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Speaker 2: Hi everybody, this is Trista and Bob. Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the Almost Famous OG podcast. I'm really excited. We have
Speaker 2: one of the DS, Joe Vaughn Q. Did I just
Speaker 2: hear you laugh? Cue? No, maybe that was you, Bob
Speaker 2: jovonn Q Charles. He is one of the DS. And
Speaker 2: if you don't recognize the name, and if you saw
Speaker 2: the show, he's the one that was following me. Let's
Speaker 2: let's say that following me out of.
Speaker 3: He was following you, Pepper and you.
Speaker 1: Basically he's like, you don't belong here, You're done, get
Speaker 1: out of here.
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. So I'm really excited to talk to him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is kind of the first time that I've had
Speaker 2: interaction with any of the DS after the show, and.
Speaker 3: I am a little bit nervous.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know, you know, they're good people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would imagine it would.
Speaker 4: Be under ranking experience for you. How's it going.
Speaker 2: It's good so Q. This is my co host for
Speaker 2: our Almost Famous OG podcast. This is Bob Guinea. He
Speaker 2: was actually on the Bachelorette with me. Uh, sir, when
Speaker 2: I was the Bachelorette. Do you even know what the
Speaker 2: bachelorette is?
Speaker 5: By the way, I know that's really a good question
Speaker 5: because I was going to say, yeah, then I was
Speaker 5: the Bachelor after but you don't know the Bachelerette or
Speaker 5: the Bachelor.
Speaker 3: But it is kind of funny you had two.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've had several people from the Bachelor franchise
Speaker 1: on the show as you've been affiliated with it, just
Speaker 1: in general.
Speaker 3: Obviously, Trista's the toughest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, Trista, Tristan the G.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 3: She is right, She's a real G.
Speaker 4: But no, you're you're you're totally right, do I do?
Speaker 6: We We have had a lot of the uh, the Bachelor,
Speaker 6: Bachelorettes and all that stuff on the show. So it's
Speaker 6: been it's been. It's been good to see how y'all respond.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a that's a good that's a good word.
Speaker 3: It's a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like those words. Okay, so welcome. I would
Speaker 2: I would love to hear because they don't really do
Speaker 2: enough of this. I feel like on the show. Your
Speaker 2: background and how you became part of.
Speaker 4: The show, well back twenty two years in the military.
Speaker 6: I just retired in twenty twenty one, right as all
Speaker 6: the cast and everyone knows I'm a former Navy seal.
Speaker 4: So I did that most of my career.
Speaker 6: Okay, I've deployed seven times in my career out of
Speaker 6: twenty two years.
Speaker 4: Great time. You know, got all my things into So
Speaker 4: I'm I'm all good, right And from where my background,
Speaker 4: I will say.
Speaker 6: From where I come from. Originally, I'm originally from Washington,
Speaker 6: d C. That's where my my home home status. But
Speaker 6: I kind of I kind of reaped both. I'm from Washington,
Speaker 6: d C. But I finished high school in North Carolina,
Speaker 6: so everything. I joined the Navy in June ninety nine
Speaker 6: from Charlotte, which.
Speaker 4: Is where I'm at right now.
Speaker 2: And you inst directly this is all coming up because
Speaker 2: my son is actually considering applying. He kind of wants
Speaker 2: to be a Navy seal que so I might be
Speaker 2: calling you, so did you enlist? I know there's a
Speaker 2: few different ways that you can become part of the
Speaker 2: military in the United States. Did you enlist?
Speaker 4: I did? I did. I came in I mean straight
Speaker 4: row right when I was in the military.
Speaker 6: So one of the reasons I came I joined the
Speaker 6: military is because I had kids in high school. So
Speaker 6: that's the whole of where I come from, right, you know,
Speaker 6: I was my I didn't I didn't have my mom
Speaker 6: growing up.
Speaker 4: I was raised with my grandparents.
Speaker 6: My mom was a drug ACDT Oh wow, she was
Speaker 6: in and out of prison a lot.
Speaker 4: So I never knew who my dad was.
Speaker 6: So my grandmother took that responsibility and my aunts and uncles,
Speaker 6: they all kind of played that role. Is raising me,
Speaker 6: I guess you would say. So took me from DC
Speaker 6: to North Carolina. Still have my issues again, had my
Speaker 6: kids in high school as a teenage dad then, and
Speaker 6: my grandmother was like, Okay, you're going into the military.
Speaker 4: This is how it's going on.
Speaker 6: You're going in the military so you can help take
Speaker 6: care with kids and get out of this craziness.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 6: So it was a good idea, I think today in hindsight.
Speaker 6: You know, she was very sick as well, diabetic ampuchief
Speaker 6: from the knee.
Speaker 4: Down write me down.
Speaker 6: So she was the one who initially pushed me into
Speaker 6: the military, which I had never wanted to do. I
Speaker 6: was just not one of the things. I wanted to
Speaker 6: go play football. I was a football star and all
Speaker 6: that stuff.
Speaker 4: But it worked.
Speaker 6: Out you know, if I couldn't be a pro athlete
Speaker 6: or a collegiate athlete, being in Navy Seal truly is
Speaker 6: the next best thing. Now not really the next best thing,
Speaker 6: it's really the thing because I have done so much
Speaker 6: right I could be especially I mean I can be
Speaker 6: a pro athlete or even a collegian athlete. But collegian athletes,
Speaker 6: pro athletes, they couldn't do what Navy sills do, you
Speaker 6: know what I'm saying. So it's one of those things
Speaker 6: where I have respect for them. I have respect for
Speaker 6: anybody that's a professional in any industry that they're doing right.
Speaker 4: I have complete respect.
Speaker 6: But when I look at what I've done and what
Speaker 6: the Seal teams have done as a whole across the world,
Speaker 6: you know, it takes the right person.
Speaker 4: To be this, to do this.
Speaker 6: You know, when I in my class, we want to
Speaker 6: graduated fifteen men, but we had two hundred and seventy starts.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Wow, this is the normal
Speaker 6: of when people feel this is reality. It's hard, it's
Speaker 6: a year long training.
Speaker 4: They just as much.
Speaker 6: As we're we gave it to you on the show,
Speaker 6: Imagine what we get on in realistic life of the.
Speaker 3: Training pipe I can't even imagine.
Speaker 6: They don't they don't shake your hand until you graduate.
Speaker 6: You know, you're not cool at all, and gradually and
Speaker 6: then when you get to a series like you start
Speaker 6: all over again.
Speaker 4: So those are some of the things.
Speaker 6: Is how I got involved in the Seal teams is
Speaker 6: how it all started to me.
Speaker 4: You know, to be honest with.
Speaker 3: You, that's incredible. I love that.
Speaker 1: But my father was a marine. I have incredible respect
Speaker 1: for anyone who serves a country. And especially when Trista said,
Speaker 1: you know that her son wants to be a Navy Seal,
Speaker 1: I was going to pipe in and say, I think
Speaker 1: every single guy in the world would tell you if.
Speaker 3: They could do anything.
Speaker 1: You know, in my mind, like I tell trist of
Speaker 1: this all the time, I watch a movie and I
Speaker 1: walk away going, I need to get I think I
Speaker 1: can still do it. I think, you know, there's first
Speaker 1: of all, there's no way, there's no way I could do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just a tremendous amount of respect and admiration
Speaker 1: and appreciation for what you've done with your career and
Speaker 1: and and you know, for what the Navy Seal Teams
Speaker 1: have done.
Speaker 3: You know, for our country. I mean, it's a it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Having someone on this show, like like like Trista, who
Speaker 1: obviously you know is coming into this at a later
Speaker 1: stage in.
Speaker 2: Her preparation for seal them.
Speaker 1: I just got see that's why I couldn't make it on.
Speaker 3: The show or an ABC.
Speaker 1: I just started sweating. So when you have someone like
Speaker 1: Trista on there, and people like like Stephen Baldwin and
Speaker 1: everyone that's on the show, even Cam Newton, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you you see things in them that you
Speaker 1: know they're they're they have the fortitude, and they have
Speaker 1: the courage, they want to be there, and they're putting
Speaker 1: themselves in this situation.
Speaker 3: But I mean, what was someone.
Speaker 1: Like, for example, like for Trista, when you would kind
Speaker 1: of like size her up and you'd see she has
Speaker 1: tenacity and she has grit, But what was her what
Speaker 1: was her shortcoming if there was one that would have
Speaker 1: possibly stopped her, one that could have possibly stopped her
Speaker 1: from becoming a seal?
Speaker 4: How is that?
Speaker 2: I love you, Bob.
Speaker 3: I'll just there you go.
Speaker 4: Hey, you pushed that on to me now, so you
Speaker 4: want me to be bad?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I'll answer it, I'll be the
Speaker 2: bad guy.
Speaker 4: Okay, I like I like it, Thanks a lot, thanks
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh my gosh, oh man.
Speaker 4: So, uh all right, how do I tiptoe into this this?
Speaker 3: You know what? Let me.
Speaker 2: I'll help a little bit. So I have to tell
Speaker 2: a funny story. And I don't know if you remember this, Q,
Speaker 2: so hopefully you do. But I walked up to uh
Speaker 2: where we were going to jump off the bridge, and
Speaker 2: I got to the top, like, you know, you climb
Speaker 2: up this really steep hill by yourself. You know, Golden's
Speaker 2: not there to carry my pack. I didn't have my pack,
Speaker 2: but but you know, no one's there to help me.
Speaker 2: So I climb up this hill and I get to
Speaker 2: the top and Q is way there, And do you
Speaker 2: remember what you said to me? And what I said back?
Speaker 4: I don't really remember you a breaka.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you're gonna laugh. Hopefully you're gonna giggle.
Speaker 2: So you you were like, why are you Why are
Speaker 2: you so out of breath? What took you so long?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm fifty one years old, I'm
Speaker 2: out of breath, I'm out of shape, and I have asthma,
Speaker 2: And you were like yep, and you walked away. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: it sounds about right.
Speaker 3: You definitely gave me everything I needed to hear.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh yeah, I got nothing.
Speaker 6: I got nothing on that I can.
Speaker 2: Perfect. I was like, well, if I'm being honest, like
Speaker 2: I'm totally out of shape and I'm fifty one. You know,
Speaker 2: it was really it was a funny moment and a
Speaker 2: moment that I feel like, hopefully, you know, at least
Speaker 2: to yourself, you're finding like a little humor because I
Speaker 2: can't even imagine. But let's go back to Bob's question,
Speaker 2: So what do you think is my weakness?
Speaker 6: All right, all right for all the people watching this
Speaker 6: and don't yeah, at the end.
Speaker 2: Of this, no, no, I mean I'll probably you know, say, yep,
Speaker 2: he's He's totally right. But I am curious to see,
Speaker 2: like what you what you thought of it, like as
Speaker 2: someone who sees all these celebrities come through it. And
Speaker 2: you know, I'm small, I'm older, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: I'm not a professional athlete, I'm not an Olympic star.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm sure you have certain judgments that you
Speaker 2: have to make because you guys are judging us essentially.
Speaker 2: So yeah, i'd love to know like what I can
Speaker 2: work on just from my own personal perspective, what I
Speaker 2: could utilize from your experience, and how I can myself.
Speaker 6: Well, I will initially say, like for the for the
Speaker 6: general right, for everyone who comes on the show, Yeah, one,
Speaker 6: typically everyone is not physically in condition in some kind
Speaker 6: of way. Like me, I, even at forty four years old,
Speaker 6: I hold my conditioning to the utmost highest standard for me, right,
Speaker 6: I want to a one hundred year old man is
Speaker 6: still a beast in this world, and I will always
Speaker 6: carry and be that way. And I think for the
Speaker 6: broad spectrum of it all, everyone comes in not really
Speaker 6: physically ready for that, and then there's others who are
Speaker 6: even not even close to that, they're even worse. And
Speaker 6: then mentally, people are assuming the celebrities that come on
Speaker 6: the show, assuming that.
Speaker 4: There will be a little bit of a lull where you.
Speaker 6: Get to go and relax and you can kind of
Speaker 6: you know, have a little chill time where you know,
Speaker 6: maybe a hotel, maybe your cell phone back, you get
Speaker 6: to kind of relax. Yeah, all we strip all that
Speaker 6: away and let all that gum. We treat you like
Speaker 6: you are really on a deployment, because we want youry
Speaker 6: to get a full understanding of what we had to
Speaker 6: go through for the years of seven eight nine months.
Speaker 6: Depending on if you was a seal, you're gone for
Speaker 6: seven eight If you're a marine, you could be gone
Speaker 6: for an entire year and say yes, SBS the same thing.
Speaker 6: So's we want people to understand that, you know, you're
Speaker 6: isolated in this in these positions, and you're mentally you
Speaker 6: have to be in the game, you have to be
Speaker 6: all in on what you're doing. And I think a
Speaker 6: lot of the celebrities come in not really understanding that's
Speaker 6: how it's going to be because as you know now
Speaker 6: that's this reality show was not like any other reality
Speaker 6: show ever, and we've really, you know, kicked the crap
Speaker 6: out of you. So I would say for you personally
Speaker 6: physic the physical aspect of it was huge for you, right,
Speaker 6: and then you win it. Right, you have asthma, you
Speaker 6: have all those things, your age and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: But it's something that because you're a family person, right,
Speaker 6: it's not something that you're really common to or normal
Speaker 6: to in your normal daily life, your routine because you're
Speaker 6: a mom or a wife do all these different things.
Speaker 6: So you're going to come into with that weakness, right,
Speaker 6: and then the mental as of it is another thing. Uh,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of fear in you on this thing.
Speaker 6: So you know, I can't remember you.
Speaker 1: First of all, you're answering this brilliantly. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just blown away.
Speaker 3: I'm like, God, God, he's doing great.
Speaker 4: I've seen a lot.
Speaker 6: And I was also instructed before I got out the navy,
Speaker 6: you know, so I kind of I got the chance
Speaker 6: to see what it's like on the instructor's side for
Speaker 6: kids who's trying to come in and beat me like
Speaker 6: your son. Trust I got to see now because at
Speaker 6: first I wasn't always in the instructor role, so I
Speaker 6: didn't get the chance to look at her from the
Speaker 6: other side.
Speaker 4: But when I did, it.
Speaker 6: Was like whoa, whoa, Is that what I look like
Speaker 6: when I went through.
Speaker 4: Crying and throwing up? And like then it's so funny side,
Speaker 4: But generally that's what it is.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: The mindset of the thing is you're going through hell
Speaker 6: the entire time, right, it's the worst thing.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of fears that you've never done this before.
Speaker 6: You got people yelling at you, you know, and and
Speaker 6: if you're not mentally prepared for the especially us the
Speaker 6: verbal abuse that we're giving you, right, and it's.
Speaker 4: Ye own verbal abuse.
Speaker 6: There's a purpose behind it because we're meant to break
Speaker 6: you down and see if you can still push through
Speaker 6: all that, if you can not hear it, if you
Speaker 6: can shut it out, and still even when you fail
Speaker 6: a task, can you tell yourself to pick yourself up.
Speaker 4: It's all right to keep moving on, even though I'm
Speaker 4: in your.
Speaker 6: Ass the entire time and telling you you're not, telling
Speaker 6: you you're not this is not for you, telling you
Speaker 6: you're weak, telling you you're a failure to the rest
Speaker 6: of the team, the rest of your your classmates and whoever,
Speaker 6: and see how you can manage that. You know, all
Speaker 6: that hell, And I'm like, okay, that's the whole. So
Speaker 6: I think a lot of that stuff. Everyone that comes
Speaker 6: on the show, they have they struggle with all those
Speaker 6: aspects of what I just said.
Speaker 4: So you have you have your struggles with that as well.
Speaker 4: And the physical part.
Speaker 6: I think you've probably been a little bit more physical condition,
Speaker 6: you would have been able to probably push through some
Speaker 6: more of the things that we were giving you.
Speaker 4: That's what I was saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, tot and I'll tell you kind of a background.
Speaker 2: They approached me I think about three months before, and
Speaker 2: I was I was basically signed up. I was going
Speaker 2: through the like medical clearance, and they weren't going to
Speaker 2: clear me medically because I have had a I had
Speaker 2: back surgery, I had a lumbar fusion, and at one
Speaker 2: point the doctor was like, well, I just don't know
Speaker 2: if you could handle being pushed off a boat, and
Speaker 2: I was like, being pushed off a boat, Holy crap.
Speaker 2: So basically I had to get my doctors involved and
Speaker 2: ended up obviously getting cleared. But during that time, I'm
Speaker 2: super superstitious, and I didn't work out when I was waiting,
Speaker 2: so I lost like at least a month of training
Speaker 2: that would really have helped.
Speaker 6: Three months tholand months would have definitely put you in
Speaker 6: a better bracket physically to handle a lot of the
Speaker 6: stuff that we was doing with Especially when you start
Speaker 6: running with fact all that stuff, it weighs on you,
Speaker 6: like your lower back starts to hurt and be painful,
Speaker 6: so uncomfortable your neck from this. People don't realize how
Speaker 6: miserable you completely are when you add weight to your
Speaker 6: body and you're always wearing this weight and you're always
Speaker 6: doing this certain thing and you're always running here and
Speaker 6: you can give They don't realize the they don't realize it.
Speaker 6: But it's good. It's good to see what, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Do because your only respect too, I'm sure trust that.
Speaker 1: I mean not that, I mean, I know you have
Speaker 1: friends who have trained in their Navy seals and things
Speaker 1: that are retired now as well. I will say this,
Speaker 1: you know, watching the show, I mean I got literally
Speaker 1: emotional watching the show because you know, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of the people that were on this season and
Speaker 1: I was just watching how you guys are. I mean,
Speaker 1: but I also feel like, you know, you guys have
Speaker 1: been there and done it, and you clearly still keep
Speaker 1: yourself in spectacular condition.
Speaker 3: Everyone looked like they're in such great shape.
Speaker 1: But it's funny, you know when you went into the
Speaker 1: I think it's called the mirror room, and you kind
Speaker 1: of would be you know, and it was like the
Speaker 1: one time on the show where we'd see you guys
Speaker 1: actually you know, as the DS is sort of not
Speaker 1: ever letting the guard down, because that was one thing
Speaker 1: Denise Richard's commented on too. She had said she kind
Speaker 1: of had thought, you know, we'll go to a lounge
Speaker 1: or something. She's like, where's the lounge? You know, where's
Speaker 1: craft services. But you'd kind of get to know these people,
Speaker 1: which I thought, Man, you guys aren't just great at
Speaker 1: what you've trained your whole life to do. You're really
Speaker 1: good at getting us as a viewer to like, you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of got to the heart and soul of
Speaker 1: what made these people give this thing a shot in
Speaker 1: the first place, and why they're there, why they're not
Speaker 1: just in their cushy lifestyles, and and I was just
Speaker 1: watching it thinking, man, they've got to be feeling for this.
Speaker 3: Person, you know. But so I have to ask, like,
Speaker 3: you know, in your role, were there ever.
Speaker 1: Moments where you were like, oh man, we got to
Speaker 1: back off of this person, or was it because of
Speaker 1: your training, because you know what you've gone through, they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we got to step it up on this person in
Speaker 1: that moment where we're all at home going hump the brakes,
Speaker 1: you know, give her, give her a minute. Was there
Speaker 1: ever like that moment where where you, guys, it's not
Speaker 1: like you smell blood in the water, but you see
Speaker 1: this person and you're like, okay, we got to push
Speaker 1: harder now or where are you in those moments?
Speaker 4: Yes or no?
Speaker 6: To anskwer that out of the bet. Yeah, you'll see
Speaker 6: that and you want to push. And you'll see that
Speaker 6: and you're like, oh, let me laying up a little
Speaker 6: bit on this person. We want to we want to
Speaker 6: challenge you period, hands down. We want to give you
Speaker 6: full bore challenge. One thousand percent. What is like one
Speaker 6: hundred percent right? One hundred percent of the time. Well,
Speaker 6: you'll you'll get to a point where you see someone say,
Speaker 6: like a like a Denise right herself when on the
Speaker 6: scene saw me pulling her number, Yeah about her back
Speaker 6: right and this and if she sees this, Denise, I
Speaker 6: have nothing more respect for you.
Speaker 1: Girl.
Speaker 4: Don't ever know everything. This is personal?
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, sometimes celebrities will take some of that stuff personal.
Speaker 4: I mean, I get it, we took it.
Speaker 6: I didn't like my instructors when I went through I
Speaker 6: hated them, But when we graduated.
Speaker 4: I understood why.
Speaker 6: They did that to me, why they was in my faith,
Speaker 6: why they made me feel so like I shouldn't be there.
Speaker 4: I understood it at the end.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was and all that stuff, but it was
Speaker 6: so funny and I still even when I would meet them,
Speaker 6: even when I was in a stale team, I still
Speaker 6: looked at them as the instructor. I will still call
Speaker 6: them almost instructor, but the same level. But I will
Speaker 6: still want to say that because they gave me so much. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so when I have those things go on show, you know,
Speaker 6: like with Denise for example, that was part of me
Speaker 6: that I wanted to push and force her back in
Speaker 6: because I felt she could do more, but she was willing.
Speaker 2: To just yeah it go.
Speaker 6: But I'm like, you can do more, but you're giving
Speaker 6: me something here that I can't. I can't continue with
Speaker 6: right because if I allow you to complain about the
Speaker 6: back of your back is sore, because that's really what
Speaker 6: it was.
Speaker 4: Back is sowred.
Speaker 6: It's not that you hurt. You're not about to break
Speaker 6: your back. Everyone's back for everyone's back is tired, everyone's
Speaker 6: needs hurting, all that stuff. But allow you to keep
Speaker 6: doing this and then put you back in. Then the
Speaker 6: other what the other celebrity is gonna think, Okay, maybe
Speaker 6: I can just can I see the medic you know, my.
Speaker 4: Kneehir a little bit? Can I get a little pause? No,
Speaker 4: you don't get that.
Speaker 6: In reality, we don't get off. You know, once you
Speaker 6: started going to the medic and instructors looking at you,
Speaker 6: they're writing your name down, they're gonna get you out
Speaker 6: of here. For we don't need that, we don't need
Speaker 6: somebody's trying to dodge what we're doing. We're not going
Speaker 6: to kill you. We are going to extremely challenge you.
Speaker 6: So it's the point where I was not going to
Speaker 6: just let her go back in at that point. So
Speaker 6: I was like, you know what, she's been out long enough.
Speaker 6: You know, the girls and everyone else have been dealing
Speaker 6: with everything that's going on with the surfer merchant.
Speaker 1: Exercise man that one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, give her a chance. But I just couldn't
Speaker 6: give her the extra chance again because it already happened.
Speaker 6: I think in the pool in the beginning, I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and I think she can yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think something happened here. And I was like,
Speaker 6: we can't keep doing this now. So and remember we
Speaker 6: run the show. It's that producers and all that stuff.
Speaker 6: So we create the tactics and all the obstacles we
Speaker 6: create that.
Speaker 4: We don't want the celebrities thinking they can go and.
Speaker 6: Talk to you know, Paul's time out. Can I go
Speaker 6: and talk to whoever over here go with us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's if I may interrupt that.
Speaker 1: That's what I think makes the show so different is
Speaker 1: you know, everybody kind of kind of like what Denisa said,
Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, I think everyone would probably
Speaker 1: go into it thinking, oh, you know, if we've done
Speaker 1: one of these shows in the past, we can kind
Speaker 1: of pull aside excuse me, you know, and you're by
Speaker 1: yourself time, right, and you know they know what they're
Speaker 1: doing when they do that, and especially when everyone else
Speaker 1: is all linked together and basically being you know, the
Speaker 1: experience of drowning essentially, and it's like, and she's up
Speaker 1: there having a little chat. You know, I get it.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I'd be I'd be bitter if
Speaker 1: I'm still down there just swallowing gallons of seawater.
Speaker 3: Get here, So I totally get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: And it's terrible.
Speaker 6: We went through that, and I'm telling you that, and
Speaker 6: we go through what is even the surface a little worse.
Speaker 6: You know, you got some waves coming in, so now
Speaker 6: it was like smashing you down on your face, and
Speaker 6: it's even harder because you truly feel like you can't breathe.
Speaker 6: You're uncomfortable mouth. You can't be your eyes the sand
Speaker 6: and saw it's like lingering here.
Speaker 4: So you get up. When I have you set up,
Speaker 4: you just still can't do it. You just Tristan miserable, right,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 6: Actually I'll let you explain how you felt going through
Speaker 6: that piece of it.
Speaker 2: Oh my, well, okay. So what people don't is, and obviously,
Speaker 2: being from reality television, I know that so much ends
Speaker 2: up on the cutting room floor, like there's just not
Speaker 2: enough time to show everybody everything, and there's sixteen different people,
Speaker 2: so you want to show like you know, everyone's stories
Speaker 2: and like the whole process. So what people did not
Speaker 2: see is we got down to the beach and it
Speaker 2: looks like we immediately went into the immersion the linked
Speaker 2: arms activity, but that's not true. We were we were
Speaker 2: doing sprints with our boots on on the on sand,
Speaker 2: you know, which is really hard to do if you've
Speaker 2: never gone running in the sand. It's not an excuse,
Speaker 2: it's just really hard. So we're doing sprints and then
Speaker 2: I think the next thing was we had to grab
Speaker 2: the like giant logs and the sand bags and take
Speaker 2: them to the beach, and so we were doing that
Speaker 2: like back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 2: And those laws how much did those logs weigh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we kind of get this.
Speaker 6: We kind of tried to get what we use in
Speaker 6: bud so for people on this bus that's for basic
Speaker 6: underwater demolition sealed training. Those laws can weigh in between
Speaker 6: twenty two fifty to three hundred and three ten somewhere
Speaker 6: right in there. It just appends and you got it.
Speaker 2: I am so blown away by that, really, holy crap,
Speaker 2: no kidding. I had a hard time so so. And
Speaker 2: then the sandbags, how much do those weigh or did
Speaker 2: those weigh on the beach?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we just kind of put in a bunch of
Speaker 6: sand and those maybe gotten up to like fifty pounds
Speaker 6: something like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well the hence for the reason why I could
Speaker 2: not lift it over my head. I was literally like
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 3: I know you want me to, but I can't.
Speaker 1: So you're just as dry weight is just north of
Speaker 1: fifty pounds on a normal day anywhere her full body weight,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 4: I remember actually I remember her oh holding it overhead.
Speaker 1: That was a good Yeah, I remember the sand was poor.
Speaker 2: I could not And I will say like thanks to
Speaker 2: all the ds at that moment, I remember locking eyes
Speaker 2: with I think Foxy and Billy because I literally couldn't
Speaker 2: push it up. It was sitting on my head and
Speaker 2: at least both of them. I'm sure you saw me too,
Speaker 2: but they like just looked past me. They were like,
Speaker 2: get it above your head, and I'm like, I can't,
Speaker 2: and they just looked past me. Thank God, and gave
Speaker 2: me some grace in that moment. But I will say,
Speaker 2: so you don't see you know half of what we
Speaker 2: did on the beach, and I was exhausted. I will say, Q.
Speaker 2: My biggest fear going into this well, one of them
Speaker 2: was open water. I'm really fearful of open water. And
Speaker 2: I kind of shocked myself because in the Beehive well,
Speaker 2: first in the boat to helicopter jump, I wasn't even
Speaker 2: thinking about the fact that we were going to be
Speaker 2: in the water maybe at some point and then oh
Speaker 2: and when we jumped from the boat, sorry, go back
Speaker 2: to that, or we got pushed from the boat and
Speaker 2: we had to swim. I was being weighed down by
Speaker 2: my clothes and I'm normally an okay swimmer, but I
Speaker 2: was not even thinking about my fear. Same thing at
Speaker 2: the beehive, like I stayed, I was treading water. I
Speaker 2: think I passed that one. I think. But I literally
Speaker 2: went to the side like seconds before you guys called like,
Speaker 2: everyone go to the side. So I was proud of
Speaker 2: myself in that moment. And then the beach, I really
Speaker 2: was not thinking about how cold I was. I wasn't
Speaker 2: thinking about like the fact that we were drowning and
Speaker 2: you're going to laugh at this little part. So during
Speaker 2: the surfer version, when we're linked up, you guys said,
Speaker 2: you know, put your legs back and you know, rock whatever,
Speaker 2: rock whatever. I don't know what your exact instructions were,
Speaker 2: but I got confused. I don't know if anyone saw me.
Speaker 2: I haven't even said this to anyone yet, but I
Speaker 2: did a full on like somersault on my back like
Speaker 2: a back roll.
Speaker 4: I think I did see me. I think I did.
Speaker 4: I think I do. Recall that happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I literally was like.
Speaker 2: What are they talking about? So I just went I
Speaker 2: rolled on backwards and then I had to reconnect.
Speaker 4: You broke the link, you broke the chain, and I
Speaker 4: was like, oh, yeah, breaking my chain?
Speaker 2: I did I did, I did it?
Speaker 3: Yep, I did it.
Speaker 2: So anyway, Yes, it was. It's so much harder than
Speaker 2: people think. Sorry, Ryan's waving at me, so much harder
Speaker 2: than people think because you don't see like half even
Speaker 2: like three quarters of what we do. So it was
Speaker 2: and it's intimidating. You know, you guys are intimidating. And
Speaker 2: I know you're supposed to be. You're supposed to be
Speaker 2: breaking us down to make us better, and and I
Speaker 2: totally get that. At one point, also at the end
Speaker 2: of the exercise, I stopped Rudy because I was about
Speaker 2: to pass out. Like, I was like, I am really dizzy.
Speaker 2: I feel like I'm going to faint. And he was like, okay,
Speaker 2: do you want to give me your arm band? Same
Speaker 2: situation like with you and Denise, and and I was like, no,
Speaker 2: I don't want to leave yet, and he was like, well,
Speaker 2: you can't go see a medic, so it's either give
Speaker 2: me your arm band or you keep going. And I'm like, okay, fine,
Speaker 2: I'll keep going. And then yeah, yeah, finished.
Speaker 6: Before you finished, just because you made that decision, right,
Speaker 6: you made that conscious decision. That is what we that's
Speaker 6: what we want, we want, we're looking for, right, you know,
Speaker 6: With all respect to her, she couldn't make that decision
Speaker 6: right in the heat of it. Yeah, rest in that chaos,
Speaker 6: she was thinking about, you know, I just need this break. Well,
Speaker 6: guess what, if you finish, you'll get it. You'll get
Speaker 6: a chance to go see medic late, either at the
Speaker 6: end of the night or morning. We're not going to
Speaker 6: kill you and your back is going to break. So
Speaker 6: when you said that to Rudy, you made a conscious
Speaker 6: decision to go further, right, to push further, really dig
Speaker 6: deeper of who you are in your true character, right
Speaker 6: and see who you really are. And you show that
Speaker 6: with that, And then I got on you as we
Speaker 6: kept going. But that was what we're talking about. That's
Speaker 6: what people in general lose. They don't understand you do
Speaker 6: have the forty two to keep going. You do have
Speaker 6: your own power to keep going. People lose that idea
Speaker 6: and they don't realize they can go, they can push
Speaker 6: themselves further.
Speaker 4: Than what their initials.
Speaker 3: Yea, yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: Well, you you get like caught up in the fear
Speaker 2: and the pain and the like mental you know, the
Speaker 2: devil on your shoulder, like I said in the in
Speaker 2: the trailer, like you listen to that devil A whole
Speaker 2: lot easier when you're in pain and you're super scared
Speaker 2: and you're getting yelled at, and you're tired, and you're
Speaker 2: exhausted and you're sick and you know all of these things.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but you know, obviously, mind over matter it
Speaker 2: is a thing. It's a thing, a thing.
Speaker 4: You know. Most people don't know.
Speaker 6: When I went through Hell Week, it put me in
Speaker 6: the hospital because I was really yeah, well, you know,
Speaker 6: hell We goes from Sunday night to Friday morning. So
Speaker 6: that's when Hell We starts Sunday Friday morning, and you
Speaker 6: only get roughly three or four hours of sleep if
Speaker 6: I can recall throughout the entire week, wo Hire week,
Speaker 6: and that first nap it's like a two hour nap
Speaker 6: you get on Tuesday, right, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the
Speaker 6: next one you get on Wednesay, Tuesday, Wednesday, and honestly,
Speaker 6: you don't get to sleep. You can't sleep.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 6: If you're in a tent ten that's outside, it's still
Speaker 6: doing the middle of working day. So you hear people
Speaker 6: walking around going to work, you hear you know, cars
Speaker 6: driving by you.
Speaker 4: You're not sleeping.
Speaker 6: You're in your wealth, right, You're in your wedd uniform
Speaker 6: and you want to cut the cot is not comfortable
Speaker 6: right now, dead heat of the day, so you're not
Speaker 6: sleeping for this tour. You're resting, but your body is
Speaker 6: like trying to heal, so you're shaking. Your body is
Speaker 6: just constantly shaking its form of than the state of
Speaker 6: healing you can't control. So on Thursday we did medical checks.
Speaker 6: On Thursday, we do medical checks where they got to
Speaker 6: make sure you know, nothing's going to happen to you, right,
Speaker 6: because there's a point of the training where it can
Speaker 6: become a hazard. Now there there is a point to
Speaker 6: that though it has to be that intense. Our training
Speaker 6: has to be this intense. Sometimes you'll see politicians or
Speaker 6: try to make our program somewhat easier, our selection program.
Speaker 6: We're like na and you'll see a lot of Navy
Speaker 6: seals who have power step up and say, no, we're
Speaker 6: not making our selection program lighter, just because y'all fear
Speaker 6: that people get hurt. You know, all this high as
Speaker 6: this happens, and every so often, you know, if someone
Speaker 6: made me lose their life.
Speaker 4: In our training pipeline.
Speaker 6: But again, when you're thinking about terror, terrorism around the world,
Speaker 6: and I'm keeping America Safe, I would select your program
Speaker 6: has to be this intense and it has to be
Speaker 6: that hard, right for this, you volunteer. You want to
Speaker 6: be that man, You want to be that silent professional.
Speaker 6: You want to have a stake in protecting people. You
Speaker 6: got to know what you're dealing with. So yeah, on Thursday,
Speaker 6: I'll have this pain. When the medical checks was checking
Speaker 6: all of us out, We're in the underwear, shoulder to shoulder,
Speaker 6: and they come by and just ask, hey, hey, you
Speaker 6: haven't any kind of pain anywhere. What's going on with you?
Speaker 6: Blah blah, And it got to me and I was like, well,
Speaker 6: I got a little abdominal pain. Don't know what it is,
Speaker 6: just a little abdominal pain. I think I need some
Speaker 6: peptobismo or something just to help me get through. Because
Speaker 6: we're in the afternoon on Thursday, and the training in
Speaker 6: hell we end Saturday Friday morning, excuse me, around eight
Speaker 6: nine ish, so I'm always there, right, I'm right to
Speaker 6: finish line. I could see it, you know, Thursday afternoon,
Speaker 6: I only know I got a few more hours to go. Well,
Speaker 6: you know, a whole and the doctor has me sitting
Speaker 6: on the ground. He's like, lay down, lay down. He
Speaker 6: presses on my stomach and it was just terrible pain
Speaker 6: just by him pushing on my stomach. And it was like,
Speaker 6: you're going to the hospital. You're done, And I was like,
Speaker 6: I was freaking out.
Speaker 4: Oh whoa wait, I only got a couple more hours
Speaker 4: and I'm done.
Speaker 3: Whoa.
Speaker 4: I just need some medicine and I can keep moving.
Speaker 4: I'm not totally now.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm freaking out with this guy now right
Speaker 6: because I know I'm about to lose my dream, this
Speaker 6: dream of being.
Speaker 4: Is about to go.
Speaker 6: My one time opportunity to have this chance to be
Speaker 6: this thing, this this huge thing that I really wanted
Speaker 6: to be, for my family, for my friends, to see
Speaker 6: where I come from, to see that I can.
Speaker 4: Achieve this thing, this big thing.
Speaker 6: I couldn't, right, So I started to cry. Oh man,
Speaker 6: And then I couldn't. There was no instructor staffs around
Speaker 6: because I wanted to talk to them so I could
Speaker 6: let him know I'm not I'm not quitting all this
Speaker 6: thing and that, and uh, nobody was around, and I
Speaker 6: got I got eventually put in the ambulance and sent
Speaker 6: to the hospital and they said my kidneys were shutting down. Eventually,
Speaker 6: Oh Wow, it was so my muscle was breaking down eternally,
Speaker 6: poisoning myself. And yeah, in an aspect that couldn't flush
Speaker 6: it out because you know, you're you're not eating that much.
Speaker 6: Your body is as is at its extreme exertion, right,
Speaker 6: you're doing all kinds with a boat in your head.
Speaker 6: You're carrying those logs like crazy. Yeah, it was just intense.
Speaker 6: So as my muscle breaking that was poisoning me. So
Speaker 6: I get in the hospital.
Speaker 4: I'm trying. Oh, it was the worst. It was the
Speaker 4: worst stress. It was the worst.
Speaker 2: So that is awful? Is it rab though? Did you
Speaker 2: have that?
Speaker 4: That's what it was?
Speaker 2: My husband has had that. He yeah, it is not good,
Speaker 2: not good. Like you can die, yes, yes, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can die from it. That's really scary. Well I'm
Speaker 2: glad you pushed through.
Speaker 1: How did you get back into the mix?
Speaker 4: Overnight?
Speaker 6: And I finally got an instructor on a call on
Speaker 6: the phone because I was not they got me hooked
Speaker 6: up to this.
Speaker 4: I mean, my fingers is all covered up. I mean
Speaker 4: I was jacked up.
Speaker 6: So I finally got somebody on the phone and it
Speaker 6: was an instruct that I said, Hey, I did not quit.
Speaker 6: I did not ring the bell, just to medic the hot.
Speaker 6: The doctor threw me in the ambulance and said I
Speaker 6: had to get there.
Speaker 4: I'm done. He's like, is this quarrels.
Speaker 6: I was like, quarrels, don't worry about it. Just heal
Speaker 6: and we'll do with you, you know, just get back.
Speaker 4: He said that. I kind of felt a little relief.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when I come back, if I come back soon enough,
Speaker 6: I'll still be in the sting with my class.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I passed.
Speaker 6: I went to sleep, and I woke up the next
Speaker 6: day and they came and picked me up. I'm in
Speaker 6: a wheelchair, couldn't walk. My feet was so swollen. Every
Speaker 6: my knees, every every joint in your body ankles, knees, elbows, wrists, face, neck, back,
Speaker 6: completely huge, I mean huge.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, because your kidneys aren't functioning. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm in a wheelchair rolling through the barracks. My
Speaker 6: class is already secured from hell week.
Speaker 4: So I'm rolling through and.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to push through, and I'm looking in the
Speaker 6: doors and they put all the mattresses off the bunk
Speaker 6: beds on the floor because you got to stay there
Speaker 6: one night, and they don't want you falling off your bed.
Speaker 6: And I'm looking at my guys and they're just shaking,
Speaker 6: just uncontrollably. Just they're going through what I kind of
Speaker 6: went through the night before. So we stayed there, you know,
Speaker 6: throughout the weekend, medical checks and all that stuff. And
Speaker 6: then money comes and talk to the instructors and they said,
Speaker 6: because of what I did up to that point and
Speaker 6: how I carried myself on the point, they allowed me
Speaker 6: to stay with my class.
Speaker 3: So it's awesome.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 3: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah right there, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Big grace, big grace.
Speaker 6: And then I eventually waited as the honograd of my class,
Speaker 6: you know, so I graduated as the honor man of
Speaker 6: my class.
Speaker 2: That's amazing, amazing, congratulations, that's awesome. What did you learn
Speaker 2: in your time training that I feel like would be
Speaker 2: your best advice for future people who want to do
Speaker 2: the show, Like, how do you how do you get
Speaker 2: how do you get through those struggles? How do you
Speaker 2: get over those fears? How do you get past the
Speaker 2: devil on your shoulder that's telling you you shouldn't be there?
Speaker 4: Purpose? Purpose, Purpose is number one.
Speaker 6: I found When I went through the program, I found
Speaker 6: who who I am meant to be, and not only
Speaker 6: the purpose of just being a seal, because being a
Speaker 6: seal is one thing, but what does it really include, right,
Speaker 6: helping others. That's how I summed it up. So my
Speaker 6: purpose was really to give and be a servant to
Speaker 6: other people, whether I'm going over in the Iraqis and
Speaker 6: Syria to take out bad guys so families can walk
Speaker 6: in their their markets and feel safe with their children
Speaker 6: and not worry about something happening to them. So I
Speaker 6: had my sense of purpose now and I knew now
Speaker 6: that I can move forward and crush life because I
Speaker 6: understood what I'm meant to do, which is serve other people.
Speaker 4: And if I kept that advice service to others, whether.
Speaker 6: I'm giving you my advice, well, I'm giving you mentorship,
Speaker 6: where I'm giving you physical fitness programs and training, helping
Speaker 6: you in some kind of way to better your life.
Speaker 6: I felt, this is me who I meant to be,
Speaker 6: And it was the hardest thing. Not the hardest thing,
Speaker 6: It was the most inspiring thing for me to understanding
Speaker 6: my purpose and doing that program, I understood who I'm
Speaker 6: meant to be. And serve else is really what it
Speaker 6: is and I and now that I'm out, you know,
Speaker 6: I still do the same thing, you know, with my keynotes,
Speaker 6: with my team building events, my leadership coaching events. I
Speaker 6: do for corporations who want to know what it takes
Speaker 6: to be a leader, a true leader. I understand, this
Speaker 6: is this is me, this is who I'm supposed to be,
Speaker 6: and even on the show for every bit of me,
Speaker 6: so you can really have a true experience of what
Speaker 6: it's like to go through in hopes of you'll see
Speaker 6: that for yourself, how you can push through something and
Speaker 6: maybe you'll find another purpose. Right Because a lot of
Speaker 6: people come on the show, they are kind of past
Speaker 6: their their MVP prime, like a Cam Newton, you know,
Speaker 6: he's not the MVP and a NFL anymore, but he
Speaker 6: may is looking for another step, another season of his life.
Speaker 6: And we're hoping that when people find that, not saying
Speaker 6: that he doesn't already have it, but we're helping.
Speaker 2: With no totally. So I think that's why we all
Speaker 2: I would say there's a little bit of that sprinkled
Speaker 2: into every single person who was there. I feel like
Speaker 2: for me for sure, that was like one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: My kids are about to be into empty nesters. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if I explained this in the mirror
Speaker 2: room with you, but my kids are going to be
Speaker 2: leaving me. And I've poured my life into my family
Speaker 2: life and kind of being there, you know, the household
Speaker 2: manager and their caretaker and everything else, and I kind
Speaker 2: of wanted to get back to like who I am
Speaker 2: and and find that purpose. So I feel like I
Speaker 2: would I would honestly say I would guess one hundred
Speaker 2: percent of us were there. That was a little bit
Speaker 2: of our reason, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, I would say as a oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's got to be yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Right for every season. Yeah, yeah, I think everyone comes on.
Speaker 6: That's that's the number one thing to trying to find
Speaker 6: about who they are now since we're changing our season
Speaker 6: of life, our profession, your your kids are growing up now,
Speaker 6: they're about to leave the home.
Speaker 4: You know, there's about to be a whole new life
Speaker 4: of you, your new season.
Speaker 6: So we're trying to hope that we get people to
Speaker 6: understand that this is the goal and nature of the
Speaker 6: beast of it. And some people will say they'll leave
Speaker 6: early because they feel they achieved that at some point,
Speaker 6: but we want to see people like just challenge themselves
Speaker 6: and push themselves and just see, hey man, you got
Speaker 6: more in you, You got more in you, You got
Speaker 6: more in you.
Speaker 3: You can go for everyone we've talked to.
Speaker 1: Everyone we talked to has kind of echoed what Trista
Speaker 1: said when she was first able to tell us where
Speaker 1: she you know, what she was doing, because it was
Speaker 1: it was a deadlock, secret man.
Speaker 3: I was trying to get it out of her.
Speaker 1: But it was really interesting to me because everybody has said,
Speaker 1: this isn't a competition show. You're competing with yourself. It's
Speaker 1: all what's going on in here? And I mean, you
Speaker 1: are made for this ce Like, honestly, God, watching it
Speaker 1: at home, I know I could never do the things
Speaker 1: that you have done in your life, just from a
Speaker 1: physical perspective and a mental perspective. But it's like I
Speaker 1: relate to you somehow and so and I feel like
Speaker 1: I do with all the DS's, you know. I think
Speaker 1: that was part of me being emotional, was like I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, these guys they get it.
Speaker 1: They know you know, you guys seem to know what
Speaker 1: we all think of you as well, Like we hold
Speaker 1: you up here. But you also want us to know
Speaker 1: that you're human beings and you're like relating to everybody
Speaker 1: in the room. And I mean, it's it's remarkable because
Speaker 1: I can imagine, you know, I've met Golden Tate and
Speaker 1: Cam Newton a few times in different settings. And but
Speaker 1: you know, especially if you were a fan, let's say,
Speaker 1: of Cam or whatever, and now you have to break
Speaker 1: them down. That can't be an easy role to be
Speaker 1: in either.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't imagine.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, man. And I've known Cam, know
Speaker 4: the person.
Speaker 6: But you know, I've watched him when he came in
Speaker 6: the league as a rookie, you know, so I just
Speaker 6: playing his golden tape. You know, his team put my
Speaker 6: team out of the playoffs many times when he played,
Speaker 6: this team put me out of and I was like,
Speaker 6: I couldn't stand the Seahawks for years, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 6: and he was on that team, he was playing, he
Speaker 6: was doing.
Speaker 4: So no, you're you're right, and it's it's very hard.
Speaker 6: And that is the thing what you said was, we
Speaker 6: want people to still see us as we.
Speaker 4: Are, just knowing human beings as well.
Speaker 6: You know, we had the same challenges to become who
Speaker 6: we are. We had to identify we can be further,
Speaker 6: we can be better. And the number one thing you
Speaker 6: got to you gotta find your purpose. You got to
Speaker 6: be inspired by something first though, you know, to be
Speaker 6: willing to walk through that fire, you got to be inspired.
Speaker 4: I was inspired with my grandmother.
Speaker 6: I wanted to make a proud so the Navy Seal
Speaker 6: graduating first black man that graduate top of his class
Speaker 6: in any Navy Seal training pipeline to.
Speaker 4: Accolade, you know, to get that to achieve that.
Speaker 6: For me, it was like I got to get this
Speaker 6: from my grandmother so she I can show her a
Speaker 6: victim of the circumstance.
Speaker 4: Right, I want to atalysts.
Speaker 6: But others who struggle in life as a child, who
Speaker 6: didn't have the best growth, you know, the best you know, raising,
Speaker 6: there's a word for you know what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, upbringing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, upbringing, And you can be yeah.
Speaker 4: More if you want it.
Speaker 6: But you got to be aspired by something and then
Speaker 6: you'll find your purpose as you're working through that inspiration
Speaker 6: and you'll find it and you'll become everything that you
Speaker 6: need to be so you can help others do the
Speaker 6: same thing. And that's what I want to do. I
Speaker 6: want to help others be the same thing, do the
Speaker 6: same thing.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: I can listen to you talk all day. Can we
Speaker 1: do a three hours of this podcast? I have a question.
Speaker 1: I got a question for you, cue, so I'll let
Speaker 1: you off the hook. For this season that's airing right now,
Speaker 1: but with the previous seasons, has there been someone that
Speaker 1: stands out to you as someone who you're just like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this person for season two and three, I mean, this
Speaker 1: person went next level. This person went above and beyond,
Speaker 1: you know, and and like they stood out more than
Speaker 1: you leave it. Like like on day one, I'm sure
Speaker 1: we're all guilty of I even said a trust the
Speaker 1: day one, I'm like, here's who's gonna end up at
Speaker 1: the end here, you know, y'all, I'm sure you go
Speaker 1: through it too. Was there someone that you were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this person went above and beyond more than I could
Speaker 1: possibly have imagine from the from the couple of seasons
Speaker 1: that you've been on so far.
Speaker 3: And you don't have to count this one if you
Speaker 3: don't want.
Speaker 6: To, uh on see uh yeah, I can't really safe
Speaker 6: for this one. Yeah, we don't want to give something away, right,
Speaker 6: But season two for me, it was Jojo Siwa Jo.
Speaker 2: Yes. I mean when she was freaking carying, was it
Speaker 2: she carrying Tom Sandoval or Nick or yes? I was like,
Speaker 2: what the hell she's carrying a man?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 6: Her physical yes, her physical her physical strength and endurance
Speaker 6: was pretty impressive for her age. You know, she never
Speaker 6: really trained for something like this when we found out later,
Speaker 6: I mean she did some training, but nothing on this level.
Speaker 6: And coming from a child the star to this because
Speaker 6: she was also trying to find more of her purpose, right,
Speaker 6: you know, from being the child face to now an
Speaker 6: adult face and how to make the addition and what
Speaker 6: I really want to do, who I want to be
Speaker 6: and all that kind of stuff. So I think Jojo
Speaker 6: Siwah was the most impressive, and I want to say
Speaker 6: to the other ds as well, she was the one
Speaker 6: that everyone was like, I'll be.
Speaker 2: Down, yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I reached out to my season of Celebrity
Speaker 2: Recruits or whatever you want to call us, and I said,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to reach out to Instagram. I actually
Speaker 2: want to know if you guys have any questions for
Speaker 2: Q because I'm talking to him today. So I have
Speaker 2: a couple of questions from the from the staff or no,
Speaker 2: from the recruits, and before we get there, one last
Speaker 2: thing from me and then we'll end with these questions
Speaker 2: unless you have something else, Bob. But okay, So they
Speaker 2: cast you, you know, to be part of the DS.
Speaker 2: Did they know about your laugh before they casted you?
Speaker 2: Or because you guys if I don't know that anyone
Speaker 2: watching this season knows that his laugh and I want
Speaker 2: you to do it for us, like you have to
Speaker 2: give us a little example. But when he would laugh,
Speaker 2: it was like literally, you're hearing sorry the devil like
Speaker 2: you when he when he laughs for you, Bob, You're
Speaker 2: gonna be like, yep, that's evil. I'm sorry, c but
Speaker 2: it's true. So can you okay, So first, can you
Speaker 2: laugh for us? Show us? Give me a little like memory.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna, you know, close my eyes and listen, and
Speaker 2: you gotta saying them there and then and then tell
Speaker 2: me if they knew about it before or if they
Speaker 2: they how that all transpired and how the laugh like
Speaker 2: developed if.
Speaker 4: You will, Uh, how the last transpired? Really? I developed it?
Speaker 4: Active duty? Okay, active duty? Uh? When we would do
Speaker 4: crazy stuff and I was training in the still teams. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we we you know, we we're crazy. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: You gotta be crazy to do this job. In some
Speaker 4: kind of way.
Speaker 6: You will find near death near death experiences like funny,
Speaker 6: and you gotta like I made the laugh evil. And
Speaker 6: then we had these little times where everybody be doing
Speaker 6: these little laughs and we laugh at each other, and
Speaker 6: then we'd just be just laughing for no reason after everything.
Speaker 4: The stuff that we would do together in the unit
Speaker 4: and a small little group.
Speaker 6: So that's how kind of created itself and it and
Speaker 6: then I started doing it. The is No, it's almost
Speaker 6: almost like my normal laugh. Now everyone says it's evil.
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't.
Speaker 2: He's not. He's not doing it likes as much as
Speaker 2: you did. Oh, you have to do it just so
Speaker 2: Bob can hear it. So if they don't show it
Speaker 2: on this season, everyone will know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 2: that I'm not crazy. Come on, cue, put yourself in
Speaker 2: that place, you know when we're standing on parade and
Speaker 2: you're like saying you're gonna get punished, Like, come on,
Speaker 2: act like me and Boba in the parade. I'm great.
Speaker 6: Ready, let me get it, let me get my mind,
Speaker 6: because it's okay, and it comes out as an instructor.
Speaker 6: It really like, it's perfect when it comes out as
Speaker 6: my when I'm being an instructor.
Speaker 4: So so I'm.
Speaker 6: Like, I'll say something to somebody so it'd be like
Speaker 6: for you and Bob, I'll be like, okay, So you
Speaker 6: think you guys are going to chill through this pro man, Yes, sir, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: Wait listen, you have to listen to his laugh, Bob.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good, I will say.
Speaker 6: I'd be like, okay, all right. So you think you
Speaker 6: guys owe me later for this? You guys lollygag throughout
Speaker 6: this course. You guys didn't respect the course. You guys
Speaker 6: gonna owe me, and you guys gonna pay for this later.
Speaker 6: Trust me, you ain't gonna like at the end of it, like.
Speaker 3: Literally, can't you see?
Speaker 2: Like he has like horns coming.
Speaker 1: Out of I'm taking my armband off right now.
Speaker 6: I'm giving you the evilness of what's coming to you.
Speaker 6: Think of the evilness that's going to come.
Speaker 3: It's just like you're stirring the cauldron. You're like here
Speaker 3: it comes.
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly right, sureing the cauldron. Oh my gosh. Okay,
Speaker 2: so I got this question from Marion and all of
Speaker 2: us were thinking it. So I'm sure, but and you
Speaker 2: hopefully you'll laugh at this and the way you know,
Speaker 2: I feel like you have a pretty good sense of humor.
Speaker 2: I feel like all the ds have a pretty good
Speaker 2: sense of humor, which is which I would love to know,
Speaker 2: like be on the fly on the wall and see
Speaker 2: what you guys actually talk about after the show. But okay,
Speaker 2: so this is Marian's question, does he feel guilty? Honestly? Afterwards,
Speaker 2: when swimming while perched on a swim noodle in the
Speaker 2: pool challenge while some while some were nearly drowning while
Speaker 2: splashing water on our faces.
Speaker 4: Somebody, somebody would ask me that same question.
Speaker 2: Hysterical, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: I was like, I got I need one, I need
Speaker 6: the new but I had to pass it off to
Speaker 6: somebody else if y'all are really drunk.
Speaker 4: So that's why I'm like sitting.
Speaker 2: So the purpose of the noodle was so you could
Speaker 2: save some people. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 6: Partly so I can say that people I need to
Speaker 6: be well rested, need to be well.
Speaker 4: Feel if it need be then I'll pass it all,
Speaker 4: but for the most part, it's for my for my comfort.
Speaker 3: He's already gone through this, I know, I know.
Speaker 6: The beehive in buzzs, behiving buzzs. We're in this gignomous
Speaker 6: pool and your class.
Speaker 4: Is pretty pretty still big.
Speaker 6: You got about one hundred people still in your class.
Speaker 6: I can't remember if we were all hundred in there
Speaker 6: or it was like fifty. And they got one instructor
Speaker 6: in the center on a on a noodle and you
Speaker 6: got that four or five instructures swimming around smashing everybody together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big group of us, and it creates panic.
Speaker 6: It creates that fear, It creates that that feeling fear,
Speaker 6: fearing other, that fear of death right because you're choking,
Speaker 6: you don't know if you're going to survive. People panted
Speaker 6: like crazy. So that's that's the scenario of what it's
Speaker 6: really like. It's no joke. The beehive is now joke
Speaker 6: at all. But that was good question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved that question. I was like, Mary, and
Speaker 2: you're on it. And during Beehive in your training, did
Speaker 2: they have scuba divers like underneath in case people drown,
Speaker 2: because they did for.
Speaker 4: Us, No, no, I don't recall that.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, no, yeah, I mean that's the swimmers.
Speaker 6: That's why we had more instructors swimming around like what
Speaker 6: we did it. For us, it was just Rudy. And
Speaker 6: then you have Billy and Foxy on the top because
Speaker 6: they can really see and their idea not their idea,
Speaker 6: they're also job for Billy and Foxy was to identify
Speaker 6: who was really struggling and then get Rudy to go
Speaker 6: over and try to help them.
Speaker 4: But we didn't.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because Rudy was in the water, true, right, Okay,
Speaker 2: and then Golden asked, ask who voted him to be
Speaker 2: the Hammer and the punisher.
Speaker 1: Too?
Speaker 4: The other the ds did? They said they did? They did?
Speaker 6: They said, uh, based off because I'm the Seal, right,
Speaker 6: the Seal is like a big title everyone knows. And
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, yeah, you know this is my
Speaker 6: this is my thing, right, I'm all this this is
Speaker 6: my second nature, my second home.
Speaker 4: I'm all I'm comfortable here.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I love that part of it. So this
Speaker 6: is this is probably who I'm going to be from
Speaker 6: then on.
Speaker 2: That's well, and that leads me to my next question,
Speaker 2: which is and maybe we'll end on this unless you
Speaker 2: have anything, Bob. But Christy asked, ask him, after being
Speaker 2: as accomplished as he is, first Black Buds graduate to
Speaker 2: graduate top of his class, what goals do you have
Speaker 2: for your future?
Speaker 1: Mmmm?
Speaker 6: Good, serious question, Good, serious question, Christy. That's that's there's
Speaker 6: a lot that I want to want to be accomplished. Right,
Speaker 6: We kind of talked a little bit about it, right.
Speaker 6: I want to, as I said, I want to be
Speaker 6: a beast until the day I die, not just physically.
Speaker 6: I want to impact millions of lives through my keynotes.
Speaker 4: Through my book that I'm writing. And that book is
Speaker 4: called why Not The Reason I Call Me? So it's
Speaker 4: like when you grab.
Speaker 6: My book and you read the title of it, it's
Speaker 6: going to make you ask yourself already, why not me?
Speaker 4: Why not you be? You know on the Bachelorette?
Speaker 6: You know, why not you be the Navy seal, the
Speaker 6: doctor or the pilot or whatever top you know, profession
Speaker 6: that it is that you want to be Because I
Speaker 6: think everyone has the ability to get there. Now, everyone
Speaker 6: comes from a different background, so it's gonna be a
Speaker 6: little harder for those someming than others.
Speaker 4: Right, But.
Speaker 6: People to understand and know that you have the ability
Speaker 6: to change your circumstance is the key thing that I
Speaker 6: really want to push. I want to be the lead
Speaker 6: dog on that thing, and I hope to God, right,
Speaker 6: I pray a lot that I can be that catalyst
Speaker 6: to get maybe suicideally right, Yeah, that was one accolade
Speaker 6: of my life. Then graduating talking my class. But what
Speaker 6: I do after that, I've got my bachelor's degree, right,
Speaker 6: I started learning how to do public speaking.
Speaker 4: I've been a personally trainer, so all these.
Speaker 6: Things lead into go from the Steel teams taught me
Speaker 6: many things about how I can achieve these things, but
Speaker 6: now I got.
Speaker 4: To take that with it at the same time.
Speaker 6: So my life is really geared to that service thing
Speaker 6: that I want to be able to say I served
Speaker 6: millions of people. So when I'm done on this earth,
Speaker 6: my time is done, I really hope to have impacted
Speaker 6: millions of people.
Speaker 4: That's my goal.
Speaker 1: That's amazing, and you can do it every week right now,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, you're impacting people like me
Speaker 2: who never ever ever would have thought that they would
Speaker 2: be part of this show. I mean when they first
Speaker 2: asked me, I was like, hell, no, don't you want
Speaker 2: my husband? And then, you know, and then thought more
Speaker 2: about it and thought that I that I could actually
Speaker 2: really challenge myself and get back to who I was
Speaker 2: before my family, you know, not taking away from that,
Speaker 2: because it really is my greatest joy in my life,
Speaker 2: but I just wanted to challenge myself and make my
Speaker 2: kids proud, make my husband proud, make myself proud. And
Speaker 2: so you you definitely affected one in a positive way.
Speaker 2: Even though you're yelling like crazy at me when I
Speaker 2: was running to the jeep. Yeah, in that laugh, but
Speaker 2: you weren't. You weren't saying anything that I wasn't already
Speaker 2: saying in my head. Obviously. I think that that's what
Speaker 2: a lot of us are going through. You know, you're
Speaker 2: saying exactly what we're thinking. And when you said it,
Speaker 2: I was like, I kind of want to prove him wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, he's saying all these things.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's the nature of that whole thing, to
Speaker 6: see you want to hear me.
Speaker 4: You might get pissed off and you ain't gonna like
Speaker 4: me or whatever, but.
Speaker 6: You say, you know what, I'm gonna prove this dude
Speaker 6: to get him f Q I'm going to push him.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make it. That's all were looking for. That's
Speaker 4: really what we want. Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for letting me be part of it.
Speaker 2: Thank for being Thanks for being part of it. Now
Speaker 2: you've got Bob wanting to sign up for the show.
Speaker 3: Well, I didn't say that. I didn't say that, but
Speaker 3: I will tell you I listened to you talk.
Speaker 1: It's like listen to Dan campbell Man, my Detroit Lions coach.
Speaker 1: I want to run through a brick wall for the guy.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I get fired up by this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was such a I was very proud of
Speaker 1: my friend Trista and uh, you know, we we had
Speaker 1: a chance to interview a couple other people from the show,
Speaker 1: and it's been one of those things where I was
Speaker 1: like so proud of her.
Speaker 3: I got emotional watching it, you know, I really did.
Speaker 1: And it's and uh, I think it's a lot of
Speaker 1: those factors coming into play, but it's definitely one of
Speaker 1: those things where you're just watching people go through a
Speaker 1: fraction of what I know you've gone through through to
Speaker 1: get where you've been. And you know, they always say
Speaker 1: you you know you can't let the dog out in
Speaker 1: the backyard if you don't have a backyard.
Speaker 3: And we got to thank our servicemen and women for
Speaker 3: that every day.
Speaker 1: So you know, thank you for that, and and thank
Speaker 1: you for for showing us a little bit a little
Speaker 1: taste of you know what that is because I can
Speaker 1: I magnify it in my head about a billion times
Speaker 1: and know what it really is.
Speaker 3: So it's crazy.
Speaker 6: Appreciate that, honestly appreciate that. Uh thanks a lot with
Speaker 6: that bomb. And that's really what we want to do.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: And when you say you're coach from Detroit, I like
Speaker 6: that guy. He has he has the mindset of what
Speaker 6: we're talking about all the time. And you know, just
Speaker 6: to be honest with you now, I don't even like
Speaker 6: you because I gotta pay you next week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, your commander, ye.
Speaker 4: Me and you are. I'm about to get your number
Speaker 4: after this.
Speaker 3: We can be buddies after. We'll be buddies after.
Speaker 1: But we aren't going to be buddies that day. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that right now.
Speaker 2: But.
Speaker 4: After the game will be cool.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm a big I'm a big fan of your team too,
Speaker 1: and I love your coach man, he's I like that
Speaker 1: whole mindset too. He's kind of he's kind of tapped
Speaker 1: into that. And you know, I think both those guys,
Speaker 1: those guys should be candidates of the Coach of the
Speaker 1: Year for sure.
Speaker 2: So wait, I'm sorry, back up, who is your team?
Speaker 4: Qing?
Speaker 2: The Commanders got it because Ryan used to play for
Speaker 2: the Panthers.
Speaker 4: Oh did it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: Didn't he play for the Ravens too? I thought he
Speaker 3: played for the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he got I think he got drafted by the
Speaker 2: Ravens and then got traded to the Panthers and then
Speaker 2: he played for nine seconds.
Speaker 3: So I will say this so about her husband real quick.
Speaker 1: And I love this. When we were both on the
Speaker 1: Bachelorette vying for Trista's love, she chose the right guy.
Speaker 3: I promise you.
Speaker 1: They were making a big deal out of me. Haven't
Speaker 1: played college football. I played Michigan State, and they're like,
Speaker 1: you know, oh, well, Bob played colle and the Producers
Speaker 1: and Ryan was like my bunk, you know.
Speaker 3: And so I had like talked to him a little
Speaker 3: bit about stuff, and.
Speaker 1: I'm like, and I was getting so angry because it
Speaker 1: was like, in every conversation they try to make me
Speaker 1: talk about it. I'm like, I'm not talking about it.
Speaker 1: I was a backup quarterback. This dude, this dude played
Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Ravens. But I was like, I was
Speaker 1: losing my mind over it because no one was talking
Speaker 1: about he was Ryan the firefighter.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, he's not.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, so the firefighter.
Speaker 3: He's not just a firefighter, damnit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I got myself worked out more than once because
Speaker 1: I just adore the guy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's uh, it's really great.
Speaker 1: It's been really great talk with you. Thank you for
Speaker 1: giving us your time and for being on the show
Speaker 1: with us, and thanks for giving us such great television
Speaker 1: to watch too, because I've been loving the show and
Speaker 1: very excited for this week's episode, and man, it's just
Speaker 1: been a it's been this whole thing has been like
Speaker 1: an unbelievable, mind blown experience. When I found out Tristan
Speaker 1: was on there and then to see her kicking ass
Speaker 1: made me really happy.
Speaker 6: So hey, sometimes, thank you both for having me on here.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it and look to do more. You know,
Speaker 6: I'm trying to get further out there, so hopefully, you know,
Speaker 6: I'll get have opportunities to continue to speak this kind
Speaker 6: of word to people.
Speaker 4: So I enjoyed that. Well awesome, awesome girl. You did
Speaker 4: a great time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate it, we appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: And you know, keep watching Special Forces World's Toughest Test
Speaker 2: on Fox on Wednesdays and then it will stream on
Speaker 2: Hulu the next day. Thanks everybody for listening.
Speaker 3: Thank you everybody. Thanks you, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4: Thank you.