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December 25, 2024 30 mins

Grandpa to one of the newest babies in Hollywood, Stephen Baldwin is here! He’s sharing what the family will be doing this holiday season and why he joined “Special Forces” and what made it his most challenging project to date. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hi everybody, this is Trista and here with Bob and
we are so excited Almost Famous Ogs. We are starting two.
We will be recapping every Special Forces season three show
when it starts airing on January eighth. But before we start,
we wanted to get some people in from the show

(00:25):
and you know, learn about what the show has in
store for us. And the first one to join us
is Stephen Baldwin and I am so excited to doctor him.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I am too, I've been a fan for a long time.
I can't I can't wait to talk with him. I'm
sure it's going to be very exciting and interesting.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hello, mister Stephen Baldwin has joined the chat Everyone Almost
Famous Ogs. Than you? Are you?

Speaker 4 (01:00):
What's happening? I'm excited?

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Oh my god, so good to see you.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I don't know. Have you met Bob my co host before?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't think so we haven't met before. How are you, Sarah, Bob.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
You're blessed man.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Nice to see a thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
You've got it.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
How are you like? How is life? I know you
only have like twenty five minutes and we have a
lot to talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Oh my goodness, I'm great. I'm out here in Hollywood
just seeing family and get ready for Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Are you so excited to celebrate with your sweet little
grand baby both of them?

Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah, my granddu you have too, right, I have a.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Four year old granddaughter Iris, and now baby Jack is here.
Baby Jack is here to change the world forever. And
we're excited. We're excited. Good timing Christmas, got a little
Christmas grand grandson.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Congratulations, Yes, congratulations for sure. I feel like we said congratulations.
I said congratulations in person, but congratulations here as well.
What are your Do you guys have any specific fun
plans that you can share.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
No, we're listen, we're laying low. You know. Family time
is you know, is very special for us. But yeah,
we're gonna just be around the LA area and then
doing some traveling. You know, other family members have to
be connected with and all that. My daughter's husband, Andrew
and Justin and Haley too. They got to go see

(02:38):
some other family too.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, that makes total sense. Okay, So we've got a
big premiere coming up January eighth, season three. For real,
are you doing anything for the premiere?

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I don't know yet. I'm just waiting, you know, for
Cam Newton to like text me and tell me to
like meet him in Vegas or something. I don't know. Right,
look at your laugh because you know it's totally possible.
Look at Cam, look it up. Let's come, Oh, Mar,
that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well, you had to be such a fun experience for you.
I mean, you know, you look like you're in pretty
good shape. But I could imagine this had to be
crazy challenging. I mean I haven't really gotten even asked,
trusted too much about it yet, but it had to
be just incredibly physically challenging.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Listen, you know Hollywood's Hollywood. I won Fear Factor twenty
five years ago when Joe Rogan was the host, So
I kind of I'm one of the actor guys that
kind of digs, you know, the need for speed, you know, adrenalynda.
But I'm fifty eight now, hello, Yeah, ten years older

(03:55):
than all the other Special Forces congenency.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
I was fifty one, and when I did it, I'm
fifty nine.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
First of all, you guys are both not very good
at math. If you're fifty one, he's fifty eight, that's seven.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh, I thought he said sixty Did he say sixty fifty?

Speaker 5 (04:13):
You're right, we are not good.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
There's a reason you're here, buddy.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, we're not letting you guys go on mathletes compete. Well,
have you on especial forstance?

Speaker 4 (04:22):
How's that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:24):
So, I mean at fifty eight, did you feel like,
I mean, were you were you nervous?

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Because I mean I've watched the previews.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
It looks I want to get to the point. I
want to get to the point of what you're asking,
which is this is this is a big Fox production.
I've been on Celebrity Apprentice, trist has been on a
ton of stuff, you know. You know, at a certain
budget level, these shows, you know, can sometimes be kind

(04:51):
of produced in a way where it's not really that dangerous,
you know what I mean. That was not the case
here at all. And I've been through that kind of stuff.
I'm a skydiver, you know. I've raced cars, crash cars, motorcycles,
all that kind of stuff. In nineteen ninety I won
the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix when they did the

(05:11):
Pro Celebrity race. So I've done a lot of this
adrenaline stuff. But Special Special Forces was just something like
and this is really kind of almost asinine for me
to say, which is I thought, well, the only way
to really find out how bad could it be is
to do it. That's the only way to really see
how crazy and gnarly it is is to do it.

(05:32):
And I totally would never do it again. I don't
know about but because there's people that have already been
asked that question that are like, you know, like, well, yes,
of course, you know the Patriot in my own hot
and you know all the yeah person they're going, there's
there's I can't you know, obviously we can't reveal what happened,
but it was beyond gnarly dangerous and I wouldn't do

(05:59):
it again.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
So it's funny that you say that. So at first
I think I would say no, I wouldn't do it again.
But I don't know about you. But when I came
back from the show, like recent when I had returned,
and then even now if I think about it, when
I'm like going to bed, I feel like I I

(06:21):
would like to go back, just to do different things.
Like I loved meeting everyone and and you know, we
met people from all different walks of life. There's no
way I would have ever met cam Newton, you know,
unless we were at an event or something.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
Like, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
So I just feel like and you I mean, I
feel like we've crossed paths once or twice maybe, but
I I just feel like the relationships are so cool,
So I would maybe want to do it again just
for that, because it would be like a wholy group
of people, you know. But you're right, it was so
gnarly and I you know, going in if you've watched

(07:04):
the show, did you watch the show prior.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Not really a little bit because Bevery Mitchell is a
friend of mine who had done the season before us. Yeah,
And I didn't want to really ask her too much.
I just wanted to see what she had to say
about how risky it was this, that, and even she
couldn't say.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Much, right, No, Yeah, I talked to Hannah Brown, who
actually was on the same season as Beverly. I think
they're good friends and same thing. Like it was just
like training tips, like how are you going to train?

Speaker 5 (07:37):
But I feel like.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I knew going in it was going to be hard obviously,
But you can't know, like you were saying, you can't
know until you actually go and do it.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Here's what I do. I try to play it safe
with what you can and can't say, So I'll just
talk about like the first day, Right, the first day,
we had three big, like crazy events.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Right. The trailers already out so you could see the
helicopters and all that kind of stuff. So that's already
out there in the marketing and the promotion, right. But
what people don't see is in between the three major
events that almost like blew your mind on the first
day was one hundred and fifty push ups and really,
that's well, I forget to run one hundred and fifty pushups. Yeah,

(08:25):
in between jumping onto helicopters, they were yeah, so this
this fhear factor and all this other stuff looked like,
you know, child's.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
Play totally, and you are so right.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I think I said that in my interviews that the
hardest thing for me was the running and having to
carry this like thirty five pound backpack in between all
the challenges. Like I felt like the challenges were like, Okay,
we can finally breathe and like stand here and watch it,
you know, cheer everybody else on.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
But and yes, they.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Were crazy and I was scared, but I feel like
the running in between is so hard, and I don't
think you'll get to see a lot of that.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
I think you will. I think you do well because
a lot of what they're trying to engage in the
psychology of this entertainment is, you know, the struggle that
we go through. You know, when I was I have asthma, right,
you know, I was struggling with that when we were

(09:29):
out there. And then other people have fears, just innate
fears of water and things like that. So you can
be as cool as you think you want to be.
But yeah, when you're swimming with all your clothes on
and they got like a little towboat alongside you, that like,
you know, they can rescue you if you're you start

(09:50):
saying crazy stuff when you think you know you're going underwater.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, well, Trista, that that sounds like you. I mean
you you have asthma, and I'm not mistaken you also
have a.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Little bit of a fear of of like open water everything.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah, they're like, Trista is our prime candidate for this show.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Let's go.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Stephen.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't know if you remember this, but I think
they gave us. Remember we were both I'm asthmatic too,
and they gave us the wrong I think I got
your inhaler and you got mine, or vice you know,
or somebody else. I think someone else had one.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Welcome to the Special Forces, triss Ou. Is this my
old funeral? What does it say on it?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
You know?

Speaker 4 (10:44):
This is anti lizard venom? You know? Okay me and
see what happensable?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Okay, what I feel like before I went, I'm sure
you did this in preparation, like talking to people like
how to get through it. But I feel like one
of the biggest pieces of advice that I got from
a friend who's in Navy Seal was just remember your why?
What was your why in doing the show?

Speaker 4 (11:13):
My why for doing the show is I love the military.
I really support the military here on abroad and everybody
just think anybody that commits to that service, I think
is pretty cool. My dad was a Marine, so you know,
that's just one of those little things, you know. I've
worked a little bit with the Gary Sonice Organization and

(11:34):
just where I can, I like to try to bless
in that way. So I thought this was a cool
way to do that kind of salute the troops, and
then again that that individual test. You know, I'm a skydiver,
but every time you go out the door, you better
make sure when you leave that aircraft you've checked everything
and that your shoot, your parachute's going to work, and

(11:56):
if it doesn't work, the second shoot's going to work. Amen.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, So I kind of went into this like that,
you know, like, let me just see how hard they're
going to push us, And I thought, I mean, trust,
it only makes sense that they go I thought relatively easy,
honest day one, two, maybe three, you know, blah blah
blah blah, going forward forward. As you know, as it progressed,
it got harder and harder and harder, with the first

(12:23):
tape being one hundred and fifty push ups.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
So yeah, military style push ups too, Steven like, oh
my god, oh yes, sir, Yeah, that's brutal.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
I couldn't do that, and then run and jump on
a helicopter from a speedboat.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, from a moving boat.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Damn exciting, like cool stuff when you see it in
the movies. But I just don't know if I could
do it. I just don't think I could.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Well, you didn't have a choice when you were doing
this yeah, exactly, face streaming in your face?

Speaker 5 (12:58):
How was it?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
I'm sorry, I feel like if you have any questions,
pipe on in here before.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh I am no, I'm a fly on the wall.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
I was just gonna say one thing I was going
to say, was, you know, with them screaming in your
face boot camp style?

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Did you ever were you.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Ever like push to that point where you just wanted
to be, like, just stop yelling at me, Like, I
just don't know what I would do, Like I don't
respond well in situations like that, Like how did you
handle that?

Speaker 4 (13:22):
I don't respond in those situations well either, dog, I'm
telling you right now now, I'm the youngest of six kids.
You know, my brothers or my brothers, we were all
you know, we were all athletes. My dad was a
football coach. Our upbringing was very Friday night lights, getting
drunk on the weekend, chasing chicks, you know. But it
was just you know, American on a kind of sure normal.

(13:46):
So in the beginning of the show, they kind of
blindfold you. I'll just leave it at that, and then
they removed that blindfold and then invite you to participate
in the in the very first activity on this boat,
and it's moving and I'm standing at the back of
the boat and my blindfold comes off, and for who
I am and where I'm from, this is the worst

(14:08):
opening line you ever want to hear from an authority,
you know, in an introductory basis like this, my blindfold
comes off, and this guy goes, get that smile off
your face. I promise you, bro, I wasn't smiling. I'm

(14:29):
sitting there going if this guy thinks this face and
smiling unscrewed right from the beginning, and then and then
when I and then straight up, I'm like, you know, yes, sir,
you know he and he goes, you heard me. I
go it was billy, you know what I mean. He goes,
you heard me? And I go, yeah, yeah. He goes,
you heard what I said? And I go, I go, yes, sir,

(14:51):
not smiling. And the next thing I felt was his
hands punching my chest, pushing me off the back of
the boat while was moving. Oh my gosh. It was nuts.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, honestly, like that's like PTSD you saying that.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
I think since then, any time I've had like a
thought in and around, you know, get that now when
I get pulled over for a routine traffic stop. I'm like,
oh man, that's insane.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
You know what I was bummed about with the press
day is I thought that Billy and Foxy and Q
and Rudy would all be there, or at least one
or two of them, and nobody was there. And I
don't know if you were in the car when with
me when I had this conversation. I feel like Denise
and I were talking about it, but we really wanted
to get to know them on like a personal basis

(15:49):
and not like, you know, superior to inferior. You know,
we wanted to, like, I don't know, just chat with
them because we do realize that they are normal people,
like family people, totally respect them absolutely, and I really
wanted to get to know them. Right. Have you had
the opportunity to see them outside of the show.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Not yet. No. Myself as well, I haven't had a
chance to interact with those guys. But I think it's
probably also they don't want us to do that until
it airs.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Probably Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
There's maybe a little of that going on.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, you're saying that the first day thing or the
first moment thing, and yeah, it like makes my heart race.

Speaker 5 (16:31):
Like, oh, I need mine hailer again.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
Yeah but no, but with with the moment I described earlier.
You have to see you how many times in my
life I heard get that smile? Like I've heard it all,
Like my dad said a thousand times to me, you
know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (16:43):
Did he?

Speaker 4 (16:44):
So when the blind Folk comes off and that's the
one line the guys, I'm just there going this is
not at all what I thought it was gonna.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
I wonder if somebody knew that, like if the like
did you did you guys have to do like the
psycho al and all that kind of stuff before the show,
and maybe like yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
But I don't think the smile of your face line
was in there by.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
I think he says that to a lot of people. Honestly,
he like wants to put you in your place, like
you are my inferior. You need to listen to me
kind of thing, you know what I mean? I have
an interesting question so being our age. You know, we
we have kids, we are you know, we've lived our
professional lives, you know most of it. I feel like

(17:31):
a hard thing for me and going into it thinking
about this was just sharing common space with other people
who I'm not married to.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
Or you know, having a bathroom right next to.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Freaking I'm like taking a pee or poop right next
to Carrie Hart, who I'm sure he can hear and
smell and I can hear and smell too.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
So how I want to.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
I want to know when we're sleeping, who's going to
figure out Cam Newton snoring? I want to know exactly
you're gonna tap him on the shoulder in the middle
of telling to keep it.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Damn Osh and Golden.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I think Golden and Carrie and Cam were all the
big snorers in the bunch and see, yeah, no one's
gonna tap them on the shoulder in the middle of
the night and say, hey, roll over, keep it down.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Buddys took a sock in it there, Cam.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
That's crazy? That was that?

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Was that a weird adjustment Stephen for you, I mean
kind of having that common space sort of violated.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
No.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
I did two movies where I had to do military training,
uh uh, And in those movies I had to live
like in that similar kind of living in the barracks,
living in you know, can you only like that in
a military sense? So now that didn't freak me out
too bad, uh, but definitely the snoring and uh and

(19:07):
the farting quite frankly.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
So, Trista, I know that she was probably not with
her normal restricted diet, so causes already be gassy.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
And there you set it. I sat it, it happened. Yeah,
that's not what the s F state. It's not special forces,
it's special it's special forces. Yet, God, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
So On.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I can't remember what day it was, but we all
ended up in like this random field because everyone had
to peet and and maybe even more than that.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Were you part of that?

Speaker 2 (19:45):
And did you like so I know that someone and
maybe you'll remember, got like attacked by a nettle or something.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Oh greatest, Trista, I've already confessed to like farting issues.
She wants to straight poop. Tell us to know about
the farting and the number two. Let's know, I'm.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Talking about the nettles.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
So someone got like like squatted in this field and
got like like squatted into like a nettle. And I
can't remember who it was.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Were you there?

Speaker 4 (20:16):
It was several of the ladies went, you know, traps into.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
The wild cross Yeah.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, and y'all came back with little chiggers on you exactly,
those little kind of like things that stick to you.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Uh. It's like a it's like pointy and sharp and
like makes you itchy afterwards.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
But it almost looks like poison ivy. It's freaky.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, So I was so worried about that, But I
can't remember who it was that like got stung. That's
just things that you don't think about when you sign
up for Special Forces. You know, you think maybe you're
going to have some bathrooms. No, I mean when you
gotta go, you gotta go. And I feel like everybody
had to go, so we just stopped in a field,

(21:03):
you know.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
Oh my god. Well that was also the day that
when everybody ran to the restroom, like y'all weren't even
given permission to do it. Like remember we were driving
and driving and driving, and like we had been asking
when can we go to the bathroom, and all of
a sudden they stopped or something and everyone piled out.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yes, so let's move away from the gross stuff. But
I would love to know what was one of your
favorite memories from the show.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Uh, but my favorite memory was you think you know
who might be on the show. You kind of guess
a little bit as an actor, celebrity, whatever, whatever, And
my favorite moment was and Cam came up and circled
back with me on it later. But what we all
got on the boat, and you know, I saw Brody
and you know, I don't think I ever told you

(22:05):
the story, but like a very funny story is about
three weeks before we all left. I don't know if
you ever heard this story, but I was talking to Denise,
I know, Denise Richards. She was doing my One Bad
Movie podcast, and all of a sudden, like three weeks
before we're going, I'm talking to her about this and
that and just work and this and that, and she
turns around. She goes, oh, heck, I'm sorry I didn't

(22:25):
call you back, but I've been really crazy and this
thing just came through and I got to go to
London in like three weeks. And it's this reality show,
like this military thing, and I really can't talk about
it and I already signed. So I turned around and
I go, oh, wow, sounds so like so much fun.
Is it like a boot camp? She's like, well, no,
it's not really that. I can't talk about it. I said,
oh great, it shoots in London. She goes, no, no,

(22:46):
we meet in London's and then we go to Wales.
I go, oh, my gosh, I can't believe it. I
say nothing, Trista.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
No way.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
I called the producers to go, hey, man, I know
Denise Richard's other shit. It was hysterical. And then when
we got on the boat the first day, she walks
out to me, she goes, you're such an asshole.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
I was literally standing.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
I was standing right there when you came up to her,
and she was like, why didn't you say anything.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
When we were all gathering on that first day where
everybody was when it first started, when we all first
started trickling on the boat. Yep, Cam came on the
boat and he had that big hat on. Yep, and
he comes on the boat and he sits down and
I thought he was security, oh because he had those
glasses on. He had these glasses and a six foot whatever.

(23:41):
I don't know how big the guy is. So I
got like to go where nobody else is. So I
go over to the guy by himself, the tall security guy.
Oh maybe he needs a little chat, you know what
I mean. I'm sitting there and I'm sitting there and
I literally like sit down next to him like this.
I'm like, hey, buddy, what's your name? He goes, Cam, Yeah,

(24:02):
And I'm sitting here going watch. Mean, I literally go,
that's Cam Newton. But that's my favorite moment because he
was just so sweet about it. They're going, oh my god, fella,
what's your name? He's like, I'm a legend. I'm like,
oh are you? Here's adorable. Here's adorable. Funny.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
That is so funny.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
You guys had some big names on the show too.
I mean, obviously you in the actor world. You had
a lot of athletes on there that were like, I mean,
Golden Tate, I mean, what a crew you guys had, Yeah,
Marion Jones, I mean, my god.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
She had people with great physical ability. But then you
also have some people that, you know, mentally and psychologically,
were these scrappers. You know, you didn't think you were
going to see, you know, rise to the occasion. Yeah,
the fabulous twist.

Speaker 1 (24:59):
She's got a little.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
You're so sweet, Stephen. I mean, I feel like I
just wanted to go in and try it, and like
you were saying, you.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
Just got to go try it.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
At first, I don't know what your first reaction was
when they called you, but Mine was.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Hell, no, are you kidding me? Why would you want me?

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yeah? Well, I just said, because whenever you do this
kind of thing, I'm not going to be ask myself
about it. You know, I'll do certain things if they're
going to pay you for the risk or this or
that or you yeah, they like they should reward you
for whatever it is you're going to do. Totally on
this one, only because I really had a sense as

(25:42):
an athlete myself and having done stunts and movies and
I've seen the show and you can get hurt doing
this show. So it wasn't the money. It definitely wasn't
the money to do Special Forces. It was that thing
you said, Trista, which is just it's that it you
can't scratch. It's that's you know, self curiosity. You know,

(26:03):
how hard can it be and you can't there's only
one way to find out.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Yeah, trist that you said something I liked when you
when you never talked about this.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
I want to see Stephen.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Feels the same way Trista had said, you know, because
I was like, is it like a competition show where
you're you know, you're you're you're She's like, yeah, you're
competing with yourself, And I thought that was really interesting
that that she saw it that way. Did you see
it the same way? Was it more of a you
versus you type of situation?

Speaker 4 (26:27):
You know when it comes to reality. I've done a
lot of reality stuff in thirty years, so I have
a little bit of a PTSD when it comes to yeah,
I I I, well, my phone calls with the producers
before Special Forces was just like I didn't believe a
word of it, you know, I mean, whatever, the it's
you against yourself. You know, it'll be very psychologically challenging.

(26:51):
And you know the Special Forces, you know, they get
held underwater until they pass out, and you know it'll
be dangerous. I'm sitting there going they're saying that, and
then like you know, my brother Alex is gonna come
in on a zip line or something, you know, like
you know, you know who knows, you know what I mean.
I just there's going to be some other stuff. But
it really legitimately was this no nonsense. You know, these

(27:15):
guys came in to just really push us what beyond anything? Absolutely,
And I've done military training before for films with a
guy named Dale Die who owns a company called Warriors Incorporated.
They they trained everybody, excuse me for the movie Platoon
with Charlie She Yeah, yeah, so I worked. I worked

(27:37):
with that company twice. And but again that's you can't
compare the training they give you militarily for a movie
to play a soldier to what we just did in
Special Forces. There's no comparison. This was legitimately either you
do it or you can't do it, and if you
can't do it, you're out right. Gosh.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
It definitely was a challenge, but I do think, yes,
it was a challenge against myself. But thinking about it too,
even though it wasn't like a challenge where one person
is going to get kicked off, I feel like you
kind of want to step up and do as well
as everybody else. So it does push you if you have,
you know, a competitive bone in your body. And I

(28:19):
for sure did. I know you have to go. I
wish we could talk more, but I know you have
to go. So thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (28:26):
Well, thank you. I have to get back to my granddaughter.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, you go, I like it. I like it.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Family first, Well, hope, y'all. Yeah, if I'm out in La,
I'm going to see the gang and the kids and
all that. But I'd love to come back on love
to have you talk after ye at some point in February.
Where do you live? Where are y'all live?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Where are you I'm in Denver, so but I'm coming
out to La you know, for press and stuff randomly. Okay,
but yeah, I would We would love to have you on.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
I'm starting up the season two of One Bad Movie
in February. Fun nice with the filming and all that,
so I'll circle back with you about getting you getting
you on the podcast as well.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Well. I would love that, would love it.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Thanks for being a part of that almost famous ogs.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
We appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I'm dead serious.
Let's do it again whenever it makes sense to me.
I mean, how soon in the cycle could we do it?
Can we do it again, like after the show airs.

Speaker 5 (29:30):
After the show starts, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
And it's only five shows so there's not a lot
of shows. But we'd love to chat again.

Speaker 5 (29:38):
For sure.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
We might just do a little color commentary for for Oh,
we're doing that.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
We're doing recaps after.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Every Yes, do it on your show? Yeah, Yeah, I'd
love to do a recapit.

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Love it, I love it all right well, Mary christ
your

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Family to you, Mary, Chris MS, God bless Follow the
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