do these interviews on a more regular basis. You have a real talent, and I think your Chanel would blow up.
Absolutely. Very precise in his thoughts and words. Very balanced perspective. Huge fan of this man and his show. Thank you for your service!!!
New subscriber. Great show, worth every minute. Thank you, Mike and Yousef, for your service to this country, and for the cause of freedom. From a retired dog trainer: retrievers/gun dogs. God bless America.
Most people I know think I'm paranoid for always watching the people around me. This made me feel better about it.
Mike, Great style of interview. Thanks for doing the hard work for all of us!
Most under appreciated channel. Best to you and yours.
I got my hat the other day. I like it a lot. Thank you Mike.
Excellent show today with you and Yousef , very informative considering all of the BS going on in today's world! Really enjoyed hearing about his upbringing between Kuwait and the USA and the patriotism he felt for this country, which to me sounded like he had more than many who were born here! Kind of sad to think that as this seems to have become more the norm these days and at 64 I'm beginning to wonder just how in the world this younger generation is going to be turned around?? There is such a lack of respect as it seems to have died after your generation? Not sure of your age, but I think I'm 15 or 20 years older, but we're both from Waterloo and were brought up much differently than a lot of the kids today (not meaning yours), but I think you know what I'm saying?? I just hope things get turned around soon... Thanks again for the great video and for all you do...
Appreciate yalls service! Means alot to me and my 2 boys! Thank you
I have been listening to all of your podcasts. I have 9 more to go. I am so glad this new one is coming out.
Great guest, one of the best yet.
Excellent episode!
Thank you
The power of letting shit go! Amen to that. Great interview!
Lived in Okinawa for 4 years and it was and still is, the best place I’ve ever been. Crazy how that works huh? Love the channel my man. God bless you and the USA 🇺🇸
Mike you're really great at captivating your audience really fast at the beginning without giving them a chance to click away before they are already too interested. Good work on the intros!
Good stuff. Thanks Gentlemen.
Mike, I cant handle these long gaps without you! It is too much! then alone day, it is like Christmas, you are a guest on 2 podcasts (Granger Smith and fuck, who was the other... Demolition Ranch, lunkers maybe) and then a podcast premier for this episode!
I have spent the past few months listening to all of your podcasts, except for the dog training ones, those are for later. This interview was wonderful. I am going to the facebook group now
X can
All your shows that I have watched have been awesome...You are a talented interviewer...Nice job👍😎
Another great podcast mike!👍🤙
on the PTSD front. i agree with mike on the free will and decision making. However as someone who has seen the affect different traumatic things have on people, the actual physically injured soldier, police officer, person etc, does make a difference in their mental outlook.
One of your most interesting guests. Thanks
Such a great podcast!
Interesting podcast as I had just read Left of Bang recently. Thanks Mike!
I could say this is my fav episode but I could say that everytime a new episode is released. I'm thankful everyday that I discovered Mike and the Podcast when I did because I had been going downhill ever since being medically retired from the Army in 2013. I have been in a totally different fight then I was accustomed too since getting out and frankly its been a far worse enemy than anyone I faced overseas! Slowly but surely with determination and a never quit attitude, I've started coming out of my own personal hell. Ill give Mike and his show it's due credit every chance I get because I was on the brim of bowing out, not quitting but I had been conditioning my mind to believe that I just had to live like I had until my time on earth ends. That's pretty fucking sad but I couldn't ever kill myself. Thanks Mike for everything you do and just know you're my hero!🙌🙌👍👍
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I did the NTA with NMCB-ONE in 87. I love your perspective on that one! SUCEX.
God Damn good podcast. Glad to be following this channel.
one of the best. thank you.
Mike, you're a great interviewer. Really enjoy your show and the way you bring out the unexpected dimensions of your guests.
This was a great podcast... never heard of this man before but glad Mike introduced me to him!! Very smart man with some awesome stories from his childhood. Really great to hear. Looking forward to you having Nick Irving the "Reaper" back on again!
No substitute for human to human training in a "live situation" when you are training for SA more investment but more actual skills and retention is proved better over time.
Ready for the UFC and this !
Fucking Amen
Thanks for another great fucking interview. Never would have known that this bloke a kid who witnessed the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 would over a decade later serve in the Marines as an infantry soldier. Awesome stuff. I served in Iraq when this bloke was a kid and his story is compelling and sincere.
Mike that shirt you are wearing is just bad ass . love the trident holding the mic . How fitting for the show .
So much to digest here. Thank you.
Amen @ 21:20 - TONS OF PEOPLE ARE BOILING
Very interesting and intriguing past, thank you for the interview!!
"KEEP ON KEEPIN ON"!!
My wife and I drive semi trucks together for a living. We travel all the hot spots east of the Mississippi river for rioting and I constantly ask myself what I would do in a bad situation. Thanks to the information here I will be rethinking most of my strategies and reactions.
Excellent interview
Great interview! I've learned a skill from this video. I shall now go on establishing baselines for the rest of my life....
Thanks. Great episode
You need to have mike drop prime where we dont have to wait lol
Good listen
Okay.... I must have skipped the morning routine, favorite handgun, what exercise questions......
Like the new studio man
You gotta get Stew Smith on the podcast Mike! 👍
Excellent excellent excellent again.
Great stuff Michael!
Outstanding podcast
People watching for years will teach you tremendous amounts of human activities and habits. Very scary shit sometimes when you have nobody to tell but have the info....
Mike .... you are the common mans Charlie Rose ... outstanding interview skills 👍🏻
OMG, he was one of my marines doing 03, 04 OIF I and 2!
This dude is awesome!!
I’ve always been this way but the average person thinks you’re weird. It’s served me very well but very hard to convince family and friend how important or completely coincidental it may be. It’s always been chalked up to past experiences and being a bad person to just being cognitive of obvious but casual evidence.
This is great
right on
Look for pre-event indicators .
The old intro and setup was so much better
When you have real depression you can't control your emotions hardly ever you know how you once in a while can't control your emotions well imagine that being we can't control our emotions but once in a while we can that's what having depression is like Mike
Mike, You're a natural! Joe Rogan don't have anything on you! Spotify or Rumble give Mike a 100M contact.
Hey Mike I just came across your channel and really love your work, I'm on my third pod cast. I have a question, when Yousef Badou told the story about Rome and the pocket pickers It related to me. I went back to brasil after 14 years and had a similar situation in the bus inside the airport, a couple guys with no bags, regular clothes and just scanning around, I notice it right away and I made eye contact to make sure they knew I was awake. Here is my question is it better to make them see that people are aware or just avoid eye contact so that your not single out? Thanks again for all the good content.
Yeah, in Rome I noticed a lot of little scams, everywhere.
Have you ever tried to not think about something that was in your face 24 hours a day? Think about it depression is in my face 24 hours a day how do you not dwell on that
Big thumb up fell9
I would like to hear more about Johnny Walker could you lead me in the right direction?
Hey Mike! Can you try to get Karl Erickson on the show? He has some great stories about guys bringing back home 5 pristine world war 2 motorcycles! 😂🤣😂
#tacticalrifleman
Great guest and content; I can't get enough of this tactical crap. But what I really want to know is: How did Mike's conniving friend posing as a VIP pay back all his secret service poseur friends! C'mon, Mike D-I-S-H !
I'm from Joplin, home of the f5!
I was playing pool at a bar and there was some yelling I looked over and a waitress and dude were fight then 2 guys ran over and I just saw them trying to hold his hands straight up like he had a gun I just duct a little behind a corner everybody else ran to see what was happening
You should interview mrballen. John B. Allen
You should have ED Caludron on the show... he's got some amazing insight on Mexico working with China right now. We have to be careful China is at our door step. We have been at China's door step for a while but recently they are making big moves.
Dr. Paul Ekman is also a deception specialist. He has some great books and training courses
It's supposed to be enemy induced, not stubbing your toe while in a warzone. At least his injuries were from getting tossed by an IED. He was just lucky that it didnt open up the LAV like a tin can per usual.
Yahshua - you know Him as Jesus - was born to a virgin, turned water to wine, taught, healed the sick, raised the dead, casted out demons, walked on water, and calmed the storm, among many other things. He was killed, and three days later He rose from the dead. Forty days later He ascended into heaven where He sits at the right hand of the Father. He is returning very soon, but before He does, Satan, the devil, is coming to pretend to be Jesus. Satan is an angel, and he will have certain supernatural powers with which to try to fool everyone. He will, for example, be able to make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men. He will only be on earth a short time before the real King of Kings, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, returns. When the real Jesus comes we will all be transformed into our spiritual bodies at the same moment. Jesus came to offer forgiveness of sins and eternal life to anyone who believes and calls on His precious name!
...the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God - Romans 3:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 6:23
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - John 3:16-18
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. - Matthew 26:6-13
The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. - Zephaniah 1:14
For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. - Luke 9:56
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. - Galatians 5:22-23
Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself..
It's like your Chief or Gunny used to tell you. Get 1 shot in and run like hell. And if the first shot isn't there. Run like hell.
Dude looks like Robert Downey jr
I got a Purple Heart for burning my hand on my M-60 Echo 3’s red hot barrel. They should have told me more often that’s what that big oven mitt was for. Dang ole Corps. (JK) Semper Fi to all of my ground-pounding fellow grunts. 👍. OooRaah!
If you Carry a firearm and haven’t read Left of Bang, don’t listen to Yousef’s Left of Bang podcast, or otherwise intentionally keep your situational awareness knowledge/awareness/skills sharpened, you’re just asking for trouble and maybe even inviting it in
Damn Mike, I had a BOLO on your ass. Welcome back!!
🔱 🇺🇸 🦅
Yousef your mom was born in my hometown!
I love this community. The naysayers and naredowells can move along.
Hey man I'm looking for Mike Drop, probably will be a guy with a baseball cap, beard, tattoos, and a t shirt.?
Bountiful "Pandora" is this man's hell on earth?! And just think the whole premise of that movie focused on the ones who want to harvest everything and suck it dry. We need more tree hugger types that get balance & sustainability but this is the wrong place to dialogue about that, isn't it. lol
I was apart of the involuntary recall at MOBCOM during that time and the motherfuckers that showed up with mohawks and piercings were hilarious. Guys shitting on vehicles and in closets, you know regular grunt shit. Good times. Great interview.
RUclips you suck with your ads right when the dude is going through all of his sponsors you throw in the ad in the middle of it RUclips WTF
Goldburger lol I think that is his name now
Paul Ekman group
I don’t smoke anymore 🙇🏽♂️😇🥲❤️
Most of it’s common sense. Well.. should be common sense. Very good info nonetheless.
I'm always aware of my surroundings and people think I'm weird because I'm constantly looking left right behind me but trust me I haven't killed anybody yet so I don't think I ever will I know I won't unless my life is in danger of course but I'm always looking around for psychos especially if I'm going to the ATM or something I'm always aware of my surroundings and I'm always checking my six so you're wrong about it sorry buddy
Intro way, way too long.
A Charlatan the guest is he is imo.. Read any 30 year old Neuro Linguistic Programming book and learn 90% of what he is talking about. Human behavior and recognizing it and what it means. If there is anything to gain here, it is pay attention and act accordingly after reading the 10 dollar books available on the subject.
Ever thought of getting some $10 books on sentence structure and grammar whist trying to sound intelligent?
If there is a (D) after someone’s name, they are a threat.
If you want to forget about your military life and kind of set it aside then why'd you come on a podcast to talk about your military life
Yousef Bodou is too intelligent, (brain burnout)
His name is AJ duryea He lives in Oregon Bahahaha I can hook you up mike😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉