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When you look at DC the level of wealth around DC when it's mostly politicians

you got Newsome man buying it You know, this is obviously stateside, but you know, he's a $9.5 million house.

He's the governor of California.

I get you can own businesses, but there's just too much

There's too much overlapping

All right, guys, got Taylor here escaping the fires, man.

It's getting rough out there.

Yeah, man, it's been heavy.

We're right in between it.

So, right in between San Diego and L.A., we're in that inland area, Canyon Lake, kind of Temecula area, but dude, it's been horrible.

Man, it's heavy, you know, how that stuff rolls in.

This is just that perfect storm of, you know, shit, man.

That's Santa Ana with all the stuff going on, man.

It's a shame.

A lot of people lost their homes, man.

Dude, it's crazy.

I try not to get too conspiratorial, but it just seems like a lot of fishy stuff, right?

Yeah, I agree.

Well, you know, I always say, don't just shed off as conspiracy what can be just complete incompetence.

You know,

I feel like conspiracy back when we were growing up was like, you're crazy.

Yeah.

Like if you believed in those.

Yeah.

Now it's like normal.

Dude, I mean, there's so many people that have so many agendas.

And I don't put anything past anybody, especially if you got

enough.

ass in the sauce to be able to make some shit happen, man.

Right.

And I'm sure you witnessed these firsthand, you know, with your military experience.

Yeah, man.

I mean, also, you, also, I also, in the devil's advocate piece,

it's hard to keep a secret.

It is hard to keep a secret.

And so there's that conspiracy piece of you really need a lot of people to keep a lot of secrets and that's tough to do.

Yeah, because some of these are wild.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I don't really trust people's ability to keep their mouths shut.

Yeah.

And on social media these days, I mean, people are just quick to fire the trigger.

Yeah.

They're like, oh, I got a secret, man.

Let me tell you how much I'm going to pay.

Yeah.

They're releasing some unclassified documents today.

Did you see that?

I saw that Trump kind of opened up some of those RFK documents, man.

That's going to be interesting.

That is going to be interesting.

I can't wait to get home tonight to read those, honestly.

Yeah, I was curious how

Kennedy was kind of, RFK was kind of looking at how that might feel, you know,

being family associated.

I mean, he must have known by now, right?

Yeah,

I'm fascinated with some of the dinner conversations between that family, bro.

Can you imagine?

Yeah.

You know, they've had helicopters landing on their front lawn for decades, you know, just being that, that that tight end, that high up.

I can't imagine what some of those conversations are.

Yeah, it's going to be interesting, man.

My grandmother, I was too young when he got assassinated, but she, she really got affected by that one.

Yeah.

You know, my grandparents, that was a big deal back in the day.

Bro, imagine that scene.

That's powerful, man.

That's pretty, that's powerful what that, what that, how that actually transpired.

They got it on video, too.

Yeah, dude.

I mean, people live.

Imagine, I mean, we had almost that same thing happen here, you know, with,

I mean, there was a lot of talk, but people think about what that actually would have been.

That's horrifying, man.

That type, that level of violence and people seeing that and somebody died there too, right?

And so, man,

it's nothing just to scoff at that level of violence.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You never wanted to get to that far, even if you disagree, right?

Dude, people are extreme, man.

Yeah.

Dudes, talk some shit out, man.

It's okay to have ideas, but people get so wrapped up emotionally.

It's lack of emotional intelligence, man.

Yeah.

How did you get control of your emotion?

Because I'm assuming you weren't born like that, right?

No, dude.

I'm actually probably one of the worst.

I had a

just I had a real bad temper growing up and you know that all that wrapped in with growing up.

And it's it's no excuses.

It's just kind of reasons or things that I had to learn.

But I really learned my

ability to control my emotional state, my internal vibrational frequency in the French Foreign Legion, where I was had everything stripped away and was just kind of forced to go internal, man.

Yeah, because that's like the highest level of the military over there, right?

Well, it's it's it's infantry.

It's highly trained infantry unit.

It's just a very unique unit.

Anybody that doesn't kind of know 30,000-foot overview, it's like a couple hundred-year-old institution that's just foreign fighters in France started by an old king to get foreigners off the out of the bars and back onto the battlefield without the political pressure of French coming back in body bags.

Interesting.

And they've fought in every war from Algeria to fucking Afghanistan.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

So it's a very, it's about 7,000 guys, almost all foreigners.

And they have French officers for the most part that come from their like West Point, you know, equivalent over there.

And all the rest are foreigners, man.

And so you show up with a bag and your passport and knock on the door.

It's like the, it's like the Wizard of Oz, man.

You just go, there's no application.

There's no fucking, there's no calling ahead.

You just go.

There's two little bases, one on the

east outskirts of Paris and one in South France.

You just go knock on this big iron metal door and a dude with a gun and like a green beret, who's a French Foreign Legionnaire, will open it up and be like, ques quespas, you know, what's up?

You know, like, je sui, si poul la légion, you know, if you googled a little French before you got there.

And they tell you to get up on the pull-up bar and you hand your fucking passport.

And I didn't see that passport again for three years, man.

Whoa.

Yeah, you hand it over.

And if you make it through,

you can't leave the country.

You operate under a fake name.

They give you a fake identity and all that.

Holy crap.

Yeah, it's a very unique institution.

That is super unique.

24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

You can go there at Christmas morning and knock on this door and they'll let you in.

No days off.

No, that's, it's, it's 24-hour guarded.

It's just what they do, man.

That is interesting.

Yeah.

And all sorts of perspectives because you said it's people from around the world.

It's not just French people, right?

Yeah, it's, it's 150 nations represented in the French foreign lesion.

So, I mean, in my graduating class of like 50 guys, it was Venezuela, Colombia,

El Salvador.

You have countries, every country in Africa, South Africa, Mali,

Chad.

Damn.

And then you have all the way to Thailand, Mongolia.

Man, and every Eastern European, a lot of Eastern Europeans.

Ukrainians, Romanians, things like that, man.

Nepalese also.

Yeah, so super tight-knit too, because only 7,000, only 50 in your class.

So that's like very personal.

Yeah, man.

And so it's about one out of 15 guys who knock on the door will actually get selected.

Oh, that's it?

Yeah, it's about one out of 15 because it's, they're looking at your feet, your legs, your, your overall body composition, military experience, age, 18 to 39 and a half.

17 and a half to 39 and a half is the window.

But they're looking at everything.

And also massively important is the interview.

So psychological evaluations, IQ tests, and Interpol background checks.

Damn.

So that's going to be, and that's that whole vetting process is about a month long before you actually sign a contract.

That's insane.

Yeah, before you go to boot camp.

That's just like you in civilian clothes, hanging out for a couple of weeks, IQ tests, medical checks, dental records, all these dental checks, I should say,

and interrogations.

They do this like Gestapo interview, which mine was very long because they're like, what the fuck's a foreign, former Navy SEAL doing here?

They don't want issues with the United States government.

They don't want dudes coming there for war crimes or having issues with

Interpol, arms trafficking, drug trafficking.

So they're like, what the fuck are you doing here?

And I just told them, I was like, man, I ruined my whole life.

I need a second chance.

You know, and so that checks out, though.

Right.

They're like, all right, that actually makes sense.

Yeah.

They're not looking for Boy Scouts there.

They know what the deal is.

That's interesting.

They probably don't want spies either.

Yeah.

I mean,

there's a couple countries they don't allow, which is interesting.

I think it was

Cuba and North Korea, I think, are like two countries.

That makes sense.

Yeah, they're two countries that they don't allow that might have changed, but it had hadn't at that time.

Yeah.

Where did you get sent off to while you were there?

So they sent me to South America, an employment in South America.

And when the Ukraine war kicked off, they sent us to Enhance Ford Presence Battle Group attached with NATO to the Russian border in Estonia, which was, you know, people that only know, because I didn't know much about Estonia before, but it's that far northeast corner along the border of Russia.

And it was the Danish, the French, the UK, and

Estonians grouped up in this like, I mean, dude, we were rolling out on.

exercises, flexing on the border, right?

It wasn't hot combat or anything like that, but it was just

joint training exercises flexing on the border blowing some up but we'd roll out with like 82 tanks man holy crap i had never seen being a navy seal seven years you know you're operating differently but dude 82 tanks in a row that's three million in diesel every day you know it's like it's a lot of money so or every few days but in south america A lot of people don't know.

I didn't know this.

I didn't know France had territory in South America.

I did not know this.

It's called Guian Francais, French Guian.

So they actually have, they use the fucking Euro.

They speak French.

Really?

And yeah, and so it used to be a penal colony.

And anybody seen the movie as the Papillon?

It's like with Dennis Hoffman, old movie in the 70s.

That's the movie about French Guian, which is, dude, there's a lot of gold down there.

The whole job down there was patrolling deep jungle operations.

Pretty much combating, not combating, but policing any illegal gold mining operations and also kind of securing legal gold mining operations for french companies in french guian man so you would run into illegal gold miners oh dude we'd do 14 day patrols i had no idea how prolific it was down there we would hit a new one every day whoa dude every day 14 day patrols in hit hit destroy run off because you can't really wrap these dudes up dude you're 14 days hiking in the jungle what are you gonna do with them yeah you can't bring them back no you can't bring them back and so you're dude they would have full-on little cities built.

Dude, they would have karaoke bars.

What?

They would have whorehouses, man.

They would have, it was like coming into these small little like shack villages, man.

And so we'd be like, dude, we'd have to,

it wasn't really disrespectful.

You're like, hey, man, you know, we'd break their engines.

you know, pretty much burn the buildings down.

But dude, they would use tons of mercury.

There was to cut the gold.

They rip apart that place in terms of chemicals dude they would have us jumping in these mercury lakes pulling out diesel engines and hoses and

they're like hey navy seal go go for go for a uh go go for a um go for a swim you know and i'm like all right dude let's get it new guy on the new guy on the on the totem pool man yeah so it was the military sending you to do that to them yeah so it's the french government french government okay so the french foreign legion is uh i would say it's kind of like the marine corps in terms of structure and like formality yeah and and and it's a one-stop shop for france so the french foreign legion has their own cavalry tanks they have their own parachute regiment i was at the mountain mountain regiment which is kind of attached to the 27th mountain infantry brigade of france so it was a mountain mountain engineering regiment they got their own infantry and all that man yeah and so medical cooks administration all one-stop shop for for the French Foreign Legion.

So it's very useful for France.

It could just kind put a regiment or a company or whatever into wherever they need to put them.

That's insane.

So were these illegal mining operations, were they combative or were they kind of just submissive?

They're running off.

They don't really want issues with the French.

That makes sense.

You know, they don't want to get in a firefight.

But dude, they would have, some people would have weapons.

We'd come across weapons.

Thankfully, it wasn't, you know, we didn't have to like have any issues like that.

But

it's kind of sad because, dude, they got families there and stuff, too.

You got got women, kids, you know, dudes would run off.

It was just kind of a, it's unfortunate to see, but it's also people trying to make a lot of livelihood, you know?

So I don't have any ill will.

We're just kind of doing our piece down there to kind of just, you know, run it off and clean it up, I guess, as best we can.

Yeah.

Those mines, I've heard they're in Africa too.

Dude, tons, man.

I think they're probably doing cobalt and diamonds and stuff down there, but dude,

it's pretty powerful what you see because you know somebody at the top's making, making the cheese, but they're pulling a a lot of gold out of there dude wow we were taking um there would be spots man it would look like this man that big no i'm saying like the ground it would have these like shape you would see gold in the ground man just like laying in the sand wow damn it's really out here you know we would have these this one we did we had to bring a bunch of demolition in there and blow the shit up out of this gold mine but dude there would gold laying on the ground little trace amounts right but you could see the flickers but it's it's very impressive and i talked to a legal gold mine they had seven guys working this

this mine and i'm like what are you pulling out of here dude they were pulling 500 000 euros a week out of what yeah five six five seven guys man with just they had some equipment and it was a little bit better of a of a operation more formal but getting it out man dude it was like wild west the dude would put a backpack on one of them got shot through the neck and and uh that's why we got sent down there a couple weeks before he died because, dude, it's like the worst mission ever.

These guys would have their backpack, and I don't know how they would draw the short straw who would have, but weekly they would do the run to get the gold out.

And so, obviously, there's these small little like out bandit units that know, okay, these guys are going to have to get this fucking gold out somehow.

And so, dude would get on a dirt bike.

One guy would drive, one guy would have a gun in the back, and a backpack with packed with like the raw gold or however they got to get it out.

and just

fucking you know through the gauntlet man takes a week no it'd be i mean it would every week they would do that but it would take however many hours to get back to the main river because dude that then they're putting it on a river boat oh my god putting it on be terrified yeah man because it's too mountainous to fly right dude it's well it's so deep jungle man it is real amazon jungle dude wow because it's borders it borders venezuela damn it well it borders suriname technically, but it's, you know, right between Brazil and Venezuela is that area.

I mean, it's real jungle, man.

So you saw some wild animals out there.

Oh, dude.

It's like Avatar.

Dude, it's like, it's like hunger games, man.

Dude, we were down there and

you can't lay on the ground.

Really?

You cannot.

You're going to get.

fucked up, dude.

By a snake or something?

Ants, man.

Damn.

Dude, they're everywhere.

That's right.

And you don't think about the, it's not the big animals that you're really worried about, dude.

It's the small insects, man.

And I got hit by this.

I came up on like a nest of these things called fireflies.

And they, your normal, like,

Idaho fireflies or whatever they got.

These things are like the most terrifying things.

They stung the shit out of us.

But

you got to sleep in hammocks with nets.

And they call it Linfer Ver, bro.

After we probably hop off, I'll play you what it sounds like at night there, dude.

It's, it's, it sounds like this

all night.

What?

Howler monkeys, you know, they're howling.

It sounds like hell, man.

They call it l'Inferbert, green hell.

That's what the French call it.

Eerie, but oddly relaxing.

You know, you're in a hammock and you're, you've been hiking all day or, you know, woman in the jungle.

And now, you know, you're, you're raised up, you're comfortable.

It's unique.

It's a very unique experience.

That is unique.

Yeah, it is cool.

You get, you're soaked, bro.

Absolutely soaked.

You can't carry enough water.

Okay.

We would have three-liter water bottles and just fill, we'd have water purification tablets.

And so just fill, you'd go through three liters of water in like a fucking hour.

Holy shit.

So you'd have to consistently be refilling these things and putting water purification tablets and ideally hiking near a river or patrolling near a river.

So you can actually keep your water surplus like up.

It's substantial.

So you have one completely wet pair that you just of socks, pants, boots, and that's just soaked.

Then in your ruck, because you're carrying chainsaws and sledgehammers and shit, you're carrying a lot of heavy shit.

And as the American, they gave me a lot of extra love too.

So I had a little extra weight, you know, of stuff to carry.

But in there, you have a dry bag with dry stuff that you only bring out at night after you kind of rinse off in the river and kind of like clean off a little bit.

Then you'll put your dry shit on.

Dude, putting that dry shit on at night, bro, is like heaven.

Yeah.

Heaven, man.

You lay in your hammock.

You're like, oh dude just having dry feet for like five seconds i love it it's like putting on the fresh laundry it's a little warm oh dude it felt amazing and then in the morning you're putting all that wet back on because it's not drying so it's like wet socks and pants and your shirt you know like putting a wet shirt back on

yeah it's good times man you're like why did i sign up for this dude i was actually happy because

working in the french warrant legion is like a break because back at the regiment in France, dude, the French Warren Legion is like prison with a a gun, man.

It's strict,

very strict, very formal.

It's a lot of pressure.

Job satisfaction is not super high.

It's a lot of guys that are from really poor countries that need to be there.

Some guys running from the law, they need to be there.

So it's a tough,

it pushes, it's like an Eastern Bloc.

A lot of Eastern Bloc guys are...

in leadership positions on the enlisted side.

So you, those dudes are fucking tough, man.

You got Maldovians, you know the dudes from belarus yeah all you know tough tough places and they push that culture down you know and so that's who's that's who's running the show as it should be not judging it it just is like that you know that's just the reality of it that makes sense so you were the only american out there i there was one other american who was in my company who ended up going to ukraine so he ended up leaving his contract early and going to fight in ukraine he's still over there yeah prior marine yeah that war's still going on yeah you optimistic about trump putting an end to some of these?

Dude,

strength is important, right?

I think we see what happens with lack of strength.

Yeah.

Right.

And having strength and some competency back in the, back in the driver's seat is fucking nice to see, man.

Yeah.

You know, and so I think it can only be net positive.

I agree.

Because you were serving under Biden, right?

I was serving under.

Obama.

Really, and Biden, but I was in France for Biden.

Okay.

So I was, I was, I just got back last year, like 11, 12 months ago was It was when I got back from France.

So I've been in,

so I was under Biden.

So it was weird seeing

these last years

from an outside perspective in Europe.

It was odd.

Yeah.

How did they talk about what was going on?

They were like, what the fuck's going on over there?

You know, it was, it was weird because you're in the French Foreign Legion, which is like the last bastion of anti-wokeness that you could ever fucking imagine.

Bro, you talk about gender fluidity and stuff.

And I'm not judging.

i don't care people live their lives but you try to explain that to a romanian who fucking is like what they it's completely baffling like they they're just not like connecting the dots on that shit they don't understand it how

and so it was interesting to see also

the political

because france is pretty left right

yeah france is pretty less and they're having a really really tough time with integration with immigration and marseille where i actually lived and close to was the most dangerous city in europe damn for like the last three years.

Dude, we'd be sitting there and they'd be burning cars, burnt cars in fucking Marseille, South France.

Gunfire, AK, dudes dying from AK gunfire.

I had no idea that that was going on.

It's not like a war zone or anything, but there's areas that the police don't even go because the integration with the Algerians over there are

so

it's the byproduct of imperialism, right?

They're opening up the immigration.

They were in Algeria.

France was in Algeria for years.

26 countries in Africa speak French.

A lot of people don't know that.

I did not know that.

France has had their piggies, you know, all over the world.

And so back home, the country is

very, very

social welfare.

They push a lot of it and they're having a lot of hard times with it.

I wonder if they'll bounce back.

Sounds like a lot of countries are under new leadership.

You see Canada now.

Well, the pendulum's shifting over there hard.

They had this woman over there, they called the female Trump that she was running for president.

I don't know what her name is.

Somebody will know if they watch it, but she's like one and she's hardcore man.

Oh, yeah.

She's like, bring back the frank.

We're not using the Euro to port everybody.

You know, she's one of those.

Did she win or not?

She didn't win this last time.

Macron won again, but

that dialogue is going on.

That extreme left and right is really

that extreme bipartisan view between conservatives and liberals

is playing out in France also.

Yeah, it's interesting to see how different politicians treat the guys in the military too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I like to see the pride.

I would, you know, what's interesting about France is we would do a lot of patrols through

with guns and through villages.

Like that's how our training would go.

And here it would kind of raise some eyebrows, right?

If you saw a platoon or a group just patrolling through your fucking neighborhood, over there is like old lady with her baguette, like, ah, bonjour.

You know, very, very different culture.

And definitely between a lot of the old because a lot of them were around, You know, maybe they were younger during the tale of World War II or some flight, but Europe has a, you know, they've been in it.

United States, man, so geographically isolated, people forget that there's shit going on and it's not a very

kind world for the most part.

Facts.

And people

get a little bit,

our geographic isolation, I think people forget that.

And over there, especially with the older population, but man, we would

they use the French Foreign Legion and other units in france to do what's called vigi parat which is anti-terrorism internal domestic missions they have such a high risk of terror uh events or terrorism in france because of you know places of worship monuments and all this they use two-month sections they would for two months we would do these small missions which was patrolling all these things in France, deployed internal, which is illegal here.

Like we, you know, you can't use the military to do that type of stuff here but we would i patrolled on long the riviera the beach with an hk damn it full on the camo and people like hey you know topless chicks like hey bonjour like no merci merci avu and they know you're you're french foreign legionnaires here serving in their country and it's like a totally

totally normal thing it's very normal to see that and uh so it was it's interesting that's interesting because you do have it they're very kind of left and you know, very, very tough laws around weapons and all that stuff in France.

But then you also have this other juxtaposition where French Foreign Legionnaires patrolling the streets.

Very odd.

The psychology of it's fascinating because over here, it's the reverse.

You see a police officer, you get nervous.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

That, that, that authority.

Who knows why that is?

Maybe we have some, you know,

I think it is our

geographic isolation and the safety that's created that we're like, what, why do I need this?

Yeah, Yeah, because we have no imminent threats.

Yeah, why does this, why does this authority thing need to be here?

Or why does this guy with a gun need to be here?

Other countries are worried about invasion.

They got neighboring countries to worry about.

We're so, like you said, we're so far out of the way.

We're not worried about invasions.

Yeah, man.

And it's important for people to remember that we are safe because of our big stick.

Right.

We flex a lot of power and that deterrent's important.

I'm not necessarily, I don't think we need to be in all these different countries spending all this money, but there is a line that I think is very important for us to maintain.

Yeah, there's always that debate of like, should we send foreign aid here?

Should we send it there?

Should we even get involved at all?

Yeah.

I mean, we're helping so many different countries.

I think probably the answer, and I think Trump's mentioned it too, is we got to dial a lot of it back.

Agreed.

I think that just

fiscal, being fiscally conservative, I don't think should be a bipartisan issue.

No.

Fiscal, being fiscally conservative, man, you operate your home finances that way.

Right?

Yeah, the government is a business, right?

At the end of the the day yeah man it's money in money out yeah and a lot's going out right now yeah man it's a lot going out right it's like uh who is that who was that comedian he's talking about man he goes we had a debt he goes who do we owe he goes

him don't pay him like you know it's funny sim simplified in that way obviously it's not correct but it's it's so funny is that we you know we're just driving this debt up and it's just not going to work in a sustainable way like we got we have to have some intelligent leadership man that's why i'm excited for doge man yeah i mean i hate to like see people lose jobs, but let's be efficient.

We have to be.

And sometimes heads got to roll.

Yeah, if you're not performing, I mean, I'm all results oriented.

So like, if you're not performing, buy.

Dude, it's absurd people not showing up to work.

And the, the, if, somebody did a rundown of how many government agencies we have or departments.

It was like a new one has been created every year since the United States.

I saw that.

It was in the 200s.

Yeah, 200 something or maybe.

That's too much.

You got cat fashion show department or some shit.

It's like, but really, very odd things and spending.

And it's really, if you don't have a department and some people who actually know how to get some shit done, who aren't attached to the swamp directly, man, how is it going to get done?

You need somebody to come in with a fucking axe, man.

I mean, it's disheartening because as a U.S.

citizen, as a taxpayer, I'm paying hundreds of thousands a year in taxes.

I would love to see that put to good use.

Yeah, man.

Like guys like you or something efficient, but like the way it's going now, I'm not even excited to pay taxes because it's blessed to mind.

No, and that, and that's not how it should be, right?

It should be,

we have a pretty progressive tax system.

People pay a lot of taxes and they go fucking out the window.

And you should have confidence in where your money's going.

Should have confidence in your leadership.

Agreed.

Because I would love to.

help our economy or whatever and our government if it was actually being used efficiently.

But now everyone I talk to hates paying taxes, just being honest.

Yeah, remote.

Yeah.

And that shouldn't really be because you should feel like you're in a partnership with the United States government and that things are going to be spent in an intelligent way.

And that just has not been the fucking case.

Who knows whose pockets it's lining?

We know it's not going to the places it's done.

Follow the money, man.

I mean, the fact that the Pentagon or all these places, man, can't pass a fucking audit.

Yeah, I saw that.

Is really concerning, man.

They're like,

man, it's just a billion, dude.

Just 10 billion.

Just move a decimal, man.

I mean, you carry the one and shit happens.

It's like, nah, man.

Like,

even down to

military units, you have got to have your shit on point, man.

There can't be things missing.

And

that same logic should be applied all the way up the chain.

Yeah, you see these movies and it's like these dark money operations.

Do you think there's any truth to like that within the government?

How

funding all this weird stuff?

Oh, fuck it.

Do you think so?

Yeah, man, I do.

I mean, it's impossible to have that much money and not have some

dark shit going down, right?

Not have pots of money that are being used for you know, whatever.

I mean, the Pentagon, audit, missing so much money, it's just like where to go.

Well, it's and it's not even like a small, wasn't it like a trillion?

A lot of money, something crazy, some crazy amount of money that is

it's

it's also concerning when you look at DC, the level of wealth around D.C., when it's mostly politicians.

You got Newsome, man, buying it.

This is obviously stateside, but he's a $9.5 million house.

He's the governor of California.

I get you can own businesses, but there's just too much.

There's too much overlapping

questionable shit going on when it's, they're not even trying to hide it anymore, man.

It's hard to hide a house, right?

They're not even trying to hide it anymore.

When at least before they had the honor to try to hide it, man, they're not even doing that anymore well i think because of social media too people on x are getting news so fast it's like dude right that's the beautiful thing about social media people talk about you know the negatives but the positives are the transparency right the positives are you get in it like you know you got a super strong platform bro you can give direct information that's not that you don't have to bow the knee to somebody agreed right you don't have to bow you can get honest information nowadays that bro before when were you getting it you're getting it from five six seven sources, maybe, if you're lucky.

Yeah, maybe I'm not, I'm not owned by anyone.

You're not owned by anyone.

You don't got to bow the knee, man.

Yeah, I'm independent.

That's why I like shows like Sean Ryan.

Do you know that show?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So, like, he covered the Tesla Cybertruck blowing up in Vegas, and there was a lot of disinformation until we covered it.

Yeah.

He found out what happened.

So, dude, and that's that's a beautiful thing.

That is the beautiful thing about independent shit and it not being so consolidated.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The decentralization of media and have guys like you covering so many different bases.

Guess what, man?

You get a full view of the honest vision when you're getting it from all these different people, all these different sides and your connections and who you can get information from directly.

It's powerful, man.

It's been great for guys like you.

There's a lot of SEALs having success, you know, former military guys being able to finally share what they went through.

Yeah, man.

And I heard, you know, you'll get some negativity

from, you know, all these different sources.

You know, there's all that side of it.

But, you know, people will be like, oh, narcissism hopping on the thing talking.

I I go, no, man, you learn lessons going through hard shit.

And so there's lessons learned when you're going through training, when you see certain things and get to push yourself certain limits.

And that's important to share, man.

What are you just supposed to sit on?

Good information that could help somebody's life.

And for me, man, I went from, you know, the SEAL community, made a bunch of bad decisions.

You know, I was arrested, went to jail, went to jail before and middle and after, man, and got kicked out,

you know, for performance harassing drugs, you know, steroids.

And, you know, I don't try to throw that accountability.

I did it all.

But in that process of kind of breaking my life down and ripping it apart, man, it took me to a suicidal point, man.

I was in my truck, you know, thinking about killing myself two years after that, after working in the civilian world and things, and business kind of fell apart and bad habits, alcohol, adder all weeds, you know, all this shit, man, and just not living correctly.

And being at that low point and then being able to build yourself back up and pull yourself out of it.

And the process of what I learned in that and the steps it took, man, I want to share with people because there's a lot of people at that low point and I don't fucking want people to stay there.

Yeah.

You know, and so this mic is very helpful.

You know, platforms like yours are very helpful.

And I appreciate your, you, you know, inviting me here, Sean, is man, if you're in that point, take some certain steps of somebody who's already been there, pull themselves out.

Let me talk to you, right?

There's, that's the opposite of narcissism, man, right?

I want to fucking share

how to change not only your life, but your family's life.

Leave a legacy of strength and resilience, not

something terrible.

Yeah, that's why I love having veterans on because you guys deal with a lot of mental health issues behind the scenes, you know?

Yeah.

You can inspire and help a lot of people.

Yeah, and that's really the, you know, sure, you can use it for some, you know, beating beating your chest or whatever, but that's not the point.

There's so much good information about for veterans and anybody who's going through tough, difficult times, transitions in your life, losing a business, divorce, like guys I work with, a lot of those, you have the full slew, death, all these things that you learn going through,

you know, especially as a veteran that

man, everybody goes through and everybody can apply these same principles to live well, to live in an excellent way, to approach your day and try to master your fucking day, like the samurai would call it, right?

And

those, that

universal wisdom, if we pull it into and apply it to this daily life of what we do, man, it works.

Yeah, it fucking works, man.

Damn.

I didn't know you got kicked out for that.

So I had Dr.

Mark Gordon on the show.

He said guys aren't even allowed to use peptides or else they'll get kicked out.

Yeah, man.

And so I was at a time, you know, it was a little bit more cowboy.

It was still against the rules, though, zero tolerance.

I fucking knew it.

And I did it anyway, you know.

And so when I brought heat on myself i had two bar fights and you know about a year apart from each other or a couple you know a year apart and i brought heat on myself and navy jag was like wow you you know yeah i was getting out of it with good lawyers and stuff and they were like negative bro and so they sent my test to the olympic testing center and

i lit that test up like a christmas tree man and you know but i didn't fight it i didn't deny it and that was part of i took a general discharge right and so because part of it was you know I wasn't trying to deny it or, you know, drag the thing out longer than it had to be.

Yeah.

And that was it.

Right.

And so now they're very strict on it.

And they've,

I don't really have an opinion on it.

You know, it is what it is.

I just think it sucks because a lot of these veterans or guys in the military, they actually have super low testosterone for the explosions and mental damage.

And peptides can really help with that.

Man, dude,

they have doctors now and stuff.

And I really think that hopefully, or I trust that the science will get in pushed.

I I mean, you want guys operating at an optimum level, right?

Some guys may

think I was doing it, you know, for selfish reasons too, right?

I wanted to look better at the beach and shit like that, right?

There were some, you know, there were some, there were some immature reasons I was doing it too, but you are stronger.

Your immune system's better.

You're a little bit more clear.

You could operate a little bit longer.

So there's definite positives to it, man.

Well, testosterone is super important as a male.

Yeah, man, dude.

And guys are, you know, sleep deprivation, going through a lot of years of, you know, getting banged up, man.

I think it's important.

It's at least listen to the doctors.

You know, at least listen to the people who actually fucking know and are putting some good information out.

It's crazy what I've heard, what you guys deal through, because you guys have to hide your injuries too, or else they'll discharge you, right?

Man, dude, I mean, you'll go through a med board pretty quickly, you know, but it's a tough game, man.

It's a real tough game.

You're operating a lot.

You're trained.

A lot of people don't talk about how dangerous the training is.

A lot of guys die.

It's not from combat.

It's from training, man.

Really?

Yeah, man.

Jumps, drowning.

I almost drowned in Mexico doing the G20 summit doing

Obama's thing when he was doing the G20 summit down there.

I almost died.

That was the closest I ever came to dying.

What was that?

G20 Summit?

Dude, it was 2012 and the G20 Summit was happening in Cabo.

Yeah.

And they used a couple SEAL units.

One was doing his like Overwatch

on land.

And

my little unit at Team 7.

was Drew the Shortstraw and we were doing the maritime extraction force.

So we were kind of like two miles out to sea getting towed on these boats for about a week while off of Obama's little mansion he rented at the fucking golf course, right?

Holy crap.

So while he was, they were worried about the cartels.

So while he was transiting,

they were worried, okay, he might, if he gets wrapped up and we need to like extract him via ocean, we're going to use some team guys, some SWICCs, whatever.

What happened was, see, what had happened was

a couple days into it, a huge storm came in.

Massive storm, and we needed to like shelter inland.

Yeah.

And dude, I jumped off onto this smaller boat or tried and hit the side, went in the drink, like full kit, weighted down.

And yeah, man, and almost died, man.

So you got knocked out underwater?

No, I didn't get knocked out.

I just hit the side of the boat and went in the drink, but I had

my body armor.

M4 wired onto my body.

Damn.

Six mags, pistol, backpack, radio, batteries, helmet night vision everything dude night and i had like a water wing and not a lot of flotation

pretty much zero flotation and was trying to was just treading water in like huge swells trying to get away from the props of the ship and

yeah it was pretty

two two o'clock three o'clock in the morning it was hectic you couldn't see oh dude it was hectic and so i was pretty much at mass exertion of i was exhausted it probably probably wasn't longer than a minute though right minute and a half ways were that intense but i was just sinking man.

And then I finally got a hand by one of one of the homies.

And he's like, you want to lift?

What he said to me.

And I was like, just fuck, dude.

Right.

So just

little things like that.

Like, it wasn't, we're not in Iraq.

You know, I went to Iraq with Team 7 also and shit, but it was.

You know, those are the times you go, oh, shit, this is real all the time.

Yeah.

Right.

Jumping.

And it's a dangerous gig, bro.

Not to mention the injuries you sustain.

You know, land warfare, carrying dudes, you're training hard.

The brain injuries, almost every single veteran has brain injuries.

Dude, you're doing, you're doing

breaching

inside of

kill houses and training, and you're blowing doors open.

And man, the percussion is very, very powerful.

A lot.

Yeah, the military doctor, Mark, he was saying just even firing bullets indoors around people is a mini concussion.

Oh, dude, it was, I mean, we're doing it all the time.

And then you're bringing C4 into the situation in enclosed spaces.

You're getting your bell rung a lot, man.

You got to get a brain scam on that.

Yeah.

Well, they did, man.

And yeah, man.

And so they're like, man, you got some stuff.

So VA has done some shit on that front, but they're tight on it.

You know, they're like, oh, do you have this or you have that?

Or what's it from?

You know?

Well, I don't know about the VA method because they're going to put you on pills, right?

They tried, but I just, I don't take them, man.

Well, I found in my life that My clarity is important, bro.

And so anything that tries to dull my clarity, I don't know what your belief and faith, but like, you know, whether you believe in energies or universal frequencies, man, if anything that kind of clouds that vision and that clarity, man, is, I ain't about, bro.

I agree.

I'm trying to stay tapped the fuck in.

Same.

I try to stay natural, bro.

Yeah, try to stay tapped in because, you know, anything, anything that blocks that connection and stops that download.

coming and that those ideas and that ability to engage correctly, bro.

I'm trying to stay sharp, not dull.

Agreed.

Have you always had the spiritual side to you?

I've always

known that there's a guiding force.

That's just since I was a child.

I never lost that.

I always, I wasn't raised super religious.

My parents actually exposed me to Buddhism.

So they were kind of raised castle, but I was went to meditation things and was pretty exposed to a lot of that stuff growing up.

And was just kind of told, hey, you know, you can kind of, wasn't guided in any real direction.

We went to church sometimes and stuff.

My parents split up, though, and I was raised by a mom.

She was a teacher.

So I was,

but very open-minded.

But I've just have always stayed connected in the fact that I really, truly think I'm on a, you know, and everybody has a divine design for themselves and their life, right?

And it's that that authentic voice that speaks to us is like, hey, Sean, hey, man, let's do this, man.

Let's tighten this part up.

Let's get up a little earlier.

Like there's that voice that, so I heard somebody say it the other day.

It was called that internal advisor.

I like that, that internal advisor.

And I get the chills when I think about that, man, because that internal internal advisor, anytime we go, nah, nah,

man, we stack a little karmic debt on ourselves.

Things happen, man.

But if you stay aligned with that internal advisor, things go well.

Things go generally pretty smooth.

I love that.

Yeah.

Cause you start wondering, we could get deep with this, but like, where do thoughts come from?

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Oh, man.

We can get real deep because I truly, thoughts are not nothing.

Right.

And I don't think all our thoughts are our own or maybe any of them, right?

It's like, where is that coming from?

Where is that?

Where's an idea come from?

I think it's pretty egotistical to think it's all internal, right?

It's all my brain and this and that, man.

I think there's more.

I think so, too.

There's more to it.

I've come to the conclusion at this point that there is no original thought.

Ooh, that's powerful.

Everything you've thought of, someone else has already thought of.

Yeah.

You know, because you go on social media, you see these videos.

You're like, wait, I thought of that years ago.

Yeah.

There's an interesting documentary on this.

It's called, they're called the telepathy kids or something.

It was kids with really extreme forms of

mental challenges and kids that can't talk or nonverbal and stuff.

And they were hooking them up to brain scans.

And I don't know how they were figuring out, but there's like this way they communicate or something happens.

And it's interesting because a lot of them were aligning with like

we're here.

Our whole focus here is to experience things.

and upload things to a collective unconscious.

Whoa.

Yeah, dude.

And I was like, whoa,

because

what is that universe, that collective unconscious?

It's all human wisdom and experience that's like uploaded into what?

And they were getting into like,

you know, alien.

It was kind of getting in, but it was very interesting because it kind of checks out.

We're here experiencing thing, energy.

what were happening war think about thousands and thousands of years of human experience where's it all going it's not going nowhere man it's getting uploaded into this collective unconscious that we can all tap into when we're really aligned i could see that.

I think we are all connected in some way, man.

I agree.

Dude, we're all the trees are connected.

We're not, we're not something here.

Alan Watts, who I really like, says this about

we're not something here experiencing something apart.

We're not apart from.

We're gold dust.

We're you are me and we're this fucking table.

You know, we're all just this, this intermingling.

We're perfectly connected with our surroundings.

We're here.

We're supposed to be here.

You are the universe's

ability to become conscious of itself.

Very powerful stuff

when we break down really what we're here.

We're the universe being conscious of itself.

And

the fact that we know that and when we tap into that, we're fucking empowered, right?

We're very empowered individuals that when we get depressed or whatever, When we're depressed, man, we're being very selfish.

And I'm saying that from my own perspective.

Anytime when I was in like my suicidal state, what brought me out of that was when I heard what I call God, was this authentic voice be like, you pussy,

think about your inner dialogue.

If you play your inner dialogue right now, Taylor, it was me, me, me, I, I, I, why is this?

Oh, that poor me.

It was like fucking boohoo.

Man, you have a sister, you have a mom, you have people that care about you.

What legacy are you leaving?

What devastation are you leaving for them, right?

Get out of yourself.

And that's when I decided to go in the Foreign Legion.

I love that.

It was like, that was the moment where I just fucking was like, you know, I got to get out of myself a little bit.

And I suggest anybody think about that is zoom out, think about your internal dialogue.

And that goes positive and negative, right?

Make sure your internal dialogue stays,

you're conscious of it.

Keep it positive, deliberately positive if you have to.

Not a fucking cheerleader, right?

You don't got to be, you know, but deliberately positive and conscious about what your internal state is yeah dude i love all that yeah also whenever i feel a little disconnected i get out in nature oh i like that connects me so well i'm sure when you were in the jungle you must felt some peace like you were saying out there well we get disconnected man just even physically from we're separated with rubber on our feet from the ground right even grounding your feet on some grass and get touching a tree right you're getting connected back with that that mother energy that is

you do not have the ability to do it if you're in the concrete jungle all day.

You just, when are you going to touch anything real?

You know, you're going to touch it.

When's the last time you touched a tree, you know, or put your feet on some grass?

It's one of the side effects of living in a major city, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it makes sense why people have neurosis, right?

It's neurosis and issues, psychological issues.

It's rooted in a couple of things: lack of being connected with nature in the right vibrational thing, and pain avoidance.

Pain avoidance is, you know, comfort seeking, right?

If you're constantly comfort seeking and detached from nature, bro, how could you be in a, in a good psychological state, at least in a sustainable way?

It's fucking impossible.

No, it is.

You see a lot of people with cubicle desk jobs, not in touch with nature.

They're depressed.

Dude, it makes sense.

Makes sense.

Dude, you're depressed, right?

No sunlight, vitamin D deficient, sodium deficient, micronutrient deficient, not connected with nature, not internal dialogues, dog shit.

Right.

Bro, you're fighting against the tide no you you're making it almost impossible to live in an optimistic lens or see the world in an optimistic way yeah and that's not even mentioning purpose right no dude not even not even talking about what you're doing yeah right we're not even talking about really daily habits yet those things stacked on top bro in if they're negative is

it's true it's truly impossible to live well in that way.

I don't care how much fucking money you make.

It doesn't matter.

It's not going to do it.

No, I agree.

I've seen people that are worth billions that aren't happy.

Yeah, man.

I'm like, go put your feet in the ground, bro.

You know what I mean?

I love that, man.

Grounding's super important.

Even in Vegas in the desert, I find some grass when I can.

Yeah, do it.

Hey, bro, get out there and put your feet on some ground, man.

Feels amazing.

Yeah, it does.

Feels so good.

When you were in the jungle, did you see any UFOs or any weird alien things?

Dude, it's kind of weird you say that.

I saw some shit.

I don't know what it is.

I don't know about aliens and I don't know about this.

I do, for the record, think that the universe is so big that just

statistically, it'd be probably impossible for things to not yeah but man you see things moving around and stuff but i don't know what satellites and what's this and what's that though i saw starlink once and i was freaking out i started recording it yeah i posted on my story everyone's like that's starlink i'm like

oh man

so yeah you're right there's satellites everywhere you really never know yeah but i've seen some some stars move yeah i've seen some weird stuff in there yeah man and it

You know what's really interesting?

A lot of guys in the military who watch this will know when you put night vision on,

if you've never put night vision on and put it on look up at it is unbelievable because it's picking up all the ambient light so it's very dark out right if it's like if you're in the desert and you put

you think you see the stars wait till you put night vision up and look up at the stars it is incredible the dynamic and how many more you see really yeah man because it's picking up the the stuff you can't see with the naked eye it is incredible wow I want to try that.

I actually love going stargazing, bro.

Get it.

They have cheap pairs and stuff, and they have stuff you could pick up at military surplus stores and stuff.

Yeah.

Bro, take it out there and go, whoa, dude.

Wow, I can't wait.

Yeah, because there's a lot of like pollution now, too.

So, yeah, I mean, you get away from that little bit of that light pollution or even the regular pollution, and you get out kind of in the desert, and then you

put some type of optic on.

It's cool.

I can't wait, man.

Yeah.

What's the next thing for you?

Because you're done with the French Legion, you said now?

Yeah, man.

Dude, I love connecting and just being able to show people what helped me, right?

It's, I love being able to work with my clients daily.

I do one-on-one zooms and stuff, but build people's habits.

I love to go, hey, here's what worked for me.

The answers are very simple to live well.

It's the execution on a fucking consistent basis that's challenging, right?

Because of all the external variables, family and stuff.

And I don't train people to get in a speedo on stage.

It's not what I do, right?

It's, I'm like, hey, you can improve your physical aptitude.

You can improve your daily disciplines.

You can, you can improve your clarity.

Let's start there, right?

And so that's kind of what I structure.

And so I'm just going to keep doing it, writing a book, a little bit about the story from Navy SEAL to jail to French Foreign Legion and kind of that whole redemption arc, what I learned in that French Foreign Legion barracks, which was I'm still not happy.

Now I was looking, what's the next mercenary group?

And what's this?

And like, what is, I'm going to like, dude, where does this end?

And I realized that my happiness wasn't attached to something external.

There's no fucking title.

There's no other unit.

There's nothing.

I had to learn how to be okay with just me by my

validated on just my daily habits.

That was a really groundbreaking thing because I could, you can, nobody could take that away from you.

People can take your badge.

They could take your money.

They could take anything.

And that was a process that I had to learn through the SEAL teams and through the French Foreign Legion that, dude, the label, it's not you.

You're not what you do.

You're

how you build yourself daily, right?

That was really important as I had to build myself into somebody I admired apart from the external validation.

That's phenomenal advice because there's a lot of active serving people right now that their identity is tied to that.

Dude, the badge, the uniform, the this, dude, it's going away.

Promise you, guaranteed.

It has to.

Everybody's got to hang it up.

And the only thing left is you and your daily habits.

And so it's a lot of people focus on, man, what do I want to do?

What's my purpose?

What's my this?

How am I going to get this done?

Stop focusing on the who, the what, and start focusing on the who.

Develop the who.

Once you got the fucking who set, that's the engine that drives everything, man.

That's the common denominator.

Right.

You, you are the engine that drives all this, right, Sean?

So your daily habits got to be good.

Your clarity's got to be good.

Your, you know, your vice has got to be in check.

Your emotional discipline, all these pieces, get that set.

Then you can crush any glue.

I love that.

Yeah.

Cause you could apply that to anything.

Anything, man.

You want to do real estate, be a lawyer.

I don't care what you're going to do.

Dude, if you bring that solid cat, that solid man or woman that's morally clear,

is not completely trying to burn karmic debt off all the time by not living correctly, man, you're going to, you're going to live a much better life and be much more successful in the long run.

Facts.

Because then you're not fighting against something.

Yeah.

You're just flowing.

Yeah, man.

You don't got to be pushing old ladies in the street to stack karmic debt.

You can just not be living your best life and listening to that internal advisor.

Yeah.

If you're hearing something, you're like, man, I should get up earlier.

I should really start getting in shape and stuff.

Just get a little momentum.

If you go, hey, man, tomorrow, guess what?

You just stack, you're burning off a little karmic debt.

Slight, right?

It's not a grave violation, but it's a little violation and you're consistently trying to fight against the tide, man.

That's why that famous thing of like 1% a day, right?

Dude, it's incremental adjustments.

Kaizen, right?

Incremental adjustments daily.

The compound effect is nuts.

The compound effect is nuts, man.

Those drops in the bucket, man.

A little bit of write, write your book a little bit here, work a little bit on your side project here, push them, push the ball down the, that's the whole game, man.

There's no destination here, Mo.

Absolutely.

That's why whenever I'm questioning the gym, I'm like, all right, let me at least go 20 minutes.

That's it.

Better than nothing.

20 is way better.

20 times better than zero.

You know what I mean?

Dude, we'll make your stuff low.

That was a blast.

Yeah, man.

Have you back back on again one day?

Dude, Sean, you're the man, dude.

You got great energy, bro, and you're crushing it.

Yeah, we ripped it, man.

Thanks for coming on.

Yeah.

Out, guys.