RUDY REYES | The Power of Deep Pursuit
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1 hour and 1 minute
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Summary
Rudy Reyes is a former Marine Corps Special Forces Reconnaissance Specialist, Author of his new book Hero Living, and Host of the Fox hit show Special Forces World's Toughest Test. He talks about the power of a mission, developing the executive mindset, the strength of the inner story, and how to compartmentalize emotions and go deep on pursuits that matter.
Transcript
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There's so much to get distracted by these days with all of our duties responsibilities and obligations
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It's really really easy to get lost in trivial and meaningless activities and pursuits
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But when we learn to eliminate and remove the distractions
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We free ourselves to find something truly meaningful to obtain
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My guest today is a master at doing just that. His name is rudy reyes
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He's a former marine recon author of his book hero living and host of the fox hit show special forces
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Developing the executive mindset the strength of the inner story you tell yourself
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How when and why to compartmentalize emotion and going deep on pursuits that matter you're a man of action
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You live life to the fullest embrace your fears and boldly charge your own path when life knocks you down
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You get back up one more time every time you are not easily deterred defeated rugged
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This is who you will become at the end of the day
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And after all is said and done you can call yourself a man
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Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is ryan michler
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I'm your host and the founder of the order of man podcast and movement
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We got a really good one for you today. Uh, rudy has been a friend for years
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I've broken bread with him. We've trained together. Uh, we've spent time together
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Uh, what a great human being and that's not to say that he's free of
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Hardship or adversity or his own personal struggles
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But man, this is an incredible guy and you're gonna enjoy this podcast
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Use the code order of man at checkout. All right, guys, let me introduce you to my guest again
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His name is rudy reyes. He is a former marine recon. I can't go through and talk about his
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Uh awards and accommodations because it would just take too long
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You can check it out for yourself. He's also the author of
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His re-released book hero living. He's the star of the tv shows sas who dares wins
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That is a great show me and my uh, two oldest boys in particular watch that show
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And it's a really really good show and he's just a hell of a good person and a good friend
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Uh rudy has taken his immense combat experience including multiple combat tours abroad
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And really molded himself into a force to be reckoned with
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But of course none of that has come without a price rudy talks openly about his battles with
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He gets real about what it takes to go from the top
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To the bottom to digging yourself back up to the top. Enjoy this one fellas
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10 days straight i'm getting about four hours of sleep a night
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And taskers and then running recruits to and from course and there's only four of us instructors
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And um, we are also the range safety officers we're the safety swimmers
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And when we get them through their tasks and we finally get it get finally get them to the barracks
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You have to make sure their uh uniforms are inspected their gear is inspected
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Then we have to interview them and that goes all night till midnight sometimes one in the morning
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And so as the things develop we never know who's going to leave and when we never know
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So as things develop and then we get it all in the can for the next few months
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Reshoot my master interviews like you see me in the dark room
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Right, military kind of dark room and then I get my hair cut and everything so it looks just like that
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I know you got your hair cut and you don't have a beard. I'm like who is I don't even recognize this guy
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So I get the look to match and then depends depending on what has happened
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Then i'll do a little insight a little verb a blurb to what's happening on that episode
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And i'm doing and I have two programs I got sas in the uk
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And you and then special forces in the usa. They're both out at the same time
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So it's it's you know, it's all over the place but it's great. It's great to have a fucking mission
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um, but uh, it's definitely a lot of work and I can see why my personal life
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I don't have much of a personal life anymore. It's revolved around health and training
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And being in the best uh condition mentally physically uh emotionally
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Be the only name in military entertainment because that's kind of how my
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Is uh entertainment is fickle and our world is not uh guaranteed things go up and down
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I'm sure there's some 35 year old operators out there that are magnificent that are handsome that are war heroes
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So I have to be the best and that means my life outside of shooting is revolved around
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That's that's the way it's got to be right now. You know what i'm saying?
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Yeah, I mean it's hard to I you know, I I know a lot of guys myself included want to want to emulate the same
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Type of lifestyle you're talking about but you know, one of the things that I think is how often we're tempted by other people or circumstances or
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uh, that you and I have talked about where you know, everybody else is living a different life than we are
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So my question is how do you stay on target and on course when everything around you is quite literally in some cases telling you not to
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uh, you can see our our beautiful little room here
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We're out here in beautiful qs for the wedding. Um, it's so beautiful
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Disciplined in training in going to the training hall or the gym
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Because as we know that is a shift of focus and consciousness of my life
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Is now put on hold so I can go invest in my personal development. I can de-stress I can get strong
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Everything else that's waiting for me is waiting for me out there
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I work out right out here because i'm used to being expeditionary
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Um, those two chairs out there. I turn into my dip station. I bring my rubber bands with me everywhere. I wear blood occlusion cuffs
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Uh turned into the military in which I was deploying or going to school all over
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I had to learn to do it with whatever I have wherever I am
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I'm really proud because I don't know how you do it
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She's going to the gym right now. We've got a little day pass
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Some little hoopie gym here in key key west. I think you get probably you probably get, uh, uh, uh, I don't know
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Rum drop shots when you go in I mean this place is insane
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I mean, you know, everyone's wasted all the time bloody mary's from breakfast everywhere. So, um, she said, uh, she gave me a compliment
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and that means even though we're in the middle we got
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and you know, they're, uh, blasting freaking, uh, uh, poison
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uh, freaking, uh, you know, some, uh, some poison songs and some guns and roses and drinking bloody mary's
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Sometimes I choose to just get into it and you know
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Of 10 bodyweight squats 10 mountain climbers each leg
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10 push-ups 10 thrusters even with no weight squeezing the shoulders
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I can guarantee you're going to get some heavy results
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And then and then turn it into 20 reps 20 and then turn it 20 diamond push-ups
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So I would also this is something maybe my my friends and fans and and folks out there don't know
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uh missions and programs in northeast africa and I was in charge of the pt and martial art program
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And I was tasked with making these men strong and prepared, you know for for combat
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We did, um, we put on our blouses our, uh, you know cami blouses and uh, do grip work
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And uh hip tosses fitting in judo, um and duck unders and uh suplex fitting it in
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That built these men strong and uh, I had to get results
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There was no excuse that just because I didn't have equipment I couldn't get results
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I've really that's just part of me now, you know, so then when you see me at sarnix when we got all the disneyland
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I bring these occlusion cuffs much love to diamond dallas page. They're called power cups
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And they and you know, uh, there's so many gimmicks out there brother
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Um, these things are like you think they're gimmicky
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So they're they're cuffs that go on you here and then crank them and it cuts off the blood
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So now you're working three times harder with no blood getting to your arms
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And body weight conditioning dips pull-ups even light band work
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And when you take them off the massive amounts of blood comes flooding through great for inflammation
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Also great for hgh because your body's in a sense in micro trauma
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And you want to try them on the legs and do just a body weight squat lunge work
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Uh, and i've i've learned how to work out with what I have around me
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That's really I guess maybe that's kind of what sets me apart from a lot of folks out there
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A throwback really I bet you the old guys from 100 years ago 150 years ago. They were more like that
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They'd find some stones the people that were involved in wanting to be strong and wrestlers gymnasts things like that
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They'd find stones or they do a lot of pull-ups or they'd probably do a lot of rope pulls
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Yeah, I think I think it is it's just being just being a little adaptive and a little resilient
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I'm one of the workouts that I really like doing when I don't have anything around me is I do uh, 10 push-ups
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Uh, 20 sit-ups and then uh, 30 air squats and I do 10 rounds of that takes 35 minutes or so
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Exactly. You're sweating. You're breathing hard. You're oxygenating tissues. Absolutely brother. Um, it works
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It truly works. There's another great one. You've seen me probably over the years
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It looks like i'm just mentally possessed and i'm throwing punches and spalls
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It's boss root to boss root and the legend boss root. Yeah
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Put in your earbuds and he calls out the shots. It's 30 minutes
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You keep your hands high and he'll call out three
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Or a two or a right straight left hook and then defense and then you scroll and then leaping knees to chest 20 and then
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30 minutes of being in an executive mindset, meaning we are not thinking anymore
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Hmm switches a whole nother area on but we're just executing
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Boss root and his all-around workout still gets me through
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the uh, the actors slash recruits and bodyguards of generation kill
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I ran that course too. I trained those actors for a few months before we even started to shoot and then
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um, and then we trained, uh along concurrently while shooting
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All the actors got military haircuts gear issue
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Uh camis and we ran it brother and this is all over south africa namibia
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Um, and we would do boss root some of those actors who are now
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Superstars, uh, michael kelly mikey kelly from uh
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Beautiful blue eyes kind of balding here lean. He's also in the jack ryan shows the cia guy jack ryan's best buddy
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The cia beautiful eyes. That's my homeboy michael kelly
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Um, he still does boss root. I turned him on to boss root 13 years ago people are still doing the boss root because it works
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I you know, I am curious where you're talking about these shows
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So me and my kids watch special forces. I haven't seen sas, but we have we have watched special forces in a couple episodes into season two now
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I was uh, I was a little disappointed. I was rooting for uh, mike piazza in season one. I was a little disappointed
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I'm like come on you were I picked him on day one because I used to watch him as a kid playing for the dodgers
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You know what? He's such a class act and he I think he was the keystone that held that course together
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There was a time when it was about to be a mutiny
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It was about to be a mutiny brother and this is behind the scenes
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Um, foxy and billy normally do the super uh high speed repelling
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Uh, because we all have to be able to cover each other's back
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But he was doing a I don't know 250 feet bomb rappel from a uh
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So we we showed the recruits going up all the stairs and then bombing it off. Um
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We go and rehearse weeks before and then even up to the day. We'll have a guy
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Uh, um evolution we're going to do just to make sure it's finally safe
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Foxy was coming down fast. He's a big unit brother fox. He's 235 pounds, you know
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And he swung in probably going about 40 miles an hour
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And clipped his heel snapped tip fifth like that
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And at first I thought man, maybe you know, did he break his back and fucking really shut it down?
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We got him into the freaking ambulance. It's his fucking leg
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We have to uh, it has to be transparent to them. They can't know anything
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Foxy's on a helicopter to try to get some kind of medical care. This is jordan. It's not the united states
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We're getting ready to go into the driving ambush
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The king of jordan flies in with his bodyguards to see us and have lunch
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Who we're honored and obligated to because they gave us all these assets and they're letting us use their beautiful country
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We're not going to tell him. Hey, hey king. You got to go now
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So the king was there entertaining us for about two hours while the recruits
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They're getting really angry. They don't know what's going on
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But you know, welcome to the military. That's how it goes sometimes
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I was just about ready to eat this is after a long day and night just in the vehicle just
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Got in there to eat and then I hear billy yelling his voice behind me
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I get it and I go back there and they're about to go to blows
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I can't let the discipline of the course get out of control
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If we can slam the door on danny danny squeaking at this at that
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All of the recruits say all right, we're all taking off our armbands
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We're about to lose the whole for this show and this thing's like a 20 million dollar show, right?
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I mean just flying everybody first class to get into this thing, right?
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We get to the barracks everybody's flooding out
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Scaramucci, daddy and everybody's like you know what right here
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Then I i said i'm shut the eff up get in the accommodations right now
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Shut the eff up just shut up get out of my face get out of my face and it was piazza
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Listen, you know, listen everyone we're here for a reason
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You know, it's been tough on all of us, but we really need to show our best out here
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We represent america we really need to keep get it together all right
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Do you understand and everybody brought their emotions down everybody got back together and it was piazza
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Get that course online brother. We were about to lose it all
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Uh on the third or fourth day. Yeah, yeah, it was incredible
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He's he's such a champ. He's such a great father. He's such a great american
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I've had dinner with them and spent time with them afterwards, too
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Uh, just a class act all the way. I loved him, but I knew
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Um, when you're of that age when you're in a little order
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Especially if you're a bigger person if you're 170 pounds and you're 45 or 50
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It's all for running. It's all the wear and tear
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He got that he got the hell fuck beat out of him by being dwayne
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We kept him in and he kept giving as much as he could
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But he took some hard shots. I was amazed he was still standing in the air
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His face is all swell up. Remember he freaking smashed against the the uh, uh
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Oh, brother. It was pandemonium. So there's no freaking script ryan
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So when billy was running the gas chamber, he ran to escape. I was on the other side
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Piazza was so freaking strong. He blasted that door. I almost fucking
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Oh, that's right. When he tried to run into that door of that connex, right? That's right. I do remember that
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Oh, brother, you know, you can go sideways uh on you anytime. So we're all very focused
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Doing back briefs so we all understand what's going on and what the audience does
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Somebody really important if we've not got their inner story out
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Now that being said I can't pump the brakes we can't pump the brakes
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But it's amazing what one little word from a ds from an instructor to a struggling student can do for them
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So out on task one little word one. Hey, stay in the fight, brother
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You're giving a good account of yourself one little thing
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Yeah, and so later in the evening we'll bring him bring him in for a tactical questioning and learn more about
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Uh, it's uh, it's really really amazing work. You need to be switched on
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It's brought my health back together because when i'm there brother i'm there for two months totally immersed
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No alcohol no distraction oftentimes no cell service just training and running the course
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And then when I come home, I feel so refit refueled refreshed and
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Find what's so important is that I have my loved ones back home. So it's a perfect life
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Work training balance right now now. I don't know how long it's going to last
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The numbers for our new season are almost twice as good as the first season
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The first season was the best or the highest rated fox show unscripted
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This one is still the highest rated fox show uh unscripted. I think of all time
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But you never know how entertainment goes that I I want to I want to keep uh
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And of sacrifice and honorable old world values and I think that's what this show does
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Yeah, I think that I also think seeing people overcome obstacles and trials and hardship
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Well, it seems like in modern times everything's so easy, you know, i'm not
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I don't want to discount what people are dealing with we're all dealing with something, but
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You're really not dealing with what what what will kill you for the most part and you're exactly become so complacent and comfortable
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I am curious, you know with season one and now season two
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Are there some common themes that you see not only through the shows that you've done but also your military training?
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That that seem to run common throughout people who succeed because if we can emulate those characteristics
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That's what i'm interested in and I think that's what the guys listening are interested in too
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because if you're disciplined enough to put yourself
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A space of pain and being out of breath which in a sense is like a little death
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We are transporting ourselves back to the savannah
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And yet we've got spears to hunt our food yet the predators could get us too
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And imagine how in our primitive state how real that was right real
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If you are approaching physical fitness and sport
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I think at our base dna it's putting you back into that
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Years back like you go into a new gym or something like that
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And you've been there about three weeks and then you see a couple of the same guys and they're doing some legit stuff
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There's so there's a quantum effect of things that are happening when you're physically fit and when they're doing sport
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It's keeping you back into our tribal our freaking our our essential hunter-gatherer
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when there was um when there was something on the line
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Will you be strong enough to even fight get a woman or are you going to be eaten by the lion or by the
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So starting with sport and physical fitness that starts developing a level of grit and um
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Also, it's interesting the emotions i'm an emotional person yet
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Through martial art and through special operations
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Separating church and state in the human mind for success
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Separating the church and state specifically when you're building fundamentals
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But there's a certain in in our earlier development
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Separating uh church and state uh church being the emotion and soul spirit
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All sometimes the empathy sometimes the empathy sometimes the sympathy
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Separate that from the state and that is the freaking uh
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That is the empire that you're building of yourself
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You must conquer you must make clinical decisions
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It I see that these are the building blocks and all the people that do well on my course
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And all the people i've known that do well in anything
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That ability uh, especially it doesn't seem that ryan
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Many of us are just naturally geniuses or naturally
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Um, uh, you know carl lewis not many of us are naturally carl lewis or albert einstein
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So those are the basics. I really see sports fitness because you're willing to
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Uh subconsciously put yourself back on the savannah
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And then separating church and state when developing skills whether they're your economic skills your social skills your professional skills
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One of the things that I that I really admire about you really just in the interactions we've had over the years is
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Like i'll go to the gym for an hour every morning and that's my gym time and then my
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You know, uh, my journaling or meditation time is is at this time you're talking about compartmentalization
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From what I see I don't see compartmentalization. What I see is
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What I see is exactly right achieving. You know, that's what I that's what I admire about you
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Yes, but you're exactly right. It's that expeditionary approach. Um, however, when I was
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In my teen years and early 20s and when I was doing shaolin kung fu and kickboxing
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And there was not really a fitness culture really there
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And so I would train very early in the morning by the way my kung fu teacher
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We didn't have any money. We didn't have a school. We trained outside and kansas city
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We get freaking harsh winters and blistering summers
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Um, still no matter what my kung fu teacher said jenet sit said
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Every morning if you do these drills every morning
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And when the sun is coming up and you do this meditation every morning for two years
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And if you skip anything the techniques lost and now looking back
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I realize the technique that he's talking about is the technique technique of technique of commitment
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Once I started training that hard committed and that there were no
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It opened up another level of my probably my intelligence my grit
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But it had to be started and moored with that kind of uh discipline
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Uh, yeah, jade just walked in she just got me a coffee
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Uh, she like I said she's blown away. So, um, because I always find she'll see me
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Things to work out with when we move into the hotel first thing
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Uh, I look like, uh, you know where you put your suitcase on
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I put my feet up on the table and use that thing that you put your suitcase on to do some deep chest presses
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And then just moving some chairs around and i'll stick one chair against the wall
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So it's got a little bit of pressure to hold it and then so I do my dips on the tops of chairs
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So you have to be focused with you got to be focused with your core
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To keep them from collapsing in so i'm feeling my ability through the four legs of each chair
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That all started from the compartmentalization of my feelings
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And whether how freaking cold and uh, and how much snow was coming in brother. I
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I didn't have a car my brothers and I we're really
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Lower socioeconomic group grew up very low socioeconomic group. I thought it was doing great
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I had a restaurant job. We had a decent apartment in a okay part of town
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And I rode my my bicycle everywhere keep super in shape and then do my train outdoors
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That a bunch of cars we got freezing rain cars are
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Mashing panamoning in the rain. Well, I still had to get to work
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Racquet pole goggles because see I noticed that when I wouldn't wear goggles when I riding my bike in the snow
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My eyelashes would freeze and I'm freaking freeze over it
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And wrap me some freaking scarves around and i'm riding my bike to the freaking park at five in the morning
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We're fighting drills and plow missions. It was awful. Uh, it was all plow metrics and striking drills. I had to do every morning every morning
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Unzip the top of it wrapped it around my waist steam was coming off. Well snow is coming down
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So you know when you got those basics built in you
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You will bring that level of intensity insight and celebration to whatever training you're doing
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And then you start bringing that to everything you're doing everything you're doing
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My buddy his name's clark a legend very humble seal with a ton of freaking humor and he plays guitar loves metallica
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And uh, um, he calls me his energy coach. He says energy code
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That you're exactly right. There is a tipping point. There's the fundamentals fundamentals fundamentals and we always return to them
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But our goal is to hit a tipping point in which we're living
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And and really celebrating and being gracious with all the gifts that we got, you know, it's strange
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We look in the mirror. Do you remember boo? We used to be younger. I remember when we were younger
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Um, things do change on our bodies. They do age
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They do age we have to warm up a lot longer. We now have to
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I mean like what a waste of time what these people do
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I just bought a I just bought a roller on amazon. I'm like, all right, I better
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I better get after this because this ain't working anymore
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You know what i'm saying and you know, it's it's really amazing. I'm still in love with it. I'll always be in love with it
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How to describe my mission now or how i'm going to make a living for my family and I and such or whatever
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Because i'm not necessarily and just an entertainer i'm not necessarily just a warrior anymore
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Um, I still train my weapons with jade. We still do martial art with weights
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But i'm not necessarily just a speaker so it's still unfolding for us, you know
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But what stays at the center is the relationship I have with jade and also, uh, the deep pursuit
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What i'm called by god to do what is the deep what what what doors
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Has have been opened my whole life and also what challenges have been put in front of me
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So these are the things I wrestle with and think deeply about every day
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two men said said this two men said said this about martial art and technique he's such a
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If I tell you to go down the road and take a right
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If you just do exactly what I say you're going to end up in somebody's front yard
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And if you pay attention you'll be able to follow the road
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But in life you have to be able to follow the road and maybe that's the um
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That we were talking about also what a dichotomy of bedrock
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Man, let me just step away from this conversation very quickly
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I went for a walk this morning and noticed that
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It's starting to get a little colder out there, which for me means it's hunting season now
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That has nothing to do with what I wanted to share with you
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But just something I enjoy and talk about as often as I can
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But what I did want to share with you is that we finally have our order of man original hoodies back in stock
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It's been almost a year since we've had these things available and on
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It did the trick to keep me warm and also looking good
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In fact, I almost caused multiple accidents as the men who drove by kept yelling and asking me where I got my hoodie from
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All the ladies dropping their kids off at school in elementary school, you know, they couldn't take their eyes off of me
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You know all this to say you probably need your own order of man hoodie
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You will attract both wanted and unwanted attention
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Just want to let you know from the men and the ladies guys all jokes aside
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It means the world to me and if you want to look good and stay warm this winter
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Then go to store.orderofman.com and pick up a brand new
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order of man hoodie, it's going to keep you warm comfortable and looking good
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All right, do that right after the podcast for now. Let's get back to it with rudy
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You seem to be somebody who lives life on his own terms and and is willing to explore different veins and different avenues and different interesting things to you
00:38:13.620
How does that juxtapose with your time in the military because that that could be completely different where you've got command telling you
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You're going to do this at this time and this way and then I see you the personality you have i'm like
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This is a larger than life guy right here. How does that work?
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You know, that's a great question. It's a great question because I look back at it
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I can't wait for you to meet some of my other recon brothers. There's a brother that you need to get on here
00:38:36.120
His name's roger sparks. He's the first man. I called on for force blow. He's seven foot tall
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Legendary recon ranger recon daddy then went to pararescue at 35
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So their their selection is just an olympian swim program
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Okay, got it. Wow at 35 already a seasoned operator
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Highest decorated highest decorated pararescueman of all time
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Um, so he was my he was my mentor there at recon and
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Uh screaming high and tight and I did what the hell I was told for the first two years in the marine corps
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Made sure that everything was squared away fresh haircut great condition
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All gear maintained and managed and I did what I was told
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At a certain time the doors open up to you and now that you've shown that you
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Uh have the intelligence humility and discipline
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And then some of the ncos will have a lava lamp
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Next thing, you know, you see the other ncos. They play guitar
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Then you find out this guy over here, um is a painter
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Then you find out this guy over here was a d1 football player
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And it becomes a jedi council of high performance and creativity
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Why that becomes so important is that when we deploy and fight overseas
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Uh, we were the young bucks on the freaky playing field
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And due to the excellence of my brothers and I in my my first two platoons
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In afghanistan and pakistan in the invasion of iraq and then fallujah and ramadi
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Marsak was created and so then they got the huge dollars
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No, uh, shielding from the elements just heavy guns and each other
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Um, we had to drink water from the euphrates with massive amounts of bleach and uh
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We're wearing nuclear biological chemical suits
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Like imagine you and your three best friends from grade school
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When you're still riding bmx bikes and freaking chasing snakes
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So I came back finally after all my words and stuff
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Were you ever scared that I was not coming home?