The Lie Of "Stranger Danger" | Full Auto Friday | 2/27.26
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Four questions for today's Q and A that all center on responsibility and perspective. We start with a man in a movie theater watching someone try to enter through an emergency exit, his mind flashing back to the Aurora theater shooting and wondering ever since if he should have acted or done more. From there, a husband blindsided by his wife saying she's leaving and facing the reality of telling his two young sons. The third question comes from a man recovering from major surgery who feels useless and like a burden on his wife while he heals. We close by tackling whether it's smarter to openly acknowledge the risks young men and women face online, or ignore what is statistically unlikely but emotionally unsettling.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, got the red smoke. |
| 0:03.0 | Gun runs. North and south. West of the smoke. West of the smoke. |
| 0:09.1 | Okay, copy. West of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now. |
| 0:13.6 | Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it. You're cleared hot. |
| 0:17.2 | Copy, cleared hot. |
| 0:18.8 | What's up, everybody? It's Friday. Well, by the time you listen to this, it's Friday. I'm doing this on Thursday. Before we get into it, I've got to do a little bit of admin work or administrative work if you didn't come from the military. Where do I begin? A few things. I guess first and foremost is this. I don't like selling stuff. If anybody has followed the show or me for some time, that is obviously a part of what I do. I have some merchandise that's associated with the podcast. I'm wearing one of the shirts right now. I'll talk about that in a second. But I'm not a good salesman. |
| 0:56.4 | And oftentimes I don't think I do a good job of perhaps talking enough when I should in certain areas. |
| 1:05.9 | Specifically, what am I talking about? Okay, I have a book. The book is getting ready to come out April 14th. This is what's |
| 1:12.0 | called a galley copy. It's like 90%, probably even more than that, but I can give you an example |
| 1:17.3 | of what it's missing here. Author photo, not here. There was a time where I only had one of these, |
| 1:23.3 | and I did do a social media giveaway and to everybody who, uh, reached out and said they wanted a |
| 1:27.7 | copy. Thank you so much. I did send it to the person though. So if you were not notified that you |
| 1:32.1 | won, you didn't win. This book comes out April 14th. The publisher took a risk on me. I'm a non-published |
| 1:41.1 | author. Jocko wrote the foreword took a risk on me in supporting me. |
| 1:46.6 | And he was able to read his portion for the audiobook as well. |
| 1:49.4 | I was able to read the audiobook for what I wrote. |
| 1:51.9 | Joe Rogan wrote an amazing blurb. |
| 1:54.4 | A portion of it is on the front cover. |
| 1:56.4 | And the reality is they cut it down from a couple paragraphs that he wrote. |
| 1:59.8 | I have no words to express how thankful I am. |
| 2:02.8 | Jack Carr wrote the inside blurb. All of those people took a risk on me. And I not only am |
| 2:11.0 | contractually obligated to do the best that I can to promote the book, but I want to do everything |
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