1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: H ah beautiful. If it doesn't work, you're just not 2 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:25,480 Speaker 1: using enough. You're listening to software radio, special operations, military 3 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: news and straight talk with the guys in the community, 4 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: Army Ranger and Green Beret Jack Murphy Lasagna. Don't get 5 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: any on your Marine Scouts. Sniper Jason Delgado is just 6 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,560 Speaker 1: something we believe it. I associate that with taste, but 7 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 1: I like freaking chocolate chi may Why is it flavor boring? 8 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 1: The whole lively board And now here's your co host 9 00:00:50,320 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: and producer of this operation, Ian Scott Lee, and we 10 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: are live soft rep dot com on Time on Target 11 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: episode three oh seven. I'm Ian Scado, Jason Delgado with me? 12 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: Is I was? It's almost like as always right now 13 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: because for the past couple of months it's been us 14 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: um So Marines got Sniper Jason Delgado and our special 15 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: guest in studio, Drew Wallace, the executive producer of soft 16 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 1: Rep TV, former Army Ranger member of the seventy Ranger Regiment. 17 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: Great to have you here because we have bar our 18 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: annual holiday team party. So yeah, that's right, thanks for 19 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: having me. Great to be here on the podcast, and uh, 20 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: it's been a long time coming because I think I 21 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: started with the company about a year ago. Yeah, and 22 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: I've been trying to coordinate and get down here. So 23 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: super excited to be here. And you were here a 24 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: few months back. We had our you know, t a 25 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: meeting in all of it and get to get to 26 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: have you in studio yet, so it's it's definitely a 27 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 1: long time in the making. Um. I definitely we're gonna 28 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: take some questions from you guys who are watching on 29 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: YouTube and Facebook. We're streaming at the end. But before 30 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: we even get into Drew's background, I figured we talked 31 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: about some news stuff going on. I know you wanted 32 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: to mention that Jerusalem stuff, um, Jerusalem now being the 33 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 1: capital of Israel, Trump decision, um, you know, Trump administration, 34 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 1: and I should say, and I just wanted to get 35 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: your take on a Jason. I thought it's pretty interesting. 36 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: I thought it was, you know, definitely a ballsy move 37 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: on Trump's behalf, you know, considering we we've been promising 38 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: to do that on the behalf of the United States 39 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: or you know, our government to the Israeli government. And 40 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: I finally, I think what he was looking more more 41 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 1: so to do was to keep a promise that we made, 42 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 1: you know, because amongst so many that we have a 43 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: tendency to turn our back on a break. You know, 44 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: I think it's good to see someone actually fought through 45 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: and you know, actually commit to something we promised. Do 46 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: you have any uh take on that, Drew. I know, 47 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's the big news item basically 48 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 1: today and yesterday. Yeah. I mean I keep keep tabs 49 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: on a lot of news. I mean basically all day 50 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: it's streaming in my office. And I guess my biggest 51 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: takeaway from that is there's always been conflict over there 52 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: for for years, and to have a president come in 53 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: and take a firm position and stance rather than just 54 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: kind of pass the buck to the next of uh, 55 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: you know, commander in chief. That's you know what I've 56 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 1: respected about Trump, you know, um that he's made a 57 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: position and come in there with a strong approach in 58 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: a place that's very volatile. So I think it's a 59 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,839 Speaker 1: good and a way forward for those people over there. 60 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: I mean my immediate reaction when uh, when Jason brought 61 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: it up to me, it's just I always worry about 62 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: with that region, like the poking of the bear, and 63 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: I feel like for a few years now. It's probably 64 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 1: a couple of years we haven't heard of any major 65 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: violence in the region. And I feel like every few 66 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: years we don't hear about violence, and then it's like, 67 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: let's build some settlements while there's gonna be retaliatory reaction 68 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: to that. What's name is Jerusalem? Jerusalem, I'm getting him 69 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: my pronunciation wrong, Uh, the capital of Israel? And then 70 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: I worry is there going to be a terrorist retalitory 71 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: reaction to that? That was just my I thought it was. 72 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: I saw a mean that summed it up, summed it 73 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: all up for me. Um, it was funny. It was 74 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: a bunch of a Rabs burning an American and Israeli 75 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: flag like in unison. And on the caption the top 76 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: of the meme is said, um, you know Palestinians reaction 77 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: to Jerusalem being named the capital of Israel, and then 78 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: in the bottom and said, oh no, wait, that was 79 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: last year for something else. At the end of the day, 80 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 1: that's how they treat us anyway. So it's it's to 81 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,040 Speaker 1: be fair, though, I feel like it's been a while 82 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: since we've heard of any major you know, there's always 83 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: gonna be rocket attacks here and there, but it's been 84 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: it's been a couple of years since any major violence 85 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: in the region. Yeah, I mean there hasn't been much. 86 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: You've heard over here. I think what I what I 87 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: heard was, and it was funny because I've never been there. 88 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: What I heard was that the west side of Jerusalem 89 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: that's controlled by Israel, Um, you know, Muslims could walk 90 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: around freely and you know there will be barely any issues. 91 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: But on the east side, you know, Jews can't really 92 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: go over there, Christians can't really go over there, you know, 93 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: and walk certain areas, you know. So to me, that's 94 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 1: like it's just you know, a huge red flag right there. 95 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: So you're telling me the area that's controlled by Palestine, 96 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:35,159 Speaker 1: the Pathenians people have to walk out thin ice and 97 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,760 Speaker 1: be afraid to move around those areas. So who really 98 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: deserves to basically take, you know, control and responsibility over Jerusalem. 99 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: Someone needs to. You can't just leave it as a 100 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: non man's land. It's such an it's to an important area. 101 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 1: And if the Israelis are responsible enough to allow every 102 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: faith to come in there and respectful and be respectful 103 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: of it, then why not you know, Yeah, I think 104 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: this will always you know, there's always gonna be such 105 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 1: controversy out on this issue, even on SOFTWAP, you know, 106 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: like I know, Jack Murphy has made statements where people 107 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: are like, oh, you're anti Israel, You're siding with the terrorists. 108 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: Even if you just take any stance that's a departure 109 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: from net and Yahoo. So yeah, you gotta anticipate there'll 110 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: be some sort of reaction. I mean always there always is. 111 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 1: And then the other news item that's completely not special 112 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: operations related. I'm just wondering if you guys have been 113 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: found bitcoin because holy sh it. So yeah, actually I 114 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: own some bitcoin. Yeah you do, well, I did very well. Yeah, 115 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,799 Speaker 1: you know, it's yeah cryptocurrency, and you know, everyone calls 116 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: it a bubble, you know, and every bubble will burst 117 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: at some point. But um, if you're you know, you 118 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: play it right, I mean you can you can see 119 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:50,360 Speaker 1: some good return, you know, and what where the bottom was? Um, 120 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: you know, the ceiling has just gone up quite a bit. 121 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 1: I mean, um, you know we I think in the 122 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: beginning of November it was down run six I think 123 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: today it's over sixteen. Yeah. Yeah, so'lous. I've heard some people, 124 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: you know, friends of mine who have invested, feel like 125 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 1: at twenty thousand, that's when to sell. Yeah, I mean, 126 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: um yeah, I just don't know. You know, you don't 127 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: mean cryptocurrency. It's it's a new form of modernization. I mean, 128 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: just like any other sort of silver goal whatever else. Um, 129 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 1: it's the way that people are doing business and a 130 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: lot of times now and bitcoin is just one of 131 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 1: you know, over a dozen different you know currencies like that, 132 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: the b E O S or you know, um uh, 133 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: there's a few others. But I mean, I think it's 134 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: I think it's probably the way of the future. Um. 135 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: So it's just something that I think watch. I don't 136 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:46,680 Speaker 1: know if i'd sell yet. Do you have a number 137 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 1: where you're like, if it hits this, I'm out. You know, 138 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm kind of diversifying. I think as I learned more, 139 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm putting it into some other things. But I think 140 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: there would probably on the advice system close for ens 141 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: who are much more in the know than I am. 142 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: On it, I think there'll be a ceiling where i'd 143 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: probably sell it, you know, got you all right, we're 144 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: getting into what we do here. I'd love to just 145 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: hear about your background growing up and then getting into 146 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 1: the Army Rangers. Yeah sure, I mean, you know, I 147 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: grew up in north Shore, Massachusetts. You know, uh, you know, 148 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: athlete my whole life. You know, went out you know, 149 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:29,400 Speaker 1: college on California, I think, you know, did did college 150 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: because I felt like that was what you know, folks 151 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: wanted me to do. But as soon as you know, 152 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:37,480 Speaker 1: nine eleven had happened, I had set my sights on, 153 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: you know, joined the service, and I graduated college in 154 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: two thousand two. And then soon they're after you know, 155 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,679 Speaker 1: enlisted in the army. And you know, it could have 156 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 1: gone an officer route, but uh, I knew a faster 157 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: way to the seventie Range Regiment was to enlist as 158 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: an officer. You have to go into the conventional military 159 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: for a couple of years, do your time, and then 160 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: you can go, uh to the range of regiment. I 161 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: want to go straight in and and you know, kick 162 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: down doors and do all that stuff. So, uh, you know, 163 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:16,080 Speaker 1: shortly after graduating college, you know, joined and um, you know, 164 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: and it was obviously you know, I had a ranger contract. 165 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: You know, the outline, you know, path for you to 166 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: get there, you know basic you know, a I T 167 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,720 Speaker 1: airborne rip and then you arrive at battalion, and I 168 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 1: think that those first you know sort of you know, 169 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: eight or nine months of training were probably the more formidable, 170 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,000 Speaker 1: you know sort of year you know months in service, 171 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: because they just you know, strip you down and beat 172 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, beat you down and try 173 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: to build you back up. And then I remember, you know, 174 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: because I was I got to school in California, so 175 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 1: I was a big kind of surfer, you know, long 176 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: blonde hair, and I stan you know, uh, and when 177 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 1: I remember when I joined, you know, you know, they 178 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: shave your head, you know, uh, take away all you know, 179 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: your clothes. And I wore glasses too at the time. 180 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:04,680 Speaker 1: You know, I'd were contacts a lot, but you can't 181 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: wear contacts. And Basic give me my pcgs, my birth 182 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: control goggles, you know, because you're never getting laid, you know, 183 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: wearing you know those glasses, these big brown rimmed glasses 184 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: BCG birth control. Yeah, the black croaking around the back. 185 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: And I remember they threw like a mop at me 186 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: and I was like cleaning the little tree and they're like, 187 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 1: you know, get to work. I remember looking in like 188 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 1: a full length mirror at an image of myself and 189 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: these little running shoes, you know, the Army gray you know, shirt, 190 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: shaved head glasses. I was like, man, I was like, 191 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: I can't get any worse than this, you know, And um, 192 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: I think it did get worse a couple of times. 193 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: But over the course of those nine months, you know, 194 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,400 Speaker 1: through basic k I T airborne rip, you know, things 195 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,360 Speaker 1: got better, you know, and eventually built my way up 196 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 1: through the range of regiment. It sounds like you were 197 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: It sounds like you were adamant about seventy range of regiment. 198 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 1: Is that because of family history or just you know, UM. 199 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: I had a close friend who um, who had served 200 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: in the range regim in Vietnam, and he recommended going 201 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 1: that route, you know, And I knew that I wanted 202 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: to go into special operations in in some way. And 203 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: I think, I guess you you probably can attest. You 204 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: haven't been in the Marines. You know, you set your 205 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: sights on one branch and you're like, okay, you know 206 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: this is it, and you get focused on it. You know, 207 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: it could have been you know, rangers, seals, could have 208 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: been you know, force, you could have crossed deck whatever 209 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: you wanted to be. Yeah, And I think I was 210 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: just like I got kind of caught up in that 211 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,080 Speaker 1: sort of um, I don't know what you call it. 212 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,560 Speaker 1: And yeah, and that was it and um and I'm 213 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 1: you know, very kind of focused and goal oriented like that. 214 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna 215 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 1: be the best that I can be. And you know, 216 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: like who you know do all that stuff and the 217 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: way we go and um. So I spent about um 218 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: a little out four years in the regiment and you know, 219 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: did uh you know, four deployments rotations to Iraq, to Afghanistan. Um. 220 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: And I remember before I went in, when I was 221 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,480 Speaker 1: in basic, the invasion of Iraq was going on, and 222 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:15,160 Speaker 1: I thought to myself, Man, I was like, I'm gonna 223 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: miss the war. I was saying a little that I 224 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: know that guys would still be rotating over there long 225 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: after I left. Um, but did you know, did my 226 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: my service there and did the Best Ranger competition a 227 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: couple of times in our six and No. Seven, great experience, 228 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: you know, training up and really what's involved in the 229 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 1: best Ranger competition because we had I think one of 230 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: the winners on a while back. Yeah, it's um, it's 231 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: a it's a great competition. It's a good sort of 232 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: pr story for the army, and it's essentially a three 233 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,440 Speaker 1: day competition UH that tests you know, rangers sort of 234 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: skills and all aspects would it be you know, physical 235 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 1: tests of you know, road marching, you know, PT tests, 236 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:05,599 Speaker 1: obstacle courses, UM, others especially disciplines like you know marksman, ship, repelling, climbing, 237 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: not tying, medical stuff um. And then you know airborne 238 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: operations and other things like that. UM. It lasts three 239 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: days long, starts Friday morning and Sunday afternoon, and you 240 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 1: do it in a buddy team. You know, because everything 241 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: about the military, you know reinforces, you know, ranger buddy, 242 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: battle buddy. You know, you never go anywhere alone, and 243 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: you know you have to push and support you your 244 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: teammate throughout the entire process. And you don't really sleep 245 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: a whole lot. Everyone's given the same amount of food, 246 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: the same equipment, and it's all all based off points. 247 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: So whoever scores the best in each event, you know, 248 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: you start moving up the ranks of the leaderboard. And 249 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: I did it twice. You know, you didn't know six, 250 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,480 Speaker 1: no seven? And you get put on special duty and 251 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: you train up for about two and a half months 252 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: just for that competition. So is this um just specifically 253 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: for Red Men guys or anyone who's tabbed, anyone who's 254 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: got a Ranger tab and his Airborne qualified you can 255 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: do it. And you know, some years have been like 256 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:13,319 Speaker 1: fifty teams, you know, UM and generally you know, twenty 257 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: and less than that will probably finish, you know, just 258 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: to finish. It is a good accomplishment to win it, obviously, 259 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: you know. Even better is it usually the Ranger Battalion 260 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: guys who win it, because those are the guys we 261 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: think of as the top, you know, I mean you well, 262 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 1: you've got guys from everywhere, you know, even from the 263 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: unit at bragg Um, guys from the guys from Ranger 264 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: Training Brigade. So it's been a mix. Generally you're gonna 265 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: see guys from regiment, the unit or Ranger Training Brigade, 266 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: you know, being the top, you know, top finishers. I've 267 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: mentioned this to Jason before. Um. You know, as the civilian, 268 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: I'm always learning more things about the military speaking with 269 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: you guys. And earlier on I booked a guy you 270 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: know who went to Ranger school and all that, and 271 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 1: I said to Nick Irving, oh, this other Army rangers 272 00:15:02,320 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: coming on and he's like, wait, wait, what's this guy's name? 273 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: And he's like, dude, that guy is not an Army ranger. 274 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: Unless you want to range your battalion, You're not a 275 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: fucking army ranger. And that was Nick Irving's you know, 276 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 1: introduction to me of like what an army ranger is 277 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: to you guys. Yeah, And a lot of times when 278 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: guys will say, I mean, listen, I have respect for 279 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 1: anyone who goes to the Ranger school and finishes it, 280 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, and and the who go to rangers, yeah, 281 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: of course, and even the guys who get recycled too, 282 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: because but what's what's the need for someone who's not 283 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,560 Speaker 1: going to a regiment or battalion, what's the need for 284 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: them to go to ranger School? Well, I mean, is 285 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: it just an accolade collection or something. Well, Ranger School 286 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: really test leadership under you know, adversity, you know, and 287 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: that's really what the It's a leadership school in the 288 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,880 Speaker 1: big army. And if you're saying an officer, infantry officer, 289 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: and you go to ranger School and you go back 290 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: to fourth Idea or the twenty five or wherever the 291 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: idea is that you can impart those lessons you learned 292 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,480 Speaker 1: under that difficult circumstance to your young eyes. Um. And 293 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: that was originally the intent of I think it was 294 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: Abram's charter with rangers is that you go to you know, 295 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: ranger school or go to the ranger regiment, and then 296 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: you go back out into the conventional military to kind 297 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: of you know, uh, put out all that information to 298 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: help build all these other guys back up. Um, what 299 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: ends up happening is a lot of guys who grow 300 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: up in regiment just stay in regiment and they want 301 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: to because it's more of an elite group rather than 302 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: doing some other kind of slower stuff. Um. But the 303 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 1: original charter was to learn those skills and then go 304 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: back out in the conventional military and and push him 305 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: out to everybody. Um. But yeah, so, but back to 306 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: your question. You know, like what Naked said, a lot 307 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: of times when guys say, hey, I was a ranger, 308 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: you you can you respond say tab or scroll you 309 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: know or both. You know so and for a lot 310 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: of regiment guys, you know, just having your TAB doesn't 311 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: mean you're you're a true ranger. But um, yeah, I 312 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: respect for anybody goes through Ranger School. It's a tough school, 313 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,399 Speaker 1: uh you know, and um, but we I consider, you know, 314 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: the the elite Rangers to be the guys who have 315 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: gone through school certain regiment, you know. For we've had 316 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 1: I've known a few Marines that went through Ranger School. 317 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: You know, Marines are you know it very We're very 318 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: prideful on things that we've earned through misery, you know 319 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 1: what I mean. And I think a lot of people 320 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: are like that in general, but we more so than anyone, 321 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: Like we take pride and stuff. So I know for 322 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: a fact, and they not because they haven't mentioned it either. 323 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 1: They all said that, you know, the Ranger School is 324 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: is a gut check. Yeah, and you know they're proud 325 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: of it because a lot of the Marine Corps Marines 326 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: that went to Ranger School that where the tab underneath 327 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,119 Speaker 1: the Penliament uniform. So it's like, you know, that's with 328 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: them every day. You know, So if it's enough for 329 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: them to carry with them every day, you know, it's 330 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 1: definitely a good check. And it is. I mean, it's 331 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,720 Speaker 1: it's basically NonStop for in more or less two months. 332 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: If you go straight through, if you get recycled, you know, man, 333 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 1: I feel for those guys who I mean. I remember 334 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,159 Speaker 1: a guy who got recycled like three times. He was 335 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: basically in Ranger School that program for maybe like eight months, 336 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 1: and he finally finished, and I was like, dude, I 337 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 1: was like, you're you're a fucking hard motherfucker, because like, 338 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: you know, I went straight through, you know, you know finished, 339 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: you know, did well. It was undergrad you know, like 340 00:18:28,119 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: kicked itsass. But I tell you what, the guys who 341 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: get recycled three times, it's probably tough for them. You know, 342 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 1: when you say recycled. There's some schools that recycle you 343 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,199 Speaker 1: at day one, which are fucking asshole ship. And then 344 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: there's some schools that drop you know, pick you up 345 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: at where you evolution you dropped off. Ranger School does both, 346 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: so they will do some day one recycles, which blows 347 00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: because you know you're starting all over again, or they'll 348 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 1: just recycle you back to the phase that you guess, 349 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: whatever is convenient for them. Yeah, And but I knew 350 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: some guys who basically recycled every phase. So they basically 351 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 1: did every phase like twice. You know, we will get 352 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: into the soft wrep TV stuff. Of course. The last 353 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: question I was wondering though about Ranger school. A Green 354 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: Beret who will not be named, once said to me, 355 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,440 Speaker 1: you know some of the seals that we've seen you 356 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: have gone to ranger school. He said, like, that's kind 357 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 1: of their punishment sometimes. Any truth to that. Well, I mean, 358 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: I know some guys in in that s F community. Um, yeah, 359 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 1: I think so, because it's it's a punishing a couple 360 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: of months. And I think you know, as a Green Beret, 361 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 1: you're not required to have a Ranger tab, just kind 362 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: of like an I guess, an extracurricular you know, and 363 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: add on. And he's referring to like Navy seals who 364 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: go to that type of thing. Yeah, I mean again 365 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: like seals, Like he's he's a seal. What does he 366 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 1: have to prove he isn't getting his Ranger tab? What 367 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: does that mean to him? So it's usually not their choice. 368 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,199 Speaker 1: It's a bigger picture, you know, Like we it's like 369 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: a foreign exchange student programs. You know, we would say 370 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: he would give you two quotas to our sniper program 371 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: if you give us two quotas to yours. And you know, 372 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: like he said, if you're in an instruct their cadre 373 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: and you're not the like the most favorite person in 374 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: the instructor cadre, chances are you're probably gonna go ok. Yeah. 375 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: And if you if you break it down to with 376 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: Ranger School versus like other especially training schools, like your 377 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: school didn't essay, teach me like hard skills of like 378 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:19,399 Speaker 1: you know, certain techniques Like if I go to like 379 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 1: a repelling school or like a climbing school advanced climbing, 380 00:20:22,359 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: I'm learning very specific techniques of how to do that. 381 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: Ranger School just teaches you how to be just put 382 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: up with with bullshit and be you know, and lead 383 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: people under adverse, difficult conditions. So I bet for a 384 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: lot of folks who are aren't in the army or 385 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,960 Speaker 1: trying to go to ranger regiment, Ranger School just feels like, um, 386 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: like a punishment at the times, because what it's teaching 387 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: is leadership under adversity. It's not necessary teaching you how 388 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: to clear rooms better or you know, um, how to 389 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: do some demolitions. Although you do some of that basic stuff, 390 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: but it's at a very sort of low level. You know, 391 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: it's about the stress management. That's okay, But you know, 392 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: to some of those people in their defense. It's probably 393 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:04,920 Speaker 1: going to be the hardest course they ever a total 394 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 1: attend in their career. How do you transition from the 395 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: military to doing film, which is what you're doing now 396 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,399 Speaker 1: is an occupation? Yeah, it's a good question. Um. You know, 397 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: after I left left Regiment, I got involved in the 398 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: in the defense industry. UM. I did work for Blackwater 399 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: Worldwide for about a year. UM. And then after I 400 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,359 Speaker 1: left Blackwater, I actually transitioned to working for Oakley. I 401 00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:34,920 Speaker 1: wear UM in the defense department as a category manager, 402 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: developing new products and I wear boots, goggles, all sorts 403 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: of stuff like that. And when I was at Oakley, 404 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: I was creating all these different products that had a 405 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,960 Speaker 1: story to them, you know, and and we used to 406 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 1: go out and really gather sort of field data for 407 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: how we would make products better, um and listening to 408 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 1: soldiers and what they needed. But we didn't have was 409 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,199 Speaker 1: a good sort of vehicle to tell those stories. You know. 410 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: We didn't have a super robust or in depth marketing 411 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: department for the military category. And I was coming out 412 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 1: with all these new products and I said, well, dude, 413 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: how are we going to tell these stories? And that's 414 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: where video came in. UM, and I started working with 415 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: the staff at Oakley to basically produce and execute you know, 416 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: pretty um involved in creative product videos and everything from 417 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:31,120 Speaker 1: you know, free fall videos, you know, snow maritime. UM. 418 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 1: You know, we use some other private facilities. We're doing 419 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: c QB, you know, advanced demolitions, all this stuff to 420 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:42,520 Speaker 1: basically showcase what these products were and tell stories and 421 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: uh you know did that for a bunch of different 422 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: products and and loved it. It was just creative and 423 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: there's lots of fun, the logistics creative element UM. And 424 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: I was definitely sensing a change that I wanted to 425 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: kind of switch gears and also come back East. And 426 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: I met uh, you know, Brandon Webb, and you know, 427 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: Brandon offered me an opportunity to create shows for soft 428 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,840 Speaker 1: Rep TV to basically leverage the creative ideas that I 429 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 1: had and also the ability to get ship done, which 430 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,720 Speaker 1: you know, I think guys in our community you know, 431 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: have a good knack for you know. So that's kind 432 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,600 Speaker 1: of how I transitioned into this role was I was 433 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: found by Brandon another friend who worked at Oakley, and 434 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: they said, hey, we've seen some of the work that 435 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 1: you've done at Oakley some of these these videos, would 436 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: you be interested in creating content for us? For Software TV? 437 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: And um I put some concepts together, some different show ideas, 438 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: pitched them, and we discussed budget, and away we went, 439 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: you know, and we started training sell the you know, 440 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,119 Speaker 1: this this first series about a year ago. I've been 441 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: doing it all year and we've got a lot of 442 00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: other shows that we're doing now for Awesome. Yeah, so yeah, 443 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: what are you moving in any other direction for the 444 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,840 Speaker 1: new shows or we're staying pretty much where we are 445 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: and where we are, Training Cell will continue, you know. 446 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: And and definitely the catalyst for Training Cell was, you know, 447 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: leveraging the experience that you know, I had in in 448 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: the soft community. You know, we we went through a 449 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 1: lot of different specialty schools when we were there, and 450 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: we afforded these opportunities. If you want to learn advanced marksmanship, 451 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: go to this guy in the world. You want to 452 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,159 Speaker 1: learn climbing, go here, you know, defensive driving and so forth. 453 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: And that was the that's the creative element behind training Cells. 454 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:40,919 Speaker 1: This is this is what we do, and where we 455 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 1: go is we find different training programs that are interesting, uh, irrelevant, 456 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,040 Speaker 1: and we go train and you know, it's not gonna 457 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: say a video shoot and photo shoot. It's we go 458 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: there and do the actual course. Do the course. I say, 459 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: these instructors and say, hey, I want to come in 460 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: and do an accelerated two day course. You know that's 461 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: gonna a few of us. You know, we're gonna come 462 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,639 Speaker 1: in their experienced guys you know, able to pick up 463 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: on things really quickly, and we're gonna film it all, 464 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,320 Speaker 1: you know, and they say, okay, let's do it. And 465 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 1: you know, there's a there's a lot of logistics go 466 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: in with it because a lot of these courses sometimes 467 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,400 Speaker 1: are you know, generally like five days long, and we're 468 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 1: trying to cram and get all your shots and be 469 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 1: ye old and all that. Yeah, it's prett difficult. So 470 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 1: it's a ton of stuff. Um, but it's been great. 471 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,159 Speaker 1: I mean we you know, filmed all all year long, 472 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: pretty wide variety of schools that we've attended, um, and 473 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 1: some of them have a lot of different you know, 474 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,360 Speaker 1: civilian opportunities as well. Like one guy worked with Buck 475 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: Doyle uh is actually former Force Force guy. He runs 476 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,920 Speaker 1: his company follow Through Consulting and in Utah Basic Gunfighting course, 477 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, and we went out and trained with him 478 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: for a few days. This is last January. But he 479 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: runs a bunch of number of different civilian based courses 480 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: for people. Um. He's worked on some different shows like 481 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: you know Shooter, but he was a great asset, but 482 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,159 Speaker 1: tons of experience and but a lot of the courses 483 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: that we do have opportunities for civilians. You know, some 484 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: of them they don't you know, some of them you 485 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,120 Speaker 1: have to be at a certain level just to kind 486 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: of get in and do some of that. Um. But 487 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: a lot of these instructors do offer different programs for 488 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: you know, like the folks who are listening now, you know, 489 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: there's opportunities out there for people to take advantage of 490 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,920 Speaker 1: and do some of this training. And for those of 491 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:31,720 Speaker 1: you watching who haven't seen it, you can check out 492 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,920 Speaker 1: all this content at softwarep tv dot us. I'm I'm 493 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: wondering what was like the most fun episode of training 494 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: Stell to work on we did? Um, we went to Hawaii. 495 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,440 Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't love going to Hawaii, but let's 496 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 1: past June. We went to Hawaii. We filmed a couple 497 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: of things there and we did some advanced climbing techniques 498 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: which are pretty interesting and some different you know, we 499 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 1: found some private land out there, we did some jungle warfare, 500 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: a lot of combat tracking. UM. I think that was 501 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: a very fun episode. I guess I probably have to 502 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: say our last episode we did down in Georgia was 503 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 1: actually pretty pretty fun. We UM. I went to place 504 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: called Arena Training Facility just in Blakely, Georgia, outside of 505 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,479 Speaker 1: Fort Benning. And I've spent a lot of time at 506 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,840 Speaker 1: Fort Benning, so I'm sure a lot of other people 507 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: have to but we just had free reign to do 508 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 1: whatever we we kind of wanted to do. We did 509 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: some timber cutting charges, so we basically did we set 510 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 1: up like a v I. UM. You know, I actually 511 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 1: ended up driving the van, you know, and had had 512 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: the time the break at the right moment, so I 513 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: didn't destroy the van. But we did a lot of 514 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 1: advanced demolitions when we were down there. UM that last time. 515 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 1: This is just the only a month ago. So I 516 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: think that was a pretty good, uh good week down there. 517 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,320 Speaker 1: But everyone's different. I mean we've been in you know, 518 00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: they went, We've been in I to Hoo, Texas, Utah, Georgia, Hawaii. Um, 519 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: and then we'll be in Florida here in March, be 520 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: an upset in New York in February. Awesome, Yeah, so 521 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,840 Speaker 1: is it you always have the same cadre guys that 522 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: rolled with you. Yeah, We've I've got a like a 523 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 1: pool of guys who are you know, still you know, 524 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 1: pretty up to speed with a variety of training, who 525 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,680 Speaker 1: they can just kind of be seamless and jump right in. Um, 526 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: and who have the schedule that's flexible enough to to 527 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 1: do this type of stuff. Um. So I've got a 528 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,600 Speaker 1: group of guys that are are great in the show 529 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 1: and and you know how to you know, do all 530 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 1: this training and can pick it up pretty quickly. Because 531 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,240 Speaker 1: what we're finding is you don't just seem need to 532 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: be already great at a lot of different things. You know. 533 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,520 Speaker 1: It's the ability to pick up things really quickly. You know, 534 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: we did an episode, um gosh, we did like a 535 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: horseback episode not that long ago, which is actually going 536 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 1: to be released this month. Um. And it's the ability 537 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: to pick up skills just very quickly, which is a 538 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 1: skill into itself. And so that's what I look for 539 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 Speaker 1: with guys that we want to use in the show. Um. 540 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,040 Speaker 1: It pays off because you gotta make sure you bring 541 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 1: guys who can and you have a tight schedule so 542 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: you don't got time to really mess no. So um yeah, 543 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: so next year. Right now, in February, we've got some 544 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 1: we're doing some ice climbing, uh and some winter mobility stuff, 545 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,200 Speaker 1: which is pretty technically demanding. And then uh in March 546 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: we're doing some more maritime work, uh, some scuba stuff. 547 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: Um doing that down to Florida. I think that's pretty awesome. 548 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: I was always I gotta get you out to dude. 549 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: I was telling ian Um a couple of times that 550 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 1: told him, Dude, that's like the life which still work 551 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: after I think when you and I had traded some emails, 552 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: but I think you were over. I was like hey yeah, 553 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, no problem. You're like I'm in 554 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:02,160 Speaker 1: like Afghanistan. I'm like they we were thinking of, you know, 555 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: because I had to be here, you know what I mean. 556 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: And then honestly, I was just financially in a bad place. 557 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: I was like, I can't really jump ship. So and 558 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 1: that's the toughest thing with getting guys to do this. 559 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: It's like you're not going to make a ton of 560 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,280 Speaker 1: cash off and having a schedule to do it like 561 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: I mean, but the truth is with the more with 562 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: the more effort they put into it, with the more 563 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: content content you guys are producing, the more you know 564 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: sponsors will come in the better to get a venture. 565 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: But you're right, people need to put in some work, 566 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:34,040 Speaker 1: you know, and and fun, man, just how how how 567 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,600 Speaker 1: much better is that? It brings a smile on my face? 568 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 1: Like what are we doing next month? We're doing a 569 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,560 Speaker 1: freaking advanced breacher course. Yeah, that's that's basically every month 570 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 1: we're doing a different training course. And it's been fun 571 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: for me to jump back in and do some of 572 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: it too, because, um, you know, kind of just dust off, 573 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: you know, you know a little bit and um and 574 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,320 Speaker 1: uh you find how much some of these skills are 575 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 1: very perishable, they are. But it's been a trip, man, 576 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: I mean, this past year has been a wonderful and 577 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,719 Speaker 1: I've been very grateful for the opportunity and um, I'm 578 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: very proud of what we've built, you know, this year. 579 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 1: And we still have a few shows that are filmed 580 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,200 Speaker 1: we haven't even released yet. So they're releasing the next 581 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 1: couple of months and so next year we're gonna do 582 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: a minimum of ten new episodes and we're gonna do 583 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: some more shows too. And if you guys want to 584 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: check out any of that content, it's softwarep TV dot us. 585 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: Become a subscriber, you know, and the more people that subscribe, 586 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:32,640 Speaker 1: the more cool ship you're gonna get to do in 587 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,480 Speaker 1: the future. I don't know what I can give away here, 588 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 1: but I got to lend a voice over to an 589 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: upcoming project. Can you talk about that at all? Or 590 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 1: which one's at the Oh? You want me to talk 591 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:51,400 Speaker 1: about that's up to us? Just the street one? Oh? Yeah? Okay? Um, 592 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: I mean I don't even know much about it. You're like, 593 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: can you afford this? Watched the trailer and I was like, 594 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: this looks bad. Yes, okay, if you can't talk about it, 595 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 1: I get it. One I probably can't talk about, but 596 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: I can talk about another one that. What I can 597 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 1: say is there's a lot of great content coming that 598 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: we can say. I mean, uh, well, I can first 599 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: say one show that we're bringing back is Inside the 600 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: Team Room. Jason is going to join us for that, 601 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: Jason from the Cloth with our friends Steve Ralston, Navy, 602 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,160 Speaker 1: c O Brandon, and Jim Weston as well. So the 603 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: next one is gonna be good. Yeah, we're gonna film 604 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: that and we've been San Diego in January right before 605 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: shot show. We're gonna film that. Is it a marine 606 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:36,480 Speaker 1: one or is it all right? Well? I know is 607 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,280 Speaker 1: it's in sand A going it's awesome and uh that 608 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: should be that should be a lot of fun. And 609 00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 1: you know that shows it's a it's a good show. 610 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: I mean it's a lot of good dialogue and guys 611 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,640 Speaker 1: talking about real stuff. I mean, even like this podcast, 612 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,200 Speaker 1: which you know, I think there's a lot of authenticity 613 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,760 Speaker 1: to it. Um, so super ampt on on doing that. 614 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,640 Speaker 1: That's in January, and then um there's another show that 615 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 1: I won't give too many details away, but the inspiration 616 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: is basically just all these kind of current events that 617 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,160 Speaker 1: have been going on lately, and uh, part of the 618 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: folkus is all these protests and rallies and sort of 619 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 1: this divisiveness that's kind of existing in America today. And 620 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: we've kind of got a creative way that we're going 621 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,640 Speaker 1: to capture some of this and you know, from definitely 622 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: an objective point of view and kind of share it 623 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 1: with the masses. And part of the inspiration for this 624 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: idea which I'm loosely describing was it. So I actually 625 00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: watched a little bit of like Tucker cosson tonight. I 626 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: think I's ever seen that show. So he has these 627 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: people on the show who they're you know, a lot 628 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 1: of them are very liberal, you know, uh, you know, leftists, 629 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: and they come on the show and he just like 630 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 1: badgers them and just like obliterates them. But they don't 631 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,960 Speaker 1: care because they have a platform to speak. And I 632 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: find that that's very sort of common thing with a 633 00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: lot of people who care passionately about something. They don't 634 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 1: they they're just looking for the platform and they'll they'll 635 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:11,280 Speaker 1: talk to anybody. And then I was noticing the amount 636 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: of protests and rallies are going on across America and 637 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 1: the fact that people care enough about an issue that 638 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 1: they're gonna go out, whether it be rainy or cold 639 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: or whatever, to go beat on drums and yell and 640 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,279 Speaker 1: scream about something, you know. And I find that like 641 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,840 Speaker 1: kind of fascinating, like the fact that you know, people 642 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: care that much about something that they're going to go 643 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 1: out and do that, and think that that is a 644 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 1: way to kind of, you know, move the country in 645 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 1: a certain direction. And there's something that's really interesting about 646 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 1: listening to those people, and I think it's their voices 647 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 1: that should be heard, you know, whether it be the 648 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,839 Speaker 1: far right or the far left, but it's stuff that 649 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,560 Speaker 1: I think people are interested in hearing. Um, and that 650 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: kind of shows where America is today. UM. And I'm 651 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,399 Speaker 1: not necessarily say it's gonna heal America, but at least 652 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: kind of gives people an idea of what's out there 653 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:07,319 Speaker 1: and what's going on and what voices are out there. 654 00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: So the show is based basically based loosely around those concepts. 655 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 1: We're gonna start filming next week. That's awesome, man. Have 656 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,960 Speaker 1: you have any questions about this type of stuff, Guys, 657 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:20,680 Speaker 1: shoot them over. We'll get to them next. But I 658 00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: was just gonna say real quick that, Uh, Derek Annon, 659 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 1: one of our writers, went to one of the protests 660 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 1: in Dallas and it was like the Anti five people 661 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,600 Speaker 1: that Black Lives Matter people with pro Trump maga make 662 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 1: America gray in people. And he said on the podcast 663 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: with Us, which this wasn't reported by the news, that 664 00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: the Anti five people were fighting with the Black Lives 665 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: Matter people and that was kind of interesting to see. 666 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: It was because one of the Anti five people I 667 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: think called a guy in the Black Lives Matter side 668 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:50,800 Speaker 1: and Uncle Tom and they told him to like calm 669 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: down and stuff. And you don't really hear about that. 670 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: You just hear two left wing groups. You don't think 671 00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,640 Speaker 1: there's any infighting like that. But the anti the Anti 672 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,080 Speaker 1: five people seem to be the more violent of the 673 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,480 Speaker 1: groups between them and Black Lives Matter, just based on 674 00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 1: what did Derek said on the Show with Us Yeah, 675 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: actually he said that the Black Lives Matter UM activists 676 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,879 Speaker 1: was the one telling the ANTIFA people to calm down, 677 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: and that's when they he that's when he was called in. 678 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,399 Speaker 1: He was like, you're making us look back, you're making 679 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,800 Speaker 1: us look bad at that. They're like, I'm like, whoa, 680 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,959 Speaker 1: So you're not and you're not gonna find that through 681 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,560 Speaker 1: standard reporting. Just it's very so high level and that's 682 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: what we I mean, I hope we get in the 683 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 1: next and because that's like blind rage, it's like ignorance. 684 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 1: It's like just you got a wall in front of 685 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,919 Speaker 1: you and you're not trying to hear anything. I said 686 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: it on the Rob O'Neil show recently. Um, you know, 687 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 1: he's a Fox News contributor and I was like with 688 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,840 Speaker 1: all you know, respect to Fox News and where you 689 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: work and everything. I think a lot of people go 690 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,719 Speaker 1: to our website because they don't trust any of them. 691 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,120 Speaker 1: They don't trust anyone in the mainstream media, be a 692 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,160 Speaker 1: conservative or liberal, and they're looking for an alternative place 693 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,919 Speaker 1: to find news, and we're one of yeah, and find 694 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:04,760 Speaker 1: it being very objective to I'd agree. So like guy again, 695 00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 1: I've news kind of streaming all day, which is a 696 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,440 Speaker 1: good and bad thing. But I'll flip around between Fox, CNN, 697 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 1: NBC just to get the variety of perspectives. And they're 698 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,319 Speaker 1: all fairly skewed. I mean, they're all biased towards, you know, 699 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 1: one party or the other. I would say about our network, 700 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: and you know, maybe a little bias is that it's 701 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,280 Speaker 1: it's fairly objective, you know, And that's what this show 702 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,719 Speaker 1: is is going to be about, is getting an objective 703 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: perspective on the streets, you know, with people who are 704 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,400 Speaker 1: super passionate about there, you know, their beliefs. You know, 705 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,719 Speaker 1: I'd be interesting. I think you see to see more 706 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,040 Speaker 1: or less where whatever it was that agitated them to 707 00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,120 Speaker 1: the point, like you said that they are going out 708 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:52,839 Speaker 1: of their way to hoot and holler like what that 709 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:57,480 Speaker 1: one thing was. I'll be it's intriguing to to find 710 00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,759 Speaker 1: that out. What what would that be? And it's I 711 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 1: have a hard time even kind of thinking about those 712 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,600 Speaker 1: types of people because I think about issues that I'm 713 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,759 Speaker 1: passionate about, and am I passionate enough to go on 714 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: a city street and protest for it? You know? I 715 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's more that you have that 716 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,759 Speaker 1: foresight to know that at the in the end that 717 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,680 Speaker 1: they're probably not gonna make a difference. That yeah, and 718 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,799 Speaker 1: that too, that's my my I just looked past that 719 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,560 Speaker 1: one moment in time and say and then nothing happens. 720 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: So I'm staying home. Yeah yeah, right, I'm like it's 721 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,960 Speaker 1: actually effective means for change protest. I don't know. I mean, 722 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,680 Speaker 1: it's just you know, so getting to you guys who 723 00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: are watching. Uh, this is one of the first times 724 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,399 Speaker 1: where ever on Twitch. So I'm gonna show some love 725 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:51,080 Speaker 1: to twitch. Uh morning Wood, that's his game, says, I'll 726 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: subscribe once Jason gets on the show. So that's training 727 00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: is a me. I'm flattered. I'll be flattering. We we've 728 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,440 Speaker 1: talked about this before, but not Drew kind of kind 729 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:05,879 Speaker 1: of Palmer asks thoughts on the killing of a Green 730 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 1: Beret by two Navy seals supposedly. Yeah, so my opinion 731 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 1: if you have one, Yeah, I mean listen to mean that. Um, 732 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,359 Speaker 1: I'm sure that stuff, you know, can happen. I mean, 733 00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: you know, in a deployment setting, I mean there's uh, 734 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,279 Speaker 1: but this way, you're away from the flagpole, you know, 735 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:28,680 Speaker 1: pretty far away. So you know, I remember being deployed. 736 00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,440 Speaker 1: You know, different things go on, whether it be drinking 737 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: or other activities or whatever. You know, things can get 738 00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 1: out of hand. I mean, my instinct is that something 739 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,280 Speaker 1: got out of hand. Uh, there's some combatives or something, 740 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,839 Speaker 1: and he is either an accident or those guys were 741 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,560 Speaker 1: doing something that was pretty illegal and they wanted to 742 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:52,360 Speaker 1: make it quiet and go away. So yeah. Um. YouTube 743 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 1: Steady Student asks, well, training episodes, training cell episodes be 744 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,319 Speaker 1: longer in the future. Yeah, I mean, so the goal 745 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: of it's a good question, training to sell episodes be longer. 746 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,360 Speaker 1: The goal of the show is to really make a 747 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,799 Speaker 1: half hour program. But obviously when you're watching on Software TV, 748 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,239 Speaker 1: we don't put in any commercials or anything like that, 749 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,359 Speaker 1: so it feels really short. Yeah, it feels really short. 750 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:20,000 Speaker 1: So it ends up being about you know, twenty minutes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 751 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,800 Speaker 1: no commercials. Yeah, so like with a half hour standard 752 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 1: with a half hour program, I think it's twenty three 753 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,839 Speaker 1: minutes roughly with you know, so you're gonna have twenty 754 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,360 Speaker 1: three minutes of a show and they've progressively been getting longer. 755 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:38,120 Speaker 1: Obviously has our budgets gotten bigger? So yeah, very cool. Well, 756 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,440 Speaker 1: if you guys have any other questions, keep them coming. 757 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,320 Speaker 1: I don't know if you have any questions about upcoming 758 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,680 Speaker 1: program Jason or or any of the other stuff with 759 00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:47,680 Speaker 1: soft Rup TV or anything else you want to get 760 00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,080 Speaker 1: out there. I mean, we're we're super excited about uh, 761 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 1: you know next year. Um, so we've got training Cell 762 00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,399 Speaker 1: is going to continue. Um, we've got this other show 763 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,360 Speaker 1: that's focused on protests and rallies, got in side the 764 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 1: team Room, We've got those are great. We've got another 765 00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:08,759 Speaker 1: show that's um focused more on kind of the kind 766 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,279 Speaker 1: of called The Footsteps of Heroes and basically looking at, 767 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 1: you know, the lives of some notable veterans who have 768 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,160 Speaker 1: transitioned out of the military and what's what's helped them 769 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 1: succeed and you know, what are the lessons learned and uh, 770 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,439 Speaker 1: you know, it's more of an inspirational show. But yeah, 771 00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:27,600 Speaker 1: and that's another program we're doing. And then we have 772 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 1: some other big kind of programs that are more adventure 773 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: survival esque that will probably happen towards the back half. 774 00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 1: I know, you've got a hard out here and you've 775 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,520 Speaker 1: got to get heading out, um. But I guess one 776 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 1: last one for me is that filming training cell with 777 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: military guys who are doing these type of operations post 778 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,600 Speaker 1: their military career, you kind of by default have to 779 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,200 Speaker 1: be a year guy. What what year do you carry 780 00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,719 Speaker 1: every day? What do you recommend people carry every day? So, 781 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,920 Speaker 1: I mean, we we work with a lot of folks 782 00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,400 Speaker 1: in the industry for training sell and where where I 783 00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,080 Speaker 1: go about it is I look at what types of 784 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,240 Speaker 1: training we're doing and then select the best equipment, um, 785 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,640 Speaker 1: and then hope that they actually sponsor the show, because yeah, 786 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,000 Speaker 1: I mean, and I'll be honest, We've had companies approach 787 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,280 Speaker 1: us who want to sponsor the show, but their gears sucks. 788 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,839 Speaker 1: And I'm like, listen, and you can't cut corners with us, no, 789 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,360 Speaker 1: because we know that crap. Because especially contractors, dude, we're 790 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:31,120 Speaker 1: constantly buying new gear. And you know that's everyone on 791 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:34,160 Speaker 1: the on the contract is going through different versions of 792 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,920 Speaker 1: bouncers and belts and all that, so we know what 793 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 1: the crappy stuff is, you know, yeah, and in in 794 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,040 Speaker 1: and people notice too. I mean, if if you made 795 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: a show. And that's why I think the show is 796 00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,720 Speaker 1: very authentic is because it's real training. We don't cut corners. 797 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:51,719 Speaker 1: We use the best gear possible. And you know the 798 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:54,399 Speaker 1: folks who have provided that best gear like a good 799 00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,719 Speaker 1: example as a company like First Spear. You know, it's 800 00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,880 Speaker 1: all made in the USA. Product make a lot of 801 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,200 Speaker 1: different load carriage and tech styles and and some very 802 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:05,200 Speaker 1: innovative products. And you know we worked with them, uh 803 00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:07,920 Speaker 1: and they're they're full sponsor of the show. Uh, you know, 804 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 1: you know, product and and otherwise as well. And UM 805 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,680 Speaker 1: they've seen the value of what we're doing and and 806 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,759 Speaker 1: it's real training and they want to be a part 807 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,920 Speaker 1: of it. And h it's been a great relationship with them. 808 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,640 Speaker 1: UM and other companies like Opscore, you know, Dan of 809 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:26,000 Speaker 1: Defense work with Vortex Optics UM and then some other 810 00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,680 Speaker 1: smaller companies that are you know like Atlas Bipods, you know, 811 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:34,080 Speaker 1: great product. Most small business, but awesome of course survival making. 812 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,799 Speaker 1: They make strobes, um do it defense. You know, they 813 00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,399 Speaker 1: make these rapid transition sites, you know, iron sights and 814 00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:45,080 Speaker 1: you know and over. You know, my experience in the military, 815 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,120 Speaker 1: you know, as basically got me exposed to a variety 816 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,640 Speaker 1: of different gears, so I know what's good and what's not. 817 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,680 Speaker 1: And when we looked at training cell, we knew all 818 00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,359 Speaker 1: this training that we're gonna do, which some of it 819 00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,400 Speaker 1: was you know, all that's pretty extremely dangerous. You know, 820 00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna get the best gear possible and then hopefully 821 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,080 Speaker 1: they'll give us some money to What's crazy to me 822 00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:10,320 Speaker 1: is that you created your own R and D industry, 823 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,680 Speaker 1: like where you're no ship conducting R and D and 824 00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:18,120 Speaker 1: filming it. It's actually kind of funny. Yeah, you're you're right. 825 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,759 Speaker 1: I mean we've done you know, we put stuff through 826 00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,680 Speaker 1: the ringer. We actually get a lot of new products. 827 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,120 Speaker 1: Um we put you know, put the test right away, 828 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 1: you know. So it's actually a great opportunity to field 829 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,759 Speaker 1: test a lot of stuff. Yeah, and with guys that 830 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,080 Speaker 1: were in the industry, like Ian says, you know, it's 831 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,480 Speaker 1: like okay, you know, cut the bullshit. What do you 832 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,200 Speaker 1: want us to test jumping, diving, you know, rock climbing, 833 00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:45,040 Speaker 1: will do it. That's a great, great platform. Man, Pretty impressed. Yeah, definitely. So. 834 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,600 Speaker 1: Last thing before we get out of here, which we've 835 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,000 Speaker 1: been talking about all along, as a reminder for all 836 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,480 Speaker 1: of those who are listening, for a limited time you 837 00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:56,399 Speaker 1: can receive a fifty percent discounted membership to softwarep TV, 838 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,120 Speaker 1: our channel that offers the most exclusive shows, documentaries and 839 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:05,880 Speaker 1: interviews covering the most exciting military content today. 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