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This Video Could Save Your Life

Jul 17, 202310 minSeason 4Ep. 23
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Episode description

Random acts of violence and predators seeking to harm unsuspecting individuals have seen an alarming rise. Richard Thompson, a seasoned security expert and career bouncer. 

 Richard breaks down invaluable tips and common-sense advice on how to stay safe while navigating Metro Vancouver.

From identifying potential threats to developing situational awareness, he guides listeners through essential strategies to ensure personal safety

Don't miss out on this eye-opening conversation with Richard Thompson.




Transcript

You should probably watch this. It could save your life. Do you feel safe? Do you take the sky train? Maybe the subway? Do you ever walk around on town? Do you honestly feel safe out there? People getting stabbed at Starbucks, sword attacks, knife attacks, People getting pushed in front of trains. Somebody was set on fire in the nymo. Just threw gas on her. You know as you do. What's going on in Canada? Or the rest of the world, for

that matter. Maybe you've seen that documentary by Aaron Gunn. Vancouver is dying. What about Canada is dying. You've seen that. What can you do? What should you do? Get a gun? Take up MMA? Learn to be a knife fighter. I'm a security professional. I'm a career bouncer. Well, the rest of you went off and got real jobs in offices and that sort of thing. Not me now. I was working in bars and nightclubs and pubs. Running security crews in the early 2000s BC had a serious gang problem.

It was the Wild West. Eventually it evolved into one hell of a bloody war, bodies buried all over the place. How was the doorman at Ground Zero? I learned to be a bouncer and a doorman at Area 51 in Chilliwack, BC, with the home base of the notorious UN gang. Now, eventually I became head of security. Then I got fired, but I got immediately rehired by their competition. Good times.

They were more of a hub and included a whole bunch of gangs, UN independent soldiers, Red Scorpions, Hells Angels, Bacon Brothers. I even saw some Bandidos once. No shit. What is this Tijuana? There was a melting pot of violence and insanity. When I look back on, it was absolutely bananas. I'm amazed to this day that nobody got killed. If you want to learn more about that time and how truly violent it was, check out Hood Chronicles on YouTube.

Pretty good channel with some really interesting content about crime and crime in Canada. Take a look at Clay Rouge, Bc's King of Bud and the Bacon Brothers. My story takes place between those two How did I keep my little corner of the world safe? I wasn't wearing body armor. I didn't have a radio. I didn't have a gun or a Taser. I didn't have fifty other guys with guns or Tasers. The cops didn't have teleporters, not everybody had a cell phone and nobody had a camera in their pocket.

The first thing I realized was that fighting. Is dumb. And I was a champion martial artist. I'd even been in the army. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then you've never been in a real fight. You never want to be in a fight. Fights are about ego. You can see fights, you can avoid fights. You should avoid fights. You'd think my job was to basically break up fights, but that's not really why I was there. What was I really worried about? Predators.

How do predators attack? I don't understand. The cheetah tried kicking him in the face and biting him in the head. Can't imagine why that didn't work. Maybe if he just paid attention more in karate class. If your plan is to fight the crocodile after it's bitten you around the neck with respect, you're getting dragged to the bottom and spun to pieces in the dark. Maybe you think the cheetah's self-defense situation started when he first noticed the crocodile and started hissing at him.

That's so close to the crocodile. Nope. I can understand why you'd say that. And that's probably because you've never really seen a crocodile, even if you know they exist. That cheetah's self-defense situation started before he ever went to the water. Pack of lions, doesn't surround the water Buffalo and then challenge him to a duel. See, predators, real predators, they don't fight you, they attack from stealth. Always. Buffalo are huge, strong.

The last thing the lion wants to do is fight the water Buffalo. They confuse it, they surprise it, they misdirect it, they overwhelm it. That's how predators attack in a world of gangsters, just like nature, the sucker puncher is king. If somebody smashes a corona bottle up the side of your head and then starts kicking you, unless somebody pulls them off, you're just as dead as the cheetah. That's what you should be

looking out for. The people out there, the ones that you're afraid of, they attack the same way. In my experience, one of the best things that you can do to increase your personal safety is cultivate uncertainty. That pack of lions? They won't attack the water Buffalo unless they're sure you have to make your opponent unsure. If they don't think they're going to get away with it, they're probably not going to

attack you in the 1st place. If you encounter somebody that you perceive as a threat, what are you signaling to that person? What are you saying without saying? If they look at you and they see a victim, well, guess what? They're far more likely to attack you. People who look like victims get victimized. Before the attack, you must appear strong and confident, even if you're not, even if you're scared shitless. Don't get small, don't stare at the ground. Don't bury your nose in your

phone and hope they go away. The predator needs to know that you see them, that you're ready for them. If you can do that, most of them will just go look for someone else. Wherever you go, you walk like you're supposed to be there. One of the simplest and most obvious ways that you can increase your uncertainty is simply by looking around you. It's amazing to me how few people actually do this. Most people blithely wander through life totally oblivious to what's happening around them.

If you cross the street while staring at your phone, you deserve to be hit by a car. That's how bad guys think? Do you understand? Don't make it easy for them. It's probably going to get worse. How can I confidently say that? Because the people with all the money and all the power in the world, the ones who have openly bragged about penetrating governments, including mine, the ones who are directly responsible for the policies that are doing this to our cities, have told us so.

And I found one of the best ways to know what somebody's about, what they're thinking, what they're afraid of and what they're planning to do is just by listening to them when they talk. So before I go on, we'll leave you with one last thing and this last thing. We'll give you some more self-defense options for some worst case scenarios and hopefully go a little way into helping us all cultivate some uncertainty when it comes to the people that are actually doing this to us.

When you're finished this video, I suggest that you go on YouTube and you look up Israeli limited penetration entry or limited penetration entry. What is that? Well, essentially, it's a super sneaky way that SWAT teams and special forces enter rooms when they're really sure that there's probably going to be somebody on the inside that's going to shoot at them. What? Richard, are you insane? Why are you sending us to YouTube to look up SWAT team entry tactics?

Here's the thing. Simultaneously, while I was working in the bars, I was also working in film and I did a very specific type of work. I did military maneuvers and SWAT team type stuff. I worked with specialized agencies and brought in professionals and exprofessionals to teach and train us to do these things so that we can replicate them on camera over and over and over again as authentically as possible.

Now stay with me. If you know what the professionals do and why they do it, you could ask yourself what could I use it for? But if you know that this is the specific technique that the professionals use to go into the room and kill the monster, and they use it because it has the highest chance for them to possibly sneak up on that monster, well then maybe you could use it to sneak by the

room in the 1st place. I don't know about you, but if there's a monster in the next room, I want to know how to sneak by that room. The second thing you could potentially use this for. Is maybe talking to the monster in the first place. In my experience, you actually can talk to monsters. You can talk to psychopaths and killers, even in the moment, even when they're willing and

ready to use violence. But in order to get them to hear you, you need to stack advantages, and those advantages need to meet or exceed whatever advantages they perceive they have themselves. If you can do that, you're going to cultivate uncertainty. That person's going to become unsure of themselves, and at that moment, if you offer that person an alternative, a way out.

They're probably going to take it, but I can tell you in my experience, without question, the people that tend not to get messed with when it comes to douchebags, sucker punchers, and predators are the people who are obviously capable of great violence but choose not to use it. It's like the people who taught me to do these things in the 1st place. Formidable people, serious serious people. Some of them could kill you in 100 ways before you ever knew what hit you.

But they choose not to do that. In fact, they literally save those skills to protect the people that are in their immediate vicinity. That demands your respect. You're literally safer just by being near them, and you can be that too. You don't have to run towards the bullets like they do. You just have to make yourself an uncertainty and pay attention. And if you do those things, then all the people around you are safer as well, and the more people that do that.

The safer we all are. Here's the cool part. You see, you don't even need to technically look up. What I just told you to look up is really limited penetration. Now, I hope that you do. I suggest that you do. But even if you don't, it doesn't really matter. Why not? Because just by watching this video, you've already become an uncertainty. Cool, right? See, the powers that be, the ones that are watching and keeping track have no way of knowing if you decided to follow up or not.

They don't know if you went and watched a whole bunch of videos and then took the time to get good or didn't bother to look in the 1st place. All they're going to see is view count. Millions of people see a video like this and all of a sudden decide to start looking into things like Israeli Limited Penetration. Well, that sends one hell of a powerful message, don't you

think? If you're in the Lower Mainland and you'd like to learn more about my selfdefense, psychology, tips, tricks, things I've learned over the years. De escalation techniques I know to be effective, becoming an uncertainty How to efficiently move with a firearm. Maybe some John Wick reloads. Contact me on any of my social media accounts. I'm willing to come see you personally, or if you prefer, set up a group, find a venue and

we'll have a chat. The rest of you out there share this shit out of this video because the more eyeballs that see it, the bigger statement we make and the more of an uncertainty we all become in this great reset. It only works if we all stay scared, stupid and helpless. So let's stop looking like food, stay safe out there and subscribe for more content. Share the shit out of this video.

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