Jocko Podcast 156 w/ Echo Charles: How NOT to Lead. The Gulag Archipelago"

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0:00:00 - Opening: The Gulag Achipelago-Aleksandr Soltzhenitsyn (Unabridged) Get Your Copies: amzn.to/2EDF7r3
1:33:58 - Support: How to stay on THE PATH.
1:22:55 - Final thoughts and take-aways.
1:56:11 - Closing Gratitude.

[@SardaukarQC]

The Gulag Archipelago is like watching Schindler's List, but it lasts 2000 pages instead of 3h15 and there is no Schindler.

[@patricksachs3655]

SardaukarQC- Excellent observation. So true

[@mysteryjudgejuryexecutione3443]

Starting from podcast #1 will change your life if you have made it this far.

[@gryn1s]

I come from ex communist country. experienced this first hand, and i am terrified by the mass of far left leaning youth in the west. I was amazed to see huge shops of e.g shoe brand "soviet" with a red star for a brand. Yeah so cool and hip. Not hoping that it is possible to convert any of these airheads, But you are doing good work. By the way, we are free from this only because of US military led and US won, cold war. Glad you cared.

[@rmv4646]

I agree with you 100%, brother. We have many scary things going on in the west right now.

[@jackhuman5888]

Better dead than red

[@cdrtej]

@@thomasgibson4583 so much if the purges and invented crimes are coming true, treating police like captured re army etc

[@ericb2409]

I often say I would happily trade millions of our own ingrate and foolish citizens for clear thinking immigrants such as yourself.

[@ALLCAPS]

My mother's grandfather, Ruvim, was "arrested," and sentenced to 25 years for owning a Holy Bible. This wasn't during WW2 or 1920. It was 5 years before the Soviet Union collapsed. He was freed after it had collapsed and spending 5 years in prison. His wife had married another man because life was too hard and he ended up forgiving her for it.

[@thomasbuck303]

Soo sad my man. Love your great grandfather for his integrity, hate the leftist state that caused so much pain.

[@jhgosnell]

Our life is easy....

[@JadePX]

JKO: "I'm generally nice. I'm a pretty nice person..." ECHO: "Well..." 1:45:10

[@BetaBuxDelux]

Jade Charles LOL

[@cisoperez9423]

Bro!!!!!

[@SS3213gsdf]

dang jade charles

[@denzelsnyder3425]

Doing the entire saga like this would be an important and impactful journey for your audience this journey into Hell is transforming and incredibly well written. Thank you for this Jocko

[@BattlefieldSailor]

Echo should make a side channel as the “Connoisseur of Comfort”. He could do “un wrapping videos”, talk fashion, talk physiology, and put out extended enhanced videos. I love seeing Jocko and Echo together, but if Jocko can make Warrior Kid Podcasts happen, I know Echo has it in him to do some creative stuff on the side that would drive Jocko nuts on the channel. Get after it!

[@adipuppi]

BattlefieldSailor like unboxing yeezys?

[@sazevedo1626]

SERIOUSLY. An Echo ASMR channel would be hilarious fun.

[@VikingMuayThai]

NDA most likely

[@davidshawver9303]

I love it when Jocko does storytime.

[@clintb753]

One thing I’ve learned in all of my years of troop leading . You cannot effectively counsel anyone if they know you are full of it. Not a single peer, subordinate, or child.

[@ml3846]

Being genuine is key, great point Clint

[@clintb753]

M L 🙏Merry Christmas.

[@TrempBoy2]

I'm loving these. I literally started reading the the books about a week before the Jordan Peterson episode came out, so it couldn't have been better timing for me. I hope he ends up doing all 7 parts.

[@WLynn-su2fs]

I can't say it enough: jockopodcast is a national treasure. Thank you.

[@astrataway7077]

It's absolutely depressing... Reading this book makes you want to get all your emergency travel arrangements ready at arms length because some of us know exactly where this is heading.

[@xolanenonkontwana6495]

Monitor your hope , this was an eye opening podcast ,thank you

[@incrediblee3688]

I see a flaw in his Hope argument. If I have nothing left to lose, and it causes me to fight for my life... that means that I have abandoned hope of mercy from the enemy and instead placed my hope in that aggressive action in the moment might possible change the outcome for the better of something even if not my own life. Its always hope that fuels. Its always hope that fuels, but what is it fueling? Hope that the enemy will have mercy fuels your compliance. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. Always be aware of where your hope is being placed and what the result of that will be.

[@incrediblee3688]

I clicked the unpause button and realized that I spoke too soon lol.

[@anthonyashby3610]

Enjoyed the on the path of this episode. Also love hearing people talk about the archipelago

[@emekaume]

Just recently stumbled onto Jocko's podcast. So frigging cool. Will be getting this "Gulag Archipelago" once its out. Looks like it is/was a critical book

[@kroaroorocro]

Thank you in advance guys!!!!

[@Ericliaoo]

Thank you for educating me Jocko. Before watching 155 and 156, Gulag just reminded me of Call of Duty Warzone

[@Motorman2112]

Loving all the train analogies in this episode.

[@salesbuffet]

Good evening Echo!

[@TheSasqwatch]

Get Thomas Sowell on your podcast

[@henryjsx]

YES PLEASE!!

[@aquilatempestate9527]

He is nearly 90 and no longer doing media.

[@aladdinoscopy]

You are both awesome and bro complement eachother very well . Best regards.

[@stevocon8521]

Been waiting for you to cover this hell yee

[@karenreaves4098]

Thank you Joco.

[@IEEteammateMATT1]

Just finished the first volume last week

[@NikCasto]

Reading stories about the atrocities that occurred during the 20th century makes me feel incredibly lucky to live in the west during the 21st century...

[@markstewart9305]

Many in the West today are again looking to Marxist inspired govt because they don’t know what it was like and/or have been insulated from its effects when it ravaged the globe killing millions for nearly 100 yrs from 1918 in SE Asia, South America, Southern Africa and its parent countries of USSR, China and Eastern Europe. As Solzhenitsyn recounts, even in his own life, Marxism appealed to him and to those who feel and probably are powerless in society. It appears to be an offer to share in power but always, after much harm is done to others and without fail there is a reckoning and you are the one in the small dark basement room with no windows, one light bulb and a large drain in the middle.

[@3engmaia]

Great podcast!!

[@donna.g7442]

I am now 76, and I read Solzhenitsyn in the 1970's. He won the Nobel Prise for literature. I am dismayed that the ideas that he warns about are creeping into Western Civilisation through post-modernism. The radical feminists, the identity politics people, the dominant voices of the Left/liberals are under the enchantment of Marxist/Maoist ideas. Unless opposed and defeated we are doomed to destroy the greatest prosperity of the greatest number that the world has ever known. I am now reading about Michel Foucault, the primary source of this poison - know your enemy. Equality of opportunity: good. Equality of outcome:bad.

[@WSD-xf8jd]

Good evening!

[@joshshefter7013]

Read the Gulag Archipelago because of Dr. Peterson, now that you did a podcast on it I feel like I was destined to read the book.

[@gabrielalbuquerque5382]

This book should be obligatory to every student to read. Here in Brazil, nobody knows this book, i have the blessing to know a little of english and watch Dr.Peterson's lectures ,so i saw the gulag archipelago lecture and got the book to read.

[@strixaluco9369]

Echo reminds me of Tubbs from Miami Vice!

[@angbandart]

I read Gulag Archipelago abridged (condensed) version which is normal book length. It was life changing, mind-hardening, purifying, horrifying but cleansing read. You will be more of a real man if you read it. You will know Man.

[@dowjones3687]

Monitor your hope is so true. When the coronavirus lockdown first hit at first I kept hoping and believing that the next week things were going to get better... and then the lockdown would get extended and me and my whole family would be devastated. I was really depressed until I eventually just said I have to let this hope go or it will undo me, so I told my family we’re no longer going to look forward to when things will get normal, we’re just going to accept the reality as is, and when it does get back to normal, cool. But we’re not going to get our hopes up. Made all the difference.

[@mikkooooooo]

Extreme Joint: How US Navy Seals overcome skinny knees

[@nileisthebestband]

anyone else here chuckle when Jocko said "Popoff"

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

1:48:11 "That was alot of heat there for no dips on the rings" :D

[@brotherzeke8002]

Guess it comes down to simple choice? Get busy livin, or Get busy dyin! Shawshank Redemption.

[@Intrepid70]

Good evening

[@randomi38]

To everyone reading this comment go get some :)

[@MagicMarker447]

Tom Sowell is the man! Need to do an entire episode on basic economics. There is a ton of wisdom in that book.

[@samyeah5105]

Love to know your opinion on Mattis resigning. We need people like you to help fight against the domestic terrorists that have taken our government.

[@dbcooper9545]

You should bring Rob O’Neil on the podcast would be epic @Jocko

[@jacobbuehne7362]

The gulag archipelago is fucking brutal man... Its no joke man

[@kevinnorth4020]

Echo is jaaaaaaaaacked son. For real aloha my brotha, stay swole and ggggeet after it!

[@stephenattwood]

Release the video!

[@MichaelJames707]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@HashFace253]

I did get pulled over...check...back to the book... clownin

[@papabear328]

I'm looking at Jocko's growing stubble and thinking what would happen if he grew a beard. I guess Odin would have to give up his throne in Valhalla.

[@termlimits4congressx306]

Jocko with a beard would mean bad things. Imagine a civil war and jocko is leading a army. In that case I hope I'd be on his side.

[@emekaume]

40:15 is insane. I wasnt sure if to laugh or not.

[@daireklewis2482]

"back to the book"

[@tampabaybuccaneersfan7904]

Yo Jocko, did you see the documentary about AF on Showtime? It's pretty cool

[@jims512]

Hope (Spes) does not = Optimism

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

this shit it great! :D

[@menwithven8114]

Had to go to a different location to podcast...GOOD go to the Jocko doomsday bunker

[@sdbling]

JocKo- eh I got rolled up in Vegas. @30:08

[@americanmambi]

Please, what is going on within "The Teams" that you guys arent getting Goggins on? Was the heat really that bad? Thank you for the podcast

[@ml3846]

ive always wanted jocko to have goggins on and also marcus luttrell, they seem like obvious choices as guests but there seems to be a weird dynamic/issue or maybe simply Jocko and some guests are busy and dots dont connect at the right time.

[@gregorplotnikov3937]

I think, if you listen to the David Goggins JRE episode you can answer your own question. Goggins literally says he wasn't liked in the teams. Now why would that be? The way Goggins comes across is being focused on himself. He even says he divorced because he doesn't believe in compromising with his female partner. If he doesn't compromise and/or puts people down for not being like him and/or is not a good leader that will get you or your teammates killed. While Goggins is a badass and a good athlete, he could definitely benefit from acquiring some leadership traits. See: Dealing With Team Members Only in it For Them Self - Jocko Willink and Echo Charles

[@coffee4kate]

Check

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

1:57:10 Hell Yeah~! God bless America! :D

[@Ben-nv3md]

Are Jocko’s grooming standards relaxing or is he gearing up for Christmas Eve deliveries 🤔

[@Kash-pu4qe]

He has to store all this knowledge somewhere

[@keats182]

Ho ho ho! Everyone gets 20 burpees and a "Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual!" Merry Christmas! As Jocko Claus prepared to breach the chimney, he could be heard saying, "Stand by to get some." Remember kids, Jocko Claus hates cookies and milk. If you want a copy of Way of the Warrior Kid, leave Jocko Claus Molk or you'll get coal in your stockings.

[@Smaltese93]

This is literal hell

[@cpt.battlecock5264]

Try and attach a pop filter on your mic, itll make the sound way more pronounced when you say b and p.

[@benjaminho1410]

At 32:17 Darth Sidious: "It's treason then."

[@JohnSchaeferUNIVERSE]

Wow. Say you're guilty and we'll help you..... Awfully similar to the USA justice and court system

[@wes11bravo]

Absolutely did not do the crime but absolutely will take a plea deal because he "only" will do 5 years - if this happened even once, the system is almost hopelessly flawed.

[@grunt12394]

Jocko has a beard! almost...

[@RuralLifeAndFamily]

Jocko you should review the book by Richard Wurmbrand entitled tortured for Christ. He went through Russian oppression and emerged with his hope intact with the spirit of forgiveness and love even for his tormentors. He and his family were tortured. His wife raped. But he stayed faithful. How? I’d like to see that podcast and your thoughts on this book.

[@gmilitaru]

"Organ" means body, a larger organizational structure, an agency - as "in the KGB is the organ protecting the security of the state" - or their officers. The word was exported to the satellite countries as well.

[@solomonbarry1267]

JOKKO! Google used your intellectual property in a current ad running on KZbin. Good.

[@gmilitaru]

Proactive hope is good, escapist hope is harmful. Hoping to overcome a challenge is good, hoping to get out of the fight through no effort of yours can be morally and biologically deadly. This is why the Ancient Greeks say Hope was a dove in Pandora's box, which contained all the evils Zeus sent the mortals.

[@taoisttiger4702]

Our war on drugs is the closest thing to this madness now. In the future people will be shocked in horror at the sentances people got for a bit of a plant these days. Although thank god we are still magnitudes less in severity, torture etc.

[@dontbugme7362]

155 was a fantastic, yet scary podcast. Seeing the parallels between the Soviet Union and the embers we see from today’s Leftists is chilling

[@ed1968man]

"Unproven Espionage". Like Gen. Flynn. IJS.

[@llumdivine]

Echo: "I have 2 kids and one wife" ..... good..... I guess... 🤣😂🤣😂

[@nicholasmartin6824]

So weird to see jocko with a beard

[@Hala-ataa]

They should have known it was all bullshit when Lenin tried to round up all the “drunkards” in Russia 😂

[@mikedemayo3985]

Sounds like Trudeau's last speech

[@valentincheval3878]

Be very careful with Inquisition. Which one are you talking about? What period? Where? Because for example, in 13th century france, I would go for the Inquisition Trial over any other form of Justice. Then again, if we talk Spanish Inquisition ... Damn, I'd run.

[@gabrielalbuquerque5382]

Just one correction, when Jocko said that if you take one grain from the state you would get a tenner(get 10 years), that's wrong. The right answer is YOU WOULD BE SHOT. If you were a mother and everyone in your family is STARVING and the state collected the grains and forgot one, even a rotten one, and you take it to your home to feed your children, YOU WOULD BE SHOT. In Ucrania, from 1930-1933, everyone was dying from hungry(also known as THE HOLODOMOR), the state put some ads saying to the people to NOT EAT THIER CHILDREN, because that happened... There's lot more, but you have to read the book, and be fortitude to keep going because is horrible to read those atrocities and not be sick to what happened in USSR. SO, READ THE DAMN BOOK, this will change your life, because you will learn how to fight an authoritarian regime without violence!

[@bigbore4498]

Well I just ordered all 3 volumes after the Jocko/Jordan podcast. When Jordan says a book is the most influential book of the 20th and 21st century, I believe him. Not sure what I’m in for. But I’m excited for them to arrive.

[@jasonplassaras2564]

ECHO IS J-A-C-K-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-D. JACKED! VEINS AND BICEPS ALL OVER THE PLACE xD

[@coreyihler]

Except the difference is McCarthyism was correct and underestimated the problem by 10 full

[@KH6WZ]

Good evening. Uh oh. Looks like Jocko is violating his rule about shaving. Or, maybe this is a seasonal change for the holidays? Learning about things not to do.

[@donalejo1889]

CAN I STILL LEAD EVEN THOUGH I HAVE SKINNY KNEES??????

[@mikkooooooo]

Knee is a damn bone! -1 To leadership

[@officialyoutubecommentator4357]

Leadership is a dichotomy.

[@valentincheval3878]

Listening to you guys talking about hot chocolate is .. Disturbing.

[@henryjsx]

Bro get Thomas Sowell on your show before he is too old!!

[@lukecooper4427]

Hey Jocko in most states quotas are illegal and I’ve never heard of a department having one. It is a myth.

[@mikkooooooo]

Skinny _____?

[@coachkota1774]

1 dislike, GOOD

[@sdbling]

@35:00 I don’t know what the fuc your talking about echo

[@markferbert52]

Massachusetts force feed people up to the 1970s look up titicut follies on KZbin

[@MythMethuselah]

It wasn’t hope, it submission to the will of the state. If they were hoping from a position of strength they would be directing their hope towards their own ability instead they directed their hope toward the humanity of a tyrannical institution.

[@fireonmytarget8937]

When the gulags start up again, these gummy bear salesmen will be nowhere to be found - or perhaps performing the arrests themselves. USA!

Jocko lacking that shaving discipline. BAD.

[@masonleeth956]

Anyone else notice that Echo seemed super sad and pouty most of the episode?

[@Tehinterwebstrolzor]

Did you guys know that the people running the gulags were overwhelmingly Jewish?

[@patricksachs3655]

Chainsaw Warrior- They were faithless atheists who used their Jewish ancestry as a shield and excuse for their evil deeds, real George Soros types. Big difference. Faithful, practicing Jews didn`t buy into it, nor did they participate in the carnage. Later they were punished for it. Don`t let yourself be confused.

[@renewed6250]

@@patricksachs3655 Being religious doesn't prevent being evil. It seems you are attempting to claim the head of the Cheka acted out of 'atheism'? If so - that is just a bit disingenuous. Yagoda was a Jew, and converted to Christianity later on. He was never an atheist.

[@renewed6250]

@@patricksachs3655 not to mention...during the antisemetic reign of stalin...coupled with the emergence of the protocols of the elders of zion (a fabricated anti-jewish document hailed by extremist muslims to this day) made russia not exactly a place where jewish heritage was any kind of 'shield'.

[@patricksachs3655]

@@renewed6250 Very true, But I meant a shield in the context of the new Bolshevik order as well as a cover for their actions.

[@renewed6250]

@@patricksachs3655 Before we start vomiting the 'strawman' word, take note that I said "it SEEMS you are ATTEMPTING"...as for the rest of the specifities - Yagoda was certainly not an underling, and whether or not you assert he was an atheist does little to change the intent of what...again...you 'appear' to be claiming. You seem to associate atheism with lack of virtue and faith (or as you claim to be able to judge it...'true faith') to be aligned with it. For all of that folly I can only direct you to god is not great by the hitch.

[@gunnersaules6933]

one of the worst podcasts ever

[@cdrtej]

WtF??!?

[@JohnSchaeferUNIVERSE]

Wow. Say you're guilty and we'll help you..... Awfully similar to the USA justice and court system