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In this powerful episode of the Security Halt! Podcast, Deny Caballero sits down with Trent Seegmiller to talk about purpose-driven living, military service, and the power of fitness, leadership, and community. From special operations camaraderie to the journey of building a podcast that uplifts others, Trent opens up about the real struggles and rewards that come with service, transition, and self-growth.
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Humor in Conversation
02:58 The Importance of Community and Support
06:01 Fitness and Health Awareness
08:50 Camaraderie in Special Operations
11:49 Gratitude and Reflection on Service
15:01 The Reality of Public Recognition
18:03 Podcasting Journey and Authenticity
20:51 Encouraging the Next Generation
23:58 Finding Your Path in Special Operations
30:08 Choosing Your Path: Embracing Personal Decisions
33:12 The Importance of Integrity and Dependability
36:06 Striving for Greatness: The Pursuit of Excellence
40:10 Balancing Work and Personal Life
52:10 The Power of Change and Leadership
58:59 Taking Responsibility: The Call to Action
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
I like this the whole just do a live thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It makes me more comfortable oh yeah, dude, fuck
that, like fuck that.
This is a teen room environment.
You walked in, sat down, we didsome dick jokes, got out of the
system.
Now we're doing hard ballquestions Kill one, marry one,
fuck one.
Hillary Clinton, michelle Obamaand our girl, nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I mean suicide and option here.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's a Kobayashi Maru , exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm not Captain.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kirk.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I can't fix this.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh man, Trying to take another.
Welcome to GearDog podcast.
How's it going, man?
It's this.
Oh man, Trent Tegmiller,welcome to the Gear Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
How's it going, man?
It's good, it's good.
I'm happy to be here.
I have to say, before we startand I know this is your podcast
and I get wordy Everyone knowswho you are in the space and
everybody says amazing thingsabout you.
You're a fantastic human.
I feel like I just got to getthat out of the way.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
In the beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Dude.
That means a lot, man.
I have very few rules where itcomes to this and I tell
everybody I'm a dog shitentrepreneur.
The business side I just worknonstop and the one axiom I
always whether it's a detrimentto my own business endeavors is
do good for everybody, everybody, that everybody comes across.
(01:24):
You help them out as much asyou can, more so than what you
ever received, and just try topay that forward.
And, yeah, it's if.
If anybody's listening from abusiness standpoint, they're
like that's stupid.
Why would you give somebodyelse keys to success like you're
an idiot?
I'm like well, I want to knowthat at the end of the day, I
(01:46):
don't feel bad because I was anasshole.
I don't want to be that creepthat was like oh, you're a dick,
like dude.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Gatekeeping is hella fucking gay so it's like do you
want people to show up to yourfuneral, or you want a really
fancy casket?
You know like which one do youwant?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I want people to come by and hang out.
Um, chances are my funeral isgoing to be a fanfare, quite the
fanfare.
I'm going to use the same rules, the same language that I had
in my pause packet, thewonderful piece of documentation
you had to have before everydeployment.
I'm going to use the same thingsame things I used there,
(02:24):
unbeknownst to my wife.
I'm going to use the same thingSame things I use there.
I'm going to host my wife.
I want the exact same sort ofthing.
So it'll be a very beach casualaffair and I have hired a few
people to show up forentertainment.
Yeah, there'll be random peoplethat show up and they will have
wonderful things to say andsome not so wonderful, and it's
(02:44):
up to you, the guest, to decideif it's real or not.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Figure it out Now.
I'm intrigued.
I want to be there.
I'm going to start taking careof myself, just in hopes that I
outlive you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Trent, it's not going to be that hard.
Three, four years max.
The amount of stress andworkload I'm under.
I'm not long for this earth,you just got to increase your
caffeine intake.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
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I'm not sponsored by c4 it's just all press is good
press right c4, you're welcomeyeah, dude, somebody.
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Speaker 1 (04:24):
First of all, I feel a little bit of attacks about
the couch comment, you know whatI mean.
I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's one thing I realized man, for all of us,
dude, like we get out, couchsyndrome attacks everybody, no
one's.
A few guys are like fucking100% committed, but for a lot of
us they have surgeries andaches and pains.
Like, oh yeah, I'll sit on thecouch for a while.
Before you know it, you're 340pounds eating Haagen-Dazs,
mainlining fucking candies andcakes.
And then you're like, oh fuck,I don't feel good.
Well, because you don't look orfeel like you used to.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, bro, it's because I was in the military, not
because for the last five yearsI've been eating like horrible
stuff and not moving.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm going to put the clip in here, but there's a
video of this mom feeding her400 pound, 16 year old kid
breakfast and it's like you wantfour waffles.
He said yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Have you got more sausage yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You want more syrup yeah.
Jesus Christ, dude, you'reloving that kid to death and I
don't want that to happen to you.
So get off the couch, go workout for a little bit.
It is dude, but like fuckingseeing Aaron and you guys
fucking rallying the nextgeneration of great special
(05:44):
operations service members, dude, like that's motivating us fuck
, even just for the guys likemyself.
Like fucking trying to achievethe body of a, you know,
slightly non retarded 40something year old man, like it
is, it is empowering to see ourguys back at it.
So I wanted to be a part of itand encourage everybody to do it
, man, because nobody wants tobe a part of it.
(06:06):
And encourage everybody to doit, man, because nobody wants to
be the guy that talks about whohe used to be.
At least we shouldn't, weshouldn't be the guy that's like
, oh, I used to be this.
It's like, look, I don't want tolook like the 25 year old
version of me, shredded withdick skin.
Like that's just not going tobe me.
Shredded with dick skin.
Like that's just not gonna beme.
(06:26):
Like I don't want to do thatshit like revenge body is good.
The only time I had likefucking shredded body was like
the revenge body afterdeployment.
Everybody, you know what I'mtalking about.
Yeah, I'll even put the pictureof the pool.
Yeah, yeah, there we go.
Look at this, look at this sexyman right there.
That's not ideal when you're 40, but I want to lift hard, I
want to run hard, I want to dogreat shit, because that's not
ideal when you're 40, but I wantto lift hard, I want to run
hard, I want to do great shitbecause that's the community we
live in, man, and and that'ssomething that you guys are
(06:49):
inspiring.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Dude, I think the other day you posted, um, it was
uh, the um, the recent trainingevent you guys were doing, yeah
, and that shit was cool as fuckman that is fucking awesome,
aaron, like post, like his bodyfat percentage and all of his
stuff in our group chat andwe're like, come on, man, like
I'm just over here trying to benot injured, mostly like I don't
want to be a fatty, but alsolike, come on, it's like nine
(07:13):
percent body fat.
He's like, yeah, 45, ninepercent body fat, 200 pounds,
whatever.
I probably memorized that alittle more than I should have
not it's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's fine.
Neither here nor there.
I don't have a full-sizepicture of him in my bathroom.
I don't, I don't my wife.
She thinks it's normal, she'suh yeah, look, some people need
something different to train.
I need something different.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You have pre-workout.
I have a picture of iron.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, it's the samesies oh man, dude, I want to
.
I want to dive into yourjourney, man, like I've.
I've heard about aaron's, I'veheard about peaches.
I want to know your journey,how we got here?
Like, how did you find your wayinto this fucking phenomenal
community?
(08:00):
I was like, look I get it.
Navy seals, green berets, hugedicks, amazing.
But there's a reason why some ofmy best friends are from the
air force special operations.
You guys are built different.
The camaraderie is different,the brotherhood's different.
Like you, take one of us out ofa fight, okay.
(08:21):
Like I can live without an 18echo.
Let it be the junior I can'tlive with.
I can't live without my fuckingcct, my tack p's, my, my pjs.
Like you guys are fuckingphenomenal.
Like even our you know ourspecial reconnaissance dudes.
Like everybody clowns on them.
But the first time I met one Iwas blown away by the
(08:42):
professionalism and how fuckingawesome the guy was.
So like your community man.
Like, if you don't get enough,like take a bow, because you
guys are fucking phenomenal dudeno, it's, it is one of those
things where I wake up on aregular.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So I was at a retirement ceremony this morning
from you know, a certified, youknow combat control, war hero
type and uh, just the dudes.
And I saw my wife when I gothome.
I'm like, yeah, like this dude,mike, was coming up and talking
to me and like sometimes I juststep back and I'm like why is
this dude, my friend?
You know, like how did I get tothis place in life where this
is like a normal interaction forme, like I'm still just me,
(09:19):
like I'm here on accident guys,like I fell into this accident,
like none of this was supposedto happen.
But now it's, you know, likeyou know you're just friends
with all these people andthey're amazing humans and it.
You know, one of the things Ithink that happens when you
retire or get close toretirement or maybe should, is
like I started to come on thislike let's like gratitude tour.
You know, like it's wild andit's there's like a green beret
(09:42):
restaurant, uh, owned restaurant.
Uh, wild, and it's there's likea green beret restaurant, uh,
owned restaurant.
Uh, uh, just still notdistillery.
What's the other one brewery,brewery in san antonio?
And like it's crazy that I canwalk into that place and see
some of my friends on the wallthe green berets and everybody
else right, because everyonewalking in there, the hold, all
the walls are covered with allthe team pictures and everybody
looks the same downrange it'sbeards.
(10:03):
Uh, dcus that turned into otherthings and as no one wanted to
wear the actual digi army camoever we never.
The pants were comfortable, butthey were like pajamas.
They'd rip after one up but um,but it's crazy being able to
walk in there and actually pickout teams that I, that I
deployed with and like I knowthose guys and it's like man, if
you're not grateful for beingable to hang out in this
(10:24):
community, I don't know whatyou're doing, because it's
amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It truly is and something that I understand.
We never speak of ourselves asthe greatest and there's only a
handful of individuals that dothat, and that should be a
warning sign.
Like I remember having earlplumley on the show at no point
(10:51):
did he ever speak of himself aslike the great I mean, this is a
medal of honor recipient.
Yeah, like this dude was sohumble and and this and the way
he talked, the way he cameacross, is like it's everybody
else was there, everything else,the situation, like I, I, I was
able to do something insanethat I'm now a recipient of this
(11:17):
, our nation's highest militaryaward, but that doesn't make me
better than the, than thecollective, and that's that's
the thing that I realized.
Like, okay, we need to, we needto understand and we need to
all be willing to say, like man,like we serve with giants, we
serve.
Like the best aspects of us are, the guys are no longer here.
Those are the guys that took itall the way, all the way to the
(11:38):
fucking end, and it sucks, butthe guys are still around here,
are still better than me.
Like, fuck, dude, like I was, uh, I was a good single mom as a
warrant officer.
That's, that's what I realized.
Like that's I'm.
I'm a good.
I'm good at being a good singlemom.
It's not a fucking greatestthing out there.
I was just a guy.
I could do some spreadsheets, Icould do some cool stuff, but I
(11:59):
was a good single mom.
When you see me write a bookabout my accolades, please shoot
me in the fucking face.
Like that's how that's thereality.
Like the stories we shareshould always be highlighting
the greatness around us.
And yeah, like we got to bearound some great people, but
like I think our collectivecommunity is now seeing the
(12:22):
repercussions of these selectfew guys are just made
themselves larger than life andit's just like fuck it.
Like some people can pass youcan pass that along to some
people, but eventually it'sgoing to catch up to you, man.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, civilians are pretty easy to fool too, you
know, and they don't know, andthey're just.
The thing is is that most ofthe civilians that enable the
greatest, greatest degree ofthat, they're trying to do the
right thing.
They're the, you know, there'sa lot of people with a lot of
money.
They were like I never servedand I want to give back and I
want to help and I want topromote this, this.
You know, this dude or peoplethat that did these things
(12:56):
supposedly um, and so it's, oh,it's, you know, paved with the
best of intentions, and then itall blows up, like I did again
recently.
You know, like there's like apile of dudes on that, that heap
of of whatever.
Yeah, it's like a seasonalthing.
Yeah, it is like every season,it's like get your generator,
(13:18):
get ready.
It's about to be stolen valorseason or it's just like guys
that present themselves to besomething that they are not.
You know.
It's like, oh, like I'm afamily man and all this other
stuff.
It's like, oh, yeah yeah, Iguess not.
You know, I've been to shot showand I avoid certain parties for
reasons because I'm happilymarried and it's a priority of
(13:39):
mine to stay that way.
And I'm not saying I'm the bestlooking guy or anything else
like that, but like man, you gotto be pretty dumb that to not
realize the situations thatyou're putting yourself into
yeah, you know, I've never,never been to shot show, but man
, I've heard some stories.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Um, yeah, stupid, it's like it was this like
mythical thing when, when I wasstill active duty, like early on
, like you would hear storiesabout like, oh, shot show's
coming around, they're gonnagive a select few tickets to
some of the the green braids togo.
I guess that was a thing I Inever, never, never got grace
(14:14):
for that, but it's like likethat's such a weird thing, like
that's a part of it, that's anindustry, that's an industry
thing.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like shot show 2026, like I don't know, dude, dude, I
only went once, I'm, I'm nevergoing back.
It's, it's exhausting.
There's so many people and even, just like you know, it is kind
of cool because you can wanderaround and people recognize you
every once in a while, which isawkward, but it's like, hey,
cool, like because we're allthere, but, dude, like some of
the parties and all the you know, like just the, the, the open
(14:44):
debauchery and the amount ofmoney that that enables, and
it's just like this is gross.
You know, like that's not whatI'm about.
So cool, never going back.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I can only imagine what Sig will be bringing to
SHOT Show for 2026 body bags theSig VR body bags, the same VR
experience.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Shoot your fucking dick off they're gonna come out
with like a tourniquet, they'regonna be like so free, free,
yeah just in case, guys.
I mean, it's totally safe, it'sfine, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It happens so many other guns.
You're just not hearing aboutit.
Oh man, yeah I am.
I'm glad I got rid of all mysigs.
I still have one um, which Iwon't be taken to the range
anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's like an annabelle doll.
You like put it in like alittle case.
You're like don't look at it,don't look at it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It might, just won't be.
Dude, every other gun I havegets taken out.
You like friggin trade with dryfire, with like, take her
around with that one.
I'm like, and I remember themindset too, the, the fucking
mindset I had, but I mean, it'sa new sidearm for for the army,
I gotta buy it I'm like jeez godI gotta go there again, and
(16:08):
there I am.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But you know, the army come on like you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You should know better dude, I should have known
on my fuck yeah, dude, fuckinghuge boner on my end, fucking
nerd I was.
Yeah, I gotta get the best one.
The tactical edition.
It comes in RMR.
Fuck yeah, brother mags.
Yeah, coyote tan, coyote tan,yeah yeah, fucking idiot now.
(16:38):
Now you can't fucking sell it,you can't pawn it.
It you can't pawn it.
How do I know?
Because, trust me, I tried.
I got wind of this shit earlyon.
I was like, alright, I'm goingto get rid of this.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't know what a budsgunscom to buy a Denny's Sig
.
There it is.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Just going to shoot myself in the dick.
One of these days, my memory'sgonna get the best of me.
I'm gonna forget about it.
I'm gonna do some training.
Just got into rage.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's how you go that would be the worst oh my
god, dude.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But yeah, you know you're um, you guys are huge and
the fact that you do getrecognized like that's got to be
a trip, right, yeah yeah, it'suncomfortable, like I'm not, I'm
not good at it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
it's because aaron and I were talking about this
the other day and we we went outto like a beach training event
that was put on by like the, theair force recruiters.
Yeah, at the end of it.
So aaron and I were like thespecial guests or whatever.
We ran them through someexercise, we were out there with
them and at the end of it, soAaron and I were like the
special guests or whatever.
We ran them through someexercise and we were out there
with them and at the end of itwe did kind of like a Q and a.
You know like gave her a littlespeeches.
There's a giant group of kidsnot kids, you know, young people
looking and thinking aboutjoining the air force, and we're
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like you may have any questionsand they're like no, and we
like turn around and walk backto the hotel.
We were at dinner and Aaronlike looks up and he's like
those kids probably wantedpictures with us and I was like
oh man, that didn't even occurto me, you know cause, I'm just
me.
You know, like we're still justdudes.
It takes so long, it's taken usso long to like figure out that
(18:15):
, like maybe someone wantspictures.
Like if I'm downtown SanAntonio and someone recognizes
me, my wife is like, do you wanta picture?
You know?
Like because I'll forget, or orI'm socially uncomfortable
anyway, because it's just aweird situation.
But yeah, uh, yeah, so it's,it's a good thing, right,
because it is.
I could complain about it, butI I actively do it to to make it
happen I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'm bringing in metrics right now because I want
to brag on you guys.
It is rewarding to see goodpeople reach insane success.
You guys have a listen score of55 and you have a global
(19:02):
ranking of 0.5 percent.
What does that mean?
It means that out of themillions of podcasts because
they every, even if they haven'tbeen taken down, they still get
up, still get measured you guyshave the same impact and same
reach as some is like some ofthe bigger fucking podcasts out
there that we, we talk about andand they make all the fucking
headlines on social media.
Fucking podcasts out there thatwe talk about and they make all
(19:22):
the fucking headlines on socialmedia and that is insane.
On a good note, like, you'reright up there with softcast.
Actually, you're higher thansoftcast.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, suck it, softcast yeah, fuck you guys, I
wish you hadn't told me like inmy mind it is still.
You know like, you know how,like in my mind it's still just
like a thing that I get togetherwith on saturday and sometimes
sunday mornings with my bros andwe chit, chat and we get to
meet cool guests and it's likethe numbers become meaningless.
You know, like your first like5 000 subscribers or whatever,
(19:51):
we're like holy crap, bro,that's amazing.
And now it's whatever it's at.
But I don't think about it, youknow like that's why you're so
fucking awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
That's why like about it.
You know like.
That's why you're so fuckingawesome.
That's why like.
That's why it's they say thatwhen you lose the, the love for
it, and you start worrying aboutthe ad revenue, you're worried
about the proper placement of Igotta put this in front of the
camera so the sponsors see itlike it kills it.
And when you no longer have theauthentic interaction between
(20:22):
the co-hosts, that also killsthe show.
But from like day one, thething that's awesome about you
guys is you haven't lost that.
When you tune in to listen orwatch, you have the same
interactions and it's not likeyou can clearly see like, like.
I love the guys from gosh.
What's workaholics great showbut that's not who you're
(20:46):
getting when you're listening tothem on a show anymore.
They're way too fucking big andHollywood and all that.
It's not the individuals andit's not the characters.
You're not a character.
Peaches isn't a character.
You're not a character.
Peaches isn't a character.
Aaron isn't a character.
You're getting the sameauthentic people that you would
actually meet in person on thepodcast and I think that
(21:09):
resonates not only with thewider audience but for those
young men that are wanting toget into this career field.
They know that, oh shit, likethey're talking just like me and
my friends talk like this isdoable.
There's a lot of specialoperators out there and prior
military guys that when they geton a podcast it's not the same,
(21:30):
it's you got to get real closeto the mic.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Gotta get close to the mic let me tell you
something.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I wake up at 2 am.
Every fucking morning I wake up.
I look at that picture of meand bennett samuel bin lad say
not today.
And the reason being is becauseevery day I get up I kill him.
Yeah, no, not physically, butevery day I wake up and I make
the mind connection that I'mkilling him.
I have to see that enemy, Ihave to get in there.
I got to put myself in thatmindset.
(21:55):
You know, 2 am comes, I got tobe ready to kill him.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
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Speaker 1 (22:10):
Dude, they sent me a bunch of stuff.
I think Tasty Gains is one ofour sponsors.
Now I'm fucking with your money.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm sorry, dog.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's fine.
It's funny because we saw oneof the YouTube videos of some
British dude going throughcreatine gummies and being like
this doesn't actually havecreatine in it.
So we were like, hey guys, canyou send us the lab reports on
the creatine gummies to makesure they actually have creatine
in them?
I mean, I like them, but thisis one of those things that
shows up at the door and you'relike yeah, okay, your life, yeah
, Okay, yeah, it's come to findout, it's 100% come so is it non
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human, because?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
shit.
That's why the texture is sogummy we only accept pandas,
okay.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh, my God dude, I don't know if you know how
famous, I am but if this iskoala, I swear no no, uh, you
(23:24):
have to understand something.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Do want to know the origin story, man.
I do want to know the originstory.
How did all this begin for youguys?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I like to go back to the beginning.
Actually, the guy whoseretirement was today it's his
fault and I always remind him ofit that I I do anything on
camera because I was.
I was just like everybody else.
Remember, like you know, likeearly GY, like I joined in 03,
first deployment 06, what yada,yada, but it's like very much no
internet, no social media.
We're all secret squirrels,blah, blah, blah and um and I, I
(23:55):
get in 2015, I get stationed inSan Antonio and uh, so I was a
weather guy.
Then it became sr, we were grayberets.
So I'm like when I say gray hat, I mean myself and it's a very,
very small career field, sothere's only so many gray hats
around.
And this guy, who's a uh stow, aspecial tactics officer he was.
He was kind of like leading thecharge on this commercial that
we were making, um, and he comesup to me.
(24:17):
He's like trent, I, uh, I needto be in this commercial and I
was like, come on, dog, like Idon't do that, and he's like but
you're the guy, like you'regonna, we're gonna put you on
camera.
So he talked me into it and sothat was the kind of like the
genesis of me being comfortableor like I had no choice after
that, like my name, my rank, myjob, me talking on camera for a
(24:38):
commercial that did fairly well,um, that went out everywhere.
Um, so like I was like okay.
So then the recruiter startedto come to me.
They're like, ah, like peoplehave questions about this stuff,
can you do like a facebook livething?
And I'm like fine, this was.
But it got me into like thatmindset of like recruiting and
looking into that stuff.
And, um, so, uh, there werefour of us originally, um b,
(25:00):
aaron, jared and myself.
So Brian called me one day andhe was already doing this PJ
thing and I'd been on his thingonce how to be a PJ and all that
.
And after we did that he waslike, dude, you want to just do
a podcast?
I have a controller and anotherPJ that already said yes.
And I was like you know, likeokay, I couldn't think of a good
reason not to.
And I wanted to put somecorrect messaging out there
(25:23):
Because, like you said,everybody knows Green Berets,
seals, rangers, the Marines,marsoc.
People probably don't understandthe difference between, like
Recon, marines, marsoc and theMarines.
Necessarily it gets a littlemuddy.
But I wanted people to know,because I wanted, uh, I, I the
career field had given me somuch.
Like I said, I was here onaccident, it was.
(25:44):
I was at that point in mycareer where I had open eyes, I
understood the opportunitiesthat were in front of me, I was
starting to understand thepeople that I was associating
with, and so I felt like notonly was it a good idea, but I
felt a responsibility, uh to toget out there and, you know, do
my part.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Fuck yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So yeah, so it ended up just being the three of us.
But yeah, now it's just, I getto talk to my two best friends
every weekend, and that'sawesome.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You make it sound so fucking horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
My life is.
I don't know If this comesacross.
I try to be like a little bitof sarcasm.
I try to bring a little bit ofmy like cadre, uh persona to uh,
to the podcast every once in awhile.
But man, I'm, like uh, just apretty happy-go-lucky guy.
Things work out for me.
And even if they don't work out, then like that wasn't meant to
be so, like why worry about it?
Let's move forward.
You know, like who cares?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
that's the exact attitude you need for any
fucking pipeline, any sort ofselection.
I constantly like have peopleon the inbox like I didn't
understand it too, because likethe whole thing, the whole
mission I set on to, is talkabout mental health, highlight,
recovery, transition, but peopleI never.
I just underestimated, you know, putting that up there and then
(26:58):
putting what I used to do,because young man will find that
and they'll ask how did I getto selection, what work do I
need to do?
What should my two mile time be?
And it's like fuck, what arethe best boots for selection,
bro?
I listened to that episodewhere the guy was talking about
being addicted to crack cocainewhile he was in the military,
anyways.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Seven Troop is wild.
I'm just saying Seven Troop.
Anyways, how should I?
Seven Group is wild.
I'm just saying Seven Group isa wild place.
The.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Cowboys Segway into the recent interview of Hunter
Biden while he was just zootedout of his mind on coke.
Weird, holy shit, thatinterview.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I mean, he just leaves that stuff lying around,
you know his eyeballs in thatinterview, like who let that man
on?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
who let that man on?
I digress back to the previousuh question and situation.
Yeah, the guys are alwaysasking like what I need to do as
far as workouts and it's like,dude, you need to work on your
mindset and the ability to saylike, okay, today was a bad day,
tomorrow's gonna be better.
I gotta move forward.
Like the amount of people I'vemet that self-selected well, I
(28:04):
did bad on this, so I just I, II'm gonna go.
Like they didn't come talk toyou, dog, I just keep going.
I would just keep moving likedon't pull you out, don't
self-select so.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So even to become a south tea back in the day
special operations weather guywas super, super easy.
But like I had people because Ihad to be regular weather first
before I could cross over I hadpeople in the military telling
me that they didn't think that Iwas what the special operations
community was looking for.
And so if you don't alreadyhave it in your head, if you
haven't already made thatdecision and you're willing to
(28:37):
take that kind of ridiculousinput, then yeah, go ahead and
self-select out.
Because like they're like ohwell, you're skinny, you're like
150 pounds, blah, blah, blah.
I don't think that.
You know, I don't have tattoos.
At the time I didn't even cuss.
You know, like I was a real boyscout.
Uh, on the outside, on theinside, it was a different story
.
Um, but you know what I mean,but like I would.
But have people be like I don'tthink you're, you know what
(28:58):
they mean, but like I would.
Have people be like I don'tthink you're, you know what
they're looking for.
Come to find out they were allwrong, you know, and I'm not
like the golden child.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I wasn't like amazing , but like I was enough of what
they were looking for to stickaround for 20 years career
devoted to the special you know,devoted to the Air Force,
devoted to our military, to our,to our American citizens, being
of service to a great nation.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And you're still serving, but you're still doing
something that is promotinggreat ideals and helping guys
achieve their dreams.
Is that lost on you?
I get kind of.
I mean, I, I want to givepeople the opportunity of choice
.
You know, um, the there arefolks that would probably make
(29:49):
better pararescue guys thangreen berets, you know.
And if just giving them moreoptions, where, when that thing
happens, where it speaks to youlike when I got that briefing
from that dude in the gray hatand I'm like instantly fell in
love with another man and wantedto do that thing, when I got
that briefing from that dude inthe gray hat and I'm like
instantly fell in love withanother man and wanted to do
that thing and made up my mindin that moment that that's what
I wanted to do.
You know what I mean?
Like, yeah, I was like you hearthe thing and you're like boom,
like I was supposed to do that,like that's my path, I'm going
(30:15):
to do that moment.
It's it's.
You know, if you say no, it'slike people will be like oh, hey
, then listen to the podcast.
I decided to become, you know,a ranger.
Instead, we're like hell, yeah,brother.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, cool, they're apologizing.
Dear Trent, aaron and Peaches,after successfully listening to
all seasons at every episode, Imust confess I will not be going
into the Air Force SpecialOperations Pipeline.
Instead, I will be going intothe Army as an 88 Mike.
(30:49):
For a long time I've lovedmechanics.
I have loved engines,combustion and torque.
Hey, cool man, you don't oweanybody, that's, it's fine,
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I don't care if you join the air force.
You don't even try out forspecial warfare.
I don't care.
Like do something that you wantto do, dude, like chase that
thing that when you hear it itsounds like and it feels like
the thing that you're supposedto do, which sounds like woo,
woo and all that other stuff.
But I'm a big believer in whenthe moment happens in your life
and you feel the pull, don't sayno, don't, don't say no, like
(31:29):
it's going to be scary.
It's supposed to be scary,otherwise you know it wouldn't
be worth anything.
But just just do it and don'tlisten to all the other crap and
don't worry about your badworkouts, don't worry about any
of that stuff.
Don't worry about how you don'thave enough money to buy the
running shoes that you want orwhatever else.
Just go do it, make it happen.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, not enough people are talking about that,
not enough people arechampioning that idea to our
young men.
And, yeah, young women, I getit, but I specifically say young
men, because that's who we needto rely on, large, largely,
when it comes to these careerfields, when it comes to combat
and and fuck man, like we livein a in a world right now that
(32:12):
the vast majority of your media,of the people that have an
audience, are telling you thatbeing a driven, hard charging
young man is, is bad, toxicmasculinity, you're not needed,
we don't want you.
We want you to be docile.
And it's like, fuck dude, likepush away from the safety of
home, push away from the harbor.
Like I feel so bad that both mynephews like they're young men
(32:37):
and they're not like one of themdecided to join up and before
he enlisted, he, he asked me,he's like oh, what, what should
I do for special operations?
I'm like, well, you shouldn'tunless it's something you really
want to do and if you're reallycommitted to that, really
honestly, seek out the guidanceof your family and the closest
people in your life and ask themwhat they really think about
(32:57):
you.
If they say that you're selfish, if they say that you're not
mature, if they say that you'reselfish, if they say that you're
not mature, if they say thatyou can't be counted on, like
those will be hard things tolisten to or they should be.
There should be hard critiques.
Then you should ask yourselfwhat you're going to do in order
to right those wrongs and thenstart working on those
attributes.
First, to be dependable, to be aperson of integrity.
(33:18):
Work on that.
You're 18.
You can work on that.
It's not too late.
Then enlist, and don't enlistinto a career field that's safe.
Don't go into S1.
And I'm not trying to bashpeople in the administrative
fields.
They still create great humanbeings and great leaders.
But what I'm saying is like ifwe could just empower and give
people the idea that they canachieve more and at least give
(33:42):
plant that seed in their head,we're going to get great people,
no matter where they go.
My nephew did the completeopposite of that.
He went National Guard and wentS1 and cried and was a complete
, worthless piece of shit, justhorrible to even be.
No kidding dude.
Yeah, I'm deployed.
You're in Kuwait, you're insidedeployment, it's not the same,
(34:05):
not the same.
So yeah, by and large he is uma fucking chode, but um, hey, I
guess, guess we need more ofthose love you and all your
chode chode friends yeah, heimmediately did like everything.
You're not supposed to got agirl knocked up, fucking wet s1.
He complains about fucking bcyeah he does, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(34:35):
he's uh.
Wherever you are, I hope life'snot good for you bud but like
if.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
But here's the thing, though, is if.
If he was like, hey, man, I'mgonna join the national guard, I
have a plan, like I'm gonna get, like uh, my degree in like hr.
So you know, like yeah, if it,if it was what he wanted to do
and he wasn't complaining aboutit, we'd be like hell, yeah,
dude.
And like you're gonna retire aslike either a general, you're
gonna get out and go to schooland go on to great things
because you're driven in adirection.
But if you choose the safe pathand you have the itch for more,
(35:05):
then don't just sit around andcomplain about it.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, don't be that guy.
Don't be that guy.
Strive for greatness, dosomething.
And the thing about that isyou'll be around better people.
You'll be around people thatare driven, driven that can help
you reach your highestpotential.
Nobody gets there on their own.
Like everybody's a product ofthe people that are around like.
That's why, if you hang aroundwith dirt bags, you're gonna
(35:31):
eventually be a dirt bag likewho wants to be the coolest dude
amongst a bunch of fuckingchodes, like king chode.
Fucking boner dude.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Like get out of there , do something with your life
and and it's not like a betterthan thing, right, because when
I was like in the regularweather career field, like some
of those dudes are dark andfolks are wicked smart and they
love doing like the conventionalweather mission, and it's not
that I'm better than them, Ijust didn't fit there and I knew
I didn't fit there, right.
(36:01):
Like I have different interests, like it's not that I can do
weather or I could at one point,but I also want to run, I also
want to shoot, I also want tojump out of planes.
Uh, you know, I want to do allthose other things.
That doesn't make me betterthan them, but like it's all the
people that deny that they'relike.
No, like I don't think that I'mthe type of guy.
Like dude, stop labelingyourself.
If that's what you want, whywould you label yourself in the
(36:23):
negative of what you want?
That's the dumbest thing yeah,dude it's I get all amped up,
bro.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I know I like that you amp each other's.
We're not amping anybody up.
I want you to be amped up.
I want you guys to be just asworked up as we are right now so
much caffeine in here right nowso much C4.
I still got another workout todo, trying to get the air and
bod by um by christmas.
Yeah, it's a lot, dude's justfucking shredded.
(36:49):
He's like fuck, he's got thedorito dorito ratio.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
The waist to the waist, chest to waist ratio is
just fucking you got to get onthe group chat because he'll
tell you about it too.
He's like I went to the gymtoday, uh, noticed you guys
didn't post about going to thegym in the group chat, so so I'm
fitter than you, even more fitthan you are now.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Bro, I'm telling you, I am telling you we need to
come up with a ones readyChristmas calendar.
Hear me out, it's just Aaron.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
He's just going to be an elf, like for December.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Just Aaron, but he's cosplaying as everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
This is peaches aaron .
Speaker 2 (37:32):
This is trent with a weather balloon but it still
does aaron with his shirt off.
Oh my god, dude.
So what do you do like?
All right, so we?
One thing that I I realizedrecently is like I don't have
the ability to throttle back andI like burnout is a real thing.
Like how do you guys manage allthe work and still get in
(37:53):
quality time?
Like what do you do foryourself, man?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
uh, well, we're like a good team, you know, and
everybody, everybody has likedifferent levels of of me time
that they need and at differenttimes, and we all kind of bring
different things to the team.
I bring the least amount to theteam, obviously, but we call we
call Jared G Jared because he'sa workaholic.
He's like.
He's like I want to do theediting, I want to do all this
(38:16):
other stuff.
It's like, hey man, like at acertain point we should probably
hire an editor so we can justrecord content and send it to
them.
But jared has I shouldn't, Ishouldn't tell everybody.
Jared has it in his mind atsome point that he's not going
to be a guy on camera.
But we're like dude, peoplelove you way too much for you to
just turn into like thebackground guy.
Uh, this doesn't work withoutyou, uh, but he's like so, like
humble, and he's like you knowand it's whatever, um, but then,
(38:40):
like aaron is also like verymuch, he's a very creative and
like the digital space, likehe's good at, like all that
other stuff I'm like the goodidea fairy sometimes and I I
kind of like wax and wane withmy level of of participation and
like the social medias and allthat other stuff.
But uh, um, you know, like weall, we all play our part and it
just it's just so happened thatwe are just a great team.
(39:02):
Like one of the huge advantagesthat we have is we are a team
of dudes doing a podcast and ifsomebody's like, hey man, I
can't make it to this nextrecording, one of us will just
step up and be like, oh no, no,I'm gonna be there.
So like, don't worry about it,just don't show up.
Um, and so you know, if you dofeel overwhelmed or whatever,
none of the guys on the onesready team were like it's like,
hey man, I'm taking this weekand I'm hanging out with my wife
(39:22):
and my kids.
You know, we've just been realbusy.
None of us are like, oh, youpiece of crap.
You know, like this podcast iseverything in our lives.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Like don't listen to me lying on you yeah, like no,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's not the end of the world, and so the ones ready
manager.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I hate to tell you this, but uh, you got to show up
.
Contractually You're obligated,yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And we're not like, oh, the metrics go down if we
don't.
Whatever, man, we kind of dowhat we want to do.
So, man, like I think we're allbusier now that we're retired,
we all still got we.
We were like, hey, man, we'regoing to get out, we're all just
going to record content andmake this, see if it can
actually make enough money tosupport us, right?
Well, the problem is we allkind of got out at different
(40:09):
times and I think Aaron was thefirst one to get a regular job.
I goofed off for a little bitand then I got a job on accident
and Jared went right back toworking where he was working.
So, like we have regular jobs,we still do the podcast.
You know, we have all theseother adventures and and hustles
that we're doing, um, so we'reall super busy, but like it's a
lot of fun.
So and that's another thing aslong as it's fun, it's.
(40:30):
I think burnout is a lotfurther down the road if you're
having a good time dude, how didyou?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
how did you?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
accidentally get a job.
So I wasn't so when I retired.
It's funny because, like everyonce in a while someone will
come up to me like hey man, likeI'm coming up close to
retirement, like what should Ido?
And I'm like hold, hold up, I'mnot the guy to ask.
It looks like I did thingsbecause it all worked out for me
, but that is not how it shouldhave gone.
Like I said, my life just worksout, got out, I didn't do.
(41:04):
I didn't create a resume, Ididn't really skill bridge the
correct way.
I don't have a degree because Ienlisted, because I hate
college.
So I never understood everybodylike, oh, you should go get a
bachelor's and all these otherthings.
We had a guy like going for hismba on the podcast the other
day and I'm just like that'sgreat for you, but like it's not
for me.
Like, um, anyway, um, I was intraining for a long time.
I spent over half my career onthe training side.
I helped stand up the firstSouth T pipeline.
(41:24):
I helped stand up the specialreconnaissance pipeline and when
we built our prep course I wasthe curriculum guy for that.
So like understanding thetraining environment and the way
that we do training in the AirForce and, specifically, you
know, certain types of trainingI have a really good handle on,
accidentally Right, like it'sjust what I did and I ended up
being like the lead training guywhen I retired out of the
(41:45):
training headquarters.
So there's this company thatwas doing some contract work for
the for like basic training anda few other things for the Air
Force.
They didn't have any militaryguys on their staff.
One of my old teammates, who I'm, you know, first deployment
together type guys you know whatI mean Like we have some fun
experiences he's best friendswith one of the co-owners of the
(42:09):
company.
So this dude calls my buddy andhe's like, hey, we need some
help.
We think we might need amilitary guy, but my buddy had
already gotten a different job.
He's like and really who youshould be talking to is trent,
because he's in san antonioanyway where all that stuff's
happened.
So he just called me up.
They're like, hey, do you, doyou need a job?
Like can you help us out?
And I'm like I'll go see if Ican provide value.
Like I don't know, really knowwhat you guys are doing.
So it just jumped all the wayin the deep end, like things
(42:31):
started to go really well andthen they offered me full time
and I'm like here's my number.
They're like overwhelminglypositive, I think, about most
things.
But we do point out, you know,and that's what, what hits the
(42:51):
chains of command up to thepentagon is anytime we like
point out things that are notright.
Uh, we get a lot of attention.
So, like I I interact with someof those chains of command that
that might be sensitive to someof those things.
So I try to keep them veryseparate, you know.
So I don't, I don't say it.
Yeah, only fans.
I'll tell you, on only fans forthe ride.
(43:14):
It's just my feet and my bustedtoenails from rucking.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Give it 10 more years , I swear there's going gonna be
a military division for onlyfans.
Geez, dude, it's everywhere,dude, everywhere, every single
person.
Oh my gosh, it's yeah.
What.
What are we doing?
Like?
Why?
Why is this a thing like?
Why is it like the top out ofthe top 15 millionaires in this
(43:43):
country, like eight of them, arefrom only yes yeah, well, I
mean, that's where the money'sat.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Stop beating off, stop it's not good for you go
outside also be like I can'tafford anything, it's like, but
you're spending a lot of moneyon this person that you don't
know, just to see them indifferent states of attire, I
guess, like I don't know just doanother, but instacarting.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Fucking yeah, red bulls talkies.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
But it's just sad.
It's like is that, is thatwhere you want to be in life,
you know like yeah, as a youngman, is that what you want?
Speaker 2 (44:24):
and that's what I love about you guys.
Like you don't just talk aboutit, you're doing it and you're
helping inspire like greatness,like, and like and I know
everybody within our careerfields like it's difficult and
it's hard to like hear praisefor what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
It's no joke man.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
What you guys are doing is you're directly
fighting back against this ideathat we can't aspire to be great
.
Like within.
When guys find your page, whenthey find this to be their
calling, when they reach out andthey're joining you for one of
these live events, they'remaking a commitment to not only
to themselves and their countrylike try to be better.
(45:06):
Like the greatest thing isyou're showing them that there's
a better way to life.
There's no room for that shitto just numb out and exist, and
that's what a large part of allthis digital shit is like.
If we don't want this to takeover, we have to help amplify
and support and promote goodquality content that's helping
(45:29):
change and drive a differentnarrative.
Like this whole fucking weirdspace that we find ourselves,
where all we're doing isglorifying just that, that
self-gratification.
It's like no man like life'sabout testing yourself, life's
about going after somethingdifficult and and sucking and
persevering should have chosedifferent words from trying to
(45:51):
creategrade OnlyFans.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Just fucking persevering.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Just fucking getting down there and sucking it, man.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
How do you think I'm 87, you know Science.
That's by persevering,obviously.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
That's how I developed grit.
You see that in the back A lotof dudes in those career fields.
It's very competitive it's onlyone way of getting ahead in this
world.
Uh, but it's true, man.
Like we have to show the nextgeneration of great dudes that
like, hey, you could sit in yourparents basement and numb out
(46:30):
for the rest of your life, oryou can commit yourself to doing
something greater and andtrying to achieve something
great.
And there's no room for all thestupid bullshit on this other
side.
Come, try to do this trump.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Try, just fucking try , man, just give it a shot well,
I think the big thing is isthere's no such thing as failure
if you're trying yeah, you know, and and it's, it's like I said
, I don't care where you end up.
I care that you you pushed, Icared that you did try, I care
that you're trying to become abetter human.
(47:01):
Like we all, we've all got ourroles to play and like the big
thing we talk about regret ishell Right, and that's the
reason that resonates.
The reason people buy that flagis because you know that in
your bones that at some pointyou will be on your deathbed and
you'll be looking around andeither your kids will be there,
they won't be there.
You know like you'll be lookingat your wife, or you won't be
(47:22):
looking at your wife.
You'll be, like you know,reliving.
You know your, your highlightreel.
Uh, and I think about that likein a youtube sense, like since,
if, if I showed you yourhighlight reel of your life
right now, would you bedisappointed?
And if so, like that shouldmotivate you to go out there and
take some chances.
And if not, even if you're notsuccessful, at least it would be
(47:42):
funny.
It would be you falling on yourface over and over again, but
at least it wouldn't be nothingyeah, it just wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
You and your fucking parents basement just fucking
giving your dick.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Skin rug burns for fucking, for the 50th time, or
like my nightmare would be.
Like imagine being the personthat just listened to other
people the whole time.
I've talked to people that havegone through some of these
problems where it's like, well,my parents think like I did
everything right in school, Iwent to college, I commissioned,
like I'm doing all the rightthings, like I'm investing my
money and I'm miserable, likewhy am I miserable?
(48:16):
And it's like because you gotthe itch.
Dude.
Because the itch is notscratched by money.
The itch is not scratched bysitting in a cubicle.
The itch is not scratched bylong-term success and like check
out my portfolio.
The itch is scratched by doingthings that terrify you, that
(48:38):
are scary, that bring you realsatisfaction, by overcoming
legitimately difficult thingsand and men need that.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
They require that it's adventure man living a life
that has some something ofvalue, something to look back on
.
Like one of the greatest movies.
I love fucking.
When people have seen it, theyunderstand the importance of it.
Uh, walter mitty, the I meanit's an underrated, criminally
underrated, but the dude has ahuge problem with daydreaming
(49:03):
and it's a ben stiller playingthe, the main character, and all
he's doing is just daydreaminghis life away at a shitty job,
just daydreaming life away, andthen finally he goes on an epic
fucking adventure and that'swhat you're.
You're.
You can get that by justenlisting, but you can have a
great, wonderful adventure.
That could be the catalyst.
It doesn't have to stop onceyou get out of the military.
(49:23):
You can continue having that,that wonderful adventure and
continue doing it.
But the key to it, it has tostart.
It has to start at some pointand that's something that I
think your podcast, your videosand and the discussions you have
uh, all three of you is helpinga lot of young men realize that
, because it's one thing to readabout, it's one thing to listen
(49:45):
, but when you dial in and yousee what you can become, when
you can see it right throughthat video.
You can see an air and you cansee a train, you can see a peach
itaches like holy shit, likethis is fucking awesome yeah,
even if you don't like peachesand you do something that that's
very refreshing.
You don't dive into the muck andthe flavor of the day of
(50:10):
shitting on on things, which islike I could get 2 million views
just to make a 30 minute videoshitting on the guy to fucking
shit on for the day, whetherit's valid or not valid, but
what's the fucking value in it?
What's the fucking value in it?
Speaker 1 (50:28):
We're not making anything better that way Like
there's, there's like theinitial, like people should not
be profiting off certain things,and I get it.
But once it's done, it's likenow you're just now, you're just
chasing fame or numbers orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
It's stupid.
And then and then the, thethere's.
There's the, the core personthat brings up the grievance,
and maybe two or three valid.
They've studied it, they'reunderstanding what they're
talking about.
Do we need the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, the
ninth, the 20th fucking persondiving into negativity and and
an echo chamber of guys arealready suffering and people are
(51:05):
already suffering looking torally and and shit on something,
some more like no, that's whatI love about you guys, you've
never been about that and youcontinue like when you call
something out, it's directly inline with something that needs
to change.
It needs to be addressed, notsomething from pop culture or a
figure like look, I like alexjones, but if I sat in my office
and just fucking sat in thatheadspace, I probably wouldn't
(51:28):
be here.
I probably would be here becauseall I'm seeing there's like
more fucking negative shit, moresad shit, and we need to combat
it.
And, by the way, we can do itright now, in this day and age,
by putting good shit out thereand sticking to what we're good
at.
Sticking to, like promotinggood informational shit.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Well, and change is possible, Right, and that's I
try sometimes.
I'll get on there and I'll belike I'll get on there and I'll
be like I'm just going to burnthis, this dude, to the ground,
and I can't do it Like it's.
Like I'm like, do you know,what the best thing would be is,
even if I'm calling somebodyout or I'm I'm giving advice to
like a one of the air forceorganizations that we think
messed up, or something.
It's like hey guys, you havethe opportunity to change your
(52:06):
direction, like it's not toolate to change, and I think that
that's one of those was likethere's no such things.
The illusion of permanence, youknow, gets everybody, and who
you are today is not who youhave to be tomorrow, and all
that other stuff, and whetherthat's your organization, with
sitting inside of it sometimesespecially the military well,
maybe not especially, but likeyou're seeing that these giant
bureaucratic organizationsyou're like, well, this is just
(52:26):
the way it is, that's.
That's categorically false.
There's no such thing aspermanent, because we're humans
and we can make changes.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Absolutely, man, dude .
That's, that's the truth.
Yeah, and you gotta have hope,man.
Like, one of the greatestthings I ever learned was
relating bad leaders and badsituations to like being being
on a wave, like you're riding ahighway wave, good leadership,
and then it crashes down.
(52:56):
Now you're just like fucking,you're sucking and you're having
a bad day, a bad week, badmonth, leadership, shit.
And it's like look man,everything has a timeline, even
these guys.
Figure out your happy place,figure out how to fucking get
positive and know that theseguys are going to be out of
office.
They're going to move, they'regoing to freaking, get the next
position.
The next guy will come andthey're fucking, you'll ride a
(53:18):
high, you'll get back on there.
Get back on your fuckingsurfboard and ride another great
wave.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Like things will get better there's so much
opportunity for creativity whenyou have a bad leader like in
charge of like a squadron or anorganization to see what you can
get away with you know, like,like find me a worthy opponent,
you know, to see what you canget away with.
You know like, find me a worthyopponent, you know, to see what
I can get away with.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
You can do it, yeah look for the good in it in every
situation, except for GeneralBarr.
Fine, that guy, except for thatguy.
Yeah, no, that's rough, thatdude.
I had an encounter with thatguy.
How and why I should have hadan encounter with that guy makes
no fucking sense.
You see, I'll wrap it up withthis story, all right, how much
(53:58):
I I dislike?
Well, we're not on one's ready,so I can say this, and this is
not reflective view of anybodyon one's ready tony, I love you.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
I'm saying just me, like you're not overweight at
all, tony.
This is not reflective of theone's ready opinions you're?
Speaker 2 (54:11):
you're a fat, sloppy, garbage human being.
I went to korea as an e7 starin first class, denny caballero,
with two other green bravesfrom seventh group.
We got ordered to go there tosupport sock core, to support
(54:32):
seven special forces groupfollowing.
They had a mission.
We went there to train withKorean partners because at the
time, in the first Trumpadministration, there was a big
feeling that Rocket man wasgoing to get fucking.
You know he was going to try toget crazy.
So we went there.
This dude pulls us into hisoffice.
(54:52):
Mind you, we're E7s and one ofour guys is an e6.
We are not officers.
We don't have great strategicunder like.
We have our orders, we have ourunderstanding, we have our
guidance, we have our mission.
This is what we're doing here.
This man is an all-powerful,all-knowing senior officer.
(55:14):
He knows, while we're there,this dude has us in his office
for like over an hour justberating us as to why we're
there and eventually I'm justlike I didn't.
I didn't make this decision, Ididn't buy a plane ticket to fly
(55:35):
here.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
I was told hey dude, you see the word on the top,
it's called orders.
These are called orders.
These are stripes.
They say I do.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
Like I don't know what you expect out of this.
Like you're right, I'm about topack my bags, I'm going to
leave.
It's just like just fuckingsitting here, like flexing his
chubby fucking cheeks, and justlike fucking sitting there, like
he had such a protruding balletdude it was.
I'm like do you, do you not dolike PT test dog?
(56:07):
Like this is like big oldcountry, big.
For the rest of the time theywere just big country, big
country.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
How did you spell country.
Just a question.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
I know, I know the answer yeah, yeah, seeing that
dude take his um walk of shame,that was nice.
I was like, bro, like I don'tknow what to tell you here, like
I'm having a good time.
Kimchi's good, koreanbarbecue's awesome.
Like if you have any problems,you can take that out of my boss
.
He always went out of his wayto be a complete arrogant fuck.
(56:41):
I'm like, bro, chill, it'sKorea.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
How about you call your army counterpart like my
boss's boss's boss's boss andyou discuss this with them?
Speaker 2 (56:50):
All the things he said he wasn't going to allow us
to do.
You're not going to use myequipment for you and the very
next day, like he was in redside to send everything up, hi,
is this computer open?
We're going to do it.
Yeah, sorry, thanks, bigcountry.
And he's a real sweetheart.
(57:12):
You know what I mean.
He's the fucking worst man.
I hope he's a real sweetheart.
You know what I mean.
He's uh, he's the fucking worstman, I hope.
I hope he's fucking miserable.
I just I hope someday he's asfat as ben stiller at the end of
um fucking uh, dodgeball.
Oh geez, yeah, dude, justthinking about that we're making
me about now.
(57:32):
I'll put it up here, maybe.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
I would also be miserable if I was like 50
pounds overweight.
You know, just carrying itaround every day knowing I don't
need to, because I could juststop shoving crap in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
I could just make a decision, big country, how about
this?
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because if we can improve ourphysical fitness, we can improve
our mental fitness.
That's what we're here forbecause, ladies and gentlemen,
contrary to popular belief, noone's coming to save you.
Still, qrf, it's just us, justthe team One's ready Security
(58:27):
Hall, all your friends that youput together in your little
virtual LGOP, little groups ofparatroopers.
That's how we're going to getout of this fight.
That's how we're going to helpcurb and hopefully end veteran
suicide by sticking together anddoing the things that work.
One of the easiest things wecan do is just get up and work
out whether it's a walk, a jog,going to the gym for a bro
workout or go to that CrossFitgym and trying that out for a
(58:50):
little bit.
I mean, I won't make fun of you.
I'll be there to support you.
I want you to be here.
I want you to stay here.
Why?
Because this country is onlygoing to improve if we can keep
more veterans involved.
If we can get you better, wecan get you fitter.
Then maybe you can take up moreresponsibility.
Maybe you'll be willing to joinyour local community and help
serve on student councilanywhere.
Do anything that can give ourveterans more responsibility to
(59:12):
help turn the tide of what we'reseeing in this country, which
is a lot of lacklusterleadership.
You know, I don't want to seethe next few years of our
country continue going the wayit is.
It's awesome for memes, butit's horrible for our mental
health and for our spirit decor.
So join us in the Project ForceChallenge.
Be willing to get out, andevery month I'm going to be
(59:33):
giving something away until I'mbankrupt.
Or my wife says stop it.
And uh, ladies and gentlemen,she hasn't told me to stop yet.
Wish there was a joke to makeabout that.
My wife outranks me, so I won'tsay anything more because she's
still in I can't I can't thankyou enough for being here, man.
Speaker 1 (59:48):
It's been a blast dude, yeah, I appreciate it.
Been watching your stuff for along time and you're a legend
bro.
Speaker 2 (59:54):
Dude.
Thank you so much, man.
It truly means a lot.
I started this thing to helpour boys and gals and I continue
to do this because I know, atleast to those out there
suffering and going through it,at least the memes and maybe a
couple tidbits I say here andthere resonates.
So the mission continues.
Man, If people want to checkyou out to see the podcast,
(01:00:16):
where can they go?
Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
just one's ready at one's ready, one's readycom.
We're all over except fortiktok.
We won't do tiktok becausewe're not communists don't do it
, don't fucking do it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I regret I ever did it.
Um, it hurts my heart.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Uh, yeah, that was like a tasty games moment, you
know.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yeah yeah, it's exactly.
It's just as useful as tastygames just a mouthful of cum,
that's all it is pandas.
It's worthless.
Do me a favor if you'relistening right now, go ahead
and pause.
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Follow them, subscribe to them.
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So so you know they're doingbetter.
They're doing good.
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I'm Danny Caballero.
Thank you all for tuning in andwe'll see you all next time.
Till then, take care.
I like this the whole just do a live thing.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It makes me more comfortable oh yeah, dude, fuck
that, like fuck that.
This is a teen room environment.
You walked in, sat down, we didsome dick jokes, got out of the
system.
Now we're doing hard ballquestions Kill one, marry one,
fuck one.
Hillary Clinton, michelle Obamaand our girl, nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I mean suicide and option here.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
It's a Kobayashi Maru , exactly.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I'm not Captain.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kirk.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I can't fix this.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Oh man, Trying to take another.
Welcome to GearDog podcast.
How's it going, man?
It's this.
Oh man, Trent Tegmiller,welcome to the Gear Podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
How's it going, man?
It's good, it's good.
I'm happy to be here.
I have to say, before we startand I know this is your podcast
and I get wordy Everyone knowswho you are in the space and
everybody says amazing thingsabout you.
You're a fantastic human.
I feel like I just got to getthat out of the way.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
In the beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Dude.
That means a lot, man.
I have very few rules where itcomes to this and I tell
everybody I'm a dog shitentrepreneur.
The business side I just worknonstop and the one axiom I
always whether it's a detrimentto my own business endeavors is
do good for everybody, everybody, that everybody comes across.
(01:24):
You help them out as much asyou can, more so than what you
ever received, and just try topay that forward.
And, yeah, it's if.
If anybody's listening from abusiness standpoint, they're
like that's stupid.
Why would you give somebodyelse keys to success like you're
an idiot?
I'm like well, I want to knowthat at the end of the day, I
(01:46):
don't feel bad because I was anasshole.
I don't want to be that creepthat was like oh, you're a dick,
like dude.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Gatekeeping is hella fucking gay so it's like do you
want people to show up to yourfuneral, or you want a really
fancy casket?
You know like which one do youwant?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I want people to come by and hang out.
Um, chances are my funeral isgoing to be a fanfare, quite the
fanfare.
I'm going to use the same rules, the same language that I had
in my pause packet, thewonderful piece of documentation
you had to have before everydeployment.
I'm going to use the same thingsame things I used there,
(02:24):
unbeknownst to my wife.
I'm going to use the same thingSame things I use there.
I'm going to host my wife.
I want the exact same sort ofthing.
So it'll be a very beach casualaffair and I have hired a few
people to show up forentertainment.
Yeah, there'll be random peoplethat show up and they will have
wonderful things to say andsome not so wonderful, and it's
(02:44):
up to you, the guest, to decideif it's real or not.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Figure it out Now.
I'm intrigued.
I want to be there.
I'm going to start taking careof myself, just in hopes that I
outlive you.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Trent, it's not going to be that hard.
Three, four years max.
The amount of stress andworkload I'm under.
I'm not long for this earth,you just got to increase your
caffeine intake.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's all it is.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
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I'm not sponsored by c4 it's just all press is good
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Speaker 1 (04:24):
First of all, I feel a little bit of attacks about
the couch comment, you know whatI mean.
I'm sitting right here.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's one thing I realized man, for all of us,
dude, like we get out, couchsyndrome attacks everybody, no
one's.
A few guys are like fucking100% committed, but for a lot of
us they have surgeries andaches and pains.
Like, oh yeah, I'll sit on thecouch for a while.
Before you know it, you're 340pounds eating Haagen-Dazs,
mainlining fucking candies andcakes.
And then you're like, oh fuck,I don't feel good.
Well, because you don't look orfeel like you used to.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
No, bro, it's because I was in the military, not
because for the last five yearsI've been eating like horrible
stuff and not moving.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm going to put the clip in here, but there's a
video of this mom feeding her400 pound, 16 year old kid
breakfast and it's like you wantfour waffles.
He said yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Have you got more sausage yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
You want more syrup yeah.
Jesus Christ, dude, you'reloving that kid to death and I
don't want that to happen to you.
So get off the couch, go workout for a little bit.
It is dude, but like fuckingseeing Aaron and you guys
fucking rallying the nextgeneration of great special
(05:44):
operations service members, dude, like that's motivating us fuck
, even just for the guys likemyself.
Like fucking trying to achievethe body of a, you know,
slightly non retarded 40something year old man, like it
is, it is empowering to see ourguys back at it.
So I wanted to be a part of itand encourage everybody to do it
, man, because nobody wants tobe a part of it.
(06:06):
And encourage everybody to doit, man, because nobody wants to
be the guy that talks about whohe used to be.
At least we shouldn't, weshouldn't be the guy that's like
, oh, I used to be this.
It's like, look, I don't want tolook like the 25 year old
version of me, shredded withdick skin.
Like that's just not going tobe me.
Shredded with dick skin.
Like that's just not gonna beme.
(06:26):
Like I don't want to do thatshit like revenge body is good.
The only time I had likefucking shredded body was like
the revenge body afterdeployment.
Everybody, you know what I'mtalking about.
Yeah, I'll even put the pictureof the pool.
Yeah, yeah, there we go.
Look at this, look at this sexyman right there.
That's not ideal when you're 40, but I want to lift hard, I
want to run hard, I want to dogreat shit, because that's not
ideal when you're 40, but I wantto lift hard, I want to run
hard, I want to do great shitbecause that's the community we
live in, man, and and that'ssomething that you guys are
(06:49):
inspiring.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Dude, I think the other day you posted, um, it was
uh, the um, the recent trainingevent you guys were doing, yeah
, and that shit was cool as fuckman that is fucking awesome,
aaron, like post, like his bodyfat percentage and all of his
stuff in our group chat andwe're like, come on, man, like
I'm just over here trying to benot injured, mostly like I don't
want to be a fatty, but alsolike, come on, it's like nine
(07:13):
percent body fat.
He's like, yeah, 45, ninepercent body fat, 200 pounds,
whatever.
I probably memorized that alittle more than I should have
not it's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's fine.
Neither here nor there.
I don't have a full-sizepicture of him in my bathroom.
I don't, I don't my wife.
She thinks it's normal, she'suh yeah, look, some people need
something different to train.
I need something different.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You have pre-workout.
I have a picture of iron.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, it's the samesies oh man, dude, I want to
.
I want to dive into yourjourney, man, like I've.
I've heard about aaron's, I'veheard about peaches.
I want to know your journey,how we got here?
Like, how did you find your wayinto this fucking phenomenal
community?
(08:00):
I was like, look I get it.
Navy seals, green berets, hugedicks, amazing.
But there's a reason why some ofmy best friends are from the
air force special operations.
You guys are built different.
The camaraderie is different,the brotherhood's different.
Like you, take one of us out ofa fight, okay.
(08:21):
Like I can live without an 18echo.
Let it be the junior I can'tlive with.
I can't live without my fuckingcct, my tack p's, my, my pjs.
Like you guys are fuckingphenomenal.
Like even our you know ourspecial reconnaissance dudes.
Like everybody clowns on them.
But the first time I met one Iwas blown away by the
(08:42):
professionalism and how fuckingawesome the guy was.
So like your community man.
Like, if you don't get enough,like take a bow, because you
guys are fucking phenomenal dudeno, it's, it is one of those
things where I wake up on aregular.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
So I was at a retirement ceremony this morning
from you know, a certified, youknow combat control, war hero
type and uh, just the dudes.
And I saw my wife when I gothome.
I'm like, yeah, like this dude,mike, was coming up and talking
to me and like sometimes I juststep back and I'm like why is
this dude, my friend?
You know, like how did I get tothis place in life where this
is like a normal interaction forme, like I'm still just me,
(09:19):
like I'm here on accident guys,like I fell into this accident,
like none of this was supposedto happen.
But now it's, you know, likeyou know you're just friends
with all these people andthey're amazing humans and it.
You know, one of the things Ithink that happens when you
retire or get close toretirement or maybe should, is
like I started to come on thislike let's like gratitude tour.
You know, like it's wild andit's there's like a green beret
(09:42):
restaurant, uh, owned restaurant.
Uh, wild, and it's there's likea green beret restaurant, uh,
owned restaurant.
Uh, uh, just still notdistillery.
What's the other one brewery,brewery in san antonio?
And like it's crazy that I canwalk into that place and see
some of my friends on the wallthe green berets and everybody
else right, because everyonewalking in there, the hold, all
the walls are covered with allthe team pictures and everybody
looks the same downrange it'sbeards.
(10:03):
Uh, dcus that turned into otherthings and as no one wanted to
wear the actual digi army camoever we never.
The pants were comfortable, butthey were like pajamas.
They'd rip after one up but um,but it's crazy being able to
walk in there and actually pickout teams that I, that I
deployed with and like I knowthose guys and it's like man, if
you're not grateful for beingable to hang out in this
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community, I don't know whatyou're doing, because it's
amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It truly is and something that I understand.
We never speak of ourselves asthe greatest and there's only a
handful of individuals that dothat, and that should be a
warning sign.
Like I remember having earlplumley on the show at no point
(10:51):
did he ever speak of himself aslike the great I mean, this is a
medal of honor recipient.
Yeah, like this dude was sohumble and and this and the way
he talked, the way he cameacross, is like it's everybody
else was there, everything else,the situation, like I, I, I was
able to do something insanethat I'm now a recipient of this
(11:17):
, our nation's highest militaryaward, but that doesn't make me
better than the, than thecollective, and that's that's
the thing that I realized.
Like, okay, we need to, we needto understand and we need to
all be willing to say, like man,like we serve with giants, we
serve.
Like the best aspects of us are, the guys are no longer here.
Those are the guys that took itall the way, all the way to the
(11:38):
fucking end, and it sucks, butthe guys are still around here,
are still better than me.
Like, fuck, dude, like I was, uh, I was a good single mom as a
warrant officer.
That's, that's what I realized.
Like that's I'm.
I'm a good.
I'm good at being a good singlemom.
It's not a fucking greatestthing out there.
I was just a guy.
I could do some spreadsheets, Icould do some cool stuff, but I
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was a good single mom.
When you see me write a bookabout my accolades, please shoot
me in the fucking face.
Like that's how that's thereality.
Like the stories we shareshould always be highlighting
the greatness around us.
And yeah, like we got to bearound some great people, but
like I think our collectivecommunity is now seeing the
(12:22):
repercussions of these selectfew guys are just made
themselves larger than life andit's just like fuck it.
Like some people can pass youcan pass that along to some
people, but eventually it'sgoing to catch up to you, man.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Well, civilians are pretty easy to fool too, you
know, and they don't know, andthey're just.
The thing is is that most ofthe civilians that enable the
greatest, greatest degree ofthat, they're trying to do the
right thing.
They're the, you know, there'sa lot of people with a lot of
money.
They were like I never servedand I want to give back and I
want to help and I want topromote this, this.
You know, this dude or peoplethat that did these things
(12:56):
supposedly um, and so it's, oh,it's, you know, paved with the
best of intentions, and then itall blows up, like I did again
recently.
You know, like there's like apile of dudes on that, that heap
of of whatever.
Yeah, it's like a seasonalthing.
Yeah, it is like every season,it's like get your generator,
(13:18):
get ready.
It's about to be stolen valorseason or it's just like guys
that present themselves to besomething that they are not.
You know.
It's like, oh, like I'm afamily man and all this other
stuff.
It's like, oh, yeah yeah, Iguess not.
You know, I've been to shot showand I avoid certain parties for
reasons because I'm happilymarried and it's a priority of
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mine to stay that way.
And I'm not saying I'm the bestlooking guy or anything else
like that, but like man, you gotto be pretty dumb that to not
realize the situations thatyou're putting yourself into
yeah, you know, I've never,never been to shot show, but man
, I've heard some stories.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Um, yeah, stupid, it's like it was this like
mythical thing when, when I wasstill active duty, like early on
, like you would hear storiesabout like, oh, shot show's
coming around, they're gonnagive a select few tickets to
some of the the green braids togo.
I guess that was a thing I Inever, never, never got grace
(14:14):
for that, but it's like likethat's such a weird thing, like
that's a part of it, that's anindustry, that's an industry
thing.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Like shot show 2026, like I don't know, dude, dude, I
only went once, I'm, I'm nevergoing back.
It's, it's exhausting.
There's so many people and even, just like you know, it is kind
of cool because you can wanderaround and people recognize you
every once in a while, which isawkward, but it's like, hey,
cool, like because we're allthere, but, dude, like some of
the parties and all the you know, like just the, the, the open
(14:44):
debauchery and the amount ofmoney that that enables, and
it's just like this is gross.
You know, like that's not whatI'm about.
So cool, never going back.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I can only imagine what Sig will be bringing to
SHOT Show for 2026 body bags theSig VR body bags, the same VR
experience.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Shoot your fucking dick off they're gonna come out
with like a tourniquet, they'regonna be like so free, free,
yeah just in case, guys.
I mean, it's totally safe, it'sfine, don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
It happens so many other guns.
You're just not hearing aboutit.
Oh man, yeah I am.
I'm glad I got rid of all mysigs.
I still have one um, which Iwon't be taken to the range
anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's like an annabelle doll.
You like put it in like alittle case.
You're like don't look at it,don't look at it.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
It might, just won't be.
Dude, every other gun I havegets taken out.
You like friggin trade with dryfire, with like, take her
around with that one.
I'm like, and I remember themindset too, the, the fucking
mindset I had, but I mean, it'sa new sidearm for for the army,
I gotta buy it I'm like jeez godI gotta go there again, and
(16:08):
there I am.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
But you know, the army come on like you.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You should know better dude, I should have known
on my fuck yeah, dude, fuckinghuge boner on my end, fucking
nerd I was.
Yeah, I gotta get the best one.
The tactical edition.
It comes in RMR.
Fuck yeah, brother mags.
Yeah, coyote tan, coyote tan,yeah yeah, fucking idiot now.
(16:38):
Now you can't fucking sell it,you can't pawn it.
It you can't pawn it.
How do I know?
Because, trust me, I tried.
I got wind of this shit earlyon.
I was like, alright, I'm goingto get rid of this.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I don't know what a budsgunscom to buy a Denny's Sig
.
There it is.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Just going to shoot myself in the dick.
One of these days, my memory'sgonna get the best of me.
I'm gonna forget about it.
I'm gonna do some training.
Just got into rage.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's how you go that would be the worst oh my
god, dude.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
But yeah, you know you're um, you guys are huge and
the fact that you do getrecognized like that's got to be
a trip, right, yeah yeah, it'suncomfortable, like I'm not, I'm
not good at it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
it's because aaron and I were talking about this
the other day and we we went outto like a beach training event
that was put on by like the, theair force recruiters.
Yeah, at the end of it.
So aaron and I were like thespecial guests or whatever.
We ran them through someexercise, we were out there with
them and at the end of it, soAaron and I were like the
special guests or whatever.
We ran them through someexercise and we were out there
with them and at the end of itwe did kind of like a Q and a.
You know like gave her a littlespeeches.
There's a giant group of kidsnot kids, you know, young people
looking and thinking aboutjoining the air force, and we're
(17:52):
like you may have any questionsand they're like no, and we
like turn around and walk backto the hotel.
We were at dinner and Aaronlike looks up and he's like
those kids probably wantedpictures with us and I was like
oh man, that didn't even occurto me, you know cause, I'm just
me.
You know, like we're still justdudes.
It takes so long, it's taken usso long to like figure out that
(18:15):
, like maybe someone wantspictures.
Like if I'm downtown SanAntonio and someone recognizes
me, my wife is like, do you wanta picture?
You know?
Like because I'll forget, or orI'm socially uncomfortable
anyway, because it's just aweird situation.
But yeah, uh, yeah, so it's,it's a good thing, right,
because it is.
I could complain about it, butI I actively do it to to make it
happen I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'm bringing in metrics right now because I want
to brag on you guys.
It is rewarding to see goodpeople reach insane success.
You guys have a listen score of55 and you have a global
(19:02):
ranking of 0.5 percent.
What does that mean?
It means that out of themillions of podcasts because
they every, even if they haven'tbeen taken down, they still get
up, still get measured you guyshave the same impact and same
reach as some is like some ofthe bigger fucking podcasts out
there that we, we talk about andand they make all the fucking
headlines on social media.
Fucking podcasts out there thatwe talk about and they make all
(19:22):
the fucking headlines on socialmedia and that is insane.
On a good note, like, you'reright up there with softcast.
Actually, you're higher thansoftcast.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, suck it, softcast yeah, fuck you guys, I
wish you hadn't told me like inmy mind it is still.
You know like, you know how,like in my mind it's still just
like a thing that I get togetherwith on saturday and sometimes
sunday mornings with my bros andwe chit, chat and we get to
meet cool guests and it's likethe numbers become meaningless.
You know, like your first like5 000 subscribers or whatever,
(19:51):
we're like holy crap, bro,that's amazing.
And now it's whatever it's at.
But I don't think about it, youknow like that's why you're so
fucking awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
That's why like about it.
You know like.
That's why you're so fuckingawesome.
That's why like.
That's why it's they say thatwhen you lose the, the love for
it, and you start worrying aboutthe ad revenue, you're worried
about the proper placement of Igotta put this in front of the
camera so the sponsors see itlike it kills it.
And when you no longer have theauthentic interaction between
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the co-hosts, that also killsthe show.
But from like day one, thething that's awesome about you
guys is you haven't lost that.
When you tune in to listen orwatch, you have the same
interactions and it's not likeyou can clearly see like, like.
I love the guys from gosh.
What's workaholics great showbut that's not who you're
(20:46):
getting when you're listening tothem on a show anymore.
They're way too fucking big andHollywood and all that.
It's not the individuals andit's not the characters.
You're not a character.
Peaches isn't a character.
You're not a character.
Peaches isn't a character.
Aaron isn't a character.
You're getting the sameauthentic people that you would
actually meet in person on thepodcast and I think that
(21:09):
resonates not only with thewider audience but for those
young men that are wanting toget into this career field.
They know that, oh shit, likethey're talking just like me and
my friends talk like this isdoable.
There's a lot of specialoperators out there and prior
military guys that when they geton a podcast it's not the same,
(21:30):
it's you got to get real closeto the mic.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Gotta get close to the mic let me tell you
something.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I wake up at 2 am.
Every fucking morning I wake up.
I look at that picture of meand bennett samuel bin lad say
not today.
And the reason being is becauseevery day I get up I kill him.
Yeah, no, not physically, butevery day I wake up and I make
the mind connection that I'mkilling him.
I have to see that enemy, Ihave to get in there.
I got to put myself in thatmindset.
(21:55):
You know, 2 am comes, I got tobe ready to kill him.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Wow, my Krav Maga.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
It's brought to you by Tasty Gains, best creatine
out there.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Dude, they sent me a bunch of stuff.
I think Tasty Gains is one ofour sponsors.
Now I'm fucking with your money.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I'm sorry, dog.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It's fine.
It's funny because we saw oneof the YouTube videos of some
British dude going throughcreatine gummies and being like
this doesn't actually havecreatine in it.
So we were like, hey guys, canyou send us the lab reports on
the creatine gummies to makesure they actually have creatine
in them?
I mean, I like them, but thisis one of those things that
shows up at the door and you'relike yeah, okay, your life, yeah
, Okay, yeah, it's come to findout, it's 100% come so is it non
(22:45):
human, because?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
shit.
That's why the texture is sogummy we only accept pandas,
okay.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh, my God dude, I don't know if you know how
famous, I am but if this iskoala, I swear no no, uh, you
(23:24):
have to understand something.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Do want to know the origin story, man.
I do want to know the originstory.
How did all this begin for youguys?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
I like to go back to the beginning.
Actually, the guy whoseretirement was today it's his
fault and I always remind him ofit that I I do anything on
camera because I was.
I was just like everybody else.
Remember, like you know, likeearly GY, like I joined in 03,
first deployment 06, what yada,yada, but it's like very much no
internet, no social media.
We're all secret squirrels,blah, blah, blah and um and I, I
(23:55):
get in 2015, I get stationed inSan Antonio and uh, so I was a
weather guy.
Then it became sr, we were grayberets.
So I'm like when I say gray hat, I mean myself and it's a very,
very small career field, sothere's only so many gray hats
around.
And this guy, who's a uh stow, aspecial tactics officer he was.
He was kind of like leading thecharge on this commercial that
we were making, um, and he comesup to me.
(24:17):
He's like trent, I, uh, I needto be in this commercial and I
was like, come on, dog, like Idon't do that, and he's like but
you're the guy, like you'regonna, we're gonna put you on
camera.
So he talked me into it and sothat was the kind of like the
genesis of me being comfortableor like I had no choice after
that, like my name, my rank, myjob, me talking on camera for a
(24:38):
commercial that did fairly well,um, that went out everywhere.
Um, so like I was like okay.
So then the recruiter startedto come to me.
They're like, ah, like peoplehave questions about this stuff,
can you do like a facebook livething?
And I'm like fine, this was.
But it got me into like thatmindset of like recruiting and
looking into that stuff.
And, um, so, uh, there werefour of us originally, um b,
(25:00):
aaron, jared and myself.
So Brian called me one day andhe was already doing this PJ
thing and I'd been on his thingonce how to be a PJ and all that
.
And after we did that he waslike, dude, you want to just do
a podcast?
I have a controller and anotherPJ that already said yes.
And I was like you know, likeokay, I couldn't think of a good
reason not to.
And I wanted to put somecorrect messaging out there
(25:23):
Because, like you said,everybody knows Green Berets,
seals, rangers, the Marines,marsoc.
People probably don't understandthe difference between, like
Recon, marines, marsoc and theMarines.
Necessarily it gets a littlemuddy.
But I wanted people to know,because I wanted, uh, I, I the
career field had given me somuch.
Like I said, I was here onaccident, it was.
(25:44):
I was at that point in mycareer where I had open eyes, I
understood the opportunitiesthat were in front of me, I was
starting to understand thepeople that I was associating
with, and so I felt like notonly was it a good idea, but I
felt a responsibility, uh to toget out there and, you know, do
my part.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Fuck yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So yeah, so it ended up just being the three of us.
But yeah, now it's just, I getto talk to my two best friends
every weekend, and that'sawesome.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You make it sound so fucking horrible.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
My life is.
I don't know If this comesacross.
I try to be like a little bitof sarcasm.
I try to bring a little bit ofmy like cadre, uh persona to uh,
to the podcast every once in awhile.
But man, I'm, like uh, just apretty happy-go-lucky guy.
Things work out for me.
And even if they don't work out, then like that wasn't meant to
be so, like why worry about it?
Let's move forward.
You know, like who cares?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
that's the exact attitude you need for any
fucking pipeline, any sort ofselection.
I constantly like have peopleon the inbox like I didn't
understand it too, because likethe whole thing, the whole
mission I set on to, is talkabout mental health, highlight,
recovery, transition, but peopleI never.
I just underestimated, you know, putting that up there and then
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putting what I used to do,because young man will find that
and they'll ask how did I getto selection, what work do I
need to do?
What should my two mile time be?
And it's like fuck, what arethe best boots for selection,
bro?
I listened to that episodewhere the guy was talking about
being addicted to crack cocainewhile he was in the military,
anyways.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Seven Troop is wild.
I'm just saying Seven Troop.
Anyways, how should I?
Seven Group is wild.
I'm just saying Seven Group isa wild place.
The.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Cowboys Segway into the recent interview of Hunter
Biden while he was just zootedout of his mind on coke.
Weird, holy shit, thatinterview.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I mean, he just leaves that stuff lying around,
you know his eyeballs in thatinterview, like who let that man
on?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
who let that man on?
I digress back to the previousuh question and situation.
Yeah, the guys are alwaysasking like what I need to do as
far as workouts and it's like,dude, you need to work on your
mindset and the ability to saylike, okay, today was a bad day,
tomorrow's gonna be better.
I gotta move forward.
Like the amount of people I'vemet that self-selected well, I
(28:04):
did bad on this, so I just I, II'm gonna go.
Like they didn't come talk toyou, dog, I just keep going.
I would just keep moving likedon't pull you out, don't
self-select so.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
So even to become a south tea back in the day
special operations weather guywas super, super easy.
But like I had people because Ihad to be regular weather first
before I could cross over I hadpeople in the military telling
me that they didn't think that Iwas what the special operations
community was looking for.
And so if you don't alreadyhave it in your head, if you
haven't already made thatdecision and you're willing to
(28:37):
take that kind of ridiculousinput, then yeah, go ahead and
self-select out.
Because like they're like ohwell, you're skinny, you're like
150 pounds, blah, blah, blah.
I don't think that.
You know, I don't have tattoos.
At the time I didn't even cuss.
You know, like I was a real boyscout.
Uh, on the outside, on theinside, it was a different story
.
Um, but you know what I mean,but like I would.
But have people be like I don'tthink you're, you know what
(28:58):
they mean, but like I would.
Have people be like I don'tthink you're, you know what
they're looking for.
Come to find out they were allwrong, you know, and I'm not
like the golden child.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I wasn't like amazing , but like I was enough of what
they were looking for to stickaround for 20 years career
devoted to the special you know,devoted to the Air Force,
devoted to our military, to our,to our American citizens, being
of service to a great nation.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And you're still serving, but you're still doing
something that is promotinggreat ideals and helping guys
achieve their dreams.
Is that lost on you?
I get kind of.
I mean, I, I want to givepeople the opportunity of choice
.
You know, um, the there arefolks that would probably make
(29:49):
better pararescue guys thangreen berets, you know.
And if just giving them moreoptions, where, when that thing
happens, where it speaks to youlike when I got that briefing
from that dude in the gray hatand I'm like instantly fell in
love with another man and wantedto do that thing, when I got
that briefing from that dude inthe gray hat and I'm like
instantly fell in love withanother man and wanted to do
that thing and made up my mindin that moment that that's what
I wanted to do.
You know what I mean?
Like, yeah, I was like you hearthe thing and you're like boom,
like I was supposed to do that,like that's my path, I'm going
(30:15):
to do that moment.
It's it's.
You know, if you say no, it'slike people will be like oh, hey
, then listen to the podcast.
I decided to become, you know,a ranger.
Instead, we're like hell, yeah,brother.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, cool, they're apologizing.
Dear Trent, aaron and Peaches,after successfully listening to
all seasons at every episode, Imust confess I will not be going
into the Air Force SpecialOperations Pipeline.
Instead, I will be going intothe Army as an 88 Mike.
(30:49):
For a long time I've lovedmechanics.
I have loved engines,combustion and torque.
Hey, cool man, you don't oweanybody, that's, it's fine,
that's fine.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I don't care if you join the air force.
You don't even try out forspecial warfare.
I don't care.
Like do something that you wantto do, dude, like chase that
thing that when you hear it itsounds like and it feels like
the thing that you're supposedto do, which sounds like woo,
woo and all that other stuff.
But I'm a big believer in whenthe moment happens in your life
and you feel the pull, don't sayno, don't, don't say no, like
(31:29):
it's going to be scary.
It's supposed to be scary,otherwise you know it wouldn't
be worth anything.
But just just do it and don'tlisten to all the other crap and
don't worry about your badworkouts, don't worry about any
of that stuff.
Don't worry about how you don'thave enough money to buy the
running shoes that you want orwhatever else.
Just go do it, make it happen.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, not enough people are talking about that,
not enough people arechampioning that idea to our
young men.
And, yeah, young women, I getit, but I specifically say young
men, because that's who we needto rely on, large, largely,
when it comes to these careerfields, when it comes to combat
and and fuck man, like we livein a in a world right now that
(32:12):
the vast majority of your media,of the people that have an
audience, are telling you thatbeing a driven, hard charging
young man is, is bad, toxicmasculinity, you're not needed,
we don't want you.
We want you to be docile.
And it's like, fuck dude, likepush away from the safety of
home, push away from the harbor.
Like I feel so bad that both mynephews like they're young men
(32:37):
and they're not like one of themdecided to join up and before
he enlisted, he, he asked me,he's like oh, what, what should
I do for special operations?
I'm like, well, you shouldn'tunless it's something you really
want to do and if you're reallycommitted to that, really
honestly, seek out the guidanceof your family and the closest
people in your life and ask themwhat they really think about
(32:57):
you.
If they say that you're selfish, if they say that you're not
mature, if they say that you'reselfish, if they say that you're
not mature, if they say thatyou can't be counted on, like
those will be hard things tolisten to or they should be.
There should be hard critiques.
Then you should ask yourselfwhat you're going to do in order
to right those wrongs and thenstart working on those
attributes.
First, to be dependable, to be aperson of integrity.
(33:18):
Work on that.
You're 18.
You can work on that.
It's not too late.
Then enlist, and don't enlistinto a career field that's safe.
Don't go into S1.
And I'm not trying to bashpeople in the administrative
fields.
They still create great humanbeings and great leaders.
But what I'm saying is like ifwe could just empower and give
people the idea that they canachieve more and at least give
(33:42):
plant that seed in their head,we're going to get great people,
no matter where they go.
My nephew did the completeopposite of that.
He went National Guard and wentS1 and cried and was a complete
, worthless piece of shit, justhorrible to even be.
No kidding dude.
Yeah, I'm deployed.
You're in Kuwait, you're insidedeployment, it's not the same,
(34:05):
not the same.
So yeah, by and large he is uma fucking chode, but um, hey, I
guess, guess we need more ofthose love you and all your
chode chode friends yeah, heimmediately did like everything.
You're not supposed to got agirl knocked up, fucking wet s1.
He complains about fucking bcyeah he does, yeah, yeah, yeah,
(34:35):
he's uh.
Wherever you are, I hope life'snot good for you bud but like
if.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
But here's the thing, though, is if.
If he was like, hey, man, I'mgonna join the national guard, I
have a plan, like I'm gonna get, like uh, my degree in like hr.
So you know, like yeah, if it,if it was what he wanted to do
and he wasn't complaining aboutit, we'd be like hell, yeah,
dude.
And like you're gonna retire aslike either a general, you're
gonna get out and go to schooland go on to great things
because you're driven in adirection.
But if you choose the safe pathand you have the itch for more,
(35:05):
then don't just sit around andcomplain about it.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, don't be that guy.
Don't be that guy.
Strive for greatness, dosomething.
And the thing about that isyou'll be around better people.
You'll be around people thatare driven, driven that can help
you reach your highestpotential.
Nobody gets there on their own.
Like everybody's a product ofthe people that are around like.
That's why, if you hang aroundwith dirt bags, you're gonna
(35:31):
eventually be a dirt bag likewho wants to be the coolest dude
amongst a bunch of fuckingchodes, like king chode.
Fucking boner dude.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Like get out of there , do something with your life
and and it's not like a betterthan thing, right, because when
I was like in the regularweather career field, like some
of those dudes are dark andfolks are wicked smart and they
love doing like the conventionalweather mission, and it's not
that I'm better than them, Ijust didn't fit there and I knew
I didn't fit there, right.
(36:01):
Like I have different interests, like it's not that I can do
weather or I could at one point,but I also want to run, I also
want to shoot, I also want tojump out of planes.
Uh, you know, I want to do allthose other things.
That doesn't make me betterthan them, but like it's all the
people that deny that they'relike.
No, like I don't think that I'mthe type of guy.
Like dude, stop labelingyourself.
If that's what you want, whywould you label yourself in the
(36:23):
negative of what you want?
That's the dumbest thing yeah,dude it's I get all amped up,
bro.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I know I like that you amp each other's.
We're not amping anybody up.
I want you to be amped up.
I want you guys to be just asworked up as we are right now so
much caffeine in here right nowso much C4.
I still got another workout todo, trying to get the air and
bod by um by christmas.
Yeah, it's a lot, dude's justfucking shredded.
(36:49):
He's like fuck, he's got thedorito dorito ratio.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
The waist to the waist, chest to waist ratio is
just fucking you got to get onthe group chat because he'll
tell you about it too.
He's like I went to the gymtoday, uh, noticed you guys
didn't post about going to thegym in the group chat, so so I'm
fitter than you, even more fitthan you are now.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Bro, I'm telling you, I am telling you we need to
come up with a ones readyChristmas calendar.
Hear me out, it's just Aaron.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
He's just going to be an elf, like for December.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Just Aaron, but he's cosplaying as everybody.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
This is peaches aaron .
Speaker 2 (37:32):
This is trent with a weather balloon but it still
does aaron with his shirt off.
Oh my god, dude.
So what do you do like?
All right, so we?
One thing that I I realizedrecently is like I don't have
the ability to throttle back andI like burnout is a real thing.
Like how do you guys manage allthe work and still get in
(37:53):
quality time?
Like what do you do foryourself, man?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
uh, well, we're like a good team, you know, and
everybody, everybody has likedifferent levels of of me time
that they need and at differenttimes, and we all kind of bring
different things to the team.
I bring the least amount to theteam, obviously, but we call we
call Jared G Jared because he'sa workaholic.
He's like.
He's like I want to do theediting, I want to do all this
(38:16):
other stuff.
It's like, hey man, like at acertain point we should probably
hire an editor so we can justrecord content and send it to
them.
But jared has I shouldn't, Ishouldn't tell everybody.
Jared has it in his mind atsome point that he's not going
to be a guy on camera.
But we're like dude, peoplelove you way too much for you to
just turn into like thebackground guy.
Uh, this doesn't work withoutyou, uh, but he's like so, like
humble, and he's like you knowand it's whatever, um, but then,
(38:40):
like aaron is also like verymuch, he's a very creative and
like the digital space, likehe's good at, like all that
other stuff I'm like the goodidea fairy sometimes and I I
kind of like wax and wane withmy level of of participation and
like the social medias and allthat other stuff.
But uh, um, you know, like weall, we all play our part and it
just it's just so happened thatwe are just a great team.
(39:02):
Like one of the huge advantagesthat we have is we are a team
of dudes doing a podcast and ifsomebody's like, hey man, I
can't make it to this nextrecording, one of us will just
step up and be like, oh no, no,I'm gonna be there.
So like, don't worry about it,just don't show up.
Um, and so you know, if you dofeel overwhelmed or whatever,
none of the guys on the onesready team were like it's like,
hey man, I'm taking this weekand I'm hanging out with my wife
(39:22):
and my kids.
You know, we've just been realbusy.
None of us are like, oh, youpiece of crap.
You know, like this podcast iseverything in our lives.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Like don't listen to me lying on you yeah, like no,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's not the end of the world, and so the ones ready
manager.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I hate to tell you this, but uh, you got to show up
.
Contractually You're obligated,yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
And we're not like, oh, the metrics go down if we
don't.
Whatever, man, we kind of dowhat we want to do.
So, man, like I think we're allbusier now that we're retired,
we all still got we.
We were like, hey, man, we'regoing to get out, we're all just
going to record content andmake this, see if it can
actually make enough money tosupport us, right?
Well, the problem is we allkind of got out at different
(40:09):
times and I think Aaron was thefirst one to get a regular job.
I goofed off for a little bitand then I got a job on accident
and Jared went right back toworking where he was working.
So, like we have regular jobs,we still do the podcast.
You know, we have all theseother adventures and and hustles
that we're doing, um, so we'reall super busy, but like it's a
lot of fun.
So and that's another thing aslong as it's fun, it's.
(40:30):
I think burnout is a lotfurther down the road if you're
having a good time dude, how didyou?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
how did you?
Speaker 1 (40:36):
accidentally get a job.
So I wasn't so when I retired.
It's funny because, like everyonce in a while someone will
come up to me like hey man, likeI'm coming up close to
retirement, like what should Ido?
And I'm like hold, hold up, I'mnot the guy to ask.
It looks like I did thingsbecause it all worked out for me
, but that is not how it shouldhave gone.
Like I said, my life just worksout, got out, I didn't do.
(41:04):
I didn't create a resume, Ididn't really skill bridge the
correct way.
I don't have a degree because Ienlisted, because I hate
college.
So I never understood everybodylike, oh, you should go get a
bachelor's and all these otherthings.
We had a guy like going for hismba on the podcast the other
day and I'm just like that'sgreat for you, but like it's not
for me.
Like, um, anyway, um, I was intraining for a long time.
I spent over half my career onthe training side.
I helped stand up the firstSouth T pipeline.
(41:24):
I helped stand up the specialreconnaissance pipeline and when
we built our prep course I wasthe curriculum guy for that.
So like understanding thetraining environment and the way
that we do training in the AirForce and, specifically, you
know, certain types of trainingI have a really good handle on,
accidentally Right, like it'sjust what I did and I ended up
being like the lead training guywhen I retired out of the
(41:45):
training headquarters.
So there's this company thatwas doing some contract work for
the for like basic training anda few other things for the Air
Force.
They didn't have any militaryguys on their staff.
One of my old teammates, who I'm, you know, first deployment
together type guys you know whatI mean Like we have some fun
experiences he's best friendswith one of the co-owners of the
(42:09):
company.
So this dude calls my buddy andhe's like, hey, we need some
help.
We think we might need amilitary guy, but my buddy had
already gotten a different job.
He's like and really who youshould be talking to is trent,
because he's in san antonioanyway where all that stuff's
happened.
So he just called me up.
They're like, hey, do you, doyou need a job?
Like can you help us out?
And I'm like I'll go see if Ican provide value.
Like I don't know, really knowwhat you guys are doing.
So it just jumped all the wayin the deep end, like things
(42:31):
started to go really well andthen they offered me full time
and I'm like here's my number.
They're like overwhelminglypositive, I think, about most
things.
But we do point out, you know,and that's what, what hits the
(42:51):
chains of command up to thepentagon is anytime we like
point out things that are notright.
Uh, we get a lot of attention.
So, like I I interact with someof those chains of command that
that might be sensitive to someof those things.
So I try to keep them veryseparate, you know.
So I don't, I don't say it.
Yeah, only fans.
I'll tell you, on only fans forthe ride.
(43:14):
It's just my feet and my bustedtoenails from rucking.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Give it 10 more years , I swear there's going gonna be
a military division for onlyfans.
Geez, dude, it's everywhere,dude, everywhere, every single
person.
Oh my gosh, it's yeah.
What.
What are we doing?
Like?
Why?
Why is this a thing like?
Why is it like the top out ofthe top 15 millionaires in this
(43:43):
country, like eight of them, arefrom only yes yeah, well, I
mean, that's where the money'sat.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Stop beating off, stop it's not good for you go
outside also be like I can'tafford anything, it's like, but
you're spending a lot of moneyon this person that you don't
know, just to see them indifferent states of attire, I
guess, like I don't know just doanother, but instacarting.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Fucking yeah, red bulls talkies.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
But it's just sad.
It's like is that, is thatwhere you want to be in life,
you know like yeah, as a youngman, is that what you want?
Speaker 2 (44:24):
and that's what I love about you guys.
Like you don't just talk aboutit, you're doing it and you're
helping inspire like greatness,like, and like and I know
everybody within our careerfields like it's difficult and
it's hard to like hear praisefor what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (44:41):
It's no joke man.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
What you guys are doing is you're directly
fighting back against this ideathat we can't aspire to be great
.
Like within.
When guys find your page, whenthey find this to be their
calling, when they reach out andthey're joining you for one of
these live events, they'remaking a commitment to not only
to themselves and their countrylike try to be better.
(45:06):
Like the greatest thing isyou're showing them that there's
a better way to life.
There's no room for that shitto just numb out and exist, and
that's what a large part of allthis digital shit is like.
If we don't want this to takeover, we have to help amplify
and support and promote goodquality content that's helping
(45:29):
change and drive a differentnarrative.
Like this whole fucking weirdspace that we find ourselves,
where all we're doing isglorifying just that, that
self-gratification.
It's like no man like life'sabout testing yourself, life's
about going after somethingdifficult and and sucking and
persevering should have chosedifferent words from trying to
(45:51):
creategrade OnlyFans.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Just fucking persevering.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Just fucking getting down there and sucking it, man.
Speaker 1 (45:59):
How do you think I'm 87, you know Science.
That's by persevering,obviously.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
That's how I developed grit.
You see that in the back A lotof dudes in those career fields.
It's very competitive it's onlyone way of getting ahead in this
world.
Uh, but it's true, man.
Like we have to show the nextgeneration of great dudes that
like, hey, you could sit in yourparents basement and numb out
(46:30):
for the rest of your life, oryou can commit yourself to doing
something greater and andtrying to achieve something
great.
And there's no room for all thestupid bullshit on this other
side.
Come, try to do this trump.
Speaker 1 (46:41):
Try, just fucking try , man, just give it a shot well,
I think the big thing is isthere's no such thing as failure
if you're trying yeah, you know, and and it's, it's like I said
, I don't care where you end up.
I care that you you pushed, Icared that you did try, I care
that you're trying to become abetter human.
(47:01):
Like we all, we've all got ourroles to play and like the big
thing we talk about regret ishell Right, and that's the
reason that resonates.
The reason people buy that flagis because you know that in
your bones that at some pointyou will be on your deathbed and
you'll be looking around andeither your kids will be there,
they won't be there.
You know like you'll be lookingat your wife, or you won't be
(47:22):
looking at your wife.
You'll be, like you know,reliving.
You know your, your highlightreel.
Uh, and I think about that likein a youtube sense, like since,
if, if I showed you yourhighlight reel of your life
right now, would you bedisappointed?
And if so, like that shouldmotivate you to go out there and
take some chances.
And if not, even if you're notsuccessful, at least it would be
(47:42):
funny.
It would be you falling on yourface over and over again, but
at least it wouldn't be nothingyeah, it just wouldn't be.
Speaker 2 (47:49):
You and your fucking parents basement just fucking
giving your dick.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Skin rug burns for fucking, for the 50th time, or
like my nightmare would be.
Like imagine being the personthat just listened to other
people the whole time.
I've talked to people that havegone through some of these
problems where it's like, well,my parents think like I did
everything right in school, Iwent to college, I commissioned,
like I'm doing all the rightthings, like I'm investing my
money and I'm miserable, likewhy am I miserable?
(48:16):
And it's like because you gotthe itch.
Dude.
Because the itch is notscratched by money.
The itch is not scratched bysitting in a cubicle.
The itch is not scratched bylong-term success and like check
out my portfolio.
The itch is scratched by doingthings that terrify you, that
(48:38):
are scary, that bring you realsatisfaction, by overcoming
legitimately difficult thingsand and men need that.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
They require that it's adventure man living a life
that has some something ofvalue, something to look back on
.
Like one of the greatest movies.
I love fucking.
When people have seen it, theyunderstand the importance of it.
Uh, walter mitty, the I meanit's an underrated, criminally
underrated, but the dude has ahuge problem with daydreaming
(49:03):
and it's a ben stiller playingthe, the main character, and all
he's doing is just daydreaminghis life away at a shitty job,
just daydreaming life away, andthen finally he goes on an epic
fucking adventure and that'swhat you're.
You're.
You can get that by justenlisting, but you can have a
great, wonderful adventure.
That could be the catalyst.
It doesn't have to stop onceyou get out of the military.
(49:23):
You can continue having that,that wonderful adventure and
continue doing it.
But the key to it, it has tostart.
It has to start at some pointand that's something that I
think your podcast, your videosand and the discussions you have
uh, all three of you is helpinga lot of young men realize that
, because it's one thing to readabout, it's one thing to listen
(49:45):
, but when you dial in and yousee what you can become, when
you can see it right throughthat video.
You can see an air and you cansee a train, you can see a peach
itaches like holy shit, likethis is fucking awesome yeah,
even if you don't like peachesand you do something that that's
very refreshing.
You don't dive into the muck andthe flavor of the day of
(50:10):
shitting on on things, which islike I could get 2 million views
just to make a 30 minute videoshitting on the guy to fucking
shit on for the day, whetherit's valid or not valid, but
what's the fucking value in it?
What's the fucking value in it?
Speaker 1 (50:28):
We're not making anything better that way Like
there's, there's like theinitial, like people should not
be profiting off certain things,and I get it.
But once it's done, it's likenow you're just now, you're just
chasing fame or numbers orwhatever.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
It's stupid.
And then and then the, thethere's.
There's the, the core personthat brings up the grievance,
and maybe two or three valid.
They've studied it, they'reunderstanding what they're
talking about.
Do we need the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, the eighth, the
ninth, the 20th fucking persondiving into negativity and and
an echo chamber of guys arealready suffering and people are
(51:05):
already suffering looking torally and and shit on something,
some more like no, that's whatI love about you guys, you've
never been about that and youcontinue like when you call
something out, it's directly inline with something that needs
to change.
It needs to be addressed, notsomething from pop culture or a
figure like look, I like alexjones, but if I sat in my office
and just fucking sat in thatheadspace, I probably wouldn't
(51:28):
be here.
I probably would be here becauseall I'm seeing there's like
more fucking negative shit, moresad shit, and we need to combat
it.
And, by the way, we can do itright now, in this day and age,
by putting good shit out thereand sticking to what we're good
at.
Sticking to, like promotinggood informational shit.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:46):
Well, and change is possible, Right, and that's I
try sometimes.
I'll get on there and I'll belike I'll get on there and I'll
be like I'm just going to burnthis, this dude, to the ground,
and I can't do it Like it's.
Like I'm like, do you know,what the best thing would be is,
even if I'm calling somebodyout or I'm I'm giving advice to
like a one of the air forceorganizations that we think
messed up, or something.
It's like hey guys, you havethe opportunity to change your
(52:06):
direction, like it's not toolate to change, and I think that
that's one of those was likethere's no such things.
The illusion of permanence, youknow, gets everybody, and who
you are today is not who youhave to be tomorrow, and all
that other stuff, and whetherthat's your organization, with
sitting inside of it sometimesespecially the military well,
maybe not especially, but likeyou're seeing that these giant
bureaucratic organizationsyou're like, well, this is just
(52:26):
the way it is, that's.
That's categorically false.
There's no such thing aspermanent, because we're humans
and we can make changes.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Absolutely, man, dude .
That's, that's the truth.
Yeah, and you gotta have hope,man.
Like, one of the greatestthings I ever learned was
relating bad leaders and badsituations to like being being
on a wave, like you're riding ahighway wave, good leadership,
and then it crashes down.
(52:56):
Now you're just like fucking,you're sucking and you're having
a bad day, a bad week, badmonth, leadership, shit.
And it's like look man,everything has a timeline, even
these guys.
Figure out your happy place,figure out how to fucking get
positive and know that theseguys are going to be out of
office.
They're going to move, they'regoing to freaking, get the next
position.
The next guy will come andthey're fucking, you'll ride a
(53:18):
high, you'll get back on there.
Get back on your fuckingsurfboard and ride another great
wave.
Speaker 1 (53:23):
Like things will get better there's so much
opportunity for creativity whenyou have a bad leader like in
charge of like a squadron or anorganization to see what you can
get away with you know, like,like find me a worthy opponent,
you know, to see what you canget away with.
You know like, find me a worthyopponent, you know, to see what
I can get away with.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
You can do it, yeah look for the good in it in every
situation, except for GeneralBarr.
Fine, that guy, except for thatguy.
Yeah, no, that's rough, thatdude.
I had an encounter with thatguy.
How and why I should have hadan encounter with that guy makes
no fucking sense.
You see, I'll wrap it up withthis story, all right, how much
(53:58):
I I dislike?
Well, we're not on one's ready,so I can say this, and this is
not reflective view of anybodyon one's ready tony, I love you.
Speaker 1 (54:06):
I'm saying just me, like you're not overweight at
all, tony.
This is not reflective of theone's ready opinions you're?
Speaker 2 (54:11):
you're a fat, sloppy, garbage human being.
I went to korea as an e7 starin first class, denny caballero,
with two other green bravesfrom seventh group.
We got ordered to go there tosupport sock core, to support
(54:32):
seven special forces groupfollowing.
They had a mission.
We went there to train withKorean partners because at the
time, in the first Trumpadministration, there was a big
feeling that Rocket man wasgoing to get fucking.
You know he was going to try toget crazy.
So we went there.
This dude pulls us into hisoffice.
(54:52):
Mind you, we're E7s and one ofour guys is an e6.
We are not officers.
We don't have great strategicunder like.
We have our orders, we have ourunderstanding, we have our
guidance, we have our mission.
This is what we're doing here.
This man is an all-powerful,all-knowing senior officer.
(55:14):
He knows, while we're there,this dude has us in his office
for like over an hour justberating us as to why we're
there and eventually I'm justlike I didn't.
I didn't make this decision, Ididn't buy a plane ticket to fly
(55:35):
here.
Speaker 1 (55:36):
I was told hey dude, you see the word on the top,
it's called orders.
These are called orders.
These are stripes.
They say I do.
Speaker 2 (55:46):
Like I don't know what you expect out of this.
Like you're right, I'm about topack my bags, I'm going to
leave.
It's just like just fuckingsitting here, like flexing his
chubby fucking cheeks, and justlike fucking sitting there, like
he had such a protruding balletdude it was.
I'm like do you, do you not dolike PT test dog?
(56:07):
Like this is like big oldcountry, big.
For the rest of the time theywere just big country, big
country.
Speaker 1 (56:15):
How did you spell country.
Just a question.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
I know, I know the answer yeah, yeah, seeing that
dude take his um walk of shame,that was nice.
I was like, bro, like I don'tknow what to tell you here, like
I'm having a good time.
Kimchi's good, koreanbarbecue's awesome.
Like if you have any problems,you can take that out of my boss
.
He always went out of his wayto be a complete arrogant fuck.
(56:41):
I'm like, bro, chill, it'sKorea.
Speaker 1 (56:44):
How about you call your army counterpart like my
boss's boss's boss's boss andyou discuss this with them?
Speaker 2 (56:50):
All the things he said he wasn't going to allow us
to do.
You're not going to use myequipment for you and the very
next day, like he was in redside to send everything up, hi,
is this computer open?
We're going to do it.
Yeah, sorry, thanks, bigcountry.
And he's a real sweetheart.
(57:12):
You know what I mean.
He's the fucking worst man.
I hope he's a real sweetheart.
You know what I mean.
He's uh, he's the fucking worstman, I hope.
I hope he's fucking miserable.
I just I hope someday he's asfat as ben stiller at the end of
um fucking uh, dodgeball.
Oh geez, yeah, dude, justthinking about that we're making
me about now.
(57:32):
I'll put it up here, maybe.
Speaker 1 (57:34):
I would also be miserable if I was like 50
pounds overweight.
You know, just carrying itaround every day knowing I don't
need to, because I could juststop shoving crap in my mouth.
Speaker 2 (57:44):
I could just make a decision, big country, how about
this?
Right now, join our team and Iwill send you some fitness
products.
I will send you some fitnessproducts, I will send you some
protein, I will send you somepre-workout and I'll put you in
the running for a free conceptto roar.
That's right, that's whatyou'll be entered to win this
(58:04):
come in august, if you join ourwhoop team for project forge, a
special initiative, I puttogether the special forces
foundation to help you get offthe couch and get better,
because if we can improve ourphysical fitness, we can improve
our mental fitness.
That's what we're here forbecause, ladies and gentlemen,
contrary to popular belief, noone's coming to save you.
Still, qrf, it's just us, justthe team One's ready Security
(58:27):
Hall, all your friends that youput together in your little
virtual LGOP, little groups ofparatroopers.
That's how we're going to getout of this fight.
That's how we're going to helpcurb and hopefully end veteran
suicide by sticking together anddoing the things that work.
One of the easiest things wecan do is just get up and work
out whether it's a walk, a jog,going to the gym for a bro
workout or go to that CrossFitgym and trying that out for a
(58:50):
little bit.
I mean, I won't make fun of you.
I'll be there to support you.
I want you to be here.
I want you to stay here.
Why?
Because this country is onlygoing to improve if we can keep
more veterans involved.
If we can get you better, wecan get you fitter.
Then maybe you can take up moreresponsibility.
Maybe you'll be willing to joinyour local community and help
serve on student councilanywhere.
Do anything that can give ourveterans more responsibility to
(59:12):
help turn the tide of what we'reseeing in this country, which
is a lot of lacklusterleadership.
You know, I don't want to seethe next few years of our
country continue going the wayit is.
It's awesome for memes, butit's horrible for our mental
health and for our spirit decor.
So join us in the Project ForceChallenge.
Be willing to get out, andevery month I'm going to be
(59:33):
giving something away until I'mbankrupt.
Or my wife says stop it.
And uh, ladies and gentlemen,she hasn't told me to stop yet.
Wish there was a joke to makeabout that.
My wife outranks me, so I won'tsay anything more because she's
still in I can't I can't thankyou enough for being here, man.
Speaker 1 (59:48):
It's been a blast dude, yeah, I appreciate it.
Been watching your stuff for along time and you're a legend
bro.
Speaker 2 (59:54):
Dude.
Thank you so much, man.
It truly means a lot.
I started this thing to helpour boys and gals and I continue
to do this because I know, atleast to those out there
suffering and going through it,at least the memes and maybe a
couple tidbits I say here andthere resonates.
So the mission continues.
Man, If people want to checkyou out to see the podcast,
(01:00:16):
where can they go?
Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
just one's ready at one's ready, one's readycom.
We're all over except fortiktok.
We won't do tiktok becausewe're not communists don't do it
, don't fucking do it.
Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I regret I ever did it.
Um, it hurts my heart.
Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Uh, yeah, that was like a tasty games moment, you
know.
Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
Yeah yeah, it's exactly.
It's just as useful as tastygames just a mouthful of cum,
that's all it is pandas.
It's worthless.
Do me a favor if you'relistening right now, go ahead
and pause.
Go to the episode description,like share and subscribe head on
over to ones ready on youtube.
Follow them, subscribe to them.
They are one of the bestpodcasts out there.
(01:00:56):
They have a 0.5 percent ratingwith a listen score of 55.
That's like listening to jesus.
Actually, jesus actually ratedbelow them.
Jesus has a listing globalscore of 0.7 that comes by 0.7
and a listen score of 26.
So so you know they're doingbetter.
They're doing good.
(01:01:16):
I'm Danny Caballero.
Thank you all for tuning in andwe'll see you all next time.
Till then, take care.
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