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Speaker 1: So we'll get to some news. Obviously, there's some news

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to talk about. But I spent so much time sharing

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with you my plans for the seal Fit journey, and

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you were so kind to ask questions about it. So

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I'm gonna tell you I had my butt handed to me,

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and I've never been more grateful for that. There are

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so many things I would change if I already do

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this again, And I was just saying this morning, I'm

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leaning very very hard towards doing this again because my

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why has changed, and it has to do with the

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men on that team, on my team. So I'll go

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through the embarrassing moments, I'll go through the inspiring moments,

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but I'm not going to give away a lot of

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detail about the workouts or the rules, because I feel

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like that should be the province of people who actually

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go through what they call the crucible cocral the fifty hours.

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I'll tell you about my teammates who secured, meaning got through,

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They thrived, They did it, and I can't communicate clearly

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enough how blessed I feel to have had my tush

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handed to me on a plate.

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Speaker 2: The Todd Herman Show is one hundred percent disapproved by

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big pharma technocrats and tyrants everywhere. Now from the high

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mountains of Free America, here's the Emerald City exile Todd Herman.

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Speaker 1: Today is a day the Lord has made, and these

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are the times to which God has decided we shall live.

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I've got so much to share with you this week,

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observations about being in the state of California. Meeting almost

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everybody down there with whom I had a substance of

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conversation was a godly person. It was utterly humbling, and

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it reminded me that, man, I've been judging God something fierce.

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I have been just all over judging God. I mean,

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he may well decide to let California continue to decline

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into the mess it's become. And meeting these godly people

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there reminded me that God is everywhere, and that by

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having this cynical belief that California cannot come back means

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that I've decided for God that He's not going to

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bring it back. When I started this journey to go

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down to the Temecular area of California to go to

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seal Fit, I started training in March and the first

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thing I did, the first seal Fit training I did,

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in fact, was a twelve hour workout, and I think

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that was a huge mistake. And I want to explain

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what mistakes I made. I did not secure, I didn't

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get past the first day. I'm left late at night

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on the first day. And I'll tell you why I left.

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There were two things that I decided we're going to

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make me leave. One was medical and the other was

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if I was harming the team or putting people in danger.

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Because there's no, no, nothing worth putting these guys in danger.

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So I'll tell you the whole seal Foot story, all

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of it's, even the embarrassing parts. And I will tell

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you this that I am ninety percent leaning towards going back.

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If I do that, there's a whole series of things

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that I'm going to change, most of it in my mind,

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most of it in my mind, because it was my

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mind that failed me to a large degree. I mean,

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the fifty seven year old body didn't help. Right now,

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code todd. I'll cut to the quick. When I arrived

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in Temecula to go do this event, I went through

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a series of steps to get there. One of them

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was I got extra hydrated. I thought. I went to

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a place and I had nothing against this place. I

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met the owner, he's a fantastic guy. I went to

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the hydro bar and I got a an IV it's

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called the Meyers Drip, and I had to did the IV,

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a vitamin treatment, et cetera. And it was all about

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being hydrated because it just gotten up an airplane that

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no two days before. I knew that the hydrate too,

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even if you drink a ton of water and electrolytes.

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we show up early in the morning at seven thirty,

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and I get to meet my teammates and I'm clearly

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the oldest guy, and uh, and I don't know that

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I'm gonna use names because I don't really have these

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guys' permissions to use their names, although I guess, I

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guess first names don't matter. So Brian was the second oldest,

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and then probably Connor, and then Carlos and then Teddy.

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Teddy was definitely the youngest. And we're standing in there's

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parking lot and coach Melanie's there and she's one of

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the the only, the second the only two female coaches

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that I met at seal Fit. And Milanie has been

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through the Cocoro program. She's done the fifty hours. She

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is a flat star, and she starts to ready us

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kind of mentally for what's going on. But it was

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Brian who really he's been through this program a lot.

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and Will and Brian have seen this thing, so they're

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kind of giving us a heads up. And they kept saying,

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like when a truck, okay, here it comes to storm starting.

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in my mind like oh yep, so this starts right away,

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like the attitude starts right away. And we went and

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did some jogging warm ups, and one of the things

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I didn't do, and this came back to just destroy me,

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is for whatever reason, I didn't warm my push ups up.

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I'm doing all these things, but I didn't warm up

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my push ups. Stupid, stupid. I didn't then push ups.

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two of them. One guy in the lead walked up

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and he looked like if you were to take a

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bodybuilder and make him an athlete and make him just

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under six foot tall but about six feet wide at

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the shoulders. He walks up, and another coach is behind him,

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a little shorter, but you're talking about a waist of

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probably twenty eight inches in a chest of something like

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one hundred and twenty eight inches. And the one guy

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took the lead. He walks up to us and says, hey, guys,

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those of you wearn't hats, take them off, instill them,

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and maybe you'll earn them back. He looks at me,

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and I'd written down my whys on my hand in

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black sharpie ink, and I'd recently written the first initials

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of my teammates on my arm. I made that decision

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when I met these guys and realized, Man, I already

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loved these guys. So coach looks at me, goes, Fancy

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Tattoos Herman, yeah, coach, it's the uh, it's the team,

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is it. Fancy Tattoos looks at one of our teammates.

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He goes, man, look at those pants. It's tight pants.

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You can move in those. And already it's on, it's

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already on. And I'm standing there, and Brian had warned

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me about this, and I'm not going to tell you

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the details because I think this should be private to

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the crucible. But there's things you're not supposed to do

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with your hands. Brian warned me, don't do these things

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with your hands. And so the seal looks at me

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and he goes, it's okay to stand, but don't stand

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like this guy's standing. And he goes, that's your one

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warning that came back to haunt me. That so here

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it is. And now it's I don't know what time.

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what time it is, and Coach says, I'm going to

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run you down to the grinder. And the grinder is

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exactly that, it's a grinder. So we start jogging and

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I realize I have no idea how long we're jogging. Now,

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I thought I was prepped for it, but I was

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not giving up total control. We'll run until Coach has

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stop running, and he's at a gentle pace. I mean,

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maybe nine and a half. And we're jogging down and

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then he stops us drop don push ups, and all

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of a sudden, like my push ups are gone. I

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hadn't warmed him up, and I'm thinking, oh dear God,

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this is push up central up. And we're back on running,

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and he did it again, and I'm I'm now I

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ignored everything Coach Divine's books talk about. I was totally

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self centered, totally in my own head, not seeking the

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help of my teammates, not speaking on their behalf, not

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who yaws. I got in my own head. So we

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jogged down to and I don't know how long it was.

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mile job. And we get down to the grinder. Now

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here's what this was. And I wanted to have pictures

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and you saw the YouTube videos, maybe you've seen some

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of the images. It's the topography of the high like

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the desert in California, and there's all sorts of hills

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and sandy hills, and there's warnings about rattle snakes. And

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then we go down to the grinder, and the grinder,

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there's the pull up bars set up, there's the ice

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tubs set up, and then there's this block of terrible

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dry dirt and that's where they put us. And that's

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where the butt kicking began. And there were two things

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I said that would make me quit. One harming or

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endangering the team, two medical. And when this assault began

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and these guys created the circumstance of chaos and war again,

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I forgot everything that I was mentally taught. My breathing

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was gone, and most destructively, I was only thinking about

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myself and right away, that big, big seal came over

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and goes, hey, you're not looking good. I'm looking at

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a performance drop. Here, I'm looking at a performance drop.

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you're gonna weigh this team down. You are gonna really

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really punish this team. And I'm talking about burpies and

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a movement I can't say, but it has to do

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with monkey. I'm talking about, of course, push ups and

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bear crawls and backward bear crawls. And as we're doing

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the bear crawls, diving into ice water and I'm used

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to that, but didn't dive in and dive out and

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then do the next one, and then plank and push

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up and then flutter kicks and then v ups, and

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I'm not giving away things here, but it is there's

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no rhythm, there's no predictability, and then there's to stop.

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Someone count one thousand and one to me, two thousand

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and one. That's how long you have to get down

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when I say get down, and get up when I

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say get up, now down up, And I'm just lost

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to myself. In Genesis chapter two, verse eighteen, we read

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it is not good that man is alone, and I

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made myself alone. Everything they teach us, well not everything,

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but there's so much about focusing on others. Part of

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that is to observe your teammates. And God bless these

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guys for beginning to focus on the team and a

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lot of times on me. And as my push ups

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continue to suffer, I am beginning to think I can't

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even string together five quality push ups here, and that's

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in my head. I can't, I can't, I can't. Instead

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of get warmed up, see Coach Divine would teach us,

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Commander Divine, I'm getting warmed up, fantastic, I'm getting warmed up.

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I'm here and there's you know, spraying water on us

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and poorn water nists, and quite frankly, that was welcome.

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That wasn't a bad thing. That felt fine. But then

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this creeped into my mind because I heard it again

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from one of the coaches. Man, you were weighing this

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team down. I'm glad you're not on my team. Mike

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Lindell was a guy who sold pillows. He was a

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wacky guy who sold pillows. He had pillows and all

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sorts of retail stores, he'd worked up to My Pillow

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being in bed Bath and beyond, as I recalled, these

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big stores and you got a better price online and

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you got to work directly with Lindell at his company

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My Pillow. Then it wasn't his support for Trump, it

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wasn't his support for Conservatism or the Lord Jesus. It

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was elections and that's what made him persona on Groude,

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even on places like Fox News, where he has now

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not really been able to appear. So Mike keeps going.

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He's an energizer, Bunny. This is a guy who's a

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former meth addict and alcohol addict and a gambling addict.

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To talk to him about that. But recently they did

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it again. There's been a pretty big setback for the company.

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There was a big retail store that said, yeah, we're

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going to cancel, just hitting up to Black Friday. We're

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just gonna cancel. It's hard to view this is anything

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other than a get back at Mike Lindell. So Lindell

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does what he does, is going to take this hit

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to his company and offer it to us as our opportunity.

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puff up, they formed to your head. I just washed

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my MyPillow that I've had for about eight years now,

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you put it in the wash of the dryer. So

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let's take this thing. This hit against Lindell. Let's come

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back with him and fight against this. Go to my

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pillow dot Com slash Todd. So here I am, I'm wet,

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I'm muddy, and the thing that been has been solid

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for me, and ask my training partners push ups have

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been solid for me. They're gone and it feels like

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they're not coming back. And this all adds up into

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here and coach say, I'm glad you're not on my team. Guys.

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I stood up and said, drop on requests. I couldn't

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believe that those words left my mouth. Drop on requests.

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And we're an hour into this. I didn't even know

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I was that week. And so coach Mail comes up.

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She goes, stand there, stand over there. I'll walk over

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this place. She goes, no, no, no, don't stand over there.

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Come and sit down on this stretcher. I sit down

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and she goes. She goes, I want to feel sorry

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for you, but she told me you trained for this.

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I said, no, Coach Mel, I trained for this. She goes, Then,

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it's not your body, this is your mind, Todd. It's

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your mind. You have fifteen seconds to get back in there, decide,

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decide you're going to leave your team. That's hurting your team.

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You're gonna leave your team. And I could like. I

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got up and I went back and I got in

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and no one said anything, even the coaches didn't say anything.

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And man, they could have destroyed me. At that moment,

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I couldn't believe I did that. But then something happened.

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I remembered the team, and as we're going through these

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movements again and again and again, and they're getting harder

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and he's introducing more of them.

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Speaker 3: This happened.

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Speaker 1: I looked up. Everybody was struggling, not to the degree

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to which I was, and some guys were flat killers.

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I never saw a couple of brothers there. I don't

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think they. I mean, it's hard to make him struggle.

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They are so solid, so strong. A couple of us were,

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including a couple of guys I looked up to, and

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I look up to everybody in that team. I began

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to focus on others. One of the teammates got pulled

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out of formation. He was made to sit on a log.

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And I don't remember the exact words because it wasn't

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aimed at me. But all of a sudden, one of

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our teammates is pulled out of formation. He's made to

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on a log and enjoy a cool drink of water

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while he counts out commands to us, and one of

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the guys in the team still information said come back,

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come back, come back into the team. And he says, coach,

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can I go or sir, can I go back? No? No,

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you needed rest. I saw that you were dogging it.

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You needed rest, So you drink your water. But you

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count out those commands and don't you go easy on them.

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And my teammate starts to stand there. He goes, no, no, no, no,

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you sit down. You need rest, You rest while your

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team works, Amanda, brother, it's not like this. And here's

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the other aspect to this. Now, as I began to

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look at that like, oh my gosh, look what they're doing,

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and it won't say his name, Look what they're doing

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to him. And then they just got all over another

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guy and I mean I'm talking about two seals surrounding

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him and they're on him and focusing onnother's thing. Then

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had this the ability to say you got this, the

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ability to look at a brother and here I am,

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and my pushups have been gone saying to a brother,

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you got this. And then will Will said to me,

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out of breath, muddy dirty, I'm so glad you're back.

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Speaker 4: You're important to the team. Wow, important to the team.

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Something changed.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what it was, except I can

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expel it this way. We bonded to that obviously. Eventually

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the assault ended. I don't know how long it went on,

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probably a lot shorter than it felt like. And then,

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having faced that moment of stupidity and desperation and what

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I would refer to as cowardice, no one said anything

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about it. We just proceeded the way this day unfolded,

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and the events that went through it showed me something

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about myself and my training that really, in one hand,

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disappoint me. On another hand, really really informed me of something,

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and it's why I felt such utter gratitude. The day

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went on, it got hotter, the movements got harder, and

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we eventually went for a yet another run, and once again,

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and this was Coach Clint who was leading this. There

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were two coaches down there, Coach Robin, Coach Clint. Coach

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Rob the bigger of the two, and Coach Clint leads

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us on this run and again it's I'm going to

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run you somewhere and you'll just stay with me. So

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they run us to a point where we go and

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we eat lunch, MRIs and it's sitting down in the

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sand and Coach Clint says, you're going to have I

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think you said twenty five to thirty minutes to eat,

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so eat it all, and they demand that you eat

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all your food. Now here's where I should have been

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queued into something, but I wasn't. At lunch, we had

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a chance to talk as guys and to assess some

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things that had gone on and gone wrong. Here's a

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couple of them. I kept violating that hands rule. And

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every time you violate a rule, Coach Rob brought it

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down in a book and then it's pay the man.

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Now that doesn't sound like a lot. Oh, you're gonna

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have to do ten extra burpees and you might have

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to stop and do these monkey movements I can't see

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in the show. And you're gonna have to stop and

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do this on runs or carrying these huge weights. And

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I'm not gonna say in what form we carried him,

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because but man, it was incredible. You do that for

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fifty hours and all of a sudden you have fifteen violations.

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That's one hundred and fifty more movements, which doesn't sound

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like a lot. And tell my brothers who made through

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this event fifty hours. We're still paying paying the man

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for my infractions still and for things I did. And

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I asked Coach Rob and when we were getting influence,

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I say, hey, Coach, is there any way I can

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earn that back? Can you? Can you take that out

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on me? Can I pay the man? He is Nope, nope, nope.

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One team member messes up, everybody pays. Sorry. No, he

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didn't say sorry. She doesn't say sorry. We sit down

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and eat and we're kind of comparing food, and it

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was an amazing mental relief that the the coaches were gone.

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And I'm sure this is on purpose. This is the Okay,

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we just beat the garbage out of you, and we're

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gonna let you breathe. After lunch, having drunk somewhere on

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the order of three quarters of a gallon of water

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and having hydrated all morning long, having showed up had

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thirty cups of electrolytes, I couldn't pee. I don't know

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what time it was. I'm guessing noon. I don't know.

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I couldn't pee, and that could serve me a little

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bit because I'm a guy who generally peas a lot.

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Sorry for the detail. We started to talk about how

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we could improve as a team and internally. A young

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man named Teddy, and he and I had an exchange

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in the parking lot before we began, and so did

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he and Brian because we felt like the Seals were

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really gonna target Teddy something. He made a decision that

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changed the course of this event for me, and I

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am so utterly grateful to Teddy, youngest guy on our team.

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I felt like a kid, a little boy, because I

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was I had the view behind us, so I could

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see everybody six and I saw I saw a coach

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Rob walking up guys coaches her coach coaches here. So

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we clean up lunch and we and I don't remember

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how we disposed of it, but we stand up and

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and well, this was something that happened back back at

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the I should have mentioned this back at the grinder.

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They gave us our gear, our packs, and our dows,

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which they call weapons. They gave that to us. Okay,

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go put those out. Go put those out in the grinder,

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and we set them down and come back and Coach

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Rob says, look at that, look at that arrange. That

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the right way. And at that point we didn't have

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a class leader who's the leader, who's the leader? I

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don't remember which one of us stood for that. I

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know it wasn't me. Someone took lead, and we went

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through and re lined the bags and I'm talking to

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the logo goes on this side, the handles, going this side,

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make sure that everything is lined up, and it's five

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four drop drop boom, back into I don't remember what

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exercise is. Back into the screaming, oh, fix them, fix that,

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and so we arrange everything and then this is calm,

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come over here, you stand there, and he goes, look

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at that. Doesn't that look nice? Attention to detail, gentlemen,

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And coach looks at me. He goes, hands another one

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for Herman goes in the book, I'm gonna have to

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pay the man. So fast forwarding out to this lunch

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and here comes coach. Get this stuff, take away and

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upholls a truck. Stow your gear, and we are fanatical

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at this point, and I'm like, the one value at

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this point I'm adding is I'm looking at guys, guys, guys,

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and this has got to spread out and two inches

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between the bags, and we're making sure I do not

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want to pay a pill on this. And the truck

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is filled with sand bags and an implement I'm not

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going to mention because this is to be secret to

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seal fit, but it was an implement I've never used before,

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kind of a sacred implement, honestly. And the sand bags

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come out. We're on this incredible sandy area and we

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are going to bear, crawl, sprint and pull these sand

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bags up to the point where these sand bags weighed

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more than the bodies of guys like Will. But prior

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to this, we had to make our own sand bags.

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And Brian had warned us about this. And I'm not

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going to go into detail, but I will tell you

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this that one of my brothers had a challenge getting

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a sandbag closed. And we have to tie a knot

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and this this canvas bag, or not canvas, but this bag.

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And he's not getting it done and his hands are

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starting shaking because herman, what am I doing wrong? Got

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to spin it more, man, it spin it more on

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the bottom and the seals all of them. Hey, no

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one's waiting on you. Don't worry. It's not like you're

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going to pay a tab. It's not like I have

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to pay the man. You got thirty seconds, thirty seconds

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and it's tying a sandbag, but under that pressure, and

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I'm watching and watching him shake, and then we had

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to pay the man because thirty seconds went by, and

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for some reason, to my utter shame, this brother somehow

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made the decision to bear call away from us. And

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I think he just wanted to face Coach because he

470
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,720
knew it was. You know, we're gonna get into a circle.

471
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,559
We're gonna pay the man. Coach says, why is he

472
00:30:37,599 --> 00:30:38,039
on his own?

473
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 2: Hey?

474
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:47,559
Speaker 1: Why is he on his own? I mean he made

475
00:30:47,559 --> 00:30:49,400
the decision to go over there. That's a separate thing.

476
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,240
Who told you to do that? Did you get told

477
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:58,119
to do that? Why is he on his own? And

478
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,079
I think it was Brian who decided to own.

479
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,519
Speaker 4: It for us.

480
00:31:06,359 --> 00:31:09,359
Speaker 1: We failed them as a swim buddy. See, you never

481
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:14,400
go anywhere alone ever, And here's his brother out there

482
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,279
on his own. So the sand bags are filled, they

483
00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:24,599
go on our pack. Now we begin this evolution of pulling,

484
00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:28,160
you know, doing these bare crawls through this ridiculously deep

485
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:33,359
sand sandy dirt, and pulling these sandbags that eventually ended

486
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,240
up to about one hundred and eighty five to two

487
00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:37,720
hundred pounds and we're pulling them in the stick rope,

488
00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:41,880
and it was a difficult evolution and a couple of

489
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,599
times my knee dropped before I got to the got

490
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,119
to the line. And then Coach Rob was actually really nice.

491
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,119
I mean it was like, what what dude, what happened

492
00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,920
to you? And Coach Rob sid herm remembered knee across

493
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:56,960
the line, that's all he said. The youngest member of

494
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:03,599
the team made a decision. And guys, this would have

495
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,240
felt like pandering if it was in any other circumstance.

496
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,960
I'll tell you about this in a second. I'm having

497
00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:16,400
this morning. This would be oh gosh, let's see twelfth

498
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:21,200
twenty four. This is my Alex is laughing, my producer, Alex.

499
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,400
This is my thirtieth ounce, no, thirty second ounce of

500
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,000
bone Frog coffee this morning. This happens to be what

501
00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:31,920
do we have downstairs? Goltlocker? Oh, so the goltlocker is

502
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,920
a great, great story from bone Frog Coffee. The goltlocker

503
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,720
is a place where enlisted officers in the Navy can go,

504
00:32:39,279 --> 00:32:42,079
and the big wigs they can't even come in without knocking.

505
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,200
It's a great, great, great tradition, and this is a

506
00:32:45,359 --> 00:32:50,000
light roast, French roast, light but incredibly rich. It took

507
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:52,920
three years to develop this. That's at Bonefrog Coffee dot com.

508
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Slashad get ten percent off all the products there. Everything

509
00:32:55,759 --> 00:32:58,720
comes labeled God Country Team. Now in this hand is

510
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,880
a pretend is sniffer? What do you all wine people drink?

511
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,960
What's the fancy wine things called like wine glass? I

512
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,200
don't know it's a fancy wine glass in this hand

513
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,240
of fake one because I don't drink wine. But if

514
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:12,640
it did drink wine, it would have bone Frog cellars

515
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:14,880
and I would go and I'd swish it around. And

516
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,000
that's called legs. Does it have legs? I learned this

517
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
from my friends who are wine snobs, wine wine experts.

518
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,480
It has legs, and then I would test the bouquete

519
00:33:23,319 --> 00:33:25,880
like smit up my beak. You can do that with

520
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,079
coffee too. You could also do that with root beer.

521
00:33:28,119 --> 00:33:29,839
You can do that with a blowney sandwich. I don't

522
00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:31,279
know why people do it with wine, but they do it.

523
00:33:31,279 --> 00:33:33,440
That's what you do. Then you take a little bit

524
00:33:33,519 --> 00:33:35,599
of it and you drink it. You put it in

525
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,279
your mouth, but then you open your mouth and your

526
00:33:37,279 --> 00:33:42,480
nose and you breathe. Fuck tru as you're testing the wine.

527
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,440
I think you do that in a little bit more

528
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,000
aerodyite form, a little bit more genteel.

529
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 4: See.

530
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't drink wine, but I turn to my friends

531
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,160
who are wine experts, and they tried bone Frog cellars

532
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,880
and were deeply impressed. They had the twenty fifteen Mayor

533
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,000
Low and Cabernet. Those are the two. I don't know

534
00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:01,680
if to say flavor or blends. I don't know types

535
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,799
of wine. My daughter tried it. She is not yet

536
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,759
legally supposed to drink, but hey, it's our house, so

537
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,519
sue me. But I guess you could. She loved it.

538
00:34:11,559 --> 00:34:14,559
Sitator boyfriend, My wife occasion has wine with dinner. She

539
00:34:14,679 --> 00:34:17,000
really enjoyed it. So try it. You go to Bonefrog

540
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Sellers dot com slash todd. You get ten percent off

541
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,119
all the wines there. Ten percent of proceeds go to

542
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the Navy Seal Foundation because the founder, Tim Krukshank, look

543
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at that retired Navy sealed Bonefrogsellers dot com slash todd.

544
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,480
As we began this evolution, and we were going through

545
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,320
these bare crawls through the sand, and then every round,

546
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:40,320
every round, we had to be as fast or faster

547
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,920
than the previous round, or we went another round, or

548
00:34:44,039 --> 00:34:47,800
we're gonna pay the man. And it's fast, fast, fast.

549
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,079
You're talking one minute forty one minute, one minute, fifty

550
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:54,480
two minute twenty one. And these are six guys. Everybody

551
00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:57,159
has to pull the bag. Now, pull the rope. Everyone

552
00:34:57,199 --> 00:35:00,400
has to bear crawl back and forth. And Teddy got

553
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:08,679
next to me purposely and despite the load on his

554
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:13,800
respiratory system. I'm with you, herm, I'm with you, herman,

555
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:22,760
I'm right here. I'm right here with you. At the

556
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,320
beginning of that day, if he'd done that, I would

557
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:32,480
have been furious. How dare you pander to me? This

558
00:35:32,559 --> 00:35:41,559
is an incredible act of love between rounds, between rounds,

559
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,519
some of the guys that I think Brian started this.

560
00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:47,760
Between rounds, when we've got a little bit of rest,

561
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,719
we pop up off the ground and everybody says hands, hands, hands.

562
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,639
It aimed at me. I'm the big violator and I'm

563
00:35:55,639 --> 00:35:58,199
looking at going hands, hands, hands. I'm participating in this

564
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,840
as well, and I'd be came Johnny organized the bags

565
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,400
like this. Somehow this got my thing. Wait, wait, no

566
00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:09,119
logos this side. Wait no, it's not six inches apart.

567
00:36:10,679 --> 00:36:12,360
So we're jumping up off the ground and I have

568
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:21,960
my hands hands asks and then this implement came out. Well,

569
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,440
first of all, we went and I won't I won't,

570
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,239
I said, I wouldn't give away the work out details.

571
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,000
But we did some passing of sandbags a seventy five

572
00:36:28,039 --> 00:36:30,679
pound bag and a fifty pound bag around this circle.

573
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,960
And the seals do what they can to make it simple.

574
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,920
But when your mind's just like messed up, it took

575
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:38,599
us a couple of evolutions to get that right. But

576
00:36:38,639 --> 00:36:40,960
then we got this. I couldn't believe we got this.

577
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,000
One of the coaches said, you guys are actually getting better.

578
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:56,280
I forgot this back in the grinder. Coach Clint had

579
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,880
come over to me during eight count burpees and said, Hermann,

580
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,119
if you do them faster, they hurt less. And I

581
00:37:06,039 --> 00:37:08,480
copy of that Coach could copy, and I started to

582
00:37:08,519 --> 00:37:14,400
do them faster, and my burpies were not great, and

583
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,719
I found a lucky penny. It's the weirdest thing. Wait,

584
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,559
is that a penny? And I'm just the purpose I'm looking.

585
00:37:22,559 --> 00:37:28,760
I think that's a penny. Coach Clint came by and

586
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,199
he said, and I couldn't believe what this meant to me,

587
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:40,079
good job, urman. Same time I found that stupid penny,

588
00:37:40,119 --> 00:37:41,760
and I kept that penny and I'm going to have

589
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,519
it made into jewelry or have it embedded in my skin.

590
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:50,760
So they bring out this implement and we are going

591
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,480
to carry what will turn out to be something started

592
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,960
with one hundred and thirty five pounds, which doesn't sound

593
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,159
like a lot, eventually became an I'm guessing here, probably one,

594
00:38:02,199 --> 00:38:07,079
probably one eighty five, maybe two hundred pounds, and Coach

595
00:38:07,159 --> 00:38:08,039
Rob says.

596
00:38:08,199 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 4: Pick it up.

597
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:12,599
Speaker 1: And again it's a really sacred implement, which is why

598
00:38:12,639 --> 00:38:16,559
I'm not saying what it is. And we carry this

599
00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:18,920
thing as a team. There's six of us, four of

600
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,440
us carrying it at all at one time. Every time

601
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:28,599
we set it down, we pay the man through sand,

602
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,039
sand hills, over a fence, and ultimately we start walking

603
00:38:35,119 --> 00:38:38,440
up this black top road through the campground. And now

604
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:44,000
it's hot, it's really really hot, and we're having to

605
00:38:44,039 --> 00:38:49,679
communicate with each other really well. Coming up behind you

606
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,480
will I got to weight in three two one. We

607
00:38:53,599 --> 00:38:58,679
switch and we're talking to each other. Talk to me,

608
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:03,239
how we doing Even I was doing this, I weeks

609
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,119
my grip's going, I need a switch. I need to

610
00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:08,800
switch now, And we're switching on the fly as we're

611
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,360
carrying this sacred implement, talking to one another. At one

612
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:17,119
point this really really made an impact to me. Will,

613
00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:24,760
who is an unbelievable force of good. All these guys

614
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:32,360
are and Will never spoke a negative word. He is

615
00:39:32,519 --> 00:39:36,000
shorter in stature than most of us, but taller in

616
00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:41,000
spirit than me by a long shot. And one of

617
00:39:41,039 --> 00:39:43,159
our guys was saying, up on the left, up on

618
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:45,039
the left of this implement, these have come up. It's

619
00:39:45,079 --> 00:39:48,000
leaning over it. We can't drop these things. And I realized, well,

620
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,880
wait a minute, I'm I'm taller than Will. Lower the

621
00:39:52,079 --> 00:39:55,280
lower my side, a lower my side, and we'll look

622
00:39:55,320 --> 00:40:00,320
at me. And he goes, thank you, brother. I was just

623
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,800
ashamed it took that long. So we go up this

624
00:40:05,039 --> 00:40:08,719
huge hill up into the desert, up into the desert mountains,

625
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,199
and then Coach tells us to set it down.

626
00:40:14,559 --> 00:40:15,039
Speaker 3: Now.

627
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 1: Now the work begins. Now we're going to run up

628
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:27,239
this massive, tall desert hill. But in after the style

629
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:34,199
of the seals and the military packs off weapons down,

630
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,280
we take them up. Take your sandbags out. These are

631
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:41,719
the bags that go inside of our packs and we

632
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,639
we pull them out and again, I'm guys, guys, guys

633
00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:48,719
on the fence line. Let's organ these things. I can't

634
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,199
do anything else, so why don't I do this. I'll

635
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:54,679
be like the Karen. I'm the house cleaning Karen, and

636
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,400
we're all playing these support roles. And the second we

637
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,320
set them down like it was hands hands yep. Okay, right,

638
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,360
we take the sandbags out and we go through this

639
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,440
evolution where we have to run up this hill and

640
00:41:08,519 --> 00:41:12,719
it's an easy four hundred and maybe six hundred yards.

641
00:41:13,519 --> 00:41:15,679
One of the coaches is up there. Coach Rob is

642
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:20,440
up top, Coach Clint was down below, and Coach Clint says, okay,

643
00:41:20,599 --> 00:41:23,440
that is a hot lz up there. They need ammo.

644
00:41:23,519 --> 00:41:25,280
It's your job to get them there. It pays to

645
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:25,760
be a winner.

646
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 2: Now.

647
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: That's the code word for this is individual effort. Now

648
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:34,000
you are racing each other. Teddy and Connor are great runners.

649
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,119
Connor is a triathlete and Teddy is just a flat

650
00:41:38,159 --> 00:41:41,559
young stud. We're running up the hill and Teddy says,

651
00:41:41,599 --> 00:41:48,039
should we be tactical about this? He sacrificed what could

652
00:41:48,079 --> 00:41:51,199
have been more rest for him, and so did Connor,

653
00:41:51,599 --> 00:41:54,119
so the rest of the team could have a shot

654
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:59,000
at being first in these things. And it was an

655
00:41:59,039 --> 00:42:02,000
evolution at which I was really comfortable. I felt goods,

656
00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:06,000
and I came out midpack again. Wouldn't well, wouldn't. I

657
00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:08,400
don't know that it wouldn't have happened, because that's actually

658
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,599
a really good event for me carrying heavy objects because

659
00:42:10,639 --> 00:42:13,199
it doesn't take any skill, balance, cleverness.

660
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 4: It's just work.

661
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: Like, at least I can do this. I can carry,

662
00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:21,280
you know, the twenty pound football. And we're running, and

663
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:22,880
we run up to where Coach Rob is and then

664
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,119
Coach Rob's on his on his radio. Oh, ELS's changed, guys,

665
00:42:26,159 --> 00:42:30,960
back down first, guy here, leave your sandbag. Everyone else down.

666
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,880
ELS's changed. Now we run down and we're going to

667
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,880
drop the bags, and coach goes, okay, you know what,

668
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,000
they only have room for one ammo at a time.

669
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,960
Got to go back up. And now I like, I'm

670
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,199
resisting doing math because what I want to do is, okay,

671
00:42:44,199 --> 00:42:45,760
how many rounds is this going to be? I'm gonna

672
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,639
paste this. Knock that off. Look around, how's the team doing?

673
00:42:51,079 --> 00:42:58,519
Someone charted the chance present positive optimistic as we are

674
00:42:58,679 --> 00:43:03,199
running present pauseive, optimistic, present, positive, optimistic. We're doing this

675
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,320
and man, we are beginning to meld as a unit.

676
00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:08,760
And we got up to the top. All of us

677
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,239
are there. Coach Rob has us hold these sandbags up,

678
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,199
and he has us hold him for a long time,

679
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:19,199
and then he says go and we run down. And

680
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,400
I couldn't believe it, and I want to believe it

681
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,920
was because teammates gave me a break. I came in

682
00:43:24,079 --> 00:43:31,039
I think fourth, and that we continued our climb with

683
00:43:31,119 --> 00:43:36,920
this sacred implement. Now this was at this point, several

684
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:42,960
hours after lunch. It was a long climb, guys. And

685
00:43:43,039 --> 00:43:46,119
as we're going up the hill, Coach has to stop

686
00:43:46,159 --> 00:43:55,280
and do this movement called monkey blankers. Monkey blankers, you

687
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,599
squat down, you put your hands under your toes, and

688
00:43:58,639 --> 00:44:02,280
then you elevate your hind up and down fifty of

689
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:06,559
them and then drop into push ups. So I am

690
00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:09,679
doing this and I get a full body cramp that

691
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,239
starts in my left leg, goes into my grin, locks

692
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,679
up my back, locks up my core, and I scream

693
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,440
and I fall to the ground and everything stops, and

694
00:44:20,519 --> 00:44:24,960
every brother surrounds me, and even the seals were concerned. Herman, herman,

695
00:44:25,079 --> 00:44:27,840
what's up? And I just full body cramp and I

696
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:33,239
can't breathe, and the medic Curtis came over and he

697
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:36,199
puts salt tabs in my mouth and he said, I

698
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:37,920
was just gonna toss up his mouth. He shut his mouth, like,

699
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:39,880
I don't wish you toss in my mouth. So I

700
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,960
take these salt tabs and I chew them. He gives

701
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,119
me these electrolytes. He goes, kill this, kill this, and

702
00:44:44,159 --> 00:44:48,480
I drink it, and I'm laying there like trying to

703
00:44:48,519 --> 00:44:50,880
stretch out, and I was, wait, push ups are next, right,

704
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,239
I go, this is blank and blank. Now all of

705
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,639
a sudden, I've got the bad cursing mouth again. This

706
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:58,320
is you know, hey, I'm down here for pushups. Let's

707
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:01,239
do the push ups. You know what happened? My push

708
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:09,199
ups are back because I was loved and I started

709
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:16,119
to enjoy this. My push ups are back. We do

710
00:45:16,159 --> 00:45:18,559
a couple of rounds of these things and keep having

711
00:45:18,559 --> 00:45:20,400
to pay the man, and then coach says, this, you

712
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:24,440
have one hour to make it back to the grinder.

713
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:32,000
One hour. We start to carry this thing down the hill,

714
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,159
and every time we said it do we have to

715
00:45:33,159 --> 00:45:40,639
pay the man and then Coach stops us. That's the hill.

716
00:45:42,159 --> 00:45:45,159
That's the hill, that's the one I was looking for.

717
00:45:48,039 --> 00:45:49,920
So he sets it down. He lets us rest for

718
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,840
a second, and I said, I asked him a question,

719
00:45:55,559 --> 00:45:57,719
and it was a really really interesting answer I got.

720
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,719
See at this point up in the I made a

721
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:05,000
couple of jokes about myself, and they're rough language jokes.

722
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,320
I mean, this is not a polite, talking, crowd godly man,

723
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,559
but look it's look at the environment. And made a

724
00:46:11,599 --> 00:46:14,119
couple of jokes about being old and my anatomy, et cetera.

725
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,400
And it was this humanizing thing where we started to

726
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:23,239
even relate to the coaches a little bit. And after

727
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,599
I got up from those cramps, like guys didn't say

728
00:46:26,639 --> 00:46:31,840
anything other than like, glad you're back. So I tell

729
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,960
you this thing, I said to coach. In a second,

730
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,320
then I'll talk about this hill. And then when I realized,

731
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:44,800
I think I'm in huge trouble, huge, huge trouble. We

732
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:50,280
in the holiday season, I have opportunities to communicate messages

733
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,239
through the gifts we give. I try very very hard

734
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,320
when I give a gift to someone I love to

735
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,360
have it be a gift that makes them feel seen.

736
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,039
I know you, and I respect to and I want

737
00:47:01,079 --> 00:47:03,599
you to know that I've paid attention to these aspects

738
00:47:03,639 --> 00:47:06,320
of you. The better you know someone, the better you

739
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,000
can do that. There's something else we can do in

740
00:47:09,039 --> 00:47:11,079
this holiday season, and I hope you'll engage in this.

741
00:47:11,599 --> 00:47:15,679
It is to know life, is to communicate respect for life.

742
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,719
Alan Soaps is this soap company like just fair enough.

743
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,400
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744
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745
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746
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,320
family who this is what they do. They make great soaps.

747
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,360
They've done it for three generations going on four. That's

748
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:38,039
the soap. The company exists to honor life. In the

749
00:47:38,079 --> 00:47:41,559
case of Alan, Alan is thirteen or fourteen. He's been

750
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through about eighteen operations and this last operation fews some

751
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of his vertebrate is next so that he could move better.

752
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753
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affected by autism, and their colleague Amy got late onset autism.

754
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Can you imagine how frustrating to be neurotypical then all

755
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of a sudden you're autistic they work there because they're

756
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given the dignity of work. Their lives matter. The Alan

757
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761
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com slash todd and to have respect for all lives.

764
00:48:33,519 --> 00:48:35,360
So as coach is letting us reci before we're going

765
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:38,039
to go run this hill, I said to him, Hey, coach,

766
00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:42,119
do I own the record for hand violations? That I

767
00:48:42,199 --> 00:48:45,639
own the record? And he goes, oh to this camp? Yeah,

768
00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:48,039
I go No, I mean overall goes oh, no, I

769
00:48:48,039 --> 00:48:48,519
go really goes.

770
00:48:48,599 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

771
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,079
Speaker 1: You know what's worse, I go, wa, He goes, there's

772
00:48:50,079 --> 00:48:56,320
people who don't care. What is it? Yeah, we get

773
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,199
some real blanks through here who don't care. Like you're

774
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,760
already big in me to let you earn it off

775
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:07,920
for your team, that's not gonna happen. But there are

776
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:12,440
people who just flat don't care. I said, I bet

777
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,000
you guys. Want those those guys out of here. He goes, oh,

778
00:49:15,079 --> 00:49:18,480
we get them out of here. Yeah, we get them

779
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:23,119
out of here. I was standing there. I started to

780
00:49:23,199 --> 00:49:28,519
put my hands in place of notts to go. We're

781
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:32,360
talking about the violations. I caught myself and Coach Rob

782
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:33,800
actually laughed because you know what, I'm gonna give that

783
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,320
one to you because you caught yourself, saidd bossy, coach,

784
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:41,960
thank you. We run up this hill and he arranges

785
00:49:42,039 --> 00:49:46,280
this in the order that we ended that last evolution,

786
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,320
and I was fourth, and he said, line up in

787
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,000
order of your or of your ranking and the team.

788
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,679
I'm like, well, well, you you five stand here. I'll

789
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:54,760
walk down the hill about a quarter mile like in

790
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,760
the last place. And no, it was no no in

791
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,239
according to the race. So I'm in fourth place. So

792
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,079
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna start with number six,

793
00:50:02,159 --> 00:50:04,840
number five, number four, and we're gonna see if number

794
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,599
one can catch all you guys. So we run up

795
00:50:08,639 --> 00:50:13,760
this hill and this was probably an eight hundred meter run,

796
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:18,280
but man, it was straight up. It was brutal. And

797
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,400
at this point I've got cramps all through my legs,

798
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:25,440
and I promise you I'm not making excuses. I'm describing

799
00:50:25,519 --> 00:50:31,119
you the circumstances. My hamstrings are cramped, my calves are cramped,

800
00:50:31,679 --> 00:50:35,159
my core is cramped, and I'm just I'm gonna make

801
00:50:35,199 --> 00:50:37,920
this through. I got to run this run. So I run,

802
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,800
and I get to the top and I'm in last place,

803
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:43,199
not that bad, and I actually get once again from

804
00:50:43,199 --> 00:50:46,760
Coach Clint. Hey you're bringing it. He said, that's no, nope, nope.

805
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,719
I got to hear this. Oh praise God for this moment.

806
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:56,000
He goes, Okay, that's putting out. That's putting out. And

807
00:50:57,639 --> 00:51:00,320
Coach Clint gives us a break. He goes, hey, take break.

808
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:01,760
We're gonna pay the man in a second number and

809
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:08,800
run back down. And I decide to go pee and

810
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:13,480
I can't. I don't know how long we were into this,

811
00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:16,920
but it was a long time. And I'd finished my

812
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:23,719
gown of water, and I'd had three bottles of electrolytes

813
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:34,960
and I believe six salt tabs. And I said to Brian,

814
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:40,400
I go, man, I can't pete. And Brian says, you

815
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:44,480
have to tell the medic. I go, oh, he's gonna

816
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:48,440
make me leave. He goes, you got to tell him

817
00:51:48,599 --> 00:51:51,440
so walk over to Curtis. I go, hey, how concerned

818
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:55,000
should I be that I haven't pee?

819
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:57,039
Speaker 3: Is?

820
00:51:57,559 --> 00:52:03,599
Speaker 1: That's not agreement at all. Yeah, since I got here. Yeah,

821
00:52:03,599 --> 00:52:09,039
that's not great. You know you're way behind that hydration.

822
00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:14,559
I said Curtis, I had thirty cups of electrolytes before

823
00:52:14,559 --> 00:52:21,559
I got here this morning, and I've had all my water. Okay,

824
00:52:21,639 --> 00:52:23,480
it's not great. We'll do what we can do. I

825
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,440
can't give you many more salt tabs. You're gonna get

826
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:30,920
super sick. And he gave me some, gave me another

827
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:34,679
bottle of electrolytes, which he carries on his body for us,

828
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,800
and we started to climb down. We ran down, and

829
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,079
then we carried this implement down and then we got

830
00:52:42,119 --> 00:52:46,840
to have lunch and stretch. And when I was stretching,

831
00:52:49,039 --> 00:52:53,760
it came so bad that I couldn't breathe. And I'm

832
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,679
not wanting to put this on the team because I

833
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,840
know what's next. It was the one event I wanted

834
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,440
to do so badly because it's actually a great event

835
00:53:01,519 --> 00:53:04,840
for me. And that's Murph and I know that this

836
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,039
is coming. I can see it, I can sense it.

837
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:09,719
Brian had told us normally, when the sun goes down,

838
00:53:12,679 --> 00:53:14,880
so I'm trying to stretch this out. I'm hanging on

839
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:20,079
by and I cannot breathe and the lock up is

840
00:53:20,119 --> 00:53:28,079
so bad that I literally want to scream. So eventually

841
00:53:28,079 --> 00:53:30,880
I went over to Curtis and I'm like, argunect this,

842
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,280
here's what's going on. He pulls me aside. He goes,

843
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:39,000
you're not going to hear this. I do not think

844
00:53:39,039 --> 00:53:44,400
you should continue. Now from a guy who quit for

845
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:53,519
thirty seconds, I can't cry tears, but the tear ducks

846
00:53:53,519 --> 00:53:57,360
are open. No, Curtis, He goes, no, Look, it's up

847
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:03,280
to you at this point, but not for long. If

848
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,639
I see more full body cramps, I have to pull

849
00:54:05,679 --> 00:54:11,800
you medically right now, it's up to you. What's the risk?

850
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:16,840
Are we talking? Rabdough? Rabdough is a condition where you've

851
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:20,440
broken down enough muscles, usually from small muscle groups, that

852
00:54:20,519 --> 00:54:23,159
there's way too much protein and muscle matter going through

853
00:54:23,159 --> 00:54:27,039
your kidneys and it can kill you. Had a friend

854
00:54:27,079 --> 00:54:28,800
went through this and she had to be in the

855
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:31,960
hospital for three or four days and it was really scary.

856
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,599
It's a rap doough. Yeah, it could be a rabdough.

857
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:38,400
What's you as you could be in dialysis.

858
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 3: A boyt the end of the day. Oh, I said,

859
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,480
but I hydrated. Man, I've had like two gowns. I mean,

860
00:54:48,079 --> 00:54:49,400
I'm now two and a half gallons of water and

861
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:50,239
he goes hermon.

862
00:54:51,679 --> 00:54:53,639
Speaker 1: Again. I hate to say this, but your age makes

863
00:54:53,639 --> 00:55:03,119
this harder. It's up to you. But if I see

864
00:55:03,159 --> 00:55:08,639
more body for cramping, I'm pulling you. I'm looking at

865
00:55:08,639 --> 00:55:12,400
my team and they're getting focused and they're getting ready.

866
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,159
And I should have gone to them and said, guys,

867
00:55:14,159 --> 00:55:16,719
here's where I'm at. But I didn't because my calculus

868
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:20,239
was this. They don't need this in their head.

869
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:25,679
Speaker 4: Okay.

870
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: I drank another two and a half gallons of water

871
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:33,559
before I peed, and Curtis was there every minute, and

872
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:40,280
the guys did murph and I had to watch. No,

873
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:46,519
I didn't have to. I got to watch. Ultimately, three

874
00:55:46,639 --> 00:55:53,519
of my teammates secured. They went fifty hours. And you know

875
00:55:53,559 --> 00:56:01,719
what's crazy is I am just as happy this morning

876
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:05,679
as if I had secured. I don't think I could

877
00:56:05,679 --> 00:56:12,760
be happier. If I were to do this again, it

878
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:17,400
would be based upon a new why. And I'll tell

879
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,360
you about that. In the second Right after I read

880
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:24,119
you the email, I wrote to coach Meil and I

881
00:56:24,119 --> 00:56:27,639
believe this was Sunday morning when I wrote this. No,

882
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:31,360
Saturday morning. No, it is Monday morning. I see it here.

883
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,679
Note Deer Melanie, I've been praying for Carlos Connor and

884
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:39,400
Teddy as the crucible news the end mark of twelve

885
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:41,920
noon today, Brian checked in and if three bless him,

886
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,400
and we both need to check in with Will. My

887
00:56:44,519 --> 00:56:46,840
podcast on my experience would be called seal Fit handed

888
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:48,760
me my button. I'm deeply grateful for it. I would

889
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:50,920
record it Tuesday morning. It would be celebrate the amazing

890
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:52,679
men on that team. I will be confessing all the

891
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,800
ways a disappointed results, even the horribly embarrassing ones from

892
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,599
which I committed to learning and growing. Then to make

893
00:56:58,599 --> 00:57:00,960
a request of Commander Devine and to get some pictures

894
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,800
and stuff that we can use on later podcasts. I

895
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,679
wrote them ps in case you're curious. As I'm planning

896
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,920
the cast, this is the theme of this morning. The

897
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:09,679
only way for people like me to thrive in that

898
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:12,320
environment is to raise all previous habits and to immediately

899
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,920
open ourselves to absorb the strength offered by others. The

900
00:57:16,039 --> 00:57:19,679
meaning for me my training is insular self focused, self controlled,

901
00:57:19,679 --> 00:57:22,719
self indulge. My mental game is ponderous and wondering. I

902
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:25,320
didn't understand that dynamic before Friday, and it got slammed

903
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,280
down my throat in the way I needed. When I

904
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,440
let myself be absorbed into that team of strong men.

905
00:57:29,519 --> 00:57:32,159
My push up, symptomatic of my psyche, as you succinctly

906
00:57:32,199 --> 00:57:34,840
and bluntly and perfectly said to my face, came back

907
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,079
when my team rallied around my challenges and substituted their

908
00:57:38,119 --> 00:57:40,920
betterment mental focus for mine, I grew from the strength

909
00:57:40,960 --> 00:57:43,840
and was able to actually contribute, not to be last

910
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,119
on a couple of evolutions, regain some center here, good

911
00:57:46,199 --> 00:57:49,039
job herman from coach Clint laugh as commander to mine

912
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:52,039
and spoke of and truly enjoy the struggle. If I

913
00:57:52,079 --> 00:57:54,239
make another attempt at seal fit, it will because because

914
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,840
I need it, not because I want. It won't means

915
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,920
squat in the world of the crucible global meaning for me,

916
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:04,880
the men and women in a sessile forces community are

917
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,159
far more extraordinary than I ever came close to grasping,

918
00:58:07,199 --> 00:58:10,519
even though I'm blessed with friends from the teams. The selflessness,

919
00:58:10,559 --> 00:58:13,360
the absolute drive, mental toughness, willingness to give all to

920
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,320
a team is a nice thing to think you have

921
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,039
that most of us don't and can only develop through

922
00:58:18,039 --> 00:58:20,320
God's grace through programs like Seal Fit, though there is

923
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:27,039
no program like it. She sent me the most un

924
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:32,679
believable note in response, and I didn't ask her permission

925
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,920
to read it, so I shan't. But I can tell

926
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:44,480
you this. To be called brave and strong and adaptable

927
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:53,400
and courageous and to have her say you went until

928
00:58:53,440 --> 00:59:00,440
you couldn't and that's what we would expect, it means

929
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:04,880
a world of me to me. There was something else

930
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:09,880
that happened. Early in the day. One of our teammates

931
00:59:10,119 --> 00:59:12,719
walked over to the area where the coaches had their

932
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,719
trailer set up, and Coach Rob said, it goes, hey,

933
00:59:16,719 --> 00:59:21,119
this one's on me. I failed to explain that this

934
00:59:21,199 --> 00:59:23,599
is our side, that's yours. You stay over here, you

935
00:59:23,599 --> 00:59:26,280
don't come to this side of the street, am I understood,

936
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:33,360
good copy, Coach. So having a couple of brothers who

937
00:59:33,639 --> 00:59:36,519
had one brother had to pull out for medical reasons too,

938
00:59:37,159 --> 00:59:41,440
and a brother did not succeed in an evolution so close,

939
00:59:41,559 --> 00:59:42,960
dang it. I thought he was going to get it,

940
00:59:43,199 --> 00:59:48,519
so we all three are out and I'm standing there

941
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:56,880
and I hear this from Coach Rob Herman Zula, come

942
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:02,480
and eat. Please, please come over and get food, walk

943
01:00:02,519 --> 01:00:08,639
over and diship some food. And I'm standing there. Coach

944
01:00:08,719 --> 01:00:11,039
robbox it because Herman, you know, none of that was personal.

945
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:17,280
Oh oh my gosh. Yeah yeah, no, I'm so deeply

946
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:25,440
grateful to you. I learned so much from you. No, I, coach,

947
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:31,639
I enjoyed every minute of this. Now now, Coach Clint

948
01:00:31,639 --> 01:00:36,400
came over and said, you did good. Coach Rob said

949
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:38,280
you did great. I said, I don't feel that the

950
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:43,320
results were great, but he goes, you pushed. So we

951
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:49,199
expect to stand there and eat with them, to talk

952
01:00:49,199 --> 01:00:55,559
a bit about our families, their careers. That moment is

953
01:00:55,639 --> 01:00:58,119
very high in the scale, but one other stands higher.

954
01:00:59,119 --> 01:01:07,440
There's so many, so many Connor during Murph said I'm

955
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:12,599
finishing this for you her but there's one moment that

956
01:01:12,719 --> 01:01:15,119
stands out above all of them to me, and it

957
01:01:15,199 --> 01:01:18,239
was all six of us were together. We did make

958
01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:22,440
our hour taking that implement down the hill. One of

959
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:26,039
the guys spoke and said, you look at that view.

960
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,679
The sun was going down in California over the desert hills.

961
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:41,559
There's a winery, there's a great vineyard. Somewhere down there's

962
01:01:41,599 --> 01:01:51,960
the grinder. Crazy to admire that. At that moment, I said,

963
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,320
the coach Klin was walking by me. Then moments like

964
01:01:55,320 --> 01:02:01,760
that ever happened in combat. He said, we should talk

965
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:24,519
about that one day, Will Conrad Carlos, Brian Teddy. If

966
01:02:24,519 --> 01:02:27,039
I do seal fit again, and I'm leaning very much towards.

967
01:02:26,719 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 3: It, it will be because.

968
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:37,960
Speaker 1: I want to be a man worthy of standing next

969
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:42,000
to you on the fiftieth hour. In fact, I might

970
01:02:42,039 --> 01:02:46,280
need to be that man. I do want to remind

971
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:52,400
e veryin particular myself, from John chapter twelve, verse forty three,

972
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:54,559
for they love the glory that comes from man more

973
01:02:54,599 --> 01:03:00,000
than the glory that comes from God. But you guys

974
01:03:00,079 --> 01:03:02,639
couldn't have that strength without God. What God gave you

975
01:03:05,199 --> 01:03:08,119
in your love and supported me. I felt God's presence,

976
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:10,199
and I was the one who wanted you to feel

977
01:03:10,199 --> 01:03:16,039
His presence through me. Maybe my most profound failure, although

978
01:03:16,039 --> 01:03:18,599
maybe you did. I haven't talked you about it. I

979
01:03:18,599 --> 01:03:23,400
can't wait to talk to you tonight. Coach de Mine,

980
01:03:23,639 --> 01:03:30,119
Coach Rob, Coach Clint, Coach Mel, thank you I needed

981
01:03:30,679 --> 01:03:33,760
that bood kicking. I've never been more grateful to have

982
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:37,119
my butt handed me. This is a Todd Hermannshaw. Please go,

983
01:03:37,199 --> 01:03:40,320
be well, be strong, be kind, to make every effort

984
01:03:40,400 --> 01:03:44,400
to walk in the light of Christ. And I know

985
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,000
normally just end this with the word of God, but

986
01:03:48,559 --> 01:03:52,880
who yeah, to my brothers who secured, and to everyone

987
01:03:53,880 --> 01:04:00,840
everyone down there. Zio