Identifying The Threat with Yousef Badou | Mike Drop: Episode 60

Born in Kuwait and baring witness to the gulf war Iraqi invasion of his home country, Yousef Badou grew up around the kind of violence that made him want to combat it as he got older. After serving several combat tours as a U.S. Marine, he took part in a special project to train and teach other war fighters to be able to assess and predict violence through body language and context. I had the pleasure of sitting down him to discuss all things related, and of course tie in the parallels of dogs.
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Table of Timestamps:
Breaking the Ice - 2:00
Growing Up in Kuwait - 15:15
Home Sweet Home - 28:30
MSG (Marine Security Guard) - 40:00
End of the Tour(s) - 55:00
The Marine Corp Combat Hunter Program - 58:35
A Civilian Instructor - 1:11:00
Behavioral Analysis - 1:18:00
How to Practice Behavior - 1:36:15
Traveling and Safety - 1:48:30
Emergence Disrupt - 1:58:35
Wrapping Up & Contact Info - 2:04:45
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[@markshoaff3776]

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.

[@brittdriver4453]

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.

[@Len_M.]

Loved this one!

[@bojanglesthewizard8875]

Honestly I still think this is my favorite episode

[@hueyrotorhead]

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

[@seandunn8657]

Can’t believe you got Robert Downey Jr on the podcast... keep up the great work Mike

[@stephenmelton7706]

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.

[@Mastertedbrunk]

Absolutely. Very precise in his thoughts and words. Very balanced perspective. Huge fan of this man and his show. Thank you for your service!!!

[@matthewserkert4401]

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.

[@gator5566]

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!!!

[@gator5566]

@L Train45 I don't get it

[@markzegarac8574]

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...

[@mikedudley9975]

Most people I know think I'm paranoid for always watching the people around me. This made me feel better about it.

[@jachconi]

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 🇺🇸

[@griffm5]

Mike, Great style of interview. Thanks for doing the hard work for all of us!

[@MRLomax-gc1fe]

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.

[@turtle-_-power4710]

I got my hat the other day. I like it a lot. Thank you Mike.

[@kwilliams454]

The power of letting shit go! Amen to that. Great interview!

[@johnathanpitcock5236]

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!🙌🙌👍👍

[@Grayxlx]

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[@My8j]

Excellent episode! Thank you

[@davesmith1771]

Most under appreciated channel. Best to you and yours.

[@tdunn2]

Good stuff. Thanks Gentlemen.

[@pierveillette5952]

Another great podcast mike!👍🤙

[@gandamack1900]

All your shows that I have watched have been awesome...You are a talented interviewer...Nice job👍😎

[@tremontitized3018]

Appreciate yalls service! Means alot to me and my 2 boys! Thank you

[@adventureswithwhitney5219]

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.

[@ryanc9888]

Great guest, one of the best yet.

[@busbey61]

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!

[@adventureswithwhitney5219]

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

[@steveleach6022]

X can

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

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!

[@seller559]

One of your most interesting guests. Thanks

[@misternitro1]

Interesting podcast as I had just read Left of Bang recently. Thanks Mike!

[@Infamous159]

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!

[@MikeNYC1031]

Such a great podcast!

[@AAA97391]

Can't wait!

[@jamescarroll6954]

Mike, you're a great interviewer. Really enjoy your show and the way you bring out the unexpected dimensions of your guests.

[@DDGVET4]

I did the NTA with NMCB-ONE in 87. I love your perspective on that one! SUCEX.

[@melissafritts8648]

Ready for the UFC and this !

[@rickirelan8385]

Fucking Amen

[@joshs.2574]

Good listen

[@papabones-p8o]

Very interesting and intriguing past, thank you for the interview!! "KEEP ON KEEPIN ON"!!

[@SouthernJaeger]

God Damn good podcast. Glad to be following this channel.

[@aasd72]

one of the best. thank you.

[@Samokopecky]

You gotta get Stew Smith on the podcast Mike! 👍

[@garydaly]

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.

[@terrybaca4095]

So much to digest here. Thank you.

[@barrysmith916]

Mike that shirt you are wearing is just bad ass . love the trident holding the mic . How fitting for the show .

[@4jopattix]

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.

[@vegasilkit]

Okay.... I must have skipped the morning routine, favorite handgun, what exercise questions......

[@mikerich9227]

Excellent interview

[@DropDyne]

Great interview! I've learned a skill from this video. I shall now go on establishing baselines for the rest of my life....

[@munztermunzter7525]

Thanks. Great episode

[@hiramhaji7813]

Outstanding podcast

[@mfitchue67]

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.

[@glassjaw890]

Great stuff Michael!

[@elgroucho7563]

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....

[@jojotheman7032]

You need to have mike drop prime where we dont have to wait lol

[@anthonyluisi7096]

Mike .... you are the common mans Charlie Rose ... outstanding interview skills 👍🏻

[@donaldritter2256]

Like the new studio man

[@josephvega3763]

This dude is awesome!!

[@chriscannata8044]

Amen @ 21:20 - TONS OF PEOPLE ARE BOILING

[@johnp9581]

Excellent excellent excellent again.

[@giveitstick66]

another super show.. funny how anyone not staring into their phone is an anomaly these days.. : )

[@rodslingertv6512]

OMG, he was one of my marines doing 03, 04 OIF I and 2!

[@greggwilkins5544]

Mike, You're a natural! Joe Rogan don't have anything on you! Spotify or Rumble give Mike a 100M contact.

[@tremontitized3018]

This is great

[@joshhoodrat451]

Look for pre-event indicators .

[@elgroucho7563]

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.

[@dcambitionz2054]

The old intro and setup was so much better

[@smjhobbies4527]

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

[@Doom_Head621]

right on

[@DestinationFishing]

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.

[@sentfromdaniel]

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! 😂🤣😂

[@og800]

#tacticalrifleman

[@agustingonzalez846]

Yeah, in Rome I noticed a lot of little scams, everywhere.

[@chrislady6020]

Big thumb up fell9

[@smjhobbies4527]

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

[@brady644]

You should interview mrballen. John B. Allen

[@dowth3]

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 !

[@nicastrosal9869]

I would like to hear more about Johnny Walker could you lead me in the right direction?

[@Richard-zr6hz]

I'm from Joplin, home of the f5!

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

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.

[@docb1844]

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

[@gregusmc2868]

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!

[@douglassinclaire9968]

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.

[@convictednotconvinced]

Dude looks like Robert Downey jr

[@GSPforLIFE1]

Damn Mike, I had a BOLO on your ass. Welcome back!! 🔱 🇺🇸 🦅

[@braydencarey4352]

Yousef your mom was born in my hometown!

[@carlosdanger4648]

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

[@DDGVET4]

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.

[@nathanbieber2840]

Dr. Paul Ekman is also a deception specialist. He has some great books and training courses

[@MshAhmxiO1]

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

[@stephenlangsdorf1230]

Hey man I'm looking for Mike Drop, probably will be a guy with a baseball cap, beard, tattoos, and a t shirt.?

[@farragutspikes1]

Intro way, way too long.

[@CalUsviFl]

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.

[@carlosdanger4648]

Goldburger lol I think that is his name now

[@god-la-7wins-verdad-942]

I don’t smoke anymore 🙇🏽‍♂️😇🥲❤️

[@timassgoblin]

Most of it’s common sense. Well.. should be common sense. Very good info nonetheless.

[@humbllbug]

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..

[@woodsinme]

I love this community. The naysayers and naredowells can move along.

[@smjhobbies4527]

KZbin 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 KZbin WTF

[@nathanbieber2840]

Paul Ekman group

[@smjhobbies4527]

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

[@MichaelJones-ez9ch]

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.

[@ssheldon1616]

Ever thought of getting some $10 books on sentence structure and grammar whist trying to sound intelligent?

[@smjhobbies4527]

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

[@god-la-7wins-verdad-942]

Yousef Bodou is too intelligent, (brain burnout)