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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, time, lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Two six packs shutter.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Our first voicemail of the week. We haven't had voicemails
in a while. Romore is Jim falling down on the job.
He did take a little vacate. I was complaining about
Jim taking a vacation last week, and Ramone said, listen,
mister slave driver. On his vacation, he was still putting
in from early in the morning till ear in the afternoon.
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His wasn't staying here all day like you want. Every
I had to do budget lazy people. Our first voicemail
of the week comes from an unknown male because he
doesn't tell us his name. He wants to know who
the Republicans would be running if Donald Trump weren't running again.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Very good question.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know, it occurs to me that if Donald Trump
wasn't running, what would the Republicans do?
Speaker 6 (01:27):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I can't even imagine any other person I don't disantos.
I can't even imagine. I can't think of anybody who
has got the pluck that Donald Trump has and has displayed,
and the seriousness of intent that Donald Trumps has actually displayed,
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and how uncomfortable he makes the demo, which is in
my opinion, just a wonderful thing. So if he wasn't running,
we are so lucky that he's running, because if he
wasn't running, there is no close second without Donald Trump.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
There is.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We would be done for. I mean, I don't know
that people really realize that is how important he is right.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Now in this time, I've been missing these phone calls.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm not allowed to your mom, Michelle from alephant.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
By the way, if you ever want to leave a voicemail,
all you have to do is called seven one three
one thousand when we're not on the air, uh and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It'll take you to the voicemail.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And if you leave a voicemail, it's very likely going
to make it on the air. We can't put everyone
on the air because we get more than we can play,
but we do enjoy we listen to every one of them.
We come in on Monday, we're overloaded because people sometimes
they get a little lit up or whatever the reason.
But people will leave us more messages over the weekend,
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especially Friday night, and we love listening to them. And
we're going to try to get back to doing the
voice must We've been so focused on election stuff that
we haven't done as much on the voicemail thing. Michelle
from Alabama is a school teacher who has an iron
Ran book recommendation for people who don't like to read.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Hello, Michael, this is Michelle from Alabama. I was listening
to Friday's Afternoon podcast and you were listing books that
people need to read and you mentioned iron Ran. I
like all of her books, and honestly, they are, like
you said, very heavy, very sick reading. So for people
who don't necessarily like to read, I would like to
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recommend her novella Anthem. It is just shy of one
hundred pages and quickly makes the point that she's trying
to make. I've actually taught it in my sophomore English classes.
Thank you, I have a good one.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Our next caller, Larry, is a black fellow. Now how
do I know this because I can't see him. Simple
he calls me Mike. Only black people call me, Mike,
just my entire life. He left a voicemail with a
prediction that Kamala Harris would become the first black woman
president one way or another.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Hello, Michael, my name is Larry, and I don't know
you might have discussed this on your show before, but
even if you have, I just called to say that
I really believe that Kamala Harris will be the first
black woman president of the United States. Actually, she could
already be president right now. All Biden handsOn news just resigned,
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and when he does that, she's already vice president and
she'll become president and they can even use her. No now,
if they need to use her becoming president to increase
her chances of being elected president, they'll do it before
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the election. But if they go through the election and
when Trump wins, if he wins, then they can just
remove Biden right then, if you won't go, and that
lets Harris become president, even if she can only serve
just a few weeks, that'll still make her the first
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black woman president. And at that point, a whole lot
of people, a lot of black people are going to celebrate.
They'll they'll celebrate as much as some of them did
when Oja was acquitted after killing Nicole and Ron gold
Ron Golan just just my idea, my thought. Tell them
what you think.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Shane Garcia is doing her part to help us win
this election.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We need more.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
My name is Shanee Garcia. You're absolutely right, Michael about Democrats.
I tried to have a conversation with my sixty three
year old uncle and when I asked him to tell
me about different issues that Kamala represented, he could tell
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me none. I literally brought up valid points to him
Clinton that you played the other day in the eighties
saying about illegal immigrants. I bought it about her being
the mistress that her daddy got her job for with
a sixty year old man who actually I saw on
the news and she became vice president, talking about how
he helped her political career. I mentioned to him about abortion,
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how women can have abortions up until the ninth month
which Shami was murdered. He literally said to me that
where am I getting these facts from? It sounds like
I'm from a cult. I let him know, no, I'm
an a dog. I'm a woman, and these views and things,
and the problem with the Democratic Party is if you're
born a certain rights. That's understood you're a Democrat. But again,
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no one knows the real issues I presented to you.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Issues.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
I said, all this stuff Kamala wants to do now,
she's doing it supposedly as a presidential candidate. But she's
been a vice president for three and a half years.
Why has she spearheaded no tax on tips? Why has
she spearheaded the border? She was the border's art Why
hasn't she done other things? Just anything?
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Really?
Speaker 9 (07:26):
I even told him Michelle Obama, as the president's wife,
read adapted to food charts so people could be healthier.
The truck they had dealt with from years ago, she revamped.
So you have a platform now and you've done nothing.
And I said, and honestly, the Democrats were unfair to
other Democrats when they allowed body to stay in office,
know he had an illness. They didn't even give Democrats
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a chance to pick a real running mate against Trump.
And so now you have a problem with me because
I say Trump is an anthem o ps. I think
it makes a country look weak when a woman runs it,
because if a woman is running anything, you know what
that means there are men under her, whether it's a
corporational company. Why has no one else stepped up? Why
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has no man stepped up? But that's what we're living now. Transgender,
all these other things that don't matter, don't mean anything,
but now, all of a sudden, they mean everything. I'm
so glad the hurricane came through because if it not
had come through, I would have never found out about
your show. And I have truly downloaded your podcast. I've
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been listening to it every single day, the morning and
the evening, of which I prefer because no commercials, and
I love the bout.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
You are awesome.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
I will continue to listen because you're bringing fast and truth.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (08:44):
Why didn't the world be a better place if every
grown ass man and lesbian woman off the top on
the drive home?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You bet it would.
Speaker 12 (08:53):
It's the Friday Drive Home on the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Monday was Labor Day and we ran a best of show.
The rest of us were ready to work, but Ramon
cried that he wanted the day off for Labor Day,
so we gave him the day off for manuel labor.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So we ran the.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Show that we did the top ten Dude movies of
all time, and we received hundreds of voicemails during the
AM and PM shows from people submitting their nominations for
the Best Dude Movie. We randomly pulled some of the
voicemails and we put them to Freebird, which if you've
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been a listener for very long, you know that, in
order to irritate Eddie Martinez, the guy that got me
into radio, we used to end the show on occasion
by playing the entirety of Freebird because I thought that
was the coolest damn thing in the world to do.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And so we're doing.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It now without anyone noticing except I just told you
we did it.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
Okay, my name is Met and the movie from Washingtar, Washington,
and the movie is.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
True Grit but John Wayne.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
And the best line is it's.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Mighty big talk for a one eyed fatman.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
This is Dewey. The movie you need to put up
is Rambo.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Favorite line is.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
You're gonna need more body bags.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Bill Notchazaki. Sarah took a springer in New York Seniors.
Speaker 13 (10:33):
Nineteen seventy one, Long Beach, Long Island Sound.
Speaker 14 (10:41):
How about replace an Amy album and make it for
Lee Marvin.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
They've read one Top ten dude movies once again.
Speaker 15 (10:55):
It's Demolition man.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It's got to be number one of dude movies. Number one.
Speaker 16 (11:03):
You watch it, probably how to watch it, but if
you watch it, it'll be It's it's the category like
you wouldn't believe Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Uh that comedian.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So it's got your whimsy and all.
Speaker 16 (11:15):
That and you're bad ass, tough guy everything, it's all that.
Watch it, it'll be your number one dude movie.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Trustful, Michael ja from Tone, How did cool Hand Luke
make the top ten.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
List of dude movies?
Speaker 14 (11:39):
I believe my name is Glynn Bendrus, Louisiana, and I
believe the dude movie should be full metal jacket Mike.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
If you don't want but but a movie and a
guy a movie or nude but whatever the hell you say.
If you don't put the searches on there, you don't
have a hero in what have I in? The search
is a great movie.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
And for men, take off Roadhouse and put on Godfather,
Bruce Blazing Saddles, parking around the campfire and Mango.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's nothing more dude than.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
That Venice Upstate New York.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
All the reason and uh Leon the professional.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Hello, listen, Jason and the outsiders should be attitude and stuff.
Speaker 14 (12:42):
In list of duets.
Speaker 12 (12:48):
Dude movie Tombstone, I'm your Huckleberry. Best dude flick has
got to be Animal House.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It was a chip over the water.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
To shoot it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Jamie taken.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The episode of Gladiator.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's a Robert out here and Batch hadn't he getting
cleaned second hand line.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You hadn't watched many moods from Robert Duvall. That's a
rest for you.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Think.
Speaker 17 (13:29):
Well, hey, Michael, for dude movies, we got to go
with three hundred and the best quote is this is
Farta Michael.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Was dude movie.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
Silverado, Tommy from Martin Falls.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The best dude movie is Lone Wolf McQuaid.
Speaker 10 (14:12):
I was calling them Buck the guy moviester.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
This is Fraggett Old Metal Jacket, Mitchell Collins, say hello
to my little friend Scofiece.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Thats Tryst from Albany, New York. The movie is Pull Metal.
Speaker 12 (14:39):
Jackets Chris Morrisfield, Texas Man Old Fires.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
This is Tommy.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
The best dude movie is Lone Wolf.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
McQuaid is Tyler.
Speaker 17 (14:54):
You gotta take off fight Club and add Varsity Blues.
So this is John Bertram and I would be place
full fiction with Green Berets with John Wayne.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Top ten deer Hunter. Y'all are missing it.
Speaker 15 (15:13):
This is Mike calling for the top ten bro movie
and my selection at the two Stone.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Getting that smoke wagon and see what happened.
Speaker 15 (15:22):
I can't believe nobody has recommended that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
My name is Keith Dirty Dozen Lee, Marvin.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
Gotta love him, Bullet, Oh, this is Bob and I'm
in Houston six abdu.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Crow and.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Larry Hurst try that one.
Speaker 11 (15:52):
Have a good days.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Real the perfectuals.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
For given as like this is Larry life, abiding citizen.
Speaker 12 (16:06):
Take you Hey, Michael is a bad Bob from need
uh Well you said, dude movie obviously big Lebowski, Right, Michael.
Speaker 14 (16:20):
This was the first movie that all us college kids
cried out loud to Brian song.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, sir, this very the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The Warriors best still moder for me, Bill Rogers high Noon.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
The best line is none.
Speaker 15 (16:45):
At the end of the movie when he throws his
badge on the ground.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
And gradually.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
Oh yes, Tineasewood Magnum.
Speaker 15 (16:56):
Force names Mike favorite movie creditor quote get to the Chappa.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
This is Larry and my other dude movie would be
The Tall t Randolph Scott, Patrick Brennan, Mark Flanagan, The
Dirty Dozen, My dude movie is Ombre with Paul Newman,
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Larry Winfield.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yvonne and sugar Land Dude Movie and Officer and a
Gentleman with Richard.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Here is Carl from Lubbocks. Got to make the list
of the top dude movies. Dirty Airy Plea. He's with Classic.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (17:58):
Steve from mc allen delivering now you're talking, okay baby.
Speaker 18 (18:05):
This is a stir of success wrote up in Arne,
Texas broke ass Co scholarship, his way to two law degrees,
including one from her Majesty to Quinney, elected three or
four times, a lawyer, a hub a father, but most
of all are hignorant ass asking your seat there, pop
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your cod when.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You get ready for MOA.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Mister michaelber.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Sultaniedsen's graduation speech at Harvard is maybe the greatest graduation
speech of all time. Steve Jobs somewhere in California don't remember,
was pretty darn good as well. But Admiral mcgraven at
the University of Texas gave a speech that I find
extraordinarily inspiring.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And this is to fire you up, to get you
ready for this election. What starts here, it changes the world.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I have a few suggestions that might help you on
your way to a better world.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
While these lessons were learned during my time in the military,
I can assure you that it matters not whether you
ever served a day in uniform. It matters not your gender,
your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status.
Our struggles in this world are similar, and the lessons
to overcome those struggles and to move forward, changing ourselves
and changing the world around us will apply equally to all.
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So here are the ten lessons I learned from basic
seal training that hopefully will be of value to you
as you move forward in life. Every morning in sealed training,
my instructors, who at the time we're all Vietnam veterans,
would show up in my barat room, and the first
thing they do is inspect my bed. If you did
it right, the corners would be square, the covers would
be pulled tight, the pillow center just under the headboard,
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and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of
the rack. It was a simple task, mundane at best,
but every morning we were required to make our bed
to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time,
particularly lie to the fact that we were aspiring to
be real warriors, tough, battle hardened seals. But the wisdom
of the simple act has been proven to me many
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times over.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
If you make your bed every morning, you will.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Have accomplished the first task of the day. It will
give you a small sense of pride, and it will
encourage you to do another task, and another and another,
and by the end of the day that one task
completed will have turned into many tasks completed.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Making your bed will also.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter.
If you can't do the little things right, you'll never
be able to do the big things right.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And if, by chance, you have a miserable.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Day, you will come home to a bed that is made,
but you made, and a made bed gives you encouragement
that tomorrow will be better. So, if you want to
change the world, start off by making your bed. During
seal training, the students. During training, the students are all
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broken down boat crews. Each crew is seven students, three
on each side of a small rubber boat and one
cox and to help guide the dinghy. Every day, your
boat crew forms up on the beach and is instructed
to get through the surf zone and paddle several miles
down the coast. In the winter, the surf off San
Diego can get to be eight to ten feet high,
and it is exceedingly difficult to paddle through the plunging
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surf unless everyone digs in. Every paddle must be synchronized
to the stroke count of the Coxwin. Everyone must exert
equal effort or the boat will turn against the wave
and be unceremoniously dumped back on the beach. For the
boat to make it to its destination, everyone must paddle.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You can't change the world alone.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
You will need some help, and to truly get from
your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the
goodwill of strangers, and a stroll on Coxin to guide you.
If you want to change the world, find someone to
help you paddle. Over a few weeks of deical training,
my seal class, which started with one hundred and fifty men,
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was down to just forty two. There were now six
boat crews of seven men each. I was in the
boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew
we had was made up of the little guys, the
Munchkin crew we called them.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No one was over five foot five.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
The Munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American,
one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, and
two tough kids from the Midwest. They outpaddled, out ran,
and outswam all the other boat crews. The big men
and the other boat crews would always make good natured
fun of the tiny little flippers the Munchkins put on
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their tiny little feet prior to every swim. But somehow
these little guys from every corner of the nation in
the world always had the last laugh, sow any faster
than everyone in reaching the shore, long before the rest
of US. Seal training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered
but your will to succeed. Color, not your ethnic background,
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not your education, not.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Your social status. If you want to.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Change the world, measure a person by the size of
their heart, not by the size of their flippers. Several
times a week, the instructors would line up the class
and do a uniform inspection.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It was exceptionally thorough. Your hat had to be.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed, your belt buckles shiny
and void of any smudges. But it seemed that no
matter how much effort you put into starching your hat,
or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle, it just.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Wasn't good enough.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
The instructors would find something wrong. For failing uniform inspection,
the student had to run fully clothed into the surf zone,
then wet from head to toe, roll around on the
beach until every part of your body was covered with sand.
The effect was known as sugar cookie. You stayed in
the uniform the rest of the day, cold, wet, and sandy.
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There were many a student who just couldn't accept the
fact that all their efforts were in vain. No matter
how hard they tried to get the uniform right, they
went on appreciated those students didn't make it through training.
Those students didn't understand the purpose of the drill. You
were never going to succeed. You were never going to
have a perfect uniform. The instructors weren't.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Going to allow it. Sometimes, no matter how well you
prepare or how.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Well you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's just the way life is. Sometimes.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
If you want to change the world, get over being
a sugar cookie, and keep moving forward. Every day, during training,
you were challenged with multiple physical events, long runs, long swims,
obstacle courses, hours of calistenics, something designed to test your metal.
Every event had standards times you had to meet. If
you failed to meet those times those standards, your name
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was posted on a list, and at the end of
the day, those on the list were invited to a circus.
A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to
wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you
to quit.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
No one wanted a circus. A circus meant that for
that day, you didn't measure up.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
A circus meant more fatigue, and more fatigue meant that
the following day would be.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
More difficult, and more circuses were likely. But sometime during
seal training.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Everyone everyone made the circus list. But an interesting thing
happened to those who were constantly on the list. Over time,
those students who did two hours of extra scalisthenics got
stronger and stronger. The pain of the circus is built
inner strength and physical resiliency.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Life is filled with circuses.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
You will fail, and you will likely fail often and
it will be painful, it will be discouraging at times.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It will test you to your very core.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
But if you don't, if you want to change the world,
they'll be afraid of the circus.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's another work week in the books. Gain you geared
up for the weekend.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
It's the Friday drive home when the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I'm sharing this speech by Admiral mcgraven. If you missed
it earlier, you have to hear the earlier part you
go back on the podcast because I want you to
understand we have to do more than bash Kamala Harris.
We have to fire up our troops to save this
country that's on us.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
At least twice a week, the trainees were required to
run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained twenty five obstacles,
including a ten foot wall, a thirty foot cargo net,
a barbed wire crawl to name a few. But the
most challenging obstacle was a Slide for Life. It had
a three level thirty foot tower at one end and
a one level tower.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
At the other.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
In between was a two hundred foot long rope. You
had to climb the three tier tower and once at
the top, you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope,
and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to
the other end. The record for the obstacle course had
stood for years. When my class began in nineteen seventy seven.
The record seemed unbeatable until one day, as student decided
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to go down the slide for.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Life head first.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Instead of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching
his way down, he bravely mounted.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The top of the rope and thrust himself forward.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
It was a dangerous move, seemingly foolish and fraught with risk.
Failure could be an injury in being dropped from the course.
Without hesitation, the students slid down.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The rope perilously fast. Instead of several.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Minutes, it only took him half that time, and by
the end of the course he had broken the record.
If you want to change the world, sometimes you have
to slide down the obstacle's head first.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
During the land warfare.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Phase of training, the students are flown out to San
Clemente Island, which lies off the coast of San Diego.
The waters off Sanclementary are a breeding ground for the
great white sharks, to pass seal training, there a series
of long swims it must be completed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
One is the night swim.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Before the swim, the instructors joyfully brief the students on
all the species of sharks that inhabit the waters off
San Clemente. They assure you, however, that no student has
ever been eaten by a shark, at least not.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
That they can remember.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
But you are also taught that if a shark begins
to circle your position, stand your ground, do not swim.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Away, do not act afray. And if a shark hungry.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
For a midnight snack darts towards you, then summons up
all your strength and punch him in the snout and
he will turn and swim away. There are a lot
of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete
the swim, you will have to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So if you want to change the world, don't back
down from the sharks.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
As Navy Seal is, one of our jobs is to
conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping. We practice this technique
extensively during training. The ship attack mission is where a
pair of sealed divers is dropped off outside an enemy
harbor and then swims well over two miles underwater, using
nothing but a depth gage and a compass to get
to the target. During the entire swim, even well below
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the surface, there is some light that comes through. It
is comforting to know that there is open water above you.
But as you approach the ship, which is tied to
a pier, the light begins to fade. The steel structure
of the ship blocks the moonlight, It blocks the surrounding
street lamps, It blocks all ambient light. To be successful
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in your mission, you have to swim under the ship
and find the keel, the center line and the deepest
part of the ship.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
This is your objective.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship,
where you cannot see your hand in front of your
face from the ship's machinery is deafening, and where it
gets to be easily disoriented and you can fail. Every
seal knows that under the keel, at that darkest moment
of the mission is the time when you need to
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be calm, When you must be calm, when you must
be composed, when all your tactical skills, your physical power,
and your inner strength must be brought to bear. If
you want to change the world, you must be your
very best in the darkest moments. The ninth week of
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training is referred to as Hell Week. It is six
days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and
one special day at the mudflats. The mudflats are an
area between San Diego and Tijuana where the water runs
off and creates the Tijuana Slews, a swampy patch of
terrain where a mud will engulf your It is on
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Wednesday of Hell Week. Let you paddle down to the
mudflats and spend the next fifths trying to survive this
freezing cold, the howling wind, and the incessant pressure to
quit from the instructors. As the sun began to set
that Wednesday evening, my training class, having committed some egregious.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Infraction of the rules, was ordered into the mud.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible
but our heads.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
The instructors told us we could.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Leave the mud if only five men would quit. Only
five men, just five men, and we could get out
of the oppressive cold. Looking around the mud flat, it
was apparent that some students were about to give up.
It was still over eight hours till the sun came up.
Eight more hours of bone chilling cold. The chattering teeth
and the shivering moans of the trainees were so loud
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it was hard to hear anything. And then one voice
began to echo through the night. One voice raised in song.
The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with
great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three,
and before long everyone in the class was singing. The
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instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if
we kept up singing. But the singing persisted, and somehow
the mud seemed a little warmer, and the wind a
little tamer, and the dawn not so far away. If
I have learned anything in my time traveling the world,
it is the power of hope, the power of one person.
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A Washington, a Lincoln, King Mandela, and even a young
girl from Pakistan Malala. One person can change the world
by giving people hope. So if you want to change
the world, start singing when you're up to your neck
in mud. Finally, a seal training, there's a bell, a
brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound
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for all the students to see. All you have to
do is quit. All you have to do to quit
is ring the bell. Ring the bell, and you no
longer have to wake up at five o'clock. Ring the
bell and you no longer have to be in the.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Freezing cold swims.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Ring the bell and you no longer have to do
the runs, the obstin of course, the pt and you
no longer have to endure the hardships of training. All
you have to do is ring the bell to get out.
If you want to change the world, don't ever ever
ring the bell.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It will not be easy.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to
help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is
not fair and that you will fail often. But if
you take some risks, step up when the times are
the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the down trodden,
and never ever give up.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
If you do these things, the next.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
Generation and the generations.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That follow we'll live in a world far.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Better than the one we have today, and what's started
here will indeed have changed the world for the better.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Go fight when there is your charge. This is your nation,
this is your moment.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Own it
It's that time time, time, time, lucking load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Michael Varry Show is on the air. It's Charlie from
BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
It's the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving here is viewed
by some as downright undemocratic.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Two six packs shutter.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
Our first voicemail of the week. We haven't had voicemails
in a while. Romore is Jim falling down on the job.
He did take a little vacate. I was complaining about
Jim taking a vacation last week, and Ramone said, listen,
mister slave driver. On his vacation, he was still putting
in from early in the morning till ear in the afternoon.
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His wasn't staying here all day like you want. Every
I had to do budget lazy people. Our first voicemail
of the week comes from an unknown male because he
doesn't tell us his name. He wants to know who
the Republicans would be running if Donald Trump weren't running again.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Very good question.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
You know, it occurs to me that if Donald Trump
wasn't running, what would the Republicans do?
Speaker 6 (01:27):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I can't even imagine any other person I don't disantos.
I can't even imagine. I can't think of anybody who
has got the pluck that Donald Trump has and has displayed,
and the seriousness of intent that Donald Trumps has actually displayed,
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and how uncomfortable he makes the demo, which is in
my opinion, just a wonderful thing. So if he wasn't running,
we are so lucky that he's running, because if he
wasn't running, there is no close second without Donald Trump.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
There is.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
We would be done for. I mean, I don't know
that people really realize that is how important he is right.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Now in this time, I've been missing these phone calls.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I'm not allowed to your mom, Michelle from alephant.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
By the way, if you ever want to leave a voicemail,
all you have to do is called seven one three
one thousand when we're not on the air, uh and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It'll take you to the voicemail.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
And if you leave a voicemail, it's very likely going
to make it on the air. We can't put everyone
on the air because we get more than we can play,
but we do enjoy we listen to every one of them.
We come in on Monday, we're overloaded because people sometimes
they get a little lit up or whatever the reason.
But people will leave us more messages over the weekend,
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especially Friday night, and we love listening to them. And
we're going to try to get back to doing the
voice must We've been so focused on election stuff that
we haven't done as much on the voicemail thing. Michelle
from Alabama is a school teacher who has an iron
Ran book recommendation for people who don't like to read.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
Hello, Michael, this is Michelle from Alabama. I was listening
to Friday's Afternoon podcast and you were listing books that
people need to read and you mentioned iron Ran. I
like all of her books, and honestly, they are, like
you said, very heavy, very sick reading. So for people
who don't necessarily like to read, I would like to
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recommend her novella Anthem. It is just shy of one
hundred pages and quickly makes the point that she's trying
to make. I've actually taught it in my sophomore English classes.
Thank you, I have a good one.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Our next caller, Larry, is a black fellow. Now how
do I know this because I can't see him. Simple
he calls me Mike. Only black people call me, Mike,
just my entire life. He left a voicemail with a
prediction that Kamala Harris would become the first black woman
president one way or another.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
Hello, Michael, my name is Larry, and I don't know
you might have discussed this on your show before, but
even if you have, I just called to say that
I really believe that Kamala Harris will be the first
black woman president of the United States. Actually, she could
already be president right now. All Biden handsOn news just resigned,
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and when he does that, she's already vice president and
she'll become president and they can even use her. No now,
if they need to use her becoming president to increase
her chances of being elected president, they'll do it before
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the election. But if they go through the election and
when Trump wins, if he wins, then they can just
remove Biden right then, if you won't go, and that
lets Harris become president, even if she can only serve
just a few weeks, that'll still make her the first
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black woman president. And at that point, a whole lot
of people, a lot of black people are going to celebrate.
They'll they'll celebrate as much as some of them did
when Oja was acquitted after killing Nicole and Ron gold
Ron Golan just just my idea, my thought. Tell them
what you think.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
Shane Garcia is doing her part to help us win
this election.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
We need more.
Speaker 9 (06:02):
My name is Shanee Garcia. You're absolutely right, Michael about Democrats.
I tried to have a conversation with my sixty three
year old uncle and when I asked him to tell
me about different issues that Kamala represented, he could tell
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me none. I literally brought up valid points to him
Clinton that you played the other day in the eighties
saying about illegal immigrants. I bought it about her being
the mistress that her daddy got her job for with
a sixty year old man who actually I saw on
the news and she became vice president, talking about how
he helped her political career. I mentioned to him about abortion,
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how women can have abortions up until the ninth month
which Shami was murdered. He literally said to me that
where am I getting these facts from? It sounds like
I'm from a cult. I let him know, no, I'm
an a dog. I'm a woman, and these views and things,
and the problem with the Democratic Party is if you're
born a certain rights. That's understood you're a Democrat. But again,
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no one knows the real issues I presented to you.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
Issues.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
I said, all this stuff Kamala wants to do now,
she's doing it supposedly as a presidential candidate. But she's
been a vice president for three and a half years.
Why has she spearheaded no tax on tips? Why has
she spearheaded the border? She was the border's art Why
hasn't she done other things? Just anything?
Speaker 11 (07:26):
Really?
Speaker 9 (07:26):
I even told him Michelle Obama, as the president's wife,
read adapted to food charts so people could be healthier.
The truck they had dealt with from years ago, she revamped.
So you have a platform now and you've done nothing.
And I said, and honestly, the Democrats were unfair to
other Democrats when they allowed body to stay in office,
know he had an illness. They didn't even give Democrats
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a chance to pick a real running mate against Trump.
And so now you have a problem with me because
I say Trump is an anthem o ps. I think
it makes a country look weak when a woman runs it,
because if a woman is running anything, you know what
that means there are men under her, whether it's a
corporational company. Why has no one else stepped up? Why
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has no man stepped up? But that's what we're living now. Transgender,
all these other things that don't matter, don't mean anything,
but now, all of a sudden, they mean everything. I'm
so glad the hurricane came through because if it not
had come through, I would have never found out about
your show. And I have truly downloaded your podcast. I've
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been listening to it every single day, the morning and
the evening, of which I prefer because no commercials, and
I love the bout.
Speaker 11 (08:37):
You are awesome.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
I will continue to listen because you're bringing fast and truth.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Thank you.
Speaker 12 (08:44):
Why didn't the world be a better place if every
grown ass man and lesbian woman off the top on
the drive home?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
You bet it would.
Speaker 12 (08:53):
It's the Friday Drive Home on the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Monday was Labor Day and we ran a best of show.
The rest of us were ready to work, but Ramon
cried that he wanted the day off for Labor Day,
so we gave him the day off for manuel labor.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So we ran the.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Show that we did the top ten Dude movies of
all time, and we received hundreds of voicemails during the
AM and PM shows from people submitting their nominations for
the Best Dude Movie. We randomly pulled some of the
voicemails and we put them to Freebird, which if you've
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been a listener for very long, you know that, in
order to irritate Eddie Martinez, the guy that got me
into radio, we used to end the show on occasion
by playing the entirety of Freebird because I thought that
was the coolest damn thing in the world to do.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And so we're doing.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It now without anyone noticing except I just told you
we did it.
Speaker 12 (09:55):
Okay, my name is Met and the movie from Washingtar, Washington,
and the movie is.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
True Grit but John Wayne.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
And the best line is it's.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Mighty big talk for a one eyed fatman.
Speaker 11 (10:15):
This is Dewey. The movie you need to put up
is Rambo.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Favorite line is.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
You're gonna need more body bags.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Bill Notchazaki. Sarah took a springer in New York Seniors.
Speaker 13 (10:33):
Nineteen seventy one, Long Beach, Long Island Sound.
Speaker 14 (10:41):
How about replace an Amy album and make it for
Lee Marvin.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
They've read one Top ten dude movies once again.
Speaker 15 (10:55):
It's Demolition man.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
It's got to be number one of dude movies. Number one.
Speaker 16 (11:03):
You watch it, probably how to watch it, but if
you watch it, it'll be It's it's the category like
you wouldn't believe Sandra Bullock, Wesley Snipes, Uh that comedian.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
So it's got your whimsy and all.
Speaker 16 (11:15):
That and you're bad ass, tough guy everything, it's all that.
Watch it, it'll be your number one dude movie.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Trustful, Michael ja from Tone, How did cool Hand Luke
make the top ten.
Speaker 10 (11:35):
List of dude movies?
Speaker 14 (11:39):
I believe my name is Glynn Bendrus, Louisiana, and I
believe the dude movie should be full metal jacket Mike.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
If you don't want but but a movie and a
guy a movie or nude but whatever the hell you say.
If you don't put the searches on there, you don't
have a hero in what have I in? The search
is a great movie.
Speaker 13 (12:08):
And for men, take off Roadhouse and put on Godfather,
Bruce Blazing Saddles, parking around the campfire and Mango.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
There's nothing more dude than.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
That Venice Upstate New York.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
All the reason and uh Leon the professional.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Hello, listen, Jason and the outsiders should be attitude and stuff.
Speaker 14 (12:42):
In list of duets.
Speaker 12 (12:48):
Dude movie Tombstone, I'm your Huckleberry. Best dude flick has
got to be Animal House.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
It was a chip over the water.
Speaker 10 (13:03):
To shoot it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Jamie taken.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
The episode of Gladiator.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's a Robert out here and Batch hadn't he getting
cleaned second hand line.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You hadn't watched many moods from Robert Duvall. That's a
rest for you.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
Think.
Speaker 17 (13:29):
Well, hey, Michael, for dude movies, we got to go
with three hundred and the best quote is this is
Farta Michael.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Was dude movie.
Speaker 11 (13:57):
Silverado, Tommy from Martin Falls.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
The best dude movie is Lone Wolf McQuaid.
Speaker 10 (14:12):
I was calling them Buck the guy moviester.
Speaker 7 (14:21):
This is Fraggett Old Metal Jacket, Mitchell Collins, say hello
to my little friend Scofiece.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Thats Tryst from Albany, New York. The movie is Pull Metal.
Speaker 12 (14:39):
Jackets Chris Morrisfield, Texas Man Old Fires.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
This is Tommy.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
The best dude movie is Lone Wolf.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
McQuaid is Tyler.
Speaker 17 (14:54):
You gotta take off fight Club and add Varsity Blues.
So this is John Bertram and I would be place
full fiction with Green Berets with John Wayne.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Top ten deer Hunter. Y'all are missing it.
Speaker 15 (15:13):
This is Mike calling for the top ten bro movie
and my selection at the two Stone.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Getting that smoke wagon and see what happened.
Speaker 15 (15:22):
I can't believe nobody has recommended that.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
My name is Keith Dirty Dozen Lee, Marvin.
Speaker 11 (15:31):
Gotta love him, Bullet, Oh, this is Bob and I'm
in Houston six abdu.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Crow and.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Larry Hurst try that one.
Speaker 11 (15:52):
Have a good days.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
Real the perfectuals.
Speaker 11 (16:00):
For given as like this is Larry life, abiding citizen.
Speaker 12 (16:06):
Take you Hey, Michael is a bad Bob from need
uh Well you said, dude movie obviously big Lebowski, Right, Michael.
Speaker 14 (16:20):
This was the first movie that all us college kids
cried out loud to Brian song.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yes, sir, this very the Warriors.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
The Warriors best still moder for me, Bill Rogers high Noon.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
The best line is none.
Speaker 15 (16:45):
At the end of the movie when he throws his
badge on the ground.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
And gradually.
Speaker 11 (16:53):
Oh yes, Tineasewood Magnum.
Speaker 15 (16:56):
Force names Mike favorite movie creditor quote get to the Chappa.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
This is Larry and my other dude movie would be
The Tall t Randolph Scott, Patrick Brennan, Mark Flanagan, The
Dirty Dozen, My dude movie is Ombre with Paul Newman,
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Larry Winfield.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Yvonne and sugar Land Dude Movie and Officer and a
Gentleman with Richard.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
Here is Carl from Lubbocks. Got to make the list
of the top dude movies. Dirty Airy Plea. He's with Classic.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 16 (17:58):
Steve from mc allen delivering now you're talking, okay baby.
Speaker 18 (18:05):
This is a stir of success wrote up in Arne,
Texas broke ass Co scholarship, his way to two law degrees,
including one from her Majesty to Quinney, elected three or
four times, a lawyer, a hub a father, but most
of all are hignorant ass asking your seat there, pop
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your cod when.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
You get ready for MOA.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Mister michaelber.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Sultaniedsen's graduation speech at Harvard is maybe the greatest graduation
speech of all time. Steve Jobs somewhere in California don't remember,
was pretty darn good as well. But Admiral mcgraven at
the University of Texas gave a speech that I find
extraordinarily inspiring.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
And this is to fire you up, to get you
ready for this election. What starts here, it changes the world.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
I have a few suggestions that might help you on
your way to a better world.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
While these lessons were learned during my time in the military,
I can assure you that it matters not whether you
ever served a day in uniform. It matters not your gender,
your ethnic or religious background, your orientation, or your social status.
Our struggles in this world are similar, and the lessons
to overcome those struggles and to move forward, changing ourselves
and changing the world around us will apply equally to all.
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So here are the ten lessons I learned from basic
seal training that hopefully will be of value to you
as you move forward in life. Every morning in sealed training,
my instructors, who at the time we're all Vietnam veterans,
would show up in my barat room, and the first
thing they do is inspect my bed. If you did
it right, the corners would be square, the covers would
be pulled tight, the pillow center just under the headboard,
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and the extra blanket folded neatly at the foot of
the rack. It was a simple task, mundane at best,
but every morning we were required to make our bed
to perfection. It seemed a little ridiculous at the time,
particularly lie to the fact that we were aspiring to
be real warriors, tough, battle hardened seals. But the wisdom
of the simple act has been proven to me many
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times over.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
If you make your bed every morning, you will.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Have accomplished the first task of the day. It will
give you a small sense of pride, and it will
encourage you to do another task, and another and another,
and by the end of the day that one task
completed will have turned into many tasks completed.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Making your bed will also.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter.
If you can't do the little things right, you'll never
be able to do the big things right.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And if, by chance, you have a miserable.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
Day, you will come home to a bed that is made,
but you made, and a made bed gives you encouragement
that tomorrow will be better. So, if you want to
change the world, start off by making your bed. During
seal training, the students. During training, the students are all
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broken down boat crews. Each crew is seven students, three
on each side of a small rubber boat and one
cox and to help guide the dinghy. Every day, your
boat crew forms up on the beach and is instructed
to get through the surf zone and paddle several miles
down the coast. In the winter, the surf off San
Diego can get to be eight to ten feet high,
and it is exceedingly difficult to paddle through the plunging
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surf unless everyone digs in. Every paddle must be synchronized
to the stroke count of the Coxwin. Everyone must exert
equal effort or the boat will turn against the wave
and be unceremoniously dumped back on the beach. For the
boat to make it to its destination, everyone must paddle.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You can't change the world alone.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
You will need some help, and to truly get from
your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the
goodwill of strangers, and a stroll on Coxin to guide you.
If you want to change the world, find someone to
help you paddle. Over a few weeks of deical training,
my seal class, which started with one hundred and fifty men,
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was down to just forty two. There were now six
boat crews of seven men each. I was in the
boat with the tall guys, but the best boat crew
we had was made up of the little guys, the
Munchkin crew we called them.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
No one was over five foot five.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
The Munchkin boat crew had one American Indian, one African American,
one Polish American, one Greek American, one Italian American, and
two tough kids from the Midwest. They outpaddled, out ran,
and outswam all the other boat crews. The big men
and the other boat crews would always make good natured
fun of the tiny little flippers the Munchkins put on
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their tiny little feet prior to every swim. But somehow
these little guys from every corner of the nation in
the world always had the last laugh, sow any faster
than everyone in reaching the shore, long before the rest
of US. Seal training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered
but your will to succeed. Color, not your ethnic background,
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not your education, not.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Your social status. If you want to.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Change the world, measure a person by the size of
their heart, not by the size of their flippers. Several
times a week, the instructors would line up the class
and do a uniform inspection.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It was exceptionally thorough. Your hat had to be.
Speaker 7 (23:19):
Perfectly starched, your uniform immaculately pressed, your belt buckles shiny
and void of any smudges. But it seemed that no
matter how much effort you put into starching your hat,
or pressing your uniform or polishing your belt buckle, it just.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Wasn't good enough.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
The instructors would find something wrong. For failing uniform inspection,
the student had to run fully clothed into the surf zone,
then wet from head to toe, roll around on the
beach until every part of your body was covered with sand.
The effect was known as sugar cookie. You stayed in
the uniform the rest of the day, cold, wet, and sandy.
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There were many a student who just couldn't accept the
fact that all their efforts were in vain. No matter
how hard they tried to get the uniform right, they
went on appreciated those students didn't make it through training.
Those students didn't understand the purpose of the drill. You
were never going to succeed. You were never going to
have a perfect uniform. The instructors weren't.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Going to allow it. Sometimes, no matter how well you
prepare or how.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Well you perform, you still end up as a sugar cookie.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
It's just the way life is. Sometimes.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
If you want to change the world, get over being
a sugar cookie, and keep moving forward. Every day, during training,
you were challenged with multiple physical events, long runs, long swims,
obstacle courses, hours of calistenics, something designed to test your metal.
Every event had standards times you had to meet. If
you failed to meet those times those standards, your name
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was posted on a list, and at the end of
the day, those on the list were invited to a circus.
A circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to
wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you
to quit.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
No one wanted a circus. A circus meant that for
that day, you didn't measure up.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
A circus meant more fatigue, and more fatigue meant that
the following day would be.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
More difficult, and more circuses were likely. But sometime during
seal training.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Everyone everyone made the circus list. But an interesting thing
happened to those who were constantly on the list. Over time,
those students who did two hours of extra scalisthenics got
stronger and stronger. The pain of the circus is built
inner strength and physical resiliency.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Life is filled with circuses.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
You will fail, and you will likely fail often and
it will be painful, it will be discouraging at times.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It will test you to your very core.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
But if you don't, if you want to change the world,
they'll be afraid of the circus.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's another work week in the books. Gain you geared
up for the weekend.
Speaker 10 (26:02):
It's the Friday drive home when the Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
I'm sharing this speech by Admiral mcgraven. If you missed
it earlier, you have to hear the earlier part you
go back on the podcast because I want you to
understand we have to do more than bash Kamala Harris.
We have to fire up our troops to save this
country that's on us.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
At least twice a week, the trainees were required to
run the obstacle course. The obstacle course contained twenty five obstacles,
including a ten foot wall, a thirty foot cargo net,
a barbed wire crawl to name a few. But the
most challenging obstacle was a Slide for Life. It had
a three level thirty foot tower at one end and
a one level tower.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
At the other.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
In between was a two hundred foot long rope. You
had to climb the three tier tower and once at
the top, you grabbed the rope, swung underneath the rope,
and pulled yourself hand over hand until you got to
the other end. The record for the obstacle course had
stood for years. When my class began in nineteen seventy seven.
The record seemed unbeatable until one day, as student decided
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to go down the slide for.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Life head first.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Instead of swinging his body underneath the rope and inching
his way down, he bravely mounted.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
The top of the rope and thrust himself forward.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
It was a dangerous move, seemingly foolish and fraught with risk.
Failure could be an injury in being dropped from the course.
Without hesitation, the students slid down.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The rope perilously fast. Instead of several.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Minutes, it only took him half that time, and by
the end of the course he had broken the record.
If you want to change the world, sometimes you have
to slide down the obstacle's head first.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
During the land warfare.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Phase of training, the students are flown out to San
Clemente Island, which lies off the coast of San Diego.
The waters off Sanclementary are a breeding ground for the
great white sharks, to pass seal training, there a series
of long swims it must be completed.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
One is the night swim.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Before the swim, the instructors joyfully brief the students on
all the species of sharks that inhabit the waters off
San Clemente. They assure you, however, that no student has
ever been eaten by a shark, at least not.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
That they can remember.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
But you are also taught that if a shark begins
to circle your position, stand your ground, do not swim.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Away, do not act afray. And if a shark hungry.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
For a midnight snack darts towards you, then summons up
all your strength and punch him in the snout and
he will turn and swim away. There are a lot
of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete
the swim, you will have to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
So if you want to change the world, don't back
down from the sharks.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
As Navy Seal is, one of our jobs is to
conduct underwater attacks against enemy shipping. We practice this technique
extensively during training. The ship attack mission is where a
pair of sealed divers is dropped off outside an enemy
harbor and then swims well over two miles underwater, using
nothing but a depth gage and a compass to get
to the target. During the entire swim, even well below
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the surface, there is some light that comes through. It
is comforting to know that there is open water above you.
But as you approach the ship, which is tied to
a pier, the light begins to fade. The steel structure
of the ship blocks the moonlight, It blocks the surrounding
street lamps, It blocks all ambient light. To be successful
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in your mission, you have to swim under the ship
and find the keel, the center line and the deepest
part of the ship.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
This is your objective.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
But the keel is also the darkest part of the ship,
where you cannot see your hand in front of your
face from the ship's machinery is deafening, and where it
gets to be easily disoriented and you can fail. Every
seal knows that under the keel, at that darkest moment
of the mission is the time when you need to
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be calm, When you must be calm, when you must
be composed, when all your tactical skills, your physical power,
and your inner strength must be brought to bear. If
you want to change the world, you must be your
very best in the darkest moments. The ninth week of
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training is referred to as Hell Week. It is six
days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and
one special day at the mudflats. The mudflats are an
area between San Diego and Tijuana where the water runs
off and creates the Tijuana Slews, a swampy patch of
terrain where a mud will engulf your It is on
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Wednesday of Hell Week. Let you paddle down to the
mudflats and spend the next fifths trying to survive this
freezing cold, the howling wind, and the incessant pressure to
quit from the instructors. As the sun began to set
that Wednesday evening, my training class, having committed some egregious.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Infraction of the rules, was ordered into the mud.
Speaker 7 (31:18):
The mud consumed each man till there was nothing visible
but our heads.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
The instructors told us we could.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
Leave the mud if only five men would quit. Only
five men, just five men, and we could get out
of the oppressive cold. Looking around the mud flat, it
was apparent that some students were about to give up.
It was still over eight hours till the sun came up.
Eight more hours of bone chilling cold. The chattering teeth
and the shivering moans of the trainees were so loud
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it was hard to hear anything. And then one voice
began to echo through the night. One voice raised in song.
The song was terribly out of tune, but sung with
great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three,
and before long everyone in the class was singing. The
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instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if
we kept up singing. But the singing persisted, and somehow
the mud seemed a little warmer, and the wind a
little tamer, and the dawn not so far away. If
I have learned anything in my time traveling the world,
it is the power of hope, the power of one person.
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A Washington, a Lincoln, King Mandela, and even a young
girl from Pakistan Malala. One person can change the world
by giving people hope. So if you want to change
the world, start singing when you're up to your neck
in mud. Finally, a seal training, there's a bell, a
brass bell that hangs in the center of the compound
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for all the students to see. All you have to
do is quit. All you have to do to quit
is ring the bell. Ring the bell, and you no
longer have to wake up at five o'clock. Ring the
bell and you no longer have to be in the.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Freezing cold swims.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Ring the bell and you no longer have to do
the runs, the obstin of course, the pt and you
no longer have to endure the hardships of training. All
you have to do is ring the bell to get out.
If you want to change the world, don't ever ever
ring the bell.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It will not be easy.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to
help you through life. Respect everyone. Know that life is
not fair and that you will fail often. But if
you take some risks, step up when the times are
the toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the down trodden,
and never ever give up.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
If you do these things, the next.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
Generation and the generations.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
That follow we'll live in a world far.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Better than the one we have today, and what's started
here will indeed have changed the world for the better.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Go fight when there is your charge. This is your nation,
this is your moment.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Own it
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