1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. Our guest is Marcus Latrell. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: Marcus, I got to ask you, did you ever expect 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 2: when you were I have to say a hello to 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:13,080 Speaker 2: you from your former frat brother at sam Houston State University, 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 2: Scott Kutaj. 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: Huh did you ever. 7 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 2: Expect back in ninety nine or at sam Houston State 8 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,639 Speaker 2: University that you were going to end up being the 9 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: subject of national talk shows and now a big movie 10 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 2: about the life you've lived. 11 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 3: Oh no, sir, absolutely not. I mean you know what 12 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 3: I mean. You know my attorney brothers the only that 13 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 3: you know I'm kind of I'm a quiet guy, country boy, 14 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 3: So I never in a million years thought my career 15 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:42,440 Speaker 3: as a Navy seal would lead down this road. Absolutely not. 16 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, the movie opens this weekend. It's Loan Survivor. Mark 17 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: Wahlberg as you on screen. 18 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: What was that like? 19 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 3: It was? It was pretty cool, you know, getting to 20 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 3: meet him and watch him work. I mean, he really 21 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,640 Speaker 3: is a professional and a great actor. He's been around 22 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 3: a long time, so kind of when we came on 23 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 3: set for the first time. When we met up, I 24 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 3: was more concerned with the other actors and making sure 25 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 3: that they did they got as much information as they 26 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 3: possibly could, not only from me, but other teammates who 27 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 3: knew the guys and their family members, so they could 28 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 3: portray those guys the best way they could. And they 29 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,760 Speaker 3: absolutely got that done. You know, when it came time 30 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 3: to me, I it was just one of them deals 31 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 3: where I knew Mark was a pro and I wasn't 32 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:27,840 Speaker 3: at this, so I said, I was like, hey, look man, 33 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 3: I'm gonna be back here in the shadows. You need anything, 34 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,119 Speaker 3: I'm here for you. Other than that, I'm just gonna 35 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 3: stand out of your way. I think the only thing 36 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 3: we actually sat down and agreed on was the fact 37 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 3: that he doesn't need to do a Southern accent because 38 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: I would never try to imitate a a Yankee accent. 39 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 3: And it just and he got a good we got 40 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 3: We both got a good laugh at it because you 41 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 3: never now and again he tried to pull out some 42 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 3: kind of Southern draw or whatnot, but it was funny. 43 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: One of the things, Marcus Latrell is our guest, one 44 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 2: of the things that was important about this movie, important 45 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: to you was the guys actually trained for a period 46 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 2: of time, and you were involved as a technical advisor. 47 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 2: They actually went through some military training to kind of 48 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 2: get themselves into the mode for this. 49 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 3: Absolutely, we showed up to this set for pre production 50 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,079 Speaker 3: about a month early and put them through the ringer. 51 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 3: I mean we worked them from sun up to sundown 52 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 3: with verbiage, weapons and tactics, everything they needed to know 53 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 3: to get this part right. And let me tell you, 54 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 3: they stepped to it. I have. We didn't have any 55 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 3: problems of them. I mean there were no divas on 56 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 3: set or anything like that. And then even after production started, 57 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 3: I mean they were constantly asking questions and training every day. 58 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,639 Speaker 3: So I mean what you see on film and these 59 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 3: guys and how they move and communicate and everything like that, 60 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 3: they got it down. I mean they worked hard and 61 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 3: actually became a team. It was neat to watch. 62 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 2: You have praised Peter Berg and the work he did 63 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: with this movie, particularly the fact that he went and 64 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 2: saw the families of Danny Deet's and Matthew Axelson and 65 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: Michael Murphy. How much did that mean to you that 66 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: your three fallen brothers he went and actually met their 67 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: family and really understood their grief and their experience. And 68 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 2: one of the things he said is what stars they 69 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: were to their families and that was a surprise to 70 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 2: him absolutely. 71 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: I mean not just the visiting the family members. I 72 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 3: mean Pete put out from the first time we met, 73 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 3: and he took control of this whole thing. He was 74 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 3: embedded with us overseas in Iraq. I mean, we came 75 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,799 Speaker 3: to our training sessions constantly asking questions, and in the 76 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 3: beginning it was tough because we just don't open up 77 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 3: just anybody, especially Hollywood director. But he swallowed his pride 78 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 3: and kept on coming, and eventually we opened up to him. 79 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: He got what he needed, and I think that enabled 80 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 3: him to make a really great movie. 81 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: You've said over and over again that this movie is 82 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: about the three guys that didn't make it out and 83 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 2: that you did and you get to tell their story. 84 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: But I asked our listeners to email in questions, and 85 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 2: one of them said, can you ask Marcus Latrell. He 86 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: broke his back and he pulled himself out one body 87 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 2: link that at a time, and that meant a lot 88 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: to me as an individual, And here he was a 89 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: Navy seal and you understand how great those guys are. 90 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 2: Why did they choose to leave that scene out of 91 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: the movie. 92 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 3: I think time with the That was the one thing 93 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 3: that I had to learn dealing with with film production 94 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 3: in Hollywood and everything like that. Everything that is regulated 95 00:04:24,480 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 3: and under time constraints, money constraints, location, and overall safety 96 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 3: for the cast and crew, and it was just one 97 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 3: of those things that because of time constraints and everything 98 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 3: that just got pulled out. I mean, in the movie 99 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 3: is an hour and some change two hours long. A 100 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 3: gunfight in real life was over three hours. I think 101 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 3: they had me in the village for two days or something. 102 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 3: In the movie the daytime extract, I was in the 103 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 3: village for four days and it was a nighttime extract 104 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 3: under fire. So it was just one of the things 105 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 3: were we were just under the gun kind of all. 106 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 2: Your wife, Melanie has said that the first two times 107 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: she saw the movie, she just watched it for accuracy, 108 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 2: and the third time she went in like the rest 109 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 2: of us, to watch it and let it wash over her. 110 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: She said, she started bawling and gave you a big 111 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 2: hug because then it kind of hit her what you'd 112 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: been through. What was your reaction when you got through 113 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 2: looking through the technical and you just watch it as 114 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 2: a as a human having been there. 115 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 3: I would watch the scenes. Certain certainly just kind of 116 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 3: I don't have to see something or read something that 117 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 3: had that come tumbling back on top of me. But uh, 118 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 3: I was real critical of it. I would watch a 119 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 3: scene I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that happening, 120 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 3: But I also remember being knocked out. And when you're 121 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 3: knocked out, you just don't jump back up and get 122 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 3: back on the gum. Mean you real literally had to 123 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,200 Speaker 3: pick your brain up off the and keep it from 124 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 3: shaking inside your head. That's when the difference between a 125 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 3: movie and in reality is you bounce back real quickly 126 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 3: and whatnot. I think they still did a fantastic job 127 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 3: for traying what happened up there, but yeah, it was 128 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 3: just one of the situations where I would just remember 129 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 3: what was going on in a movie. You know, you 130 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 3: had the visual and the auditory when you're in a 131 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 3: theater and watching it, and what was what was hitting 132 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 3: me hardest for the smells, because that's the thing that 133 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,159 Speaker 3: really takes over. They're the smell of blood, fire, burnt clothes, 134 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 3: burnt hair, stuff like that. If they figure out some 135 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 3: way to throw that into the film, it would really 136 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 3: affect people. 137 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 2: Would have to add another dimension to really experience what 138 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 2: you experienced. You called for six or seven miles with 139 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 2: a broken back. You were the only of the four 140 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 2: to be able to get away. You say you laid 141 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 2: down to die several times you'd been shot. The number 142 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: one question I got from listeners. 143 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 1: Was what sustained you? What was going through your mind 144 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: to get you through that moment. 145 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:00,800 Speaker 3: Obviously reverting back to my t and the way I 146 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 3: was raised. You know, no matter how my father always say, 147 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: no matter how hard you get hit, if you get 148 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 3: knocked down, if you get knocked out, you always get 149 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 3: back up and go at it as hard as you 150 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 3: possibly can. Kind of like getting thrown off a horse. 151 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 3: First thing I do is get back up on it. Well, 152 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,240 Speaker 3: I mean I was still alive, I still had air 153 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 3: in my lungs. So it's you know in our mission 154 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: statement that if there's still one guy alive the op 155 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 3: goes down, you know, you do everything you can to 156 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 3: survive and get back so you can climb back up 157 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 3: on the horse. And that's what I tried to do. 158 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 3: I never thought, I never felt sorry for myself. I 159 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 3: ever broke down. I didn't dwell on the fact that 160 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:43,280 Speaker 3: my teammates were dead or anything like that, no negative stuff. 161 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 3: What I was trying and keep that out of my 162 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 3: head as much as possible. Obviously, when there were some 163 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 3: situations where I was like, man, this is is getting bad. 164 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm gonna make it, And then 165 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 3: I would just talk to myself and tell myself to 166 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 3: quit being a whimp and get up. 167 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: In Navy seal. 168 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 2: Since you were twelve years old with Green Beret Billy Shelton, 169 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 2: do you sense that this was what you were destined 170 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: to do. It's almost as if your entire life has 171 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 2: prepared you for this moment. 172 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 3: I hope not. I hope this doesn't define me as 173 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 3: a man. Obviously, my name is synonymous with the Operation 174 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 3: Red Wing, and when I meet a lot of people, 175 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 3: all you want to talk about is Operation red Wing. 176 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 3: Books out, movies out, people chat about it and everything 177 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 3: like that. But when we were talking about this the 178 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 3: other day, it doesn't define me. It doesn't make me 179 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 3: who I am. It was just something that happened in 180 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 3: my life, just like it happened in real life. And 181 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 3: then the book came out that was just one more 182 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 3: wrung on the ladder, and the same thing with the movie. 183 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 3: I hope that people go and watch it and take 184 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 3: something away from it. It's not in your face kind 185 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 3: of a deal. It's not trying to deliver a message. 186 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,679 Speaker 3: There's no politics, religion. It's not an anti war, it's 187 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 3: not a pro war thing. It's just about, you know, 188 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 3: nineteen or excuse me, twenty, all American guys getting out 189 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 3: there and doing a job that we said we do. 190 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 2: So give me a moment into your life when when 191 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 2: the doors are closed and the TVs are off and 192 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 2: you're not giving speeches or signing autographs or answering questions, 193 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: what do you do for fun? 194 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 3: Well, I'm a I grew up on a ranch, so 195 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:21,600 Speaker 3: I'm married now with kids, and I enjoy the quiet time. 196 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 3: I mean, I just can't wait for this to be 197 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 3: over so I can go back to living a normal 198 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 3: life and no cameras or media or anything like that. 199 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 3: Get back on the ranch, wake up in the morning, 200 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 3: and go to work. I mean, you know as well 201 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,400 Speaker 3: as I do. If you're not, if there's nothing to 202 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 3: do on the ranch, you're just being lazy. 203 00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: If your son acts or your daughter Addie says they 204 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 2: want to be a Navy seal and they're ready. 205 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 1: To sign up, what do you do well. 206 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:47,680 Speaker 3: Luckily, I could tell my daughter that they don't take women, but. 207 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: That may change by them. You go ahead. 208 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 3: I'm get be cranked up on that one, but it's 209 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 3: nothing against women. Trust me, I'm not a sexist. But 210 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 3: if my son riders up to do that, then I'll 211 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 3: get him ready for it. I mean, if you come 212 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 3: into my house, there's no metals on the wall. There's 213 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 3: very actually very little proof that I was ever in 214 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 3: the military, and I'm not going to throw that in 215 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 3: his face. It's kind of one of them deals my 216 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 3: father said to me, He goes, you know, I, here 217 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:21,680 Speaker 3: are my shoes. You don't have to fill them, but 218 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 3: they're there for you to walk in them if you 219 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 3: need them. And that's kind of to deal with my son. 220 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:27,720 Speaker 3: You know, if it comes down to it and he 221 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 3: decides he wants to go that route, then by all means, 222 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 3: I'll do everything in my power to get him ready 223 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 3: for it, and in the unlikely event he makes it 224 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 3: through the training and you know he'll I think it'll 225 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:44,160 Speaker 3: just bring us that much more closer together. We would 226 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 3: share that kind of that craft. 227 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 2: I recently met with a group out at Camp Hope 228 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 2: of one of the mini groups dealing with folks coming 229 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 2: back with PTSD and in the case of Chris Kyle 230 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: is on our minds. And there are a lot of 231 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 2: these young men that were just like Marcus Latrell that 232 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 2: left and they came back and they're hurting and it 233 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 2: doesn't seem that anything can get through to them, and 234 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 2: it is a real crisis. 235 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 1: What should we be doing about that? 236 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,320 Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing that I noticed is the 237 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 3: isolation of the guys when they come back. I mean, 238 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 3: everybody just automatically assumes that they have a problem, and yeah, 239 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 3: you just can't come at it like that. And my 240 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 3: advice to the veterans, I mean, if you sit I mean, 241 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 3: hospitals are great for what they do. They're designed to 242 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 3: patch you up, save your life, and then get you 243 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 3: on your way. A lot of these guys spend year, 244 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 3: two years in the hospital. Man, you start to die 245 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 3: all over again spending that much time in the hospital 246 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:39,599 Speaker 3: and you sit around listen to somebody who's supposed to 247 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 3: be a medical professional telling you that you have a problem, 248 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 3: that you are messed up mentally. I mean, I would 249 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,559 Speaker 3: imagine you start to believe it, you know, in your 250 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:49,680 Speaker 3: mind and I kind of the way I do it 251 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 3: is I go back to that, to my mindset of 252 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 3: what I was like right when I was going into 253 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 3: the military, that drive that I had wanting to be 254 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:03,120 Speaker 3: a Navy seal, the strength and everything that I had 255 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 3: going for me back then, and I just try to 256 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 3: go back to that place. Granted, my body doesn't hold 257 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 3: up like it should at my age and everything like that, 258 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 3: but online it's just as sharp as it always was. 259 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 3: So that's both the blessing and a curse because I 260 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 3: miss being in the seal teams. I miss I missed 261 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: my teammates, and I missed the job. Moreover, I just 262 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 3: missed my teammates. 263 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: You've written another book, which was released in May of twelve. 264 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:30,320 Speaker 2: What can we expect from you in the future? Are 265 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 2: there more books in you? 266 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: It's funny should bring that up. I was talking to 267 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,800 Speaker 3: my wife the other day about it, and I had 268 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 3: this idea of a book a while ago that I 269 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,960 Speaker 3: was going to write, and it's basically just a manual. 270 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 3: It's when those little bit he read, our little binding books, 271 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 3: probably one hundred pages long, one hundred thy pages long, 272 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,199 Speaker 3: and the title of it is if you want to 273 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 3: date my daughter read this book, and I just go 274 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,880 Speaker 3: around to all my teammates who have daughters. I'm like, 275 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 3: all right, give me the scenario of the first boyfriend 276 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:56,200 Speaker 3: who walks in the door. What are we going to do? 277 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 3: And then I you know our reference movie quotes in it. 278 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, this is the way you think. Then 279 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 3: you need to watch. 280 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: Your daughter's fifteen months old and you're already obsessed with this. 281 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 3: Oh many, When my daughter was born, I screamed at 282 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 3: the doctor to put clothes on her. 283 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: Somebody's looking at her. 284 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, what's going on here? Man? Yeah? I in my 285 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:16,600 Speaker 3: head my daughter was born to the age of seventeen. 286 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: That is generally a bad indicator. 287 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 2: And I'm as guilty as you are that we were 288 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 2: bad lads as young men. 289 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 3: Oh good, gud. I mean everybody always tells us too, 290 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 3: it's going to come back to haunt you. And you're like, 291 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,800 Speaker 3: that's not And then as soon as your daughter comes 292 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 3: on the deck, you're like, great, here we go. 293 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 2: You have become I don't want to use the term 294 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 2: celebrity because that minimize you. You have become a symbol 295 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 2: an icon to a lot of Americans of what is 296 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 2: right with this country. Tell me about a call that 297 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 2: you received, your person that you met, and you said, 298 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,559 Speaker 2: I've been a fan of that person my entire life 299 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 2: and now they reached out and said they were a 300 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 2: fan of mine. That you just thought, Wow, this is 301 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 2: a charmed life. 302 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 3: That's a tough one, man. I mean you, I mean 303 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 3: you know about me. You know, I don't get into 304 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,319 Speaker 3: a I've never been starstruck or anything like that. I 305 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 3: appreciate them for what they do and the accomplishments that 306 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 3: they have, but I've never in a million years lost 307 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 3: my mind crying can I have your autograph or your 308 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: underwear or something like that. You know, that just never 309 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 3: never crosses my mind. There's I've heard since the pre 310 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 3: release of the movies and stuff like that, there have 311 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 3: been some some people that that I've heard through the 312 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 3: grape vine that have watched the movie or that are 313 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 3: supporters of me and Howard Stern and people that you 314 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 3: would never expect to hear about. And you know that 315 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 3: that's crazy that it's reached that many people. I guess 316 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 3: the funniest phone call that I've ever got was right 317 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 3: when I got back. I was I was pretty busted up. 318 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 3: I was all banished up and I was at the 319 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:59,480 Speaker 3: ranch and my mother was cooking me lunch and a 320 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 3: phone call came in and my mom answered the phone 321 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 3: and I could hear her rumbling in there and talking 322 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 3: and whatnot. She hung out the phone. She came back 323 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 3: into the the to the breakfast room, and I was like, 324 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 3: who is that? And she goes it was President Bush 325 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: And I go, what do you want? It It was senior, 326 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 3: not junior. And I go, well, what do you want? 327 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:18,960 Speaker 3: And he goes, he just wants to talk to you 328 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 3: to see how you're doing. He said, he's grateful for everything. 329 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 3: I go, well, what happened? He goes, well, I told 330 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 3: him you were eating lunch right to that mom, And 331 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 3: I told him to call back in ten minutes, and 332 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 3: he did. He called back and ten You know, you 333 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 3: can never. I don't care who you are. You ain't 334 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 3: going against mom, right. 335 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 1: No, No, it's a great story. Though. 336 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 2: It's a great story. It's it's a story about real people. 337 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 2: I mean that that's what happened. You were eating lunch. 338 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 2: She's a mom. She wanted you to finish. 339 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 3: Your lunch, right, Yeah, I was. That was hurt and 340 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: now I had lost a lot of weight and everything 341 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 3: like that. She was trying to fat me up and 342 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 3: heal me up, and she didn't let anybody anybody come 343 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 3: anywhere near me. 344 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: How are you today, physically? How are you? 345 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 3: I'm good. I had my last surgery. Uh, actually it 346 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 3: was it was a year this November, So that's good. 347 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 3: I've kind of beat the sight. Normally I have a 348 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 3: surgery a year just so I can keep walking. 349 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 1: But and it's all the back. 350 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 3: My back, yes sir, and my knees uh are gone, 351 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 3: and uh probably with my shoulder my neck, and I 352 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 3: keep going. But it's not important, is it. 353 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 1: Is it chronic pain? 354 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 3: Yes, sir? Yeah, no, it was one of them deals 355 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 3: with the docs said that you know you're gonna be 356 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: in pain for the rest of your life. Some of 357 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 3: my injuries are debilitating, so but for for the I 358 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 3: don't really concentrate on that too much. I'll walk in 359 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 3: and have a spasm and it will jerk me out 360 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 3: of bed or something like that, but I'll let it 361 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 3: run its course and I just you know, get up 362 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 3: and keep going. And if I got to have another surgery, 363 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 3: will so be it. Don't have one, and then you know, 364 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 3: I just keep trucking. Along right now. We're doing my brother. 365 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 3: He just got extract out of Afghanistan. He's in the 366 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 3: hostel right now having surgery. So we're dealing with him, 367 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 3: and uh, I'll focus on myself whenever. Whenever my brother's better. 368 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: Marcus Tree tell us about the Loan Survivor Foundation, something that. 369 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 3: I started back when I got out, closer to when 370 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 3: I got out. It was just in the beginning. It 371 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 3: was a way for me to reconnect with my military roots. 372 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 3: Kind of a deal I all spawned from my own experience. 373 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 3: I was in the hospital for a while. Then they 374 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,159 Speaker 3: asked me what I could do, what they could do 375 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 3: for me to make me better, and I said, send 376 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 3: me home to my ranch. I went home, and I 377 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 3: got better. I was around my family, my friends, and 378 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 3: they didn't cut me any slack, and you know, I 379 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 3: just got back up and was better. And I thought 380 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 3: to myself, you know, if that would worked for me, 381 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,719 Speaker 3: it could definitely work for other people. I mean, I'm 382 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 3: not special in any way. So we started the foundation 383 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 3: and then it just caters to veterans, not only veterans, 384 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 3: but their family because you could bring a veteran out 385 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 3: and work with him and then you send him back 386 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 3: to a broken family, and they just digress this. So 387 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 3: we bring the whole unit out and work with them 388 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 3: out at the ranch. Let them go fishing, hunt and 389 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 3: horseback ride, or just sit around and do nothing if 390 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 3: they want. And there's something about being out in the 391 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 3: country that's peaceful and therapeutic, and it's done a lot 392 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 3: of great things for a lot of people. I mean, 393 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,240 Speaker 3: we're just we're moving around along. 394 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: It means something if it comes from your mouth. 395 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,719 Speaker 2: So tell folks if you would, about the boot campaign 396 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: with whom you've partnered. 397 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,199 Speaker 3: That also came about right kind of close to when 398 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 3: I got out. It was five Texas women. They had 399 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 3: heard the story about my team and just decided they 400 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 3: want to do something. It's probably one of the best 401 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 3: ways I've ever heard to support the military. So they 402 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 3: went and they got a deal with some military contractors 403 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,199 Speaker 3: for boots, for our military boots, and they put their 404 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 3: logo on it, and basically the whole gi just behind 405 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 3: it is buy a pair of combat boots, get your 406 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 3: picture taken in it, and sort of walk a mile 407 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 3: in our shoes kind of a deal. And man, that 408 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 3: thing has grown exponentially, like you know, like a wildfire. 409 00:18:55,160 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 3: I mean it's everybody, celebrities, I mean just yeah, everybody 410 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 3: is getting on board with this thing, and it's it's 411 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 3: it's a good deal, man. I mean, the money goes 412 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 3: where it needs to go to. I don't I don't 413 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:11,160 Speaker 3: take any some organizations, you know, it's they got deep 414 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 3: pockets for themselves. I just never could understand why you 415 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 3: would take money, donated money that was supposed to go 416 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:20,400 Speaker 3: to the troops. And that's a different talk, I guess altogether. 417 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 3: But yeah, I can. 418 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 2: Only imagine how many invitations you must get and how 419 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 2: hard it must be because you physically cannot do them. Logistically, 420 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 2: you cannot do them all. And I know that's got 421 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: to be difficult for you. 422 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 3: It is sometimes, especially when I when I can't walk 423 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,600 Speaker 3: or I'm having a real uh my for some reason, 424 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,440 Speaker 3: my pain threshold is not up or something like that, 425 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 3: and I know I got to go do something, Thank 426 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,080 Speaker 3: the good Lord. I very rarely miss anything. If I 427 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 3: tell somebody I'm going to be there, I'll be there. 428 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 3: There have been some situations, though, where I was in 429 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 3: the hospital and I just couldn't make it, and for that, 430 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but I take it with a grain of salt. 431 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 3: Kind of the beautiful thing about how having a wife 432 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 3: now and she she covered down on me pretty good. 433 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 3: So she kick and chooses my battles. And then when 434 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 3: something comes up and she can, she can be a 435 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 3: pit bull where she wants to be. 436 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 2: I had a person asking I promise I would, I 437 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 2: would bring it up to you the story in h 438 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 2: at your house, the four guys that came and and 439 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 2: killed Daisy, and you chased them, And what troubled people 440 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 2: the most was why were you carrying nine millimeters barettas? 441 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: Why that choice? 442 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 2: Uh? 443 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:35,800 Speaker 3: I keep those pistols in my truck for like if 444 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,439 Speaker 3: I run up on a pot of pigs or something 445 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 3: truth to be told, I keep in my truck and 446 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 3: case to get stolen. 447 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: And those are your throw down guns thrown all right, Well, 448 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: a lot of people want to know about your favorite gun. 449 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 3: All right now, I'm carrying a Predator, Predator Tactical forty five. 450 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 3: It's kind of a nineteen eleven designs man, it's a 451 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 3: it's a great firearm, and that's what I carry. 452 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 2: Your brand, your expertise, your your endorsement, and particularly if 453 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 2: you were involved in developing it would be worth a 454 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 2: lot to a company that made tactical gear. 455 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 1: Is that something you would do? 456 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 3: Think? So? 457 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, you kidding me? You know that? 458 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 2: Oh man, the Marcus Latrell official holster, can't you hear it? 459 00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:27,919 Speaker 3: Now? Yeah, you're probably better at selling something, you know, 460 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 3: like pool cleaning. 461 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: Gear like that, something you know. What would you like 462 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 1: to do? What have you not done that you go, well, 463 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 1: this would be this would be really neat to do. 464 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 3: Have a normal life. I'd like to go home and 465 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 3: be at my house and the only expectations I have 466 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 3: or to make sure my wife and kids are happy 467 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 3: and just work, just live out my days however long 468 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 3: that may be, just peaceful and quiet. 469 00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: Does it exhaust you as all this, especially what you're 470 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 2: about to go through with the movie hitting and all 471 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,240 Speaker 2: the interviews you're going to be doing. 472 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: Does it mean it wear you down? 473 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 3: Sure? I mean my stama is pretty good. It's I 474 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 3: guess it's more of the thing. It just keeps pulling 475 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:12,919 Speaker 3: me away from the house. And I don't like that. 476 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,719 Speaker 3: I did that for a career, and I promised that 477 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 3: I I mean, I would never get married while as 478 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 3: in the team, since I would never be around. Well 479 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,680 Speaker 3: I'm married now and I'm I'm hardly ever around and 480 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 3: it's so far, so good. My wife's good with it, 481 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 3: but I'm not. I don't like being a wayframer, and 482 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 3: so it just kind of gets old. I'm heads off 483 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,880 Speaker 3: to everybody who does, who lives that life. I just don't. 484 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:38,719 Speaker 3: I couldn't do it. 485 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: Marcus Latrell's our guest. 486 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 2: I've had a number of parents who emailed in and 487 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 2: said my kids want to do my son wants to 488 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 2: do Special Forces, or young people saying I want to 489 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 2: do special Forces? How do you know who's cut out 490 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 2: for that? What should I be doing to prepare for that? 491 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 2: And we talked about you prepared from the time you 492 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,200 Speaker 2: were twelve. If someone I think a lot of people 493 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,160 Speaker 2: want to, very few can, and the seals will will 494 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,399 Speaker 2: will weed those out themselves. But when you what's the 495 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: thing you got to have? You know a lot of seals, 496 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 2: You've known a lot of seals, You've. 497 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,120 Speaker 3: Been a seal, Yes, sir uh you know. To answer 498 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,040 Speaker 3: that question, you would save the government millions of tax 499 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,040 Speaker 3: bang dollars. Trying to figure out why one guy makes 500 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 3: it do and one guy doesn't. I think the overall 501 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 3: concept behind it is the willingness to step outside yourself 502 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 3: and commit to the kind of team environment, to sacrifice 503 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 3: yourself for the betterment of the team. Willing you know, 504 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 3: being able to give your life for another man, and 505 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 3: saying to yourself, no matter what happens to me, I'm 506 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 3: not gonna quit. You're gonna have to kill me to 507 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,360 Speaker 3: get me out of here. That was a mentality I had, 508 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 3: pretty much mentality every one of the guys that I 509 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,840 Speaker 3: went to training add to. And you mean, everybody can 510 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 3: tell themselves that they're like, oh, I'll do that, Okay, 511 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 3: we'll see. And then the beauty about our training pipeline 512 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 3: is it finds everybody's weakness. I don't care what your 513 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 3: strengths are and how strong you are, and if you 514 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 3: think you're strong and everything, eventually it's going to find 515 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 3: it and it's going to exploit it entire time you're there. 516 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 3: Once they find it, and you've got to be able 517 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 3: to accept that you're gonna get beat down, you're gonna 518 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 3: you're not gonna pass everything, You're not gonna be the 519 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 3: best at everything. And a lot of guys who have 520 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,760 Speaker 3: never had any defeat, you know, they've never been tested. 521 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 3: They don't know how to deal with that. And it's 522 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,480 Speaker 3: those guys who who've grown up kind of a hard 523 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 3: lifestyle and and and hit those barriers, but when they 524 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 3: got back up, they're like, all right, I'm going back 525 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:30,240 Speaker 3: at it again. That's stubbornness to overcome any obstacle. 526 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:32,000 Speaker 1: Marcus Lttroulle, what's your greatest regret? 527 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:39,160 Speaker 3: Not being able to finish what I started? I didn't 528 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 3: get a chance to finish out my career like I 529 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,239 Speaker 3: wanted to. 530 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,040 Speaker 1: What are you most proud of. 531 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:46,240 Speaker 3: My family? 532 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,120 Speaker 1: When people go and see. 533 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 2: This movie Long Survivor, which opens this weekend, what do 534 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: you hope they take away from it? 535 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 3: I've been asked that question before, and I guess the 536 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 3: same reply. I would be that that it's not a 537 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,359 Speaker 3: movie that tries to throw something in your face. And 538 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,959 Speaker 3: I don't know if I think we talked about it. 539 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 3: It's not religion of politics, no pro war, anti wark 540 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 3: on this, that and the other. I think people go 541 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 3: in with thinking one thing and hopefully they come out 542 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 3: they pull something from it. Whether it's no matter how 543 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 3: hard it an gets, I'm not going to quit. Whether 544 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,719 Speaker 3: it's that there's good people in every part of this world, 545 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,719 Speaker 3: whether that it's you know, American men and women are 546 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 3: willing to fight to the death because they said they would. 547 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:32,440 Speaker 3: I mean, you keep going on and on. 548 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 2: You're a man of incredible intestinal fortitude. You you responded 549 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 2: to getting knocked down literally in life in a way 550 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 2: that I think most of us we really gravitate to that. 551 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: We don't know you personally, we know a. 552 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 2: Guy who is is this sort of you know, this 553 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 2: dream that we live out. This amazing thing that you've done, 554 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 2: and you represent what we all I think, want to 555 00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 2: be when you look back on your life, who made 556 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 2: the most difference? Who? 557 00:25:59,040 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 3: Who? 558 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: Who is the reason Marcus Latrelle is that who was 559 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: that person that invested in you? 560 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 3: I'd have to say, you know, God, my face pretty strong. 561 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 3: And then after that, it's my brother. He's been with 562 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,920 Speaker 3: me since the womb and he's never left my son. 563 00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 3: And because of that, I mean, he's been with me 564 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 3: through every up, through every down and never once wavered 565 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,960 Speaker 3: in his love for me. That's probably why we're best 566 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 3: friends to this day. 567 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,240 Speaker 1: That's a great story. It's a great story. 568 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 2: I know you have a busy day. I know you 569 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,400 Speaker 2: have a lot going on. I really appreciate you giving 570 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: us the time. But more importantly, I really appreciate that 571 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 2: throughout everything you've done, I've always since that it was 572 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 2: not for you. It was for Danny Deet's and Matthew 573 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 2: Axelson and Michael Murphy and a lot of folks out 574 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 2: there whose names will never be splashed across the scene 575 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: and across the screen. 576 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 1: And I really sense that you have such a love 577 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:04,960 Speaker 1: and respect for those people. 578 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 2: And you have turned that it has become your ministry 579 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,399 Speaker 2: and for that and for all of those that was 580 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,400 Speaker 2: the one thing people said more than anything else when 581 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 2: I asked for questions to give to you, was I 582 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 2: don't have a question. Just tell him thank you, thank 583 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,399 Speaker 2: you for the son that didn't come home, thank you 584 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 2: for the guys that are suffering. Thank you for everything 585 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 2: he does and continues to do. So that's my message 586 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:28,359 Speaker 2: from all of us. Thank you, Marcus Latreu. 587 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,400 Speaker 3: I appreciate it, And tell all your listeners that thank 588 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,679 Speaker 3: you for having me on the program and listening to 589 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 3: my story. All right, Bud, thanks for the commitment, and 590 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 3: not ever forgetting about my teammates. 591 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: You got a big voice, continue to use it, yes, sir, 592 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: All right? 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