March 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Welcome to Unbreakable! A mental wealth podcast hosted by Fox NFL Insider Jay Glazer. On this episode, Jay welcomes in “The All American” Brian Stann to talk about their brand new stem cell journey and partnership that they are working on to “scholarship” some combat vets to come get treatment. They should not have to travel to receive quality treatment. Healing like this should be FREE and readily available for our veterans here in the States. Free to them!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is Unbreakable with Jay Glacier, a mental wealth podcast
build you from the inside out. Now Here's Jay Glacier.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to Unbreakable mental Wealth podcast with Jay Glazer.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm Jay Glazer and I have a return guest on today.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
He's my brother.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But also whenever I try and tell his story, who
had first roll?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
He's fucking Captain America second of it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
When I try and tell a story, he always kind
of gets a little no jayme, no, No, he gets
a little but hurt because he hates bragging about himself
and I love bragging about him. It is I said,
Captain America. He was a ward of the Silver Star
by President bush Am. I right there, President bush Kay
for his credible heroic acts in the Marines. He played
(00:47):
football Naval Academy. He was the WEC light Heavyweight Champ
of the World. He was the fifth Did you get
it's the fifth rank middleweight in the world in UFCA,
fifth rank.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You can't nod do You gotta hate people gonna hear
you and.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Claim you know what you're doing. You know you're making
me blush. You know I don't like any You're trying
to make me feel uncomfortable. I know what you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Do, absolutely miliar, but also that this guy is my
brother and to see him kinda make the transition from like,
oh wait, wait, let me get back to the home.
He also went after the Marines, you run hired heroes, right, okay?
And then you went and got a master's at Ivy
League school.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Is that correct? One head?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It's Kellogg? So Northwestern? Similar?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Is that not? They're not They're not technically Ivy League.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But it's that's why you gotta check me in my stories.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I would I would say, we're ranked higher, I would say,
and then tell me about.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What you do now.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
So now I run the largest military housing company in
the country.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We've got sixty thousand.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Homes across a variety of military install thes's been doing
this for now almost four years. I've built in and
acquired when I took the job, an incredible team of
people who are super passionate about managing these communities and
really trying to do some very innovative stuff in military
housing to continuously improve the communities they live in and
(02:14):
reinvest back into these homes.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So it's been a wild ride. It's really exciting, but you.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Know, technically it's it's it's running a private equity company.
So I have left television and I remember articles coming
out today. I know Brian left to go be a
realertor no, I love to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Up to this.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
When he retired fighting, he became my co host of
the UFC on Fox and that even did college football
broadcasting as well, Like what did you guys do on
a Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
This is Bron's dead?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It was, as you know, man, TV is a blast.
It was the least stressful job all ever half my life.
You for you well you you your job is pretty
unique and and and all the contacts you have to maintain.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
But Brian I we also the UFC together. Her first
one together was in Breska, right Oman, Nebraska. And you know,
this is Prendy aspiring producer out there. Make sure you
watch your talent and so I'm doing what you want
to do. Make sure you know what what's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What is there?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So they're trying to tell me to throw This is
Brian's first hour ever in television. First they try to
tell me to throw to a I guess it's a
package that they're going Anderson Silva and the copy was
about Ronda Ralsey.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So I just kept talking right and Brian's just looking
at me and they're screaming, read the copy, Read the copy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm just not reading the copy. And then when they realized, like, oh,
we're sorry, now read it. They do you remember what
happened next?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It was either it went out or went upside down.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It was upside down.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
The company is up upside down the screen and I
remember you you're trying to trying to keep with it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah. No, And then they moved the jib camera over
past you, so I had to climb.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Over your lap. You're reading. I remember, Producer, when I
wanted you were right on my lap.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I remember. But this guy became my brother. And look,
one of the reasons I'm having a mom.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Because he and I now are doing something really amazing together.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I think a lot of people out here have
followed my stem cell journey where you know, it prevented
I've had two extra years without having to get a.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Fusion that may need or three three level fusion.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I may need one on one point because I'm still
beating on my body, but it's bought me two years.
And then recently it regrew my torn bicep tending back.
It anchored it back in and healed my super Spinana's
tear and another rotator cuff terror Versitas, which I was
supposed to get surgery around. All of it healed and
I called Brian and I'm like, came in. You know,
(04:40):
I've always had to be of service. I started two
other charities, one being Touchdown Dreams.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
For children who were kind of fighting for their lives.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And it was like make a wish on steroids, and
I like to say because it was it was connecting
football players and coaches with a child, but for the
more of the long haul and just like one big
day or great week er, we're so along those lives.
Then I started another charity called the MVP Merging Vets
and Players, where we you know, paired, we put together
combat vets and for we're pro athletes. I'm working on
(05:08):
another charity now where hopefully I get there, called the
Unbreakable Charity, where I can scholarship people for therapy and
mental health therapy. But this next one is really cool,
and I've just joined the advisory board for this stem
cell place I'm talking about where we can now get
combat vets and pay for them, scholarship them to go
get healed for free, all on us and man, Brian
(05:32):
to you know again, they were talking to me about, hey,
you know, how do you kind of want to vet
the vets and I was like, no, there's one guy
I want to vet them through, and that is it,
and that is Brian stand And I just kind of
want to talk about it a little because I'm excited
for what we're about to do and and Brian's is vet.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
We're going to talk about him first, Robbie Gas. But
also I sent.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Somebody down to I'm illerot Ruiz. I just want to
tell people what we're doing, and I'm just I'm excited
for it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Well, I mean, look, I'll start with the like to
get a call, you know from you where you know
we're talking life. Then out of the blue, You're like, hey, Brian,
I want I want to talk to you. Can you
help me with something?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I'm like, okay, yeah, what can I help you with?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Jay?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And you know, for anybody who's in and there's been,
you know, there's a lot of a lot of amazing
combat veterans in our society now and for all of
those who have been into combat and serve with people.
Right when you've got the opportunity to potentially help somebody
that was wounded on you, either on your flank or
in this case, right under your command, it's an emotional thing, right.
(06:35):
It was totally unexpected, but like, literally, hey, Brian, can
you help me identify a wounded service member to go
to this five star location and receive cutting edge stem
cell therapy? And I was like, it's too good to
be true. You know, for me, every I think every
leader in combat has at least a few moments that
(06:59):
you constantly replay in your mind over and over for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Right.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
It's just it's the burden of leadership, and that's something
that if you want to be a leader in the
military and you're going to go to combat, that is,
you know, something that you have to bear, and it
just happens. But Robbie is one of those guys, and
he has been in such pain and taken on and
sacrificed so much that it was incredible, and I was
just hopeful that he would be willing to do it, right,
(07:24):
because he was afraid at first that if I go
take on this therapy, it could hurt my benefits through
the VA. Right, So not only do we not have
access to some of this cutting edge stuff for our
wounded service members, right, he's worried that if he gets
gifted this scholarship to go do it, that could impact
you know, his service now. And so look, Jay, I'm
(07:45):
so grateful right when he was sending me texts from
down there with him and his wife eating at these
beautiful restaurants and he's getting this therapy with everything he
has been through since that day. Man, It's just I
can't tell you how much it means to me that
you call. You know, a million people you could have called, right,
but you asked me that one of the top I know, brother,
(08:09):
But I'm not downplaying this, right, Like this meant the
world to me to see. I contacted Robbie before coming
on here. He's checking enemies like yeah, this and this
actually do feel better already, but they told me it's going.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
To take more time.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Like to hear that after knowing the amount of surgery
is this man has endured that sacrifice his wife and
kids have made. It fills my soul because I owe that.
I owe that man, I owe that man more than
anybody could imagine.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Now, you know, so people don't know what happened to him,
what happened to you guys? So I know you guys,
you guys, why don't you explain the story? Because the
reason why you're a silberstar, right? You were good forty
five guys, You were leading, right, and you kind of
got ambushed and we're stuck out there for about four days?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Is that what I'm Yeah, it was. We got tell
us what happened, don't you know?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
But anytime metals start getting slung around and awarded, you're
in the wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And y'all had to get through some stuff. And but
but pacific to Robbie.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
You know, that night we had to go reinforce a
unit and I had lost I had had a catastrophic
kill on a tank two days before, and so we
were going to reinforce this unit that had been duking
it out at this bridge for days, and they needed
support and they needed supplies, and we also needed a
way to try and fix that tanker toe the tank
(09:21):
back after.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
We were done reinforcing them. Wow. And so we're riding
up through there and we didn't know.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
This is Iraq.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Right, this is Iraq western Alambar Province, right on the
Syrian border and right at the Euphrates River in an
area called Al Chyme.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And we didn't know these tankers. That never worked with
the tankers.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
We met the tankers in the middle of the night,
in the middle of the desert, shook hands, and then
I put a map down and I gave my order
for what we were going to undergo, and raiders were
about to get ready to go. The tanker who is
driving the tank recovery vehicle called a Mike eighty eight,
and he was going to be.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
In between the two other tanks to protect him.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Like, hey, look, once we get on that asphalt out
of the sand, I'm only going about ten miles an hour, right,
it's pretty slow, So just know we're going to be
slow rolling so your first vehicles don't get too out
ahead of us, which is really concerning because this was
a hot area. We expected we were going to get
into contact to get through the city to get to
the bridge, and that's exactly what happened. Right, we get
(10:21):
into contact and we're getting hit with an ambush, lots
of RPGs and then a few IEDs go off, and
as the tanks begin returning fire, and you know, Robbie's
on a fifty cow, he's in the lead vehicle, he's
in the turret of a Humbie and he's returning fire.
The tanks were hitting the buildings where they were firing
(10:42):
down through the windows with the RPGs, and when they
did that with the tank rounds, right, the debris just
completely washed out our night vision goggles. And so when
that happened, right, we had to be really slow methodical.
But Robbie's driver missed the final turn to get to
(11:02):
the bridge right right after they got hit either with
an I E. D or an RPG in the back
of their vehicle caught on fire. And so at that point, right,
I've got to reorient the patrol and they release suicide
vehicles into the kill zone and the tanks get to
(11:23):
and Robbie and his vehicle get hit with one, and
you know, those explosions are yeah, I've said this before,
right like you hear it, And the first.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Thing that goes through your head is I just got
five kids killed.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And you know you're you're setting the cord and you're
designating who's going to recover the vehicle.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You're getting back.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
You know, you're, you're, you're, you're moving to the point
friction as a leader to get to the kill zone
where they are, to make sure the vehicle gets linked
up and you can get your casualties. We're gonna put
them all in that Mike eighty eight recovery vehicles tank
great armor. And I had a corman in there right ready.
And I get to the vehicle and Robbie's got a
piece of shrap in his skull. I mean the size
(12:04):
of a three ring binder. It was massive. And he
got a nineteen year old kid named Jeff Lampson jumping
on top of the vehicle who was maybe a buck thirty,
soaking wet. Robbie's you know, two fifteen at the time, right,
and he's picking.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Robbie up out of the up, out of the turf.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Robbie gets shot in the arm as they're doing it, right,
We're trying to fire back and suppress. We can get
Robbie out of there and the rest of the vehicle.
He was the most unbelievably lucky. He was the most
significantly wounded. Everybody else we had some legs that were
damaged bad you know, concussions.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
One guy was half his body with really.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Horrible burns, the vehicle commander, but the vehicle held up
to the blast and saved their lives. But I knew
if we didn't get Robbie out soon, he was gonna die.
He was gonna bleed out. And so we were able
to get him out. And as we're getting Robbie on
on the bird, he's just upset with himself, saying, I
can't believe I let them get I can't believe I
let them. He was mad that the suicide vehicle got
(13:01):
to him and he could stop it with a fifty count,
which it won one. When you can't see anything is
incredibly hard to do and he's getting shot at in
all directions. Anyways, we finished that mission, and you know,
Robbie lives, but he then goes on to have multiple
brain surgeries. Right, he's got the guys.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That origined somebody he was firing back for about two
days with that trap.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
No, no, no, no, he he had to lead, He's
got to lead. He's got to get off the battlefield
right now. But after he gets hit, right and we're
getting them out of the kill zone. Yeah, but then
he's sitting there getting on the metavag bird well where
I'm calling an airstrike, and he was just mad, like
he was mad that he hey, that I can't believe
that vehicle got my boys.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
He was so focused on the wrong team. Yep.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I mean it was unbelievable. And he would then undergo
multiple brain surgeries, all extensive rehab. He's had just horrible
headaches and just horrible ongoing pain first whole. And you
could see it when you visibly see the man, you
can tell, right, you could see, you know, from his
head and the scarring, and you know he's he's lived
(14:09):
in Alabama and he has just been raising his family
with his wife, his beautiful kids, and working hard and
coping with all of this pain all the time, memory loss, headaches,
and it's just there's just not much you can do.
And you know, now you give me a call and
we get this opportunity, this cutting edge treatment right where
(14:29):
they genuinely believe, hey, we can help. And so I'm
just so excited to hear he's already feeling better in
a couple of areas.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Makes me so excited. And you know, as you know,
stem cell.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Can take you know, could take months to really set
in and regenerate. And I'm just I'm beyond grateful and
the fact that we can start doing this for more people, right,
it is amazing. And who knows where that leads. It
may only lead to us getting a handful of people
through that treatment.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
But what does it do.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
If we can to get some of this legalized in
America and done properly and make it maybe accessible through
your VA benefits?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right, And that's exactly and that's what the other reason
I want to bring you in on it because I
got a big voice. You had a powerful voice. So together,
I think that's one of the things we can do.
Also because here's here's the truth, folks. It's you know,
these about thirty five thousand for stem cells, but we
all pay for it together, right, So Origins pays for it,
I pay for it, Brian pays for stuff. We're doing
(15:27):
it together. But it's bullshit that we used to have
to pay anything. It should be readily available here and
they know it works here because you're allowed to have
your own child's and medical cord. But you know, I
think one in biblical cord I was told. Now listen,
you can fact check me or not. It's so basically
one in biblical court could serve up hundreds of people.
So I shouldn't have to pay. You shouldn't have to pay,
We should have to pay. It should be Walter read,
(15:49):
it should be readily available. America is not there yet.
Why you know, we all have our I have my
different beefs with certain things, you know, pharmacoo come with
you know, industries, things like that. But that's why I
think it's important for us to really bring attension to
these great results. When people, maybe the VA, maybe the
new administration, who knows, they go, hey, there's something to
(16:09):
it here, and if we can help our veterans. We've
been hearing these two guys screaming from the rafters, let's
look into this.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I couldn't look. I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
And you know, I know you've got to be careful
what you but you're right, like we push.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Our first response to everything is here, take some pills, right,
take some drugs. Put these in. Let's experiment with these.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And you know, I'm sure people all in various industries
and just in life have seen that with their own
family members, but harvested correctly with the parents' permission, right,
all of this can be done with the right regulatory body,
so that we're using this umbilical cord whatever the science
is to help people and bring cutting edge therapy so
(16:50):
that people can heal and not have to take drugs
for the rest of their life.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Why wouldn't we want to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So the first guy we said now was a friend
named Ellert Luiz, who was also the vet I ever
really kind of helped between the years, way before I
ever started MVP. He started coming to Unbreakable Gabe Rangel,
who was our head coach and Tom and GM served
with them in the Marines. At some point asked, Hey,
can I a couple of my guys who serve trained
for free and Unbreakable my gym?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Like absolutely no doubt.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So he comes in and I used to say with Elliott,
So Elliott for people, don't he got he got injured
really bad rescue in these American POWs and he's had
now I think he's had eighteen surgery in his left leg.
He got multiple sclerosis, which I didn't know you could
get from trauma, so you're born with it. And his
right foot doesn't work, so he's at drop foot and
(17:38):
since I've known him, which is going on now about
twelve years.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
At least since I've done He can't put his own
pants onthing. He has a hard time dressed himself. My
wife has to put his pants out.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So when they gave him this opportunity to start bringing
that combat vets, I said, I got the first ball
because he's put just the most beautiful soul, like, dude,
this is la Ruiz. Elliott had an MS flare up
and he's in the hospital. Doesn't say anything, he's hospitalized,
he's in bad shape. He just calls me to check
up on me. And then a day later I found
(18:07):
out he's in the hospital. I'm like, he dude, what
the fuck you didn't tell me you're in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
He goes, well, it's not why I call it.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I called a checkup on you. Who does that? Who
does that?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
So I believe it's just incredibly selfless people right, selfless?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So we bring him down, folks, and folks, this is you.
Look on his instagram.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He calls me about a month after and he says,
I'm a training NFL training camp.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He says, I don't know do it to do? And
I said, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
He goes, my right foot is working, and again since
I've known him, his foot did not work. He dragged
it and drop foot and I said, you think it's
maybe the placebo effect, and he said it can't be.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I had no nerve in that ankle. This must have
regrew grown the nerve in my ankle.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And five months after that, this guy who cannot put
his own pants on entered a tough mutter race, and
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And then I was back at the Origins in August.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He had hit us up with having multiple scourses, like
I can't really be on the heat more than two hours.
He was at Disney World an hour eight with his
daughter carrying her saying I would never be able to
do this if not for these stem cells. And I
was like, oh my god. And then I went to
words and I said, can we start doing this on
a larger scale, whether it's hey, we can just person
(19:26):
my person, my person. I'll just keep doing it and
talk about we could raise money for it. And I
got the perfect guy to bring in on you. But
I mean, dude, think about that. But that's what we're saying.
It's bullshit. I should not have to pay for it. Well,
to reaching me doing it. Yeah, they should be paying
for it.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
It's cutting edge, right, we should we should have cutting
edge stuff, and like look when you look at the
American economy, it can go. We should be able to
do this for everybody, right, we should be able to
have an affordable cost of health care. And if there's
cutting edge science out that they can heal people without
having to take prescription medication for the rest of their life,
we should be looking to do it. I'm super excited
(20:01):
to bring this to you know, we have a pretty
large generation of combat vetters who suffered traumatic brain injuries
and significant wounds from blasts.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Right, and if this, if this.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Can all of a sudden improve their quality of life
and reduce that pain. Like you know, Robbie, he won't
mention it, right, He's just too tough to mention it.
But sometimes if I talk to his wife, Brittany, you know,
show talk about what he endures, that difficulty sleeping and
just doing regular daily activities. You know, it's just incredible
that the opportunity to send some people like him, who've
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done so much and suffer through so much, you get
an opportunity to heal. And I'm so excited for it
and I can't wait to send more. And like we said,
you know, hopefully, right, hopefully this can become a movement
to start bringing care like this.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You know, it's scale because for a guy like Robbie,
what did he have to lose? Right? Like what in nothing? Right?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
He was like signing, it doesn't impact my VA benefit,
sign me up. And he comes back and he actually
loved that. He was treated so kindly by everybody, had
a wonderful time with his wife while getting therapy and treatment.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
It is how Star.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Plays, folks.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's you're think of Panama and there's like it's so
funny because I had some football coaches who went to
this one because it's basically legalizing most a lot of
the countries.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
But I know this play.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I trust this place because this was a guy named
Percy Knox her who used to run API, which I
trained at when I was actually so trying to fight
and uh in like oh five or so along those lines,
but they and now they're exos. But he was in
charge of training and training every football player Department of
Defensive Seals Delta.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That was their last line. So I knew him and
trusted him when you go down. So my point is these.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Football coaches they went out to this place. It was
like in a strip malle, like in Gui or stain Antigue.
I'm like, what are you doing, Like go to my place?
Like you like this this place is incredible. But every
time somebody sees it, like brih, you start right, it's
like it's a brand new Miami Panama. The place is
like it's two of the restaurants there are mon and Rose,
his favorite colinary experience, experience of the planet. It's really
(22:04):
something incredible. Sort to hear him also because we were
talking to him right at first, he was like, I
don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm like, Robbie, you had nothing to.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Lose, like and then to hear him on the backside
and to be on that text shape with you're just
so excited for this experience. It was a healing of
a lot of time, but ended up being a vacation
for him and his wife of a lifetime too, because
that's really what it is.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I mean, look, I got stem cell years ago in
a hole in the wall place in America, and you
know I had separated my right shoulder three times and
I've never had an issue with it since. And this
is nowhere near right the level. This is old school
first legalized stem cell and you know now right, I've
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never had another issue. I'm a huge believer in it.
And the experience Robbie had which just amazing, right, it's
just amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And to be able to bring this to more people
will be will be powerful. And I'm excited. You know,
you to leverage your voice, do that means the world.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So you know, I just want to go back. I'm
going to touch shame with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It's one of the most powerful text Chains've ever been
in my life.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I'm gonna try and keep together. But where he was
begging you for this and you.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Were then telling him how that night, that day has
haunted you since, and his response to was like, Brian,
serve it under you was the greatest experience in my life.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Like I am looking at this like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
The bonds that you guys have, It's it's.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
So hard, right, You never want to be part of something,
you know when you're serving it. You know a lot
of people when they serve, they want to be a
part of combat. Then you see combat, you generally don't
really want to see a whole lot of it because
it's tough and people you genuinely care about get hurt,
and to replay that moment and constantly wish you could
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have made a different decision, a better decision for him
and those other you know, marines in that truck, and
then get the opportunity to help and have him be
in a place in his life where he's happy, he's loved,
he's got a family, and I could try to pay
him back. It's it's really powerful, man, It's powerful, and
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in that bond, it never you.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Know, it never goes away, It never goes you.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You had mentioned though again on that and then just
get a little deeper about you still live in and regret.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And I don't think that's I can't tell you how
to think, but I don't think that's fair to.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You because you didn't start it, you know what I mean. Like,
you're doing a job you signed up some people like
me don't have to do. How do you give yourself
like I hope A A are you are you giving
yourself more grace? Now now that you've heard his.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Response, Yeah, you know you do right, And and it's
funny I got to practice. I preach because when I
talk to, you know, other combat officers that are in
training before they go out, you know, one of the
things I let them know is that you have to
be able to forgive yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
You're going to be put in a situation in combat.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It's really hard to pitch a shut out, and it's
very chaotic and what can go wrong will go wrong.
And for you to remain effective as a leader in combat,
you have to forgive yourself because if you can't, you're
not the best version of yourself for the rest of
that deployment, for the rest of the time that they
serve under you, for the rest of your career. And
so I feel like I'm in a place where you
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can both regret something but at the same time forgive
yourself for it. I can at the same time wish
I had a more perfect answer that night, right, but
at the same time understand that, hey, I didn't create
that situation, right.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
And Bombers, it's not There's nothing you could do to
predict what they're going to do.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
That's right and no different than you know, Robbie has
his own regrets, which are even more you know, hard
to comprehend, right, like that suicideical hit because I couldn't
take it out with the fifty.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You know, while he's envygs ers n.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
That Yougagos are washed out. Every every combat veteran has
some of that. You see it all the time in
football players, like you drop a pat, you make a
you blow a play, and.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
It loses a big game. Like they have a hard
time forgetting this is a resturant. You magnify this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You magnify this times one hundred, right, because you have
to then watch the families go on without that that person. Right,
there's there's deeper regret, but that's also a part of it.
When you sign up to serve, right, that's also a
part of it, and you sign up, you know, to
to carry that burden. And look, I'm okay with that.
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It's not awesome, but but that's what I sign up
for and I'm damn proud that I did.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Hey, you know what I hope for you?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Also, I hope you won't go back and you watch
this and look at what you're saying and be able
to give yourself the grace Like that's pretty cool, motherfucker right.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
There, Pretty bad ass dude.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
You deserve to look at yourself like that, dude, the
way I am and everybody else is right now, Look.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I appreciate that, and and what I appreciate more is
is you You were able to create a situation and
I got to send my marine to something to where afterwards, right,
there was that text exchange where he was you know,
he knew you know I still loved him, and he
knew I never forgot and that I don't take what
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he went through for for granted. And you know that's
that's priceless, right that that's priceless, And you wish you
could have that kind of connectivity, you could do something
that special for every person you served with that got wounded.
And it was just it was it was really really
incredible and something I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Bro.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Your heart is massive, and it was a lot, it
was a lot of logistics to make that happen and
make that work and and and it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And that's where you came in. How was you?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
But did it give you some healing when you saw
Guest saying like, my biggest, biggest thing my career serving under.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It, it feel is your soul right to be able
to do something like that more so than any victory
or business deal you can get, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
And I remember, you know, showing the pictures to my wife, Michelle,
and you know, she is the.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Most patriotic person and most supportive of my military background.
And you know, she does not allow me to allow
moments like that to pass without really stopping.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
For a second and internalizing them.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And it was really awesome, and I just I'm so
hopeful that that Robbie could start to enjoy a more
normal life going forward, you know, and not endure the.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Guy the pain and the headaches and the things he's
been dealing with for years.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Man, There's two things before I let us go.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
One, you get to hear more, a lot more from
Brian and I as we continue to try and figure
out ways to send more of our veterans down there
or maybe get some more attention to here in the States.
But two, you bring your wife up. I'm gonna leave
it with this again. Brian's been one of my best
friends for years. You know, we've trained in sweat and
bled in a different kind of way than what he's
done with veterans. He just beat my ass for a
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few years. But I tried to talk to Brian a
lot about faith. Become a huge god guy, right, And
it's not religionous faith three totally different things. And I
never knew until meet your wife and then go to
your wedding where it was very very god centric.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I'm like, wow, there you go, and just she not
talk separately about it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
She said, you know, Brian always thought if there was
a God that he would you know, how can.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
You forgive you?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You know, you could say it better with all the
stuff he's done in war, and for her to teach
you that God loves you no matter what was man,
that was one of the most joyful, joyous, fulfilling things
I've ever heard or seen in my life, because I've
been trying to you know, like it doesn't hurt us
to have faith, but not Brian.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But I never looked at it, and I never knew
that's the way you felt about it. Who told them?
Which I'm like, this girl special, But she's opened up.
He's opened up to her like this.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
There's nothing I can't tell her, and she is she
has walked a ten times harder path than I have
in her life. And her faith is incredible and our
our faith is a family.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Is incredible and I couldn't agree more. There's nothing there's
nothing important in my life that I don't pray over.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I don't pray before now, And it's amazing how often
those prayers get answered, maybe not always the way you
ask for, but exactly the way that you need them
to be. And you know, case in point this this
situation with Robbie, you know, when you mentioned this and
me hoping that he would be willing to go and
do this, because it's it's nervous for anybody when they
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first get this, you know, the call to do it.
And to see him sending pictures with him and his
wife dressed up and being treated so well, right, it
just it warmed my heart to see him smiling and
get the text back from the last week. I'm feeling better,
like it's just it's powerful man, That's that's prayer's answer.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
It was a pretty cool thing because he was down
there with Elliott this past time, because Eli went down
there specifically for his multiple scores this iss time, so
we were able to redo Elliott also so we can
continue in his journey and put the two of them together.
And the bomb they had in there was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Brian brother.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm We've been teamateing a lot of things together, man,
but this this may be our I'm hoping this is
one of our biggest ones.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, obviously I hope so too, Brother. I hope so too.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Your your parts, your heart is so huge, man, And
I just I appreciate you, brother, I appreciate There's there's
so much you know about youth that that goes well
beyond the NFL and Scoop Badge and everything else that
that people don't know that I get to know. And
and I love you, man, and I'm just so grateful
that you called me and said, hey, I got you know,
can can you find somebody? Can you can you have
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one of your one of your guys go do this?
And it was just incredible. What an opportunity of a
lifetime that any any combat leader or service member would
would dream of they have one of their team members
go and get this opportunity.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So I can't wait to do it for more people.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, folks, that is Brian's damp former quarterback and with
the linebacker Naval Academy, former Marine retire Marine that should
say Silver Star, WC Light Everyweight Champ fifth rank middleweight
and UFC former cos the UFC on Fox, former broadcaster
for college football, and obviously uses his time way better.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Than I do.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The one only Brian stand Brian, Love you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Let's keep walking to walk together my mind. Love you brother.
Thank you,
This is Unbreakable with Jay Glacier, a mental wealth podcast
build you from the inside out. Now Here's Jay Glacier.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to Unbreakable mental Wealth podcast with Jay Glazer.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I'm Jay Glazer and I have a return guest on today.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
He's my brother.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
But also whenever I try and tell his story, who
had first roll?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
He's fucking Captain America second of it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
When I try and tell a story, he always kind
of gets a little no jayme, no, No, he gets
a little but hurt because he hates bragging about himself
and I love bragging about him. It is I said,
Captain America. He was a ward of the Silver Star
by President bush Am. I right there, President bush Kay
for his credible heroic acts in the Marines. He played
(00:47):
football Naval Academy. He was the WEC light Heavyweight Champ
of the World. He was the fifth Did you get
it's the fifth rank middleweight in the world in UFCA,
fifth rank.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
You can't nod do You gotta hate people gonna hear
you and.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Claim you know what you're doing. You know you're making
me blush. You know I don't like any You're trying
to make me feel uncomfortable. I know what you're trying to.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Do, absolutely miliar, but also that this guy is my
brother and to see him kinda make the transition from like,
oh wait, wait, let me get back to the home.
He also went after the Marines, you run hired heroes, right, okay?
And then you went and got a master's at Ivy
League school.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Is that correct? One head?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
It's Kellogg? So Northwestern? Similar?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Is that not? They're not They're not technically Ivy League.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But it's that's why you gotta check me in my stories.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
I would I would say, we're ranked higher, I would say,
and then tell me about.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
What you do now.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Sure.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
So now I run the largest military housing company in
the country.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We've got sixty thousand.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Homes across a variety of military install thes's been doing
this for now almost four years. I've built in and
acquired when I took the job, an incredible team of
people who are super passionate about managing these communities and
really trying to do some very innovative stuff in military
housing to continuously improve the communities they live in and
(02:14):
reinvest back into these homes.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So it's been a wild ride. It's really exciting, but you.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Know, technically it's it's it's running a private equity company.
So I have left television and I remember articles coming
out today. I know Brian left to go be a
realertor no, I love to go back.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Up to this.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
When he retired fighting, he became my co host of
the UFC on Fox and that even did college football
broadcasting as well, Like what did you guys do on
a Tuesday?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
This is Bron's dead?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
It was, as you know, man, TV is a blast.
It was the least stressful job all ever half my life.
You for you well you you your job is pretty
unique and and and all the contacts you have to maintain.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
But Brian I we also the UFC together. Her first
one together was in Breska, right Oman, Nebraska. And you know,
this is Prendy aspiring producer out there. Make sure you
watch your talent and so I'm doing what you want
to do. Make sure you know what what's going on?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
What is there?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
So they're trying to tell me to throw This is
Brian's first hour ever in television. First they try to
tell me to throw to a I guess it's a
package that they're going Anderson Silva and the copy was
about Ronda Ralsey.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
So I just kept talking right and Brian's just looking
at me and they're screaming, read the copy, Read the copy.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
I'm just not reading the copy. And then when they realized, like, oh,
we're sorry, now read it. They do you remember what
happened next?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
It was either it went out or went upside down.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It was upside down.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
The company is up upside down the screen and I
remember you you're trying to trying to keep with it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah. No, And then they moved the jib camera over
past you, so I had to climb.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Over your lap. You're reading. I remember, Producer, when I
wanted you were right on my lap.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I remember. But this guy became my brother. And look,
one of the reasons I'm having a mom.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Because he and I now are doing something really amazing together.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
And I think a lot of people out here have
followed my stem cell journey where you know, it prevented
I've had two extra years without having to get a.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Fusion that may need or three three level fusion.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
I may need one on one point because I'm still
beating on my body, but it's bought me two years.
And then recently it regrew my torn bicep tending back.
It anchored it back in and healed my super Spinana's
tear and another rotator cuff terror Versitas, which I was
supposed to get surgery around. All of it healed and
I called Brian and I'm like, came in. You know,
(04:40):
I've always had to be of service. I started two
other charities, one being Touchdown Dreams.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
For children who were kind of fighting for their lives.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And it was like make a wish on steroids, and
I like to say because it was it was connecting
football players and coaches with a child, but for the
more of the long haul and just like one big
day or great week er, we're so along those lives.
Then I started another charity called the MVP Merging Vets
and Players, where we you know, paired, we put together
combat vets and for we're pro athletes. I'm working on
(05:08):
another charity now where hopefully I get there, called the
Unbreakable Charity, where I can scholarship people for therapy and
mental health therapy. But this next one is really cool,
and I've just joined the advisory board for this stem
cell place I'm talking about where we can now get
combat vets and pay for them, scholarship them to go
get healed for free, all on us and man, Brian
(05:32):
to you know again, they were talking to me about, hey,
you know, how do you kind of want to vet
the vets and I was like, no, there's one guy
I want to vet them through, and that is it,
and that is Brian stand And I just kind of
want to talk about it a little because I'm excited
for what we're about to do and and Brian's is vet.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
We're going to talk about him first, Robbie Gas. But
also I sent.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Somebody down to I'm illerot Ruiz. I just want to
tell people what we're doing, and I'm just I'm excited
for it.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Dude.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Well, I mean, look, I'll start with the like to
get a call, you know from you where you know
we're talking life. Then out of the blue, You're like, hey, Brian,
I want I want to talk to you. Can you
help me with something?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
And I'm like, okay, yeah, what can I help you with?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Jay?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
And you know, for anybody who's in and there's been,
you know, there's a lot of a lot of amazing
combat veterans in our society now and for all of
those who have been into combat and serve with people.
Right when you've got the opportunity to potentially help somebody
that was wounded on you, either on your flank or
in this case, right under your command, it's an emotional thing, right.
(06:35):
It was totally unexpected, but like, literally, hey, Brian, can
you help me identify a wounded service member to go
to this five star location and receive cutting edge stem
cell therapy? And I was like, it's too good to
be true. You know, for me, every I think every
leader in combat has at least a few moments that
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you constantly replay in your mind over and over for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Right.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
It's just it's the burden of leadership, and that's something
that if you want to be a leader in the
military and you're going to go to combat, that is,
you know, something that you have to bear, and it
just happens. But Robbie is one of those guys, and
he has been in such pain and taken on and
sacrificed so much that it was incredible, and I was
just hopeful that he would be willing to do it, right,
(07:24):
because he was afraid at first that if I go
take on this therapy, it could hurt my benefits through
the VA. Right, So not only do we not have
access to some of this cutting edge stuff for our
wounded service members, right, he's worried that if he gets
gifted this scholarship to go do it, that could impact
you know, his service now. And so look, Jay, I'm
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so grateful right when he was sending me texts from
down there with him and his wife eating at these
beautiful restaurants and he's getting this therapy with everything he
has been through since that day. Man, It's just I
can't tell you how much it means to me that
you call. You know, a million people you could have called, right,
but you asked me that one of the top I know, brother,
(08:09):
But I'm not downplaying this, right, Like this meant the
world to me to see. I contacted Robbie before coming
on here. He's checking enemies like yeah, this and this
actually do feel better already, but they told me it's going.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
To take more time.
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Like to hear that after knowing the amount of surgery
is this man has endured that sacrifice his wife and
kids have made. It fills my soul because I owe that.
I owe that man, I owe that man more than
anybody could imagine.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Now, you know, so people don't know what happened to him,
what happened to you guys? So I know you guys,
you guys, why don't you explain the story? Because the
reason why you're a silberstar, right? You were good forty
five guys, You were leading, right, and you kind of
got ambushed and we're stuck out there for about four days?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Is that what I'm Yeah, it was. We got tell
us what happened, don't you know?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
But anytime metals start getting slung around and awarded, you're
in the wrong place, wrong time.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And y'all had to get through some stuff. And but
but pacific to Robbie.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
You know, that night we had to go reinforce a
unit and I had lost I had had a catastrophic
kill on a tank two days before, and so we
were going to reinforce this unit that had been duking
it out at this bridge for days, and they needed
support and they needed supplies, and we also needed a
way to try and fix that tanker toe the tank
(09:21):
back after.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
We were done reinforcing them. Wow. And so we're riding
up through there and we didn't know.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
This is Iraq.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Right, this is Iraq western Alambar Province, right on the
Syrian border and right at the Euphrates River in an
area called Al Chyme.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And we didn't know these tankers. That never worked with
the tankers.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
We met the tankers in the middle of the night,
in the middle of the desert, shook hands, and then
I put a map down and I gave my order
for what we were going to undergo, and raiders were
about to get ready to go. The tanker who is
driving the tank recovery vehicle called a Mike eighty eight,
and he was going to be.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
In between the two other tanks to protect him.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Like, hey, look, once we get on that asphalt out
of the sand, I'm only going about ten miles an hour, right,
it's pretty slow, So just know we're going to be
slow rolling so your first vehicles don't get too out
ahead of us, which is really concerning because this was
a hot area. We expected we were going to get
into contact to get through the city to get to
the bridge, and that's exactly what happened. Right, we get
(10:21):
into contact and we're getting hit with an ambush, lots
of RPGs and then a few IEDs go off, and
as the tanks begin returning fire, and you know, Robbie's
on a fifty cow, he's in the lead vehicle, he's
in the turret of a Humbie and he's returning fire.
The tanks were hitting the buildings where they were firing
(10:42):
down through the windows with the RPGs, and when they
did that with the tank rounds, right, the debris just
completely washed out our night vision goggles. And so when
that happened, right, we had to be really slow methodical.
But Robbie's driver missed the final turn to get to
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the bridge right right after they got hit either with
an I E. D or an RPG in the back
of their vehicle caught on fire. And so at that point, right,
I've got to reorient the patrol and they release suicide
vehicles into the kill zone and the tanks get to
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and Robbie and his vehicle get hit with one, and
you know, those explosions are yeah, I've said this before,
right like you hear it, And the first.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Thing that goes through your head is I just got
five kids killed.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
And you know you're you're setting the cord and you're
designating who's going to recover the vehicle.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
You're getting back.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
You know, you're, you're, you're, you're moving to the point
friction as a leader to get to the kill zone
where they are, to make sure the vehicle gets linked
up and you can get your casualties. We're gonna put
them all in that Mike eighty eight recovery vehicles tank
great armor. And I had a corman in there right ready.
And I get to the vehicle and Robbie's got a
piece of shrap in his skull. I mean the size
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of a three ring binder. It was massive. And he
got a nineteen year old kid named Jeff Lampson jumping
on top of the vehicle who was maybe a buck thirty,
soaking wet. Robbie's you know, two fifteen at the time, right,
and he's picking.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Robbie up out of the up, out of the turf.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Robbie gets shot in the arm as they're doing it, right,
We're trying to fire back and suppress. We can get
Robbie out of there and the rest of the vehicle.
He was the most unbelievably lucky. He was the most
significantly wounded. Everybody else we had some legs that were
damaged bad you know, concussions.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
One guy was half his body with really.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Horrible burns, the vehicle commander, but the vehicle held up
to the blast and saved their lives. But I knew
if we didn't get Robbie out soon, he was gonna die.
He was gonna bleed out. And so we were able
to get him out. And as we're getting Robbie on
on the bird, he's just upset with himself, saying, I
can't believe I let them get I can't believe I
let them. He was mad that the suicide vehicle got
(13:01):
to him and he could stop it with a fifty count,
which it won one. When you can't see anything is
incredibly hard to do and he's getting shot at in
all directions. Anyways, we finished that mission, and you know,
Robbie lives, but he then goes on to have multiple
brain surgeries. Right, he's got the guys.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
That origined somebody he was firing back for about two
days with that trap.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
No, no, no, no, he he had to lead, He's
got to lead. He's got to get off the battlefield
right now. But after he gets hit, right and we're
getting them out of the kill zone. Yeah, but then
he's sitting there getting on the metavag bird well where
I'm calling an airstrike, and he was just mad, like
he was mad that he hey, that I can't believe
that vehicle got my boys.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
He was so focused on the wrong team. Yep.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I mean it was unbelievable. And he would then undergo
multiple brain surgeries, all extensive rehab. He's had just horrible
headaches and just horrible ongoing pain first whole. And you
could see it when you visibly see the man, you
can tell, right, you could see, you know, from his
head and the scarring, and you know he's he's lived
(14:09):
in Alabama and he has just been raising his family
with his wife, his beautiful kids, and working hard and
coping with all of this pain all the time, memory loss, headaches,
and it's just there's just not much you can do.
And you know, now you give me a call and
we get this opportunity, this cutting edge treatment right where
(14:29):
they genuinely believe, hey, we can help. And so I'm
just so excited to hear he's already feeling better in
a couple of areas.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Makes me so excited. And you know, as you know,
stem cell.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Can take you know, could take months to really set
in and regenerate. And I'm just I'm beyond grateful and
the fact that we can start doing this for more people, right,
it is amazing. And who knows where that leads. It
may only lead to us getting a handful of people
through that treatment.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
But what does it do.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
If we can to get some of this legalized in
America and done properly and make it maybe accessible through
your VA benefits?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right, And that's exactly and that's what the other reason
I want to bring you in on it because I
got a big voice. You had a powerful voice. So together,
I think that's one of the things we can do.
Also because here's here's the truth, folks. It's you know,
these about thirty five thousand for stem cells, but we
all pay for it together, right, So Origins pays for it,
I pay for it, Brian pays for stuff. We're doing
(15:27):
it together. But it's bullshit that we used to have
to pay anything. It should be readily available here and
they know it works here because you're allowed to have
your own child's and medical cord. But you know, I
think one in biblical cord I was told. Now listen,
you can fact check me or not. It's so basically
one in biblical court could serve up hundreds of people.
So I shouldn't have to pay. You shouldn't have to pay,
We should have to pay. It should be Walter read,
(15:49):
it should be readily available. America is not there yet.
Why you know, we all have our I have my
different beefs with certain things, you know, pharmacoo come with
you know, industries, things like that. But that's why I
think it's important for us to really bring attension to
these great results. When people, maybe the VA, maybe the
new administration, who knows, they go, hey, there's something to
(16:09):
it here, and if we can help our veterans. We've
been hearing these two guys screaming from the rafters, let's
look into this.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
I couldn't look. I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 5 (16:17):
And you know, I know you've got to be careful
what you but you're right, like we push.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Our first response to everything is here, take some pills, right,
take some drugs. Put these in. Let's experiment with these.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And you know, I'm sure people all in various industries
and just in life have seen that with their own
family members, but harvested correctly with the parents' permission, right,
all of this can be done with the right regulatory body,
so that we're using this umbilical cord whatever the science
is to help people and bring cutting edge therapy so
(16:50):
that people can heal and not have to take drugs
for the rest of their life.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Why wouldn't we want to do that.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
So the first guy we said now was a friend
named Ellert Luiz, who was also the vet I ever
really kind of helped between the years, way before I
ever started MVP. He started coming to Unbreakable Gabe Rangel,
who was our head coach and Tom and GM served
with them in the Marines. At some point asked, Hey,
can I a couple of my guys who serve trained
for free and Unbreakable my gym?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Like absolutely no doubt.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So he comes in and I used to say with Elliott,
So Elliott for people, don't he got he got injured
really bad rescue in these American POWs and he's had
now I think he's had eighteen surgery in his left leg.
He got multiple sclerosis, which I didn't know you could
get from trauma, so you're born with it. And his
right foot doesn't work, so he's at drop foot and
(17:38):
since I've known him, which is going on now about
twelve years.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
At least since I've done He can't put his own
pants onthing. He has a hard time dressed himself. My
wife has to put his pants out.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So when they gave him this opportunity to start bringing
that combat vets, I said, I got the first ball
because he's put just the most beautiful soul, like, dude,
this is la Ruiz. Elliott had an MS flare up
and he's in the hospital. Doesn't say anything, he's hospitalized,
he's in bad shape. He just calls me to check
up on me. And then a day later I found
(18:07):
out he's in the hospital. I'm like, he dude, what
the fuck you didn't tell me you're in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
He goes, well, it's not why I call it.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I called a checkup on you. Who does that? Who
does that?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
So I believe it's just incredibly selfless people right, selfless?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So we bring him down, folks, and folks, this is you.
Look on his instagram.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
He calls me about a month after and he says,
I'm a training NFL training camp.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
He says, I don't know do it to do? And
I said, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
He goes, my right foot is working, and again since
I've known him, his foot did not work. He dragged
it and drop foot and I said, you think it's
maybe the placebo effect, and he said it can't be.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I had no nerve in that ankle. This must have
regrew grown the nerve in my ankle.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And five months after that, this guy who cannot put
his own pants on entered a tough mutter race, and
oh my god.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
And then I was back at the Origins in August.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
He had hit us up with having multiple scourses, like
I can't really be on the heat more than two hours.
He was at Disney World an hour eight with his
daughter carrying her saying I would never be able to
do this if not for these stem cells. And I
was like, oh my god. And then I went to
words and I said, can we start doing this on
a larger scale, whether it's hey, we can just person
(19:26):
my person, my person. I'll just keep doing it and
talk about we could raise money for it. And I
got the perfect guy to bring in on you. But
I mean, dude, think about that. But that's what we're saying.
It's bullshit. I should not have to pay for it. Well,
to reaching me doing it. Yeah, they should be paying
for it.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
It's cutting edge, right, we should we should have cutting
edge stuff, and like look when you look at the
American economy, it can go. We should be able to
do this for everybody, right, we should be able to
have an affordable cost of health care. And if there's
cutting edge science out that they can heal people without
having to take prescription medication for the rest of their life,
we should be looking to do it. I'm super excited
(20:01):
to bring this to you know, we have a pretty
large generation of combat vetters who suffered traumatic brain injuries
and significant wounds from blasts.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Right, and if this, if this.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Can all of a sudden improve their quality of life
and reduce that pain. Like you know, Robbie, he won't
mention it, right, He's just too tough to mention it.
But sometimes if I talk to his wife, Brittany, you know,
show talk about what he endures, that difficulty sleeping and
just doing regular daily activities. You know, it's just incredible
that the opportunity to send some people like him, who've
(20:36):
done so much and suffer through so much, you get
an opportunity to heal. And I'm so excited for it
and I can't wait to send more. And like we said,
you know, hopefully, right, hopefully this can become a movement
to start bringing care like this.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
You know, it's scale because for a guy like Robbie,
what did he have to lose? Right? Like what in nothing? Right?
Speaker 5 (20:56):
He was like signing, it doesn't impact my VA benefit,
sign me up. And he comes back and he actually
loved that. He was treated so kindly by everybody, had
a wonderful time with his wife while getting therapy and treatment.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
It is how Star.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Plays, folks.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It's you're think of Panama and there's like it's so
funny because I had some football coaches who went to
this one because it's basically legalizing most a lot of
the countries.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
But I know this play.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
I trust this place because this was a guy named
Percy Knox her who used to run API, which I
trained at when I was actually so trying to fight
and uh in like oh five or so along those lines,
but they and now they're exos. But he was in
charge of training and training every football player Department of
Defensive Seals Delta.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That was their last line. So I knew him and
trusted him when you go down. So my point is these.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Football coaches they went out to this place. It was
like in a strip malle, like in Gui or stain Antigue.
I'm like, what are you doing, Like go to my place?
Like you like this this place is incredible. But every
time somebody sees it, like brih, you start right, it's
like it's a brand new Miami Panama. The place is
like it's two of the restaurants there are mon and Rose,
his favorite colinary experience, experience of the planet. It's really
(22:04):
something incredible. Sort to hear him also because we were
talking to him right at first, he was like, I
don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
I'm like, Robbie, you had nothing to.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Lose, like and then to hear him on the backside
and to be on that text shape with you're just
so excited for this experience. It was a healing of
a lot of time, but ended up being a vacation
for him and his wife of a lifetime too, because
that's really what it is.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
It's incredible.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I mean, look, I got stem cell years ago in
a hole in the wall place in America, and you
know I had separated my right shoulder three times and
I've never had an issue with it since. And this
is nowhere near right the level. This is old school
first legalized stem cell and you know now right, I've
(22:46):
never had another issue. I'm a huge believer in it.
And the experience Robbie had which just amazing, right, it's
just amazing.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
And to be able to bring this to more people
will be will be powerful. And I'm excited. You know,
you to leverage your voice, do that means the world.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
So you know, I just want to go back. I'm
going to touch shame with you, guys.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
It's one of the most powerful text Chains've ever been
in my life.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I'm gonna try and keep together. But where he was
begging you for this and you.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Were then telling him how that night, that day has
haunted you since, and his response to was like, Brian,
serve it under you was the greatest experience in my life.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Like I am looking at this like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
The bonds that you guys have, It's it's.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
So hard, right, You never want to be part of something,
you know when you're serving it. You know a lot
of people when they serve, they want to be a
part of combat. Then you see combat, you generally don't
really want to see a whole lot of it because
it's tough and people you genuinely care about get hurt,
and to replay that moment and constantly wish you could
(23:54):
have made a different decision, a better decision for him
and those other you know, marines in that truck, and
then get the opportunity to help and have him be
in a place in his life where he's happy, he's loved,
he's got a family, and I could try to pay
him back. It's it's really powerful, man, It's powerful, and
(24:16):
in that bond, it never you.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Know, it never goes away, It never goes you.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
You had mentioned though again on that and then just
get a little deeper about you still live in and regret.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And I don't think that's I can't tell you how
to think, but I don't think that's fair to.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
You because you didn't start it, you know what I mean. Like,
you're doing a job you signed up some people like
me don't have to do. How do you give yourself
like I hope A A are you are you giving
yourself more grace? Now now that you've heard his.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
Response, Yeah, you know you do right, And and it's
funny I got to practice. I preach because when I
talk to, you know, other combat officers that are in
training before they go out, you know, one of the
things I let them know is that you have to
be able to forgive yourself.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
You're going to be put in a situation in combat.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
It's really hard to pitch a shut out, and it's
very chaotic and what can go wrong will go wrong.
And for you to remain effective as a leader in combat,
you have to forgive yourself because if you can't, you're
not the best version of yourself for the rest of
that deployment, for the rest of the time that they
serve under you, for the rest of your career. And
so I feel like I'm in a place where you
(25:24):
can both regret something but at the same time forgive
yourself for it. I can at the same time wish
I had a more perfect answer that night, right, but
at the same time understand that, hey, I didn't create
that situation, right.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
And Bombers, it's not There's nothing you could do to
predict what they're going to do.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
That's right and no different than you know, Robbie has
his own regrets, which are even more you know, hard
to comprehend, right, like that suicideical hit because I couldn't
take it out with the fifty.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You know, while he's envygs ers n.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
That Yougagos are washed out. Every every combat veteran has
some of that. You see it all the time in
football players, like you drop a pat, you make a
you blow a play, and.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
It loses a big game. Like they have a hard
time forgetting this is a resturant. You magnify this.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You magnify this times one hundred, right, because you have
to then watch the families go on without that that person. Right,
there's there's deeper regret, but that's also a part of it.
When you sign up to serve, right, that's also a
part of it, and you sign up, you know, to
to carry that burden. And look, I'm okay with that.
(26:37):
It's not awesome, but but that's what I sign up
for and I'm damn proud that I did.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Hey, you know what I hope for you?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Also, I hope you won't go back and you watch
this and look at what you're saying and be able
to give yourself the grace Like that's pretty cool, motherfucker right.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
There, Pretty bad ass dude.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
You deserve to look at yourself like that, dude, the
way I am and everybody else is right now, Look.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I appreciate that, and and what I appreciate more is
is you You were able to create a situation and
I got to send my marine to something to where afterwards, right,
there was that text exchange where he was you know,
he knew you know I still loved him, and he
knew I never forgot and that I don't take what
(27:22):
he went through for for granted. And you know that's
that's priceless, right that that's priceless, And you wish you
could have that kind of connectivity, you could do something
that special for every person you served with that got wounded.
And it was just it was it was really really
incredible and something I'll never forget.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Bro.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Your heart is massive, and it was a lot, it
was a lot of logistics to make that happen and
make that work and and and it's incredible.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
And that's where you came in. How was you?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
But did it give you some healing when you saw
Guest saying like, my biggest, biggest thing my career serving under.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
It, it feel is your soul right to be able
to do something like that more so than any victory
or business deal you can get, you know.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
And I remember, you know, showing the pictures to my wife, Michelle,
and you know, she is the.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Most patriotic person and most supportive of my military background.
And you know, she does not allow me to allow
moments like that to pass without really stopping.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
For a second and internalizing them.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And it was really awesome, and I just I'm so
hopeful that that Robbie could start to enjoy a more
normal life going forward, you know, and not endure the.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Guy the pain and the headaches and the things he's
been dealing with for years.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Man, There's two things before I let us go.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
One, you get to hear more, a lot more from
Brian and I as we continue to try and figure
out ways to send more of our veterans down there
or maybe get some more attention to here in the States.
But two, you bring your wife up. I'm gonna leave
it with this again. Brian's been one of my best
friends for years. You know, we've trained in sweat and
bled in a different kind of way than what he's
done with veterans. He just beat my ass for a
(29:09):
few years. But I tried to talk to Brian a
lot about faith. Become a huge god guy, right, And
it's not religionous faith three totally different things. And I
never knew until meet your wife and then go to
your wedding where it was very very god centric.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I'm like, wow, there you go, and just she not
talk separately about it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
She said, you know, Brian always thought if there was
a God that he would you know, how can.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
You forgive you?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
You know, you could say it better with all the
stuff he's done in war, and for her to teach
you that God loves you no matter what was man,
that was one of the most joyful, joyous, fulfilling things
I've ever heard or seen in my life, because I've
been trying to you know, like it doesn't hurt us
to have faith, but not Brian.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
But I never looked at it, and I never knew
that's the way you felt about it. Who told them?
Which I'm like, this girl special, But she's opened up.
He's opened up to her like this.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
There's nothing I can't tell her, and she is she
has walked a ten times harder path than I have
in her life. And her faith is incredible and our
our faith is a family.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Is incredible and I couldn't agree more. There's nothing there's
nothing important in my life that I don't pray over.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
I don't pray before now, And it's amazing how often
those prayers get answered, maybe not always the way you
ask for, but exactly the way that you need them
to be. And you know, case in point this this
situation with Robbie, you know, when you mentioned this and
me hoping that he would be willing to go and
do this, because it's it's nervous for anybody when they
(30:47):
first get this, you know, the call to do it.
And to see him sending pictures with him and his
wife dressed up and being treated so well, right, it
just it warmed my heart to see him smiling and
get the text back from the last week. I'm feeling better,
like it's just it's powerful man, That's that's prayer's answer.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It was.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
It was a pretty cool thing because he was down
there with Elliott this past time, because Eli went down
there specifically for his multiple scores this iss time, so
we were able to redo Elliott also so we can
continue in his journey and put the two of them together.
And the bomb they had in there was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Brian brother.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm We've been teamateing a lot of things together, man,
but this this may be our I'm hoping this is
one of our biggest ones.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, obviously I hope so too, Brother. I hope so too.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
Your your parts, your heart is so huge, man, And
I just I appreciate you, brother, I appreciate There's there's
so much you know about youth that that goes well
beyond the NFL and Scoop Badge and everything else that
that people don't know that I get to know. And
and I love you, man, and I'm just so grateful
that you called me and said, hey, I got you know,
can can you find somebody? Can you can you have
(31:52):
one of your one of your guys go do this?
And it was just incredible. What an opportunity of a
lifetime that any any combat leader or service member would
would dream of they have one of their team members
go and get this opportunity.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
So I can't wait to do it for more people.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Well, folks, that is Brian's damp former quarterback and with
the linebacker Naval Academy, former Marine retire Marine that should
say Silver Star, WC Light Everyweight Champ fifth rank middleweight
and UFC former cos the UFC on Fox, former broadcaster
for college football, and obviously uses his time way better.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Than I do.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
The one only Brian stand Brian, Love you, buddy.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Let's keep walking to walk together my mind. Love you brother.
Thank you,
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