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Jocko Unraveling

Unraveling 33: Repaid in Full

Jocko Unraveling

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Worldconflict, History, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

For most of history, and in much of the world today, there were no effective police, courts, prisons, or states. People and groups protected themselves according to the law of honor immortalized as the epitaph of the Roman consul Lucius Sulla: No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. Jocko and Darryl discuss honor and vengeance in societies ancient and modern.

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0:00.0

This is the Jocco Unraveling Podcast episode 33 sitting here with Darryl Cooper, DC,

0:08.4

and me, Jocco Willink.

0:13.2

There's rules out there in the world in all different arenas of life.

0:21.5

Some written rules, some laws, some unwritten rules.

0:26.1

You got some unwritten rules out there. For example, in sports, in hockey.

0:34.0

You ever notice in hockey, Darryl, if you ever watch hockey?

0:36.5

I just play hockey.

0:37.5

Yeah, coached hockey actually.

0:38.9

So unwritten rules of hockey, here's one. If you and I are going to fight, we wait until

0:43.9

the whistle blows before we drop the gloves and fight. Like we can be standing face to

0:47.6

face. We wait until they start the game before we start fighting. How does that make sense?

0:53.2

That's the unwritten rule, right? Hockey, the enforcer on a hockey team doesn't fight the

1:02.2

highly skilled players. So you didn't see Wayne Gretzky getting punched in the face.

1:09.9

He got that respect. You don't cross the ice when you're warming up. You don't cross

1:15.4

over to the other team's ice. You don't do it.

1:19.0

Similar NBA, you don't do the flagrant fouls on the superstars. Michael, you don't do that.

1:28.8

You're not supposed to do that. When you do intentional fouls, like, hey, we got to stop

1:34.0

the clock. You do intentional fouls that are safe. You know, you usually grab, you grab

1:38.6

their arm so it's a safe foul. No one's getting hurt. You don't full court press the team

1:44.3

that you're beating. So unwritten rules, Major League Baseball. You don't watch it walk

1:52.1

on the pitcher's mound, which is an interesting. Here's a more interesting one in baseball.

1:59.0

In the late innings, you don't punt during a no hitter. So if Darryl's out there pitching

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