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Speaker 1: H ruts. If it doesn't work, you're just not using enough.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to soft up Radio Special operations military news

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

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Speaker 1: welcome to soft Rep Radio. I am your host, Rad

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Speaker 1: and I have a special guest today, former Special Operation

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Speaker 1: Combat Controller of the United States Air Force Connor the

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Speaker 1: controller Matthews. Matthews and I say Matthews twice because that's

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Speaker 1: a professional ring announcers way that they introduce you into

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Speaker 1: the ring and boxing. And and Connor, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: I do, man, it's nice seeing you. I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: you in the launch. Haven't seen since two thousand and sixty.

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Speaker 1: And I believe when we did that software boxing event

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Speaker 1: in London, he man pleasure seeing how's he going? Brother? Oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's great, Connor. I'm happy to have you here.

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Speaker 1: I was just talking with someone about you on another episode,

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Speaker 1: Mike Lamonica, who's from the Special Operation You're same Special

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Speaker 1: Operations community. Are you? Have you ever crossed passed with

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Speaker 1: Mike before? Yeah? You have, yeah, former combat in person,

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Speaker 1: but I had I know him, talked to him actually recently.

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Speaker 1: I just talked to him recently. Yesterday's ahead of the

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Speaker 1: Combat Control Association, I believe. And yeah, we've been talking.

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Speaker 1: We've been communicating a lot lately, and yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: knew who he was. It's just the name that Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's got like, you know, lots of ribbons.

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Speaker 1: He's a really nice guy to talk to, just like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I know I've talked to you in the past.

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Speaker 1: But let me ask you something. Do you have any

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Speaker 1: like specific ribbons that you're really proud of achieving on

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Speaker 1: your rack of ribbons that you wear? Probably my I

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Speaker 1: get a Combination Medal when I was deployed Backghanistan. Information

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Speaker 1: that I did. That was pretty cool. That I did

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Speaker 1: a lot of air traffic tool and I did a

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Speaker 1: lot of we got a meta back out of there.

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Speaker 1: We did a lot of stuff like yuess about it. Combat,

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Speaker 1: I kind of combat ribbons. They just saw combat and

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Speaker 1: NIS and so that was pretty cool, but not too much.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my friends have so many more ribbons than me.

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Speaker 1: I did want to deployment to Afghanistan and which I'm

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Speaker 1: grateful I got to do something. I got lucky, but

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Speaker 1: at the same time, not comparatively to be like a

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Speaker 1: lot of my friends. But like, you know, what I mean,

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Speaker 1: is did a lot of amazing things. There's probably some

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Speaker 1: silver stars that six employment. Yeah yeah, so many, so

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Speaker 1: many friends stars, purple hearts and oh yeah and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff and so yeah, not so much. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I got to get out there, right and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that you've lost some friends along the way. You have

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Speaker 1: a very you know, high speed job. And it is

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day weekend for those listening, alright, so like talk

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Speaker 1: about that as like, yeah, I mean, I it's crazy

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Speaker 1: because I remember when I was going through selection and

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Speaker 1: you're you guys would probably lose one of one or

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Speaker 1: two two of these friends that are here with you,

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Speaker 1: and and we end up didn't. We didn't lose guys

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Speaker 1: in training, and I lost of friends yet and accedent.

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Speaker 1: So it's like wild that I remember after that, my

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Speaker 1: Like this job is it's a very dangerous. Very of

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Speaker 1: that job was not in this job, but my last

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Speaker 1: job was a very very dangerous libe where people's life,

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Speaker 1: you know, at risk, not only deployment, but on training

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Speaker 1: to deploy. And you know, I lost a lot of

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Speaker 1: your friends to a lot of people, like even before

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Speaker 1: me in my career, we lost a lot while I

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's a small knit it's close

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Speaker 1: to the community. See, everybody knows somebody, everybody knows each other.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that's definitely something. Arrest in peace

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Speaker 1: to all those people, Like, yeah, arrest in peace to them.

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Speaker 1: There's only about like three hundred combat controllers right at

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Speaker 1: what it is, right And that's why I'm gonna segue

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Speaker 1: into what I'm wearing right now, which is your m

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Speaker 1: M A Mixed Martial arts shirt right here, the Controller Matthews.

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Speaker 1: I'm just so excited to say it because I know

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Speaker 1: you and I got to wear your shirt. I'm here

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Speaker 1: in Utah, you're in Massachusetts. We've traveled to London together,

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Speaker 1: and I'm super proud to be your corner and just

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Speaker 1: cheer you on and you soft rep to perpetuate that

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Speaker 1: out there. Bro, I want the person that you're gonna

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Speaker 1: fight to know that you're ready and uh, you're in

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Speaker 1: my corner. So stoked for you. Tell me. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yeah, man, soft has been great,

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Speaker 1: like ever since that whole boxing thing, like just saying

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Speaker 1: know that. When I was in London I did that

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Speaker 1: the I don't know, the flyer whatever it is. Yeah, yeah, exactly, yes,

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Speaker 1: it's Connor the controller and events Conner the controller Matthews,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, that is an awesome nickname. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I went home and when I started fighting professional story

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Speaker 1: one moment controller and I really think it's well worked out, Gred,

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Speaker 1: So thank you, soft Rep. We're coming over that name

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Speaker 1: for me, and you know it's awesome you earned that name.

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Speaker 1: Now you're also five and oh in your professional fight.

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Speaker 1: Is that correct? That is correct? I'm five and now.

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Speaker 1: right now. The pandemic really doing wrench and everything. I've

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Speaker 1: see want to see fighting good guys. So that's been

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Speaker 1: like a seven or seventeen second knockout. In the first round,

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Speaker 1: fight at a seventh second knockout. Yeah. He caught me

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Speaker 1: it could even take off my parachute. Yeah, it's so cold.

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Speaker 1: That's so crazy. That's so cool. So they would drop

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Speaker 1: I'm not the strongest swimmer, although if I have fins,

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Speaker 1: so I do laughs at my local pool. But fins

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Speaker 1: helped me tons. So do you have to dive underwater

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Speaker 1: the full length of the pool back and forth on

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Speaker 1: one breath? Is that a thing you have to achieve? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a fifty FIFTI under waters. That was that was

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Speaker 1: the reason pass the roof. You don't have that for us.

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Speaker 1: We didn't have to do it initially to get into

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Speaker 1: the job like I think some people do. We guys

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Speaker 1: had to do a couple of to get in. But

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Speaker 1: like you should be able to do fifties, you guys

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Speaker 1: once once they because once you get down the end, doc,

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Speaker 1: can you get down to first select Shane and all

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. I mean, you're you're doing stuff

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Speaker 1: that's a lot harder than one back and forth you

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Speaker 1: get you getting drowned the proof you can thrushes. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's the that's like the minimum standard for

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Speaker 1: a lot of the past test to get into the job,

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Speaker 1: like you should be able to do Like that's like

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Speaker 1: not even that's you're gonna do that in your worst day.

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Speaker 1: Like that's easy. It's the training and you maybe they

447
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Speaker 1: can't eliminate you for you know, popping into other things,

448
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Speaker 1: but like you're not not gonna manage. So yeah, we

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Speaker 1: had to give. One of our standards to go to

450
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Speaker 1: dad school is to do underwater. But yeah, this year,

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Speaker 1: like all right, it's kind of hard. I mean my

452
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Speaker 1: dad growing up, being the son of a Green Beret,

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Speaker 1: we'd go up to Hill Air Force Space and he

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Speaker 1: would do his laps all day long. But he'd take

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Speaker 1: us kids to the pool, me and my brother, and

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Speaker 1: there was these weights and he'd reach down on the

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Speaker 1: side of the pool. He's like, okay, Aaron, put your

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Speaker 1: blindfold on, but first watch where these weights go, and

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Speaker 1: he'd throw them off the edge down it's like the

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Speaker 1: five six foot area for me, but he throw them

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Speaker 1: off into the twel on my brother, who was older.

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Speaker 1: My brother was really good at going down to twelve

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Speaker 1: feet blindfolded and finding those damn weights. But here's me

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Speaker 1: like trying to get into five foot water and I'm

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Speaker 1: just it's just a tough it's tough water, so you

466
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Speaker 1: need to be water ready, almost probably drowned proof before

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Speaker 1: you join. And like you said, get a coach. You

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Speaker 1: got a lady that was a high school coach. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember her name? You want to give her a

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Speaker 1: shout out because you're gonna be the best m M

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Speaker 1: A fighter in the world. I wish I could remember

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Speaker 1: her name off the top of my head, and I

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Speaker 1: can't right remember. You'll be like to have talked to

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Speaker 1: your sense. I have talked to your sense a couple

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Speaker 1: of times. I can't remember a name. I'm coming head

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Speaker 1: the time. Like honestly, she helped me in my life,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like something's crazy somebody like

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Speaker 1: that as a high school like fighting, get good at

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Speaker 1: swimming because of her, I never would have made it

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Speaker 1: to be a combat and children then that probably when

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Speaker 1: never came back to fighting the way it did. So

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Speaker 1: it's just like crazy, these little people that connected and

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Speaker 1: up to bumped into that like projected your life in

484
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Speaker 1: a certain way. You never know what's happening when it's happening,

485
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Speaker 1: but you find you like look back that person like

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Speaker 1: that's it's that person, it's it's it's incredible, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. That's so Yeah, there's a couple of

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Speaker 1: people out there that really helped me out, like my my,

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Speaker 1: my sense when I was a kid, like just his mentality,

490
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Speaker 1: like I started out before even when it's special operations.

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Speaker 1: And we did belt test growing up as a kid.

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Speaker 1: His name since that John Ronda, and we did bell

493
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Speaker 1: test and our belt test was like like a day

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Speaker 1: hell day for slushing. So it's like I was like

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Speaker 1: already doing like I didn't really look at it like

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Speaker 1: that when I was a kid, But when we're covering

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Speaker 1: PBC PIST, we're doing hill sprints. He gave my black

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Speaker 1: belt this year and I had to take another test

499
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Speaker 1: from when I was like I was doing the test,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I like this stuff was kind of harder

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Speaker 1: than some of the stuff I was doing in the military.

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Speaker 1: At went for you like like he crushes us, but

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Speaker 1: like like physical stuff and then he makes his fight

504
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Speaker 1: in the sand on the beach with each other. He

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Speaker 1: did it. So he took a sandhill, he lined up

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of people from the gym, and I

507
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Speaker 1: started at the bottom and I had to fight my

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Speaker 1: way through every single person to get to the top.

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Speaker 1: And I had to do that. I'm like, that's hard,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you like like like yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was like it was pretty cool, Like he trying

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Speaker 1: to train my brain before even got into the middles.

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Speaker 1: And you had to engage each person, right you had.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't like skirt him like like you know, do

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Speaker 1: a little no, you have to engage in I had.

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Speaker 1: He made I think he made it especially hard for me,

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Speaker 1: you know, for everything that I've made. And then so

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Speaker 1: I had to do that test all right, all day tests.

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Speaker 1: You wake up. I think you get there like seven

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Speaker 1: all day tests until like two or some two or three,

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Speaker 1: and you know we're doing a tongue he smokes. He

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Speaker 1: basically destroyed every Muslim the body like a possible weight again.

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Speaker 1: And then he brings you to a beach. You all

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Speaker 1: these beach workouts, fighting people on the beach. Probably that

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Speaker 1: I was exhausted. Then at night I had had a

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Speaker 1: far row fon to get him ready to rob fons

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Speaker 1: number four or five in the world. That one thirty

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Speaker 1: five division and I had so I had to go

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Speaker 1: go fighting him. So and the the UFC cameras when

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Speaker 1: they're watching filming for his thing, I was like, I

531
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Speaker 1: gotta do good. I mean they still still start every

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Speaker 1: video and being possibly getting punched in the face by

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Speaker 1: Rob Fond. So it was it was cool. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I was smoked and I was like, I still gotta

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Speaker 1: go do this, dude. So it was a really good

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Speaker 1: and that's the idea I got. I didn't. It was

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Speaker 1: avery cool day for my folks. Is a Shawan Spoon,

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Speaker 1: sedator in chief of software dot Com, just here to

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Speaker 1: us today, and from all of us here at soft rep,

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Speaker 1: thank you for listening. So do you think that with

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Speaker 1: going through all of that and going through your combat

547
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Speaker 1: training and being drowned proof has brought you to this

548
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Speaker 1: no tap out lifestyle where you're gonna get in the

549
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Speaker 1: ring and you're gonna give it everything until you know

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Speaker 1: there's only one way out for you. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, I think that the career field just hardy,

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Speaker 1: like you said, they drowned proof in the heart of

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Speaker 1: getting I talk about it just even jiu jitsu, like you,

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Speaker 1: if I'm wrestling and dropping with somebody who's way bigger

555
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Speaker 1: than me, you can sometimes you get stuck in these

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Speaker 1: positions is where you want to like an it can

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Speaker 1: freak out and you know what if you want to

558
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Speaker 1: get But like I've just been in those stressful situations

559
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Speaker 1: so much to know how to, like you know, remain calm,

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Speaker 1: like be comfortable being comfortable. It sounds si morning, but

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Speaker 1: like you know what I mean, like he comfortable being uncomfortable.

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Speaker 1: It's true though, it's like that. I think that's my

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Speaker 1: biggest like like superpower I have and fighting right now

564
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Speaker 1: and like everybody there now thinks that I've just been

565
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Speaker 1: to people in one minute and you know, what's he

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Speaker 1: gonna do when he goes past month? Man? And with

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Speaker 1: what where is he? I'm like, no, man, I've been

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Speaker 1: I'm training for like the long haul. Like when he

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Speaker 1: she gets hard, that's when I actually beforen't better. I

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Speaker 1: think I think like long rocks and all this, all

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Speaker 1: this stuff I did that was just painful. I always

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Speaker 1: did really well. And there's anything that's like a grinding

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Speaker 1: kind of exercises like that's where I rise up. So

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Speaker 1: I think they're being a being a combat con children

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Speaker 1: and all that is with d percent what got me

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Speaker 1: mentally as tough as I am, and that's why I

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Speaker 1: got where I'm at right now. Yeah, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna say there's not gonna be another you know, opponent

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Speaker 1: that's training as hard as you equally, which is what

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Speaker 1: I want. Anyone that's listening right now, they're gonna do

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Speaker 1: the research on you and here that you're ready, bro,

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Speaker 1: Like you know, their better come with their their game

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Speaker 1: to you, because you're coming with yours as I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: And so like I took six years off, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean from training as a martial artist, like

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Speaker 1: you know, making that my name, but before I've been

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Speaker 1: training martial arts since I was at four, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean. So I have a lot of that time,

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Speaker 1: like you know, just as a kid be getting comfortable

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Speaker 1: in that took the six years off. We're usually people

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Speaker 1: are fighting in their six and then that period between

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Speaker 1: their twenty two I think I was twenty one and

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Speaker 1: twenty seven sevens when I when I was in the military,

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Speaker 1: and people are people are usually you know, that's the

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Speaker 1: hardest time to ad fights, to take a lot of damage.

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Speaker 1: Luckily for me, I took no damage. But I still

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Speaker 1: trained like an athlete from a special operation, still working

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Speaker 1: out with coaches, is still doing and you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, I still kind of kept my body together

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Speaker 1: during that time and really trying to go out. I

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Speaker 1: didn't fight. So now I'm kind of coming into this

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Speaker 1: mature level where I'm turning thirty this week. Actually my

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Speaker 1: birth parties today if I turned it thirty this week,

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Speaker 1: and I'm more mature, and I have to thank you man,

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Speaker 1: and I have like all of that, you know, mentality

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Speaker 1: and everything is I'm just really coming into my prime

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Speaker 1: with a fresh body, you know, I mean, and I

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Speaker 1: don't have to wearing tear on me. I'm really run

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Speaker 1: into my frind and I feel like it's just like

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Speaker 1: I gotta big edge on everybody. So I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a fast rise for me, honestly, you know.

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Speaker 1: And you're getting ready to do this fight night right

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Speaker 1: as I wear your shirt right here, you know, with

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Speaker 1: you throwing your punch. This is a great art rendition

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Speaker 1: of you. By the way, I think that you should

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Speaker 1: have props to the person that designed this. Yeah, to

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, lucked out man. And also you

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Speaker 1: have a shop, right, I want to pitch it because

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Speaker 1: the money helps you go to the fights and to

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Speaker 1: like get your tickets and to get travel. What is

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Speaker 1: so controlling the name dot com. So there's no deep

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Speaker 1: it's just controlling nime dot com. I got a website

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Speaker 1: going there to check out my I got bios about me,

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Speaker 1: but I also had my my my shirts on there.

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Speaker 1: I got four different shirts out right now. We always

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Speaker 1: try to get the best quality for like, I'm the

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Speaker 1: big big leaver in like and I think I got

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Speaker 1: this from the military special operations stuff like that. Fine

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Speaker 1: good quality stuff. So much gonna be working people, where

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Speaker 1: if I something cheap and try to screw somebody, or

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Speaker 1: even if it's costible money, always the best stuff. It's

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Speaker 1: When we went over to Remember in London. When we

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Speaker 1: went to London, Brandon Webb had Software make a bunch

640
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 1: of shirts for us, and I was like, Oh, these

641
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: are so soft and so comfortable, those software shirts. I

642
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: had my own shirts made out of the same shirts.

643
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll be damned and this is that

644
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: same soft, next level style. Sure I'm not gonna like

645
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: sit here in fanboy over it, but I'm wearing it.

646
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: I could I slept already exactly exactly stays there. Send

647
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: me this shirt's the same thing. So it's like, it's

648
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 1: like when I went to the same thing. When we

649
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: used to go to shooting schools all the time when

650
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: I was in the military. We well and usually at

651
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: the end of the school you get a shirt from

652
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: like the school we just meant to and they owe

653
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: all the guys always have think these nice shirts have

654
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: like wearing all the time because I'm like, it's just

655
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: comfortable for you to work out, So I'm gonna wear

656
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: that shirt. Yes, And then it's you know, it's good

657
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: for me, for me, you might get my name, get

658
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: everything out there, you know. So only special request for

659
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: rad is if you make special shirts for us bearded folks,

660
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: maybe a little lower on the print so we don't

661
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: knock it. But listen, I'm gonna tell you, I'm more

662
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: to wear this over to London. I'm gonna go. Yeah.

663
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: I don't get I didn't get a shirt and big

664
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: fill out there, but I agree we need to uh

665
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: lower the thing in the next thing that's gonna happen

666
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: in the next year. We had that discussion. Oh yeah,

667
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: because you know that we're sending them over for something

668
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: because bearded shirts. Yeah, yeah, just really low, just just

669
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: a little lower. Beers. We exist, I swear, I swear,

670
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: and you know again, I'm gonna take this. I'm going

671
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: over to London with my wife to show her the sites.

672
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: Like we gotta go see with Soft Rep when we

673
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: did those remembrance rumbles, which I think those guys are

674
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,479
Speaker 1: gonna do another one, so you might want to keep

675
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: your ear to the ground to come in and still

676
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: maybe do a little one to want to have to answer, Yeah,

677
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm down to do it. Let's see if

678
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: they UFC will be happy about me doing a Betther

679
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: fight outside of you see, but if I can, and

680
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: if anything, I would love to go there and just

681
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: be a guest or a commentator. Have you happy? That

682
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: would be great, dude, we can go back to back. Bro.

683
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: We could be like, did I just say that? You'll

684
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: be like, yes, Rad, you did. That would be real fun.

685
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: I'd love to do something like that. I'm doing actually

686
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: commentating for a local promotion that I grew up fighting

687
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: in Cage Titans, which is around here, and I'm commentating

688
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: and on this weekend, I'm cornering your guy in my

689
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: fighting and I'm hopping in the booth and compentating fight.

690
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: You know. I like to do that. You want to

691
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 1: give a shout out? Yeah, my fighter Beldina getting coming

692
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: fighters to coming up. He's a he's come a long lane.

693
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: Last week I've been I've been coaching and are striking.

694
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool. Now I'm doing that as well.

695
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: I opened up a new gym, the Brewing Grounds, so

696
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: now I'm kind of like, you know, getting gut. Like,

697
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: my girlfriend's a fighter, and this kid, Andrew Foutina is

698
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: a good fighter, and I'm like working with them and

699
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: it's been pretty cool. It's like this is always I

700
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: said this the other day. It's always been my dream

701
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: too to own a martial arts gym and be a

702
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: professional and a fighter. So I want to be my

703
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: gym open now and the next Yeah, I got my

704
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: gym open now. Now my next goal is to get

705
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: is getting the UFC. And if I accomplished all those things,

706
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: It's like I looked at an actually interview from when

707
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: I was eighteen, and that's what I said in the interview,

708
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: and I was like, ship, this is actually coming true now.

709
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: So you know, I think the things you'd love to

710
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: do and and you know I believe it. Hey, you

711
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: have a you have an Instagram too. It's the controller

712
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 1: mm a right on your Instagram yep. Controller. I mean

713
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: that's probably where I'm where I am the most active.

714
00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: So if anybody ever want to hop on there, you

715
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: have following me a Although I post there a lot,

716
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: I don't use Facebook too much. I don't know why.

717
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: I think it's just as I'm a picture guy, so

718
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: I like Instagram. Think. You know, you're probably good at

719
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: so many things in combat. Controller, you know, pipeline. The

720
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: toughest thing was what for you. I would say the

721
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: toughest thing for me was academics and air traffic control

722
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: schools specifically. I think that's where I had my my

723
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: biggest challenge. But once I got through that, I mean

724
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 1: everything else, like anything that's practical, like tactics, shooting. Some

725
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: reason that school I didn't have any I never probably

726
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,480
Speaker 1: I thought that stool was easy. Just yeah, probably aircraft control.

727
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: That this speaking and learning the language of being aircraft controller.

728
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: It was a little bit challenge for me in first,

729
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: Like I said, I had no idea what air traffictroll

730
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: was before going into When I hopped it, I had

731
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: like a little learning kurd, And then once I got

732
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: it down, I knew I had to get dat, you know,

733
00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: especially when I deployed. So I got it down really

734
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: well and and really good, and I used it when

735
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: I was what I used it as a ton really cool.

736
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: You just did you just up train on like a

737
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: portable radar and just stare at a computer and be

738
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: like delta three five seven, you're clear three seven two seven.

739
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 1: We did if we did have to do radar when

740
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: I was, they don't have to do that anymore because

741
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: you have radar a tarntrol. They terminal or traf control

742
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: which is like a tower. So like there, um, you

743
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:26,400
Speaker 1: know there's two different times. Stuff is the power, Yeah exactly.

744
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: So so when we did terminal space control, so like

745
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: when a lot of times when we get the air traffictrols,

746
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: but we had to do this stuff where you like

747
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: you're like landing to see one thirties or slanding planes

748
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: on the airstrip and do an air traffic tros all

749
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: around the airstrip and when we deploy, that's a lot

750
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: of time what we do. So, um, what we did

751
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: have like these uh Worth simulation training simulators stimulator Yeah, yeah,

752
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: it would see your simulators that we usually use in

753
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: our in our units that are pretty close. So would

754
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: hop in there and get work for practice. And you

755
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: had an old time combat controller in there that was

756
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: like you know TCU techniques and stuff that you would use.

757
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: So we got we can get trained out once you

758
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: get on on TV, you get really trained up and

759
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: get good at it before you go out there and

760
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: did do the job. Did you ever get like PJ

761
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: is going to like the e R to like work

762
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: on people, you know as they perfect their skill. Did

763
00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: you get to go to the air traffic controller airport

764
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: and like do your thing with so. Yeah, so we

765
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: actually when I was deployed, I did have like a

766
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:27,759
Speaker 1: scenario where they brought in somebody got shot in the

767
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,479
Speaker 1: on the battlefield, and then the pjs came and then

768
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:35,080
Speaker 1: I flew out like translated the helicopter where the guy

769
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: got shot into his team on thirty. So I I

770
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: did all the air shot control to get that going.

771
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: So I actually was in the helicopter from where the

772
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: guy get shot, brought in in, got out product one

773
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: thirty into land, got the guy out, and got the

774
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: guy out of there. So I did get to do

775
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Yeah, that's like what you're trained. Was cool. Yeah,

776
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: I get to use use my job. And that's how

777
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: you said that would make sense for people. I like

778
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: pgs and controllers can work together to do scenario or like,

779
00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: you know, somebody shot, we need to get this guy

780
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,720
Speaker 1: out of the aircraft controller, the combat and charge jumps

781
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: on the MICTS, gets all the air going, and the

782
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: pj's working the guy out of there. Yet that that

783
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: that did happen with us, You're the key to the

784
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: team because I think you would jump on with like

785
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: a seal team or a task force team, or an

786
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 1: A team or an O D A and Green Beret

787
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: Operations attachment. Yeah, you're you're with all those guys. You're there. Hey,

788
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: how you doing, Connor? Can we have you? Yeah? I

789
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 1: mean absolutely, you get on any team you have to.

790
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: You have to be a big assets and the team

791
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: you get you can bring something to the fight that

792
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: other people don't break. And we definitely are the you

793
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: know when it comes to attaching team, being the radio guy,

794
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna be the best foot. Already aircraft controllers,

795
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: so we know how to you know, separate aircraft. So

796
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: if you got a compact and trolling, getting the JATAX certified,

797
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: which being I wasn't jatach certified when I was played

798
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 1: because I know, but I was on, I've got the

799
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: opportunity to get with the team with the jay tap,

800
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: So you know what I mean. If you're bringing in there,

801
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: you know, if you're already good at aircraft control, you're

802
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: gonna be a good j tap, you know what I mean,

803
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: And you're gonna be a big asset to the team.

804
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: The communications too, so combat controllers, like a lot of

805
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: our job is known radios and setting up the team

806
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: rigancies and and making sure everybody's on the same page

807
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: and doing the communication so that you know that we

808
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: can talk to enter team, and then we can be

809
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 1: the guy who's talking to the aircraft that's bringing in

810
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: its bringing in drones. You know this guy like I

811
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 1: SR platforms for those guys who you know, Rain and Ice.

812
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: We're talking at first, we're talking to fast moor Jezz.

813
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: We're talking to a Pashy helicopters won thirty one, thirties,

814
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: eight ten, anything too. Like on any given battle and

815
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's so many different aircraft

816
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: checking in and on from the fight, and so it's

817
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: really important to have combat controller there too, have a

818
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: great especially he's already your traffic It makes sense, like

819
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: he does chaos. You ever heard that term case A

820
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: friend of mine here he does that. Yeah, he's part

821
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: of the chaos culture where they go out and all

822
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: the air traffic control chaos of I don't know, chaos,

823
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: that's what that's they're called. That's their name. Their squadron's

824
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: name is chaos. You know. So I can only imagine

825
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: you need to listen to everybody flying over you. Yeah,

826
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: I can't get chaotic and man, but you know what,

827
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: a lot of these pilots are very good in the

828
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: military too, so they help out a lot of you know,

829
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 1: there you're talking to pilots, but yeah, it can get

830
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: very chaotic, and you know it's and there's a lot

831
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: of money and lives on the on the line. So

832
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: it's that you can't you can't mess up, you know

833
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: what I mean. You can't. You can't bring a plane

834
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: in where there's a plane in the runway and you

835
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 1: clear to the lane and they crashed into another plane

836
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: and then you just heeled little bunch of people. So

837
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 1: it's like there's things like that that happened, you know

838
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 1: what I mean. So it's like it's very important. You know,

839
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: it's high risk, or dropping a bomb through where you

840
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 1: have a helicopter range and f a team, or drops

841
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 1: a bomb and theres a helicopter them near in the area.

842
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things like separation that

843
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: can you can really go raunchous very more. And you

844
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: have some guys trained up, you know, are dropping a

845
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: bomb in your own young guy, Yeah, you don't have that.

846
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: Stuff has has happened. So if you're getting the call

847
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: to go in a season airfield, right or create an

848
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,959
Speaker 1: airfield or whatever that air field needs to be. What

849
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,439
Speaker 1: would you do, Like if there's a team of six

850
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: or seven of you going in together to assess an

851
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: airfield area, you know you gotta do like the grading,

852
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,879
Speaker 1: tell me what what you all? Right, So there's there's

853
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: multiples like this. First of all, comeback control to bridge

854
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: jack of Bot bases. A lot of different mission sets

855
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: that we can do. So we can do like say

856
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: there's a assault lake fed out in the middle of

857
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: the desert and we want to do admission that's to

858
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: a compound or to something that's close to us. All

859
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: like that, right, So um, what we can do there?

860
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: We can go there ahead of time, we can land,

861
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: we can you know, say we say we want to

862
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: jump in, or anyway we can get there of the jumping.

863
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: So we wanted to jump in, jump in, do a

864
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: complete assessment of the airfield, find out like make sure

865
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: that soil the ground is all dense enough for an

866
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: aircraft to come in so we can can bear the loaded,

867
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: land and take off and sit on the sit on

868
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: the ground. So we have to get out there, you know,

869
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: assess how long is there enough we own is it

870
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: not bumpy? Is there is the soil good? Is there

871
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: any you know, any hazards in the in the area.

872
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: To make sure that's good so we can do we

873
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,399
Speaker 1: do all that and then if it's good, okay, now

874
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: we have to set the airfield speeds up, airfrals, We

875
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 1: have to know about you know, demensions the aircraft, what

876
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: aircraft are laying on and you know what I mean.

877
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: Then you can do the aircraft fictuel they actually bring

878
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: the plane in land the plane, and then you can

879
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: go into the mission sometimes like you know, and then

880
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: also if they state we take contact right that we

881
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: have to have like you know, calling the air strikes,

882
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: and so there's so many different things that we can

883
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: do as a combat controller, never mind just being a

884
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 1: side like it's part of the easier part or not easier,

885
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: but like one of the parts just been being on

886
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: the team you're calling the air strikes is like the

887
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: most fun part of it. But there's a lot of

888
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: other stuff that we do. That stuff they're like, you know,

889
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 1: making sure that the airfields are good. You're probably getting

890
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: cool doom buggies, you're probably all GPS not on your

891
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 1: finger Yeah, we probably have like all sorts of crazy

892
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: stuff that's just behind the scenes. Yeah, just going so

893
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 1: a lot of times they we make like if they're

894
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: on teams attested to user, we make the can't think

895
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: the word right now, it's been too much and he

896
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: was we're tracking, like all the we're making all the

897
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: g r g s. There we go, making all the

898
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: g rg so, making all the like where the rood,

899
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 1: labeling everything, where the bombs are gonna be dropped, and

900
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: dude doing all that stuff ahead of time. And then vehicles,

901
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: like we get on the air fil we need to

902
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: know how to drive dirt bikes. You know, I drive

903
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: four whilers. We have a t D. We have to

904
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: do all these because when you cruising around airfield, you're

905
00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: not long cruising. Let's just take too long. You know,

906
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: I was gonna be thirt bikes to do all that

907
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: kind of Yeah, it's like that that runway has to

908
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 1: be super Yeah, so six depending on what the time

909
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: Mack is, you know what I mean, how long is

910
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,640
Speaker 1: it take make a six man team. You could get

911
00:40:43,640 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: down their clearing airfield, make sure it's get to bringing airplanes,

912
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: landing airplanes, to get shot control for prise security around taxi.

913
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: You could do that all of like a six man

914
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 1: in comback control team you know, how to be hard

915
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: could be one controller attest to a seal team or

916
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 1: od call on air triks. Wow, that's really awesome, dude.

917
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like that's amazing. It's just another

918
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: world that you know, you're a unicorn, and you know,

919
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: when you get to talk to unicorn, you kind of

920
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:13,839
Speaker 1: want to know what's the unicorn eating? And uh yeah,

921
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, and how much ruck weight do you put

922
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: in your ruck sack when you train yourself, do you

923
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: go the full weight or you just skimp it? You

924
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:23,200
Speaker 1: know that kind of thing. It's like, but you guys

925
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: go the full weight. We definitely so like constraining. Yeah,

926
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 1: well in training, we definitely has to carry a lot

927
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: of weight, um because we're always carrying more gear than

928
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: everybody asked me, Like you said, you know what I mean,

929
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: Like we're carrying tons of radio. Is like like we

930
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: have a goal one seventeen on us Math carries like

931
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: four radio as mag's weapons. Everything we need to be

932
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: able to set up in air fail too. Sometimes those

933
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 1: extra lights and extra crazy weird stuff that we do

934
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: not just our comment loading right, so that we we

935
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: always think about we need to carry more than everybody

936
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,240
Speaker 1: else or training when we get there and jop about

937
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: those cool lights. Those are some cool portable lights, bro.

938
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 1: I'd love those for some air soft war games out

939
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: in the desert night. It's like there's some lights. Yeah,

940
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,399
Speaker 1: those are probably small and compact and easy to port

941
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: and portable. M M you think that, like the lights

942
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: we always have are big. I don't know, like why

943
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: getting they stay smaller? You say that now they are

944
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 1: probably small and little compared to what other people have.

945
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: But like you like you're bringing on like these lights

946
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: are so thick. I don't know why I can't we

947
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: can't find any smaller lights, be smaller and come back

948
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: by the time. You know what, it was like throwing

949
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: disks out and they just autonomously land at where you

950
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 1: need them to. You know that'd be great. Just send

951
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: out the drones lights and land them along the runway.

952
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: Why can't I just go to go to an area

953
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: ticket drone. All the drones fly up, they mark the

954
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: aircraft and mark the airfield. Then I'm just kidding you

955
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: go and then go there to land. Correct. That's how

956
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: easier because that was a lot of That would be

957
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: a lot of help right there. That'd be like drones up.

958
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: I don't need a whole team of people to go

959
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: out there and put the stuff down everywhere, right and

960
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: if you got shot down, you know they're coming from

961
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: over there and it wasn't a person. Well, drones are

962
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: a good feature building equipment contracts with the military. We'll

963
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: just call it my little pony. They'll never made M sixteens.

964
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: No one will figure it out, no one will ever know,

965
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 1: no one'll ever know will make a little dinas course. Well, Connor,

966
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 1: I just want to say it's been a real pleasure

967
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 1: to have you on and I know there's so much

968
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 1: more that we can talk about. And you're going on

969
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: The Contender. Is there a date and time when we

970
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: can tune in for that? Do you know that yet? Yea.

971
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: I will be fighting August second in Las Vegas on

972
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: Tuesday night. So you know it's not a lot of

973
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: people like throwing people all home with carn and fighting

974
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: on a Saturday. You usually are Saturday to Tuesday night.

975
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: So Contender series for those people that don't know, it's

976
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: it's not the US. Yeah, but Dana White will be

977
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: there's called Dannaways contemissary. He's leaving get the president owner

978
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: of the UFC and if he's there to give out

979
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: a contracts. So usually only have four fights in that night. Now,

980
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: not a lot of fans just like you know, a

981
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: couple of fans around. It's not a lot though, And

982
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a job interview. We like to

983
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: think about it. It's still gonna be streamed, exactly. It's

984
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,400
Speaker 1: still gonna be streamed on ESPNES and and I'm fighting

985
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: to put on a show for a contract to be

986
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: in the UFC. So yeah, I'm excited. It's a betther

987
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: one of my teammates really golf teammates, but guy from

988
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,759
Speaker 1: New England who trains, he's gonna be fighting inst the

989
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: United to me, so it's pretty cool at the representation

990
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:45,160
Speaker 1: somewhere from the local area New England. Super yeah, exactly.

991
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: I love it, man, Supers. I love this poor I

992
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: actually get to do. My dreams are coming true. I

993
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: really feel like that. And I'm gonna go out there

994
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: and put on a show for a pudding. I gotta

995
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: I got a lot in the bag that people haven't

996
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 1: seen yet. So I changed with the best, and I'm

997
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: gonna go out there put on a show for that's right.

998
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 1: And if I'm guessing you're in like the one forty

999
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: five weight classes, that right, what's your weight class? Find

1000
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: weight division? So it's stack division in the UFC. So

1001
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: I got a lot of work to do once they

1002
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: get there. Yeah, there's a lot of Brian Ortia. There's

1003
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,800
Speaker 1: a lot of one for a lot of one, it

1004
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: was a lot of one division. Oh yeah, dude, I

1005
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: have my faith is on you though. You're the controller, bro,

1006
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,239
Speaker 1: and I believe in you. I've I've stood next to

1007
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: your shoulder to shoulder, no matter if you're five eight

1008
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: and I'm six ft five, It don't matter shoulder shoulder,

1009
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: eye to eye, Bro. So you know, you say what

1010
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:38,399
Speaker 1: you are. I say I'm too tall, you say you're

1011
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: five eight, You're not tall enough. Bro, You're doing it

1012
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: so you're you're perfect to us. And I just want

1013
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: to say thanks for being a part of the softwarep family,

1014
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 1: the soft Rep mafia. And you know, if you're ever

1015
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: looking for someone to help sponsor you out there, I'm

1016
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: sure that soft Rep would love to hear this and

1017
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: maybe attached to you and someone to escape you know,

1018
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: and if there's ever absolutely I don't go ahead. So

1019
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: I just absolutely every whenever saft Rep, like from just

1020
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: from that time when I was younger and I do

1021
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: that box game and now in London, that kind of

1022
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,839
Speaker 1: kind of remigorated my whole passion for fighting a little

1023
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,279
Speaker 1: bit and it's just kind of brought me back. So

1024
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be were on that right now. That wasn't

1025
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: for soft REP. I think in a lot of ways

1026
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: that we were talking about that earlier being some people

1027
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: that you needn't know how that kind of change it

1028
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,959
Speaker 1: trect to your life right then. And I think soft

1029
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: represented those people that did that. You know, that organization

1030
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: did that for me. So thank you guys for everything

1031
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: that you guys done for me at this point. And uh,

1032
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep on representing and you know, and I

1033
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: agree up forever. Man appreciate and I love it. I

1034
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: love it. Now, listen, Connor, one more thing, I'm gonna

1035
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: have to just be selfish. I know you've got a

1036
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: lot of friends and family, but there's just one rat

1037
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: in your life and that's me. And if for some

1038
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: reason or somewhere there's a fight, there's a fight, and

1039
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: you can sit me at the at your table. I

1040
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: will cheer you on, Bro, and I will be there

1041
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: for you. And if you can get me into one

1042
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: of these big boy fights, you just make sure you

1043
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: put Rat on that list and show. I promised, dude,

1044
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: and and we'll do more of these together. And we

1045
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: could talk spec off so we could talk m m A.

1046
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: We could talk, you know, durts and mental toughness, because

1047
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 1: you're a great dude, and I just wanted to stay

1048
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: on the right path and just keep it up. And

1049
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and just close out the show

1050
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: right now, Connor, because we've had a great segment. And

1051
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: for those of you, yeah, you're very welcome, and those

1052
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:24,240
Speaker 1: of you that have been listening, it's Connor the controller Matthews.

1053
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: You go to controller mm A dot com to help

1054
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: him get his merch soul so that he can get

1055
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: money to go and do these events and travel. We're

1056
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: gonna watch you on August second on the Contender and

1057
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna be rooting for you in Las Vegas. And

1058
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:41,799
Speaker 1: you know, do you have anything to close out with, Bro?

1059
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: Nothing off the top of my head. So you guys

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Speaker 1: appreciate everything and have a Memorial Day to everybody out

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Speaker 1: there who sacrificed relies and if any members of those

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Speaker 1: people like, my prayers and thoughts go to you. And

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Speaker 1: you know it's a hard weekend for some of us.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's a fun weekend because you can breathed

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Speaker 1: out barbecue and having but like you can do back

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Speaker 1: a lot of memories. So to all those who died,

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Speaker 1: keep it forming deadcades is getting in my next fight

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Speaker 1: to my three friends and died, George Mernandez Kill anelligant

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Speaker 1: and cold condit through comic controller to die that I

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Speaker 1: went to train went so you know, by a part

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Speaker 1: of what I'm doing right now is representing what they

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Speaker 1: did and keeping their memories a list. So I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that, and we will keep their memories alive too.

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Speaker 1: Well write about them in the article below the post

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Speaker 1: of this video, just to keep their name on the

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Speaker 1: internet as well posthumously. Okay, And so I just want

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Speaker 1: you to know I appreciate you. Yeah, you keep flexing

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Speaker 1: that Massachusetts. I'm gonna start getting motivated by you to

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Speaker 1: go work out myself. Okay. And I just want to

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Speaker 1: say thank you for listening to Software Radio this episode

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Speaker 1: with Connor, the controller Matthews. My name is Rad and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say peace you them listening to self readily