The Ask Tell Make Podcast: All things use of force, leadership and Martial arts.

In this episode Yvan and Thom discover that Die Hard is secretly a sequel to Home Alone one and two. They stumble onto some self help emo nonsense and develop quasi new years resolutions while Yvan's kids hit them with a boxing glove on a stick. Like, that is really what happened its Pandemonium!

Yvan and Thom discuss what makes a police officer with Use of Force expert, Dr. Matt Sthiem. They get in to the foundational skills of a police officer, training modalities, police culture and how awesome Yvan is for going vegan. 

This Episode was supposed to be a Quintet Ultra Recap but it goes off the rails quickly. Yvan and Fredson discuss having to rescue one of Fredson's blackbelt's after losing to Craig Jones. They also discuss butt scooting and get into some of the differences between traditional martial arts and Brazillian Jiu Jitsu. Then they get into early new years resolutions between Enloe, Yvan and Fredson. 

Yvan and Thom spoke with Fredson Paixao. Fredson is a 4 time BJJ world champion, 9 time Brazillian National Champion, former GFC champion, a WEC and UFC veteran and one of two people  to promote from purple to blackbelt in the world. In this episode they talk about the BJJ rank system and what it means. They also spend the first part of the Pod talking about a bet that Fredson made with Yvan on who can lose the most weight by January 1. Fredson developed spontaneous amnesia and thought he had to drop to 185 instead of 175...It's ok though because Yvan eventually found a text message from Fredson stating he had to make 175. They also talked about the upcoming fight with Craig Jones and how the grappling game is staying but staying the same at the same time. The last 10 minutes you can hear kids and parents file into the gym for their belt promotion ceremony!

Yvan and Thom talk about the Tribe. The group of first responders who risk their lives to protect people they have never met. In this episode, they are mostly serious with the exception of some awesome dad jokes and some brief discussion of Battle PJS! Every day men and women put on a uniform and go out in their community to do something good. As another Thanksgiving comes to an end, let us not forget to be thankful for them. They are thankful for the right to serve their community.

Yvan discusses Rakesh the greatest grappler of all time and his undeniable impact on the sport of BJJ and perhaps the world. Thom and Yvan discuss some self defense strategies and come up with the greatest BJJ lifestyle brand of all time BATTLE PJS! If you like are one of the 9 listeners to the show leave us a message on ANCHOR or like and follow us on IG @thesrdbpodcast

Yvan goes on a rant about how much he hated the new Joker movie and explains what an Incel is. The two of them go on a rant about Americans valuing people who don't contribute to society and hating those who do. Yvan also insults the 12th listener of the podcast.

Thom reminisces about his amazing experience with ex-Pakistani Special Forces (probably) operator, turned Uber driver. As heralding adventure with Oswald, Yvan is inspired to pitch a movie about his life. They also discuss friends who don't  call you back, but still want to be on the podcast...Michael Jackson and pulling guard. It is quite possible that this episode will change your life, make you better at math and have abilities you only dreamed about (probably).

In this episode, Yvan and Thom discuss a five second street encounter that some rando had with Andrew Yang. They then apply an in depth analysis of a viral video of a school resource officer combating the scurge of skateboarding teenagers! They do all this while reviewing the Grahm V. Connor standard and waxing philosophical over whether or not Yvan's daughter will ever do anything wrong and the finer points of community policing and use of force. Be forewarned the background music gets a little loud in this one. It was cleaned up in post, but those damn hippies wanted to be heard!

Yvan and Thom embark on a journey to discover their purpose...or at least their name. In this episode they discuss watching youtube in order to fix your family van, doing these repairs with in laws, gay dogs and Jiu Jitsu. Also they discuss why Las Vegas has these useless HOV lanes that serve no purpose.