This is Jocco Podcast number 12 with Echo Charles and me, Jocco Willink.

Sometimes people ask me what made me me. How did I turn out like this where

did I come from? I go back and I point at hardcore music growing up and it

being in that scene where it was cool to be hard and strong and it was about

aggression and discipline. Those were like the underlying themes. I

point at that. I think that's real. There was mantras that I remember from

those days that stuck with me my whole life from some of those, from some of

that music. Then there's other things that influenced me as a kid at even

even a younger age and one of the things that I know influenced me at a very

young age in a pretty significant way was seeing the movie Bridge on the River

Quy which is a classic war movie. In that movie pretty much had it all for me

and I think I can trace my ideas of being a commando. I'm going to use that word.

That's kind of an archaic word that people don't use anymore. Commando but I

think I got it from watching that movie when I was a kid and if you haven't

seen that movie you should check it out for sure because it's epic and it's

the story of prisoners of war and American and British mostly British that

are sent to build a bridge in the middle of the jungle in Burma for a train line

that is to connect Bangkok and Rangoon and of course these are prisoners so

they're badly mistreated they're beaten or poorly fed eventually one American

escapes and he leads a commando troop back to the side of the bridge to blow up

the bridge and they do it all and the commando is in the movie they do it all

they parachute in they swim up the river they lay demolition on the bridge it's

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