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Jocko Podcast · 2025-04-30 · 113 min · 21,791 words

488: If You Leap Into a Well Don't Count Anyone To Pull You Out. The Hunn-Beating Proverbs Pt. 2

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This is Jocko Podcast number 488 with Echo Charles and me, Jocko Willink. Good evening, Echo. Good evening. So, podcast 485 is actually Carrie, not you. You were uh, you know, extremely busy, occupied doing something.

Yeah. Like vacation for three weeks. Well, we started covering uh some quotes from the Hun beating podcast. Proverb book, which was published in 1918. And it was aimed at, for the most part, it was aimed at Canadian soldiers who were fighting the Germans in World War I.

And I talked a little a bit about why the Germans were called Huns. It was a derogatory name, which was based on a speech that was given by Wilhelm II. Has the German soldiers left for China years before, uh, to stamp out the Boxer Rebellion? And Wilhelm II said that the Germans would take no prisoners, offer no mercy, and that they would be feared just like people feared Attila the Hun and his army. And so

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