October 21, 2025 • 35 mins
In this special edition of The Good Stuff, the art of talking amongst friends takes center stage. Over the course of Season Two thus far, producer Nick has had to make the difficult decision to exclude certain elements from certain episodes when it became clear those elements did not benefit the episode as a whole. Well, today we present you with a few “Deleted Scenes” that stand on their own as entertaining, revealing and, at times, moving conversations. Jacob, Ashley and Nick invite you to tune in and join them around the table for a good ol’ fashioned highlight reel of good times with good friends.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to season two of The Good Stuff. I'm Ashley Schick,
and I'm joined by my husband and co host, Jacob Schick,
a third generation combat marine and CEO of One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Actually also comes from a family rich in military history,
and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,
first responders as well as our families. We're coming to
you from Dallas, so welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
To Texas and joining us all season long from Los Angeles,
California is our West Coast long haired friend and producer
of The Good Stuff, Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
This episode is going to be a lot of fun.
Today we bring you a highlight reel of some of
this season's deleted scenes. Just a quick heads up, this
show can explore some heavy subject matter, including suicide, so
listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You're here again.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome to the Good Stuff. What's up everyone, Nick the
producer here. One of my very favorite parts of making
this show is sitting down with Jake and Ashley in
front of the MIC's hitting record and just seeing what
(01:10):
conversation flows out of us. One of the hardest parts
of my job is editing these episodes and making the
choice to delete interesting elements if they don't really serve
the greater good of the episode. Well, today we bring
you a special edition of The Good Stuff, a highlight
reel of some of those deleted scenes. I'll briefly introduce
(01:30):
each scene, add a little contextualization, and then let them
play out. This first segment was recorded during our episode
on trigger Therapy, when Jake and Ashley took me to
the gun range after the day's events had taken place
and we were letting it all sink in. It became
clear to me that trigger therapy or vets going to
the shooting range as a form of expression and bonding
(01:51):
actually played a major role in how this podcast came
into existence in the first place. So here we go,
let's get started. So one of the reasons The Good
Stuff podcast even exists is because your relationship with Bradley Cooper,
who you befriended on the set of American Sniper, where
you were playing a character essentially yourself, someone coming back
(02:15):
from the Iraq War severely injured, who is using trigger
therapy for lack of a better term, as a way
to connect And I'm curious to know how real to
life that scene was for you or people. You know,
it's a great question. He definitely did more of the
(02:36):
befriending than I did.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I was a prick.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well really, you're like Bradley Cooper, you suck.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, I just was I don't know it. It's a
different time in my life mentally, emotionally, spiritually was I
was just in a different place.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
You were going through it for a yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And he was just so kind and great and like
he always is and really took me under his wing
when I get absolutely gave him reason not to and yeah,
(03:17):
it's like like I told him on set and I
was like, man, I don't know, I've never done this.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I know what I'm doing acting, you mean, right? And
he made this joke back by truth, He's like, Jake.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You're playing is really winded marine?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I mean, like, how much of a stretch is it?
And I was like and it made me laugh and
it chilled me out, And you know, I know that
he knew what he was doing and I really appreciated that.
I really really appreciated that. And then being behind the
weapon and all that stuff was not like that was
(03:54):
very normal for me, except for the firing blank stuff.
That was I forgot that when you fire blanks there's
no recoil.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, so suddenly you did have to act. You're like,
this is the most difficult role I've ever played in
my life. It was very real.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
It was very real weapon.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It just had blanks and so, and Bradley had just
talked to me about Hey. He asked me, said Jacob,
when was the last time you fired a weapon with blanks?
And I couldn't remember, right, honestly, And I thought about
it only man, I don't even remember. He said, Okay, well,
if you recall, which I didn't, when you fire weapons
with blanks, there's no recoil.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You got to act out the recoil. I was like,
oh yeah, I got I got it, got it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And so then we did the the dress rehearsal and
I knelt my lines and everything, and then the ball
say Ay Clinas would walk up and he's like, Jake,
you should know more than anyone else out here. When
you fire a weapon with blanks, you've got to act
out the recoil.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He's like, I just told them all and I was like,
shut up, man, shut up. And I totally forgot because
I was nervous as hell. Man, I was so nervous.
But the great thing about that scene and then you know,
my spotter was, uh, it was great. That was really
(05:15):
cool is I didn't even know this was gonna be
a thing until I showed up first han set and
Brian Anderson was my spotter, and we were into live
day memories together, and so I knew Brian already, which
that was very very cool because that helped me really
come down some and chill some. Brian just his chills
the day as long. He's a great human being and
(05:37):
triple emputy.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So that was real cool.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But then, if you're gonna set up a scenario where
you have to act for one of the most famous
director actors on the freaking planet, I mean seriously, probably
top five of course, and with a current, you know,
a list celebrity being Brody Cooper, probably the most comfortable
(06:03):
environment you could put me in was be on a
rifle range behind.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
A rifle like. It was so kind of everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It definitely I was able to ease in and and
everybody was so cool, man.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
All the everybody on.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Set was really cool, really helpful, and so it was.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
A very.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It was the synergy was there already because I was
already comfortable.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I knew it was firing blanks.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So like if I did ship the bed and un
hit the bulls, I like nobody would know because then
I'd probably catch hell because the guy that was in
charge of the weapons is marine.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So I was like, oh, thank god these are.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
There was a part of me where I was like,
so glad these are blanks because I was so freaking nervous.
And I know when you when you're trying to do
something precise behind a weapon and you have a lot
of nerves and drilling, it gets very very difficult, especially
when you're trying to you know, very very small targets.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And it's like, I was very.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Grateful that everybody was so cool and so gracious and
that Braley was just cool. It was a cucumber and
really really put me at ease. And I mean Clint
Eastwood man, he was so just super chill, you know,
he was very He's hilarious, you know, and it was cool.
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It was an experience I'll never forget, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm still to this day.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know. It's like twelve years ago, twelve or thirteen
years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You know, I think about it and it's still super
homely to be able to go like, hey, yeah, I
actually did that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
All Right, we're gonna squeeze in a quick commercial break,
but when we come back, we have a deleted scene
with Randy, the natural cauture and a quick story about
an adventure of mine in small town Texas. All right,
welcome back to the Good Stuff. The highlight reel continues
(08:05):
on impact. We here at the Good Stuff Podcast love
Randy Cature. He's a UFC Hall of Famer, beloved action
film Hollywood star, and US Army veteran. He's been friends
with Jake and Ashley long before The Good Stuff Podcast
came into existence. He has continued to be a friend
of the show, not only sitting down to tell his
(08:25):
story in season one, but joining us yet again in
season two for our episode on win therapy and the
healing power of motorcycle riding. As some of you may know,
Randy was involved in a race car crash earlier this year. Thankfully,
he survived and is still kicking ass. Our season two
episode with Randy was recorded months before his accident, which
(08:47):
explains why none of that stuff comes up in this conversation.
We wanted to include this little nugget from our sit
down with Randy out of pure appreciation and celebration of
our friend, Randy the Natural Cautuur.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I do want to check in because, like I said,
one of our favorite episodes from season one was with you,
Randy the Natural Cotuur. We're so thrilled that you've joined
us on the good stuff, and now here we get
a chance to sit down with you again. So I
just want give us an update. What's going on in
Randy's life for the next year.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What's going on for sure? Obviously the gym is doing
very very well for gim of the Year the last
four years running, and I signed it over to my
son Ryan in twenty twenty. He retired from fighting most
of his career in Bellatur. His wife was putting some
heat on him to start the family. He's not getting
any youngers, and it's you know, in his forties forty
two now, and so I have one and a three
(09:41):
year old grandson. My daughter has a little girls. That's
for Ebby. I think Ebbie's going to be a slugger.
We haven't decided if.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's Roller Derby.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Pro Wrestling it's going to be one of the two.
I think she's got he's a little savage. She's amazing.
And I just scratched my head and laughed because my
daughter's going to get it all back.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
So the grandkids are doing great. I you know, to
be honest, I felt like I've been in some sort
of spiritual awakening since June. It's been really really crazy.
Started having all these emotions kind of pouring out of
me that I couldn't put my finger on. And instead
of trying to stick my head in the sand and
run away from that, really kind of embracing it and
trying to figure out where all that's coming from. And
(10:25):
it's been and I'm running into lots of friends and
lots of other people that are experiencing a very similar thing.
So something's changing in our world right now. We just
entered a new era. We just had all seven of planets,
a line that's that does not happen very often. We
just had an amazing full moon and eclipse that was
very powerful. I had some amazing insights. I just did
(10:47):
a big ayahuasca journey with some other veteran friends. Wow,
that was very enlightening and really kind of helped me
wrap my brain around everything that I've been feeling since
last June.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's been an interesting and enlightening and in some ways healing,
uh some ways very very painful because there's no way
to do that without embracing some pain, digging into some
of the old trauma and the old things that we
tend to stuff and deal develop coping mechanisms and ways
to get through to survive, and so trying to shed
a bunch of that, shed a bunch of those old
(11:19):
patterns and those things. So it's been it's been hard,
but it's been great at the same time, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, and I tell you right now, bro, after knowing
you for years and the first time we met, I
did a speaking engagement for your foundation, Streamed Jacket Tour Foundation,
and actually your son is the one that picked me
up at the airport, took me to the hotel and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Never ever one time was like yeah, Randie's my dad.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Not one time, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Like this Enturn's pretty cool, I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So I was like asking him all he was just
cool as a cucumber though, like just really laid back
early chill. Like we pulled in the parking roads on
there and I was like, hey, man, I got it.
Like he just he's like, no, no, no, I got it.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I gonna help you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I was like, no, it's fine, and he goes no,
and I was like, you win, bro, I'm not gonna
like that's you went.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
But it was he clearly did good.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
He did good there.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And he's a great kid.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
He really is scary how much he sounds and and
looks like me at this stage of his life. Poor kid.
But yeah, he's he's an amazing young man. And you
talk about cycles and and things like that, and I
feel like he's he broke the cycle. You know, it
came from a long line of divorces and a bunch
of other crap and and uh, and I think I
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feel like he's he's the one that stepped up and
finally broke that cycle.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, it's huge, man.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, you know he had a he had a uh
cycles or no cycles? Right, he had a good good
example in you with work ethic and in your graciousness.
And because you've all since I've known you, it has
been for years now like you've you've all you're always
very gracious. And I told you this when I picked
you up the airport. I'm like, dude, last year, like
(13:10):
I really had to use some humble pie like you.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
It was like, Hey, what time you want to be there? More?
What time registeration start? Ten thirty? Okay, well then we
should be there at ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
What time do you want to leave?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
What time is the event?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Man? Four?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
All right, we'll leave after four.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I was like, solid freaking copy, I guess this
is what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It was like I thought we were doing twenty minutes
and kissing babieskin.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And then I was like, and I told Ashley, even
after the fact, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I've gotta suck less of that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
This next scene was originally recorded during our episode about
one tribe's women's lunch. As you may remember, Ashley went
off and had lunch with their ladies while I was
left to my own devices in small town Texas. So
it's good a few bad guys, Yeah, yeah, hell yeah.
I got to walk around Grapevine, Texas. You know what
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I'm saying. How was that? It was so fun just
walking up and down a little cute, little downtown area,
you know, people looking at me and then averting eyes.
You know it was good. I was strolling down, showed
up to the ladies lunch, got a couple of compliments
on my outfit, you know, just crushing the game.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They were like obsessed with his shoes. He's got like
his lime green tennis shoes on, sneakers on what.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Did you do? In great fun? While the ladies lunching.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
To Tollberts or toll Bears. I don't know how fancy
they are. You know, Tollberts or toll Bears could go
either way, and they're it's not Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's Tolberts.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Tolberts. You know, they're famous for their chili. They had
a couple couple of varieties. I got two good old
bowl of Texas red or.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
What they called it Chilian beans because that's chili and tex.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh, this one didn't even have beans. You had to
add the beans. I got five alarms spice added to
it and the chili chili spic. It was medium. I
would yeah. Yeah. There's an old timer there who greeted
me at the door, and he was real gruppy at first.
He was like like how many, Like I'm gonna bring
in like a gang of weird California people with me.
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You better not have friends, was basically the vibe, and
I was like just one. He's like okay. I was like,
I'll sit at the bar, and he looked at me
and like that was a cool thing to say. He's
like all right, and then he like stumbled across the
thing and like led me to the bar and then
pulled out the chair for me like a gentleman. And
then as I sat down, he like patted me on
the back. He's like, welcome, thanks, He was so nice. Hey,
so quick question.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, how often does that happen in Los Angeles with
people total strangers that will pull the chair out for
you and pat you on the path you'll look back
and tell you welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Uh, you know we have a different version of that.
But those specific things felt very specific to this, to
this place, this region, and also that I kind of
had to earn it a little bit, you know, like
he wasn't gonna be nice at first, you know, he
needed he needed to know that I was a good one,
and then he was very happy. Was It actually reminded
me of Sicilians. That's how they kind of are in sicily,
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They're immediately like why are you here? You better be family,
like what are you doing here? You know? And then
as soon as you're cool, they're like, okay, now, well.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I don't sure.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He was probably waiting for you to be like, hey,
is it cool if I smoke a blunt here?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Can you turn on some dray or snoop?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Like do you have any kale or Kean Wong?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no. Then I ordered I was double
fisting the chili. You know you're into that, got it?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
So which one was better?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I probably would get the chili verde over the big
bowl of red again, but I would like to try
the cause you can do north of the Borders where
they add pinto beans to the to the red chili. Oh,
Ashley's got the bad face. You don't like the not
chili see controversy. This is this is what happens when
you bring me in.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
This that's not chili.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Well it's option on the menu.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
For Yankees, for damn Yankees that come in or Californians.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You should all just fistfight. Yeah, whoever wins has the
better version of chili? Yeah? Was the back blast area?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
All clear neck?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Because you had two bowls of chili while you're taking
the pictures or were you just spd.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
In it the whole time? Hey, you know what, Tolberts,
God bless your janitor or whoever takes care of all that.
You have my sympathies. Thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well how was your deep conversation with the old timer?
What did you guys really have a deep dive in?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh? That was it. There was nothing more, nothing more
than back and welcome. Yeah, but you did run into
him after. I did run into him after I was
kind of loitering around like a little psycho waiting for Ashley,
and he walked out of the back and actually initiated
a little hand up head nod, you know, the little
wave of nod.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wait, is that how you did it?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I was like, yeah, he was like, he did it.
He did it right back.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
So you that's your new friend in great un that's
what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, thanks for having me Texas. Yeah, it's been a pleasure.
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, I mean, don't bring a lot of your friends.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Remember why you came.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
We have to take our final commercial break of the episode,
and when we come back, we bring you what just
might be the most important thing we recorded all season long.
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Our final deleted scene today might actually be one of
the most important things we recorded all season long, and
it also happens to come from the Win Therapy episode.
As a quick reminder, that episode was about a motorcycle
ride which raised funds for military veterans. If any of
the work Jake and Ashley does with One Tribe helping
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veterans and their families still feel somewhat distant to you,
or if the reason that something like a motorcycle ride
needs to exist still feels a bit unclear, I think
this next story will really help snap.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That into focus.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So after a very long day at the ride for
our troops, I tagged along with Jake and Ashley to
a fully separate fundraiser and spent the evening there. After
all was said and done.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Here's what we recorded.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I think it's also important that maybe the people start
to understand, you know, just what this ride is also
doing for the community, and you know, and it's easy
sometimes to get lost in the mix of who actually
benefits from the money raised and the awareness raised, and
you know, and the sense of community and camaraderie that
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is felt in the moment, you know, people benefit directly.
I mean basically what happened was is we went from
this event, we had to get changed, we had to
take bird baths in the bathroom at the Harley Dealership,
a little touch and go upstairs, you know the Lord,
and we had to get as pretty as we could
get because we were headed to another event where, Jake,
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you were accepting an award, the John Wayne Walding Award,
which is for not just the service that you you know,
gave to our country, not your past military service, but
also your present community service that you do. And I
love what John would John when aka j Dubb said,
he was like, this guy is punching veteran suicide in
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the face every day, which is just such a great
way to sum up you know what you are up
to these days. If you're comfortable, Jake, it might be
powerful to hear a little bit about the phone call
that happened in the car on our way from the
ride to the awards ceremony.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, it was unfortunately a phone call that I've had
god only knows how many times hundreds easily talked to
miss Molly and she tried contacting the try because she.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Had learned about us through.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Johnny Joey Jones or Triple J very close friend of mine,
marine double amputee by latter above the knee double amputee,
and she tried contacting us, she said, several times, and
nobody got back to her.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And so Ash read this email and I.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Was like, I'm calling her right now. I'm like, what
was her last name? And she's looking and I'm like
just listening to the voicemail. But I had this like
overwhelming like sensation that I had to call her right then.
I couldn't wait, couldn't wait two seconds, couldn't wait twenty seconds.
I don't care if I butcher the name, that's really
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not the point of the call. And I just hit
call and I was like, here we go. And she
answered on like the second ring and said, you know, hey,
I'm Jacob Chick. I'm the CEO of One Tribe Foundation,
and I just wanted to call on tell you two
things first and foremost, I am so sorry if you're
devastating lost. She'd lost her son on the third of
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this month by his own hand, and he was not
only Navy but also Army veteran, and he's going to
be forty four in September, and his name's Michael. And
so I needed to apologize to her for that first
and foremost and let her know, you know, you're not
on an island. I know it may feel like you are,
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and I can I don't know what you're going through
as far as pain is concerned right now, but I
want you to know that I can definitely relate to
it to a degree because of what I've been doing
in the past twelve thirteen years. And you know, I
told her, I've lost a lot of my own close
personal friends in the same way. And you know, I
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told her, I just said listen, because she had made
sure that one Trick foundation was listed in the obituary
in litule flowers and things like that they could do donations,
and so she's just.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Just trying to find out where to send all these checks.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And so I said, you know, actually, as soon as
we hang up, is going to send you our our
office address, and please just text me and let me
know what it costs to send them. We'll make sure
you don't cover anything. And she's like, I'm not even
worried about that. I just needed to know what to do.
I just needed to know and do these checks. And
so you know, I just told her, I just said, listen,
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it's our responsibility. Not only is me as a warrior,
I think it's our responsibilities American citizens to be the
gatekeepers of men like Michael, because it's societally we've gotten
so shall and shortsighted on how people lived, and we
hyper focus on how they died. And I just believe
(24:08):
that that's not where the fruit is.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
But I know why we do.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It doesn't mean I agree with it. I wholeheartedly disagree
with it. And so I let miss Molly. I reassured
her that, hey, listen, I'm gonna I promise you, you
have my word that your son will be honored and
remembered and celebrated. And I give you my word that
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that will happen, and I want you to know and
that she got really emotional when I said that. And
it's hard, it's really hard to do these calls every
time because they never they never get easier, they only
get more difficult. And it takes a lot out of me,
(24:58):
like it takes a because I I'm having like I'm
trying to be the voice of reason and hope. On
the other end, right, they have their families around them,
and they're all obviously extremely devastated and or have this unbelievable,
indescribable pain that they're going through, trying to sift through,
(25:21):
trying to make sense of anything, you know, And I
think it's vitally important that they are able to connect
with people that can be some voice of reason in
a dealer with hope.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Right, they all need that.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And it's just like I told her, I highly doubtless
pain gets better, but I would really like to help
you and your family get some tools to be able
to process this in a way that is not going
to further cause pain or more harm or those things.
Pain is inevitable, that's unavoidable, but there's things that we
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can do and we can plug you into, and things
we can teach you. You and people that we can
connect to you that have dealt with the exact same
thing you're dealing with right now that can definitely help
you navigate through this unbelievably horrific loss. And she said,
she's very appreciative and very emotional still quite obviously and
(26:20):
for a very good reason. And you know, it just
was very heavy for me. It was very heavy on
my heart, and I was just glad to be done
with a ride and that it was successful and those
things were over. But then I felt this overwhelming sensation
and actually made me aware of this woman and like
(26:41):
I wasn't gonna wait for actually to find the right
name or whatever I was calling like something. It was
it was like an involuntary thing to call her right then. Yeah,
And it mean that may not make sense to anybody,
but it was like.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I don't think it was for me, if that makes sense.
Like I think it was like, she needs to hear
from you right this second. You need to call her
right the second. So I did, and I did end
up butchering her name, but now I'm just calling her
miss Molly and we're all good. But you know, and
I couldn't stop thinking about it the whole the whole night,
(27:22):
Like I thought about it all through the awards gala,
and all through I knew a lot of people that
were there, and a lot I mean, I knew a
handful of people that were at the gala, and you know,
I just couldn't stop thinking about it and didn't stop
thinking about it, you know, because it's impossible for I
think someone with my life experience, work experience, all those
(27:44):
things to not internalize those situations in such a way
that I need to be better from it and I
need to learn from it because I know I'm gonna
do it again.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It's a guarantee. And so I'm I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Truly grateful for her, and I'm grateful from Michael and
his life and his service to this nation. And you know,
it's important that we just reassure people that they're not alone,
they're not on an island, and that there's a lot
of people battling some of the very same things you're battling,
and there's resources out there, and there is help out there.
(28:18):
And then you just have to have again, You've heard
me say it a lot. You have to find victory
and your vulnerability while refusing to be a hostage to
your pride to ask for help.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
It sucks, man, but you know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Who else is going to do it? And it's like
Isaiah six', eight here AM i send.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Me i'm. Alive i've done it a. LOT i have
a lot of experience with.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
IT a lot of people spend an entire lifetime avoiding
things like, that you, know AND i have those conversations.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Weekly so it's, tough, man.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And it was it's still, tough, Right, like it's still
hard and it still, hurts like my heart hurts From
Miss molly and the whole, family And i'll never. Stop
it's just part of. It so it's just one of
those things where you're if you're going to be committed
to something like, this there's no. Halfway and it's it's
(29:12):
one of those deals where if you don't have a
strong support system and you don't have solid people around,
you like you will.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Not sustain.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Because it just will drain way too much of the
goodness out of. You and you've got to be around
people that'll refill your. Cup and so you, Know i'm
super grateful for my wife and the tribe and you,
know the boys and you and all the people that
(29:42):
are you, know our circle that that are soul feeders
because it's IF i didn't have, THAT i couldn't do this.
Work it would ultimately be way too.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Much, yeah it was very overwhelming to see something like
that stap into focus between these two, events right that
are like we're here to help our vets that are,
struggling and it's like that's what we're doing we're doing
events to help and smack dab in the middle of
(30:15):
that was like a sobbing mother who needed help literally
at that. Moment not an event to raise. Awareness we're
selling all these cool auction items like flamethrowers and great
trips in The bahamas or. Whatever the auction was to
raise money For Veterans, outposts which is like an amazing
(30:36):
place that needs to, exist but it's. Not it wasn't
down the. Line it was on that call in that,
moment and it was really moving for me to basically
have ringside seats to watch you punch suicide in the,
face you, know and be there for a heartbroken. Mother you.
(30:58):
Know the wind therapy was a amazing and hearing the
speeches at the awards ceremony was really, amazing but nothing
could even come close to just being in the general
vicinity of that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Conversation it gets extremely difficult and extremely. CHALLENGING i mean
almost fucking cried like six times on that, stage mainly
because of that phone.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
CALL i did cry six times because that phone.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Call yeah, RIGHT i had to hold it together THOUGH
i didn't have the luxury of staying on the stage
and then just letting my eyeball sweat.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
EVERYWHERE i had to FREAKING.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I had to somehow hold my shit together and deliver
a message for those five hundred, people four hundred people
whatever it was at The Veteran's Outpost, gala to somehow
some way feel the pain THAT i was feeling right.
Then AND i don't care what people's belief systems are
or are, not BUT i can't do that without the
(31:58):
power Of. God and IF i can help people like
Miss molly not completely lose sight of hope and make
sure that just the love and the resources and the
things we pour into her make a little little little
little dimple of light at the end of that tunnel
start to appear, again it's all worth. It and she
(32:22):
said something on the phone to me in this moment
of her unbelievable, emotion and.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
You, know just she.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Was there was no.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Question the amount of pain that she's, in not was
that she's in right. Now AND i told her WHATEVER
i told, HER i kind of. BLACKOUT i kind of
blackout in those, moments AND i just feel Like i'm
it's just Like god speaking through. Me BUT i she
said something THAT i was, Like i've got to be.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Better i've got to do more because.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
She said something to me in that moment that was
in regards to the work we, do and she, said
it's all worth. IT i, mean only if you just save.
One and that's after she lost her son days. Ago
for her to have the audacity of, conviction the, grace
AND i just, thought for her to have the loving
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heart to tell me that in that moment made me, realize,
LIKE i don't do. ENOUGH i need to do. More
we all. DO i can be. Better we all, can
because she'll never get the opportunity to hug her son
(33:42):
again and tell him to his face how much she loves.
Him and SO i think it's the least we can
do is go out of our way to be, bigger, better, stronger,
faster work, harder be more, convicted be more with who
we truly, are more honors with, ourselves and lean in
(34:05):
and fight this.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Together with that in, mind we'd like to dedicate this
episode To Miss molly And michael and everyone who's been
affected by the act of. Suicide you're not, alone and
we honor them.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
All let's take a brief moment of silence before we
do our.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Outro thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
So, much for listening to The Good.
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Speaker 2 (35:03):
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Speaker 1 (35:09):
People, again thank you for listening to the Good.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
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Speaker 2 (35:33):
Tendy
Welcome to season two of The Good Stuff. I'm Ashley Schick,
and I'm joined by my husband and co host, Jacob Schick,
a third generation combat marine and CEO of One Tribe Foundation.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Actually also comes from a family rich in military history,
and we've dedicated our lives to One Tribe's mission, serving veterans,
first responders as well as our families. We're coming to
you from Dallas, so welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
To Texas and joining us all season long from Los Angeles,
California is our West Coast long haired friend and producer
of The Good Stuff, Nick Cassolini.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
This episode is going to be a lot of fun.
Today we bring you a highlight reel of some of
this season's deleted scenes. Just a quick heads up, this
show can explore some heavy subject matter, including suicide, so
listener discretion is advised.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We couldn't be happier.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
You're here again.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome to the Good Stuff. What's up everyone, Nick the
producer here. One of my very favorite parts of making
this show is sitting down with Jake and Ashley in
front of the MIC's hitting record and just seeing what
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conversation flows out of us. One of the hardest parts
of my job is editing these episodes and making the
choice to delete interesting elements if they don't really serve
the greater good of the episode. Well, today we bring
you a special edition of The Good Stuff, a highlight
reel of some of those deleted scenes. I'll briefly introduce
(01:30):
each scene, add a little contextualization, and then let them
play out. This first segment was recorded during our episode
on trigger Therapy, when Jake and Ashley took me to
the gun range after the day's events had taken place
and we were letting it all sink in. It became
clear to me that trigger therapy or vets going to
the shooting range as a form of expression and bonding
(01:51):
actually played a major role in how this podcast came
into existence in the first place. So here we go,
let's get started. So one of the reasons The Good
Stuff podcast even exists is because your relationship with Bradley Cooper,
who you befriended on the set of American Sniper, where
you were playing a character essentially yourself, someone coming back
(02:15):
from the Iraq War severely injured, who is using trigger
therapy for lack of a better term, as a way
to connect And I'm curious to know how real to
life that scene was for you or people. You know,
it's a great question. He definitely did more of the
(02:36):
befriending than I did.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I was a prick.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Well really, you're like Bradley Cooper, you suck.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
No, I just was I don't know it. It's a
different time in my life mentally, emotionally, spiritually was I
was just in a different place.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
You were going through it for a yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
And he was just so kind and great and like
he always is and really took me under his wing
when I get absolutely gave him reason not to and yeah,
(03:17):
it's like like I told him on set and I
was like, man, I don't know, I've never done this.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
I know what I'm doing acting, you mean, right? And
he made this joke back by truth, He's like, Jake.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
You're playing is really winded marine?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I mean, like, how much of a stretch is it?
And I was like and it made me laugh and
it chilled me out, And you know, I know that
he knew what he was doing and I really appreciated that.
I really really appreciated that. And then being behind the
weapon and all that stuff was not like that was
(03:54):
very normal for me, except for the firing blank stuff.
That was I forgot that when you fire blanks there's
no recoil.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, so suddenly you did have to act. You're like,
this is the most difficult role I've ever played in
my life. It was very real.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
It was very real weapon.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
It just had blanks and so, and Bradley had just
talked to me about Hey. He asked me, said Jacob,
when was the last time you fired a weapon with blanks?
And I couldn't remember, right, honestly, And I thought about
it only man, I don't even remember. He said, Okay, well,
if you recall, which I didn't, when you fire weapons
with blanks, there's no recoil.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You got to act out the recoil. I was like,
oh yeah, I got I got it, got it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And so then we did the the dress rehearsal and
I knelt my lines and everything, and then the ball
say Ay Clinas would walk up and he's like, Jake,
you should know more than anyone else out here. When
you fire a weapon with blanks, you've got to act
out the recoil.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
He's like, I just told them all and I was like,
shut up, man, shut up. And I totally forgot because
I was nervous as hell. Man, I was so nervous.
But the great thing about that scene and then you know,
my spotter was, uh, it was great. That was really
(05:15):
cool is I didn't even know this was gonna be
a thing until I showed up first han set and
Brian Anderson was my spotter, and we were into live
day memories together, and so I knew Brian already, which
that was very very cool because that helped me really
come down some and chill some. Brian just his chills
the day as long. He's a great human being and
(05:37):
triple emputy.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So that was real cool.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But then, if you're gonna set up a scenario where
you have to act for one of the most famous
director actors on the freaking planet, I mean seriously, probably
top five of course, and with a current, you know,
a list celebrity being Brody Cooper, probably the most comfortable
(06:03):
environment you could put me in was be on a
rifle range behind.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
A rifle like. It was so kind of everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It definitely I was able to ease in and and
everybody was so cool, man.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
All the everybody on.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Set was really cool, really helpful, and so it was.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
A very.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
It was the synergy was there already because I was
already comfortable.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I knew it was firing blanks.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
So like if I did ship the bed and un
hit the bulls, I like nobody would know because then
I'd probably catch hell because the guy that was in
charge of the weapons is marine.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So I was like, oh, thank god these are.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
There was a part of me where I was like,
so glad these are blanks because I was so freaking nervous.
And I know when you when you're trying to do
something precise behind a weapon and you have a lot
of nerves and drilling, it gets very very difficult, especially
when you're trying to you know, very very small targets.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And it's like, I was very.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Grateful that everybody was so cool and so gracious and
that Braley was just cool. It was a cucumber and
really really put me at ease. And I mean Clint
Eastwood man, he was so just super chill, you know,
he was very He's hilarious, you know, and it was cool.
(07:22):
It was an experience I'll never forget, and I'm.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I'm still to this day.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You know. It's like twelve years ago, twelve or thirteen
years ago.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You know, I think about it and it's still super
homely to be able to go like, hey, yeah, I
actually did that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
All Right, we're gonna squeeze in a quick commercial break,
but when we come back, we have a deleted scene
with Randy, the natural cauture and a quick story about
an adventure of mine in small town Texas. All right,
welcome back to the Good Stuff. The highlight reel continues
(08:05):
on impact. We here at the Good Stuff Podcast love
Randy Cature. He's a UFC Hall of Famer, beloved action
film Hollywood star, and US Army veteran. He's been friends
with Jake and Ashley long before The Good Stuff Podcast
came into existence. He has continued to be a friend
of the show, not only sitting down to tell his
(08:25):
story in season one, but joining us yet again in
season two for our episode on win therapy and the
healing power of motorcycle riding. As some of you may know,
Randy was involved in a race car crash earlier this year. Thankfully,
he survived and is still kicking ass. Our season two
episode with Randy was recorded months before his accident, which
(08:47):
explains why none of that stuff comes up in this conversation.
We wanted to include this little nugget from our sit
down with Randy out of pure appreciation and celebration of
our friend, Randy the Natural Cautuur.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I do want to check in because, like I said,
one of our favorite episodes from season one was with you,
Randy the Natural Cotuur. We're so thrilled that you've joined
us on the good stuff, and now here we get
a chance to sit down with you again. So I
just want give us an update. What's going on in
Randy's life for the next year.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
What's going on for sure? Obviously the gym is doing
very very well for gim of the Year the last
four years running, and I signed it over to my
son Ryan in twenty twenty. He retired from fighting most
of his career in Bellatur. His wife was putting some
heat on him to start the family. He's not getting
any youngers, and it's you know, in his forties forty
two now, and so I have one and a three
(09:41):
year old grandson. My daughter has a little girls. That's
for Ebby. I think Ebbie's going to be a slugger.
We haven't decided if.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's Roller Derby.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Pro Wrestling it's going to be one of the two.
I think she's got he's a little savage. She's amazing.
And I just scratched my head and laughed because my
daughter's going to get it all back.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
So the grandkids are doing great. I you know, to
be honest, I felt like I've been in some sort
of spiritual awakening since June. It's been really really crazy.
Started having all these emotions kind of pouring out of
me that I couldn't put my finger on. And instead
of trying to stick my head in the sand and
run away from that, really kind of embracing it and
trying to figure out where all that's coming from. And
(10:25):
it's been and I'm running into lots of friends and
lots of other people that are experiencing a very similar thing.
So something's changing in our world right now. We just
entered a new era. We just had all seven of planets,
a line that's that does not happen very often. We
just had an amazing full moon and eclipse that was
very powerful. I had some amazing insights. I just did
(10:47):
a big ayahuasca journey with some other veteran friends. Wow,
that was very enlightening and really kind of helped me
wrap my brain around everything that I've been feeling since
last June.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
So it's awesome.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's been an interesting and enlightening and in some ways healing,
uh some ways very very painful because there's no way
to do that without embracing some pain, digging into some
of the old trauma and the old things that we
tend to stuff and deal develop coping mechanisms and ways
to get through to survive, and so trying to shed
a bunch of that, shed a bunch of those old
(11:19):
patterns and those things. So it's been it's been hard,
but it's been great at the same time, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, and I tell you right now, bro, after knowing
you for years and the first time we met, I
did a speaking engagement for your foundation, Streamed Jacket Tour Foundation,
and actually your son is the one that picked me
up at the airport, took me to the hotel and everything.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Never ever one time was like yeah, Randie's my dad.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Not one time, it's.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Like this Enturn's pretty cool, I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
So I was like asking him all he was just
cool as a cucumber though, like just really laid back
early chill. Like we pulled in the parking roads on
there and I was like, hey, man, I got it.
Like he just he's like, no, no, no, I got it.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
I gonna help you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And I was like, no, it's fine, and he goes no,
and I was like, you win, bro, I'm not gonna
like that's you went.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
But it was he clearly did good.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
He did good there.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
And he's a great kid.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
He really is scary how much he sounds and and
looks like me at this stage of his life. Poor kid.
But yeah, he's he's an amazing young man. And you
talk about cycles and and things like that, and I
feel like he's he broke the cycle. You know, it
came from a long line of divorces and a bunch
of other crap and and uh, and I think I
(12:43):
feel like he's he's the one that stepped up and
finally broke that cycle.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, it's huge, man.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Well, you know he had a he had a uh
cycles or no cycles? Right, he had a good good
example in you with work ethic and in your graciousness.
And because you've all since I've known you, it has
been for years now like you've you've all you're always
very gracious. And I told you this when I picked
you up the airport. I'm like, dude, last year, like
(13:10):
I really had to use some humble pie like you.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
It was like, Hey, what time you want to be there? More?
What time registeration start? Ten thirty? Okay, well then we
should be there at ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Cool?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
What time do you want to leave?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:23):
What time is the event?
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Man? Four?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
All right, we'll leave after four.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
And I was like, solid freaking copy, I guess this
is what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
It was like I thought we were doing twenty minutes
and kissing babieskin.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And then I was like, and I told Ashley, even
after the fact, I'm like.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I've gotta suck less of that.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
This next scene was originally recorded during our episode about
one tribe's women's lunch. As you may remember, Ashley went
off and had lunch with their ladies while I was
left to my own devices in small town Texas. So
it's good a few bad guys, Yeah, yeah, hell yeah.
I got to walk around Grapevine, Texas. You know what
(14:05):
I'm saying. How was that? It was so fun just
walking up and down a little cute, little downtown area,
you know, people looking at me and then averting eyes.
You know it was good. I was strolling down, showed
up to the ladies lunch, got a couple of compliments
on my outfit, you know, just crushing the game.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
They were like obsessed with his shoes. He's got like
his lime green tennis shoes on, sneakers on what.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Did you do? In great fun? While the ladies lunching.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
To Tollberts or toll Bears. I don't know how fancy
they are. You know, Tollberts or toll Bears could go
either way, and they're it's not Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's Tolberts.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Tolberts. You know, they're famous for their chili. They had
a couple couple of varieties. I got two good old
bowl of Texas red or.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
What they called it Chilian beans because that's chili and tex.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Oh, this one didn't even have beans. You had to
add the beans. I got five alarms spice added to
it and the chili chili spic. It was medium. I
would yeah. Yeah. There's an old timer there who greeted
me at the door, and he was real gruppy at first.
He was like like how many, Like I'm gonna bring
in like a gang of weird California people with me.
(15:16):
You better not have friends, was basically the vibe, and
I was like just one. He's like okay. I was like,
I'll sit at the bar, and he looked at me
and like that was a cool thing to say. He's
like all right, and then he like stumbled across the
thing and like led me to the bar and then
pulled out the chair for me like a gentleman. And
then as I sat down, he like patted me on
the back. He's like, welcome, thanks, He was so nice. Hey,
so quick question.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, how often does that happen in Los Angeles with
people total strangers that will pull the chair out for
you and pat you on the path you'll look back
and tell you welcome.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Uh, you know we have a different version of that.
But those specific things felt very specific to this, to
this place, this region, and also that I kind of
had to earn it a little bit, you know, like
he wasn't gonna be nice at first, you know, he
needed he needed to know that I was a good one,
and then he was very happy. Was It actually reminded
me of Sicilians. That's how they kind of are in sicily,
(16:09):
They're immediately like why are you here? You better be family,
like what are you doing here? You know? And then
as soon as you're cool, they're like, okay, now, well.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
I don't sure.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
He was probably waiting for you to be like, hey,
is it cool if I smoke a blunt here?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Can you turn on some dray or snoop?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Like do you have any kale or Kean Wong?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, no. Then I ordered I was double
fisting the chili. You know you're into that, got it?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
So which one was better?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I probably would get the chili verde over the big
bowl of red again, but I would like to try
the cause you can do north of the Borders where
they add pinto beans to the to the red chili. Oh,
Ashley's got the bad face. You don't like the not
chili see controversy. This is this is what happens when
you bring me in.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
This that's not chili.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Well it's option on the menu.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
For Yankees, for damn Yankees that come in or Californians.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You should all just fistfight. Yeah, whoever wins has the
better version of chili? Yeah? Was the back blast area?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
All clear neck?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Because you had two bowls of chili while you're taking
the pictures or were you just spd.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
In it the whole time? Hey, you know what, Tolberts,
God bless your janitor or whoever takes care of all that.
You have my sympathies. Thank you for your service.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Well how was your deep conversation with the old timer?
What did you guys really have a deep dive in?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh? That was it. There was nothing more, nothing more
than back and welcome. Yeah, but you did run into
him after. I did run into him after I was
kind of loitering around like a little psycho waiting for Ashley,
and he walked out of the back and actually initiated
a little hand up head nod, you know, the little
wave of nod.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Wait, is that how you did it?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
I was like, yeah, he was like, he did it.
He did it right back.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
So you that's your new friend in great un that's
what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, thanks for having me Texas. Yeah, it's been a pleasure.
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Yeah, I mean, don't bring a lot of your friends.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Remember why you came.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
We have to take our final commercial break of the episode,
and when we come back, we bring you what just
might be the most important thing we recorded all season long.
(18:38):
Our final deleted scene today might actually be one of
the most important things we recorded all season long, and
it also happens to come from the Win Therapy episode.
As a quick reminder, that episode was about a motorcycle
ride which raised funds for military veterans. If any of
the work Jake and Ashley does with One Tribe helping
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veterans and their families still feel somewhat distant to you,
or if the reason that something like a motorcycle ride
needs to exist still feels a bit unclear, I think
this next story will really help snap.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That into focus.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
So after a very long day at the ride for
our troops, I tagged along with Jake and Ashley to
a fully separate fundraiser and spent the evening there. After
all was said and done.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Here's what we recorded.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I think it's also important that maybe the people start
to understand, you know, just what this ride is also
doing for the community, and you know, and it's easy
sometimes to get lost in the mix of who actually
benefits from the money raised and the awareness raised, and
you know, and the sense of community and camaraderie that
(19:53):
is felt in the moment, you know, people benefit directly.
I mean basically what happened was is we went from
this event, we had to get changed, we had to
take bird baths in the bathroom at the Harley Dealership,
a little touch and go upstairs, you know the Lord,
and we had to get as pretty as we could
get because we were headed to another event where, Jake,
(20:13):
you were accepting an award, the John Wayne Walding Award,
which is for not just the service that you you know,
gave to our country, not your past military service, but
also your present community service that you do. And I
love what John would John when aka j Dubb said,
he was like, this guy is punching veteran suicide in
(20:36):
the face every day, which is just such a great
way to sum up you know what you are up
to these days. If you're comfortable, Jake, it might be
powerful to hear a little bit about the phone call
that happened in the car on our way from the
ride to the awards ceremony.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, it was unfortunately a phone call that I've had
god only knows how many times hundreds easily talked to
miss Molly and she tried contacting the try because she.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Had learned about us through.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Johnny Joey Jones or Triple J very close friend of mine,
marine double amputee by latter above the knee double amputee,
and she tried contacting us, she said, several times, and
nobody got back to her.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
And so Ash read this email and I.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Was like, I'm calling her right now. I'm like, what
was her last name? And she's looking and I'm like
just listening to the voicemail. But I had this like
overwhelming like sensation that I had to call her right then.
I couldn't wait, couldn't wait two seconds, couldn't wait twenty seconds.
I don't care if I butcher the name, that's really
(21:54):
not the point of the call. And I just hit
call and I was like, here we go. And she
answered on like the second ring and said, you know, hey,
I'm Jacob Chick. I'm the CEO of One Tribe Foundation,
and I just wanted to call on tell you two
things first and foremost, I am so sorry if you're
devastating lost. She'd lost her son on the third of
(22:17):
this month by his own hand, and he was not
only Navy but also Army veteran, and he's going to
be forty four in September, and his name's Michael. And
so I needed to apologize to her for that first
and foremost and let her know, you know, you're not
on an island. I know it may feel like you are,
(22:40):
and I can I don't know what you're going through
as far as pain is concerned right now, but I
want you to know that I can definitely relate to
it to a degree because of what I've been doing
in the past twelve thirteen years. And you know, I
told her, I've lost a lot of my own close
personal friends in the same way. And you know, I
(23:03):
told her, I just said listen, because she had made
sure that one Trick foundation was listed in the obituary
in litule flowers and things like that they could do donations,
and so she's just.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Just trying to find out where to send all these checks.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
And so I said, you know, actually, as soon as
we hang up, is going to send you our our
office address, and please just text me and let me
know what it costs to send them. We'll make sure
you don't cover anything. And she's like, I'm not even
worried about that. I just needed to know what to do.
I just needed to know and do these checks. And
so you know, I just told her, I just said, listen,
(23:44):
it's our responsibility. Not only is me as a warrior,
I think it's our responsibilities American citizens to be the
gatekeepers of men like Michael, because it's societally we've gotten
so shall and shortsighted on how people lived, and we
hyper focus on how they died. And I just believe
(24:08):
that that's not where the fruit is.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
But I know why we do.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It doesn't mean I agree with it. I wholeheartedly disagree
with it. And so I let miss Molly. I reassured
her that, hey, listen, I'm gonna I promise you, you
have my word that your son will be honored and
remembered and celebrated. And I give you my word that
(24:34):
that will happen, and I want you to know and
that she got really emotional when I said that. And
it's hard, it's really hard to do these calls every
time because they never they never get easier, they only
get more difficult. And it takes a lot out of me,
(24:58):
like it takes a because I I'm having like I'm
trying to be the voice of reason and hope. On
the other end, right, they have their families around them,
and they're all obviously extremely devastated and or have this unbelievable,
indescribable pain that they're going through, trying to sift through,
(25:21):
trying to make sense of anything, you know, And I
think it's vitally important that they are able to connect
with people that can be some voice of reason in
a dealer with hope.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Right, they all need that.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
And it's just like I told her, I highly doubtless
pain gets better, but I would really like to help
you and your family get some tools to be able
to process this in a way that is not going
to further cause pain or more harm or those things.
Pain is inevitable, that's unavoidable, but there's things that we
(25:56):
can do and we can plug you into, and things
we can teach you. You and people that we can
connect to you that have dealt with the exact same
thing you're dealing with right now that can definitely help
you navigate through this unbelievably horrific loss. And she said,
she's very appreciative and very emotional still quite obviously and
(26:20):
for a very good reason. And you know, it just
was very heavy for me. It was very heavy on
my heart, and I was just glad to be done
with a ride and that it was successful and those
things were over. But then I felt this overwhelming sensation
and actually made me aware of this woman and like
(26:41):
I wasn't gonna wait for actually to find the right
name or whatever I was calling like something. It was
it was like an involuntary thing to call her right then. Yeah,
And it mean that may not make sense to anybody,
but it was like.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It wasn't.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I don't think it was for me, if that makes sense.
Like I think it was like, she needs to hear
from you right this second. You need to call her
right the second. So I did, and I did end
up butchering her name, but now I'm just calling her
miss Molly and we're all good. But you know, and
I couldn't stop thinking about it the whole the whole night,
(27:22):
Like I thought about it all through the awards gala,
and all through I knew a lot of people that
were there, and a lot I mean, I knew a
handful of people that were at the gala, and you know,
I just couldn't stop thinking about it and didn't stop
thinking about it, you know, because it's impossible for I
think someone with my life experience, work experience, all those
(27:44):
things to not internalize those situations in such a way
that I need to be better from it and I
need to learn from it because I know I'm gonna
do it again.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
It's a guarantee. And so I'm I'm.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Truly grateful for her, and I'm grateful from Michael and
his life and his service to this nation. And you know,
it's important that we just reassure people that they're not alone,
they're not on an island, and that there's a lot
of people battling some of the very same things you're battling,
and there's resources out there, and there is help out there.
(28:18):
And then you just have to have again, You've heard
me say it a lot. You have to find victory
and your vulnerability while refusing to be a hostage to
your pride to ask for help.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
It sucks, man, but you know.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Who else is going to do it? And it's like
Isaiah six', eight here AM i send.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Me i'm. Alive i've done it a. LOT i have
a lot of experience with.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
IT a lot of people spend an entire lifetime avoiding
things like, that you, know AND i have those conversations.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Weekly so it's, tough, man.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
And it was it's still, tough, Right, like it's still
hard and it still, hurts like my heart hurts From
Miss molly and the whole, family And i'll never. Stop
it's just part of. It so it's just one of
those things where you're if you're going to be committed
to something like, this there's no. Halfway and it's it's
(29:12):
one of those deals where if you don't have a
strong support system and you don't have solid people around,
you like you will.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Not sustain.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Because it just will drain way too much of the
goodness out of. You and you've got to be around
people that'll refill your. Cup and so you, Know i'm
super grateful for my wife and the tribe and you,
know the boys and you and all the people that
(29:42):
are you, know our circle that that are soul feeders
because it's IF i didn't have, THAT i couldn't do this.
Work it would ultimately be way too.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Much, yeah it was very overwhelming to see something like
that stap into focus between these two, events right that
are like we're here to help our vets that are,
struggling and it's like that's what we're doing we're doing
events to help and smack dab in the middle of
(30:15):
that was like a sobbing mother who needed help literally
at that. Moment not an event to raise. Awareness we're
selling all these cool auction items like flamethrowers and great
trips in The bahamas or. Whatever the auction was to
raise money For Veterans, outposts which is like an amazing
(30:36):
place that needs to, exist but it's. Not it wasn't
down the. Line it was on that call in that,
moment and it was really moving for me to basically
have ringside seats to watch you punch suicide in the,
face you, know and be there for a heartbroken. Mother you.
(30:58):
Know the wind therapy was a amazing and hearing the
speeches at the awards ceremony was really, amazing but nothing
could even come close to just being in the general
vicinity of that.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Conversation it gets extremely difficult and extremely. CHALLENGING i mean
almost fucking cried like six times on that, stage mainly
because of that phone.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
CALL i did cry six times because that phone.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Call yeah, RIGHT i had to hold it together THOUGH
i didn't have the luxury of staying on the stage
and then just letting my eyeball sweat.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
EVERYWHERE i had to FREAKING.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I had to somehow hold my shit together and deliver
a message for those five hundred, people four hundred people
whatever it was at The Veteran's Outpost, gala to somehow
some way feel the pain THAT i was feeling right.
Then AND i don't care what people's belief systems are
or are, not BUT i can't do that without the
(31:58):
power Of. God and IF i can help people like
Miss molly not completely lose sight of hope and make
sure that just the love and the resources and the
things we pour into her make a little little little
little dimple of light at the end of that tunnel
start to appear, again it's all worth. It and she
(32:22):
said something on the phone to me in this moment
of her unbelievable, emotion and.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
You, know just she.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Was there was no.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Question the amount of pain that she's, in not was
that she's in right. Now AND i told her WHATEVER
i told, HER i kind of. BLACKOUT i kind of
blackout in those, moments AND i just feel Like i'm
it's just Like god speaking through. Me BUT i she
said something THAT i was, Like i've got to be.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Better i've got to do more because.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
She said something to me in that moment that was
in regards to the work we, do and she, said
it's all worth. IT i, mean only if you just save.
One and that's after she lost her son days. Ago
for her to have the audacity of, conviction the, grace
AND i just, thought for her to have the loving
(33:21):
heart to tell me that in that moment made me, realize,
LIKE i don't do. ENOUGH i need to do. More
we all. DO i can be. Better we all, can
because she'll never get the opportunity to hug her son
(33:42):
again and tell him to his face how much she loves.
Him and SO i think it's the least we can
do is go out of our way to be, bigger, better, stronger,
faster work, harder be more, convicted be more with who
we truly, are more honors with, ourselves and lean in
(34:05):
and fight this.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Together with that in, mind we'd like to dedicate this
episode To Miss molly And michael and everyone who's been
affected by the act of. Suicide you're not, alone and
we honor them.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
All let's take a brief moment of silence before we
do our.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Outro thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
So, much for listening to The Good.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Stuff if you appreciate this, show please, subscribe, like and
Review The Good stuff, podcast and connect with us on social.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Media we love hearing from, you so please reach out
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Speaker 3 (34:55):
It would mean the world to us if you shared
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Speaker 2 (35:03):
Program put on your badass capes and go be great
today and remember you can't do epic things without epic.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
People, again thank you for listening to the Good.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Stuff The Good stuff is executive produced By Ashley, Shick
Jacob shick And Leah. Pictures hosted By Ashley, Shick Jacob,
schick And Nick. Cassolini produced By Nick, Cassoline, engineering editing
and post production supervision By Nick. Cassolini music By Will.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
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