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Speaker 1: You're listening to Soft Red Radio Special Operations, military news

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Speaker 1: and straight talk with the guys in the community. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what's up. Welcome back to another episode of Soft Rep Radio.

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Speaker 1: Those that you are watching already see that I have

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Speaker 1: my guest on and it is Mike laithe Seal team

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Speaker 1: for operator United States Navy drifter in life. I like

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Speaker 1: to see those bumper stickers out there on the road

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Speaker 1: that say not all who wander our loss. Mike, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show, Arad. I appreciate it. It's awesome to

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Speaker 1: be on here. Yeah, it's we're happy to have you know.

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Speaker 1: Brandon's like, YO, dial them up, let's get him, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, let's get it. And what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about is, really, what was it that drove you

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Speaker 1: to join the seals? You know, how old were you

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Speaker 1: and was it like a high school? Like, tell me

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Speaker 1: a little bit about what took you from boom. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of a funny story, so, I mean, everyone's story

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Speaker 1: that gets to the seal teams or any special operations

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Speaker 1: in fifth grade, I got in trouble for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: I was always getting in trouble. I got grounded and

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Speaker 1: I had was TV. So my mom was like, read

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Speaker 1: big gold trident on it. I had no idea what

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Speaker 1: forgot that I did that. And when I graduated seal training,

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Speaker 1: one of my buddies, his mom was like, they were

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Speaker 1: And I was like, that's pretty cool. Yeah, you're uplishing

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Speaker 1: What was your need of the Navy at first? When

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Speaker 1: you before you got two buds, Like, you know, we

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, there was not so much divisiveness.

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Speaker 1: and I just would like to see, you know, us

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Speaker 1: I'm the same. Yeah, I just hun and I'm glad

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Speaker 1: the comments. Gino is saying, I think that's more like

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Speaker 1: Philly for cheese steaks. Oh, you gotta be stoked at

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Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to them? Yeah, a Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: cool tidbits with this Super Bowl. Well here in Utah,

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Speaker 1: they run an awesome podcast. It might just be called

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Speaker 1: a prediction. All right. You're calling it for who oh

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Speaker 1: let's do it now. The thing you talked about was

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do ten more years and you're like, entrepreneur. Huh,

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Speaker 1: they do is like they'll go put on like a

426
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,439
Speaker 1: small subset of their cameras and then they have the

427
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 1: local police run drills with their security team, like an

428
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,440
Speaker 1: active shooter drill, etcetera. And they do it without the

429
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 1: software running, and they do it with the software running

430
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:21,919
Speaker 1: because they want to test that. They want to like

431
00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 1: punch holes in it and they want to kick the tires,

432
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 1: and we're like, yeah, go for it. Do it everyone.

433
00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 1: After they use it and they get the alerts and stuff,

434
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,320
Speaker 1: they're just like, damn this needs to be on every camera.

435
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:33,399
Speaker 1: This is so helpful because if you think about it, now,

436
00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,679
Speaker 1: an active shooter event happens, the way the police are

437
00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,159
Speaker 1: responding is from a nine one one call. So shots

438
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 1: are fired at whatever building or whatever location. Everyone starts scattering,

439
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,320
Speaker 1: some people run, some people don't. They have tunnel vision,

440
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,199
Speaker 1: their hearts rights through the roof, they're sweating, they're scared,

441
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,560
Speaker 1: they're locking up. And then within a minute of that shooting,

442
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:55,600
Speaker 1: you're finally getting some NIE on one calls and a

443
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 1: person is like, hey, there's there's a there's a shooter here,

444
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,359
Speaker 1: and they're where are you And they're like they just

445
00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 1: named a building or the campus, like oh, I'm at

446
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 1: such and such school or such and such mall or whatever,

447
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 1: such and such military base. Okay where and it could

448
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 1: be like a hundred acre campus and they like, we'd

449
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 1: dialing them into to the X to exactly where they

450
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,520
Speaker 1: need to go, not only that from one oh three,

451
00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: yeah right, And so once the police or first responders

452
00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 1: like use our sister, like damn, this is a game changer,

453
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, it's gonna it's gonna help. Now.

454
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 1: Is it like the cure all to this? No? Absolutely not.

455
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,639
Speaker 1: But it's like it's something moving us in a right

456
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,679
Speaker 1: there action to make a difference. Well, I completely agree

457
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,719
Speaker 1: with that, you know, and if it can help, you know,

458
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 1: to just extinguish the situation. You know, no one wants

459
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: it to be a loss of life, right, but still

460
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,880
Speaker 1: lock up your guns at home, parents, Yes, yes, put

461
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: a lock on it. Yes, let's start there, Okay, because

462
00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: that's an accessible situation, right, let's just be aware of that.

463
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: And I have that locked up. You should have yours

464
00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: locked up, have access to it. I have a thumb

465
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 1: print style situations. So, you know, because they're coming out

466
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,760
Speaker 1: with these this tech that goes actually on gun grips

467
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,439
Speaker 1: where it's only your fingerprint will allow you to just

468
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: a weapon or like whoever else you have in your

469
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: environment for that thing. And I was like, so it's biometric. Yeah,

470
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,439
Speaker 1: I was like that's interesting, Like, I mean, I wouldn't

471
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 1: put it on like my hunting well, I don't know,

472
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 1: I would have to. I would have to play with

473
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 1: it the seeds. See how I feel about it, Because

474
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: if you're wrapped in red the hot to trot, then

475
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,399
Speaker 1: you don't want to have to thumb print to like

476
00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 1: get access. I mean really right, but to get it

477
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: out of the glass case. I think practicing safety is

478
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,600
Speaker 1: going to be the first thing at home talking to

479
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 1: your kids. Let them know like, hey, this is in

480
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:49,879
Speaker 1: the house. This is the things that they're put away.

481
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 1: They're locked up, you know, be open with your yeah, exactly, Yeah,

482
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,720
Speaker 1: unless you want to go and do something with mom

483
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 1: or dad or I have kids and that they they

484
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: go and stuff with me, and and you just teach

485
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: common sense gun handling skills and you go through range

486
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: safety requirements and everything like that, like, hey, this is

487
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 1: the muzzle, this is when it's hot, this is like,

488
00:23:11,440 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: this is the chamber, this is the safety. This is

489
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 1: a trigger. Don't a trigger, Like, don't swing your muzzle

490
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: around like it's this is why you cleaning stuff. My

491
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,120
Speaker 1: dad taught me stuff I learned in boy Scouts. It's

492
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: it's stuff I teach. Did you have some time in

493
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: the Scouts? Is that right? Yeah? Dude. I love the

494
00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,679
Speaker 1: Scouts When I was growing up and my dad was

495
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 1: involved with it with me and my brother, and then

496
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: I got to I was actually about to make Eagle

497
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: Scout and I was going in ninth grade, so I

498
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: was gonna be like the youngest equal scout in our troop.

499
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: I had like two more things to do. But then

500
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: I was going to the high school, and uh, it

501
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: wasn't cool anymore, and alls I want to go to

502
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: dances and chase girls and hang out with my buddies.

503
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,359
Speaker 1: I don't want to go camping with a bunch of

504
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: dudes anymore. Now I love camping with a bunch of dudes.

505
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,160
Speaker 1: But it was like it was like at the time,

506
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm not doing that. I'm not

507
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,719
Speaker 1: on no right and it's in the back me too, bro,

508
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: don don't worry about it. I got to be uh,

509
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: let's see. So I went from tenderfoot to the next one,

510
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: and then I was pretty much done at about fifteen

511
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,000
Speaker 1: skateboarding and having a skate shop and all this kind

512
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: of stuff. I was like, what am I doing? You know,

513
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 1: it's like I gotta go sell skateboards tomorrow. And then

514
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: now my son, though, he's pushing towards a life, right,

515
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: he needs to get a life as a scout, so

516
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 1: he's working on that. You know, he's fourteen, and we

517
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: find you know that as long as you can keep

518
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 1: probably staying the course from fourteen right now to fifteen

519
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: and accomplishing that. They're probably gonna get it once they

520
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 1: hit fifteen sixteen, they're gonna be coming back into Scouts

521
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: because they have found out they get a rank when

522
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 1: they get that eagle, and they're coming back into the

523
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: troop and they're like, hey, I just need to catch up.

524
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: And one of my young men, he comes in, he's

525
00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 1: a sixteen year old and he's not even a star yet,

526
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 1: and he's trying to catch up, you know, and it's like, bro,

527
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,399
Speaker 1: you gotta have at least six months between life and

528
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 1: the eagle, you know, just even just to even get that,

529
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 1: you have to have all these service projects. And he's

530
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,640
Speaker 1: so he's chasing it, right. It's just something that's always

531
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: just like, oh, stick with him here if you're karate. Yeah.

532
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,159
Speaker 1: Every summer I was, we would go to like uh

533
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:12,639
Speaker 1: they would have camps out on the East coast, like

534
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: big big boy Scout camps, like with no Camp Nobi Bosco,

535
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: bush Kill Falls. I would stay there for like a

536
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: week or two in the summer and just like working

537
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: all my different marrow badges and make fires from run

538
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,360
Speaker 1: around in the woods and play Capture the Flag and

539
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 1: go to the lake and it was awesome. You know

540
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 1: that totally just goes right into what you went into

541
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: in the navy. You know, yeah, who needs to start

542
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 1: a fire? Who's cold? Let's shiver. Watch if we shiver.

543
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,920
Speaker 1: We'll stay alive until you're tired, and then you can't

544
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: shiver anymore, but we'll try. You know here, you are right, simple,

545
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: simple things. It's funny when you see a thirteen year

546
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 1: old leading grown adults on a seven point five mile

547
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 1: hike into the backwoods, but they're like, this is that plant,

548
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: this is that plant, that's that animal, and this is

549
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,160
Speaker 1: that rocket. Don't step there. I mean, if there's something

550
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 1: to be said about that. With all of this business

551
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: that you're going after with the d D are they

552
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 1: are they pretty heavily with your company, I would imagine.

553
00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: I mean it's tough doing government contracts, right, so you

554
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: have to really walk the dog, and it takes it's

555
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: a really long process and cycle. So we started off

556
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,120
Speaker 1: with like super small they're called s b i RS

557
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 1: Small Business Innovative Research Grants or something along those lines.

558
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: And we started off small, like really small ones where

559
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: it was like a proof of concept and like a

560
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: power point presentation, and then it went to like making

561
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: it a reality. So the Air Force sponsored US for

562
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: a couple of those grants to do stuff at different

563
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: air bases, submarine bases have worked with US armies picking

564
00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: up and so now it's like we've done really well,

565
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: and particularly in the d D space or like within

566
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: the military basis, it's starting to spread to other things

567
00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 1: within like just a huge umbrella of the d O D.

568
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: And so yeah, we see a world where we're going

569
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,360
Speaker 1: to be on many more military bases with their security count. Yeah,

570
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: I could see that shooters across military bases like oh yeah,

571
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: like Pentecle, Hawaii. Yeah, come on, I mean really, you know, uh,

572
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, that's crazy. You know, it's just such

573
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: a surreal conversation I'm having about right now with you

574
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: as this whole you know, active shooter at these places

575
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: and you know how we're trying to thwart it, and uh,

576
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of bringing it home a little bit. I

577
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: just so don't mind me if i feel I'm getting somber.

578
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: I just feel a little like, you know, my son

579
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: was in an active drill at school, you know, and

580
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: they forgot to release them from it and let them

581
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: know it was a drill, and so one of the

582
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: little girls in the class was just like crying and

583
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,440
Speaker 1: screaming because it was about twenty minutes had gone by

584
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: and they were like still sheltered in place and no

585
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: one had like released the kids from this drill that

586
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,239
Speaker 1: they planned, and so they yeah, I mean that's kind

587
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: of like just trauma. Yeah. I tell people like it's so,

588
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: you know, my parents and stuff to grow up doing

589
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 1: nuclear fallout shelter drills because of the Cold War. Then

590
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,359
Speaker 1: we grew up doing firelarm drills. Like the idea of

591
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: an active shooter drolls like not even close, not not

592
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: even in the realm of reality. Then you had senior

593
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: in high school and the combine happened, and it's just

594
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 1: like the world drastically changed from that, or at least

595
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: in the United States, and now we have our kids

596
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: doing these active shooter drolls all the time, like it's

597
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: like norm like a fire alarm drill, and you're like,

598
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: what the fuck. And that's why I see it. Yeah,

599
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: I never had that camera eventually, or this type of

600
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: technology being on every camera eventually, just that it's more

601
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: way more. It's like twelve or fifteen times more people

602
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: die from gun violence every year than they do fires.

603
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: But every building you walk into as a smoke detector, firelarm,

604
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: higher suppression system, and like it's just gonna be code

605
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: where you have to have this technology on to help

606
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: with the first responder so they co get medical aid

607
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: and aarro as fast as possible to stop the threat

608
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: and uh, get people, it's true. And get some decent

609
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: cameras for your security system. What pixel camera back, you

610
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 1: know what I mean? I want cameras that can at

611
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: least see the assailants stabbed me, okay, so they could

612
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: catch him right, Like who was that? You know, it's

613
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: like I may not make it, but at least you

614
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: got the footage. And when you see some of the

615
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: footage that comes over the news of like whatever robbery

616
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: or something like that kind of news, and you're like,

617
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: what is that camera from like five? What? What is that? Really?

618
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: I mean? Is that is that coda? Black and white film?

619
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: What are they what are they still using? There was

620
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: a then record that Yeah, it's true. It's like a

621
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: little bit goes into invest in your security system, right,

622
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,160
Speaker 1: that's what you're there to help with too. I'm sure

623
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: you've got some quality systems that you can recommend if

624
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: somebody decides to, you know, hit you up. And I

625
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: just want to let anyone know, no one's no one's

626
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: paying me to talk about his business. This is something

627
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: that's very specific and very top of the conversation. And

628
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: and he's leading le even the charge with this artificial

629
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: intelligence and the conversation of facial recognition. We're all being

630
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: facially recognized, whether you think it's walking down the street

631
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: or when you go to look at your iPhone. Okay,

632
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: when you're like looking at your cell phone and it's

633
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: like facial recognition to open that thing, like every every Yeah,

634
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: we don't do any facial like. We just focused on

635
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: detecting guns, which is great. We're like, we're focusing on

636
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: this one specific type of object. We're not collecting any

637
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Speaker 1: personal identifiable information. We're not making lists of people to

638
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Speaker 1: watch or anything like that. We're just straight up like, hey,

639
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Speaker 1: if you want to know if there's a gun on

640
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: your campus or your your business or your base or

641
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: whatever whatever the environment is, like shopping mall, because you know,

642
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: hospital right here, there's a gun right here, and then

643
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: they enact that's right, they enact their their protocols to

644
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: respond to that a while the first responders are coming. Yeah,

645
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: it's like was that old school that's the old Chevy

646
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Speaker 1: car Star where you'd hit it. It's like you roll

647
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Speaker 1: and it automatically like sends the satellite signal like you're

648
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Speaker 1: an accident. We're sitting one right to you know, right

649
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: onto your spot now on star. Yeah, it's like I'm

650
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 1: not also not paid by them for plugging them. But

651
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: on start right, we all know what that was. You push.

652
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: It's like you must have a nine dollar a month membership,

653
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: like I have my Like, oh yeah, exactly, exactly. Well,

654
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: I mean it's just the way of the future. You know,

655
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: technology is gaining steam. You know, you've got you know,

656
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 1: super artificial intelligence sensors out there in the world since

657
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: for smart cities being constructed, and you know the gun recognition,

658
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 1: weapon recognition, you know, probably crossbow recognition, I mean recognition. Yeah.

659
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: I wish it was just crossbows. You know, if you

660
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: could imagine the right to bear arms with a musket

661
00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: right now, active shooters would just be like a one

662
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: shot and then they'd pull on a blade because they

663
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: got time to reload. Right. Black Beard carried eight pistols

664
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: on him black Beard the Pirate, so he had pop

665
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 1: pop pop pop because he couldn't reload them, right. So

666
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just saying like, there is that opportunity

667
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: to you know, but I know that my community loves to,

668
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: you know, have their things, and that's fine. Have them.

669
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: Yeah right, just lock them up. Okay, that's what's up.

670
00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: I don't care if you have a anything. I'm not

671
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: even gonna talk about no more. I'm gonna stop because

672
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 1: I got it too, That's all. But I will sit. Yeah,

673
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: it is, it is, and it gets crazy, and I

674
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: don't want to offend anybody because I do and I don't,

675
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: but I want to talk about what you're wearing on

676
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: your shirt and I feel like I know that logo.

677
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: It feels like to me, yeah, I'm actually Yeah. So

678
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: we went out and did their podcast, me and a

679
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: couple of the founders. Um, we went out to Utah

680
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: to your Jeff and uh yeah it was awesome. We

681
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: went on their show and I got I rocked your

682
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: T shirt all the time. I love it. It's actually

683
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: like it looks like the Ready Man logo. And then yeah, yeah, yeah,

684
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: we're actually well, I just had Jeff. I just had

685
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: him on the podcast. He was he just he was

686
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: my two shows before this, I had Jeff Kirkham from

687
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: I think that's probably who took you out. You know,

688
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: I forget his name that interviewed me. I have to

689
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:11,959
Speaker 1: look at my phone. I'm so bad with names. My

690
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: brains like, so there's probably Jeff and Paul and uh

691
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: you probably back controller and then did stuff at the

692
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Speaker 1: Well he was green Beret and he had that room

693
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Speaker 1: at Black Rifle Studios where it was a really nice

694
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: podcast studio. Would you go into that? Yeah? It was sweet. Yeah,

695
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: that was that was what I used to use to

696
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: until COVID. That was my studio. Crazy that I can't

697
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Speaker 1: remember his name right now. I'll look it up in

698
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Speaker 1: a second. Now I'm in Whitefish, Montana actually today, Oh

699
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Speaker 1: are you going skiing? And my Fanci was with me

700
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: just snowboarding yesterday but it was snow and so we're

701
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: getting like fresh powder as we're going. I love that.

702
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: I love that. So my wife wants to go to

703
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Speaker 1: Big Sky. That's where you're at right now? Or what

704
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: Whitefish Mountain? White Fish, Whiteish north so like Missoul about

705
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: two hours north of and well, but like later tonight,

706
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: I'm going down to Cal's Belts or Black Rifle Coffee

707
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,480
Speaker 1: place that they just built there with Andy Stump and

708
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,719
Speaker 1: going on his Clear Hot podcast with some of my founders.

709
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: But we know Andy from he was like our instructor

710
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: and the Seal teams at one point and some of

711
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: the guys deployed with them that are gonna go be

712
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: on the show. So it'll be cool. That's awesome, bro.

713
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: And if you're ever here in Utah and you want

714
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: to go ride up at like any of the brightening

715
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: or something, you just let me know. Yeah, we'll go.

716
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: Yeah for your fiance. My wife will all ride, Yeah,

717
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,959
Speaker 1: for sure. She's snowboards and there's got a great terrain park.

718
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 1: You know, lots of good I mean not so much.

719
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: It's not there's there's vertical there, but it's a lot

720
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: more like long runs for especially snowboards. Yes, we're going

721
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: on runs yesterday that we're over an hour long, which

722
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: is amazing, Like you don't get that on the East Coast,

723
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: Like you can go up to Vermont and get like

724
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: some decent you can get some decent ones from the

725
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: East Coast from Vermont, but like they were getting long

726
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: run yesterday and we're not going to rust off. We

727
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: haven't gone in a while, and we haven't gone it

728
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 1: all this season. But it was nice as gorgeous. I

729
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, I'm gonna whom that you're gonna you

730
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: wear a helmet. I usually do, yesterday I actually didn't.

731
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: I was just were just we weren't going down. I mean,

732
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: we're all greens and blues. Yesterday, we weren't doing anything.

733
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: I got. I got you, bro, I'm just gonna let

734
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: you know. I'm just gonna be Jimmy Cricket right now.

735
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 1: Just whisper in your ear, so let you know. So

736
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: let you know we're not getting younger. You know, I

737
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: take any more hits on my head. I've taken too many.

738
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: So I was cutting some trees yesterday, going through them,

739
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, with my wife, and I was leading, and

740
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 1: I came up a little high and hit the back

741
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: of my edge against the tree and I was like, oh, ship,

742
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: you're a real tree, bro. That tree is like oh,

743
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 1: And it knocked me down a little bit. I just

744
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: off balance off my board and I was like, I

745
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: got a helmet on. I got a helmet on. That's

746
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: all I'm thinking. It's like I got a broken arm,

747
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,240
Speaker 1: but I got a helmet on. I'm taking your advice

748
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: because you got it. It's not even about like you

749
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 1: hitting a tree or sometime. I mean that that's obviously

750
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: a part of it, but you all know that other

751
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,240
Speaker 1: knuckleheads that are out there that are gonna come true

752
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: into you. Ye. No one's even like I'm always like

753
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: coming out or you know, right side, and there was

754
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: just like trying to like cut You've got fast, dude,

755
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: cruise and past you trying like fourteen year olds, I

756
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: have no fear and they're just like flying right yeah. Yeah,

757
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: and we'd like bells like bring ringing on the beach

758
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: on your bike's ring ring coming through ring. I'm cool

759
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: with that. A whistle you could take a wid I

760
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: haven't like I love taking my kids and stuff too,

761
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: but most good person like I I'm like going out

762
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: of speed where I have a beer in my hand

763
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: and a smoke and I'm like I'm flying totally nice.

764
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll get along just fine, dude. I have

765
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: no problems with that. And if again, if you're ever

766
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: out in Utah, just let me know. We'll go right

767
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: up to Brighton and uh let's go right up there

768
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: and ride. It was we got about a hundred and

769
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: right now, so we've already maxed out from our last

770
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: two seasons. This year. Actually lived in Tahoe. I dropped

771
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,439
Speaker 1: out for a semester just before I even went into

772
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: the military, and I just I just bought a plane

773
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,840
Speaker 1: ticket to Reno and I packed rag and within like

774
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: five days and left. I had no plan and I

775
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: got out at Reno and I was like, this is desert.

776
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: I was like, I was expecting Tahoe. I got a cab.

777
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: I only had like four dollars in my pocket. I

778
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: took a cab from Reno to Lake Tahoe and was like,

779
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: dropped me off at the first ski resort, and they

780
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: dropped me off at Sugar Bowl and I went in.

781
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, do you have a job, and

782
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 1: they're like yeah, And I took a job like kitchen

783
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: sometimes I've worked out to be like a lift operator

784
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: and then smart though kitchen housing barracks warm thing with

785
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: a bunch of other employees, and it was like I

786
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: was there for four months. It was awesome. That's awesome.

787
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: What a great core memory right there, dude, that's awesome,

788
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: right just might might have just turned nineteen, and I

789
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: was like, I need something different in my life right now.

790
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: Going into the Navy, coming out West, you wind up

791
00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: probably going through what Coronado and all of that for

792
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: your Seal Team train and then you got put into

793
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: a team that we don't really talk about. You got

794
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: Seal Team six. We hear about Seal Team one, Seal

795
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 1: Team three, but you're part of Seal Team four. It's

796
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: is that now a lot of us automatically maybe assume

797
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: everybody goes to Afghanistan. Everybody in the Seals just goes

798
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: to Afghanistan, boom, But was your team designated to a

799
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: certain area of operation like now we're so just they

800
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: restructured to Seal Team for before nine eleven used to

801
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,240
Speaker 1: cover down on South America. Post nine eleven, they changed

802
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: it all up. I'm not sure how it is now,

803
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: but they changed it all up where it basically every

804
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: whenever a Seal Team was ready to deploy, they were

805
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: going wherever the action, like you're going Iraq, You're gonna

806
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: so yet, somewhere in Africa, whatever. So I spent all

807
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: my time in Afghanistan. Combat wise, my first deployment, we

808
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,759
Speaker 1: had some platoons go to Iraq, but they were winding down,

809
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 1: wrapping it up, and in Afghanistan was really picking back up.

810
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: So I spent some time in like this small fob

811
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: with just our platoon by the border of Pakistan, and

812
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: it was it was wild that first employment. We're the

813
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: most attacked FOP while we were there in country, and

814
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: there's like they're only a handful of us staying in

815
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 1: this thing, and it was like every day, three times

816
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: a day, rockets, mortars, small arms fire and then but

817
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: your this against us to like really stop it. It

818
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: was like they didn't want us going out at night anymore.

819
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: Eventually our commander was like, these guys are gonna get

820
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,959
Speaker 1: fucking smoked if they keep just we're just like sitting ducks.

821
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: And then finally took the gloves off and we got

822
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:21,479
Speaker 1: after it, and we didn't get it to the last

823
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: three months of the deployment was like roughly eight months.

824
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: The last eight months or three months at the point

825
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: we didn't get attacked at all. It also helped it

826
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 1: was winner. But then we started moving into like village

827
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 1: stability operations, which was they would take a handful of

828
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,479
Speaker 1: green Berets, seals or whoever and Stickleman. You would literally

829
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 1: live in the village with people and like sit around,

830
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: drink tea and eat goat and and then you would

831
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: like try to get them stand up for themselves and

832
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: in a nutshell yah, politically, you know a lot of

833
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: green Berets are you know, just instilled governments. It was exactly.

834
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: It wasn't a typical mission set for Seal at all.

835
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: Like it was definitely a green Berry mission. So like

836
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:05,800
Speaker 1: before we actually enter our v s O site or

837
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: village ability site, me and two other guys from my opportunity,

838
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: we went out and stayed with green Brays for like

839
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: two weeks out there to see how they're running their

840
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: VSO and what was working, what wasn't, and then we

841
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 1: went and stood up ours. So it was a really

842
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: interesting deployment. It was very very active. It was everything

843
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: I asked for and was expecting from the Seal. So

844
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: kind of lucked out with that. And then the second

845
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: deployment went back to Afghanistan and I went in on.

846
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 1: I got attached to a NATO's Special Forces unit. I

847
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: got attached to the Polish Special Forces and what they

848
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: would Yeah, I worked with the GRAM and j W.

849
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: K and so they like one or two seals and

850
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,720
Speaker 1: with them and then like we would help them intel

851
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: and at whatever they need helos, We'll go get helos

852
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: you need intel together a package and then like direct

853
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: on this for like what we wanted to get done.

854
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: So it was a big force multiplier for us. So

855
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: like instead of like the US having to put a

856
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: whole platoon of seals in one area, you can now

857
00:41:04,040 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: only have to put like two Americans, but used the

858
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 1: Native Special Forces. And I was like I lived with

859
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,439
Speaker 1: those guys for months and they just like really took

860
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: me in and it was a great time. We're doing

861
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: all some missions. It was. It was a lot of

862
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: nighttime stuff blowing up like I d cachets and crazy.

863
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: It was. It was. It was fun everything you wanted,

864
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 1: you know, it's what you're weird, you know. It would

865
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: be me and like twelve Polish guys out on knop

866
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: like the Afghans, and I was the only one speaking English,

867
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: and I was like, I was like, well, ship hits

868
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: the fan. At least I was talking to the birds,

869
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: like I was talking to guys. Yeah, hey guys, so

870
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: I'm down here by myself and how are you doing up? There. Yeah,

871
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: I'm not really by myself, but mentally yeah, yeah, mentally.

872
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: And then there was always like that one or two

873
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: Polish guys. I would speak their broken English, but after

874
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: working with them for a while, like you just learned

875
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: how to communicate. I would pick up some of their language.

876
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: They're getting better with mine. And at the end of

877
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: the day, you're special operators, like you know what needs

878
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,719
Speaker 1: to be done and we're body language and everything like that.

879
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: But it was an awesome experience working with much would

880
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: or rather have been with a seal platoon, but it

881
00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: was still it was still good. And then there was

882
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: a couple of seals that rotated in and out with me.

883
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: I stayed there most of the time. And then like

884
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: so I wasn't always solo, but it was it was good.

885
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: Like they haven't forgot about you're new. Yeah, are you

886
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: real Polish? I forgot that. I slept through Polish class. Sorry,

887
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: Oh that's intense. You know. They were crazy that they

888
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: would make It was like jail house wine. They would

889
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 1: take like jerry cans that you would see that you

890
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: would put on like the back of a humby and

891
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: they were setting up. They would use fruit cocktail yeast

892
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:50,320
Speaker 1: to make like basically do this stuff would rip fucking

893
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: paint off a car. But you got used to drinking

894
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: it after a while. But it probably took a couple

895
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: of years off my life. Oh yeah, you're good. It's okay.

896
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: You're like a cat. It's got to count all those lives,

897
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 1: those close ones. You're like, Okay, these guys like that. Well,

898
00:43:06,719 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: I I think that, you know, the Polish Gram are

899
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: just one of those special units that don't really get

900
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:14,480
Speaker 1: a lot of like spotlight on them, and they like it.

901
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: I get it. And at the same time, you know,

902
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: actually I think there's a character and call of duty

903
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,720
Speaker 1: though that is off the GRAM right now. And so

904
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: you know, they're all about that piano. They have like

905
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: a piano at their headquarters and it's a very significant thing.

906
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 1: It's very interesting about the ground. So when I went

907
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: in and I only worked with them for like two weeks,

908
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: they ended up doing a mission and we're basically advising him,

909
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: like stop doing it this way, but I'm not going

910
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: to go into crazy details about it, but we're like

911
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: sure me. And there was another seal that was with

912
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: me and he was really working the GRAM. I was

913
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 1: working at jw K, but we're like right next to

914
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 1: each other and then we work with each other and

915
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: the GRAM they ended up going out to do this

916
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 1: op and we were like advising against it because of

917
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: the Intel packet what we're seeing through Intel. And then

918
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: they got they got fucking ambushed. They lost like four

919
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: dudes or true commander took a fucking shot in the face.

920
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: It was bad, and so that they got the rest

921
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: of the poem. For the next couple of months like that,

922
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: they weren't operating, so we just focused specifically on j

923
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: w K. But it was like it turned into a

924
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: ship show. You always feel bad for guys when I

925
00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: lose a brother, and it's that's uh. I felt bad

926
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: for them, But they just didn't operate for the next

927
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: couple of months while we're there, So we just worked

928
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: with the j w K, j w K publish Green

929
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: Brace that these guys were awesome too, I see, okay,

930
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: so the GRAB would be looked like a seal, right,

931
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: and then the jw K would be the Green Brace.

932
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: That's s style. That's cool. Yeah, that's cool. It's it's

933
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: it's a bummer that you know that ambush took place,

934
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: because I mean like, these guys are trained up, you know,

935
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: whether there's a packet telling them not to or not,

936
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,720
Speaker 1: they still yeah, you know, you get you like you,

937
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: you know. And then there's someone out there. He says

938
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: that his dirt means more than the side of your dirt.

939
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: And now you guys are fighting over this dirt. Ye,

940
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: and you're both up trained obviously, huh has to be.

941
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: They just they thought they had good intel the this

942
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: target for someone, and they walked into a straight up

943
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: ambush and his compound they had like holes caught out

944
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: in the walls and like they walked right into the

945
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: dead zone and it was just like damn. The fact

946
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: that some of them got out alive is really impressive

947
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,839
Speaker 1: because the four yard and they're just getting a ship

948
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: hammered out of them. Wow. Yeah you were there to advise. Yeah,

949
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: I know, bro, sorry about that to you, and I'm

950
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 1: just letting you know, okay, it's part of the job. Yeah,

951
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: I understood, understood, understood. Well that's crazy. I'm not gonna

952
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: try to end it on that, but thanks for being

953
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,359
Speaker 1: who you are. Thanks for going after your dreams. Thanks

954
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: for reading a book in seventh grade that steered you

955
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: into you know, choosing to fight for the flag that

956
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: I get to sleep under at night. Thank you for

957
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: you know, being an outdoorsman and a father and and

958
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: coming home to us safely, and so thank you too

959
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: for me to you for all those things. So thank you, yeah, man, yeah,

960
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 1: thank you, and thank you for all you do getting

961
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,160
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962
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963
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968
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970
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971
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975
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976
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977
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