Episode Transcript: #1800 - Gavin de Becker

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Hello Gavin. Hey.

Pleasure to meet you in person in The Flesh. You too. We obviously have a lot of friends in common and I'm glad to be here.

I'm glad to have you here. And I'm glad to talk about, we have a lot of shared interest but this survival signals that protect us from violence.

Now this is, I've always wanted to talk to you because you are truly an expert on preparedness and cautionary tactics and what to do and not to do.

Like in terms of security and how to protect people and how did, what is your background like, how did you get started in all this?

Bad childhood, violent childhood is the way I started. When I was 10 years old my mother shot my stepfather in front of me.

Oh Jesus Christ.

And that was one of many sort of gun incidents in our family and so I…

Was your stepfather violent or something?

No, he wasn't. My mother was and…

Wow, that's unusual right?

It is, it is the more unusual of the two, you know the two genders. Certainly men are more violent, more often throughout history.

So I had that experience but and a whole bunch of others. My mother was a heroin addict, she committed suicide when I was 16.

And so I saw a lot of stuff. I saw a lot of criminality, I saw a lot of violence and I guess I developed kind of like an ambassador between the two worlds.

I spoke both languages. You know if I had a few other disadvantages there's no way I would have you know succeeded in life.

I would have died young. Like if I had been a black kid with the same circumstance I'd have been in big trouble.

And so that life brought me to a fascination with when John Kennedy was killed I was 10 and I was home from school and it just absolutely captivated and fascinated me.

Not so much the issue of who killed him or the conspiratorial sides of these things which are very real.