Jocko Underground: What Would You Do If Someone Steals From You?

Jocko Willink· Host0:00

This is the Jocko Underground podcast, number 204. Sitting here with Echo Charles. We have some questions from you out in the field, and we are gonna provide answers- Sure ... recommendations- Sure ... courses of action- What's left ... for you- Mm-hmm ... to help you on this little journey.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:16

Yeah.

Jocko Willink· Host0:17

That's what we're doing.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:18

If you're in a, in, in just in a random part of a maze and you had four potential, like, ways to go, then magically you had somebody tell you, "Of those four ways, here's three thing- three ways you don't go, and this is the way you should go. I can't tell you the whole maze, but you should go to, through this one corridor to start," that would be helpful.

Jocko Willink· Host0:44

Yeah, it would be.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:46

That's kinda what you're doing.

Jocko Willink· Host0:47

Okay.

Echo Charles· Co-host0:47

So- I thought you were asking me a question. No, no, no. I'm not. I'm just drawing a metaphor. Anyway, speaking of questions, first question: "Jocko, what's the correct, quote-unquote, correct thing to do in this situation? My son had an e-bike. His mother, my wife, left it on the front porch one night at a condo we were renting near the beach, and it got stolen. Since then, she'd been shopping around for a replacement on OfferUp and other places. She then came across an e-bike that we both believe is my son's that was stolen. The seller is not providing a charger, and he's in the same area it was stolen from. My wife wants to go buy it back from this person. The price is way lower than we got it for, so she sees it as, as