This is Jockel Podcast number 179 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening.

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The spear dames and days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

We have heard of those princes heroic campaigns.

There was shield sheaths in, scourge of many tribes, a record of mead benches, rampaging among foes.

This terror of the hall-trups had come far. A fowndling to start with, he would flourish later on.

As his powers waxed and his worth was proved. In the end, each clan on outline

coasts beyond the whale road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute.

That was one good king.

Boom. Opening with a little bit of bear wolf and that is the opening of bear wolf,

translated by Shemus Haney. What I notice is even back in the day in the opening of the original

Old English poem, the first one written. What are they talking about? They're talking about war and

they're talking about leadership. And you can hear in the beginning, he was a little bit of a

weak leader. He was a fowndling to start with, but he would flourish later on became a good king.

And that's what happens. You learn, you get better. And that is why we talk about war and leadership

here. And speaking of war and leadership, back for a third time, my brother Jason Gardner,

retired master chief who I've known since I got into the tames in the early 90s.

He's been on the podcast before. So if you haven't listened to 167 and 168, go listen to those

first. There's a lot of ground covered in those podcasts. And I told him to listen in and listen

to him again and see which what we missed. So we could go back and that's what we're going to do now.

Cover some more ground, hit some of that stuff that we missed. So welcome back Jason.

Jason Gardner, thank you. Check. There's, I, when I first got that translation,

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