1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: H ah Bote force. If it doesn't work, you're just 2 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: not using enough. You're listening to Software Radio, Special Operations, 3 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: Military news and straight talk with the guys and the 4 00:00:28,160 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: community Software Radio on Time on target. Hope everybody enjoyed 5 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: their Veterans Day. And I should also say I was 6 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 1: really expecting a text of you thanking me for my service. 7 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: That is true, but so you're welcome for my service. 8 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: I you should be groveling at my feet right now, 9 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: but well, as you always said, the only reason you 10 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:33,560 Speaker 1: joined the military so that civilians can say thank you 11 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: for your service on Veterans' expecting at least a text, 12 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: I apologize. But and also I should say, as I 13 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,000 Speaker 1: wrote down here three years to the Marine Corps. Palski 14 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: is here a veteran of the Marine Corps as well 15 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: as the Special Missions Unit. Back on three five, we 16 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,919 Speaker 1: had you on talking about Zen Commando, which is coming along. Um. 17 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of you guys know Todd's background, 18 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: but former Marine Scott sniper turned Salt commander for the 19 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 1: Special Missions Unit, now the founder and director of Zen Commando. 20 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: And on three sixty five we got into your entire background. 21 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: I feel like growing up and then into uh fitness, 22 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 1: into the military. What you're doing now, And I remember 23 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: Jackson like we have to have tied back on. We 24 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: just scratched the surface. So I'm glad we're doing. Yeah, 25 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: it was awesome getting to meet you when you came 26 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: in studio last time. And I've been actually following your 27 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 1: website a little bit, reading like the Todd approach to 28 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: physical fitness and diet and uh, you eat more fish 29 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: than I think I could handle, but you know, I 30 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: like it. I eat more fish now than meat. But 31 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: first and foremost, thanks for having me back any time. 32 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,239 Speaker 1: I love what you guys doing. This is a great 33 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: opportunity to reach out to our listeners who I'm shared 34 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: with them. Um, things they can do differently, and um 35 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: that's a purpose of Zen Commando in Costa Rica. So 36 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: UM again, thanks a lot. Yeah, anytime. We're happy to 37 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: have you on. And you said you're looking to take 38 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 1: your first group next year. Yes, UM, we are looking 39 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: at end of twenty nineteen beginning of twent um to 40 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 1: start bringing folks down. UM. I have updated the website, 41 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,640 Speaker 1: so do Commando dot com. And if you go to 42 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: the menu UM courses and packages, you can scroll down 43 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: in the name of the course is Pathfinder Course and 44 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: that's going to be our UM initial course, our Pathfinder Course. 45 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 1: It's five days long and I'm looking at UM launching 46 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 1: that UM late next year early. Well, for people who 47 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 1: haven't listened to the previous episode, don't really know what 48 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: we're talking about. What what's the Pathfinder Course going to be? 49 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: I mean you said it's it's down in Costa Rica. 50 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: I know you have a property down there. Um, what's 51 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: the course curriculum? So essentially, UH consider it. Think about 52 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: it as a boot camp for Zen Commando. It's five 53 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: days in length, and what we do is we teach 54 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: you a number of life hacks. UM. We all oftentimes 55 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: we look back in life and we say, man, I 56 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: wish I knew that. You know, whether it pertains to 57 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 1: fitness or business whatever. What we did was we compiled 58 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: all these lessons learned UM throughout my experience and others, 59 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: and we've condensed all those principles, these learning points into 60 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 1: a five day program that are focused on three pillars. 61 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: Those pillars are relationships, mindset, and habits. So you come 62 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: down and for five days we just focus on those things. Relationships, UM, 63 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: your your habits and your mindset, and we use different 64 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 1: venues fitness, meditation, yoga, hikes, and a workshop each day. 65 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: And it's it's all principles based. You know, you can 66 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: take what you want from it. We just give you 67 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 1: the tools. It's an information module five days and there's 68 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: no yelling, no screaming. It's just having a good time, 69 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 1: relaxed environment. You're not gonna yell at people while they're 70 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: on the dip bars. Um, there's potential for that. I 71 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: might have someone else do it, you know, but I 72 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: want to I want to encourage. I know, I hear you. 73 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 1: I want to encourage. Um. No, we're talking a little 74 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: bit before we started recording about how important some of 75 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,920 Speaker 1: that stuff is, especially for the younger guys who get 76 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,840 Speaker 1: out of the military, and myself included when I first 77 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 1: got out of the military, and like I felt like 78 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,120 Speaker 1: I realized in retrospect, like you were saying, I wish 79 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: I knew those things now, Like the way I related 80 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: to other people, in the way I addressed other people, 81 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: like in the military were like super aggressive and if 82 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,120 Speaker 1: somebody's not doing their job, like you're gonna get in 83 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: their face. Why the hell didn't you do this and that. 84 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: In the civilian world, you can't really address people like that, 85 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: and it's not it's not effective either. No, And I found, um, 86 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,359 Speaker 1: you know, like you've heard me say before, principles remain 87 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: the same and principles of leadership remain the same too, 88 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: no matter where you go. And I think communications something 89 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: I learned um quickly when I got out is people 90 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: are incentivized differently, and saying the military, you know what 91 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 1: motivates people, and UM, it pays dividends to get to 92 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 1: know people, to sit down with him in the workplace, 93 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: and they appreciate that. And UM, oftentimes I talk on 94 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,840 Speaker 1: the phone or I chat via Facebook or other messaging 95 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: platforms just to check in on people. And I have 96 00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: an open door policy. You can hit me up anytime seven. 97 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: But getting to know people is important and finding out 98 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: what drives them, what motivates them, because unlike in the military, 99 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: what drives us as the nation, the flag, our brothers 100 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 1: and sisters. UM, in the real world, everyone's incentivized differently. 101 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: And I feel and think that if you know what 102 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: drives them, what their purpose in life, you can better communicate. 103 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: That's it's hard to do, I find, UM, and what 104 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: you're talking about like communicating people with people UM electronically. UM. 105 00:06:56,560 --> 00:06:59,000 Speaker 1: Like we run a distributed business. We have people all 106 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: over the place UM, as opposed to being a team leader, 107 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: a squad leader in the military, where you're very hands on. UM, 108 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: when you have a distributed network of people you're trying 109 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,920 Speaker 1: to run. I know I struggle with it personally, and 110 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: sometimes I come up short, UM, because what happens is 111 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: that employees start to feel a lot of uncertainty. And 112 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: it's not necessarily because something bad is happening or because 113 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: they're not doing a good job, but because the communication. UM. 114 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: Maybe it's me personally not communicating effectively, or maybe it's 115 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: just the nature of the medium. And it's difficult to 116 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: have that hands on approach. Absolutely. I see it all 117 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: the time, you know, and I think one of our 118 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: responsibilities as leaders is anxiety management. You know, that's getting them, 119 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,720 Speaker 1: getting them, managing information and being a leader in today's 120 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: day and age, it's extremely difficult, you know, it is 121 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: extremely difficult. And when I was leaving the military a 122 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: number of years back, it seemed leaders were getting more 123 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: and more removed, Yeah, from the trench, because it's technology 124 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: makes it sometimes easy to do. And you know, you 125 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: have to recalibrate and really get out there and walk 126 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: the lines, go out to the trenches, you know, check 127 00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: up on people and on those principles, like I said, 128 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: remain the same and um, you really have to have 129 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: a solid communications plan. And that's what we talk about 130 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: and Zen Commando part of the curriculum is what is 131 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: your communications plan? You know, how do you social media? 132 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: How do you employ your Facebook? How do you employ 133 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: your linked in your website? You know, how are you 134 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,679 Speaker 1: communicating and getting that information out throughout those platforms so 135 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: people are aware. That's like something like when we had 136 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 1: um was it Peter Singer on the other day, It's like, 137 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: that's because of the world we live in. That's like 138 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,959 Speaker 1: something we need to be teaching kids in high school now, 139 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 1: you know. But of course it's never too late to learn, 140 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: never too late. And I just before coming up, I 141 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: made a post um on my Facebook is that, UM, 142 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: always know where you're at on the map. I always 143 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: know your location and I think the same homes with 144 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: people too. You know, you should know where you stand 145 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 1: with your boss. Yeah, you know where your boss stands 146 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 1: with you. And if you're walking into work, walking on 147 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: eggshells or coming home at night walking on eggshells, not 148 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: feeling comfortable. You have to open up those communication um platforms. 149 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: And I was guilty out of There are lots of 150 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: times in the military where I did not understand my people. 151 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: We just there was a breakdown of communication. Of the time, 152 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: it was due to communication breakdown. You know, I was 153 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: hearing things one way, I wasn't listening to another angle. 154 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 1: There's three sides of every coin. Yeah, any time I've 155 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: had that issue in my life, I noticed that when 156 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: you have like a face to face in person meeting, 157 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:49,719 Speaker 1: things are usually like a lot smoother than technology kind 158 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: of screezes over sometimes because you can't really tell how 159 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,599 Speaker 1: how the message is being sent when it's email or 160 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 1: a text message. It's a lot harder for people to a 161 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: a lot of your face too. Yeah, yep, you know, 162 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:04,200 Speaker 1: just at an emoji at the end of your message 163 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,080 Speaker 1: happy face or angry face. Yeah. I mean we're becoming 164 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 1: like robots, you know, we don't do this and just 165 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: have like face too based conversations and get to see 166 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,559 Speaker 1: things on commony ground. I think that's probably one of 167 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: the divides of the military. And then moving to the 168 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: corporate world. There's something like that. Yeah. And looking back, 169 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,559 Speaker 1: and I ask folks um in the military, um, particularly 170 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 1: with officers, how the training has evolved? Has it evolved? 171 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: Are the are the young men and women going in 172 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: the military today to our officer training? Um schools? Um? 173 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: What is the training still the same? Is it differently? 174 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: Is it different? I mean do they still have you 175 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: reading the same books klass Wits and Napoleon? Are Are 176 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: you reading business books? Communication books? You might know a 177 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: little better, right, I mean your few generations, you mean, 178 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: like the academies like that. I don't know what's on 179 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:02,160 Speaker 1: the reading list? Tell you the truth, you know, dealing 180 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: with certain issues, you know, how to be a little 181 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,679 Speaker 1: bit more, you know, compassionate. But is what you read? 182 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 1: What Todd read? I'm just curious. I mean I was, 183 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: I was an n c oh, so they didn't have 184 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 1: me reading anything other than field me Ye, same here, 185 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,040 Speaker 1: same here. When I was an you got to sergeant academy, 186 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: here's your But I mean the I am somewhat familiar 187 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: with the commandants reading list, and there's some good titles 188 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: on there. Good good, Um, you know those people skills 189 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: you know are vital, you know, sometimes those things aren't taught. Um, 190 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,400 Speaker 1: I remember you saying that that was the biggest lesson 191 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 1: you took away from your time with the Army Special 192 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:45,720 Speaker 1: Operations was the importance of relationships, relationships, relationships, relationships. And 193 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: I've just dug deeper into that, um since that time, 194 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: and I found that relationships are more than just human interaction, 195 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 1: you know. And and going back to his Zen Commando, 196 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,079 Speaker 1: one of our pillars is relationships. And we talk about 197 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: relationships with yourself, with your surroundings, your environment, and then 198 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: with others. Because if you don't, if you're not if 199 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: you don't have a sound relationship with yourself, you're not 200 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: gonna have it with others. Because what you project is 201 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: what you reflect. You know, when you wake up in 202 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 1: the morning, before you get out of bed, are you 203 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,880 Speaker 1: given things? You know, when you walk out the door, 204 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: how do you see the world around you? Doom and gloom? 205 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 1: Or you know, are you kissing mother? Yeah? I mean, 206 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 1: I mean these are just little tidbits, these little hacks 207 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: to help you get along better with your environment, to 208 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: help yourself out. And UM, I have these priorities of 209 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: work each morning I do when I wake up, you know, 210 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 1: and I'm studying and just getting my mind right. When 211 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: I step out the door, you know, I can more 212 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:49,920 Speaker 1: effectively communicate and help out. I don't think I'm quite 213 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: as thoughtful or deliberate about it as you are, But 214 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,760 Speaker 1: I do find that there's like a tremendous amount of 215 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: UM I need to be. It sounds like you have 216 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: a you have a process you go through daily, UM. 217 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: But I find that there is some solace uh in 218 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: um just reflecting on how fortunate we are. UM. This 219 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: is what I was when Andrew Wilkow was asking me 220 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: during its Veterans Day event the other day. I was like, Look, 221 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: we live in the greatest country in the greatest time 222 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: in history. And you know, you and I we've both 223 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: seen villages and how little kids are in in Afghanistan, Iraq, 224 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,559 Speaker 1: places like this elsewhere in the world. UM, And the 225 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: difference is so stark and so different. It's almost like 226 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: the human race is evolving in the two separate species 227 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: because we're heading in such divergent directions. So I mean, 228 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 1: I am infinitely grateful and thankful to be where I 229 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,199 Speaker 1: am in life, and that helps keep things in perspective 230 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,320 Speaker 1: when something makes you sad or something upsets you just 231 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: to remember kind of where you are in life. So true, 232 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: so true, And oftentimes I have these images um overseas 233 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: just starvation. You never truly understand something until you see 234 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,040 Speaker 1: an experience it. And I remember one time we were 235 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 1: at the embassy in Monrovia, Lib area. We were doing 236 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: UM noncombatant evacuation of the back before it was six 237 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: I believe, So you were involved in the embassy evacuation. Yes, 238 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: the Marine Expeditionary Unit at the time was called up 239 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: to assist facilitating people UM getting out of the embassy. 240 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,800 Speaker 1: And I remember walking the perimeter one evening around the embassy, 241 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: or was the early morning, and seeing these two young 242 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: local kids outside of the fence just bone, just skin 243 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,240 Speaker 1: and bones. The skin was just draping off their bones, 244 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: and flies coming in and out of their nose and ears. 245 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: And yeah, I just see that image. And I threw 246 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: him u UM some mri E crackers over the fence 247 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: and they just started brawling over them over a packet 248 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: of crackers. The priorities are different in these parts of 249 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: the world. And I look at how we waste food 250 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: here and just take things for granted. I see, I 251 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: just go back in time ago. Man, you know, we 252 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 1: are so blessed, so fortunate. We live in an amazing country. 253 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: We really do. One of the things that one of 254 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: the things that always stands out in my mind. I'm 255 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,840 Speaker 1: sure I've told this story on the podcast somewhere and 256 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,440 Speaker 1: in the four hundred some odd episodes, but we were 257 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: in this very remote village in uh north western Iraq 258 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 1: in two thousand nine, and we're in this village and 259 00:15:44,760 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: I was like adjusting. It was a normal just meet 260 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: and Greek kind of thing at this village. And I 261 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: sent my rifle down, leaned it up against the m 262 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 1: rap because I was adjusted my plate carrier. And this 263 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: little kid, probably like four years old, took a b 264 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 1: line running towards my gun. As I called, that's not 265 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: that's not good. And I scooped the kid up so 266 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: before he got to the rifle. And I used to 267 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: like babysitting my neighbors kids when I was in high school, 268 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: so I know how much like a toddler should weigh. 269 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: And this kid like flew up in my arms. I 270 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: didn't realize, like these kids are malnourished, they're dehydrated. This 271 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: kid was like a feather, like didn't weigh anything, and 272 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: I remember him just like looking up at me with 273 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,720 Speaker 1: this fear in his eyes. Who's so scared? And uh 274 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,880 Speaker 1: And that's just something that always stuck out in my mind. 275 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: Like you know that the the poverty, extreme poverty, and 276 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 1: some of these plays, it's survival mode for them. It's survival. 277 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,760 Speaker 1: Every day is survival. And sometimes we misunderstand that as Americans, 278 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: or particularly as American soldiers. We think they're quote unquote 279 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: bad people. Right, They're they're just trying to survive. They're 280 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: just trying to survive. Or sometimes they're called savages, which 281 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 1: I I'm not a fan of calling anyone a savage. 282 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: You know, they just don't know, you know, and they 283 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: live in these countries that they just you know, you 284 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: have to feel sorry for help the best you can, 285 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: you know, and it's not their fault. Yeah. So um yeah, 286 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: So that's that's like your America appreciation deployment right there. 287 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:11,400 Speaker 1: So when you turn on the news or you look 288 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,879 Speaker 1: at social media and you hear these fairly well to 289 00:17:13,920 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: do Americans talking about how we live in this dystopian 290 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: country and everything is collapsing. I'm not saying people shouldn't 291 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 1: be politically involved or sit down, shut up. I'm not 292 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 1: telling anybody to do that, but you have to take 293 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 1: these things and measure I guess that's what I'm saying. Yep, 294 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 1: and get out of your bubble. You know, we all 295 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: live in different bubbles, you know. You know, you have 296 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:38,199 Speaker 1: the Manhattan bubble in New York bubbles, big time California. 297 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: Living in California for the time I did, he had 298 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: a Southern Cow bubble and Northern Cow bubble. And everyone 299 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 1: lives in their bubble. Most important things. Get out of 300 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:48,760 Speaker 1: your bubble and learn about other people, other cultures and 301 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: um understand how they operate so you can better relate. 302 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: You know, it goes back to relationships. It goes back 303 00:17:55,200 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: to relationships, nurturing, cultivating, fostering positive relationship up because I 304 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: don't think you can have a positive impact until you, 305 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 1: you know, understand them. Was there something you went through 306 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: in your own wife where you made this transition because 307 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: people would probably think guy who served in Special Missions 308 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: Unit the Marine Corps. You don't really associate that for 309 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: most people with yoga, with meditation, with like self reflection 310 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: and all this stuff. Was was there some traumatizing experience 311 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: maybe where you said, wow, I need to like get 312 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,800 Speaker 1: myself together and make a different impact on the world. 313 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: And you know, into what you're doing now it send commando. 314 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: You know, I don't want to say it was traumatic experience. 315 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: Probably when I got out transitioned out of the military. 316 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 1: You know, you're you're thrown into this new environment. I 317 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: spent twenty six years in the military, and um, stepping out, 318 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 1: it was this all a whole new environment. And UM, 319 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: I love to read, I love picking up knowledge and 320 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 1: just trying to figure out new ways of doing things 321 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: and UM living. You know, I went from Marine Corps 322 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: were grunt um infantrymen to San Francisco, California. That was 323 00:19:07,400 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: culture shock, truly a culture shock. But that's what we 324 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: do in special operations. We go from one environment to 325 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 1: the next and we assimilate and we learn about that environment. 326 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 1: And UM, I had a lot of different um experiences 327 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 1: with different types of people. And what I identified early 328 00:19:31,240 --> 00:19:33,600 Speaker 1: on was I need to be able to relate to them. 329 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: If I want to succeed in this new environment, I 330 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: need to spend I need to break bread with them. 331 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,719 Speaker 1: So you go native and like start getting some skinny 332 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 1: jeans and you know, uh, skinny jeans I tried them. 333 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,879 Speaker 1: They didn't fit over my cats. I tried, but I 334 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: got some some hipster boots. Yeah, but they wore out 335 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: quickly close. But I really started getting engaged with the 336 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: local population. You know, that's what you do. That's a 337 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: principle of survival, you know, interact with the locals, find 338 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: out what they're doing. And um, it was a great experience. 339 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: And since then, I've just been on this kick of 340 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: just learning about relationships more than just interacting with humans, 341 00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: but about myself too, self reflecting. How have you taken 342 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: to that down in Costa Rica. I've been down there 343 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: in over ten years now, but I wonder, how how 344 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:29,640 Speaker 1: are you getting on with the locals down there? What's 345 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,879 Speaker 1: the situation like? Culturally beautiful, beautiful country, beautiful people, very 346 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,080 Speaker 1: community based. Okay. Costa Rica is a population of maybe 347 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:41,640 Speaker 1: four million people. I think it's four four point four 348 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: point five million people. And um, it's very natural environment, 349 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: very community oriented and traditional in a lot of sense, um, 350 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 1: the Latin culture. And they're beautiful people and very authentic, okay. 351 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: And what I've learned and operating in these environments is 352 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: that they have their ear to the ground, you know, 353 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,399 Speaker 1: they know everything. You know, it's kind of walking into 354 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: a new environment, um, overseas wherever it may be. You 355 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: know that they can smell you coming a mile away. 356 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: It's very it's very primal. You know. They know authenticity, yeah, 357 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: you know, and these other and word gets around quickly. 358 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: So you need to do the right thing. You know, 359 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 1: you need to be cognizant of your behavior. And that's 360 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 1: something we're taught. I remember um many times during deployment 361 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 1: in the Marines, before we go in country, Uh, they 362 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:45,200 Speaker 1: give us these classes and lessons on culture culture awareness. 363 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 1: You know, don't don't show the soles of your feet 364 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:56,000 Speaker 1: Thiland or in Iraq or yep, yep. Just be cognizant 365 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,720 Speaker 1: of that. And those principles remain the same. And I'm 366 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: very cautious and very careful and just being mindful of 367 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: their culture, um and being able to relate to them. 368 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: And they know energy, you know that they know they 369 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: can smell energy just like we do on the streets, 370 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: you know. So um, I'm just much more in tune. 371 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: There's definitely a way to go down there and be 372 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 1: a good expat versus a bad expat, because there's the 373 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,240 Speaker 1: people like John McAfee down to belieze and just reak 374 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: freaking havoc. Yeah, you can't take advantage of people. Yeah 375 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: you don't. You don't want to do you go down 376 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: there with ill intention wanting to steal or make money. 377 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,239 Speaker 1: You know. I want to give back to people with 378 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: all things, and I want to help local economy and 379 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: give them show them different things of you know, processes 380 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: and relating to things. So you know, I'm just I 381 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: want to just as much positively influenced their environment as 382 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,400 Speaker 1: I do. Yeah. Yeah, well, on that note, there's also 383 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: a way to be a good tourist versus a bad tourist, 384 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 1: you know, And there's nothing wrong with going down there 385 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: and contributing to their local economy. Do some scuba diving. 386 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 1: It's beautiful and I see tourists come down all the time, 387 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: and you can see American a mile away. You can 388 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: usually hear them first and yeah, demanding, you know, thinking 389 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 1: their ways the right way. But that's not always a case, 390 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 1: not always the case. How how does starting a business 391 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 1: in Costa Rica differ from starting a business in America? Um? 392 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 1: Things take time, you know, things take time to get done, 393 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: particularly when you're relying on the local commerce. UM. Lumber, 394 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: things of that nature. It's all got to be sourceful. 395 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: You know. It's not like Amazon. Nothing is at your 396 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: fingertips down there like it is up here. That's why 397 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 1: it's took me a while. It's to have a year 398 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: plan to get this created and built up. Um. Internet 399 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: took me a while to get hooked up. Satellite, satellite 400 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: m vih all, UM procure procured. I wanted to just 401 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 1: the right type of vehicle. UM, I need a four 402 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: by four vehicle because there's six rivers I have to 403 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,280 Speaker 1: cross to get to the camp. And but things take time, 404 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,440 Speaker 1: and UM it's just getting help, getting the right person, 405 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:23,440 Speaker 1: vetting people, um to do the job. So UM, yeah, 406 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: I would say the biggest difference is just the time. 407 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: Is this a pretty remote area because I remember we're 408 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:35,440 Speaker 1: going to Drake Bay back in two thousand four. Yeah, yeah, 409 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,680 Speaker 1: two thousand four and Drake Bay and at the time 410 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,639 Speaker 1: there were no roads in or out. It's just you 411 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: can fly in or there's a ferry. Yeah, it's not 412 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: as easily accessible. It's not remote. It's just difficult to 413 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 1: get to because the infrastructure. You just don't have paved 414 00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: roads everywhere you go. My driveway it's a two mile 415 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,640 Speaker 1: trail that goes through the jungle. I carry a pick 416 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: axe and shovel and ropes and chains, and every every 417 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: time I go down the driveway and improving, I'm put 418 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:10,159 Speaker 1: filling a hole or um chopping up a stone machette. 419 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: You have to have a machette. You know. It's pretty 420 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,440 Speaker 1: neat living in that type of environment and you take 421 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: things for granted. Up Pears would compare the Amazon drone 422 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: can fly you in a box of anything you want. 423 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 1: I thought about that as a potential business plan down there, 424 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, it's just getting the mobile app to 425 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: people to sign up for that. I don't see that 426 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: going anytime soon down there. But things are really more 427 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,560 Speaker 1: hands on down there. Uh. Technology doesn't drive the train 428 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,960 Speaker 1: as much as it does up here. But just being 429 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: part of the community. I think a lot of people 430 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: don't realize, like how crazy the way Americans do businesses 431 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: where Like we do a lot of things on a 432 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: handshake or not a whim that would like never ever 433 00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,200 Speaker 1: fly in other parts of the world right where because 434 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: it's based on relationships, um, and if that that kind 435 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 1: of trust isn't there and you don't have that long 436 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: standing relationship people won't work with right and trust is important. 437 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 1: You know, you really have to take the time, you 438 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,960 Speaker 1: know to meet your neighbors and UM get involved. Yeah, 439 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 1: and UM connect with folks down there. So let's just 440 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: say someone whether they're a veteran or or even civilian 441 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,879 Speaker 1: who wants to get involved in this. They take the 442 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 1: week off work, take the week off whatever they're doing 443 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,960 Speaker 1: in life, and they want to go to Costa Rica 444 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,159 Speaker 1: and be a part of in Commando. Like what what 445 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: is one week with you? Like? Right? UM, so one 446 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: week we're looking at five days. You know, that's a 447 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: pathfinder course. And UM they fly in, UM they make 448 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: their way to UM the camp and UM we spend 449 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 1: a lot of time together UM doing meditation, UM fitness. UM. 450 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: We have a workshop each afternoon focused on one of 451 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:04,919 Speaker 1: the three owners, whether it's relationships, mindset or habits. And 452 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 1: UM just a lot of time out in nature, UM 453 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: getting personal and UM getting your mind right body. UM. 454 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: But yeah, every day we wake up, meditate, go through 455 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: a fitness program UM which is about ninety minutes long, 456 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: total body core centric, low impact at your own level. 457 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: It's for all ages. UM. We we provide the food 458 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: you're you're going to eat healthy. Uh, it's substance free, 459 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: so there's no alcohol or any type of other sorts 460 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:40,320 Speaker 1: of substance. No, no iouasca, nothing cookie. That is the 461 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: last thing I would need if down there, excuse me, 462 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,280 Speaker 1: And um, we do nature hikes, will go to the 463 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,440 Speaker 1: market each day. There will be a mystery event planned, um, 464 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: which will be maybe a trip to a local waterfall, 465 00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: local farm, seeing the community. Um, if you want to serve, 466 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,439 Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a mountain bikes available for people. A 467 00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: mountain bike. But um, there'll be us daily schedule of 468 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: events that will be um, you'll have to participate in, 469 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: but you don't get free time to you. We'll have 470 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,359 Speaker 1: a CS in the afternoon. You know where you can 471 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: take your nap after lunch, all right, and um, yeah, 472 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great time. A lot of learning 473 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: sounds cool. A lot of learning so very natural, healthy, organic. 474 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: And are you still looking for guys who are you know, 475 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 1: maybe former SPEC ops to help you out with any 476 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 1: of this? I am and I just posted an ad 477 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: for a primary yoga instructor assistant director, so that's out there. 478 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: So I am looking for someone that's a yoga instructor 479 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,720 Speaker 1: to come down December of two thousand nineteen for five months. 480 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 1: You know, would be part of this, to be a 481 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: part of good gig. If you're qualified down in coast 482 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: five months for five months, you just come down, teach 483 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: yoga once a day and maybe leads some meditation, some 484 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: nature hikes. Took a few ails, but you know, it's 485 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:03,719 Speaker 1: five months in Costa Rica. Come down. You know. I 486 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 1: provide everything, UM, WiFi, sleep, accommodations, fitness facility. Um, I'm 487 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:14,920 Speaker 1: putting together the fitness facility facility now. UM had a 488 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: m a donor offers some weights and some equipment. So 489 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: a lot of folks donating wanting to come down help out. Um, 490 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 1: but go to Zen Commando and if you want to 491 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: contact me to come down any time, UM, feel free 492 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: to help out. UM. But a typical day pretty much 493 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 1: as I said, I mean, go to Zen Commando. Check 494 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: it out. I have the scheduled events laid out up there, 495 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do each day. And I'm open to 496 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,960 Speaker 1: input in any suggestions too, because this is gonna change, 497 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: this is gonna evolve. Yeah. Yeah, I will not fall 498 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: in love with it, Yeah I will not. You know, 499 00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: it's gonna change if someone has a better, better idea 500 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: UM instead of Pathfinder. The name of the course by 501 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: all means I'm excited to see how it evolves from 502 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 1: you know, point A to point B and the goal eventually. 503 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: I I'd love to have a female a girl commando 504 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: course where it's just females come down and they go 505 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: through their own type of program of survival skills and 506 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: just a girl only program. UM a program for youth 507 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: leadership and survival skills, and then also those outreaches or 508 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: programs for executive teamwork, team building, things of that nature. 509 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: But first I really want I want I want to 510 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,959 Speaker 1: focus on those vets that are transitioning out of the military, 511 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 1: or they may be going through some UM difficulties, coping, 512 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: whatever it would be. We've all been there, you know. 513 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: And I don't want to sell UM the Pathfinder course 514 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:49,560 Speaker 1: as like a healing recovery therapy course. It's it's not. Yeah, 515 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: I don't want it to be that. It's just tools 516 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: that you can use in your toolkit to to realign yourself. Yeah, 517 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: it sounds like it's almost like i'll maybe you want 518 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,600 Speaker 1: to say life coaching, but like lifestyle training exactly. All 519 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: these principles you know. Here they are fitness, you know, 520 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 1: do these five things you know you'll be fine, you know, 521 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: eating right. Here are the five things dudes, and don't. 522 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: Here's the principles um, spiritual awareness, you know, here are 523 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: the five things you know. Take it from here. There's 524 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,000 Speaker 1: so many of those things that are like, actually they 525 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: sound simple on the surface, but like scheduling your day, yeah, 526 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: like that's huge at least for me. It's it's preven big, right, 527 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 1: And that's where it comes into power the habits, you know, 528 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: and we talk about habits, and part of instilling those 529 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,880 Speaker 1: keystone positive habits is having your day lined out, is 530 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: having those scheduled events, you know, and then thinking about 531 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: it the next evening prior, you know, is your gear 532 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: and equipment laid out, so when you wake up everything's there, 533 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: you know. And this guy that all goes into developing 534 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 1: those good habits you were saying earlier, like, oh, I 535 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: gotta get home so I work out that. It's like okay, 536 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,520 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we can be uh well, that's another 537 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,120 Speaker 1: thing about special operations guys, as we tend to get 538 00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: obsessive about whatever it is we're into. UM. But I 539 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: mean having to having a schedule too for physical fitness. 540 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: There are there are worse things in life. Sure, Sure, 541 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: And you've you've heard the term priorities of work, you know, 542 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: in the military, and I'm writing something now. I'll probably 543 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,160 Speaker 1: launch a release in a couple of days about my 544 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:32,440 Speaker 1: experience at Ranger School. When I was a young Marine, 545 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 1: I had an opportunity to go to Rangers School and 546 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: an amazing experience Rangers School and to me, that's the 547 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: ultimate leadership. It's more of a leadership school than learning tactics. 548 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: And you know, they talk about priorities of work, you know, 549 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,320 Speaker 1: and these are things that every time you stop at 550 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,640 Speaker 1: a security hall, you go through these priorities of work, 551 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,160 Speaker 1: you know, making sure security is out, instilling everyone and 552 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: making sure everyone knows where they're at in the map, 553 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: you know, passing that information around. And the same thing 554 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: holds true in life. You know where you're on the map. 555 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 1: You know, you have to know where you're at on 556 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: the map, otherwise you're gonna get lost. You know, does 557 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: a person on the left to your right know where 558 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: they're at? And that's same in the business place. You know, 559 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 1: in the work setting, does everyone know where they're at 560 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: where the company's going to you know, things of that nature. 561 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: But those priorities of work, you know, that's where those 562 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,920 Speaker 1: habits come into play, you know, making sure you're developing 563 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: those keystone habits and identifying learning about the habits cycle, 564 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 1: you know, the queue, the routine in the reward and 565 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,640 Speaker 1: if you have a bad habit, how to disrupt that, 566 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: how to break that? Had a habit um fifteen years 567 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: I I chewed tobacco. Yeah, you know, I'd wake up 568 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: and put it, you know, pout pinch of tobacco, fatty, 569 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,640 Speaker 1: big fatty. Oh my goodness. I was just muscle memory. 570 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: And what does that have. Well, back when you went 571 00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,240 Speaker 1: to Ranter School, you were still out of dip. Yeah, 572 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 1: you know. I was told, hey, hey, hey Todd, before 573 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 1: you go, you know, you have to pick up dipping 574 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: because it gives you a little buzz and it keeps 575 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,399 Speaker 1: you away, curbs your appetite and keeps you awake. I'm like, yeah, 576 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 1: it's a great idea. It was like my precursor, you know, 577 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: prepared me to go to Rangers School, you know, start dipping. 578 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 1: And I did that for fifteen years. Yeah, fifteen years. 579 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: I dipped for only like two or three years while 580 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: was in the military, and I quit the day I 581 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 1: e t s out of the army. Yeah. Um, but 582 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: then I went through another patron where I was dealing 583 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 1: with some difficult things after I got out of the military, 584 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: and I took up smoking. So it took me about 585 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,240 Speaker 1: two years to quit that. Yeah, so I'm done now. 586 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: But yeah, young with alcohol, you know, and you know 587 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,120 Speaker 1: I was hitting the bottle for a while too. I mean, 588 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,520 Speaker 1: we all go through these things. That's another thing. Soldiers, 589 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: especially young soldiers, have a kind of a jacked up 590 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 1: relationship with alcohol. Yeah. I mean it's encouraged to yeah 591 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,719 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, I mean you're supposed to drink beer 592 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,839 Speaker 1: and throw bottles at one another, go out and fight. 593 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,520 Speaker 1: It's like part of the culture. Well, having a few 594 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: beers is all good, but it's it's to the point 595 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: where like when we go out and you know, we'll 596 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 1: hit a bar and it's like twenty shots of twenty 597 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: different liquors, like probably not healthy or even sane to 598 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: attempt something like that and then go, you know, go 599 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,279 Speaker 1: home or go back to the barracks after all night 600 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,279 Speaker 1: party and wake up at six o'clock with only two 601 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:28,359 Speaker 1: hours of sleeping go. Yeah, I cannot do that. Man. 602 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: I haven't drank in in years. Really, Uh you know, 603 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: I've had like one, like literally one or two in 604 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,759 Speaker 1: the past couple of years, very rarely. But when I 605 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,279 Speaker 1: did drink, I could not imagine having to like do 606 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 1: a rut stack march we're talking about when more like 607 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,919 Speaker 1: I still don't think I could. I couldn't do it today. 608 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:48,880 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I could. Man. That's actually 609 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 1: one of the main reasons I'm not into it because 610 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,840 Speaker 1: it does interfere with the fitness stuff so much, and 611 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,440 Speaker 1: and the fitness stuff for me, people who say they 612 00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: don't have time for it, it really positively impact every 613 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 1: other aspect of your life. So that's what I feel like. 614 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,560 Speaker 1: People might say, I don't have five days to go 615 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: to Costa Rica. When they come back, they'll probably have 616 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 1: a different mindset. It will be more efficient the work 617 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 1: that they have. That's the plan. Yeah, that's the goal, 618 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,840 Speaker 1: you know, come on down. I want to set you 619 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: up for success back here, and these are tools and 620 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 1: lessons you can apply immediately, you know, immediately in your 621 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,719 Speaker 1: life where you can have positive impact with yourself and 622 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: those around you because you know you know what I noticed. 623 00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:28,719 Speaker 1: So I came from the world of radio, where it's 624 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,840 Speaker 1: like working eight hours a day for pretty much typical 625 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,480 Speaker 1: like nine to five type thing to doing this now 626 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 1: where it's more of your own schedule. And from what 627 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: I noticed, all of my jobs in like the nine 628 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,799 Speaker 1: to five worlds, about a good five hours of that 629 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: is work, and then the rest of it is a 630 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: lot of gossiping with co workers, slacking off, like bullshitting, 631 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: and when you like, when you get that fitness and 632 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:51,960 Speaker 1: all that stuff out of the way, I think your 633 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: focus is on like I want to get through these 634 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: other hobbies. So I want to be as efficient as 635 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: I can in these five or whatever hours that I'm 636 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: gonna work and be the right mind said to accomplish 637 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: whatever my task is. Yep, so true. And that's why 638 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,920 Speaker 1: I think your priorities of work in the morning from 639 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 1: the time you wake up or even before you get 640 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,040 Speaker 1: out of bed, you know, I mean it starts when 641 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 1: you wake up. You know, how are you thinking? Are 642 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: you are you smiling? I mean it sounds cooky, but 643 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,600 Speaker 1: you know, before you get out of bed, you know, smile, 644 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 1: you know, give thanks. You do live that by the way, 645 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: right when Todd saw me off the elevator, He's got 646 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 1: like I have to, Otherwise I'd be going off the 647 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 1: train track wanting to throat punch everyone. I said, that's 648 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: how I am. It's and I don't want to be 649 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: that way because I've lived that in that manner before, 650 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,680 Speaker 1: especially when you go in the military and you go 651 00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,720 Speaker 1: to your first unit and you take pride. Everyone else sucks. 652 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,440 Speaker 1: You know you're the bestest, and that it's just you know, 653 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,360 Speaker 1: you're measuring yourself against everyone else and you're you're in 654 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,440 Speaker 1: your own bubble. And something I've taken away in life 655 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 1: now is that it's more than that. Yeah, truly, when 656 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: you're in that frame of mode, when you're in the 657 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: middle Attorney's like you size everybody else. But then when 658 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: you get out, you're in the civilian world. No one 659 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: here gives a ship. If you can dead with SI, 660 00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 1: no no one matters. You know that you were a 661 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,600 Speaker 1: Marine Corps officer, no one. No one's asked me that. 662 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,920 Speaker 1: No one's asked me. Not even will text me thanking 663 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: me for my serve. My friend of like six years, 664 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,799 Speaker 1: I can't get a text. No one gives a ship, 665 00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:29,759 Speaker 1: No one does it doesn't matter. But I mean that's 666 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: like a little that's a little ego blow. I mean, honestly, 667 00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,640 Speaker 1: for every guy who gets out and and their their 668 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: military experience meant something to them. And now you have 669 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 1: to you can't go around um trying to shame your 670 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: own culture and society into loving you. You have to 671 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: be a better person. And that's where it starts. Person, 672 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,399 Speaker 1: you know, and everything else will come with being a 673 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,600 Speaker 1: better person. And you know, then people will ask you, hey, 674 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,400 Speaker 1: you know, what do you do? You know, then you 675 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,680 Speaker 1: can share your story? Yeah, you know, and how that 676 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,279 Speaker 1: positively in its two y are today? You know, I 677 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: mean you wanna you wanna establish and develop environment or 678 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,560 Speaker 1: sphere around you where people are interested. You know that 679 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 1: you want to open up, be a good example. You're 680 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,680 Speaker 1: good example, so you're accessible. And for a long time, 681 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,440 Speaker 1: I wasn't that guy. You know, I wasn't going anywhere, 682 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 1: and I was developing unhealthy relationships, you know, those around me. 683 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,160 Speaker 1: And it's not good. You know it is and and 684 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:31,120 Speaker 1: and it's it's not gonna do anyone any well. You 685 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,360 Speaker 1: know what I was wondering when former teammates heard that 686 00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,440 Speaker 1: you were opening up your own business and stuff like that, 687 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,399 Speaker 1: and creating this, did any of them assume like, oh, 688 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 1: shooting and struct I feel like that's that's what you 689 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,360 Speaker 1: would usually go into. And this is almost like the 690 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,360 Speaker 1: antithesis of that. Yeah it is. This is soft skills, 691 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,160 Speaker 1: not so much the hard skills. Yeah. Yeah, you know 692 00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,240 Speaker 1: a lot of folks hit me up after the initial 693 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: podcast and they're like, hey, you all come down and 694 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,160 Speaker 1: teach jiu jitsu and you know, and just start throwing 695 00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:05,880 Speaker 1: and pistol repelling and things of that nature. But um, 696 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,640 Speaker 1: those are just instruments. Those are tools, you know, Those 697 00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: are other different types of tools. These are the soft 698 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 1: skills you know, that are in that I've found that 699 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,560 Speaker 1: are invaluable, you know, And I didn't I didn't pick 700 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,560 Speaker 1: this up until I went into UM my time an 701 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,799 Speaker 1: Army Special Operations, where I really was placed in a 702 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,839 Speaker 1: position where you had to apply those soft skills. Well, 703 00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,919 Speaker 1: some of the things you've been talking about are things 704 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:35,360 Speaker 1: that I wish that they taught in the military UM 705 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,280 Speaker 1: as a way because guys are deploying coming home, depoint 706 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,920 Speaker 1: coming home, and I feel like there has to be 707 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: some kind of way to deal with the PTSD in 708 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,120 Speaker 1: the process and I've asked some senior leaders, what are 709 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:51,520 Speaker 1: we putting in place to do that? Like meditation, yoga 710 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,480 Speaker 1: and UM. I know that goes against everything we've ever 711 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,280 Speaker 1: heard and when we've been taught. But like I tell folks, 712 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,640 Speaker 1: I've studied combat my entire life. Even growing up as 713 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,799 Speaker 1: a kid, it was a combative environment. You know, you 714 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,840 Speaker 1: played football on the streets and you tackled one another, 715 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,759 Speaker 1: I mean NERF football and friendly game of UM touch 716 00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,400 Speaker 1: football ended up with blood and in the pavement that 717 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,960 Speaker 1: I went in the military, you learned more combat. But 718 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,880 Speaker 1: I've never studied peace. What is peace? What are the 719 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:27,879 Speaker 1: ingredients to UM? Peace? And uh? Going back decades ago 720 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,040 Speaker 1: when I picked up my first team, I think I 721 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,359 Speaker 1: shared this story last time. UM. I had a mentor 722 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,800 Speaker 1: that shared with me. He said, Todd, the most important 723 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,239 Speaker 1: thing you need to create in this team is harmony. 724 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,880 Speaker 1: It didn't click. I didn't even know how to spell harmony, 725 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,600 Speaker 1: and I had to go back. I'm looking up, but 726 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:50,000 Speaker 1: he was. It was so right. I mean, a harmonious, working, peaceful. 727 00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,360 Speaker 1: Are you talking about it while you're still in the military, 728 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,399 Speaker 1: especially what you know with you what you were doing 729 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,440 Speaker 1: where you have a bunch of really high strung dudes 730 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,960 Speaker 1: were wired up, wired up and up. The officer in 731 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,400 Speaker 1: charge has to be that guy to like, yeah, and 732 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:05,600 Speaker 1: I was in I was enlisted at this time. I 733 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: was a new sergeant. Yeah, I'm still you know, getting 734 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,080 Speaker 1: a new recon team. And he's like a harmony, you 735 00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 1: have to create harmony, and I'm like, oh wow, how 736 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,759 Speaker 1: do I do that? Harmony is peace? Yeah, I mean, 737 00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,840 Speaker 1: harmony is making everyone, you know, feel valued and getting 738 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 1: the team working together, and um, you know the military 739 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,080 Speaker 1: does a great job with that in the boot camp, 740 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:30,520 Speaker 1: you know Marine boot camp, aren't you know? We bring 741 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,200 Speaker 1: people together as teams, and I think, um, the military 742 00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: does a phenomenal job bringing people off the street and 743 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,280 Speaker 1: really bringing them together as a team, breaking him down 744 00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,000 Speaker 1: Marine Corps boot camp. Within in seconds of getting off 745 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:49,360 Speaker 1: the bus, your head is shaved. Everyone is green. You know, 746 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: there's no color involved. And um, but getting to the point, 747 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:58,040 Speaker 1: you know, studying peace, and I think in I've always 748 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,640 Speaker 1: been fond of martial arts and Eastern philosophy, and you 749 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,880 Speaker 1: know they do things differently. They study peace first. Have 750 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:10,200 Speaker 1: you ever read the hockey gury no as I can't 751 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,920 Speaker 1: remember the samurai's name but he wrote these like treatise 752 00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:18,239 Speaker 1: on basically about bushuto and about the ways of the samurai, 753 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,000 Speaker 1: the philosophy of the samurai, essentially trying to define what 754 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:25,239 Speaker 1: constitutes a good life for a samurai. And uh, I 755 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,520 Speaker 1: had a friend of mine recommended to me and I 756 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,200 Speaker 1: read it is actually very very interesting. Yea, yeah. But 757 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,920 Speaker 1: those principles that it's the same, you know, even from 758 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,040 Speaker 1: back then, they still apply today, you know, and understanding 759 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:42,680 Speaker 1: peace and the components of peace and healthy relationships and um, 760 00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,439 Speaker 1: if you look at the geopolitical environment, not to get 761 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,040 Speaker 1: too deep into it, but what I've found is that 762 00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 1: wherever there's no peace, there's instability, and wherever you have instability, 763 00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,800 Speaker 1: there's no security. So um, one of the foundations of 764 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:05,120 Speaker 1: establishing sound relationships is having a good security plan, you know, 765 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:09,720 Speaker 1: in establishing security amongst each other. And I use security 766 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:13,320 Speaker 1: and an umbrella like fashion, and there's all these different 767 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:18,239 Speaker 1: components of security, first and foremost being trust. You have 768 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,320 Speaker 1: to establish trust. And how do you go about establishing trust? 769 00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,720 Speaker 1: You can establish trust without even being in the same 770 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 1: place with a person, through emails, text, reliability, showing up 771 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,239 Speaker 1: on time, you know, and going back to UM, you know, 772 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,640 Speaker 1: living in Costa Rica, establishing a trustworthy relationship with you know, 773 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,279 Speaker 1: new people around me. You know, well, you have to 774 00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:44,840 Speaker 1: take the time and be on time. And related to security, 775 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,759 Speaker 1: I mean, I this is kind of counterintuitive, but I 776 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,759 Speaker 1: noticed with a lot of veterans, and I think it's 777 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:51,680 Speaker 1: related to a lot of the things that we've been 778 00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,560 Speaker 1: talking about, making that transition out of the military. I 779 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,359 Speaker 1: noticed a really profound sense of insecurity with a lot 780 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,560 Speaker 1: of veterans. Sure, and that's normal, and that's part of 781 00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:06,319 Speaker 1: UM your first relationship yourself, focusing on yourself and if 782 00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 1: you have hesitations or insecurities, what are you doing to 783 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 1: improve upon them? And that goes back to mindset. You know, 784 00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,160 Speaker 1: one of the pillars we talk about in the Pathfinder 785 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,400 Speaker 1: course is mindset. Do you have a fixed mindset or 786 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:27,600 Speaker 1: growth mindset? You know, growth mindset is open to change, 787 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,800 Speaker 1: you know, looking deeply at yourself the end of the 788 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,719 Speaker 1: day and UM, going what can I have done differently? 789 00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,840 Speaker 1: You know, what can I do better? And there's a 790 00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,080 Speaker 1: lot of insecurity in this world, just not with folks 791 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,080 Speaker 1: getting out of the military in general, just in general, 792 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 1: there's a lot of insecurity. People not feeling good about themselves, 793 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,640 Speaker 1: and that goes back to habits, priorities of work. What 794 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,040 Speaker 1: are you doing in the more are you eating right? 795 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,959 Speaker 1: I mean, why are you feeling insecure? Well, it gets 796 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,480 Speaker 1: a little um philosophical, but I mean one of the 797 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,799 Speaker 1: interesting things about being a human being is that you 798 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,799 Speaker 1: have this ability to evolve and change and take your 799 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:09,400 Speaker 1: experiences and derive things from them. Um. I think some 800 00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,640 Speaker 1: people get caught up in that that mode of being 801 00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:14,360 Speaker 1: static that you're you know, you're always gonna be like this, 802 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,160 Speaker 1: but being going through change and even through things that 803 00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,040 Speaker 1: some people would say are traumatic, I mean they can 804 00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:25,760 Speaker 1: be this tremendous growing exbsolutely absolutely, um. I think someone 805 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:31,000 Speaker 1: would eventually you know who recently recoined instead of PTSD, 806 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:37,400 Speaker 1: They said, um ptg D post traumatic growth development. You know, 807 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,680 Speaker 1: where you're growing from the bad things that you've been 808 00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,280 Speaker 1: involved in. Like that what we were talking about. Seeing 809 00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,799 Speaker 1: the poverty in certain parts of the world, which for 810 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,720 Speaker 1: the people who go there, and I mean this sounds 811 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:53,440 Speaker 1: completely not empathetic towards people live in these situations, but 812 00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,279 Speaker 1: it can be. It has an effect on you and 813 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,680 Speaker 1: me too, and other soldiers who go over there and 814 00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:01,680 Speaker 1: experience these things. But what do you take away from that? 815 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:04,040 Speaker 1: And I think what we were talking about was trying 816 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,680 Speaker 1: to take away something positive about is that we realize 817 00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,359 Speaker 1: how fortunate we are. Yes, and just having a sense 818 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,839 Speaker 1: of gratitude, just being thankful from every for who you are. 819 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:19,040 Speaker 1: And um, you know, you know, do your best to 820 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,719 Speaker 1: change others lives in a positive manner. That's a good 821 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:26,120 Speaker 1: message too as we go into Thanksgiving next week, what 822 00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,799 Speaker 1: are you thankful for it? Thankful? Be thankful for that 823 00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:34,239 Speaker 1: turkey you're eating. Um. But mindset is huge. Do you 824 00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,080 Speaker 1: have a fixed mindset or growth mindset? I grew up 825 00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:40,520 Speaker 1: in a fixed mindset environment. And I was telling Ian 826 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,120 Speaker 1: earlier before the show started how, um, I was brought 827 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,040 Speaker 1: up one way of thinking. I was never allowed to 828 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,480 Speaker 1: ask why growing up. You know, it's like, hey, do 829 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,960 Speaker 1: as I say, you know, because I'm telling you, Yeah, 830 00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,240 Speaker 1: there are two ways to do things, the Ranger way 831 00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,160 Speaker 1: and the wrong way, the Marine Corps way of doing things, 832 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,839 Speaker 1: and that's it. You know, the Army way of doing 833 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,279 Speaker 1: things is not the right way. It's like, come on, 834 00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 1: you must have broke out of that pretty early though, 835 00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,200 Speaker 1: if you just look at your resume. I had to 836 00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,279 Speaker 1: prior to joining the military, becoming a bodybuilder, Like, these 837 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,839 Speaker 1: are things you get to have intense dedications. So yeah, 838 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,560 Speaker 1: I mean I I I found myself in situations where 839 00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,600 Speaker 1: I had to evolve Otherwise you're not gonna make it. 840 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,520 Speaker 1: You have to be open. You have to be open 841 00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:29,200 Speaker 1: to change. And um, even go And when I did 842 00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:31,359 Speaker 1: my time at a special mission unit, it was sink 843 00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,879 Speaker 1: or swim. You know, they're not going to hold your hand. 844 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,399 Speaker 1: They are not going to hold your hand. Hey, you're 845 00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,800 Speaker 1: the guy, you're the person in charge on the ground. 846 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,640 Speaker 1: You know, make it happen. We're not gonna hold your hand. 847 00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:47,520 Speaker 1: And it's like sink or swim or die. You're given 848 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,920 Speaker 1: the tools, you know what the right thing to do is. 849 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,160 Speaker 1: And um, Bob to Trevino said, I remember from his 850 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:58,319 Speaker 1: podcast there was an expectation of you to always do 851 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,880 Speaker 1: the right thing. That's expectation. Yeah, we're not gonna hold 852 00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:04,200 Speaker 1: your hand. Like we selected you. We selected you based 853 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,880 Speaker 1: on our expectation of you doing the right thing. Go 854 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,520 Speaker 1: fix it, solve the problem. We're not gonna hold your hand. 855 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:15,520 Speaker 1: You know, you know the law, you know the rules 856 00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:20,279 Speaker 1: of engagement, and um, you have the resources at your disposal. Yeah, 857 00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:24,239 Speaker 1: use it. Yeah, but just do the right thing. So 858 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,239 Speaker 1: do you miss the military? I mean you had a 859 00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:31,640 Speaker 1: long career, so, UM, I missed the camaraderie. Yeah, the 860 00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:39,520 Speaker 1: um it's free to corp. UM. I miss interacting with 861 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:44,440 Speaker 1: some of the folks and the traveling. But um, you know, 862 00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,880 Speaker 1: it's not like I lose sleepover at night. You know. 863 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:53,240 Speaker 1: It was a great, great institution. And I credit UM 864 00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:57,000 Speaker 1: where I'm at today from my experiences and all those 865 00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:01,560 Speaker 1: um that I've met, and the mentors I had, UM, 866 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,400 Speaker 1: all the n c O s and CEO leadership, the 867 00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,080 Speaker 1: corporals and sergeants. I missed that. Yeah, sometimes I wish 868 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,840 Speaker 1: I lived in the barracks again. Wake up in the morning, 869 00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:15,880 Speaker 1: go to the child hall, work out, you know, go patrol, 870 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:19,799 Speaker 1: go pt. You know, the older I get. And when 871 00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,440 Speaker 1: I when I reflect back on my time in the military, 872 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,279 Speaker 1: I also realized, and especially because I've been working as 873 00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,719 Speaker 1: a journalist, I've often seen the dark side of things. Um, 874 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,520 Speaker 1: when I reflect back on my own experience in the military, 875 00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,880 Speaker 1: I realized how fortunate I was that I had these moral, 876 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,240 Speaker 1: ethical leaders who pushed me in the right direction. And 877 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,279 Speaker 1: you know, if I were to try some kind of 878 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,760 Speaker 1: bullshit or somebody else was to try to pull some bullshit. 879 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,600 Speaker 1: They'd set us on the right path. And as a journalist, 880 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,960 Speaker 1: I've worked on stories where that sort of leadership wasn't 881 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,239 Speaker 1: present and things really derailed. Um So the more I 882 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,520 Speaker 1: look back on it, I realized how lucky I was, 883 00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,279 Speaker 1: and I admire those guys that much more. My squad leader, 884 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,839 Speaker 1: my platoon sergeant, my team sergeant, my team leader. Um 885 00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,560 Speaker 1: I I admire those guys even more than I did 886 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,799 Speaker 1: back then. And I did some stupid things. I mean, 887 00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,040 Speaker 1: we all do um stupid things. And I did some 888 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,880 Speaker 1: cookie things, and I had great leadership that helped me 889 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:22,920 Speaker 1: out and work through things and to get me on 890 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,560 Speaker 1: the right path, you know, get my bearing straight. And 891 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,920 Speaker 1: so I missed the mentorship to people. But that's also 892 00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,520 Speaker 1: I think one of the reasons why I'm doing Camp 893 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,399 Speaker 1: zen Commando in Costa Rica, what I kind of do 894 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:41,279 Speaker 1: something similar but just in a different manner, you know, 895 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,239 Speaker 1: and share with these folks that come down all these 896 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:48,800 Speaker 1: different life hacks that I've experienced and have learned, share 897 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,440 Speaker 1: with that and give them an opportunity to be do 898 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,719 Speaker 1: something different. Well, it's like what we're saying I mean, 899 00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:59,959 Speaker 1: the military itself is not yet instituted some of these things, 900 00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:04,000 Speaker 1: some of these programs to help guys cope. So I 901 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,920 Speaker 1: mean it's kind of I guess incumbent, well not incumbent, 902 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,799 Speaker 1: but I mean it's great that guys like you have 903 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:12,840 Speaker 1: stepped up and are helping to fill that void. Yeah, 904 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,560 Speaker 1: and and there's a lot of that going on. I think, 905 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:20,160 Speaker 1: UM programs being stood up and outreaches things of that nature, 906 00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:23,440 Speaker 1: and UM, a lot of these folks, and that our 907 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,840 Speaker 1: senior leaders in the military, they're been in for thirty 908 00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:29,520 Speaker 1: somehow they just don't know, you know, they don't know 909 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,040 Speaker 1: there's other programs, you know, and how to do things 910 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,879 Speaker 1: and how to reach people, UM, like yoga. I mean, 911 00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:39,920 Speaker 1: we all have known that sergeant major who just cannot 912 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:45,440 Speaker 1: leave the military has been there for like thirty years. UM. 913 00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,160 Speaker 1: One way of doing fitness, one way of one type 914 00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,600 Speaker 1: of boot only this type. And it's a stereotype that 915 00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,120 Speaker 1: there is some truth to it that those sergeant majors 916 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,080 Speaker 1: get out of the military when they do their dead 917 00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,919 Speaker 1: six months later. Yeah, I know, we I mean, we've 918 00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,800 Speaker 1: we've seen it. Yep. It's like they can't live without 919 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:07,000 Speaker 1: the military literally where they go back to doing something 920 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,719 Speaker 1: in the civilian sector as well that they've always done. 921 00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:15,160 Speaker 1: That's fine too. Yeah, if it works for you're happy. 922 00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,919 Speaker 1: So long as you're happy and you're being healthy. There's 923 00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:24,040 Speaker 1: an old retired seal um, old school guy, and I'm 924 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:25,920 Speaker 1: not gonna say his name now, I should. I should 925 00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,400 Speaker 1: reconnect with him, see if he'll come on the podcast sometime. 926 00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,279 Speaker 1: He's an amazing guy, been around from Vietnam all the 927 00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,160 Speaker 1: way through the nineties and uh, I remember talking to 928 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,640 Speaker 1: him on the phone. God, I hate the civilian world. 929 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:42,200 Speaker 1: It's horrible out here. And he was. He had a 930 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:45,439 Speaker 1: bunch of interesting stories about how like he jumped around 931 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:48,200 Speaker 1: to different assignments in the Navy, and like, we'll promise you, 932 00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:49,719 Speaker 1: I know, the three years in the Navy, if you 933 00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,759 Speaker 1: go do this thing down in South America or whatever, 934 00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,959 Speaker 1: it'll be like okay, okay, I'm on super good guy. 935 00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,279 Speaker 1: But yeah, he'll be one of the first people to 936 00:53:57,280 --> 00:54:01,120 Speaker 1: tell you the civilian world is horrible. But that you know, 937 00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:04,319 Speaker 1: that goes with your relationships, the relationship you have with 938 00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,279 Speaker 1: your environment. You know, does everyone is everyone horrible around you? 939 00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:12,520 Speaker 1: Do civilians suck? Yeah? I mean, what's your relationship with 940 00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:15,040 Speaker 1: your environment. How do you see the world around you 941 00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,040 Speaker 1: when you get out, when you open up the door 942 00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:20,280 Speaker 1: in the morning and you're driving down Interstate ninety five 943 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,360 Speaker 1: or Root five, how do you see. What I've found 944 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:27,000 Speaker 1: also is that it's about building something for yourself on 945 00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,960 Speaker 1: the outside. Um, which is uh, sounds fairly selfish. But 946 00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,719 Speaker 1: we're not in the military anymore. That's the reality of it. 947 00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:39,200 Speaker 1: It's not that that like completely like selfless service. So 948 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:40,759 Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you have to create a 949 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:44,439 Speaker 1: life for yourself, whether maybe that's your kid, your wife, UM, 950 00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,280 Speaker 1: your hobby or what, or you have a career, whatever 951 00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:51,560 Speaker 1: the hell it is. Um, sure you gotta. You have 952 00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,200 Speaker 1: to move on and find something for you, a new purpose. Yeah, 953 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:58,239 Speaker 1: that's what it is. You know, you have to rebrand yourself, reidentify, 954 00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:02,719 Speaker 1: rewire yourself. What is your purpose? You know? And UM, 955 00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:06,200 Speaker 1: when I left the military, I did my my stint 956 00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,920 Speaker 1: up in UM in Corporate America, UM up in the 957 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,840 Speaker 1: Bay Area, San Francisco, you know, trying to find a 958 00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,040 Speaker 1: new purpose in life. You know what what's that purpose 959 00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:17,960 Speaker 1: going to be? And getting out I had no clue. 960 00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,719 Speaker 1: I had zero clue. You know, you think you do 961 00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,799 Speaker 1: when you're getting out. But I didn't know what industry 962 00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:29,120 Speaker 1: I wanted to go in into medical industry, UM, I 963 00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,400 Speaker 1: T technology. I had no clue. You have to go 964 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:35,960 Speaker 1: out there and figure it out and come up with 965 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:40,359 Speaker 1: a purpose um and and for me, my purpose now 966 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,319 Speaker 1: is Zen Commando down in Costa Rica, and I'm just 967 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:49,040 Speaker 1: providing an outreach for people. Just information. Here's information, you know, 968 00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,480 Speaker 1: lessons learned UM from myself and others to make your 969 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,319 Speaker 1: life a little bit better. I think a lot of 970 00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,120 Speaker 1: people are going to be excited once this gets off 971 00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:00,200 Speaker 1: the ground. I've I have some emails all want to 972 00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,080 Speaker 1: get to, want to recap some other stuff before we do. 973 00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,200 Speaker 1: I want to talk about what we have going on 974 00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:07,799 Speaker 1: here in Hurricane Group. Of course, as I try to 975 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,960 Speaker 1: talk to you guys about every episode U Create Club, 976 00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:14,640 Speaker 1: that long anticipated collaboration watch that we did with NFW 977 00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:18,040 Speaker 1: Watches that's in the latest premium Create As Jack was 978 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,880 Speaker 1: saying that he has UM we have different tiers of 979 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,239 Speaker 1: membership depending on how prepared you want to be, and 980 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,000 Speaker 1: gift options are available as well. I've been talking to 981 00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,279 Speaker 1: Scott Whittner and all the guys from the load out 982 00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:33,480 Speaker 1: room and the guys currently working on bringing you custom products. 983 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:38,200 Speaker 1: That's everything from sunglass cases to eat ec bags. If 984 00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,520 Speaker 1: you listen to the last episode with Brandon Webb, we 985 00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,239 Speaker 1: were talking about the Pantherra design, which has become like 986 00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,719 Speaker 1: our in house brand of stuff that we're putting out there. 987 00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,400 Speaker 1: I'm not wearing it today, but usually my panthera hoodie 988 00:56:48,560 --> 00:56:50,359 Speaker 1: and they did which we have a hoodie. I didn't 989 00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,440 Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, he has a Brandon gave a few 990 00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:56,120 Speaker 1: of them out. We're in the vintage the vintage hoodie. Well, 991 00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:57,680 Speaker 1: you know if people see that, because I've gotten the 992 00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,319 Speaker 1: tweets and Instagram messages that are like, where gonna get 993 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,279 Speaker 1: a soft for everybody? And this, Yeah, we don't have 994 00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:07,040 Speaker 1: any of it anymore. But you know the pantherahoodie I 995 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:09,560 Speaker 1: wear all the time, and they're doing all that camo print. 996 00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,640 Speaker 1: It was like a collaboration between Brandon and Jason Kennetzer, 997 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,200 Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. Um, So you'll see a lot 998 00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:19,960 Speaker 1: more of that with these custom products. Um it's a 999 00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,600 Speaker 1: club fore men by men. You can check that all 1000 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:26,600 Speaker 1: at it Create club dot Us. That's create club dot us. 1001 00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:28,640 Speaker 1: If you're a dog owner. I know a lot of 1002 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,800 Speaker 1: you guys are um. We have that partnership with Kuna. 1003 00:57:31,960 --> 00:57:34,440 Speaker 1: As you've heard before, they have a team of trained 1004 00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:37,280 Speaker 1: canine handlers picking out a box free dog every month 1005 00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,480 Speaker 1: of healthy treats and training aids. It's custom built for 1006 00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,280 Speaker 1: your dog's size and age as well. 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Last thing I'm gonna mention before we 1014 00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,480 Speaker 1: get into emails and all that is the spec Ops Channel. 1015 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,640 Speaker 1: That's our channel that offers the most exclusive shows, documentaries 1016 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:15,960 Speaker 1: and interviews covering the most exciting military content today. The 1017 00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,840 Speaker 1: spec Ops channel premier show Training Cell follows former Special 1018 00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:24,000 Speaker 1: Operations Forces as they participate in the most advanced training 1019 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:28,320 Speaker 1: in the country. Everything from shooting schools, defensive driving, jungle 1020 00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,760 Speaker 1: and winter warfare, climbing, and much more. A lot of 1021 00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,640 Speaker 1: stuff that's up your alley, so um, you can check 1022 00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,480 Speaker 1: that out of the spec ops channel dot com and 1023 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,520 Speaker 1: take advantage of a limited time offer of fifty off 1024 00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,720 Speaker 1: your membership. It's only four a month. And we also 1025 00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,680 Speaker 1: have the spec ops Channel app developed by our web 1026 00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:49,080 Speaker 1: developer Chris, so you can watch all this on your 1027 00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,760 Speaker 1: mobile device, which is pretty damn cool. A lot of 1028 00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,760 Speaker 1: great content. And there's an app for software radio software 1029 00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,640 Speaker 1: radio app, and people always ask me as well, where 1030 00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:03,320 Speaker 1: can I although like really far back episodes software radio 1031 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:07,000 Speaker 1: dot com because those aren't on sound quite anymore. Um, 1032 00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:10,840 Speaker 1: there no a lot of it. I mean, it's a 1033 00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:13,000 Speaker 1: lot to get into. I took down a lot of 1034 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,120 Speaker 1: them because, um, one of the main reasons I was 1035 00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,000 Speaker 1: remembered for a while. We had a paywall and we're 1036 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,160 Speaker 1: putting up stuff a week later, so it was like 1037 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,960 Speaker 1: I was talking about that every episode. It was old information. 1038 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,840 Speaker 1: At that point. I had live reads and ads that 1039 00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,920 Speaker 1: were not in the web version, so I was like, 1040 00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,200 Speaker 1: let me just take these off and you could listen 1041 00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,440 Speaker 1: to them at software radio dot com. So every episode 1042 00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,920 Speaker 1: we've ever done sands like one or two episodes is 1043 00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,240 Speaker 1: on there. There were a couple of that. Brandon was like, 1044 00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,720 Speaker 1: take this down and I won't get into that, but 1045 00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:46,240 Speaker 1: there's some good ones too. I still have them, but 1046 00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, we need to like take those and sell 1047 00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,560 Speaker 1: them on the black market, like put them on CD ROMs, 1048 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:52,600 Speaker 1: and one of them would be big. One of them 1049 00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,960 Speaker 1: was a big guest. They weren't with me though. No, uh, 1050 00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,200 Speaker 1: we took down I remember two specific episodes we took 1051 00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,160 Speaker 1: I remember. Actually there's there's more than that. There's there's 1052 01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:04,480 Speaker 1: a few ways to take down because of a certain lawsuit. 1053 01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:09,160 Speaker 1: There's one we had to takedown because it's breaking out. 1054 01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,960 Speaker 1: There's one we had to take down because of a 1055 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:16,320 Speaker 1: throat punch of the week that you know, Brand was 1056 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,240 Speaker 1: like take this down. I'm cool with this person now. 1057 01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:23,680 Speaker 1: And then I don't know exactly why. This is another story. 1058 01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:26,040 Speaker 1: But the biggest one that's no longer up is the 1059 01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:30,320 Speaker 1: jesse Vents. Remember there, but Jesse Enter his phone connection 1060 01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:33,680 Speaker 1: was also terrible during that and the recording was, Yeah, 1061 01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:35,960 Speaker 1: he was in like a hotel in Mexico and it 1062 01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:40,560 Speaker 1: was really bad and he was he was going on. 1063 01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:44,600 Speaker 1: He completely filibustered too. If you remember, I asked him 1064 01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:47,080 Speaker 1: one question he was like, the weird thing was the 1065 01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,120 Speaker 1: stipulation with getting him on was he was like, I 1066 01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,400 Speaker 1: don't want to talk about Chris Kyle the lawsuit or 1067 01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,240 Speaker 1: any of that, and that was all we talked about. 1068 01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:54,880 Speaker 1: And we were like, all right, we won't and then 1069 01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,520 Speaker 1: he that's all yeah. He he talked it, so we 1070 01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:59,800 Speaker 1: didn't even have to mention it and he got into it. 1071 01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:03,240 Speaker 1: I've had other guests do that in the past. Um, 1072 01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:05,840 Speaker 1: I'll you know, I feel like I can mention this 1073 01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:08,960 Speaker 1: because I think it's kind of funny and he's pretty Yeah. 1074 01:01:09,240 --> 01:01:12,960 Speaker 1: So I've booked Kevin Sorbo before for David Webb Show, 1075 01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,040 Speaker 1: and I was working on David Webb Show, and I 1076 01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:18,760 Speaker 1: swear I had voicemails from Kevin Sorbo where he was like, look, 1077 01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,480 Speaker 1: you know, I won't say specifically what he said, but 1078 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,760 Speaker 1: Kevin Sorbo was a pretty right wing Christian conservative guy 1079 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:27,560 Speaker 1: and he was pretty open about this on voicemails and 1080 01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:30,280 Speaker 1: he's like, I'm gonna get blacklisted from Hollywood if I 1081 01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,400 Speaker 1: get into this. I am not going to talk about this, 1082 01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:34,480 Speaker 1: just like asked me about the work I'm promoting, and 1083 01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:36,680 Speaker 1: I won't get into politics. And then the first thing 1084 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:38,200 Speaker 1: you would do when you would sit down for the interview, 1085 01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:41,040 Speaker 1: talk about like the Democrats are terrible. They're destroying this 1086 01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:45,000 Speaker 1: country and you didn't even have to ask him. Kevin 1087 01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,439 Speaker 1: Swerbo is kind of like James Woods that way, isn't 1088 01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:50,560 Speaker 1: that He's just out and proud. I'm conservative Christian. It 1089 01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,360 Speaker 1: is what it is. And yeah, he put out that 1090 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,000 Speaker 1: God's Not Dead movie and they were like, God's not 1091 01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,480 Speaker 1: Dead too, So he's I mean, he's pretty open about it. 1092 01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:59,280 Speaker 1: So I don't I don't know what the issue is. 1093 01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:02,040 Speaker 1: Sometimes these guys are like, I'm not gonna say anything, 1094 01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,080 Speaker 1: and then they say everything they say they're not going 1095 01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:05,960 Speaker 1: to say. I think it's just how life is out 1096 01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,240 Speaker 1: in l A For for people on that line of work. 1097 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:12,880 Speaker 1: I it's like you get excommunicated. Stacy Dash she she 1098 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,040 Speaker 1: certainly as after Oh yeah, when she came out and 1099 01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,840 Speaker 1: originally supported Mitt Romney, and you know, it's like, I'm 1100 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:21,120 Speaker 1: a Republican, I'm a Trump supporter. Like a lot of 1101 01:02:21,160 --> 01:02:23,080 Speaker 1: people don't want to work with her. Mitt Romney sounds 1102 01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:27,120 Speaker 1: so tame. Now I know it's true. They acted like 1103 01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,840 Speaker 1: he was this this horrible guy who's gonna remember the 1104 01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:33,240 Speaker 1: big things. He shut down KB toys, but like that 1105 01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,479 Speaker 1: was that's what he did. Is as a business guy. Yeah, 1106 01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,080 Speaker 1: and you know, if the business was no longer profitable, 1107 01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:41,240 Speaker 1: what do you want to toys? A rush shutdown and 1108 01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,760 Speaker 1: inevitably as well down the line. You are right, though, 1109 01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:46,480 Speaker 1: it is funny to think of a time where the 1110 01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:50,840 Speaker 1: media made Mitt Romney sound like seemed like an extremist. Yeah. 1111 01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,680 Speaker 1: And and remember actually when Howard Dean ran for president 1112 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,800 Speaker 1: and you remember that speech where he was like, we're 1113 01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,280 Speaker 1: going to cat just we're gonna take back the White House. Yeah, 1114 01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:03,600 Speaker 1: you remember that, and they were like, this guy's way 1115 01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:07,200 Speaker 1: too crazy to be the president. That that sounds like 1116 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,480 Speaker 1: nothing like he was excited about campaigning, and that was 1117 01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:15,400 Speaker 1: considered crazy in those Yeah. You like, if only they 1118 01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,560 Speaker 1: can see in the future like what we have now, 1119 01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:21,360 Speaker 1: and you know, not saying negative or positives, it's pretty crazy. 1120 01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:25,400 Speaker 1: Compared to that, that was mild. What do they call that, 1121 01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:27,800 Speaker 1: like the Overton window or something like that, where like 1122 01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:31,480 Speaker 1: you're changing perceptions gradually over time or something like that. 1123 01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:33,600 Speaker 1: I haven't heard the term, but I know it was 1124 01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,080 Speaker 1: like considered. That was like what sunk his campaign was 1125 01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,880 Speaker 1: this infamous scream of him when he was like yelling 1126 01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:42,040 Speaker 1: about campaigning all over the country and my my how 1127 01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,560 Speaker 1: things have changed. Yeah, um, all right, I want to 1128 01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,520 Speaker 1: get to these emails next and next time we have 1129 01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,080 Speaker 1: to solicit some emails ahead of time for Todd because 1130 01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,680 Speaker 1: he can he can answer questions I I can't. So 1131 01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,200 Speaker 1: I didn't mention that Todd was on in the last show. 1132 01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:59,120 Speaker 1: But these are actually emails for you specific boy. So 1133 01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:02,560 Speaker 1: no one of them very positive. One one of them 1134 01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:06,520 Speaker 1: a bit of a correction. So this is from Robbie. Hey, guys, 1135 01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:08,680 Speaker 1: I promised to keep this brief, as he and always 1136 01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:10,760 Speaker 1: asks in hopes that I hear from you. Guys. I've 1137 01:04:10,760 --> 01:04:13,680 Speaker 1: been listening from episode one to four hundred. That's huge 1138 01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,280 Speaker 1: ever since the show started, and I'm a huge fan. 1139 01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,400 Speaker 1: But I have to disagree with something Jack said an 1140 01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:21,160 Speaker 1: episode four hundred. People don't listen to the show to 1141 01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,440 Speaker 1: hear him talk. Jack, You are obviously very well educated 1142 01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,760 Speaker 1: but also very well spoken. I always enjoy hearing your 1143 01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:30,040 Speaker 1: thoughts and views on things. Thank you, Buzz. If you 1144 01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:32,600 Speaker 1: disagree that people don't listen to here you, I appreciate that. 1145 01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:36,080 Speaker 1: Along those lines, are you planning on selling any autographed 1146 01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,440 Speaker 1: copies of your book meaning your book uh Murphy's Law 1147 01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:42,280 Speaker 1: via online? When you release it. I'm sure you'll do 1148 01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:44,640 Speaker 1: a signing there in New York City when it gets released, 1149 01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,040 Speaker 1: but for those of us around the country, I'd love 1150 01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:49,480 Speaker 1: to purchase an autographed copy. And then he says, keep 1151 01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,880 Speaker 1: up the awesome work and look forward to episode five hundred. 1152 01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,480 Speaker 1: That's pretty far away. But I haven't put any thought 1153 01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,080 Speaker 1: into that yet, but I will figure something out, because 1154 01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:03,200 Speaker 1: I know people do lie autographed books, and I autographed 1155 01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:05,919 Speaker 1: copies of my novels for people who want them. So um, 1156 01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:07,920 Speaker 1: I'll figure that out. There'll be there'll be something. We'll 1157 01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,680 Speaker 1: announce it on the podcast. Sounds good. And then this 1158 01:05:10,720 --> 01:05:14,400 Speaker 1: one is from will um hijacking In and I assumed 1159 01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,560 Speaker 1: Will is from the UK judging by this email. Oh yeah, 1160 01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,920 Speaker 1: greetings from across the pond. There we go. I'm serving 1161 01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,720 Speaker 1: as a Royal Marine commando and I'm a big fan 1162 01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:25,360 Speaker 1: of your work. Love the no bullshit and no partisan 1163 01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,600 Speaker 1: approach to global news and stories and the interesting guests 1164 01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,360 Speaker 1: that you guys have on. On another note, I've noticed 1165 01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:33,320 Speaker 1: that Jack has referred a couple of times to the 1166 01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:37,160 Speaker 1: British military being eighty thousand strong, although the army is 1167 01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,400 Speaker 1: just over eighty thousand. The military has about one fifty 1168 01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:44,840 Speaker 1: thousand people, plus around another eighty thousand reservists. I know 1169 01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,240 Speaker 1: that's a drop in the ocean where the US is concerned, 1170 01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:49,560 Speaker 1: but thought he would appreciate it. I do, Yeah, no, 1171 01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:52,160 Speaker 1: thank you, Um, and he says, keep up the good work. 1172 01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:55,160 Speaker 1: That's from Will. Then he says, PS, can you point 1173 01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,920 Speaker 1: me towards any of your earlier shows that had British 1174 01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,240 Speaker 1: guests on the one I could think of his to end? 1175 01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,720 Speaker 1: I was looking back, it's too ten. We had big, 1176 01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,440 Speaker 1: big Phil Campion on former British SAS. So that's Software 1177 01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:09,440 Speaker 1: Radio dot Com. Um, there's an s A S. Sergeant 1178 01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:11,240 Speaker 1: Major I've been trying to get on. I'll have to 1179 01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,520 Speaker 1: reach out to him again. Is Phil the only one 1180 01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,640 Speaker 1: British twenty two s A S. Phil might be the 1181 01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:21,000 Speaker 1: only one we had Awese s A S on before. 1182 01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,640 Speaker 1: Can I tell you a funny story about that show? 1183 01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:27,120 Speaker 1: By the way, this has happened a handful of times. 1184 01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:29,160 Speaker 1: I hate to say, like I hate doing the show's 1185 01:06:29,200 --> 01:06:32,360 Speaker 1: on Skype when it's from home because the recording it's 1186 01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:33,840 Speaker 1: not like when I have a mixing board and I 1187 01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,800 Speaker 1: could see levels on here and be like, okay, we're recording. 1188 01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:40,000 Speaker 1: You're relying on this device to record the show. So 1189 01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:42,120 Speaker 1: as you know, there's been like two or three times 1190 01:06:42,120 --> 01:06:45,440 Speaker 1: where the show didn't record. Did an entire show that 1191 01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:49,640 Speaker 1: happened on that show at really and luckily I didn't 1192 01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:51,120 Speaker 1: ask him to do this, and that was a show 1193 01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:53,800 Speaker 1: with me, Eric Davis and Phil Eric Davis recorded the 1194 01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,560 Speaker 1: whole thing. It set it to me. It was like, 1195 01:06:56,240 --> 01:06:59,560 Speaker 1: it's such a lifesaver. The worst though, was still that 1196 01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:03,720 Speaker 1: Jack and I did an entire show with Jocko en 1197 01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,960 Speaker 1: Laife Babin and it did not record. And it was 1198 01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,560 Speaker 1: a really good interview too, It were really great. It 1199 01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,520 Speaker 1: is the worst feeling of a giant panic attack when 1200 01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:13,600 Speaker 1: like you go to the screen to edit and you 1201 01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:17,320 Speaker 1: just see a flat line and yeah. And that was 1202 01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:20,000 Speaker 1: back in the serious XM studios and it was because 1203 01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,200 Speaker 1: someone didn't have the microphones and program. It's the type 1204 01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,480 Speaker 1: of thing I should have double checked. I didn't. You know, 1205 01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:26,720 Speaker 1: you gotta take full responsibility. It's kind of something. It's 1206 01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,280 Speaker 1: funny because that's something they talked about during the interview. Well, 1207 01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,520 Speaker 1: taking ownership. I take ownership. I fucked up, but we 1208 01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:37,400 Speaker 1: lost a great king. Jocko is a big deal now, 1209 01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,280 Speaker 1: but if him and him and Life ever want to 1210 01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:42,200 Speaker 1: come on the show again, more than welcome, happy to 1211 01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,440 Speaker 1: have them. Um, Jacko is huge now because they're Joe Rogan. 1212 01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:49,920 Speaker 1: I'd like to get on a just changing directions a 1213 01:07:49,920 --> 01:07:51,840 Speaker 1: little bit back to the s A S. Someone from 1214 01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:55,760 Speaker 1: the Kiwi s A S the New Zealanders and I'm 1215 01:07:55,800 --> 01:08:00,160 Speaker 1: told they're they're very small but professional unit. Um so 1216 01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:01,840 Speaker 1: not too many of those guys around, but I would 1217 01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,320 Speaker 1: love to have one of those dudes on the show sometime. Yeah, 1218 01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:08,480 Speaker 1: I love him. We have international special ops guys and 1219 01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:12,080 Speaker 1: yeah we had Jeff to Paton who's a jt F 1220 01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:17,599 Speaker 1: two operator. Um, was it was it the last show? Yeah, 1221 01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:21,599 Speaker 1: because we had on the or was it I'm trying 1222 01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,479 Speaker 1: to think it was three or yeah, it was about 1223 01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:26,840 Speaker 1: three because last show Brandon hosted show for that, well 1224 01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:30,360 Speaker 1: cal show for that and he was great. But we've 1225 01:08:30,360 --> 01:08:34,000 Speaker 1: had nice guy, We've had South African guys on. We've 1226 01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:40,200 Speaker 1: had um Yeager Core which is Denmark or Mark Aussie's 1227 01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:46,280 Speaker 1: are AUSI s A S British s A S um 1228 01:08:46,439 --> 01:08:50,479 Speaker 1: who else? I don't know. I've had your z D 1229 01:08:50,680 --> 01:08:54,400 Speaker 1: fighters not you know. I mean, I've had I have 1230 01:08:54,439 --> 01:08:57,120 Speaker 1: a bunch of other contacts. I mean, we can also 1231 01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:00,200 Speaker 1: delve into and see who's interested. Do any of the 1232 01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:05,479 Speaker 1: Korean guys speak English like fluently that you met. I'd 1233 01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:07,920 Speaker 1: have to check and see who's out there. That'd be cool. 1234 01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,760 Speaker 1: The generals and something that you've met, but they can't 1235 01:09:10,800 --> 01:09:13,920 Speaker 1: really come on right the current. I have a probe 1236 01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:16,080 Speaker 1: the wire a little bit. We'll see. Yeah, it's about 1237 01:09:16,080 --> 01:09:19,160 Speaker 1: building relationships. You got to build some trust. What's your 1238 01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:22,880 Speaker 1: placement access? Yeah, put it out there nice. Um. So 1239 01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:27,160 Speaker 1: the Veterans Day, Jack and I went to Amadolney's for 1240 01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:30,719 Speaker 1: Andrew will Cow's event, which was cool. Jim West wed 1241 01:09:30,760 --> 01:09:33,640 Speaker 1: that motorcycle right apparently from New Jersey here to New 1242 01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:36,320 Speaker 1: York City. He had a giant smile on his face. 1243 01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:41,400 Speaker 1: Massive trike he has. He has a Harley like pound 1244 01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:44,400 Speaker 1: Harley Davison motorcycle he was showing off. I posted a 1245 01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:46,439 Speaker 1: picture of it on Twitter, so I should put that 1246 01:09:46,439 --> 01:09:51,440 Speaker 1: on Instagram. Ricky and Newci was there, super cool guy. 1247 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,720 Speaker 1: And I asked him if he'd come on the podcast 1248 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,679 Speaker 1: and he said yes. I got a hard confirm, alright, 1249 01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:01,400 Speaker 1: every time I've asked him, you know, he honestly loves 1250 01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,360 Speaker 1: to talk. Every time I call that guy, it's like 1251 01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,760 Speaker 1: a forty minute update and I'm like, come on the 1252 01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,040 Speaker 1: podcast for this sometime, and he's like, I don't like 1253 01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,559 Speaker 1: to talk about myself, but have this guy on. I'd 1254 01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:13,439 Speaker 1: like to introduce you to Rick sometime. Todd. Rick is 1255 01:10:13,560 --> 01:10:17,559 Speaker 1: a former SF served in the U. S. Marshals and 1256 01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:20,439 Speaker 1: he runs a charity called Horses for Heroes and he 1257 01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,840 Speaker 1: has a ranch out in New Mexico that he'll have 1258 01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,280 Speaker 1: veterans come down to and they'll do like horseback riding 1259 01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:28,320 Speaker 1: for like a week. So you guys would have a 1260 01:10:28,320 --> 01:10:32,240 Speaker 1: lot in comments local New Mexico, New Mexico. I'll look 1261 01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:34,960 Speaker 1: him up. There was another guy at wild House event 1262 01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:37,640 Speaker 1: who lost his arm who had his own ranch I 1263 01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:41,200 Speaker 1: was talking to. Yeah. Yeah, Rick introduced me to him too, 1264 01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:43,360 Speaker 1: said that this dude he had never been off the 1265 01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:47,400 Speaker 1: Reds until he deployed to combat with the military, grew 1266 01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:52,519 Speaker 1: up on an Indian reservation. Yeah, and he had um, 1267 01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:55,160 Speaker 1: you know, the the the the I'm trying to think 1268 01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:57,640 Speaker 1: of the word, but the for his arm. Yeah, he 1269 01:10:57,920 --> 01:11:00,240 Speaker 1: had a prosthetic. Yeah, I believe I didn't get a 1270 01:11:00,280 --> 01:11:01,719 Speaker 1: chance to talk to him in depth. But I believe 1271 01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:04,560 Speaker 1: he was in an ambush. Yeah, yeah, I didn't. I 1272 01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,840 Speaker 1: did obviously, you know, it's an uncomfortable thing to bring up. 1273 01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:08,880 Speaker 1: But he was a really cool guy, very nice guy. 1274 01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:10,840 Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I was like, go, do you 1275 01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:12,080 Speaker 1: work for horse for here? I was like, no, I 1276 01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:14,439 Speaker 1: got my own ranch, So I guess it's just a 1277 01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:16,960 Speaker 1: normal thing to have there. But Ricks is like bring 1278 01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,519 Speaker 1: veterans there riding horses, which he says is a very 1279 01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:23,040 Speaker 1: therapeutic thing for that's who have, you know, plus traumatic 1280 01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,519 Speaker 1: stress issues. So I still want to go there. My 1281 01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,719 Speaker 1: mom has been talking about go to Scone to Santa 1282 01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,120 Speaker 1: Fe during her birthday in April, so I'm like, if 1283 01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:32,240 Speaker 1: I do that, I want to visit the ranch. Yeah. 1284 01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:36,360 Speaker 1: I told Rick i'd go sometime after Christmas, maybe February 1285 01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,400 Speaker 1: or March or something like that. It seems likely gonna 1286 01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,479 Speaker 1: be a fun I've always wanted to. I just it's 1287 01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,400 Speaker 1: just a matter of fun time to head down to 1288 01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:44,719 Speaker 1: do it. Yeah. So I believe the website his Horses 1289 01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:47,040 Speaker 1: for Heroes dot org. If you guys listening, I want 1290 01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,320 Speaker 1: to donate to them. It's a great charity. Uh. Andrew 1291 01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:52,200 Speaker 1: raised a ton of money. And then I met when 1292 01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:54,360 Speaker 1: when you get zen commando stood up, we can send 1293 01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:56,200 Speaker 1: I and go down there, and we send somebody else 1294 01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,280 Speaker 1: down there and do a good article for for the 1295 01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,840 Speaker 1: website and everything. Take some payres broadcast from there. Yeah. 1296 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:04,559 Speaker 1: Yeah on the beach. It sounds like a plan from 1297 01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:08,240 Speaker 1: the repel tower. Uh. Yeah, Andrew raised a ton of 1298 01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:10,880 Speaker 1: money and I met um a couple of our listeners there, 1299 01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,920 Speaker 1: um who are really cool. You know, they heard about 1300 01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:17,160 Speaker 1: the the event because of the podcast that Andrew was on, 1301 01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:20,639 Speaker 1: so uh for a for a Sunday, pretty packed, yeh 1302 01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,280 Speaker 1: uh last day. And what did and I was gonna 1303 01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,120 Speaker 1: ask you, what did you do on Veterans Day actually 1304 01:12:25,200 --> 01:12:27,800 Speaker 1: or the Marine Corps Birthday the same weekend? Yeah, I 1305 01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:32,080 Speaker 1: um went to a small event um on Marine Corps 1306 01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:37,680 Speaker 1: Birthday and celebrated with some old marines November ten up 1307 01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:40,439 Speaker 1: there in Middletown, Connecticut. The Marine Corps Birthday is a 1308 01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:43,040 Speaker 1: big deal. Oh my god, the world stops. It's a 1309 01:12:43,120 --> 01:12:47,040 Speaker 1: huge deal. I mean it's just like, yeah, um, great 1310 01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:50,880 Speaker 1: experience connecting with some old guys from Korea, World War 1311 01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:54,000 Speaker 1: two and just you know there, you know, the Marine 1312 01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,519 Speaker 1: Corps Birthday, like Jack says, it's a big deal. You know, 1313 01:12:57,560 --> 01:13:02,000 Speaker 1: you just stop and pause and flecked and um. But 1314 01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:05,000 Speaker 1: we had a dinner, did the birthday cake, cutting a 1315 01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:09,519 Speaker 1: birthday cake and the commandant's message. Um, I'll probably come 1316 01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:13,160 Speaker 1: back from Costa Rica next year for the Marine Corps birthdays. 1317 01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:17,840 Speaker 1: It's one of the things you have to do. But yeah, 1318 01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:20,519 Speaker 1: I just did that. That's cool. You know. We had 1319 01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:23,280 Speaker 1: a great Veterans Day and I think the most important 1320 01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:27,160 Speaker 1: thing raising money for veterans charities and and it was 1321 01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:30,880 Speaker 1: great to see Andrew do that as he does every year. Um. 1322 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:34,040 Speaker 1: So last show with You and the last show with Brandon, 1323 01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:37,120 Speaker 1: we talked about the Dan Crenshaw thing. Should I play 1324 01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:41,280 Speaker 1: the clip of Dan Crenshaw uppearing on SNL and kind 1325 01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:44,360 Speaker 1: of responding for it, It might as well. Um, it 1326 01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:47,800 Speaker 1: was a great appearance. So being Pete davidss mom, it 1327 01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:54,880 Speaker 1: can't be easy when everyone's mad at your son and roommate. No, 1328 01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:57,160 Speaker 1: but I mean this from the bottom of my heart. 1329 01:13:57,240 --> 01:13:59,640 Speaker 1: It was a poor choice awards. The man is a 1330 01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,360 Speaker 1: war euro and he deserves all the respect in the world. 1331 01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,680 Speaker 1: And if any good came of this, maybe it was 1332 01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:07,040 Speaker 1: that from one day the left and the right finally 1333 01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,599 Speaker 1: came together to agree on something that I'm a dick, 1334 01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:28,479 Speaker 1: you think everyone, Thank you so much for coming. Thanks 1335 01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:32,559 Speaker 1: for making a Republican look good. Kind of stop saying 1336 01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:37,840 Speaker 1: that I've been saying it all day. We well, I 1337 01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:40,760 Speaker 1: just wanted to say, for people that don't know, the 1338 01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:42,880 Speaker 1: reason you're wearing an eye patch right now is that 1339 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,760 Speaker 1: you lost your eye too, an I E. D and 1340 01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:50,120 Speaker 1: Afghanistan during your third combat tour. And I'm sorry. Thank you, Pete. 1341 01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:53,080 Speaker 1: I appreciate you saying that. So we're good. We're good. 1342 01:14:53,360 --> 01:15:02,920 Speaker 1: Apology accepted. Just game. It sounds on my phone you're 1343 01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:05,479 Speaker 1: gonna answer that. I was just gonna let it ring, 1344 01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:16,840 Speaker 1: because that's obviously cool. Man. Do you know her? All right? 1345 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:22,360 Speaker 1: All right? So last week I made a joke about 1346 01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,599 Speaker 1: a picture of you, and I feel like it would 1347 01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:26,599 Speaker 1: only be fair if you got me back and made 1348 01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:28,639 Speaker 1: fun of a picture of me. Is that sound okay? 1349 01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:30,240 Speaker 1: I don't really need to do that, now, come on, 1350 01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:34,720 Speaker 1: I deserve it, please, all right? And now first impressions 1351 01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:41,160 Speaker 1: with Lieutenant Commander Dan Crenshaw. Thanks calling. This is Pete Davidson. 1352 01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:44,600 Speaker 1: He looks like if the meth from Breaking Bad was 1353 01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:50,400 Speaker 1: a person. So there, we're even all right. One more 1354 01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:57,200 Speaker 1: this is it looks like a troll doll with a tapeworm. Alright, 1355 01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:59,559 Speaker 1: that's good. We should wrap this up. Hold on, this 1356 01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:01,720 Speaker 1: is this is fun. This is fun. He looks like 1357 01:16:01,800 --> 01:16:07,200 Speaker 1: Martin Short in the Santa clus School. By the way, 1358 01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:14,800 Speaker 1: one of these people was actually good on SNL. You're 1359 01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:18,360 Speaker 1: not wrong, okay, but seriously, there's a lot of lessons 1360 01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:21,320 Speaker 1: to learn here, not just that the left and right 1361 01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:25,240 Speaker 1: can still agree on some things, but also this, Americans 1362 01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:28,519 Speaker 1: can forgive one another. We can remember what brings us 1363 01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,920 Speaker 1: together as a country and still see the good in 1364 01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,720 Speaker 1: each other. This is Veterans Day weekend, which means that 1365 01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:36,960 Speaker 1: it's a good time for every American to connect with 1366 01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:40,280 Speaker 1: a veteran. Maybe say thanks for your service, but I 1367 01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:43,799 Speaker 1: would actually encourage you to say something else, tel a veteran. 1368 01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:47,839 Speaker 1: Never forget. When you say never forget to a veteran, 1369 01:16:47,920 --> 01:16:50,760 Speaker 1: you are implying that, as an American, you are in 1370 01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:54,439 Speaker 1: it with them, not separated by some imaginary barrier between 1371 01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:59,280 Speaker 1: civilians and veterans, but connected together as grateful fellow Americans 1372 01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:02,840 Speaker 1: who never forget the sacrifices made by veterans past and 1373 01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,280 Speaker 1: present and never forget those we lost on nine eleven 1374 01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:10,839 Speaker 1: heroes like Pete's father. So I'll just say Pete, never forget, 1375 01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,680 Speaker 1: never forget, and then both of us. Yeah, I mean, 1376 01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:17,720 Speaker 1: it was just a great moment they shared and and 1377 01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:19,600 Speaker 1: the reference at the end I think I mentioned on 1378 01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,120 Speaker 1: the show with brand So Pete Davidson's dad was a 1379 01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,840 Speaker 1: firefighter died in hind eleven, which he has poked fun 1380 01:17:25,840 --> 01:17:28,200 Speaker 1: at before, which to most people be like, that's crazy, 1381 01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:30,840 Speaker 1: but it's just kind of his brand of comedy. And 1382 01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:33,840 Speaker 1: what he said about Dan Crunchen just didn't go over well, 1383 01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:36,439 Speaker 1: saying oh, he lost his eye in combat or something. 1384 01:17:36,479 --> 01:17:38,840 Speaker 1: So I thought it was great that they got together 1385 01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:40,600 Speaker 1: and had this moment, and it was like it was 1386 01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:43,880 Speaker 1: a very unifying moment, which we uh. We had Dan 1387 01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,880 Speaker 1: on the on the show a while back on this podcast, 1388 01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:50,120 Speaker 1: and he uh talked about how running for office he 1389 01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:52,280 Speaker 1: found his new purpose. He's like, I want to continue 1390 01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:54,679 Speaker 1: to serve and and it's interesting to see how things, 1391 01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,640 Speaker 1: you know, worked out for him. He's now an elected congressman. Yeah, 1392 01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:02,920 Speaker 1: that's great. Up. A lot of military folks are heading 1393 01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:07,840 Speaker 1: towards the politic side, government side, which is really great. 1394 01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,040 Speaker 1: You guys need to have a pique come on shore. 1395 01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:15,480 Speaker 1: I would have one, why not a game for sure? Yeah, 1396 01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:17,960 Speaker 1: And you know, I feel like he handled that the best, 1397 01:18:18,280 --> 01:18:20,160 Speaker 1: and you mentioned on Twitter like he couldn't have handled 1398 01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,960 Speaker 1: that any better. There's those people who would probably say, like, 1399 01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, honestly, a fuck NBC. I'm not gonna go 1400 01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:27,920 Speaker 1: on at the sky like Day allowed him take a 1401 01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:30,240 Speaker 1: shot at me because there are those people, I mean, 1402 01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:34,479 Speaker 1: who are very bitter about this stuff. And he came 1403 01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:37,280 Speaker 1: on and said something positive and also said some funny 1404 01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,439 Speaker 1: ship that people are gonna laugh at. So well, I mean, 1405 01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,800 Speaker 1: Dan's Dan's been in the ship before. He has thick skin, 1406 01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:47,120 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, yeah, it's not anything new to him. Yeah, 1407 01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:50,200 Speaker 1: it's like whatever, especially you're gonna go from a Navy 1408 01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:55,040 Speaker 1: seal to Congress like better ethics skin, alligator skin, yeah yeah, 1409 01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:59,040 Speaker 1: better be tough. Yeah, and to lose your eye in 1410 01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:02,280 Speaker 1: combat like he it obviously said, obviously a tough guy. 1411 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,479 Speaker 1: He sucked it up through some stuff. Yeah alright, well 1412 01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:10,679 Speaker 1: with that, I guess um wrap things up here at 1413 01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,759 Speaker 1: Zen Commando on Instagram, because I look, you just launched 1414 01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,519 Speaker 1: the social media stuff at en Commando coming to Graham 1415 01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:20,880 Speaker 1: at Todd Opalski on Twitter, Todd O p A L 1416 01:19:21,120 --> 01:19:26,240 Speaker 1: s k I, Zen Commando dot com anything else. I mean, 1417 01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:29,200 Speaker 1: we love having you on. Thanks for having me anytime. 1418 01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:31,679 Speaker 1: And to all the listeners out there, keep listening. 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