WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:13.000 The Team House with your hosts, Jack Murphy and David Park. Hey, everyone, 2 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:16.280 welcome to episode one and fifty one of the Team House. 3 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:19.800 I'm Jack Murphy here with David Park d over in 4 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:23.920 that direction producing. We're very excited here to be with 5 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:28.120 our guest, Dale Comstock. Dale is somebody who has done 6 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:30.280 a little bit of everything, kind of done at all 7 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.679 in life. Dale has served in the eighty second Airborne 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:38.600 in Special Forces, served as a delta operator. I believe Dale, 9 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:41.159 you were the youngest operator in the unit at the 10 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:46.719 time when you graduated selection. This guy participated in Operation 11 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:50.600 Acid Gambit, the Kurt Muse hostage rescue mission in Panama. 12 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:56.119 That was the first successful military hostage rescue operation historically 13 00:00:56.240 --> 00:01:00.520 that our country's ever done. Dale served in the Wolf War, 14 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.640 served as a team sergeant, and then he retired and 15 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.719 went on to become a paramilitary contractor. Had further adventures 16 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:11.519 over in Afghanistan, which we're going to talk about a 17 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.359 little bit in a moment. And then, you know, Dale, 18 00:01:14.640 --> 00:01:18.359 he wrote a memoir called American Badass. He thought this 19 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.599 was kind of his sunset book. He was going to 20 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:24.200 fade away into the into the ether. After he finished 21 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:28.359 this book, but instead, crazy things keep kept happening to 22 00:01:28.439 --> 00:01:33.040 him in places like Yemen, Hong Kong, Singapore, and even 23 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:36.200 in Hollywood. So we're going to talk a lot about 24 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:39.439 Dale's sort of post service military career. 25 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:41.280 There's there's a lot more to Dale. 26 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.719 I think you should go read American Badass if you 27 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:45.560 want to hear more about his military career. We're going 28 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:49.200 to kind of talk about his post service post military 29 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:51.439 career and get into some of the things that he's 30 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.599 doing today and some of the books he's working on. 31 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:56.159 So Dale, thank you so much for joining us from 32 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:57.239 from Bali tonight. 33 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:59.799 Yeah, man, thanks for having me pleasure. 34 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:01.640 Yeah, absolutely, man. 35 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.280 So, sticking with that theme that that would have uh 36 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.439 intro that I went off on, I was wonder if 37 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:11.719 you could start off telling us some stories about Barja 38 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.919 Mattal in Afghanistan. I believe you were part of a 39 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:17.479 very small group of people that got sent up into 40 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.080 I mean that was really bad guy country and the 41 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:23.080 terrain just vicious up in that part of Afghanistan. 42 00:02:24.479 --> 00:02:29.639 Yeah. So there were actually three fobs up there, and 43 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:32.560 each fob I believe had a roughly about a platoon 44 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:39.479 platoon plus element occupying this fop earlier, a couple months earlier, 45 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:42.759 one of the fobs had been overrun and when the 46 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:45.919 encampments had been overrun, and I think there was a 47 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:49.520 total of nine casualties. Nine Americans were killed, a lot 48 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:54.919 about Afghanis, of course Taliban, And so the decision was 49 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.879 made to pull out the other outposts, the other two 50 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.000 outposts that rut and one of them was you know 51 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:03.680 bars the tall and uh the way I can just so, 52 00:03:03.800 --> 00:03:07.080 we were asked by us Mill if we could bring 53 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.159 our guys in to help support them withdrawal. So what 54 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:12.680 they were going to do is rip, like literally in 55 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:15.000 the course of three days, they were going to literally 56 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:19.319 take everything out of this camp and extract it. So 57 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:24.240 the camp was in a valley with nothing of a 58 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:26.439 high ground all the way around it, and it was, 59 00:03:26.479 --> 00:03:29.319 as you point out, it was some really rugged terrain. 60 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:32.240 It kind of reminded me. I remember landing at night 61 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:35.159 one time, thinking, man, this feels like the jungles of Panama, 62 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:40.520 you know, very wooded, very humid, very uh you know, 63 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:44.599 rough terrain. But they were sitting right down in this 64 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:48.240 little in this little little tiny valley, man, and the 65 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:52.960 camp was probably one hundred one hundred and fifty meters square, 66 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.120 maybe it was very small. It had one little hlz 67 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:59.319 in the middle that could support one helicopter landing on it. 68 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:02.680 That was it. And this platoon had been there for 69 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:05.759 at least a year already and they got no break man. 70 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:09.800 They were literally every day in gunfights. They could even 71 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.080 leave the wire to go patrol, and they were constantly 72 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:15.159 on defense. They were getting hammered down there, and so 73 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.680 the decision was made that we got to pull them out. 74 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:20.720 But they couldn't just bring in helicopters. The guys load 75 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:24.120 up everything and fly away because soon as the helicopters 76 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:25.839 would come in, they would, you know, they would be 77 00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:31.000 in contact. So the plan was for us, me and 78 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:35.399 my guys are flying they actually it brought us in. 79 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.279 We flew in on some in my seventeenth and we 80 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:41.120 had two lifts. We went in. I think it was 81 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:44.680 probably a total of about thirty of US, me and 82 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:47.600 two of the Americans and then the rest Afghans, and 83 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.199 we flew in the middle of the night, roughly around 84 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.720 ten eleven o'clock at night, got out, met with the 85 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:57.560 commander and basically he explained to us what the what 86 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.519 the mission was. Basically what they wanted to us to 87 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:04.920 do was go outside the wire and patrol the area 88 00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:08.720 around the base camp and basically just keep the bad 89 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.279 guys back, keep them engaged so that the soldiers within 90 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.040 the camp could load their gear. They were gonna bring 91 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.439 in some helicopters they were gonna load up. They actually 92 00:05:18.439 --> 00:05:19.839 had a hume be there too. I don't know how 93 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:21.399 they got that there, why it was used to it, 94 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:22.639 but they had a home be. They're going to take 95 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:25.560 that out. They were just gonna load up these aircraft, 96 00:05:25.839 --> 00:05:28.399 of course, for three days and just keep lifting everything else, 97 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.639 lifting everything else out of the camp, and hopefully by 98 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:34.480 within seventy two hours the camp would be evacuated. In 99 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:36.480 the meantime, our job was to go out there and 100 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:38.879 make contact with the bad guys and keep them back 101 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.360 so this operation could take place. Well, I remember that 102 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.680 night we arrived, We met with the captain, told them 103 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.839 what we're going to go do. We refitted, and then 104 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.199 we went out the wire and we had Our mission 105 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:55.519 was to go up the road about maybe four or 106 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:00.079 five kilometers. There was them a dross up there, and 107 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:03.120 the Taliban used that as a staging base. Basically they 108 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:06.079 would link up there. You know, get on their warped 109 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.000 paint and ship and then uh, you know, they would 110 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:10.560 launch their assaults from there. So we were just gonna 111 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.800 go meet him there at the Madrassa and get it on. 112 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:16.279 So as we leave the wire, we're walking up the road, 113 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:20.959 it's relatively dark, and and then all of a sudden, 114 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:25.199 the first forty seven is flying in. It's gonna land, 115 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.199 they're gonna load it and then it's gonna take off 116 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:31.959 with it with its supply. Well. As the helicopter was 117 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:34.759 coming in to for you know, a very slow and 118 00:06:34.759 --> 00:06:38.399 low hover, there was a Taliban on the other side 119 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:41.360 of the wire with an RPG and guess what he does. 120 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:43.920 He shoots it down and it crashes into the fucking 121 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:48.439 camp and so yeah, onto the only HLZ they got right, 122 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:53.480 So bam, it slams it into the deck around, went 123 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.360 through the floor of the helicopter. It actually took off 124 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:59.199 the leg of one of the crew chiefs. So now 125 00:06:59.199 --> 00:07:02.800 we've got a disabled helicopters sitting inside the camp. They 126 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:04.319 can't get it out, they can't do anything with it 127 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:07.319 a camp and more helicopters can't medivate the menavact the 128 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.959 guys out and then the firefights started. So we turn 129 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:13.399 around and you could just see green tracers coming down 130 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.120 from the high ground, red traces going up, you know, 131 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:19.160 and there's a full on firefight man. And so we're 132 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:21.360 standing there going, okay, well, what do we do do 133 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:25.040 We try to go back and support them, but then 134 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:27.480 we knew that would be a problem because trying to 135 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.040 re enter you friendly foward lines, you know, we're gonna 136 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.160 get caught in a cross fire. There's gonna be a 137 00:07:32.199 --> 00:07:35.519 there's gonna be drama with that, right, So we realize, okay, 138 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.959 there's nothing we can do out here. Let the let 139 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.920 the army with the military, you know, deal with those guys, 140 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:43.759 and then we're going to continue mission. So we go 141 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:46.480 up the road. We make it to the Madrasa and 142 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:49.560 it's a dry hole. There's nothing there. So we're like, okay, 143 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:52.000 let's move on up. Push up about another four kilometers. 144 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.160 There's another village up there. Again we know this is UH, 145 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:58.800 this is all Taliban country, and so we go up there. 146 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:02.920 As crossing the bridge, we get UH word that we 147 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:05.000 got squirters going out the other side of the UH 148 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:08.240 of the village. So anyways, they cleared the village to 149 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.759 get away. Nothing happened. We come back that morning on 150 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.720 the firefight's over, and uh, you know, we refit, regrouped, 151 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:19.519 and now we got this issue with this helicopter suent 152 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.680 in the camp. Now what are we going to do? 153 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:27.000 So what was really interesting was, and I didn't know this, 154 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:31.800 but apparently the armies they have pilots that are especially 155 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.200 trained to fly cripple aircraft. Right, So what they did 156 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:38.480 is they brought us one. There's one badass pilot man 157 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.559 and they roped them in the fast rope and his 158 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:43.919 job was to go down there and start that aircraft 159 00:08:44.879 --> 00:08:47.279 and fly it, fly it out of there. Wow, you know, 160 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.399 broken hall man. Yeah, I didn't know that. You know, 161 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:51.320 it was like, damn, this guy's got some balls. Man, 162 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.320 one guy man, that's his job, right, and so, uh 163 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:56.919 so when they brought him in, they roped him in 164 00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:59.840 and uh then they brought a bunch of fast movers 165 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.720 came flying in and basically was straight fened the hillsides 166 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:05.200 to keep the bad guys down while this guy was 167 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.720 you know, you know, turning knobs and pulling the leverage 168 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.080 and cranking this thing up. He actually got it out 169 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.360 of there. He actually flew this broken helicopter out of 170 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:18.919 the HLZ. He cleared it up for us, so we decide, okay, 171 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:22.960 the next night we'll continue mission. And we decided, okay, 172 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:25.799 let's go I forget the direction, but I think it 173 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.000 was west. We're still we're gonna go west. There's a 174 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.399 village about six kilometers away. We know the Taliban stages 175 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:33.840 out of there also, and so we're just gonna go 176 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.440 down there and you know, set up an ambush, knowing 177 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.200 they're gonna come and hit the camp that night, and 178 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:40.720 we're just gonna ambush him. So so we take off 179 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:45.120 and I remember we're walking around this this ridge line. 180 00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.240 It's really steep, man, I mean really steep, and we're 181 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.440 walking on a goat trail that was maybe eighteen inches 182 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:53.799 twenty four inches wide. It was a real muddy and slippery. 183 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:56.399 There's a lot of water running down, and we'll wear 184 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.960 night vision gloggles. It's pitch black. There's a lot of 185 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:03.559 trees and uh cuising along, CUIs along, And then all 186 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:06.919 of a sudden, I hear my interpreter behind me fall 187 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.879 off the cliff right and he and he falls like 188 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:14.080 maybe I don't know, twenty twenty five thirty feet down 189 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.120 the side of this cliff, right, and he lands on 190 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.279 the little ledge down there, and I could hear him, 191 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:20.639 you know, you know, making you know, hoofing the puffet 192 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.159 sounds and stuff. And I turned around and look down. 193 00:10:23.240 --> 00:10:25.480 I see him and I see what looks like just 194 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.159 his whole face is like black. And the black was 195 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.679 actually blood. Right, well, we're night vision goggles, so it looked, 196 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:32.759 you know, it was dark black, but it was all blood. 197 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.799 And he knocked his teeth out. His teeth were sticking 198 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.399 out through his lips, his gums and stuff. And uh. 199 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:42.080 And I looked at His name was HD. We call 200 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.919 him HD for Harley Davison, right, he loved Harley Davison, 201 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.120 even though he'll never own one. That was this thing, 202 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:48.919 you know, so we always call him HD. I go HD, 203 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:52.679 You okay, yes, sir, I'm okay, yes, sir, yes, sir. 204 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:57.600 I'm like, you don't look good. And so we finally 205 00:10:57.799 --> 00:10:59.840 we would pull him up and I'm looking at him. 206 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:04.080 Holy shit, dude, you're a mess, and uh. And then 207 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:07.480 he begins to explain to me how that was the 208 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:09.919 first night he ever wore night vision goggles. So are 209 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:12.399 you kidding me? This is the first time you've been 210 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:15.120 out on operation and you were an MVGS on a 211 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:20.279 goat trail and uh, holy shit, man, what were you thinking, dude? 212 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.679 And so anyways, you know, he fell off the cliff 213 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:25.559 because he couldn't see because he didn't you didn't know 214 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:29.399 how to use night vision goggles properly. And so we're 215 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:32.120 sitting there and we had a Navy medic with us 216 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:36.080 and bring him back forman and he's kind of patching up, 217 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.519 you know, h HD. And then while we're sitting there, 218 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:43.639 we're looking with the thermoals we could see so we're 219 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:45.720 on this ridge line. We could see directly across to 220 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:47.840 another ridge line about two hundred and fifty three hundred 221 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:51.120 meters across from us, and we noticed a small fire 222 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:55.720 burning and uh and so hold on, hold on for 223 00:11:55.759 --> 00:12:02.200 a second. Hey, I got my maid in here. She's 224 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:08.000 cleaning and talked about employees. So anyway, so we see 225 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:11.919 this fire burning and we're looking and looking looking, go okay, 226 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.639 that looks really suspicious. Man. Well it turns out it 227 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.960 was twelve Taliban and what they were doing they were 228 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:22.679 one terrain feature away from the camp. So what they 229 00:12:22.759 --> 00:12:25.360 were doing is staging there. What they're gonna do it, 230 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:27.399 get all spun up, and they come around and hit 231 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:29.519 the camp that night from that position. So that was 232 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:34.159 their you know, their MSS basically support site and uh 233 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.480 and so anyways, so we we call, we called for 234 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:44.159 close air support and there was happens to be I 235 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:46.399 think it was an F fifteen on station. He had 236 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.759 he had a couple of JDAMs with him, and uh, 237 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:51.559 he was quite a ways out. You could even hear 238 00:12:51.559 --> 00:12:54.879 the aircraft. So we said, hey, you this us. You know, 239 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.039 we we think we identify a Taliban location. We gave 240 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:02.480 them the location. He's looking us his optics and like 241 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:04.120 I said, he was so far out you couldn't even 242 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.159 hear the guy. You had no idea he was on station. 243 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:09.159 But he could actually see. He's actually counting. He goes, yeah, 244 00:13:09.159 --> 00:13:12.919 he got twelve guys armed AK forty seven weapons systems, 245 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:15.720 blah blah blah. And he's very in detail describing these 246 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.759 guys like holy shit. So we're like, all right, well 247 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.080 send him to all lot man. And so the guy 248 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.519 releases one thousand pounds Jadam and the time of flight 249 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:27.200 was forty five seconds. And when he released it, he said, yeah, 250 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:29.960 it's in round. We actually laid the target for him, 251 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:34.039 and and you never heard the aircraft. You never even 252 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.320 heard the jadam until it went off. And when it 253 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.240 went off, I saw was pieces and parts flying through 254 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:42.519 the air arms and legs and a K forty seven. 255 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:45.960 We kept it all on if a red video and 256 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:48.159 we kind of watched it the next day. It reveled 257 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.639 over it. But so so we did that, and so 258 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.840 we're like, okay, a mission accomplished. We don't need to 259 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.240 go allway to the village. We go back. And then 260 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:59.320 the next day these guys got the ass I guess 261 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.200 decided it was some paybacks. So they come roll around 262 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:04.559 there again, some more of them, and they happened to 263 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.120 be an op lpop up on the on the high 264 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:10.919 ground and a bunch of privates up there with forty 265 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:14.080 nine and they just lazy killed another twelve killed another 266 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:16.200 twelve of broad daylight coming around there. So we smoke 267 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.240 quite a few guys in a couple of days we 268 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.080 were there, and uh, we ended up you know, getting 269 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:23.799 everybody out, every last man out, get all the equipment out, 270 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.600 and was able to withdraw within the seventy two hours. Anyways, 271 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:31.399 in spite of a shotdown helicopter in the compound. So 272 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.000 but it was really you know, looking back at that, 273 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.600 it's like, man, these guys were living hardcore little poncho 274 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:40.480 who just for a year sleeping them up. They had 275 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:44.200 no Wi Fi, no TV, they had nothing. Man, they 276 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:48.159 were living they were living in really rough field conditions 277 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:51.200 for a year and they're fighting out every day. And 278 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:53.919 I'm like, man, that's you know, that's a hardcore shit there. 279 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.240 But glad to get them out of there, because man, 280 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:58.519 they were taking a beating and they were pretty much 281 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:01.480 combat and effect. They couldn't leave the wire. They're just 282 00:15:01.480 --> 00:15:04.759 sitting ducks, you know, and uh and getting pop shots 283 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.799 at them. So but that was an interesting mission. It 284 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.679 was a lot of fun, went pretty fast and uh 285 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.440 but you know, we got her downe and got everybody 286 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:17.399 out of there. So unfortunately the other camp we didn't 287 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:19.320 deal with the other camp. With the first camp, they 288 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:21.320 took some serious casualties up there. I remember when that 289 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.519 firefight happened, was a big deal. And this these three 290 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:31.879 fobs were the northernmost US mill camps in Afghanistan. There 291 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.039 was nothing else up there. I mean they were way 292 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:37.080 out there too, I mean, really tough terrain, to get 293 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.279 to you know, I said, the helicopters the only way 294 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.000 to get in and out of there, and they shot 295 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.720 down the one helicopter to HLS. They could have been worse, man, 296 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:46.840 I could just imagine it had this thing, you know, 297 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:50.360 disintegrated in the compound. You know, maybe you know, kill 298 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.039 a bunch of men or something, you know, and hit 299 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:55.200 field dumps. You know, it could have been a disaster, man, 300 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.240 But it all worked out. Like I said, I was 301 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.919 really impressed with the pilot to know that they had 302 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:02.720 guys like that. Like that guy's got a pair of 303 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.320 balls like a bull. Man. You're gonna come in here, 304 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:08.679 rope them in at night and he's gonna get he's 305 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.759 gonna get a cockpit and start pushing button to pull 306 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:13.399 a lever and you know, praying to God just think 307 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:16.000 fucking flies out of there, you know. And he did it, man, 308 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.440 he actually did it. So pretty cool, you know. 309 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:21.320 Dale, that's actually you know, you mentioned these fobs and 310 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.799 that's something. And for those of you don't know, it's 311 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:25.799 just a Ford Operating Base. It's you know, a little 312 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:28.360 camp out in the middle of nowhere generally, but you know, 313 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:32.799 we've talked about how special ops is really you know, 314 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:36.000 everybody loves the sexy mission of the of special ops, 315 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.799 but these conventional forces were out there, like at these 316 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.840 remote places or on these law patrols, mixing it up 317 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:47.080 all the time, and they really don't get the credit 318 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:47.840 that they deserve. 319 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:52.279 No, that's true, man, It's that's true. I was up 320 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.720 in the corner Gall also, and so you had a 321 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:58.000 bunch of fops in that area, same thing. Those guys 322 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:01.559 were just getting pounded every day, man. And corn Gall 323 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:03.960 was probably it was regardless, most dangerous place on the 324 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.079 planet at that time. And it wasn't if you're going 325 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:08.359 to get in contact, it was when and how bad. 326 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.200 But if you go up into corn Gall, you're going 327 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:13.519 to get smacked, you know. And there was there were 328 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:17.839 guys up there every day, you know, slinging lead with 329 00:17:17.880 --> 00:17:21.480 each other, with the bad guys, you know. So yeah, 330 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.519 they're you're right, man, they're out there, they're doing it, 331 00:17:23.759 --> 00:17:26.319 you know, and uh they're living in some hardcore conditions, 332 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:30.279 you know, and uh and uh it sucks. But on 333 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:34.279 one hand, you know, I mean I kind of lived that, man, Yeah, 334 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:35.480 right right. You know. 335 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:41.440 Of course, Dale As I recall, I mean, you retired 336 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.640 from the Army, like just before nine to eleven. And 337 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:47.799 I mean, I don't think there's any way that a 338 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:49.920 dude like you was gonna miss the war on Terror. 339 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:52.240 You did find a way, of course, obviously, to deal 340 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.799 your way into the action. I remember you once telling 341 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.079 me that you actually went out on ops by yourself 342 00:17:58.119 --> 00:18:00.519 a few times with the image, which I. 343 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:01.200 Thought was pretty cool. 344 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.319 I mean, what was this experience, like, I guess we're 345 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.039 gonna say, oga, what was that like by comparison to 346 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.359 your military experience? 347 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:14.559 It was I want to say it was better because one, 348 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:19.279 I was entrusted with a lot of men and a 349 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:25.640 lot of money and mission right, so you know, I 350 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.119 mean I was literally downranged. I only can describe it 351 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.720 like Colonel Kurtz up the river in Apocalypse. Now. You know, 352 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:34.279 there were there were times I was up the river 353 00:18:34.839 --> 00:18:37.279 in a camp with me maybe one or two other 354 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:41.640 Americans maybe and uh, you know, anywhere from fifty to 355 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:46.880 five hundred you know, Afghan mercenaries and especially in the 356 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:49.640 in the beginning of the war. You know, I had 357 00:18:50.039 --> 00:18:52.480 a lot of latitude just to get the job done. 358 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:54.640 You know, I can remember walking into the camp to 359 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:58.720 the base ops talking to the chief there and going, hey, man, 360 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.759 I'm gonna take the guys out tonight. We go down 361 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:03.839 the road and wena hit that target back tomorrow morning. 362 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:06.319 He's like okay, and he's out there and he's painting 363 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.839 and ship, you know, he's doing he's like doing some 364 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:11.400 weirder jobs. You know. It's like, yeah, okay, yeah, just 365 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:12.880 don't get nobody hurt. You know, let me know what 366 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.400 happened tomorrow morning, Like, yeah, Roger that and I'd go 367 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.039 do my thing, you know, and uh, and there was 368 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:22.680 no you know, there was no oversight. People just trusted me, 369 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:26.200 you know, and they knew that, you know, I was 370 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:27.960 able to do the right thing, to fight the war 371 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.200 on terror, to beat the bad guys, whatever it took, 372 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.000 and which is really cool, man to have that kind 373 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:38.440 of given that kind of responsibility and uh, and had 374 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:40.480 that kind of trust to go do that. And there 375 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:44.319 were times, you're right. As the war went on, I 376 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:47.559 worked with some of the same guys a lot, and uh, 377 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:50.279 you know, they trusted me. I took care of them, 378 00:19:50.640 --> 00:19:53.440 you know, I mean I treated they were my soldiers, 379 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:56.559 but I treated them with respect, with dignity. You know. 380 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:58.880 I cared about them and their wives as well as 381 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:02.160 their families. And so you know, I did what I 382 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:04.480 thought the leader is supposed to do. You know, Unfortunately, 383 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.079 you know this is gonna I'm gonna say it, but uh, 384 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:10.440 a lot of guys don't get it, particularly you know, 385 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:13.960 in the Navy. You know they're working with the indiage. 386 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.279 And I say the Navy, I'm talking about particularly the Seals. 387 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:19.640 You know, they don't have that background of working with 388 00:20:19.759 --> 00:20:22.680 Indigenous people and Green berets as you know, you know, 389 00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:26.519 Jack both you guys, you know that was our mission. 390 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:29.079 Man is the is the windhearts and minds, train the 391 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:33.240 Indigenous to basically stand up on our own armies and 392 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:37.519 to go fight, fight war, and and that requires that 393 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:40.000 we took care of our guys and we treat them 394 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.480 with dignity, with respect. We didn't treat them like dogs. 395 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.319 We didn't talk shit to them, We didn't abuse them, 396 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.000 because that will come back and haunt you. That will 397 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:50.960 that will end you somewhere on the battlefield by your 398 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:53.759 own men if you do that wrong. And so these 399 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:56.680 other guys didn't get that, and I got countless stories 400 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:00.160 about that. But anyways, that was my mission was you know, 401 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:03.160 always do the right thing by my soldiers, and so 402 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.559 I look, I had the pay. You know, I had 403 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:08.039 to check book, and you know, if the guys did 404 00:21:08.079 --> 00:21:09.680 a really good job, it's like, you know, here you go, 405 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:11.519 here's a bonus to take the day off, take two 406 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:14.519 days off. In fact, you know, you know I took 407 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:16.920 care of my guys that way because I knew that 408 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:19.920 would you know, the return would be huge on that 409 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:21.799 down the road when I needed it. And I was right. 410 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:24.720 So I had opportune of guys that forty two. In 411 00:21:24.759 --> 00:21:28.839 fact that you know, these guys, I would literally go 412 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:31.160 out on operations by myself with them. Now I know 413 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:34.039 I'm breaking you know, breaking protocol and all kinds of rules. 414 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.359 Two man rule, you know, as an American, you got 415 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:38.440 to go out with another American. But I got to 416 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:41.119 the point with these guys that I trusted them so much. 417 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:44.480 We've been out down range so many many times that 418 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:47.000 and I mean I remember them telling me, you know, 419 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:50.400 I remember one time they had a little formation and 420 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:53.799 they're like, mister Dell, you know, we will never let 421 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:55.880 anything happen to you. We will build a human wall 422 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:57.759 around you. We will protect you with our lives. And 423 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:00.079 I believe that, man, because I saw it, you know, 424 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:02.599 And so I could go out down range two three 425 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.960 days at a time, nobody knew what the hell I 426 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.839 was at, you know, I was everywhere Afghanistania, out the 427 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:11.279 freak in the middle of nowhere, you know, and we're 428 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.200 going out and hitting targets and stuff, you know. And 429 00:22:13.240 --> 00:22:15.480 they could have easily, they could have easily let the 430 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:17.160 air out of me out there somewhere and buried me 431 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:18.759 and said, we don't know where he went, you know. 432 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:22.160 And but that never happened. And you know, maybe I 433 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:23.599 got lucky, I don't know, but I don't think so. 434 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:26.319 I became very good friends with a lot of these guys, 435 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.000 and particularly one of them's h He was one of 436 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:33.839 the commanders, young, young guy, but definitely a go get 437 00:22:33.839 --> 00:22:37.720 her man. The whole platoon was, this particular platoon was 438 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:41.920 very was very different from your typical Afghan They were 439 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:47.640 more Western oriented their mindset, their personalities. You know, you 440 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:50.880 could tell they loved the West, they love the American way, 441 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:55.279 and so they were different in that regard. But the 442 00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:58.119 commander had been around for a while. Although he was young, 443 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:01.759 his you know, his family had fought the Mouja Den 444 00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:04.920 he had lost, you know, family members, and this guy 445 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.079 was on the hit list. You know, Taliban wanted this 446 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:09.359 guy because of who he was and what he was 447 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:12.759 in charge of. And I was always afraid that, you know, 448 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:15.799 when we pull out as Americans, this guy is gonna 449 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:18.200 get smoked. He's gonna kill him man, you know him 450 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:21.759 and his family. And so one day I just never 451 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:24.240 showed back up. I'd been going to the same camp 452 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:28.079 for about almost eighteen months, and then I got reassigned 453 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:32.359 because it was a problem at another camp and it 454 00:23:32.440 --> 00:23:36.240 had to do with you know, the American Afghan interaction, 455 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:39.880 you know, poor leadership, blah blah blah, and I kind 456 00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:42.160 of got sent out there to try to, you know, 457 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:46.519 fix this situation. So I never got to go back 458 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:50.279 and see you know, the commander, and never saw him 459 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:52.279 after that. And then long after I got out, I 460 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:54.240 always wondered what happened to him. You know, I'm like, man, 461 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:57.480 I'm afraid that, you know, he's gonna get killed one day, 462 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:01.160 and so lo and behold, I get a message on Facebook. 463 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:05.599 So I was always operating under you know, a fake name, 464 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:08.519 fake everything. You know, nobody knew my real name, and 465 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.039 this guy had found me on Facebook and he's messaging 466 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:13.880 me and he's like, hey man, he goes me and 467 00:24:13.960 --> 00:24:16.000 my family are now in the United States. You know, 468 00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:18.720 he had he had five five boys and a daughter 469 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:21.400 I think, and uh and his wife. They all made 470 00:24:21.759 --> 00:24:24.519 it to the States, made to Virginia, got a job. 471 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:26.440 You know, people took care of him, you know. But 472 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:28.319 they got him a special beast and got him out 473 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:30.599 of there because they recognized that this guy is gonna 474 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.880 get He's gonna get killed, man, no doubt he's gonna 475 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.720 get kill when Americans left, and you know, look look 476 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:36.480 what happened, man, I mean, let's look at what happened 477 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:39.680 last August. Right here we go. How many people got killed? 478 00:24:39.720 --> 00:24:42.559 You know, no matter how many people are still getting killed. 479 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:44.599 You know, I got to I guarantee you he would 480 00:24:44.640 --> 00:24:46.759 have been one of those guys. And in fact, some 481 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:50.400 of my guys were killed. Some of my guys. They 482 00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:54.279 basically I think it was a total of thirteen. It 483 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:56.400 was the last stand for them, man. They literally fought 484 00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:58.839 to the last bullet and they got killed, you know, 485 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:01.680 trying to keep the keep the the Taliban wave back. 486 00:25:02.119 --> 00:25:04.720 So I know it's I know what it happened, and 487 00:25:04.759 --> 00:25:07.319 it was gonna happen to him. He beat the odds. 488 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:09.160 The guy out there. He's lived in the United States. 489 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:11.759 Actually just saw him about two years ago, which was 490 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.000 really cool. But but yeah, this, you know, I would 491 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:17.240 go out with these guys, you know, on a regular 492 00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:19.880 basis by myself, you know, and I trusted them, and uh, 493 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.519 it is what it is. You know, we got the 494 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:26.279 job done, and I kind of had a different perspective, 495 00:25:26.359 --> 00:25:30.240 you know. You know, I remember the guy that shot 496 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:34.400 down a turban three three Okay, he was a young 497 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:37.920 guy in fact, and we got intel one day that 498 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:42.359 he had arrived at one of the local villages and 499 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.359 we we knew he was there, and I'm like, great, 500 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.400 let's go get this guy. But my unit, the Afghans, 501 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.119 had been basically they've been stood down right because of 502 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:56.160 this issue I mentioned earlier with the Seals, and there 503 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.240 was a rift just what happened, and it wasn't good 504 00:25:58.240 --> 00:26:00.519 Afghan's fault. That was what I found out later on. 505 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.680 So anyways, but nonetheless they were told to stand down 506 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.799 for six months. We trained this blah blah blah. Now 507 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:09.160 we got this guy from you know, shutdown turban three 508 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:12.279 to three right down like two kilometers away. And I'm like, man, 509 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:14.960 let me take the boys. Let's go get to this guy. 510 00:26:15.440 --> 00:26:17.759 This guy wasn't on the top of the HBT list, 511 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:19.759 and he was right up there. Everybody wanted this guy. 512 00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:24.799 And I remember I was told no because the guys 513 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:27.559 aren't they're not operational. And I go, the hell, they're 514 00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:30.440 not operational. I'm running these guys. I'm telling you they're operational. 515 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.400 This is either road on the road, we get the guy, 516 00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:36.200 we'd come back, and they just they just said no, 517 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.799 kept saying no. And I'm like, look, you hired me 518 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:41.240 as a contractor, all right, I got all these skills. 519 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:43.480 I said, then I'll go. You pay me a lot 520 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:45.759 of money. Let me just go. If I don't come back, 521 00:26:45.799 --> 00:26:47.559 I don't come back, you know. But it was he 522 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.319 sending me. Man. You know, I was mission oriented. These 523 00:26:51.319 --> 00:26:54.079 guys were risk averse. And it got that way, you know, 524 00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:57.519 as you know later on in the war, you know, 525 00:26:58.359 --> 00:27:01.279 everybody became risk a verse. Nobody was interested in winning 526 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:05.519 the war. It just became, uh, you know, it became 527 00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:09.119 check the block, check the block. Right. So I remember 528 00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:11.599 some of the camps I'm at, We've got literally we've 529 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:16.480 got these these case officers the logistics officers you know, 530 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:20.759 from Paris Embassy from Europe, and we call them combat 531 00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:23.079 tourists as you know, right there there checking the block. 532 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:25.440 You know, I was in combat when they never left 533 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.160 the damn wire and they didn't even have a damn 534 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:30.000 firearm on them. You know, it just turned into a 535 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:32.640 total bullshit. That war should have been over a long 536 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:35.240 time ago, but it just turned into a self looking 537 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:38.359 ice cream for a lot of people. You know, Ye, sadly, 538 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:40.759 it is what it is. But that's why I left 539 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:43.240 in twenty eleven. I just had enough and I thought, 540 00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:45.359 Jesus Christ, you know, I'm gonna get killed for what? 541 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.880 For nothing? And I was right for I was right. 542 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:51.359 Look what happened, man, Look what happened. All these men 543 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:56.359 are dead, women are dead for nothing. Nothing happened, you know, nothing. 544 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.279 We show UBL a long time ago why we were 545 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:01.160 still there then, you. 546 00:28:01.119 --> 00:28:04.519 Know, so bullshit they Uh Well, you said you left 547 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.759 in twenty eleven from UH as far as contracting for 548 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:12.480 our government, you kind of thought you were gonna I mean, 549 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.480 you did go into UH television a little bit, started 550 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:17.920 making some inroads on Hollywood. You thought, kind of like 551 00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:20.839 your soldiering days, were behind you from some of the 552 00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:26.119 things you've said. But then, uh, well, in the sequence 553 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:27.799 of events, I mean, what what was it the. 554 00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:29.240 Hong Kong gig that came first? 555 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:34.039 So yeah, So what happened was I literally got discovered 556 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:36.680 by Discovery Channel, right, it was kind of weird and 557 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:39.880 uh and so they, you know it, said, you know, 558 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:41.960 we'd like for your try out. It's a TV show 559 00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.279 called One Man Army, And I thought, what can that 560 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:46.160 be kind of cool? Do that be kind of like 561 00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:50.039 closing the chapter to my military paramilitary career, you know? 562 00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:51.920 And I thought it'd be kind of a cool way 563 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:54.200 to go out do a little TV show, And so 564 00:28:54.279 --> 00:28:57.880 I did and I got selected, and uh and so 565 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:00.920 I did. I guess I did pretty well on that show. 566 00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:03.519 And then I got a call about six months later 567 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.599 from NBC said, Hey, we like what we saw Discovery. 568 00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:09.400 Would you be interested in trying out for this TV show, 569 00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.440 which was Stars and Stripes. As I understand that there 570 00:29:13.440 --> 00:29:17.079 were about ten thousand applicants that tried out for that show. 571 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:20.359 I was one of eight, along with Chris Kyle and 572 00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:22.319 a couple of other guys on the show, to actually 573 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.240 get selected. It was pretty long process. It was a 574 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:28.839 lot of interviews. I'd actually fly out to the Universal 575 00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:32.240 studios and do an on site interview in front of 576 00:29:32.240 --> 00:29:35.200 the cameras. You know. Again, I did pretty well, and 577 00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.359 so I got selected and there I was. Now I'm 578 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.200 doing I'm doing the Hollywood thing. And then that turned 579 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:45.359 into other people started noticing me, wanted them meet with me. 580 00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:48.680 In fact, I went out with so I became really 581 00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:50.960 good friends with Terry Crews still end of this day. 582 00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:57.200 And Eva Torres, the WWE wrestler, she invited me to 583 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:00.119 come out to an event, so I went out there. 584 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:01.920 While I was out there, I got approached by some 585 00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:05.039 people that knew of me actually when it was a 586 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:07.799 former student of mine, and said, we'd like to talk 587 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.400 to you, and so, okay, we do. And it's a 588 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:13.920 production company. They're they're pretty right wing out of Dallas, 589 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:16.480 and I said, we need a poster boy. We want 590 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:20.319 to make a conservative production company. We want to invite 591 00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:23.480 veterans to come out and participate in Hollywood events and 592 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:25.839 things like that. We want to be more we want 593 00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:29.000 to do more right leading stuff than left leading stuff, 594 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:32.559 and we need I use the poster board. So I 595 00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:35.839 was all in and started networking going to a lot 596 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:40.279 of producers, you know. I just started getting around in Hollywood, 597 00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:41.960 is what was happening. And they were trying to pitch 598 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.160 some TV shows for me. I ended up on a 599 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.839 few shows, you know. So this whole thing was starting 600 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:51.559 to get some grow some legs, and a couple of 601 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:53.960 years out into it, there's some other weird stuff that happened. 602 00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:56.720 I'm not yeah, I probably shouldn't share it today, but 603 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:00.200 there was some other really weird stuff started happening. Right. 604 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.680 Little did I know that not only am I a 605 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:06.920 poster boy, but I'm actually a prop for a bigger 606 00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:11.240 for government agencies for that way, So there's a very 607 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:14.720 huge Chinese or Russian presence in Hollywood. They own everything. 608 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.400 So I'll let you put it all together. Next thing, 609 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:19.400 I know, I'm like, why are you guys giving me 610 00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.680 all this cash? And I'm not signing for anything, you know, 611 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:25.839 and and on a regular basis, And what am I 612 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:28.680 doing here again? You know, just do your thing, you know, 613 00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:32.279 be the Hollywood guy, you know, networking okay, And I 614 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:36.599 didn't ask any questions, but got really weird, really weird 615 00:31:36.640 --> 00:31:40.720 after a while. And then then I realized, holy shit, man, 616 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:44.400 I'm in another spy versus spy fucking movie and don't 617 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.400 even know it yet and so so anyways, after a 618 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:51.960 couple of years, I was asked to move to Hollywood 619 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:54.160 to live out there. I was told I could be 620 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:56.079 the next Danny Treo. I could be on all kinds 621 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:59.519 of TV shows. And I had to do a little thinking. Man, 622 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:01.079 I was like, is this who I really am? Is 623 00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:04.119 this me? You know? Because I don't like these people 624 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:06.319 man for the most part. You know, they're They're a 625 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:12.359 different culture, different mindset. You know. I'm used to actually 626 00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.279 being an action guy and not pretending to be an 627 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:17.960 action guy, I know. And so so that kind of 628 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:21.960 ended up. I ended up moving to Hong Kong and 629 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.680 I was working over there running security detail for a 630 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:28.160 multi billionaire investment banker, which is okay, it's kind of cool. 631 00:32:28.160 --> 00:32:30.359 I was living downtown one Chai, Hong Kong. 632 00:32:30.359 --> 00:32:33.440 Dale Dal Can can I interrupt for one second for 633 00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:36.920 a sponsor? 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So 663 00:34:11.760 --> 00:34:13.800 please go and check them out and support the show. 664 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:15.679 We really appreciate it, guys. 665 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:16.039 Thank you. 666 00:34:18.760 --> 00:34:21.119 All right, So Dale, back to you. You were working 667 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.559 for an investment banker in Hong Kong, that was the deal. 668 00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.320 Yeah, so I was protected. I was running a security detail. 669 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:29.199 I was one of the guys run the security detail, 670 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:33.000 so you know, I ended up falling into That's a 671 00:34:33.039 --> 00:34:36.559 couple of things happened. That pup decides the Hollywood thing 672 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.199 not you know, I wasn't interested and started losing interest 673 00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:42.880 in it. The other thing that happened was I had 674 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:45.719 sold another one of my companies. So I've owned several companies. 675 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:48.199 I've sold them to G four s Wacken Hut. I 676 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:52.519 sold this other company twenty eleven to another company. I 677 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:54.639 was running this company out of my office at home 678 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:58.119 for about two years, making real from twenty three thousand 679 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:01.280 dollars a month, just sit in my office. And anyways, 680 00:35:01.280 --> 00:35:03.679 that went south, and it didn't go south because I 681 00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:06.239 was sitting in my office. It was south because the 682 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:09.920 investors were doing their job. But nonetheless, I decided to 683 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:11.480 pull a pitch and get out of there. Ended up 684 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:15.039 in Hong Kong, and then that's actually where I met 685 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:19.679 my wife. She's Indonesia, and she went back to Indonesia. 686 00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.159 I went back to the States, and then eventually I 687 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:25.559 went to Indonesia. You know, chasing drawers, that's what we do, 688 00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:28.119 right and so so I went over to meet her 689 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:32.519 and started looking around and started realizing there's business opportunities. 690 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:34.760 So I'm actually talking to you right now from Bali. 691 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.880 That's where my office is in Bali, Indonesia. But we decided, 692 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:41.679 you know, hey, there's some business opportunities here in relatives 693 00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:45.480 and security canines blah blah blah. And my wife had 694 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:48.960 started our business here and we've been in Bali. I've 695 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:51.400 lived Indonesia now almost seven years, I think, and I've 696 00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.599 been in Bali over four and a half years. And 697 00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:59.119 we're running explosive detective dogs, patrol attack dogs, and narcotic 698 00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:02.239 detector dogs for like all the Marriott properties and the 699 00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:06.280 local venues here. So it's pretty cool gig, you know. 700 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:08.480 I get to I get to play with my dogs 701 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:11.000 and make money off of them too, you know. And uh, 702 00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:13.920 you know, we did really well here right up until COVID, 703 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.079 you know, took our legs out from under us. Like 704 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:19.280 everybody else. It wasn't really COVID, it was all the 705 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:23.280 freaking crooks that capitalized on it. But nonetheless, we're back 706 00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:27.239 and we're back in business, and uh just signed another contract, 707 00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:31.719 signed two contracts, so you know, we're back in business here. 708 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:34.239 So that's why that's how I ended up in Bali. 709 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.039 I live here. I have a home in Florida as well. 710 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:42.159 Also actually have another home in the Philippines. But uh 711 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:43.840 so I kind of like live out of a suitcase. 712 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:46.480 So with all I said, you would think that, okay, 713 00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:48.480 after the Hall, you know, the Hong Kong field, that 714 00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:53.280 was kind of a cool gig, kind of everybody thinks 715 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:56.840 that being a bodyguard is like really uh you know, 716 00:36:57.360 --> 00:37:00.679 really cool. I gotta tell you, man, it sucks all right. 717 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:03.159 On one hand, you know, living in Hong Kong, that 718 00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:05.679 was the cool part. Living in Hong Kong, Okay, one 719 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:08.119 of my favorite cities until the Chinese took back over. 720 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.360 But it's a really cool place. But being the work 721 00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:16.000 of a body card is. It sucks and I keep 722 00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.239 saying that, but it actually sucks. It's a good job 723 00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:21.920 for it's a good job for younger guys, you know, 724 00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:25.440 but you know, for guys like me, it's like insulting 725 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:28.400 in a lot of ways, you know. I so the 726 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:31.239 pay was okay, Actually the pay has been really well. 727 00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:34.920 I got paid very well. And I'll share the story 728 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.079 with you about la here in a minute. But going 729 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:39.960 back to the Hong Kong deal. So here, I am investing, 730 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:44.920 you know, for providing security for this really wealthy Chinese 731 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:47.840 guy in his mid fifties, late fifties, married to a 732 00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:51.599 thirty two year old Mexican model, big old boobs on her, 733 00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:55.800 you know, good looking, beautiful insight, but the ugliest person 734 00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:58.079 you'll ever meet on the inside. Oh my god, man, 735 00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:02.400 she was horrible. Man. And you know, we all know 736 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.519 what that was about. But anyways, it was a difficult 737 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:09.360 job in that, you know, dealing with the client. They're 738 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:11.920 just rich. People suck, Okay, that's a. 739 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:12.480 Matter of fact. 740 00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:16.320 People suck. And you know there's a reason that they're rich, 741 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:18.320 and it's because they're really good at walking over a 742 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:20.960 lot of other people man to get there and that's 743 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.199 a fact. I've got a lot of rich business partners, 744 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:26.480 rich friends, rich clients. I got one guy, he's a billionaire. 745 00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:29.360 Ohs be four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Yeah, he's 746 00:38:29.360 --> 00:38:31.360 a billionaire, and he screwed me out of four hundred 747 00:38:31.360 --> 00:38:35.280 and fifty thousand dollars. Man, So kind of let the 748 00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:37.840 bad taste in my mouth these people. And the lesson 749 00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.159 learning out of that is be your own boss, hero's 750 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:43.079 success story. Don't count on none of these other people, man, 751 00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:45.880 because everybody will take from you. So I said earlier 752 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.440 before the interview, you know how you need mean and 753 00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:51.000 vile and nasty people really are? I got some. I 754 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.719 got another story on that one too. So anyways, I 755 00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:57.079 did this for a while. You know, Like I said, 756 00:38:57.079 --> 00:38:59.480 it's kind of a thankless job. You get paid, but 757 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:02.519 you're treated like shit. You know. Here, I am a 758 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:05.039 guy with a PhD, you know, and I got I 759 00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:07.800 got another friend of mine ready for this. He's a 760 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:12.119 seal commander, lawyer for Blackwater, and he's a bodyguard with me. 761 00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.639 And we got this thirty two year old client, you know, 762 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:18.480 with one fucking live brainshell talking down to us like 763 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:21.639 we're the little freaking kids, like hell, you know, So 764 00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:24.320 that's what I mean by that. But so I ended 765 00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:27.679 up doing all that, and then other things started happening. 766 00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.480 I had an opportunity to go to Yemen. We've you know, 767 00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:34.320 we've kind of talked about that in another episode. But basically, 768 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.000 while I was here, So the same company I was 769 00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:42.079 working for in Hong Kong, the Friends of Mine, I 770 00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:45.280 worked for them in South Africa, Mexico. You know, I 771 00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:48.599 did a lot of stuff with him, contracting as a consultant, 772 00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:53.880 security consultant, bodyguard, et cetera. So so here's the story out. 773 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:56.239 So I'm going right into this one. This was kind 774 00:39:56.280 --> 00:40:00.440 of cool. So one night I'm in South Africa sitting 775 00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:02.800 around the pool with a guy. The owner of his 776 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:05.639 name will call him a g and uh AG's a 777 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:11.480 pretty freaking hardcore, no shit kind of guy. Man. He 778 00:40:11.559 --> 00:40:13.440 either likes you or he don't. If you don't like you, 779 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:17.000 he'll let you know about it too. And so luckily 780 00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:19.360 I was, you know, I was a good friend with 781 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.360 this guy, and I got a little just fine with him. 782 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:24.920 So we're in South Africa sitting around the pool one 783 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.199 night and he's like Dale, he goes he goes, how 784 00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:30.920 come you do all these other things? You know, why 785 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:33.559 don't you just focus on security and you know you 786 00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:35.039 could be really good at that and make a lot 787 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:36.599 of money. You know, why do you do this and 788 00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:38.519 do that? Because at the time, I was like teaching 789 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:41.719 as a professor for Henry Putnam University. I'm a journeyman. 790 00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:44.519 I just travel around doing weird jobs, right, like going 791 00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:48.239 to Singapore to training dogs. And I told him, I said, well, 792 00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:50.599 you know, I said, you know, I said, I said, 793 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:52.239 I got a lot of ex wives out there need 794 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.599 to get paid, you know, a parasites man. You know, 795 00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:57.760 I've gotta pay them off all the time. You know, 796 00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:59.760 I got a lot of kids, and you know, and 797 00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:01.239 so so I said, I go where the work is 798 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:03.719 I make my money. I said, I'm pretty happy because 799 00:41:04.199 --> 00:41:06.079 I get to travel, I get to do different things. 800 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:08.199 I wear a different hat every day, and so it's 801 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.800 not so bad. And he looks at me. He goes, man, 802 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:13.239 he goes, what if I gave you fifty thousand dollars cash? 803 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:15.960 He goes, would that help you? And I thought about 804 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:17.360 I was like, yeah, of course it would help me, 805 00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:20.760 but I'm not taking it. And he wanted to give 806 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:22.880 me fifty thousand dollars cash because he thought it would 807 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:26.039 relieve some pressure, right, and so that I could focus 808 00:41:26.119 --> 00:41:30.280 on just you know, security, for example. And I said no, 809 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.760 I said, you know what, I can't accept your money. 810 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:35.119 I said, I don't take money. I don't earn. And 811 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:37.360 so we kind of got an argument over the swimming pool, 812 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.199 round the swim pool and he's like, well, he goes, 813 00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:42.199 tell me Dale. He goes, You've done so much in 814 00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:43.960 your life. What's next? What are you gonna do next? 815 00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:45.719 And I looked at him, I go, I want to 816 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:47.760 be like you. He looks at me like I go, what, 817 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:49.239 And yeah, I want to be like you. I'm gonna 818 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:51.599 be some rich guys sitting around a fucking pool asking 819 00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:53.400 people what they're gonna do with their lives. You know. 820 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.000 It couldn't give him fifty thousand dollars, so, you know, 821 00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.400 so we ended up parting ways. That night. I went 822 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:03.440 to our rooms and the next morning his partner calls 823 00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:05.960 me to the office and uh, he goes, hey, AG 824 00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:08.760 left the O this morning, went back home. But you know, 825 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:13.199 he just put fifty thousand dollars in your bank account. 826 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:16.039 And I was like, what the hell? Man? And so 827 00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:17.719 he goes, you can't give it back. We're not taking 828 00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.679 it back. We don't want it back. He goes, Listen, 829 00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:22.840 he goes, other people have helped us, Other veterans have 830 00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:25.119 come up and helped us when we needed. And he goes, 831 00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.360 we wanted to do the same thing, you know. And uh, 832 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:30.239 I said, well, I appreciate all that. But I said, 833 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:33.239 I don't work for free. So I said, count, count, 834 00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:35.679 this is paying. He's paid this forward. So next time 835 00:42:35.719 --> 00:42:38.000 you have a project, I said, you call me. I'll 836 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:41.639 drop what I'm doing. I'll come here wherever and go 837 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:43.719 to work for you. Right, you get your money back. 838 00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:46.360 So that wasn't even enough, man, And then he put 839 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:48.840 me on a seven thousand dollars a month retainer for 840 00:42:48.920 --> 00:42:51.920 next six months. My damn. So I'm making I'm doing 841 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:55.719 all right. And and so then I leave and I 842 00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:57.880 ended up going back to Indonesia. I start my security 843 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:03.039 business here and I'm married yet, but we start this enterprise. 844 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:05.639 And then one day I'm flying back to the US 845 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.960 and I get a text message from ag. He goes, hey, man, 846 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.599 I need to talk to you by some security related stuff. 847 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:12.559 This is over a year later, a year and a 848 00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:14.920 half later, and I thought, man, you know, I got 849 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:18.119 my own security business. These conflict adventures, I really wasn't 850 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:20.679 interested at this point. I was excited about starting my 851 00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:23.400 own company here. So I get to the stage, he 852 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.280 text me, game knows, I really really need to talk 853 00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:26.840 to you if I can't talk to you over the phone. 854 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.320 And I'm like, I don't know. You know aget, you know, 855 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:31.400 I'm him in a haunt. He goes, Okay, listen, He goes, 856 00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:33.719 I'm gonna buy your plane ticket to San Diego. He goes, well, 857 00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:35.440 you get here, I'm gonna pay you six thousand dollars 858 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:37.599 three hours of your time. I got it. You got 859 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:41.760 to listen to me. Shit, Okay, So it must be important. 860 00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.480 So I fly out there. He's leaning up against this 861 00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:47.320 bad ass, freaking portion at the airport. I show up. 862 00:43:47.320 --> 00:43:49.360 He hands me an envelope with six thousand dollars cash 863 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:53.840 and he's getting bitch. We take off right and uh. 864 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:56.360 We end up in his neighborhood, which was pretty amazing. 865 00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:59.039 I mean he literally he lived next door to Bill 866 00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:01.320 Gates and a whole bunch of other other people. Holy shit, 867 00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:06.719 this guy's rolling in dough and he was so that evening, 868 00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:09.519 we had a you know, we sat down, we had dinner, 869 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:12.679 and he and his partner told me what the plan was, right, 870 00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:17.000 and so basically it was they had a contract with 871 00:44:17.079 --> 00:44:22.280 the Imiordis and uh, basically to take out their HPTs, right, 872 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.760 they need a special force capability to have it. Age 873 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:30.920 promised them that we could deliver this, and so you know, okay, yeah, Roger, 874 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:33.440 that sounds like a good idea, pretty cool. But you know, 875 00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:35.800 I'm going back to Indonesia in three days, and uh, 876 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.880 I really didn't want to go. And so he already 877 00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:42.199 threw forty thousand dollars cash on the table in front 878 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:46.000 of me. He goes, that's yours, right, And I'm like, look, dude, 879 00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:48.079 I go. I said to you, I said, you do 880 00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:50.360 the first one. I said, I'll come in for the 881 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.000 fall on evolutions. I just got to go home, you know, 882 00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:55.239 see my girl, and kind of you know, I'm not 883 00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:58.000 always ready for this shit, you know, And he goes, no, 884 00:44:58.079 --> 00:44:59.639 if I don't, if I can't have you for the 885 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:01.280 first one, and I don't need you for the other ones, 886 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:07.840 and so I'm like, damn, okay, I said, all right, okay, okay, 887 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:11.400 I'm in right, so I fly home. I said, I 888 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:13.840 got to go to Indonesia first though, So I literally 889 00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:16.960 the next morning, I fly to Indonesia. I see my wife, 890 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:20.320 my girl. I lie to her. I said, look, I'm 891 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.440 gonna go to the Middle East. I'm doing some consulting, 892 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:24.559 you know, security consulting work, you know, make a little 893 00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:27.320 bit of money. Be right back, no danger problem, right back. 894 00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:30.800 Oh okay. So they tell me, don't bring any equipment. 895 00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:33.320 You don't need it. It's already provided for you. Right. 896 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:37.039 Oh okay. So I fly. I fly from Jakarta all 897 00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:41.480 the way to New York LaGuardia. I check into a 898 00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:45.880 hotel as I'm supposed to. I'm waiting around downstairs in 899 00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:48.920 the lounge area, restaurant area, having a beer, and I 900 00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:51.320 noticed there's a bunch of French dudes walking around. They 901 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:54.239 all look pretty fit, you know, but they're French, and 902 00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:56.719 so I'll get a little suspicious. And then I had 903 00:45:56.760 --> 00:45:58.679 to be up in a hotel room around ten thirty 904 00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.320 that night. We all had to meet there. Okay, we 905 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:04.639 all were given instruction at this time meet this room. 906 00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:06.760 So I show up in there and there's all these 907 00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.920 French duds are standing there. There's eleven of us total. 908 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:13.920 You know, Age is partner of seal me and then 909 00:46:14.719 --> 00:46:17.360 the other the French, the French foreign legionaires is what 910 00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:19.840 they are. And so we're all standing looking at you. 911 00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:23.000 They're like, who's who you know? Like the movie Roning. 912 00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:25.760 And then Age he's like, all right, guys, here's here's 913 00:46:25.800 --> 00:46:27.559 the mission. Here's the plan. He goes, this is what 914 00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:29.719 we're gonna go do. He goes. If you're not interested, 915 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:32.199 he goes, you can keep the twenty thousand dollars I 916 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:34.480 gave you and just leave right now and no questions asked, 917 00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:38.679 go back home, like fuck man. So everybody got twenty 918 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:41.519 twenty grand except for me. I had forty grand. I 919 00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:43.559 had ton Nobody well, there was a reason I got 920 00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:45.280 forty grand, and I was about to find that out 921 00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:47.679 in a second. So nobody quit. He goes, okay, good, 922 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:49.599 because welcome on board. He goes, so, and then he 923 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.320 points at me. He tells everybody in the room. He goes, 924 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.719 that guy's in charge of everything, he's the boss. Whatever 925 00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.440 he says, goes, you do what he tells. You do everything. 926 00:46:58.400 --> 00:47:01.480 I'm like, what me? So, you know, I don't even 927 00:47:01.480 --> 00:47:02.880 know what the hell's going on? Here right now, and 928 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:05.400 I'm in charge right all of a sudden of everything 929 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:10.079 and literally everything and all right, So the next day 930 00:47:11.039 --> 00:47:13.639 we have to meet downstairs. In the evening, we get 931 00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.079 on a bus, a bunch of vands, and we go 932 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:21.639 to Teterborough's private air force airport up there, and he 933 00:47:21.760 --> 00:47:24.280 tells us to make sure we're wearing all our tactical gear, 934 00:47:24.320 --> 00:47:28.280 our uniforms. That's kind of weird. That's a business fucking airport. 935 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:31.880 Everybody's wearing suits and we show up wearing cameouflage and 936 00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:34.920 beers and shit. Right, But he had a reason for it, Okay, 937 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.039 he had a reason for it. And the reason was 938 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.880 he knew people were watching us, people very high up 939 00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.440 were watching this, okay, and so he wasn't He didn't 940 00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:46.440 want to hide anything. He didn't want to give the 941 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:48.760 illusion that we're not up to something. He wanted to 942 00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:51.880 make you really clear that yeah, we're doing this and 943 00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:54.519 I'm not going to hide it. So we show up 944 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:57.119 the airport that night, A G five shows up. We 945 00:47:57.159 --> 00:48:01.320 loaded with food and water, our gear, no weapons, and 946 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:04.760 we take off and we fly. I think we did 947 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:09.079 our first fuel stop in Hungary and uh, and then 948 00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:12.079 we continued on, and so the pilots and the flight attendant, 949 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:14.079 they had no idea where we're going, right, they got 950 00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:18.079 their initial grid cornets, and then in flight from Hungary, 951 00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:20.599 we gave them a change of uh, changed the flight 952 00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:23.320 plan on said okay, this is your cordinates. This is 953 00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:25.440 where you put an airplane down, which was in the 954 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:29.079 desert on a dirt airstrip, complete remote, not even on 955 00:48:29.079 --> 00:48:31.760 a map, like, they're right here as an airstrip on 956 00:48:31.760 --> 00:48:33.519 this great. Can I just put your airplane there? You 957 00:48:33.559 --> 00:48:35.800 know what I said, just do it. It served me back. 958 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.519 They even questioned it, man, So they're like, whatever you 959 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:41.079 guys want, man, you know, we're doing it. So we 960 00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:43.760 end up landing in the middle of an airfield. There was, 961 00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:45.559 if you want to call it was just a strip, 962 00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.760 just a dirt strip. There was nothing there, nothing except 963 00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.599 one sitting there with the ramp down engines running. That 964 00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:55.400 was the only thing that was sitting there. So we 965 00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:58.880 landed G five, We unload our shit, We walk over 966 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:01.519 to the to the ramp. There's a kernel waiting for 967 00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:08.320 us as an intel officer and that military yeah Emarati right, 968 00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:10.760 So he's checking the block as we're getting on. You know, 969 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:12.679 we're loading all our shit in the back and then uh, 970 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:16.280 we take off and we fly about another four hours 971 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:20.639 to uh Djibouti. We land, get off and there's a 972 00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.320 H forty seven or two AGE six helicopters sitting there, 973 00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:26.639 engines running, waiting for us. So we transload into those things, 974 00:49:26.679 --> 00:49:28.599 take off FLA about another hour. We end up in 975 00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.840 AID and gaming uh at one of their fobs out there, 976 00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:35.119 and so we you know, at this point, it's like 977 00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:39.239 two o'clock in the morning, Uh, two am, And I 978 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:42.679 asked the intel officer, I go, hey, where's all our gear, 979 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:44.480 all the weapons, all the shit that's supposed to be 980 00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:46.480 waiting for us, because oh, it's on the way. And 981 00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:48.599 so they had set up a couple of GP mediums 982 00:49:49.360 --> 00:49:51.800 in a contonement area within the fob. Nobody knew he 983 00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.360 was there. They intentionally try to make sure we were hidden, 984 00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:57.519 you know. And so he said'll be here shortly, right, 985 00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:01.119 So this shows up all these pickups bucks full of garbage, 986 00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.599 literally fucking garbage, you know, like pieces and parts of 987 00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:08.880 weapons systems, just shit, man, I mean, like, what the 988 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.679 hell instead of and lonull this crap, you know, And 989 00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:15.599 we got DSHK with no no tripods we've got you know, 990 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:19.280 we've got no magazines with AK forty seven. We've got 991 00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:22.400 no links for the pkms, you know. And oh, by 992 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:24.360 the way, we're supposed to be getting all us milk 993 00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:27.360 equipment brand new, and they're giving us this thirty year 994 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:31.719 old chicom rusty bullshit, right, and uh and I'm I'm 995 00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:34.679 I'm inventoring it and I'm looking at it, and I realized, 996 00:50:35.440 --> 00:50:39.119 ain't nothing we can do with this. Nothing functional, nothings operational. 997 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:42.280 So I walked up to him, to the colonel. I go, hey, Sir, 998 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.199 I said, this ain't gonna work. I said, we're missing everything, right, 999 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:49.880 I miss all pieces and party. He hated the fact 1000 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:53.119 that we were coming in the fighters war. He hated 1001 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:55.119 the fact that they didn't have the capability, right. He 1002 00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:59.199 despised us. And I said, Sir, I said, well, this 1003 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:01.079 is not you know, that's not going to get it. 1004 00:51:01.480 --> 00:51:03.079 And he looks at me with his hands on his 1005 00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:04.400 hips and go, so, what you're telling me is you 1006 00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:08.239 can't do the mission. I'm like, no, I didn't say 1007 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.440 I couldn't do the mission. I killed the guys in 1008 00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:12.639 a damn spoon, But I can do the mission. I 1009 00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:15.199 would readily like to have some weapons though, you know, 1010 00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:18.159 I can shoot from a distance, you know. And uh, 1011 00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:19.960 and so I gave him a little you know piece 1012 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.320 in my mind. I confronted him and he's like, okay, okay, 1013 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:24.199 I said, by the way, where's all my American weapons 1014 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:26.760 that that we're supposed to get? Right? I know what 1015 00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:29.280 he did. He took that money put in his freaking pockets, 1016 00:51:29.400 --> 00:51:32.760 right right, Yeah, that's what he did, right, little son bitch, 1017 00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:35.320 and he went down to the local bazaar and bought 1018 00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:39.679 us all this crap, right, and so anyways, and kind 1019 00:51:39.679 --> 00:51:42.039 of getting the stink guy, he got the message. He 1020 00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:44.800 came and I gave the shortage list. He came back 1021 00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:47.159 with the pieces and parts we were missed, and basically 1022 00:51:47.159 --> 00:51:52.000 we were just cobbling weapons together and you know, improvising everything. 1023 00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:56.440 There were no uniforms, nothing, man. So I'm literally got 1024 00:51:56.599 --> 00:52:00.280 a pair of five elevens on from desert boots. I 1025 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:03.079 had on a tank top for the gym. I actually 1026 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:06.039 had weight training gloves. Those are my tactical gloves, you know. 1027 00:52:06.519 --> 00:52:08.559 I was we were making it up as we go, man. 1028 00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:11.039 We're literally like making our own freaking you know best 1029 00:52:11.079 --> 00:52:14.239 and stuff for ambo and stuff and knitting and shit. 1030 00:52:14.320 --> 00:52:16.079 You know, I was like, are you kidding me? So 1031 00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:20.000 we literally improvised everything we had to go do these 1032 00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:24.880 operations because we got no tactical gear. Just they didn't 1033 00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:26.880 give it to us. And I think it was because 1034 00:52:26.920 --> 00:52:29.360 he wanted us to fail what it was right, but 1035 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:33.960 we were We weren't having that. So the next question was, okay, 1036 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:35.440 go ahead. 1037 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:36.840 How old were you at this point? 1038 00:52:36.920 --> 00:52:44.199 Dale? So this was twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, so you 1039 00:52:44.360 --> 00:52:46.599 basically what six years ago, I'm fifty nine. I was 1040 00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:47.360 about fifty three. 1041 00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:50.639 Yeah, yes, it's nice. It's nice to know though that 1042 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:52.199 a tiger doesn't change its stripes. 1043 00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:56.119 Now find I find that comforting about you? 1044 00:52:56.159 --> 00:52:58.400 No, man, Actually I would lead the charge. Man. I 1045 00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:01.800 was the goodest shape as anybody there were better, you know, 1046 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:03.760 And there was a reason I was in charge because 1047 00:53:03.800 --> 00:53:05.920 I learned that lesson later on too. It's like, okay, 1048 00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:10.039 now I know why I'm here. But so anyways, we 1049 00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:13.880 got the target list. It was long, over forty people 1050 00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:17.599 on the list spread across three countries. So we're going 1051 00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:20.320 to do some globe trotting to go take these guys out. 1052 00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:23.280 But they were all hvts. Uh. It was not a 1053 00:53:23.320 --> 00:53:25.239 capture mission. It was a kill mission. That was it. 1054 00:53:25.639 --> 00:53:27.760 These guys had to go. They're all bad guys. They're 1055 00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:32.320 all terrorists. They're all associated or affiliated with al Qaeda, 1056 00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:36.760 particularly al Qaeda Arabic Peninsula, a cap on the Muslim 1057 00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.960 brotherhood isis hoo. They's there were a lot of bad 1058 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:41.760 guys there. 1059 00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:44.000 Which which three countries. 1060 00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:49.199 I can't say the other two countries to say they 1061 00:53:49.199 --> 00:53:50.599 were on the African continent. 1062 00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:57.119 So just so because you're saying like aq Air Penessa 1063 00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:00.239 did the U a E. Which is a fairly I 1064 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:02.960 mean in terms of Arabic countries, it's like a fairly 1065 00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:04.800 liberal country. 1066 00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:08.360 Did And I don't. 1067 00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:11.199 Mean liberal politically, I just mean liberal in terms of 1068 00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:15.519 like religion whatnot. Do they have a different HVT set 1069 00:54:15.639 --> 00:54:18.719 than say the United States does, and that their concerns 1070 00:54:18.800 --> 00:54:20.920 even though these people are a Q or isis, but 1071 00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:24.840 their concerns are different because these h high value targets, 1072 00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:28.599 the hvts are operating directly against, like the Emirates in 1073 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:29.440 places like that. 1074 00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:33.760 Yeah, so exactly, they got their own their their target 1075 00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:36.039 lists maybe different from our target lists, some of them, 1076 00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:38.960 not all of them. And they had their own agenda. 1077 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:41.280 In fact, the reason we got hired by the m 1078 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:44.320 O D, because he's the guy that hired us, was 1079 00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:49.880 actually a Palestinian and very prominent guy, not even Immorati, 1080 00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:53.159 but because of a friend of a friend of a friend, 1081 00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:57.519 he got put in the mod position. And so there's 1082 00:54:57.559 --> 00:55:00.280 a there's actually very interesting story about the This guy 1083 00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:03.159 on his name is Muhammad dolland you can look him 1084 00:55:03.239 --> 00:55:06.760 up on the internet. Very interesting guy, very cool guy actually, 1085 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:11.519 but very interesting and uh, he was not what you 1086 00:55:11.519 --> 00:55:17.440 would expect. But so anyways, you know, the target list 1087 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:20.079 was long sped over for three countries. We needed to 1088 00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:22.559 get this point. He wanted this one guy in particular 1089 00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:25.599 right off the bat. He's number target number one. And 1090 00:55:25.639 --> 00:55:29.599 we're like, okay, what's the deal with this guy? And 1091 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.119 you know, and they explained to us, you know why 1092 00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:36.760 he's a threat. Okay, he's a he's a shady character. 1093 00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:40.719 He's he was actually from India. He was not Arabic, 1094 00:55:40.760 --> 00:55:42.760 he was India, but he was Muslim, and he was 1095 00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:46.320 a pedophile and he's almost sexual. Yeah, kind of weird 1096 00:55:46.320 --> 00:55:48.559 shit going on too, but he was very well trained 1097 00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:51.159 in trade craft and street craft. So he never put 1098 00:55:51.159 --> 00:55:53.760 his head down the same place twice. He had his 1099 00:55:53.800 --> 00:55:58.920 own security detail. He was being financed, as I understand it, 1100 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.119 by the Muslim Brotherhood and others. He was using al 1101 00:56:02.199 --> 00:56:06.119 Qaeda as an action arm. Just a lot of weird 1102 00:56:06.159 --> 00:56:08.599 things going on, right, So suppose to this guy won 1103 00:56:08.639 --> 00:56:12.320 the Nobel Prize. Blah blah blah. It's all bullshit, okay, 1104 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:14.480 because one of the things I made sure of that 1105 00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:17.239 I insisted on was any targets that we take out, 1106 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.920 we gotta I gotta be convinced this guy's a bad guy, 1107 00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:23.599 and it's just not some little personal agenda, right right, 1108 00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:26.519 this guy got to be a legit target. So we 1109 00:56:26.559 --> 00:56:29.519 did our due diligence, you know, and we investigated closely. 1110 00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:33.199 It's like, okay, this guy's he's the real deal, so 1111 00:56:33.239 --> 00:56:37.320 we green lighted him. But it was interesting was as 1112 00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:40.239 we're going through this target list we're developing. The first 1113 00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:42.960 target took us a couple of weeks, which actually was 1114 00:56:42.960 --> 00:56:47.599 pretty fast considering we had no human human sources, We 1115 00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:50.119 had nothing to work with. I mean, we're gleaning information 1116 00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:52.960 off the internet, you know, We're bribing them ordies to 1117 00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:56.320 give him some intel. They were trying to what's the 1118 00:56:56.320 --> 00:56:58.559 word I'm looking for. They were trying to remain hands off. 1119 00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:02.480 They want to have plausible time, right yeah, right, And 1120 00:57:02.559 --> 00:57:04.800 so we're like, hey, dude, we're never gonna get this 1121 00:57:04.880 --> 00:57:06.840 done if you're not helping us, you know. So they 1122 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:09.800 ended up getting some sources. You know, we ended up 1123 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:11.639 paying a bunch of money. You know, it makes a 1124 00:57:11.679 --> 00:57:15.400 bunch of promises and stuff like that. But in this process, 1125 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:18.679 we realized on this list was a guy who was 1126 00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:23.320 the uh the mastermind behind the USS coal bombing, and 1127 00:57:23.360 --> 00:57:26.039 he was running a madrasa in Ate and he was 1128 00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:30.320 running a pipeline for ISIS fighters. This guy's a shithead 1129 00:57:30.400 --> 00:57:33.800 still and he was there. We're like, oh, this is 1130 00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:36.519 this is number one. Were going out for that guy first, 1131 00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:39.239 you know, and he's right down the road and uh, 1132 00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:42.639 he's really got no security. His houses across the corners 1133 00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:46.039 catequarter to his madrasa where he's running this pipeline you know, 1134 00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:49.320 for ISIS fighters and stuff. And so we really wanted 1135 00:57:49.320 --> 00:57:52.440 that guy. Okay, he's the USS coal bomb you know, 1136 00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:56.039 mastermarind We were told no, said no, no, you work 1137 00:57:56.079 --> 00:57:58.440 for us. This is number one right here, this guy here, 1138 00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:01.239 you guys can have him later on, Like, fuck man, 1139 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:03.119 we really wanted this guy. He would have been an 1140 00:58:03.119 --> 00:58:05.360 easy target too, but we didn't get We didn't get 1141 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:09.840 the shot at him that we wanted. So so long 1142 00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:15.000 story short, my job was besides, you know, the planning execution, 1143 00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:19.159 I realized really quickly that the guys that were with 1144 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:21.920 me didn't know what the hell they were doing. So 1145 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.280 they had no idea about explosives. They didn't know how 1146 00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:29.440 to use explosives. In fact, I had to show, actually 1147 00:58:29.440 --> 00:58:30.880 I had to show one of the guys was a 1148 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:33.320 seal literally how to put an a K forty seven 1149 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:35.920 in action. He had no idea how to load it 1150 00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:38.719 and charge it. I fucked dude, you know. And so 1151 00:58:38.920 --> 00:58:41.719 this was a seal too. But he was a good guy. 1152 00:58:41.760 --> 00:58:43.920 I'm not gonna take nothing from him. He just didn't 1153 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:45.800 know what he was doing. But he turned out to 1154 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:47.679 be actually one of the better guys out of the 1155 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:52.119 bunch because his head was the right place. The other turn, 1156 00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:54.480 the other seal was a total turd, though complete turd. 1157 00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:59.400 So now I'm training these guys on how to basically 1158 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:01.880 set headspace some timing on a fifty caliber machine gun. 1159 00:59:01.960 --> 00:59:05.119 Run became machine guns you know, all the weapon systems 1160 00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:06.719 we have, and then the mission came down. It was like, 1161 00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:08.800 we might have to hit this guy on the way 1162 00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:10.880 to the airport. There's only one flight a day leaving 1163 00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:14.119 Aiden and uh and we had intel that this guy 1164 00:59:14.199 --> 00:59:15.760 might try to get on that airplane on one of 1165 00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:18.599 these particular days, and so what we're gonna do is 1166 00:59:18.639 --> 00:59:21.360 ambush him at the airport. Now, what was interesting is 1167 00:59:21.400 --> 00:59:25.559 the Amorati military occupied the airport, but all the access roads, 1168 00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:28.000 all the gates going into the airport were manned by 1169 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:33.039 al Qaeda, right, so they control the gates and uh 1170 00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:35.400 so we would literally have to drive to the gates 1171 00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:37.960 way bit mister al Qaeda, you know, and then go 1172 00:59:38.039 --> 00:59:40.440 inside into into the compound. But he had one flight 1173 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:42.119 a day, and we thought, this guy's gonna get on 1174 00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:44.880 win these flights. So we just started planning. Okay, we 1175 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:47.320 got to hit him. We picked out the checkpoint location 1176 00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:50.199 where we're gonna we're gonna smack him, and they thought, well, 1177 00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:52.000 what if he doesn't come this way, what if he 1178 00:59:52.039 --> 00:59:54.920 goes that away? And then we thought, okay, let's ambush 1179 00:59:54.960 --> 00:59:58.159 him in the vehicle. He's running a small motorcade. Did 1180 00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:02.159 skin trucks. Then the question was, can we can ride 1181 01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:04.840 a motorcycle. I'll be damn, I'm the only guy can 1182 01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:06.840 ride a motorcycle. I said, are you kidding me? I'm 1183 01:00:06.840 --> 01:00:08.679 the only guy who can ride a god damn motorcycle. 1184 01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:12.360 So now I'm you know, I'm doing it all man, 1185 01:00:12.400 --> 01:00:14.760 I'm like, why are you guys do it here? I said, 1186 01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:16.599 I might as well just do everything, you know, I 1187 01:00:16.599 --> 01:00:19.039 got to ride the motorcycle. I got to build the IEDs, 1188 01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:21.960 you know, I got ag on the back of the motorcycle. 1189 01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:24.840 He's gonna hang my id off the mirror of this 1190 01:00:24.920 --> 01:00:27.800 truck while we're driving, and then vape Peri's vehicle with 1191 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:29.199 the guy in it. Right, So we got all these 1192 01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:32.880 contingency plans, and I'm starting to realize really quickly that 1193 01:00:33.079 --> 01:00:34.719 I'm the only guy who knows what the hell is 1194 01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.000 going on. I'm the only guy who's got the tactical 1195 01:00:37.000 --> 01:00:40.280 experience to execute this thing, you know, and uh, going 1196 01:00:40.320 --> 01:00:42.920 back to Discovery Channel, I am a one man army. 1197 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:49.480 So so anyways, so we had all these contingency plans, man, 1198 01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:52.280 and there's you know, we would do all kinds of stuff. Man, 1199 01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:55.199 it kept changing every day because the guy never slept 1200 01:00:55.239 --> 01:00:57.239 in the same place twice, so we had to keep 1201 01:00:57.280 --> 01:00:59.559 adjusting the mission profile. Right, Okay, now we're in stead 1202 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:01.599 of doing motor cycles in the helicopter. Okay, when I 1203 01:01:01.639 --> 01:01:05.519 doing helicopter, now we're walking, you know. And so so 1204 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:10.000 finally we we finally got some good intel one night, 1205 01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:12.199 and we had about an hour and a half to 1206 01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:15.320 spin up because the guy was staying downtown in an 1207 01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:18.480 office and he wasn't gonna come out. We had eyes 1208 01:01:18.519 --> 01:01:21.039 on he went watching the guy reporting back to us. 1209 01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:24.440 We had a drone helicopter up, you know, video on 1210 01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:26.920 the on the office. We know he was in there. 1211 01:01:26.960 --> 01:01:30.840 He went in there with his bodyguards and a his 1212 01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:34.800 assistant and he had come out. So we were staged 1213 01:01:34.840 --> 01:01:37.920 already ready to go. And uh, that's when we went in. 1214 01:01:38.559 --> 01:01:40.599 And it was only it was actually five of us 1215 01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:42.639 that went in out of the team, and the five 1216 01:01:42.679 --> 01:01:45.320 of us, one of them was an Arab. He's a 1217 01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:47.559 he's one of their majors in the military. And he 1218 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:49.920 was just the driver. It's like, look, you just drive, 1219 01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:52.239 you don't touch guns, don't play with the fucking radio. 1220 01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:54.239 Just drive. That's all you got to do, right, and 1221 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:57.360 so and and me and and the A G and 1222 01:01:57.400 --> 01:01:59.920 the two seals were in the back of this up 1223 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:04.239 armored land cruiser. And the job was to literally pull 1224 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:06.920 up to the office. I was gonna get out, put 1225 01:02:06.960 --> 01:02:09.679 ied on the building and bring it down on top 1226 01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:14.079 of this guy's head. And so that's was the basic plan. 1227 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:17.000 And so we roll in. It's I think it's about 1228 01:02:17.039 --> 01:02:20.599 nine thirty at night, very dark, very dark. You had 1229 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:25.280 people on the streets drinking chi, you know, very narrow roads, 1230 01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:30.320 very congested. And so we go rolling in at about 1231 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:32.280 three miles an hour. That was top speed, you know. 1232 01:02:32.320 --> 01:02:34.440 I literally got as a car comes to stop. I've 1233 01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:36.119 got out, kind of looking in the window, trying to 1234 01:02:36.159 --> 01:02:38.360 see who's inside the window, and I'm putting a muzzle 1235 01:02:38.400 --> 01:02:40.159 in his face, getting ready to let the air out 1236 01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:43.920 of him. And so finally we get in front of 1237 01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:49.639 the office and like go, doors come open. The first 1238 01:02:49.679 --> 01:02:52.480 guy shot is the driver, the only guy without a weapon. 1239 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:55.559 He gets shot in the fucking leg, and then the 1240 01:02:55.599 --> 01:02:58.039 rest of us bail out. I grab my charge and 1241 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:00.480 I run across the street, run in front of the 1242 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:02.840 office door, and I tried to open the door. First, 1243 01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:04.599 I got my I was going to try to open 1244 01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.159 the door, throw a couple of hand grenades in there, 1245 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:09.280 and they just go in there and shoot everybody. But 1246 01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:11.079 they had locked the door from the inside because the 1247 01:03:11.079 --> 01:03:14.719 bodyguards usually they sat out on front, but at night 1248 01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:16.920 they would roll inside. They lock the doors up, and 1249 01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:19.760 they would sit right behind the doors, and these big 1250 01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:23.679 steel doors, so I couldn't get the door open, so 1251 01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:25.320 I knew they were in there. They locked it, and 1252 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:27.320 so I thought, okay, thenother choice I have now is 1253 01:03:27.360 --> 01:03:31.159 the place is id that I built in front of 1254 01:03:31.199 --> 01:03:34.239 the door. So the charge was I filled an ammal 1255 01:03:34.280 --> 01:03:36.920 can with C four and I filled it up with 1256 01:03:37.039 --> 01:03:39.840 the armor plating from an M wrap, so basically made 1257 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:44.000 it the motherwall Claymares and you know, added some extra 1258 01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:45.719 honter for the P factor. So I had a little 1259 01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:50.480 nuclear weapons, but I had it was all directional, and 1260 01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:54.679 so I placed the charge. There's a raging gunfight going 1261 01:03:54.679 --> 01:03:59.519 on right now, and I'm by myself. So for whatever reason, 1262 01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:03.000 I don't know why, but AG ran up the fucking 1263 01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:05.719 road like with his hair on fire, and he's shooting 1264 01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:07.920 it out with people up the street, and he's actually 1265 01:04:07.960 --> 01:04:09.840 supposed to be with me at the door, pulled security 1266 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:12.239 for I got my hands full. And same thing with 1267 01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:14.800 the other guy, the other steal. He doesn't follow me 1268 01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:18.000 to the door either. He stays at the vehicle. His 1269 01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:20.800 excuse was his weapon kept malfunctioning, but he had a 1270 01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:23.599 spare right next to him. He didn't grab that one, 1271 01:04:23.840 --> 01:04:25.760 so he didn't follow me over. So I'm basically out 1272 01:04:25.760 --> 01:04:28.960 there by myself and went flapping, you know. And anyways, 1273 01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:33.719 I placed the charge. I could not run back to 1274 01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:37.480 my ex field vehicle because you know, the engagement was 1275 01:04:37.519 --> 01:04:39.519 just too close down. I would have run right into 1276 01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:42.199 an ambush. And so I decided, Okay, I'm gonna run 1277 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:44.599 out the street to another vehicle waiting down the road. 1278 01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:49.400 And but the vehicle that we infilled in was an 1279 01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:52.239 up armored land cruiser by three hundred thousand dollars car 1280 01:04:52.679 --> 01:04:54.559 and so I had already placed an ID in the 1281 01:04:54.599 --> 01:04:57.519 back of it, an incendiary device I built it, put 1282 01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:00.760 it back there, and uh, what I was gonna do 1283 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:03.159 is running back to my original vehicle. I was going 1284 01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:05.840 to stop, pull the firing system, and we're going to 1285 01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:08.639 destroy that land cruiser. I don't know why they wanted 1286 01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:10.400 to destroy it, but they didn't want to bring it 1287 01:05:10.440 --> 01:05:13.760 out the target our instructors will leave it there and 1288 01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:16.880 destroy it. So that's what they want, that's what they get, 1289 01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:19.519 that's what they're paying for. So anyways, I could not 1290 01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:23.440 get to the charge. So the other seal he knew 1291 01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:25.599 that contiency plan was if I don't make it back, 1292 01:05:25.679 --> 01:05:27.719 he was a run up and fire the system, and 1293 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.760 he did, and it's all on video and the first 1294 01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:35.199 charge goes off and I just wrecks the building apparently 1295 01:05:35.320 --> 01:05:39.719 vaporizes the bodyguards behind the doors. And then and then 1296 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:42.199 he pulls the other system and then it goes off 1297 01:05:42.239 --> 01:05:45.920 and it literally blew that that car up and literally 1298 01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:48.239 burned it to the ground. I mean it was nothing 1299 01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:50.920 left of it. I was actually in awe that it 1300 01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:53.360 actually worked as well as it did, because it was 1301 01:05:53.400 --> 01:05:56.039 literally improvised explosive. I never built one like this before. 1302 01:05:56.039 --> 01:05:58.079 I didn't know. I just kind of made it up 1303 01:05:58.079 --> 01:06:00.000 as I went. It was kind of cool. I used 1304 01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:03.159 and wait for this, I use net, I use next cafe, 1305 01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:06.920 coffee grounds and a jar, half a half a litter, 1306 01:06:07.039 --> 01:06:10.039 a half a bottle of gasoline, and a quarter block 1307 01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:13.360 and see four cobble this freaking thing together, put it 1308 01:06:13.400 --> 01:06:15.880 over the gas tank and I'll be damned word can 1309 01:06:16.039 --> 01:06:20.239 burn that thing to a christy critter. But so we 1310 01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:22.159 get out, we get out of the mission. And then 1311 01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:25.920 and so all of us were given ranks. So the 1312 01:06:26.039 --> 01:06:29.039 question is, okay, you know, for everybody out there's list 1313 01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:32.280 Oh my god, being a mercenary is illegal. I've heard 1314 01:06:32.320 --> 01:06:34.119 all the bullshit. All right, to shut up, all right, 1315 01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:36.280 let me just explain what happened here. All right. First 1316 01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:39.559 of all, it is not illegal to work as a mercenary. Okay, 1317 01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:42.840 you go to State Department website. You, as an American citizen, 1318 01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:46.400 can work for foreign countries. Okay, a foreign government, as 1319 01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:49.800 long as that government their policies are in alignment with 1320 01:06:49.960 --> 01:06:54.159 US policy. Okay, the Ammiratis are friends of Americans. Okay, 1321 01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:57.880 we're fighting the same global war on terrorism. Boom. All right, 1322 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:02.800 there it is too. You can join their military and 1323 01:07:02.920 --> 01:07:05.639 guess what they assigned us ranks. They gave us all rank. 1324 01:07:05.639 --> 01:07:08.679 Guess with the leader ranking his currently ranked his guy, 1325 01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:10.800 there was a g made him a full word colonel. 1326 01:07:10.880 --> 01:07:13.719 He's in charge of the entire airport operating base. He's 1327 01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:15.559 in charge of the Arabs, and he just he guys 1328 01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:20.000 when he's Jewish. Yeah, guy's Jewish. He's a Jewish colonel 1329 01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:23.199 in their military giving them orders. So we get back 1330 01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:26.719 to the to the compound and uh you know, fucking 1331 01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:30.360 you're plugging holes and stuff, and and uh Ag comes 1332 01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:32.039 back a few minutes later. He's got a thumb drive. 1333 01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:34.639 He went to the drone pilot. He goes, I'm the colonel, 1334 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:37.679 give me a copy that that drone village. He got it. 1335 01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:40.039 And the reason he got this for insurance, so it 1336 01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:41.800 could never be said that we're out there's a bunch 1337 01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:43.840 of renegades on our own, right, you know, doing this 1338 01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:46.320 kind of ship. Got proof right here, it came out 1339 01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:49.280 of your helicopter. You know, here's the here's the footage, right, 1340 01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:52.800 So there was a smart move man, you know, Like 1341 01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:57.159 I said, it was insurance. So then what happens is basically, okay, 1342 01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.639 we're not sure if we got the target or not. 1343 01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:03.360 Because the next day on the news, the local news, 1344 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:07.440 his assistant was all wrapped up, you know, and he's 1345 01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:08.920 on the news going hi, and then then a boo, 1346 01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:11.199 you didn't get us, you know, but he's all fucked 1347 01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:14.239 up and the other guys are vaporized, and so we 1348 01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:17.079 don't know what happened to the principal, and we were 1349 01:08:17.119 --> 01:08:19.439 told he did get away and he went back to 1350 01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:24.199 Saudi Arabia, which I kind of doubt that because the 1351 01:08:24.279 --> 01:08:26.600 Saudis won him dead too, So why would you come 1352 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:29.840 back to Saudi Arabia? Right, So he basically dropped off 1353 01:08:29.840 --> 01:08:32.399 the map. We're not sure what happened. Maybe he went 1354 01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:34.760 into hiding and maybe I scared the shit out, you know, 1355 01:08:34.800 --> 01:08:36.680 and he decided he wants some more part of it. 1356 01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:40.760 I don't know. But so we go back to uh 1357 01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:43.079 We end up in Abu Dhabi, we meet with the 1358 01:08:44.880 --> 01:08:49.760 client and basically we're doing aar after actually, reporter is 1359 01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:53.239 what happened, blah blah blah, and he was happy. And 1360 01:08:53.319 --> 01:08:56.880 so the contract, if I remember right, the contract was 1361 01:08:57.039 --> 01:09:00.359 worth eight hundred and eighty million dollars. Okay. The first 1362 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.880 mission was eight hundred thousand dollars okay. The first mission 1363 01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:06.640 was a vetting mission. If we were successful, we would 1364 01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:09.239 get the rest of the contract. And that's why it 1365 01:09:09.319 --> 01:09:12.039 was important that I was on the first mission, right 1366 01:09:12.079 --> 01:09:15.000 because it had we had had to go right, I 1367 01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:19.039 tell you right now, and and I've been there, they 1368 01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:21.319 wouldn't have fucked up the charges. They didn't know how 1369 01:09:21.359 --> 01:09:23.439 to build them. They wouldn't have been effective at all. 1370 01:09:23.479 --> 01:09:25.640 They wouldn't have known how to use half the weapon system, 1371 01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:27.119 you know, they would have had to go to the 1372 01:09:27.319 --> 01:09:28.800 rie goes, hey, can you show us how to you know, 1373 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.760 with this gun? You know, that's what I'm paying you for. 1374 01:09:32.039 --> 01:09:34.760 So none of that was gonna work. So that's why 1375 01:09:34.840 --> 01:09:37.880 I realized, Okay, there's my value. That's why they had 1376 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:41.039 to have me, right. So you know, we got you know, 1377 01:09:41.079 --> 01:09:43.399 awarded the rest of the contract, and then uh and 1378 01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:45.600 then we had you know, the follow on fall on 1379 01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:51.159 missions after that. So anyways that happened, and then uh, 1380 01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:53.840 finally I ended up I ended up walking out of 1381 01:09:53.880 --> 01:09:56.079 the desert. Me and one of the seals had enough 1382 01:09:56.119 --> 01:09:58.159 because the one seal that's in charge, I'm not even 1383 01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:01.159 mentioned his name, he's all fucked up, and AG had 1384 01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:03.359 to go do something. I said, no, I ain't staying 1385 01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:05.840 out here. This this is bullshit. There's a lot of 1386 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:10.359 leadership issues that there were. You know, there were very 1387 01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:15.199 pronounced mans that really wrecked the whole project. Poor leadership, 1388 01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:20.119 zero leadership, And I give an example one day. You know, 1389 01:10:20.199 --> 01:10:22.119 so I'm getting paid all this money as a special 1390 01:10:22.159 --> 01:10:26.720 advisor and I noticed that one of the seals, the bosses, 1391 01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:28.840 is laying in the back of the pickup truck sunbathing 1392 01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:31.239 with no clothes on every day, and he's telling the 1393 01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:33.640 guys to fetch his coffee and do this and do that, 1394 01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:37.279 you know. And these are all grown men right with families, 1395 01:10:37.279 --> 01:10:40.319 they're soldiers, are veterans, and he's telling them go fetch coffee. 1396 01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:43.720 And then I realized he's actually he's hiding cases, a 1397 01:10:43.800 --> 01:10:46.680 red bull in his hoots, fruit, all kinds of fresh 1398 01:10:46.680 --> 01:10:49.600 stuff he's had he's hoarded for himself, not even sharing 1399 01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:51.479 it with the team, right. I found out about that 1400 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:53.760 when they're exactly go in to get something, and I 1401 01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:56.479 went the fuck. So I walked up to the truck 1402 01:10:56.479 --> 01:10:58.720 one day like back there and I go, hey, man, 1403 01:10:58.760 --> 01:11:00.359 I said, you guys paying me a lot of money 1404 01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:03.000 to be your special advisor, so I'm gonna go ahead 1405 01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:04.880 and earn my money right now and give you some advice. 1406 01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:07.880 And they're looking at me, huh. I got ready for 1407 01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:12.159 this lead by example and they're like, and I go, yeah, 1408 01:11:12.279 --> 01:11:14.520 lead by example. So you think this a lead by example, 1409 01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:17.800 This ain't leading ship. I said, all that red bull 1410 01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:20.359 in your room, that that's not leading by example. I said, 1411 01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:23.640 these guys here, I said, they could give two ships 1412 01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:25.439 about your bottom line. When we're out there in the 1413 01:11:25.479 --> 01:11:28.600 firefight in the street, I said, nobody cares about your 1414 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:31.439 bottom line, your corporation. All they care about is getting 1415 01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:33.359 back home. And they're gonna remember who took care of 1416 01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:36.960 them and who didn't. I said, And right now, you 1417 01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:40.119 making them fetch coffee while your son bathing and everyone 1418 01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:42.800 they're working their ass off, ain't holding no water. And 1419 01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:45.680 he and you know what, he disagreed with me. I 1420 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:49.159 got to disagree. It is a business. He's freaking moron, 1421 01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:51.279 I said. You know what, when we get out there, 1422 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:53.479 I said, when it shit hits the fan, and they 1423 01:11:53.479 --> 01:11:56.039 got to make a decision either save me or save you. 1424 01:11:56.520 --> 01:11:59.800 Uh bye bye. You're not saving your ass. I'm the 1425 01:11:59.840 --> 01:12:02.279 guy taking care of him. I'm the guy running interference 1426 01:12:02.319 --> 01:12:05.920 from constantly, you know. And and that's my job. I said, 1427 01:12:05.960 --> 01:12:08.520 But you're paying the paycheck, man, I said, you need 1428 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:10.760 to do your part, you know. So there was stuff 1429 01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:12.720 like that that was going on out there that just 1430 01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:14.439 I said, you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna 1431 01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:16.640 be a part of this any more. And I actually 1432 01:12:16.720 --> 01:12:22.039 left ended up planes, trains and automobiles due Dubai Abu Dhabi. 1433 01:12:22.239 --> 01:12:24.159 I think I went back to the US and finally 1434 01:12:24.199 --> 01:12:27.039 went back to Indonesia or Indonesia in the US camera. 1435 01:12:27.119 --> 01:12:29.560 I was all over the day, gone place. But you know, 1436 01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:31.880 I just decided that I'm done with that part of it. 1437 01:12:32.520 --> 01:12:35.560 How many of that list of forty names, like, how 1438 01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:38.600 many hvts down did you get during that contract? 1439 01:12:39.720 --> 01:12:42.760 Because a couple. What's kind of funny is we had 1440 01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:45.600 one guy that was the Isis bomb maker, very prominent guy, 1441 01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:50.479 and he was definitely gonna get it, man, But we 1442 01:12:50.520 --> 01:12:53.439 had it all lined up. I built this freaking mega, 1443 01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:58.239 freaking ID for him special and and he was going 1444 01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:01.079 out every day in the after we were watching with the 1445 01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:03.159 drone and the afternoon he would go out on the 1446 01:13:03.199 --> 01:13:05.079 street and he had a couch on the street right 1447 01:13:05.119 --> 01:13:07.760 and he would sit there and sell drugs cack right. 1448 01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:09.479 Guys would comby, and he was a drug dealer too, 1449 01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:11.399 on top of everything else. And then on the end 1450 01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:14.439 of his compound, he had a garage called the Monster 1451 01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:18.800 Garage and he was building metal doors, but actually he 1452 01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:21.279 was building id's in there. He had all kinds of 1453 01:13:22.199 --> 01:13:25.760 sealing tanks and stuff like that. And so my job 1454 01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:27.920 was going to be to blow up this entire monster 1455 01:13:27.960 --> 01:13:29.479 shop one night, and then we're gonna go up to 1456 01:13:29.520 --> 01:13:33.279 his compound and shoot him in his fricking face. Just 1457 01:13:33.279 --> 01:13:34.840 so we're getting ready to do this, he went out 1458 01:13:34.880 --> 01:13:37.479 to sell some drugs on the street. You know, guy 1459 01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:40.720 drives by and he was with the yim Andy's Resistance 1460 01:13:41.239 --> 01:13:44.079 and boom but kills him right there. Man does a 1461 01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:46.680 job for us, like shit, you know, probably a good 1462 01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:49.239 thing because it would have been really hard to get 1463 01:13:49.239 --> 01:13:50.800 in and get back out of there. They had that 1464 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:54.279 place locked down pretty good, between the ISIS and al 1465 01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:57.760 Qaeda and the Hooty's. He was pretty secure, and we 1466 01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:00.760 were definitely gonna be you know, we were definitely gonna 1467 01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:03.039 be hanging out there trying to get to him. But uh, 1468 01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:05.159 we made down the list a little bit and not 1469 01:14:05.319 --> 01:14:07.640 very far and before I walked away. I don't know 1470 01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:09.520 what they did after that. I actually know that one 1471 01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:13.199 of the guys they ended up in uh Serbia, and 1472 01:14:13.399 --> 01:14:15.319 one of the guys on the team got rolled up, 1473 01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:20.000 ended up in jail for almost two years on weapons charges. 1474 01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:22.479 They were, you know, kind of doing the same thing. 1475 01:14:22.520 --> 01:14:24.439 The games we're doing. Gay man, I didn't have any 1476 01:14:24.439 --> 01:14:28.600 part of that. Walked away. But he got out of 1477 01:14:28.680 --> 01:14:32.359 jail because somebody murders his attorney at the doorstep in 1478 01:14:32.439 --> 01:14:35.760 the courtyard. So he lost everything that kept tire a 1479 01:14:35.800 --> 01:14:39.479 case against him. And uh, he's actually pretty famous seal. 1480 01:14:42.520 --> 01:14:44.840 I'm not gonna say this name, but he's a pretty 1481 01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:47.680 famous he's a pretty famous seal. But uh, he fucked up, 1482 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:50.359 and uh he got he got rolled up, and he 1483 01:14:50.399 --> 01:14:52.279 spent a couple of years in Serbia and jail because 1484 01:14:52.279 --> 01:14:57.560 of that. So anyways, yeah, going back to so you know, 1485 01:14:58.520 --> 01:15:00.720 round and round and round everything starts happening. I ended 1486 01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:06.359 up from there in Los Angeles running. So I was 1487 01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:09.880 protecting a multi millionaire as a starlet in Hollywood. So 1488 01:15:09.880 --> 01:15:14.840 what happened about on the TV show swat right? And 1489 01:15:15.399 --> 01:15:17.239 I was invited to be on that show. So I'm 1490 01:15:17.279 --> 01:15:19.720 out there on the set. I get a call from 1491 01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:23.399 my friend, who's you know, he's a pretty good guy man. 1492 01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:25.880 He's a country western singer. He's like, hey, dude, he 1493 01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:27.520 goes got a poll and he goes, I got a friend. 1494 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:31.279 She's in big trouble. Some guys stole over a million 1495 01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:33.039 dollars with the diamonds from her. They want to kill 1496 01:15:33.039 --> 01:15:34.880 her because she wants to go to the police. This 1497 01:15:34.920 --> 01:15:39.920 that that she's very wealthy. She's thirty one years old, beautiful, 1498 01:15:40.039 --> 01:15:42.880 never been made, no kid, she's every man's dream, dude, 1499 01:15:42.920 --> 01:15:45.279 I'm telling you right now, right So, and I don't 1500 01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:47.319 even know this. I don't know all this about her yet. 1501 01:15:47.319 --> 01:15:50.159 I just know she's in trouble and I'm the only 1502 01:15:50.279 --> 01:15:53.560 guy he'll recommend. And so apparently she already done the 1503 01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:56.239 Google search and all this shit. He goes call her 1504 01:15:56.439 --> 01:16:00.159 and work out the price. So I call her up, Hey, you, 1505 01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:03.039 this is me. What's going on? What do you need? Okay, 1506 01:16:03.079 --> 01:16:06.920 here's my price? And my price was two thousand dollars 1507 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:09.159 a day plus pass the costs. I said, you want 1508 01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:11.920 me to protect you two grand plus pay for all 1509 01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:15.640 my expenses. She didn't bat an eye, like really, And 1510 01:16:15.720 --> 01:16:19.399 so I almost kind of said that because I really 1511 01:16:19.439 --> 01:16:23.359 didn't want to do the job, right. I know bodyguard works, 1512 01:16:23.760 --> 01:16:25.399 so I figured if I'm gonna do it, better be 1513 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:27.479 worth it, right, So I said too grand? And then 1514 01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:30.680 and then she's like, okay, no problem, really, I said, Well, 1515 01:16:31.439 --> 01:16:34.039 I said, you know, I said, I'm on a Hollywood set, 1516 01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:36.479 so I didn't bring any suits and clothes for this either, 1517 01:16:36.520 --> 01:16:38.239 you know, and I really prepared for this. She goes, 1518 01:16:38.319 --> 01:16:41.800 don't worry, you don't need any clothes. Oh okay, little 1519 01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:44.279 did I know she actually met. I didn't need any clothes. 1520 01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:46.520 I just need to show up butt naked. She was 1521 01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:49.560 good with that, right, So she apparently she'd done all 1522 01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:52.199 the Google search, watched all my movies ten times over. 1523 01:16:52.279 --> 01:16:54.760 You know, I didn't know any of this, right, okay, 1524 01:16:55.319 --> 01:16:58.439 all right? And then she asked me what my clothes 1525 01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:00.960 size were shoes. I gave it to her. I ended 1526 01:17:01.000 --> 01:17:04.079 up flying to LA and so I had somebody else 1527 01:17:04.119 --> 01:17:05.479 with me. I had a female with me that I 1528 01:17:05.479 --> 01:17:08.920 had met, young girl, and I go, hey, by the way, 1529 01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:11.399 I got a friend with me, you know. I said, 1530 01:17:12.279 --> 01:17:14.960 you know, can I bring it with me? And she's like, well, yeah, 1531 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:17.560 of course, you know, bring it with you really? I said, okay, cool, 1532 01:17:17.600 --> 01:17:20.159 I can use it for like count surveillance, surveillance type stuff. Right, 1533 01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:23.720 you can't make the shut up. So I show up 1534 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:26.319 and at the airport she got a limousine wait for us. 1535 01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:32.640 We go to her where she lived very upscale. The 1536 01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:36.920 apartments in this particular building she was living in. The 1537 01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:39.079 low end was fifteen thousand dollars a month, the high 1538 01:17:39.159 --> 01:17:41.840 end was seventy thousand dollars a month. It was all 1539 01:17:41.840 --> 01:17:43.760 the rich and famous people living in it. Right, So 1540 01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:47.520 we show up. She's waiting for me, all giddy and everything. 1541 01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:51.560 And then and so, you know, we get settled in. 1542 01:17:52.119 --> 01:17:54.840 I got my own apartment. She gives me apartment for 1543 01:17:54.960 --> 01:17:57.800 fifteen thousand dollars a month, fully stocked with everything. Not 1544 01:17:57.920 --> 01:17:59.600 only that, she bought all my clothes for me. I 1545 01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:02.239 didn't know that all my under armor, everything's way laid 1546 01:18:02.239 --> 01:18:04.840 out for me, you know, slippers and hike and shoes 1547 01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:07.880 and the T shirt. I'm like, damn man, you know. 1548 01:18:08.039 --> 01:18:11.399 And uh, And so I said, okay, So I told 1549 01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:13.520 the girl I was with, I said, listen, I'm going 1550 01:18:13.560 --> 01:18:15.479 to be really busy for a while. I said, so, 1551 01:18:16.319 --> 01:18:19.720 you know, she was actually she was from not from 1552 01:18:19.720 --> 01:18:22.079 the United States. And I said, look, I said, since 1553 01:18:22.119 --> 01:18:25.079 you're here, enjoy the vacation. Go hang out in Hollywood. 1554 01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:27.279 Just see the site, you know, don't mind me. I'm 1555 01:18:27.279 --> 01:18:31.359 doing my thing. And so she was good. And so 1556 01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:35.479 I end up, you know, telling the clients to listen. 1557 01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:37.880 I'm here to protect you. I'm going to go over 1558 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:42.039 some security stuff, protocols, do's and don'ts, patterns of life, 1559 01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:44.279 blah blah blah blah. You know, we even do some 1560 01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:48.920 defensive tactics, you know. And so it goes pretty good, right, 1561 01:18:49.039 --> 01:18:51.479 And little do I know, she's like fall in love 1562 01:18:51.520 --> 01:18:54.560 with me. I didn't know that, and uh, and so 1563 01:18:55.359 --> 01:18:57.479 it got kind of started getting really weird. Like we 1564 01:18:57.520 --> 01:19:00.199 would go out for dinner every night, and she would 1565 01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:03.960 spend fifteen hundred dollars every night on dinner. She ordered 1566 01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:06.319 everything on the menu times ten. She's like, whatever you 1567 01:19:06.319 --> 01:19:09.680 want times ten. You know, I'm like what. And then 1568 01:19:09.800 --> 01:19:11.279 I'd be like, no, I'm gonna go stand over here 1569 01:19:11.319 --> 01:19:13.199 by the door and pulled the case. She said, oh no, 1570 01:19:13.199 --> 01:19:16.199 you're not, just said right here next to me. I said, yes, ma'am, 1571 01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:19.600 you're paying the bills, all right. So it turned into that, 1572 01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:22.159 and uh, and then it turned into like her sitting 1573 01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:25.039 on my lap. He got really unprofessional after a while, 1574 01:19:25.079 --> 01:19:28.760 and I'm trying to keep my professional distance, but she's 1575 01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:31.880 making really really it's really really hard, man, you know. 1576 01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:38.760 And so then I meet all her friends that live 1577 01:19:38.760 --> 01:19:42.960 in this building. They're all billionaires, they're just they're just 1578 01:19:43.079 --> 01:19:46.600 hardcore liberals. Right. So every day she never worked. She 1579 01:19:46.680 --> 01:19:49.319 owned a company now, and then we would drive to 1580 01:19:49.359 --> 01:19:51.520 the company, you know, and she check on things okay, 1581 01:19:51.520 --> 01:19:53.920 and then we go back to her to where she stayed. 1582 01:19:54.520 --> 01:19:56.439 But everybody would hang out on the bottom floor had 1583 01:19:56.439 --> 01:19:59.840 the swimming pool, the bar, and it's the lounge area 1584 01:19:59.840 --> 01:20:02.800 and and that's where we hung out every day, all 1585 01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:06.920 day long for months, and she would order tons of 1586 01:20:06.920 --> 01:20:10.640 food and pizza and this, and then all those guests, 1587 01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:12.880 the residents would come down and we'd all be talking 1588 01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:15.640 and no, they would be talking. I couldn't stand these 1589 01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:18.279 assholes right there. You know. It was always a trump 1590 01:20:18.279 --> 01:20:21.399 fashing session, right, it was always a Trump fashing session. 1591 01:20:21.399 --> 01:20:23.199 And I get the hell out of here. And then 1592 01:20:23.239 --> 01:20:25.119 they're like, you mean you were in the army, you 1593 01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:27.600 were a veteran. Yeah, that's what they look like. Wow, 1594 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:29.600 you know, it's like I'm like a puppy, Like what 1595 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:32.760 that's what veterans looking because I've never met one before, right, 1596 01:20:32.800 --> 01:20:35.560 And then they want to ask me some questions about 1597 01:20:35.600 --> 01:20:38.439 the military, and I'd start to answer them and then 1598 01:20:38.439 --> 01:20:41.439 it just cut me off. And then they start talking about. 1599 01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:47.039 There's only four things they could talk about, wine, hotels, food, 1600 01:20:47.560 --> 01:20:50.399 and other women's dress, how they dress. That was it. 1601 01:20:50.479 --> 01:20:52.840 That was the four topics. That's all these people can 1602 01:20:52.840 --> 01:20:54.359 talk about because that's all they know. 1603 01:20:54.680 --> 01:20:59.279 Well, Dale, if any of your attractive billionaire female friends 1604 01:20:59.279 --> 01:21:03.359 are interested in a veteran male content, you feel free 1605 01:21:03.399 --> 01:21:04.560 to pass on my digits. 1606 01:21:04.640 --> 01:21:06.640 I mean, I'm here and I'm ready to work. I'm 1607 01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:07.239 ready to work. 1608 01:21:07.359 --> 01:21:10.039 Well, and he lives in Brooklyn and he went to 1609 01:21:10.079 --> 01:21:13.439 Columbia so he can like he can fit into that 1610 01:21:13.439 --> 01:21:15.000 that liberal. 1611 01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:18.000 Well, I got a foot in both worlds. 1612 01:21:18.319 --> 01:21:20.920 I can do it. Yeah, well, I'll tell you what man. 1613 01:21:20.960 --> 01:21:26.479 It was. Uh, it was really frustrating because they couldn't 1614 01:21:26.479 --> 01:21:28.720 talk about anything else because they didn't know anything else. 1615 01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:30.800 I was literally like the first veteran they ever met. 1616 01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:32.479 I might as well been a puppy, you know, Like 1617 01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:34.560 I was like you look, that's what they look like, 1618 01:21:34.640 --> 01:21:37.840 you know, and like what the fuck man? So? And 1619 01:21:38.600 --> 01:21:41.760 like what the fuck man? So? You know, And and 1620 01:21:41.840 --> 01:21:44.279 I would tell my client, you know, like look, you know, 1621 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:46.720 she would ask me a question from everybody, and I said, look, 1622 01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:49.359 I don't talk politics. I'm not talking religion. Oh no, no, 1623 01:21:49.399 --> 01:21:51.640 it's okay, it's okay. And I remember they asked me 1624 01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:54.840 this question one time about homosexuals in the military, and 1625 01:21:54.880 --> 01:21:56.960 I had an experience back in eighty second when I 1626 01:21:57.000 --> 01:21:59.760 first went into nineteen eighty two with a gay guy 1627 01:22:00.119 --> 01:22:02.600 that it was literally everybody got drunk. One night, he 1628 01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:04.239 went into this one dude's room and gave him a 1629 01:22:04.279 --> 01:22:06.640 blowjob while he was sleeping. The guy wakes up, loses 1630 01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:09.239 his shit, you know, and and uh, we ended up 1631 01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:12.119 with a big battalion, you know, hand to hand combat session. 1632 01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:14.960 Everybody was fighting because we were the recon guys and 1633 01:22:15.000 --> 01:22:17.359 they were you know, now we're the gay recon guys, 1634 01:22:17.399 --> 01:22:20.000 and you know, it just got really crazy, right, And 1635 01:22:20.039 --> 01:22:23.159 so I'm start to explain to her what the problem was, 1636 01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:27.239 you know, with you know, with homosexuals, especially in the 1637 01:22:27.399 --> 01:22:31.079 rank of infantry guys, with something like this happens, and uh, 1638 01:22:31.119 --> 01:22:33.560 and I told her how we were literally combat effected, 1639 01:22:33.680 --> 01:22:36.319 ineffected for over a month, and people would get an 1640 01:22:36.399 --> 01:22:39.640 article fifteen all because of one guy. He literally pulls 1641 01:22:39.680 --> 01:22:42.239 this guy's underwear down while he's sleeping. He's drunk, and 1642 01:22:42.279 --> 01:22:44.399 he wakes up and he's getting a blowjob from this guy, 1643 01:22:45.560 --> 01:22:48.680 and so they were like, oh the all of everybody 1644 01:22:48.760 --> 01:22:50.920 was saying to go, oh, oh my god, that's so uncomfortable. 1645 01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:52.560 I gotta I gotta go. I go. Yeah, you got 1646 01:22:52.680 --> 01:22:54.239 to go because you want to hear the damp tooth. 1647 01:22:54.279 --> 01:22:56.079 You know. It was always that kind of stuff. 1648 01:22:56.119 --> 01:22:56.239 You know. 1649 01:22:56.359 --> 01:22:58.439 These people just started making me sick. And then I 1650 01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:00.439 kept asking my client, I go listen, how much long 1651 01:23:00.479 --> 01:23:02.760 did you need me for? Because you know, we was 1652 01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:06.039 tracking down the jewelry she was. There were some gangs 1653 01:23:06.239 --> 01:23:09.880 out of Chicago. We were involved in this. There's it's 1654 01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:12.079 gonna be when I write the story. It's pretty interesting 1655 01:23:12.199 --> 01:23:15.560 who characters were. Some ofe were very famous, like damn, 1656 01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:19.720 one of them was a billionaire, a British guy from 1657 01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:22.159 London who's a billionaire. He sat on a bunch of boards. 1658 01:23:22.920 --> 01:23:27.039 He was actually banging this hooker, his black chick, high 1659 01:23:27.159 --> 01:23:30.359 end call girl. She she ended up working her way 1660 01:23:30.399 --> 01:23:34.720 into this building, pass the background checks and ended up 1661 01:23:34.760 --> 01:23:38.079 stealing all my client's jewelry on based on a on 1662 01:23:38.199 --> 01:23:41.479 a lie which was tied to this billionaire. Basically, I 1663 01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:44.319 go from being a bodyguard to the fixer, now to 1664 01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:47.439 the investigator. You know. So I'm now sitting you know, 1665 01:23:47.960 --> 01:23:49.479 I'm calling this guy up, going, hey, I need you 1666 01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:51.479 to meet me at Starbucks tomorrow more at zero seven, 1667 01:23:51.520 --> 01:23:53.680 you know, across town in La He meets me and 1668 01:23:53.880 --> 01:23:55.880 I'm waiting for the guy and I'm playing you know, 1669 01:23:56.359 --> 01:23:58.840 Jeff with him, and I'm like, hey, listen, my client's 1670 01:23:58.920 --> 01:24:03.039 really really angry. We know that you know your girlfriend. No, no, 1671 01:24:03.119 --> 01:24:05.000 it's not. I go, yeah, you were banging her, so 1672 01:24:05.039 --> 01:24:07.239 it doesn't matter. She's your girlfriend. She used your name, 1673 01:24:07.520 --> 01:24:10.439 stole on his jewelry, and my client's getting mad because 1674 01:24:10.479 --> 01:24:12.279 she can't get it back. The police won't help her. 1675 01:24:12.319 --> 01:24:14.920 So she's gonna go to La Times and tell the story, 1676 01:24:14.960 --> 01:24:17.479 which is gonna include your name, right, And you're sitting 1677 01:24:17.520 --> 01:24:20.319 on this big ass board right because I already know 1678 01:24:20.479 --> 01:24:23.319 this from talking to some other very wealthy people. I said, 1679 01:24:23.359 --> 01:24:25.000 this ain't gonna go well for you, you know, and 1680 01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:27.319 he was really uncomfortable. I said, now, if I was you, 1681 01:24:28.119 --> 01:24:30.680 what I would do is I would probably just give 1682 01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:32.399 her the money. And so I no on disposed to 1683 01:24:32.399 --> 01:24:34.560 were and be done with this little shit. Because you're married, 1684 01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:37.199 you got two kids in the England, and I had 1685 01:24:37.239 --> 01:24:39.479 I'm really freaking squirm in the seat, you know. And 1686 01:24:39.680 --> 01:24:42.479 so he agreed. He's like, now you know what, you're right, 1687 01:24:42.560 --> 01:24:44.000 You're right, you're right. Let me talk to my lawyer. 1688 01:24:44.039 --> 01:24:46.560 And that's the smart thing to do, sir. So he leaves. 1689 01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:48.880 By the time I got back to my client's apartment, 1690 01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:53.079 he already talked to his lawyer, who talked to her lawyer. Basically, 1691 01:24:53.199 --> 01:24:55.199 they painted this picture that I was a thug, right, 1692 01:24:55.319 --> 01:24:57.039 you take your thuns over back, bah blah blah blah, 1693 01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:00.279 and I go, good, that's exactly what I wanted to think, right, 1694 01:25:01.279 --> 01:25:04.279 So it actually worked, right, And so they wanted to 1695 01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:07.199 settle for two hundred and fift thousand dollars, and I 1696 01:25:07.279 --> 01:25:09.000 knew she was not going to go for that. And 1697 01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:11.119 she's like, no, not no, but hell no. I said, 1698 01:25:11.479 --> 01:25:13.720 you probably ought to take the two fifty because you're 1699 01:25:13.720 --> 01:25:15.840 not going to get the million. I said, this guy 1700 01:25:15.960 --> 01:25:17.560 is going to jump on the next thing smoke and 1701 01:25:17.600 --> 01:25:19.159 he's gonna be gone. You're not going to get him 1702 01:25:19.359 --> 01:25:21.560 that billionaire. He didn't even steal it. But I said, 1703 01:25:21.560 --> 01:25:24.119 you lost all your ability to leverage all this shit, 1704 01:25:24.199 --> 01:25:28.439 you know. And she was stubborn, right, So she was 1705 01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:30.920 worth millions and millions and millions of dollars. But this 1706 01:25:31.119 --> 01:25:34.279 jewelry she had on she was wearing it for a 1707 01:25:34.399 --> 01:25:39.560 jewelery basically at advertising. Anytime the jewelry leaves the jewelry store, 1708 01:25:39.600 --> 01:25:42.720 it's no longer insured off the property. So it was 1709 01:25:42.760 --> 01:25:45.640 stolen off the property of guess who's liable, right client. 1710 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:49.319 She's got a shit a million dollars for diamonds, So 1711 01:25:49.640 --> 01:25:51.520 that was the problem. She didn't want it, you know. 1712 01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:53.560 And then there's all this other stuff was involved with 1713 01:25:53.600 --> 01:25:56.239 the trust fund and her family and how that's going 1714 01:25:56.319 --> 01:25:57.920 to bode and this and that, you know, and so 1715 01:26:00.039 --> 01:26:01.960 so finally, you know, we get We'll get through most 1716 01:26:02.000 --> 01:26:04.279 of all of this, right, I realized nothing's going to happen. 1717 01:26:04.359 --> 01:26:07.159 There was more. It had to do with Floyd Mayweather, 1718 01:26:07.359 --> 01:26:09.840 had to do with Las Vegas fights and all kinds 1719 01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:12.880 of crazy stuff happened there. This girl shows up in 1720 01:26:13.000 --> 01:26:15.760 Las Vegas wearing all the diamonds. On top of that, 1721 01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:19.279 I've got the FBI engaged and Ceia, I got, I 1722 01:26:19.399 --> 01:26:24.439 got everybody, the Marshalls from California that sheicago to Las 1723 01:26:24.560 --> 01:26:27.960 Vegas engaged to run this chick down man. And she 1724 01:26:28.199 --> 01:26:32.159 was really cagy man really good and and beaten, beating 1725 01:26:32.199 --> 01:26:35.079 the system man, all the traps that laid for she 1726 01:26:35.319 --> 01:26:37.960 circumvented them and got away from it all. But finally 1727 01:26:37.960 --> 01:26:39.279 I just told the client, I said, listen to how 1728 01:26:39.359 --> 01:26:40.840 much long you need me for? You know? And she's 1729 01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:43.720 I need you forever? I know, really how long you need? 1730 01:26:43.920 --> 01:26:46.199 Said no, I need you forever. And I realized, shit, 1731 01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:49.920 you know this is this is happening, man, And they 1732 01:26:49.960 --> 01:26:52.359 got really bizarrow. You know, hey, I need you up 1733 01:26:52.399 --> 01:26:53.680 in my room at two o'clock in the morn. I 1734 01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:55.359 need to talk about something. Yes, ma'am on the way 1735 01:26:55.560 --> 01:26:57.840 where yet I'm right here in the bed, no clothes on. 1736 01:26:58.359 --> 01:26:59.920 I need to sit. I got to talk about something like, 1737 01:27:00.119 --> 01:27:02.279 oh god, no, you know this is not you know, 1738 01:27:02.359 --> 01:27:03.960 I'm thinking I'm not going to get paid if I 1739 01:27:04.039 --> 01:27:07.760 keep doing this, you know. And finally, finally one day 1740 01:27:07.800 --> 01:27:09.680 I just said, listen, I gotta go. I said, I 1741 01:27:09.760 --> 01:27:11.560 got to move on. I said she wanted to get married. 1742 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:13.680 She fell in love with me. I'll be honest with you, 1743 01:27:13.760 --> 01:27:17.239 any other guy, you know would have been a millionaire overnight. 1744 01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:22.479 And she was really attractive, beautiful man, very smart, very personal. 1745 01:27:22.760 --> 01:27:26.880 She had everything going for everything man, and uh, I 1746 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:28.760 guess with maturity and with age, you know, you get 1747 01:27:28.760 --> 01:27:31.039 a little bit smarter, and I start thinking with his 1748 01:27:31.159 --> 01:27:33.680 head and not the other head. And I realized that, 1749 01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:37.199 you know, you know, I got other things I want 1750 01:27:37.239 --> 01:27:38.920 to do with my life, and I don't want to 1751 01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:41.239 mooch off of anybody else. I don't want her money. 1752 01:27:41.359 --> 01:27:43.000 I don't want to be around her friends. I told, 1753 01:27:43.039 --> 01:27:45.039 I said, three months will kill each other. I said, 1754 01:27:45.079 --> 01:27:47.119 that's how it is. I said, it's all cool now, 1755 01:27:47.239 --> 01:27:49.600 but pretty much, I said, won't stand me. I won't 1756 01:27:49.640 --> 01:27:52.479 stand you because your friends. I said, So I'm going 1757 01:27:52.520 --> 01:27:54.920 to leave tomorrow morning. And so in the morning, I 1758 01:27:55.039 --> 01:27:57.800 show up to apartment and say goodbye. She got to 1759 01:27:57.880 --> 01:28:00.479 Lemo waiting for me, and she begs me one more time. 1760 01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:02.880 She goes, please go with me to uh She wanted 1761 01:28:02.920 --> 01:28:06.199 me to go to h God damn it as a 1762 01:28:06.279 --> 01:28:08.720 resort on the on the UH out in the desert. 1763 01:28:09.119 --> 01:28:11.760 She goes, go with me, stay with and save me 1764 01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:13.399 for the day and for the night. Tomorrow'll put you 1765 01:28:13.439 --> 01:28:15.720 on a private jet and fly home. And you know, 1766 01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:18.840 in the story, I'm like, for what I said, We're 1767 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:21.039 gonna go there and we're gonna do it like rabbits. 1768 01:28:21.279 --> 01:28:23.279 And I said, tomorrow morn, I'm still getting on the airplane. 1769 01:28:23.600 --> 01:28:26.680 Nothing's gonna change, you know. And I did. I walked 1770 01:28:26.720 --> 01:28:30.479 away right there and I never looked back. And I 1771 01:28:31.359 --> 01:28:35.800 have no regrets, you know whatsoever. But I got to 1772 01:28:35.800 --> 01:28:37.800 tell you, any other guy would have jumped all over it. 1773 01:28:38.039 --> 01:28:41.399 And maybe ten years ago or fifteen years ago, i'd 1774 01:28:41.439 --> 01:28:44.479 have jumped all over it too, different circumstances. But uh, 1775 01:28:45.159 --> 01:28:48.279 you know, sometimes you realize what's more important in life, 1776 01:28:48.319 --> 01:28:50.880 and it's not always money. It's not other people's money, 1777 01:28:51.319 --> 01:28:54.319 it's not even a beautiful woman. Sometimes you know, your 1778 01:28:54.359 --> 01:28:57.880 own sovereignty, man, your own you know you that is 1779 01:28:57.960 --> 01:29:00.840 all that matters your happiness, know and how you at? 1780 01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:03.479 She that is your you know to you, dle, I 1781 01:29:03.520 --> 01:29:05.640 think what you're telling us, you will never take the 1782 01:29:05.720 --> 01:29:07.479 easy way, regardless. 1783 01:29:06.960 --> 01:29:10.680 Of like you know, I could have and I didn't. 1784 01:29:10.840 --> 01:29:12.760 I could have and I didn't. Man. Oh yeah, and 1785 01:29:12.880 --> 01:29:16.439 she know she gave me so she's like, look, she goes, 1786 01:29:16.560 --> 01:29:19.119 I need to hear another thirty days. Here's my BMW 1787 01:29:19.279 --> 01:29:21.079 seven fifty l I. She gives me a brand new 1788 01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:24.039 BMW seven fifty l I, and she turns around, buys 1789 01:29:24.079 --> 01:29:25.720 a black one. She gives me the white one. She 1790 01:29:25.840 --> 01:29:28.840 knows I liked him, you know, because it's yours, and 1791 01:29:28.920 --> 01:29:31.159 I'm like, oh my god, man. So she just gives 1792 01:29:31.199 --> 01:29:34.319 me this brand new BMW seven fifty l I. She's 1793 01:29:34.399 --> 01:29:37.079 throwing it all at me, you know, fifteen hundred dollars 1794 01:29:37.119 --> 01:29:42.560 dinner every night, you know, fifteen thousand dollars apartment. You know, 1795 01:29:43.359 --> 01:29:45.920 it was amazing. I'll say this. She was a good girl. 1796 01:29:47.439 --> 01:29:50.680 You know, she just got caught up in something. You know, 1797 01:29:51.600 --> 01:29:54.560 she's lived her whole life a life of you know, 1798 01:29:54.640 --> 01:29:57.640 the rich and famous, right, so she hasn't been exposed 1799 01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:00.439 to streak thugs, you know, she hasn't been supposed to 1800 01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:03.760 this kind of crime. And suddenly she became victimized by it. 1801 01:30:03.800 --> 01:30:05.359 And then all of a sudden, she meets a guy 1802 01:30:05.560 --> 01:30:08.640 like me, you know, that comes along that you know, 1803 01:30:08.720 --> 01:30:11.640 I got this, and she's used to you know, the 1804 01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:14.279 skinny guy jeans, you know, skin gene guy, and you know, 1805 01:30:14.439 --> 01:30:16.840 and and these you know, beta males, and all of 1806 01:30:16.840 --> 01:30:20.000 a sudden I come along and I'm actually not even 1807 01:30:20.119 --> 01:30:24.000 interested other than doing my job. And that probably drove 1808 01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:27.560 even crazier, you know. And so so that's how this 1809 01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:30.800 whole thing started to spinning, spinning out of control. So 1810 01:30:31.960 --> 01:30:34.600 so the bodyguard if I had, that was probably the 1811 01:30:34.640 --> 01:30:37.199 only bodyguard work I actually enjoyed at a lot of 1812 01:30:37.239 --> 01:30:41.000 friends benefits obviously, and it wasn't really like it was 1813 01:30:41.119 --> 01:30:43.560 real and it was serious. I mean, I was I 1814 01:30:43.760 --> 01:30:46.920 was packing, I was brought armor. I had talked to 1815 01:30:47.039 --> 01:30:50.520 people in the Intel services. They all agreed. They said, listen, 1816 01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:53.000 whatever that guy says, believe it, he will do it. 1817 01:30:53.600 --> 01:30:56.680 Guy has no joke. He's a felon many times over. 1818 01:30:57.079 --> 01:30:59.800 He was a gang leader. He got out and became 1819 01:30:59.840 --> 01:31:02.119 a life coach, which was kind of funny, right because 1820 01:31:02.119 --> 01:31:04.399 I'm actually a life coach. Now he's called himself a 1821 01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:07.800 life coach, you know, but he's actually a Thugs tend 1822 01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:11.039 to be a life coach, right, Yeah, Well, but he's dangerous. 1823 01:31:12.279 --> 01:31:15.760 I mean, that's something that isn't really being reported on 1824 01:31:16.000 --> 01:31:19.079 a lot in the news. But like that's a massive 1825 01:31:19.159 --> 01:31:24.199 problem in LA right now, is that wealthy people are 1826 01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:27.239 like they're being targeted coming out of stores like that. 1827 01:31:27.720 --> 01:31:30.960 Like it's it's a serious problem in LA right now. 1828 01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:32.680 That's not really being reported on it. 1829 01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:36.359 Yeah no, and you know I was living with her. 1830 01:31:37.920 --> 01:31:40.479 It was just for her. It was just you know, 1831 01:31:40.600 --> 01:31:42.520 make driving her crazy. Man. She didn't know how to 1832 01:31:42.960 --> 01:31:44.760 how to deal with any of this stuff, you know, 1833 01:31:44.880 --> 01:31:46.880 and she's looking at me like help. Yeah, you know, 1834 01:31:47.079 --> 01:31:49.119 I'm like ship, you know, what what am I going 1835 01:31:49.199 --> 01:31:52.079 to do? Yeah? I can't even find these guys, you know. 1836 01:31:54.079 --> 01:31:57.159 But the bodyguard work, you know, that was that's another story. 1837 01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:02.159 It's coming out my book detail and uh, I have 1838 01:32:02.279 --> 01:32:05.399 to protect the innocent, of course, you know, I'm not 1839 01:32:05.439 --> 01:32:07.760 gonna mention her name or locations and shing like that. 1840 01:32:07.880 --> 01:32:10.920 But all story, it's gonna be pretty cool. I get 1841 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:13.239 a lot of guys to contact me that are interested 1842 01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:15.680 in doing bodyguard work, and uh, they want to know 1843 01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:17.119 what it's like to get to that rule, how to 1844 01:32:17.159 --> 01:32:20.680 get to that rule. And it looks sexy, you know, 1845 01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:23.880 would be the bodyguard with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. 1846 01:32:24.520 --> 01:32:28.600 I did it, but ten x. But it's it. That's Hollywood, man, 1847 01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:31.840 and that's not the real world. Real world. It sucks. Yeah. 1848 01:32:32.000 --> 01:32:32.840 People are dicks. 1849 01:32:33.000 --> 01:32:36.319 Yeah, yeah, I mean, especially when you're coming from a 1850 01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:39.439 special operations background, like you look down upon your judgment 1851 01:32:39.520 --> 01:32:42.159 isn't trusted. You have to pretend your clients are funny 1852 01:32:42.560 --> 01:32:44.760 when they or not. They're smart when they're dumb. 1853 01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:47.239 I've talked to guys who've done like ep jobs for 1854 01:32:47.479 --> 01:32:51.520 like Gulf State, you know, millionaires kids, billionaires kids like 1855 01:32:51.680 --> 01:32:53.359 horror story I've done. 1856 01:32:53.520 --> 01:32:57.079 I've done that too, and my advice is never never 1857 01:32:57.199 --> 01:32:59.840 seek to be a bodyguard. Seek to be a person 1858 01:33:00.079 --> 01:33:06.079 who needs bodyguards. Like being a bodyguard is like beings, 1859 01:33:06.199 --> 01:33:08.439 like it's like being a bathroom attendant. 1860 01:33:08.520 --> 01:33:13.199 Basically you yeah, you know, I'll tell you a quick story. 1861 01:33:13.239 --> 01:33:16.439 To be in Paris. So I'm with this woman, right, 1862 01:33:16.560 --> 01:33:22.560 her husband's Mexican chick. She's got this. I mean, she's 1863 01:33:22.600 --> 01:33:25.960 just very eccentric. Man. She had a pink pept old bismal, 1864 01:33:26.119 --> 01:33:29.680 pink phantom rolls Royce. Right, this was insane. Hundred carried 1865 01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:32.039 diamond rings coming out of fucking you know, the hood 1866 01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:35.079 ornament and ship, you know, like damn. But we were 1867 01:33:35.479 --> 01:33:39.079 we were in Paris and uh, she and I. So 1868 01:33:39.239 --> 01:33:41.399 she wanted to go shopping. So all her friends were 1869 01:33:41.439 --> 01:33:44.319 gay guys, right, she hardly had I never saw around 1870 01:33:44.359 --> 01:33:47.560 any women. I don't know, maybe the gay guys is 1871 01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:49.880 a threatener. But anyway, so always shopping, you know, and 1872 01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:52.079 they're eating lunch and they're doing this, and I'm standing 1873 01:33:52.079 --> 01:33:54.640 at the bargo. Jesus Christ, can we leave now? And 1874 01:33:54.800 --> 01:33:57.800 so I remember one day we're on the street corner 1875 01:33:58.119 --> 01:34:01.920 and I called it for the limousine and she's facing 1876 01:34:01.960 --> 01:34:05.399 the street, on the sidewalk, facing the street. I'm standing 1877 01:34:05.479 --> 01:34:09.479 behind her about ten feet facing her, watching her back, 1878 01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:12.000 looking for the vehicles coming. And I'm kind of just 1879 01:34:12.079 --> 01:34:14.880 got a, you know, a tactical position there. And I 1880 01:34:15.039 --> 01:34:17.479 noticed this guy's walking past me. He looked like he 1881 01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:20.840 was maybe from Libya or something like that, and he's 1882 01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:23.079 smoking a little cigarette. He's got these little beady eyes, 1883 01:34:23.119 --> 01:34:25.319 like a little rat, you know. He's and he's looking 1884 01:34:25.359 --> 01:34:27.640 back and he's eyeballing her purse. He had this big 1885 01:34:27.800 --> 01:34:31.359 pink Louis Baton purse, right, fick ass thing man. And 1886 01:34:31.560 --> 01:34:34.520 so she's holding and she went a fur. She's got 1887 01:34:34.600 --> 01:34:36.760 diamonds all over. She's worth like ten million dollars to 1888 01:34:36.840 --> 01:34:39.560 standing there, right, And so he's he's sizing her up. 1889 01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:41.920 He's smoking a cigarette. He's walking back. It doesn't see 1890 01:34:41.960 --> 01:34:43.520 me stand in the back, right, and I'm kind of 1891 01:34:43.520 --> 01:34:46.000 standing and watching and he's going back and forth, back 1892 01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:47.640 and forth, and finally I see he finally gets the 1893 01:34:47.720 --> 01:34:50.279 nerve up. He's gonna rob her, right, and he throws 1894 01:34:50.319 --> 01:34:53.199 a cigarette down. He starts to make the move, and 1895 01:34:53.279 --> 01:34:55.600 then I stepped forward and he sees me, and I 1896 01:34:55.680 --> 01:35:01.640 look at him and go right, and he looks at 1897 01:35:01.720 --> 01:35:05.159 me and goes, oh, you know, like this, and he 1898 01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:07.560 walks away, right, And I said, I don't say nothing 1899 01:35:07.600 --> 01:35:09.880 to the clients. She has no idea this is going down, right, 1900 01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:13.359 I just saved her ass, right, and the limousine shows up. 1901 01:35:13.399 --> 01:35:15.199 We get in a vehicle. We drive back to the 1902 01:35:15.279 --> 01:35:18.439 Four Seasons and get out and there's like six French 1903 01:35:18.560 --> 01:35:21.239 dudes standing on the corner. Right. You know, they're all 1904 01:35:21.279 --> 01:35:23.199 staying in the Four Seasons. You know you could tell 1905 01:35:23.239 --> 01:35:25.199 their you know, guys got money and stuff. They're wearing 1906 01:35:25.199 --> 01:35:28.560 their trench coach and they're talking to friend and they're 1907 01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:31.039 talking about where're gonna go party or you know, whatever 1908 01:35:31.199 --> 01:35:33.760 we're gonna do, right, and they're shooting the ship. The 1909 01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:36.760 door opens up. She gets out. She's got legs to kill. 1910 01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:39.520 She's wearing as mini skirt, you know, big as boobs, 1911 01:35:39.880 --> 01:35:42.279 you know, and it's like she gets out and they're like, whoa, 1912 01:35:42.720 --> 01:35:45.520 I did all dialing in on her. And I'm trying 1913 01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:46.960 to get out of the vehicle on the other side. 1914 01:35:47.399 --> 01:35:49.520 And so I'm coming around the corner. They don't see 1915 01:35:49.600 --> 01:35:51.920 me yet and they're looking at her, and I can 1916 01:35:52.000 --> 01:35:54.239 tell they're getting ready to say something to her. Right 1917 01:35:54.319 --> 01:35:56.479 come under her, And here I go again around the 1918 01:35:56.520 --> 01:35:58.840 back of the car. I'm like, don't fucking do it, man, 1919 01:35:58.880 --> 01:36:01.279 you're gonna get me a truck. Don't do it. And 1920 01:36:01.359 --> 01:36:04.560 they look at me like okay, okay, like whoo and 1921 01:36:04.680 --> 01:36:08.079 we go inside and uh she stops me and she goes. 1922 01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:10.399 She goes, did you see those men? Did you see 1923 01:36:10.399 --> 01:36:13.079 the way to looking at me? She's pissing the moan 1924 01:36:13.119 --> 01:36:15.880 of me because they're checking her out. I'm like, yeah, man, 1925 01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:17.560 I said, yeah, but they didn't say nothing to you, 1926 01:36:17.920 --> 01:36:22.000 right right, Yeah, yeah, they didn't do anything right, It 1927 01:36:22.079 --> 01:36:24.640 just it'll checked you out, right. So she goes up 1928 01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:26.039 to the room. I go to my room. Next thing, 1929 01:36:26.079 --> 01:36:27.920 I get a phone call from the old man. Don't 1930 01:36:27.960 --> 01:36:31.039 ever let anybody disrespect my wife like that again. I'm like, what, 1931 01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:33.680 you know, what am I supposed to do? Beat the 1932 01:36:33.720 --> 01:36:35.680 ship out of these dudes and checking her out, you know, 1933 01:36:36.279 --> 01:36:38.199 you know, tell her to wear a burker next time 1934 01:36:38.279 --> 01:36:43.479 I look at her, you know, right right, and uh, 1935 01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:46.199 but it was that, it was always that kind of stuff, 1936 01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:49.279 always that kind of This guy literally expected me to 1937 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:51.560 just beat the fuck out of people. They're looking at 1938 01:36:51.600 --> 01:36:54.840 his wife, right and uh and and and I was 1939 01:36:54.880 --> 01:36:57.560 actually the smallest of the bodyguard. I was six foot 1940 01:36:57.640 --> 01:37:00.880 about two twenty, you know, pretty yoked man. That was 1941 01:37:00.880 --> 01:37:03.359 about five percent body fat. And uh. And I was 1942 01:37:03.399 --> 01:37:05.279 the smallest guy. All the guys were bigger than me. 1943 01:37:05.479 --> 01:37:07.000 I hired them all. They all big dudes and have 1944 01:37:07.079 --> 01:37:09.880 ball heads. There were tail phones, you know, just different 1945 01:37:09.920 --> 01:37:13.319 colors of different nationalities. Yeah, and uh, but he really 1946 01:37:13.439 --> 01:37:15.840 wanted that. He everywhere we went, he wanted us to 1947 01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:19.640 be flectioning because we weren't. We weren't carrying weapons. And uh. 1948 01:37:19.880 --> 01:37:21.560 And every time we would go to like he would 1949 01:37:21.680 --> 01:37:23.439 his wife always want to go dancing. Right, he's an 1950 01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:25.119 old dude. He didn't want to go dancing, but you know, 1951 01:37:25.199 --> 01:37:27.039 he had to keep her happy. If he wanted to 1952 01:37:27.039 --> 01:37:28.960 get those drawers, he better keep her happy. So we'd 1953 01:37:29.000 --> 01:37:30.920 go to a bar and she'd be out to dance 1954 01:37:30.960 --> 01:37:32.880 floor dancing. I'd have to stand on the dance floor 1955 01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:35.760 next tour while she's freaking dancing keeping all the guys 1956 01:37:35.800 --> 01:37:37.520 away from him because they all want to rub on 1957 01:37:37.600 --> 01:37:39.520 her and shit, you know, and then they go over 1958 01:37:39.600 --> 01:37:41.800 harassed the old man because there's a little Chinese guy, 1959 01:37:41.920 --> 01:37:43.239 you know, and then I got to go over there 1960 01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:45.640 and you know, interfere and get back, you know, you know, 1961 01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:48.359 leave the boss alone. You know. It's like all dying long, 1962 01:37:48.399 --> 01:37:49.880 you know, doing this kind of weird shit. You know. 1963 01:37:51.560 --> 01:37:55.279 Yeah, it's the worst, man, It's it's yeah, it's it's 1964 01:37:55.359 --> 01:37:57.600 really bad. When they want to start ship with other 1965 01:37:57.720 --> 01:38:01.279 people and you have to like interview because they're talking smack. 1966 01:38:02.319 --> 01:38:04.640 She did that all the time, and she would actually 1967 01:38:04.720 --> 01:38:07.640 start trouble with other women and men and look at you, like, 1968 01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:13.880 do something, get in there. Yeah. Yeah. We were driving 1969 01:38:13.920 --> 01:38:15.720 to the office one day and she was in her 1970 01:38:15.760 --> 01:38:17.720 pick phantom, right and she was in front of me. 1971 01:38:17.800 --> 01:38:19.520 I was in the fall of car. The road was 1972 01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:22.760 really congested her. Her office was about one hundred meters 1973 01:38:22.800 --> 01:38:26.000 down to the right. And so being the kind of 1974 01:38:26.520 --> 01:38:28.239 the way she is, right, she just acts like he 1975 01:38:28.319 --> 01:38:30.199 gets out of the car, grabs the purse and starts 1976 01:38:30.239 --> 01:38:33.600 starts walking down the sidewalk, and uh, I'm like fuck, 1977 01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:35.279 So I jump out of the car. I'm trying to 1978 01:38:35.399 --> 01:38:37.880 keep up with her. And there's a guy leaning up 1979 01:38:37.880 --> 01:38:39.960 against a light post right, just kind of lean up 1980 01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:43.039 against looking at his phone, and she walks right up 1981 01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:46.119 to her karate chops his arm check whom he fucking 1982 01:38:46.199 --> 01:38:48.640 falls over, and she just walks right past him and 1983 01:38:48.760 --> 01:38:50.279 he's like looking at her, like what the fuck? And 1984 01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:55.159 I kept walking behind him. Go hey, I said, zy. 1985 01:38:56.920 --> 01:38:59.720 He looked at me like, okay, I take youause. I 1986 01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:01.359 don't want would be out there to the street fighting 1987 01:39:01.399 --> 01:39:03.600 a guy because that's kind of shit she's doing all 1988 01:39:03.640 --> 01:39:06.720 the time. You know. But I've done a lot of 1989 01:39:06.760 --> 01:39:10.319 bodyguard work and it's always uh it's always an adventure, 1990 01:39:10.600 --> 01:39:13.760 you know, and uh it requires wild maturity. 1991 01:39:13.960 --> 01:39:16.159 Can you tell us the Singapore story? 1992 01:39:17.239 --> 01:39:21.079 Yeah? Okay. So I'm writing a bunch of books, right. So, 1993 01:39:21.760 --> 01:39:25.520 as I mentioned earlier, after I wrote American Badass, you know, 1994 01:39:25.640 --> 01:39:27.239 I thought that was it. You know, the sun was 1995 01:39:27.279 --> 01:39:29.800 setting all my my life, you know, all the cool 1996 01:39:29.800 --> 01:39:32.479 stuff was over. But it actually just started. Man. You know, 1997 01:39:32.920 --> 01:39:38.039 we talked about Yaming already la Hong Kong. So then 1998 01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:41.520 what happened was, so here in Indonesia, my wife and 1999 01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:44.840 own I own a security company, as I mentioned earlier, 2000 01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:49.199 providing explosive detector dogs, troll attack dogs for all the 2001 01:39:49.279 --> 01:39:52.680 venues and stuff around here. And uh so I ended 2002 01:39:52.760 --> 01:39:55.359 up going to Singapore to meet another guy friend and 2003 01:39:55.439 --> 01:39:57.039 he goes, hey, I want you to meet this guy. 2004 01:39:57.199 --> 01:40:00.960 So I meet this guy. This guy is a he's 2005 01:40:01.000 --> 01:40:04.279 in the in the shipping business, right, very wealthy guy, 2006 01:40:04.560 --> 01:40:08.359 very wealthy in his forties. You know, he's from India, 2007 01:40:08.439 --> 01:40:10.960 but you'd never know, you would. You would think he's American. 2008 01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:17.119 Everything about him said American, right everything. So he's like, hey, man, 2009 01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:19.159 I got this big ass German shepherd. You know, I 2010 01:40:19.239 --> 01:40:21.880 bought it for my kids, you know. And he goes, 2011 01:40:21.920 --> 01:40:24.279 I like to have him trained, very trained dogs. Would 2012 01:40:24.319 --> 01:40:25.760 you be willing to come over and train my dog 2013 01:40:25.840 --> 01:40:29.920 for me? I said, okay, you're playing. You know you're 2014 01:40:29.920 --> 01:40:33.000 paying on playing. So so I ended up playing back 2015 01:40:33.039 --> 01:40:35.640 and forth, going to Singapore the training guy's damn dog 2016 01:40:35.680 --> 01:40:38.439 for him. He lived in Sintosa Island, which is like Hollywood. 2017 01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:43.439 Guy was very wealthy rolls, Royce, Lamborghinis, you know, married, 2018 01:40:44.319 --> 01:40:48.119 two kids, and uh and the dog, and so he 2019 01:40:48.239 --> 01:40:50.760 wanted me come over and train the dog for him. 2020 01:40:50.760 --> 01:40:52.039 So I'd go over there for like a week at 2021 01:40:52.079 --> 01:40:55.119 a time, hang out, you know, in Singapore, go go 2022 01:40:55.239 --> 01:40:57.079 to his house two three times a day. Spent about 2023 01:40:57.079 --> 01:40:59.560 ten minutes training the dog. And then I was off 2024 01:40:59.600 --> 01:41:01.840 on my own in Singapore, hanging out. How cool is 2025 01:41:01.880 --> 01:41:05.039 that shit? And I was that quite a bit. Kept 2026 01:41:05.079 --> 01:41:09.520 coming back and forth, kept coming back and forth. So 2027 01:41:10.800 --> 01:41:14.039 one day I'm walking with him and his son. His 2028 01:41:14.159 --> 01:41:16.840 son's like nine years old, his daughter's about twelve. His 2029 01:41:17.039 --> 01:41:20.239 wife is Iranian. I thought she was actually Russian, but 2030 01:41:20.359 --> 01:41:23.800 she was turned out she was Iranian. And uh, so 2031 01:41:24.520 --> 01:41:27.000 he and I are walking and we're walking with the dog. 2032 01:41:27.079 --> 01:41:32.159 We're going down to the to the harbor, and he goes, hey, man, 2033 01:41:32.199 --> 01:41:34.640 he goes, you're still doing security stuff. I said yeah. 2034 01:41:35.079 --> 01:41:37.520 He goes, I might need some help. Okay, what you need? 2035 01:41:38.439 --> 01:41:40.960 So he tells me this story. Right, So he's got 2036 01:41:41.039 --> 01:41:46.359 this Instagram account and he's he's he loves watches, right, 2037 01:41:46.479 --> 01:41:48.840 So he's always showing off all his watches on Instagram. 2038 01:41:48.960 --> 01:41:51.760 You know, millions of dollars worth the watches, and so 2039 01:41:52.880 --> 01:41:57.600 one day apparently this hot chick on Instagram, you know, 2040 01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:00.479 starts chatting him up. He starts chatting her up. You know, 2041 01:42:01.079 --> 01:42:04.479 she's in another country, and but nonetheless, you know, they're 2042 01:42:04.560 --> 01:42:07.359 chatting each other up. I'm sure there were dig pics 2043 01:42:07.399 --> 01:42:10.239 and stuff floating around, but uh, it kind of escalated 2044 01:42:10.279 --> 01:42:16.039 in this thing, you know. And so turns out over time, 2045 01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:19.680 this chick on the other end is actually a dude, right, 2046 01:42:20.159 --> 01:42:23.039 which is probably part of a syndicate. And this was 2047 01:42:23.079 --> 01:42:26.279 a setup. And so now they've got you know, all 2048 01:42:26.399 --> 01:42:30.039 these compromising text messages, pictures, things like that, you know, 2049 01:42:30.840 --> 01:42:34.399 and so then they can't reach out to his wife 2050 01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:38.159 and go, hey, you this is us. You're you know, 2051 01:42:38.760 --> 01:42:41.960 your wife's your husband's been flirting with this woman on Instagram, 2052 01:42:42.319 --> 01:42:45.039 you know, getting pretty out of hand. Blah blah blah. 2053 01:42:45.439 --> 01:42:48.000 We have more information. We got an entire portfolio if 2054 01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:49.880 you want to see it. But you know, you got 2055 01:42:49.960 --> 01:42:52.079 to buy the plane tickets. We got to come to you, 2056 01:42:52.239 --> 01:42:53.640 we got to hand it to you, you got to 2057 01:42:53.680 --> 01:42:56.119 pay us. This is what the cost is going to be. Good. 2058 01:42:56.840 --> 01:42:59.880 So you know, she's thinking, oh, yeah, my rich husband's 2059 01:43:00.039 --> 01:43:02.600 eating on me, you know, and I'm gonna get his ass. 2060 01:43:02.760 --> 01:43:08.920 So so she buys this guy's ticket. One guy. She 2061 01:43:09.039 --> 01:43:11.319 meets him at the airport. The guy goes, gets his 2062 01:43:11.399 --> 01:43:13.560 baggage out a baggage plane. He's got a knife in 2063 01:43:13.600 --> 01:43:15.680 the bag. He pulls a knife out, puts in his pants, 2064 01:43:16.039 --> 01:43:18.319 comes out in baggage plane. He meets her, puts a 2065 01:43:18.359 --> 01:43:20.479 knife in her side, takes her over to ATM machine. 2066 01:43:20.600 --> 01:43:23.359 She cleans out the ATM machine. She's wearing a multimillion 2067 01:43:23.399 --> 01:43:26.439 dollar cardier with all kinds of diamonds on it. He said, 2068 01:43:26.439 --> 01:43:28.680 I'll take that too, and all the money, and i'll 2069 01:43:28.720 --> 01:43:32.319 take your cell phone. Eventually just robs her right there, right, So, 2070 01:43:33.479 --> 01:43:37.319 so he leaves. She thinks he left, but he didn't. 2071 01:43:37.439 --> 01:43:41.039 He actually stayed overnight in a hotel. Well, guess what. 2072 01:43:41.479 --> 01:43:44.560 She didn't put a pass code on her phone, didn't 2073 01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:46.640 put a pass coat on the phone. Come on, really, 2074 01:43:47.119 --> 01:43:49.479 So he goes back to the room. He goes to 2075 01:43:49.560 --> 01:43:52.840 her phone. He's got all the kid's phone numbers, husband's 2076 01:43:52.840 --> 01:43:55.720 phone number, her husband's contacts, phone numbers, client's phone numbers, 2077 01:43:55.760 --> 01:43:59.319 her phone numbers, alternate phone number. He's got everything everything 2078 01:43:59.359 --> 01:44:02.159 on his phone, and he shoots her text messages tomorrow morning, 2079 01:44:02.199 --> 01:44:05.600 meet me at this corner on this ATM machine, don't 2080 01:44:05.640 --> 01:44:09.319 be late and be alone. She shows up again. Here 2081 01:44:09.359 --> 01:44:11.560 we go again, samm ol rodeo like a knife in 2082 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:14.479 the side. Good ATM machine sets it out, takes forever 2083 01:44:14.560 --> 01:44:18.159 else you can take offer and he disappears. So she 2084 01:44:18.319 --> 01:44:23.880 still hasn't told anybody, you know, And so he goes. 2085 01:44:23.920 --> 01:44:28.039 The other guy goes back. He's actually so he's Iranian, 2086 01:44:28.439 --> 01:44:33.359 but he lives in Turkey, okay, with a network in 2087 01:44:33.479 --> 01:44:37.520 Russia a lot, all right, So and I know all 2088 01:44:37.560 --> 01:44:41.439 this for a reasons. So he goes back. He starts 2089 01:44:41.560 --> 01:44:45.119 messaging the kids, send them video. He's holding a gun, 2090 01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:47.279 he's holding a knife. You know, he's I'm gonna do this, 2091 01:44:47.399 --> 01:44:49.640 I'm gonna do that. You know, he's threatening the kids, 2092 01:44:50.159 --> 01:44:53.279 all right, And basically the old man goes what's going on? 2093 01:44:53.520 --> 01:44:55.800 And finally the wife said, hey, this is what happened. 2094 01:44:56.119 --> 01:44:58.520 They go to the police to check the camera. Sure, shit, 2095 01:44:58.880 --> 01:45:01.840 it's all true, right, but they can't get this guy 2096 01:45:01.920 --> 01:45:04.079 because he's in another country. They can't extra guide him 2097 01:45:04.359 --> 01:45:05.920 when he comes back with the rest of the otherwise, 2098 01:45:06.279 --> 01:45:08.600 no show and I said, you know, I said, you 2099 01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:11.159 know what's happened, right, I said, this guy's right in 2100 01:45:11.239 --> 01:45:14.880 your kids writing you. He's gonna call your clients, he's 2101 01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:19.119 got compromising pictures. He said, this is not over. I said, 2102 01:45:19.119 --> 01:45:21.600 he'll never come back because he knows the warn out 2103 01:45:21.600 --> 01:45:23.840 for his arrest. But he's gonna send somebody else in 2104 01:45:23.960 --> 01:45:26.920 his stead. You won't know who it is until it's 2105 01:45:26.960 --> 01:45:29.640 too late. They're gonna threaten you. We're gonna want money, 2106 01:45:29.800 --> 01:45:31.119 and if you don't do it, they're gonna hurt you, 2107 01:45:31.399 --> 01:45:35.479 your kids. And so you fucked. And he knew it, right, 2108 01:45:35.640 --> 01:45:38.800 and I knew it. I knew the play and and 2109 01:45:39.000 --> 01:45:43.479 so he's like, can you help me? Yeah, of course, 2110 01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:49.119 money though, but you know I'm doing this shit for free, 2111 01:45:49.279 --> 01:45:54.159 you know. And uh, And so that turned into okay, 2112 01:45:55.000 --> 01:45:58.920 a phased approach. I gotta be careful what I say. 2113 01:45:59.399 --> 01:46:05.479 But he turned into a phase approach. I contacted a guy. 2114 01:46:05.520 --> 01:46:08.039 He's a German, he's a he's a private investigator, he's 2115 01:46:08.039 --> 01:46:12.680 got a military background. Good dude. I've actually been working 2116 01:46:12.720 --> 01:46:15.439 with him since then on some other projects, and he 2117 01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.479 was very well connected, very well connected. Told him what 2118 01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:21.279 the problem was, told him, give Hi an idea who 2119 01:46:21.359 --> 01:46:23.960 the guy was. We had that information off the Instagram. 2120 01:46:24.720 --> 01:46:26.920 We had some other sources I was able to tap into. 2121 01:46:27.439 --> 01:46:30.199 We knew who the guy was, we knew where he was. 2122 01:46:31.000 --> 01:46:32.600 So now what we had to do is tap into 2123 01:46:32.640 --> 01:46:36.239 local resources to P I d M track him down. 2124 01:46:36.359 --> 01:46:41.039 We had him. We had we literally had h cameras 2125 01:46:41.319 --> 01:46:44.600 from streetlight cameras of this guy in his car with 2126 01:46:44.720 --> 01:46:47.520 his Mercedes and license plates to include he's wearing a 2127 01:46:47.640 --> 01:46:50.760 damn watch he stole from the Life Cardier. You got it, 2128 01:46:51.479 --> 01:46:54.920 So you know, it's like then you know, wow. And 2129 01:46:55.079 --> 01:46:58.880 so anyway, so the mission was, all right, first of all, 2130 01:46:59.000 --> 01:47:01.279 proof of concept, I show I'll show you that we 2131 01:47:01.359 --> 01:47:04.079 can find him and we can get to them. But 2132 01:47:04.239 --> 01:47:06.279 then you know, then there's the next part. Parts of 2133 01:47:06.359 --> 01:47:09.119 this thing. You've gotta you gotta pay for everything, you know. 2134 01:47:09.199 --> 01:47:11.119 But the first one just proof that we did it, 2135 01:47:11.239 --> 01:47:15.600 we can do it. Second part is, you know, the 2136 01:47:15.840 --> 01:47:21.079 deployment phase and then the employment phase. Execution I say execution, 2137 01:47:21.479 --> 01:47:29.920 so employment phase, I say, right. So So anyways, that 2138 01:47:30.159 --> 01:47:32.600 was it was a phase approach, right, and so basically 2139 01:47:33.039 --> 01:47:35.760 it required the only way you're going to get to 2140 01:47:35.840 --> 01:47:37.479 this guy is you got to get to this guy 2141 01:47:37.920 --> 01:47:40.119 and and you got to get this guy with all 2142 01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:43.600 the stuff, get it back and make sure that he 2143 01:47:43.800 --> 01:47:47.720 never does anything like this again, because start figuring out 2144 01:47:47.760 --> 01:47:50.319 he belonged to a bigger syndicate. There's a syndicate out there. 2145 01:47:50.439 --> 01:47:52.520 There's lots of not that. This is what they do, 2146 01:47:53.199 --> 01:47:56.439 Internet scams and they don't fuck around, man. They look 2147 01:47:56.479 --> 01:48:00.319 they will fly around the world to complete their mission. Man, 2148 01:48:00.479 --> 01:48:06.199 and they don't care. Man. So anyways, Uh, all that happened, Uh, 2149 01:48:06.800 --> 01:48:10.279 the details will be in the book. I don't want 2150 01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:13.479 to say too much because it could be misinterpreted. What 2151 01:48:13.640 --> 01:48:17.920 actually happened, what didn't happen. Those are the kind of yeah, 2152 01:48:18.079 --> 01:48:20.000 these are the kind of things that have happened to me. 2153 01:48:20.119 --> 01:48:22.279 You know that here I am minded my business train 2154 01:48:22.359 --> 01:48:26.039 of guy's dog. It's Singapore and next thing you know, 2155 01:48:26.239 --> 01:48:28.680 I'm like, what going ahead to head with fucking Iranians. 2156 01:48:29.359 --> 01:48:34.239 So you know, it's like wow. So anyways, uh, yeah, 2157 01:48:34.479 --> 01:48:37.960 it never ends, man, it never ends. You know. I 2158 01:48:38.079 --> 01:48:40.760 mentioned earlier story a story earlier as well that happened 2159 01:48:40.760 --> 01:48:42.439 to Meter and Bali when I came back with the 2160 01:48:42.680 --> 01:48:46.119 with the military and people trying to arrest me, and 2161 01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:48.640 isis there's literally there was an ice to cell here. 2162 01:48:49.960 --> 01:48:51.920 You know, they were I believe they were targeting me 2163 01:48:52.000 --> 01:48:57.319 and my business partner. But uh, it's like it never ends. 2164 01:48:57.319 --> 01:49:01.680 I told you my friend right earlier before this, Shoe Dean, 2165 01:49:01.840 --> 01:49:04.600 he's uh he's making a movie in uh that movie 2166 01:49:04.640 --> 01:49:06.800 a TV series in the Philippines. I think this is 2167 01:49:06.880 --> 01:49:10.000 year number three. Called me five days ago, asked me 2168 01:49:10.039 --> 01:49:12.000 if I could come to the Philippines. One helping with 2169 01:49:12.079 --> 01:49:15.279 security he feels threatening, but two he wants me to 2170 01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:18.079 have a major role on the show with him. And 2171 01:49:19.279 --> 01:49:28.079 and the story is called it's called uh something in Paradise. Yeah, 2172 01:49:28.319 --> 01:49:31.079 that's it with Dye or not Christian Kane, I mean 2173 01:49:31.199 --> 01:49:35.079 Christian Kane and uh and so he's a d agent, 2174 01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:39.640 you know, he's medically you know, discharged. He decides I'm 2175 01:49:39.640 --> 01:49:42.239 gonna live in the Philippines and Paradise, just live on 2176 01:49:42.359 --> 01:49:45.600 the beach, chasing, chasing Jason, women, having a good time, 2177 01:49:45.920 --> 01:49:47.840 and all of a sudden he finds himself rolled up 2178 01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:49.600 in this with the mob and the syndic kid and 2179 01:49:49.640 --> 01:49:51.159 all this crime ship. And I'm like, you know what 2180 01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:53.520 that sounds like? My damn story. You know, it's like 2181 01:49:53.640 --> 01:49:56.359 it's it's the same damn story. You know, mind's a 2182 01:49:56.479 --> 01:50:00.680 Bali man is in the Philippines, you know. But I 2183 01:50:00.720 --> 01:50:03.199 don't look for this stuff. It just happens, you know, 2184 01:50:03.399 --> 01:50:06.680 it just shows up. There's another story I didn't I 2185 01:50:06.760 --> 01:50:11.079 didn't really delve into. And I was at Dubai. I 2186 01:50:11.199 --> 01:50:16.319 was approached by an American who lost his visa. So 2187 01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:18.720 what happens like in the Middle East is if you 2188 01:50:18.840 --> 01:50:22.760 owe money to anybody there, banks, the government, you're in 2189 01:50:22.840 --> 01:50:25.119 any kind of debt, what they will do is take 2190 01:50:25.159 --> 01:50:27.319 your visas, strip you of your passport, so you can't 2191 01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:30.520 leave the country. They call a velvet cage. You can't 2192 01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:33.640 do anything. You can't walk, work, you can't leave. You 2193 01:50:33.760 --> 01:50:36.439 get there until you pay your debt back. You know 2194 01:50:36.800 --> 01:50:38.680 how you gonna pay your debt back. If you can't work, 2195 01:50:38.720 --> 01:50:40.680 you can't leave. That's up to you to figure out. 2196 01:50:40.720 --> 01:50:42.800 Otherwise you're not going nowhere. You're going to live in 2197 01:50:42.880 --> 01:50:45.199 a hot box for the rest of your life. That's 2198 01:50:45.199 --> 01:50:47.680 what it takes. So I had a guy approach me, American, 2199 01:50:49.600 --> 01:50:56.520 interesting fella, former infantry guy, the black guy, and he 2200 01:50:56.760 --> 01:50:59.079 just one day just said I'm gonna move to Dubai 2201 01:50:59.239 --> 01:51:01.840 and open up an eighth fat company and a deep 2202 01:51:01.880 --> 01:51:06.399 billing company and eleven Bravo infantry guy. And he does this, 2203 01:51:06.800 --> 01:51:09.399 damn and he was wood than millions, right, and he 2204 01:51:09.479 --> 01:51:12.119 was very successful, and then he got some medical issues 2205 01:51:12.199 --> 01:51:13.880 with one of his kids. He owned the hospital a 2206 01:51:13.920 --> 01:51:16.439 lot of money, and then twenty ten is when you know, 2207 01:51:17.039 --> 01:51:19.840 they had to bust in the Middle East. Everything went 2208 01:51:19.920 --> 01:51:23.880 under financially, right, So suddenly he found himself owing lots 2209 01:51:23.920 --> 01:51:26.239 of money and he ain't got it and they scripped 2210 01:51:26.319 --> 01:51:28.479 him of his passport. His wife and kids got out 2211 01:51:28.479 --> 01:51:31.439 of country. He didn't make it out, so he'd already 2212 01:51:31.479 --> 01:51:33.359 been there for like five years when he met me 2213 01:51:33.479 --> 01:51:35.399 one day in a bar. I was going to get 2214 01:51:35.479 --> 01:51:38.319 something to eat and I walk in. I'm wearing my 2215 01:51:38.479 --> 01:51:43.279 yellow python cowboy boots and he noticed he recognized the boots. 2216 01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:45.960 He recognizes me from social media, comes over to me. 2217 01:51:46.039 --> 01:51:47.920 He goes, hey, are you you know Dale pop Stock 2218 01:51:48.000 --> 01:51:50.479 you know? And I'm always like, why wants to know? 2219 01:51:50.920 --> 01:51:55.560 You know? Okayer folk? Okay friend? So he's like, uh, 2220 01:51:55.640 --> 01:51:58.079 you know, hey, follow you in the boots? Blah blah blah. 2221 01:51:58.079 --> 01:52:00.479 I got this bullshit. You know, got talk. But he 2222 01:52:00.520 --> 01:52:02.920 didn't tell me his dilemma yet, right, and he's we 2223 01:52:03.000 --> 01:52:05.239 exchanged phone numbers. I go back to these A couple 2224 01:52:05.319 --> 01:52:06.960 months later. He texted me and said, hey, man, are 2225 01:52:07.000 --> 01:52:08.680 you coming back I said, yeah, I'm going to be 2226 01:52:08.720 --> 01:52:10.039 back here soon, you know, because I like to meet. 2227 01:52:10.119 --> 01:52:13.319 So we meet and he tells me a story. Right, 2228 01:52:13.439 --> 01:52:15.239 he's been living there for five years, can't get out. 2229 01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:19.720 He's like, can you get me out? So like, get 2230 01:52:19.800 --> 01:52:22.399 me out of country. The problem is all the neighboring 2231 01:52:22.439 --> 01:52:26.520 countries have laws of reciprocs, like cutter. You know, they'll 2232 01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:29.199 turn you back in. Right, you can't get out. So 2233 01:52:29.439 --> 01:52:32.479 there's only really one way out. You can do the 2234 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:34.560 long walk through the desert. Hope god you never get 2235 01:52:34.560 --> 01:52:37.119 a compromised, but you still got to go somewhere, or 2236 01:52:37.279 --> 01:52:42.159 you go via the ocean somewhere. And so I told 2237 01:52:42.239 --> 01:52:44.039 him I could help him, but you know it's going 2238 01:52:44.119 --> 01:52:46.680 to cost money. You know, I'm doing this on my pocket. 2239 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:50.359 And so there was a lot of a lot of 2240 01:52:50.840 --> 01:52:55.359 issues with getting a guy out over the ocean. So 2241 01:52:56.520 --> 01:52:58.359 I wouldn't need to be able to take him by 2242 01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:01.640 boat at least five hundred miles. That means I need 2243 01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:04.840 a big goddamn boat. They can hold a lot of fuel, right, 2244 01:53:04.920 --> 01:53:07.159 which costs a lot of money. So it gets worse 2245 01:53:07.239 --> 01:53:09.600 and worse and worse. Right, But I said, so, I 2246 01:53:09.720 --> 01:53:11.920 finally convinced we got any buddies that need to get 2247 01:53:11.920 --> 01:53:15.119 out too. I don't care if four nationals, you know, 2248 01:53:15.199 --> 01:53:18.239 you got four or five guys, you know, guys all 2249 01:53:18.319 --> 01:53:20.520 chip in and it'll be a lot easier to get out. 2250 01:53:20.520 --> 01:53:22.479 I had a pretty good plan too, man, it was 2251 01:53:22.479 --> 01:53:24.479 a really good plan. I had to do a lot 2252 01:53:24.520 --> 01:53:27.399 of secret scroll stuff. Because one thing about the Emirates, 2253 01:53:28.479 --> 01:53:31.279 if you go to Emmra, Dubai or Abadabi anywhere over there, 2254 01:53:31.359 --> 01:53:33.600 you'll never see a cop. You'll never see a cop. 2255 01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:36.319 They don't need cops, you know why, because they got 2256 01:53:36.439 --> 01:53:38.680 one hell of an informant system. And it got CCTV 2257 01:53:38.800 --> 01:53:42.479 camera everywhere, right, everybody is an informant. Everybody gets the 2258 01:53:42.520 --> 01:53:44.760 blue chip if they rack out, and everything's on camera. 2259 01:53:45.560 --> 01:53:49.119 So it's pretty damn secure over there. It's real secure, 2260 01:53:49.399 --> 01:53:52.800 and you know somebody's watching. They're always watching. I show 2261 01:53:52.880 --> 01:53:55.479 up one night, I go to the bar, and I'm 2262 01:53:55.479 --> 01:53:57.359 there with a bunch of chicks and they're you know, 2263 01:53:57.680 --> 01:54:00.560 and I got my book and also sing about thirty 2264 01:54:00.560 --> 01:54:02.439 minutes later, this dude shows up to sit down next 2265 01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:04.760 to me, goes, hey, how are you doing Dale? Who 2266 01:54:04.800 --> 01:54:07.359 the hell are you? He goes, well, you know, I'm 2267 01:54:07.399 --> 01:54:09.479 with the immigration on this and that and that and that. 2268 01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:12.119 He goes, how about tomorrow you and I meet for lunch. Okay, 2269 01:54:12.920 --> 01:54:16.479 It's like, you know, like, hey dude, I'm just trying 2270 01:54:16.479 --> 01:54:18.239 to get some drawers and selling my book. You know. 2271 01:54:18.600 --> 01:54:20.840 It's like, we'll talk tomorrow. Yeah, I'll see you. I'll 2272 01:54:20.840 --> 01:54:22.880 see there. You know. Of course I remember we saw them. 2273 01:54:22.920 --> 01:54:26.840 But they're good, man, They're really good. So everything I 2274 01:54:26.920 --> 01:54:28.760 had to do over there had to be under the radar, 2275 01:54:29.079 --> 01:54:31.640 you know, and I'm always got to be super super careful. 2276 01:54:33.279 --> 01:54:36.640 So anyways, that turned into you know, safe houses, rat lines, 2277 01:54:37.600 --> 01:54:41.840 you got issues with international waters, passports, leaving the leaving 2278 01:54:41.920 --> 01:54:44.960 the docks. You know. I had a good plan, though, 2279 01:54:44.960 --> 01:54:47.600 I had a really good plan. Ball jet skis so 2280 01:54:48.560 --> 01:54:53.359 but anyways, that was another one of my little uh adventures. Again. 2281 01:54:53.479 --> 01:54:55.279 Here I am just minding my business in the bar, 2282 01:54:55.960 --> 01:54:58.000 trying to get a drink. Maybe I was some nookie 2283 01:54:58.039 --> 01:55:00.359 somewhere and this guy wants to freak to help me 2284 01:55:00.560 --> 01:55:02.439 escape from the country. Now I talked to my lawyer. 2285 01:55:02.479 --> 01:55:04.520 I go, hey, I said, what do you think about this? 2286 01:55:04.800 --> 01:55:07.239 He goes, what would you call this if I did this? 2287 01:55:07.880 --> 01:55:15.800 He goes, human trafficking. I said, okay, got it, forget 2288 01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:17.960 I said anything, all right? So I kept them out 2289 01:55:17.960 --> 01:55:21.199 of the conversation after, like, we're not having this conversation 2290 01:55:21.399 --> 01:55:24.359 human trafficking what so? Yeah, but I guess he's right. 2291 01:55:24.479 --> 01:55:25.960 I guess that would be human trafficking. 2292 01:55:26.439 --> 01:55:29.680 Let's let's hit up some user questions here, Dave. 2293 01:55:30.079 --> 01:55:32.880 Yeah, for people who are watching Dale, if they want 2294 01:55:32.960 --> 01:55:37.640 to contact you, uh to procure your service as a 2295 01:55:38.039 --> 01:55:41.720 security consultant or concubine or whatever the case may be. 2296 01:55:42.680 --> 01:55:45.960 I won't say human trafficker. Where where can they find you? 2297 01:55:47.680 --> 01:55:53.920 So I'm mostly on Instagram now Official American Badass Bill Comstock. 2298 01:55:54.399 --> 01:55:57.880 I'm getting really getting far away from Facebook. I'm still 2299 01:55:57.960 --> 01:56:01.520 on there. I got she got banned. I got banned 2300 01:56:01.560 --> 01:56:05.720 from LinkedIn and from Twitter, all right, you know, for 2301 01:56:06.119 --> 01:56:08.640 stating an opinion that of course you know how that 2302 01:56:08.720 --> 01:56:11.000 all works. So they didn't like it because it's me, 2303 01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.119 But they actually gave me my Twitter account back yesterday 2304 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:18.399 and LinkedIn. I'm still working on that, but uh and 2305 01:56:18.479 --> 01:56:21.279 I only use those anyways. That's nother story. So you 2306 01:56:21.319 --> 01:56:24.199 can find me on Twitter now, maybe LinkedIn you try 2307 01:56:24.199 --> 01:56:27.000 to get it read of State today, but for sure Instagram, Facebook. 2308 01:56:27.479 --> 01:56:30.319 I have a website deal comstock dot com. You can 2309 01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:32.800 go through that. You can reach out email me through there. 2310 01:56:33.880 --> 01:56:37.279 My email address is American Badass at del comstock dot com. 2311 01:56:37.680 --> 01:56:40.000 Pretty easily, remember American bad at deal compt dot dot com. 2312 01:56:40.319 --> 01:56:42.920 They can reach me there as well. Those are the 2313 01:56:43.000 --> 01:56:44.319 main ways to catch up. 2314 01:56:44.359 --> 01:56:47.359 I'm not hard to find, and people can like you're 2315 01:56:48.119 --> 01:56:48.600 you'd like you. 2316 01:56:48.920 --> 01:56:51.800 I know you're working on numerous books right now and 2317 01:56:52.159 --> 01:56:56.439 and honestly, thank god you're immortal because you know it'll 2318 01:56:56.520 --> 01:56:59.319 take time to write all those stories. But but for 2319 01:56:59.439 --> 01:57:03.479 your first book, people can they can read American Badass. 2320 01:57:03.920 --> 01:57:06.600 It's available on Amazon, is available anyway if people buy. 2321 01:57:06.560 --> 01:57:10.119 Books Amazon dot com. Yeah, And it's. 2322 01:57:09.960 --> 01:57:13.880 Interesting because you know, you talk about building these improvised 2323 01:57:13.880 --> 01:57:17.479 explosive devices for you know, when you're working with UEE, 2324 01:57:17.640 --> 01:57:20.000 and you know what a lot of people don't understand 2325 01:57:20.039 --> 01:57:21.840 who haven't been in the military. Or haven't been in 2326 01:57:21.920 --> 01:57:27.079 that situation. Is that explosives in breaching is it's it's 2327 01:57:27.159 --> 01:57:30.680 its own very specific field. And when you were in Delta, 2328 01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:34.760 you were the breacher in Panama for the h the 2329 01:57:34.840 --> 01:57:40.239 American hostage Cruise, like you breached the cell there, which 2330 01:57:40.960 --> 01:57:44.119 you know, after years and years of combat in Afghanistan 2331 01:57:44.279 --> 01:57:49.640 and Iraq and whatever like, Panama is such it's such 2332 01:57:49.680 --> 01:57:53.159 a forgotten event, but at a point in time it 2333 01:57:53.439 --> 01:57:56.840 was one of the primary combat events that had happened 2334 01:57:56.840 --> 01:57:59.159 in US, you know, in US history of that time. 2335 01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:04.920 Yeah, no, and you're right, it's uh, you know, it 2336 01:58:05.079 --> 01:58:10.600 was well executed, well planned, well executed. You know, we 2337 01:58:10.760 --> 01:58:14.640 didn't take any casualties of the of the assault team 2338 01:58:14.680 --> 01:58:16.640 that went in. It was twenty three or twenty six 2339 01:58:16.720 --> 01:58:19.720 of US total. We had to we had w I 2340 01:58:19.840 --> 01:58:22.439 as we got helicopters get shot down, but nobody was 2341 01:58:22.520 --> 01:58:25.800 k I eight and we completed the mission. We we 2342 01:58:26.199 --> 01:58:29.600 you know, we saved Kurt Muse. We plucked them out 2343 01:58:29.600 --> 01:58:32.640 of the jaws of death man literally And it's an 2344 01:58:32.640 --> 01:58:35.399 amazing story when you read it, you know, it's when 2345 01:58:35.399 --> 01:58:37.760 you when you know all the details that went into that, 2346 01:58:39.319 --> 01:58:41.600 things that could have went bad, you know, like my 2347 01:58:41.720 --> 01:58:45.119 little my little faux pa there at the door. You know, 2348 01:58:45.199 --> 01:58:48.119 I fixed it though, and uh he's alive, so it's 2349 01:58:48.159 --> 01:58:51.239 all worked out. But uh yeah, you know, I look 2350 01:58:51.279 --> 01:58:52.840 at you know, I look at that. I looked at 2351 01:58:52.880 --> 01:58:56.720 my whole military career. So you know, I started out 2352 01:58:56.720 --> 01:58:59.720 in the eighty second Airborne Division, Infantry long range scout. 2353 01:59:00.560 --> 01:59:02.520 Four year mark. Had made a decision do I want 2354 01:59:02.520 --> 01:59:04.000 to stay in, do I want to get out? Decide 2355 01:59:04.000 --> 01:59:05.600 to go for the Gusto. I'm going to try out 2356 01:59:05.640 --> 01:59:10.159 for Delta, which was almost statistically impossible for me to succeed, 2357 01:59:10.359 --> 01:59:12.199 but I did at the age of twenty three, youngest 2358 01:59:12.199 --> 01:59:15.920 guy ever I average age thirty three. Next thing you know, 2359 01:59:16.039 --> 01:59:18.199 I'm there ten years. I go to the q COR. 2360 01:59:18.319 --> 01:59:20.560 While I'm there, I've become a light and heavy weapons guy, 2361 01:59:21.479 --> 01:59:23.720 and I'm going to a third special Forces group, became 2362 01:59:23.720 --> 01:59:28.119 a team swartant. I had seen combat every combat evant 2363 01:59:28.199 --> 01:59:31.960 since nineteen age three Grenada right up to the President. 2364 01:59:32.079 --> 01:59:34.000 In fact, I've been to all of them, with the 2365 01:59:34.079 --> 01:59:37.520 exception of Bosnia. That's the only one I didn't participate 2366 01:59:37.560 --> 01:59:40.279 in because I was in that transition retiring out of 2367 01:59:40.279 --> 01:59:43.439 the military. But I don't feel like I really missed 2368 01:59:43.479 --> 01:59:46.239 anything either. But I've been in every conflict since that 2369 01:59:46.399 --> 01:59:50.520 time up to the very president to include Yemen. But 2370 01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:54.560 I went from you know, I thought, okay, going to Delta. 2371 01:59:54.720 --> 01:59:56.640 That's you know, I remember, guys should say that's the 2372 01:59:56.720 --> 01:59:59.800 final frontier in the military. That is the pinnacle. You know, 2373 02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:04.000 everybody look seals, Delta Forces isn't trying to be a seal. 2374 02:00:04.079 --> 02:00:05.880 But we've got seals. They're trying not to be Delta. 2375 02:00:05.960 --> 02:00:09.399 You know, everybody wants to be at the pinnacle. That's Delta. 2376 02:00:10.680 --> 02:00:13.399 And so I thought, you know, man, I reached the 2377 02:00:13.479 --> 02:00:16.520 pinnacle at the age of twenty three. Then I get out, 2378 02:00:16.760 --> 02:00:21.560 and then I get recruited by the Alphabet company, and uh, 2379 02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:24.720 you know, as you know, you know, Dave, it's not 2380 02:00:24.760 --> 02:00:27.800 an easy right to all that. The vetting process, the 2381 02:00:28.239 --> 02:00:32.560 you know, the polygraph testing, the background checks, there's a 2382 02:00:32.680 --> 02:00:35.520 lot that goes into that in a super high attrition rate, 2383 02:00:36.399 --> 02:00:41.039 probably higher than the unit. And so but here we are, 2384 02:00:41.479 --> 02:00:44.960 right made it. And so then I thought, well, doesn't 2385 02:00:45.640 --> 02:00:48.399 I thought Delta was a final frontier. I guess this 2386 02:00:48.560 --> 02:00:51.439 is the final frontier, or is it? And then I 2387 02:00:51.520 --> 02:00:54.159 get approached with this whole other thing that's mercenary work. 2388 02:00:54.199 --> 02:00:57.560 And then I realized, no, that's actually the final frontier 2389 02:00:57.680 --> 02:01:02.119 because now I'm going down range with the same weapons 2390 02:01:02.199 --> 02:01:06.279 al Qaeda has. I'm I'm literally sewing like a grandma. 2391 02:01:06.319 --> 02:01:08.600 I'm sew on my fricking equipment, trying to make shit 2392 02:01:08.680 --> 02:01:12.119 the fight with, right, I'm improvising everything I got, and 2393 02:01:12.199 --> 02:01:14.159 I'm gonna go in a street fight with that bad 2394 02:01:14.239 --> 02:01:16.840 guys no better equipped than they are, right, And the 2395 02:01:16.920 --> 02:01:19.239 only thing that's gonna win the day is my skills 2396 02:01:19.279 --> 02:01:22.159 of self versus their skill set, right. And so to me, 2397 02:01:22.479 --> 02:01:26.119 that was the ultimate. Ultimately, that was being that's the 2398 02:01:26.520 --> 02:01:29.680 ultimate warrior right there, When you can go to combat 2399 02:01:29.720 --> 02:01:31.680 and you don't have big army behind you and support you, 2400 02:01:32.079 --> 02:01:34.560 you don't have close air support, you have a medic 2401 02:01:34.680 --> 02:01:36.920 to drag your ass off a battlefield, it's just you 2402 02:01:37.119 --> 02:01:40.600 and them, and it comes really comes down to your 2403 02:01:40.920 --> 02:01:45.159 your training and your mindset and your warrior spirit. When 2404 02:01:45.199 --> 02:01:47.640 it comes to that and you walk away and you're 2405 02:01:47.680 --> 02:01:50.399 still got your arm's legs, you know it's a win. 2406 02:01:50.720 --> 02:01:52.760 And to me, that was the ultimate. So I feel 2407 02:01:52.800 --> 02:01:55.680 like I've gone the entire gamut, you know, the entire 2408 02:01:55.840 --> 02:02:00.239 spectrum of warfare as a warrior, you know from you know, 2409 02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:05.119 basically iftry guide to mercenary and everything in between. And 2410 02:02:05.239 --> 02:02:08.640 it's never enough. It's never enough. So I sit here 2411 02:02:08.760 --> 02:02:11.439 and I asked myself, if somebody were to come here 2412 02:02:11.520 --> 02:02:13.359 right now and go, have got an opportunity for you 2413 02:02:14.119 --> 02:02:17.600 to be interested? There's a pretty good chance. I'll say 2414 02:02:17.640 --> 02:02:21.159 two things. How much? And when do I leave? Right? 2415 02:02:21.479 --> 02:02:23.760 You know, you know that's the truth. You know, it's 2416 02:02:23.800 --> 02:02:25.720 in you. It's in the blood. Man. Once it's in there, 2417 02:02:25.720 --> 02:02:27.640 it's in there, you can't you know, you always go 2418 02:02:27.720 --> 02:02:29.720 back for another drink at the well until you're falling 2419 02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:31.319 the well and can't get back out. You know. 2420 02:02:33.000 --> 02:02:35.800 It's funny too, And this is getting to the questions 2421 02:02:35.840 --> 02:02:40.159 that people ask. But uh something as somebody said us 2422 02:02:40.199 --> 02:02:45.920 an email earlier, and uh on our patreon and join 2423 02:02:46.000 --> 02:02:48.119 our patreon if you're not a member, why aren't you? 2424 02:02:48.720 --> 02:02:48.840 Uh? 2425 02:02:49.479 --> 02:02:53.399 But but somebody's writing d and you know you're talking 2426 02:02:53.439 --> 02:02:56.560 about you know, always reaching that top and then going 2427 02:02:56.640 --> 02:02:59.199 out and you know, sort of being this consummate warrior 2428 02:02:59.279 --> 02:03:02.439 even when you're fine without all the US support, without 2429 02:03:02.479 --> 02:03:05.960 the aircraft without all this. And somebody wrote and said, 2430 02:03:06.199 --> 02:03:08.840 there's an old Team House episode where if you're asked 2431 02:03:08.880 --> 02:03:11.520 the guys, they asked Jack, Jack and I for the 2432 02:03:11.600 --> 02:03:14.159 twelve people they would want on their ODA or their 2433 02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:17.119 team in combat, and Day said he would take himself 2434 02:03:17.239 --> 02:03:21.279 into Elevendale comstocks, you know. 2435 02:03:21.800 --> 02:03:23.600 And I'm better start reproducing them. 2436 02:03:24.920 --> 02:03:27.199 But but you know, like we've known each other for 2437 02:03:27.279 --> 02:03:29.319 a long time and you've always been that, you know, 2438 02:03:29.439 --> 02:03:32.800 you have been that, you know, sort of Costca Eternal Warrior, 2439 02:03:33.520 --> 02:03:37.319 the guy that was that was bred for war. And 2440 02:03:37.560 --> 02:03:39.720 you know, we interview a lot of you know, whenever 2441 02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:41.960 youw people who were like Mac the sag and then 2442 02:03:42.039 --> 02:03:45.439 went to Rhodesia and like that is you. You're the 2443 02:03:45.680 --> 02:03:47.239 modern equivalent. 2444 02:03:47.199 --> 02:03:50.359 Of guys still getting after it as they're pushing seventy. 2445 02:03:50.600 --> 02:03:52.479 You know, we know some of those dudes, you know, 2446 02:03:52.720 --> 02:03:54.840 you know the man bred for War. 2447 02:03:55.920 --> 02:03:57.920 Yeah, no, you know, you're right, and I do know 2448 02:03:58.000 --> 02:03:59.840 some of those guys you probably know the same guys 2449 02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:03.680 talk about you know that they're actually also my inspiration 2450 02:04:03.840 --> 02:04:06.640 when I see these guys, like Jesus, you're seventy eight 2451 02:04:06.760 --> 02:04:10.000 years old and you're still out there kicking ass. You know, 2452 02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:15.640 what what they have done is they've they've broken paradigms 2453 02:04:15.720 --> 02:04:18.600 for me because we all believed, we all are inculcated 2454 02:04:18.640 --> 02:04:21.840 as mindset. You know, we only have so much, so 2455 02:04:21.960 --> 02:04:25.520 much utility, so much shelf life, you know, when in fact, 2456 02:04:25.600 --> 02:04:27.960 we we can fight. Look, man, some of the best 2457 02:04:28.000 --> 02:04:30.079 warriors are the oldest warriors of the planet. Man. You know, 2458 02:04:31.279 --> 02:04:33.359 you know you got you got everything. You've got experience, 2459 02:04:33.479 --> 02:04:35.600 your arnr. You know, you freaking don't take a lot 2460 02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:38.279 of shit no more. And uh you've gotten past all 2461 02:04:38.319 --> 02:04:41.560 the fear and stuff, you know, And it's always been 2462 02:04:41.600 --> 02:04:43.279 a part of who I am growing up. You know, 2463 02:04:43.359 --> 02:04:45.039 my dad was in the army for twenty years. I 2464 02:04:45.119 --> 02:04:47.880 grew up mostly in Germany, the bases over there, and 2465 02:04:48.399 --> 02:04:51.680 I remember the all we did as the boys. You know, 2466 02:04:52.000 --> 02:04:55.319 we would go out with our baby guns and our 2467 02:04:55.560 --> 02:04:58.199 dad's army equipment and helmets and k pot and low 2468 02:04:58.279 --> 02:05:01.079 bearing equipment and play army. We day, shoot each other's 2469 02:05:01.119 --> 02:05:04.039 BB guns and shit, you know, and uh, hand to 2470 02:05:04.119 --> 02:05:07.199 hand combat. We played war. And that's what I was 2471 02:05:07.279 --> 02:05:09.640 brought up, and it was playing war. I was. I 2472 02:05:09.800 --> 02:05:11.800 was in the go gee already when I was a 2473 02:05:11.840 --> 02:05:14.239 little kid man, you know, and it just seemed like 2474 02:05:14.279 --> 02:05:18.039 a natural fit. Because when my dad retired, you know, 2475 02:05:18.239 --> 02:05:20.399 we re tired out of Fort Wachwok Arizona. We moved 2476 02:05:20.439 --> 02:05:23.039 to San Francisco. We moved to San Francisco. I mean, 2477 02:05:23.159 --> 02:05:26.239 how how cool is that? Right? So, and I go 2478 02:05:26.319 --> 02:05:28.199 to San Francisco and I'm like a fish out of 2479 02:05:28.239 --> 02:05:30.960 water and go, holy shit. You know, these kids are 2480 02:05:31.039 --> 02:05:32.840 not like the people I'm growing up around. You know, 2481 02:05:32.880 --> 02:05:35.680 It's a totally different culture. And I couldn't wait to 2482 02:05:35.720 --> 02:05:38.399 go back. I couldn't wait until I was of age 2483 02:05:39.399 --> 02:05:41.359 and I could, I was able to go to the recruiter, 2484 02:05:41.560 --> 02:05:43.600 and so as soon as I was old enough, I 2485 02:05:43.680 --> 02:05:46.000 went down and signed the papers and put me in coach. 2486 02:05:46.720 --> 02:05:50.079 I couldn't wait to go back because the military culture 2487 02:05:50.199 --> 02:05:52.399 is like no culture in the world. Unfortunately, we live 2488 02:05:52.439 --> 02:05:55.279 in a society now where they're trying to dilute it. 2489 02:05:55.319 --> 02:05:57.279 They're trying to water it down there. It's all this 2490 02:05:57.359 --> 02:06:01.159 political correct this crap is setting in. It's a different army. 2491 02:06:01.159 --> 02:06:04.439 I'm starting to see it, you know, and and uh, 2492 02:06:04.840 --> 02:06:07.439 it's not the one I grew up in. And we'll 2493 02:06:07.439 --> 02:06:09.279 see how that works. Out force in the future. But 2494 02:06:09.399 --> 02:06:12.399 something to it ain't gonna work out well. But that's 2495 02:06:12.439 --> 02:06:14.359 the mindset I was raised in. You know. I was 2496 02:06:14.399 --> 02:06:18.079 always a warrior. I was always a fighter. Even my parents. 2497 02:06:18.159 --> 02:06:20.479 You know, my parents were like turning the other cheek 2498 02:06:20.520 --> 02:06:22.239 and walk away, the like kick his ass. If you'll 2499 02:06:22.279 --> 02:06:23.920 kick his ass, don't come on, I'm gonna kick your ass. 2500 02:06:24.159 --> 02:06:26.039 You know. That was my parents, man. You know. They 2501 02:06:26.319 --> 02:06:29.199 they were warriors too. My mom and my dad pit 2502 02:06:29.319 --> 02:06:31.800 pools and expected me to fight and if you got hurt, 2503 02:06:31.880 --> 02:06:33.960 tough shit to come home or hurt you again. 2504 02:06:35.079 --> 02:06:35.239 You know. 2505 02:06:36.239 --> 02:06:38.479 So that's how I was raised. And guess what, I'm 2506 02:06:38.520 --> 02:06:40.880 not a bad guy. I have no criminal record, zero 2507 02:06:41.279 --> 02:06:43.399 you can check it out, said nothing. I've never done 2508 02:06:43.439 --> 02:06:46.520 nothing wrong. I don't even have speeding ticket. Okay, I'm 2509 02:06:46.560 --> 02:06:49.039 a good dude. But I do. What I do is 2510 02:06:49.079 --> 02:06:51.720 I do for for righteousness, at least what I think 2511 02:06:51.880 --> 02:06:54.760 is right. You know I stand for I stand to 2512 02:06:54.840 --> 02:06:57.560 fight for the week. I stand for fighting for people 2513 02:06:57.640 --> 02:06:59.800 that are the innercatey. You know, That's what I'm here for. 2514 02:07:00.159 --> 02:07:02.760 And the world needs guys like me, especially our country. 2515 02:07:02.760 --> 02:07:05.159 They need us, you know, they need us. You know 2516 02:07:05.520 --> 02:07:07.880 and whether they like it or not, they need us, 2517 02:07:07.920 --> 02:07:11.039 you know. And so I'm proud of that, and I 2518 02:07:11.159 --> 02:07:13.520 have no regrets. It's made me who I am. I've 2519 02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:15.439 learned a lot of lessons. I'm not perfect, made a 2520 02:07:15.479 --> 02:07:20.399 lot of mistakes, but I continue to grow, continue to evolve. 2521 02:07:20.520 --> 02:07:22.800 And even though I said earlier I'm fifty nine years old, 2522 02:07:23.039 --> 02:07:25.159 I don't feel like I'm fifty nine. I'll stump the 2523 02:07:25.199 --> 02:07:26.840 shit out of any twenty nine year old out there 2524 02:07:26.920 --> 02:07:29.199 man all day long. You know, I can still shoot, 2525 02:07:29.199 --> 02:07:31.000 I can still fight, I can still do everything I 2526 02:07:31.079 --> 02:07:35.159 did before because I choose to think that way, you know, 2527 02:07:35.479 --> 02:07:38.880 I choose to think that way, and I'll always be aware. 2528 02:07:40.279 --> 02:07:42.520 I kind of like paradise right now. But you know what, 2529 02:07:42.640 --> 02:07:44.319 like I said, my walk at that door, go hey, compas, 2530 02:07:44.359 --> 02:07:46.479 I got to deal with it. How much? And when 2531 02:07:46.520 --> 02:07:46.920 do we leave? 2532 02:07:47.840 --> 02:07:50.039 Let's let's roll into some viewer questions. 2533 02:07:50.880 --> 02:07:55.560 So Putty you one, thank you very much. Can you 2534 02:07:55.680 --> 02:08:00.560 talk about the funniest experience unlesson learn from Gary O'Neil. 2535 02:08:04.600 --> 02:08:06.840 Repeat that again, The funnest experience. 2536 02:08:06.760 --> 02:08:10.520 The funniest, Yeah, the funniest experience. 2537 02:08:11.880 --> 02:08:15.720 Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I met Gary O'Neil in nineteen 2538 02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:19.239 eighty two out of Camp McCall. Now, back then he 2539 02:08:19.319 --> 02:08:22.079 was a stud black hair. You know, guy was a 2540 02:08:22.159 --> 02:08:25.000 freaking machine man and he still is. Man. I love 2541 02:08:25.079 --> 02:08:28.600 Gary Man, He's a good dude. Didn't know anything about him. 2542 02:08:28.720 --> 02:08:30.359 My hope for too, my lurk for two. Went out 2543 02:08:30.359 --> 02:08:32.840 to Camp McCall to the steer course and it was cold. 2544 02:08:32.880 --> 02:08:35.520 I remember, it's like November, and we went in a 2545 02:08:35.560 --> 02:08:37.720 bear pit every morning. Do you hand to hand combat? Right? 2546 02:08:38.079 --> 02:08:39.760 So you remember, you know the sawdust pit, you know, 2547 02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:43.680 especially when it's cold and it's wet, it's like freaking concrete. Right. So, 2548 02:08:44.680 --> 02:08:46.560 but we're out there and we're standing in the circle 2549 02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:49.640 in our patrol caps stuff, you know, young guys. And 2550 02:08:49.720 --> 02:08:52.079 then Gary comes out and he's the instructor for the 2551 02:08:52.119 --> 02:08:55.520 combat exportion. We don't know anything about this guy. And 2552 02:08:55.600 --> 02:08:58.079 then we start hearing the stories. Right, guy walked with 2553 02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:01.680 seventy seven ambushes, you know, Vietnam r this that that 2554 02:09:01.840 --> 02:09:04.880 Dad solendid to take out. You know, he's the expert 2555 02:09:04.960 --> 02:09:06.960 with the knife and he's been taking dudes out all 2556 02:09:07.039 --> 02:09:08.920 his life. And I'm like, whoa, what the fuck? Right? 2557 02:09:09.239 --> 02:09:11.560 And then uh, and then he starts going into the 2558 02:09:11.640 --> 02:09:15.640 mind over matter stuff, right, and uh like okay, So 2559 02:09:16.119 --> 02:09:18.199 he has a bucket of water out there, a couple 2560 02:09:18.279 --> 02:09:20.239 bucks of water with a rope tied to it, and 2561 02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:23.520 he's got bicycle spokes, and he starts with taking one 2562 02:09:23.560 --> 02:09:25.520 of the bicycle spokes, and he pulls his skin out 2563 02:09:25.520 --> 02:09:27.399 of his neck and he jabs the bicycle spoke to 2564 02:09:27.520 --> 02:09:29.680 his neck, right, and then he picks up the rope 2565 02:09:29.720 --> 02:09:32.239 in the bucket with water, looks around the thing. He 2566 02:09:32.319 --> 02:09:34.720 lifts it up and his neck's all stretched out and 2567 02:09:34.800 --> 02:09:37.520 he's going around circles to spend the bucket and We're like, 2568 02:09:37.600 --> 02:09:40.239 holy shit, right, and then he stops. He puts spokes 2569 02:09:40.279 --> 02:09:42.640 through his arms, right, and he lifts up the buckets 2570 02:09:42.680 --> 02:09:46.840 again and he's swinging them around right, and I'm like, 2571 02:09:47.000 --> 02:09:49.680 We're like, this is some masochistic shit right here. Right. 2572 02:09:50.600 --> 02:09:52.920 Then he lays down and he has a dude drive 2573 02:09:53.000 --> 02:09:56.760 over with a quarter time jeep over his belly. He 2574 02:09:56.840 --> 02:09:59.880 gets up and goes say, I don't mind, it don't matter, right. 2575 02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:02.359 I was like Jesus Christ, right, because I'm gonna teach 2576 02:10:02.399 --> 02:10:04.119 you how to fight and how to win and how 2577 02:10:04.159 --> 02:10:07.199 to kill, you know, And I was in awe. Man. 2578 02:10:07.279 --> 02:10:10.359 I was like, Wow, Wow, this guy is like a 2579 02:10:10.439 --> 02:10:12.880 real life superhero man, you know, I just saw it. 2580 02:10:13.479 --> 02:10:17.680 And so right then and there, Gary O'Neill became my 2581 02:10:17.800 --> 02:10:20.199 military mentor. For the rest of my life. I have 2582 02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:24.479 modeled myself as a soldier after him. No shit, I 2583 02:10:24.640 --> 02:10:27.720 read the books, right, I'm like, this, dude, that's what 2584 02:10:27.840 --> 02:10:29.880 I want to be. Like, I want to be that guy, 2585 02:10:30.279 --> 02:10:33.640 you know. And so I followed Gary over the years, 2586 02:10:33.680 --> 02:10:35.920 you know, got out, he started bouncing. I've heard all 2587 02:10:35.960 --> 02:10:39.439 the stories. You know, he was hanging around Jim West smoking. 2588 02:10:39.800 --> 02:10:42.439 He's a good friend of mine, you know. And then 2589 02:10:42.439 --> 02:10:44.319 there was a Kachanas and all those guys. You know, 2590 02:10:44.439 --> 02:10:46.479 I heard all the stories and stuff. I thought, man, 2591 02:10:46.760 --> 02:10:49.119 that's why, that's why I want to be a soldier 2592 02:10:49.520 --> 02:10:51.800 to guys like that. That's the kind of I want 2593 02:10:51.840 --> 02:10:54.600 to be that guy. You know. It reminds me when 2594 02:10:54.600 --> 02:10:56.199 I went to Third Group one time to start a 2595 02:10:56.279 --> 02:10:59.039 major fan start Major calls me his office, just met him, 2596 02:10:59.640 --> 02:11:01.760 and he's he's like, Compstock, let me ask you a questions. 2597 02:11:02.039 --> 02:11:05.319 He goes, what's wrong with Rambo? So Rambo, you know, 2598 02:11:05.399 --> 02:11:09.039 helps from ramble. I thought about it. I go I 2599 02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:12.119 don't know nothing, because that's right, there's nothing wrong with Rambo. 2600 02:11:12.399 --> 02:11:14.840 He goes, why can't we feel more like Rambo? And 2601 02:11:14.880 --> 02:11:18.720 I'm like, yeah, yeah, hard, yeah, like what I'm talking about. 2602 02:11:18.760 --> 02:11:19.960 You know, why why are we going to be the 2603 02:11:20.079 --> 02:11:23.560 little gentleman warriors fust ride right and let's let's be 2604 02:11:23.760 --> 02:11:26.039 fucking Rambo. He goes, there's nothing wrong with Rambo. He goes, 2605 02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:29.039 I want you to train all my odias and combat 2606 02:11:29.119 --> 02:11:33.079 hand combat, and uh, I'm right on, so I can. 2607 02:11:33.159 --> 02:11:34.680 So I did you know I started running all the 2608 02:11:34.720 --> 02:11:36.920 hand to hand training for a third Special Force. I 2609 02:11:37.039 --> 02:11:40.199 was running uh eight teams through my training every two weeks, 2610 02:11:40.279 --> 02:11:42.560 another team every morning on my own time, zero five 2611 02:11:42.640 --> 02:11:45.159 hundred to seven hundred in the morning. I was going 2612 02:11:45.199 --> 02:11:48.640 in on my own time training odas and combatis you know, 2613 02:11:49.239 --> 02:11:52.840 wrote the manual all the ship. But so I look 2614 02:11:52.880 --> 02:11:55.279 at Gary O'Neal right, it's always been my mentor. You know, 2615 02:11:55.399 --> 02:11:57.399 we've we've crossed paths here and there, We've done some 2616 02:11:57.520 --> 02:12:00.960 interviews together. And what was interesting is when I wrote 2617 02:12:01.000 --> 02:12:05.159 my book American Badass, I did not know that he 2618 02:12:05.359 --> 02:12:09.479 was actually writing American Warrior at the same time, at 2619 02:12:09.520 --> 02:12:13.399 the same time, American Warrior, American badass. I go, man, 2620 02:12:13.520 --> 02:12:16.279 that is so cool. He's my mentor. He is the 2621 02:12:16.319 --> 02:12:19.840 American Warrior. You know, I'm just a dumb ass badass. 2622 02:12:20.560 --> 02:12:23.000 It'll follow him, you know. And so I'm American Bass, 2623 02:12:23.039 --> 02:12:25.199 the American Warrior. And I just thought that was really 2624 02:12:25.319 --> 02:12:28.840 kind of cool that, uh, you know, my mentor is 2625 02:12:28.920 --> 02:12:31.159 writing the book also, you know. And I'm able to 2626 02:12:31.279 --> 02:12:34.880 write a book because of his mentorship of what he 2627 02:12:35.000 --> 02:12:37.880 showed me in the life. You know, he molded me 2628 02:12:38.039 --> 02:12:40.319 as a warrior, as a soldier. Now, I've got a 2629 02:12:40.359 --> 02:12:44.800 lot of mentors. My father was my mentor, big time, 2630 02:12:45.000 --> 02:12:49.319 my number one mentor, my grandfather, you know, Jim Smoky 2631 02:12:49.399 --> 02:12:52.399 West was actually one of my mentors for martial arts. 2632 02:12:52.720 --> 02:12:54.800 I mean, this guy is this guy taught me how 2633 02:12:54.840 --> 02:12:56.800 to fuck it, how to really fight. Yeah, you know, 2634 02:12:56.920 --> 02:13:00.520 you guys know, you know we've had him on and yeah, 2635 02:13:01.640 --> 02:13:04.359 you know he's actually one of my mentors as well, right, 2636 02:13:04.439 --> 02:13:07.039 and then Gary O'Neil. So I've got different mentors for 2637 02:13:07.159 --> 02:13:10.159 different parts of my life. But I'm the amalgamation of 2638 02:13:10.199 --> 02:13:12.239 all of those guys, the good in the bad, and 2639 02:13:12.359 --> 02:13:15.640 that's who I am. And so you know hopefully now 2640 02:13:16.439 --> 02:13:19.920 you know, I am now a mentor for many out there. 2641 02:13:20.000 --> 02:13:21.800 I do have a lot of young men that follow me. 2642 02:13:22.119 --> 02:13:23.800 I have a lot of coaching clients that come to 2643 02:13:23.880 --> 02:13:25.600 me and go, hey, I want to learn, man, you know, 2644 02:13:25.720 --> 02:13:27.640 I want to run the mindset, you know. And so 2645 02:13:28.119 --> 02:13:29.960 I teach him how to think now, what to think, 2646 02:13:30.039 --> 02:13:32.880 how to think right? And that's what made all the 2647 02:13:32.920 --> 02:13:36.960 difference is, you know, this way of thinking that Gary has, 2648 02:13:37.199 --> 02:13:40.359 you know, and Jim has, and you know, my father has, 2649 02:13:40.439 --> 02:13:42.960 and my grandfather has. There's certain people in this world 2650 02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:45.119 that have shaped the way I think. And it's because 2651 02:13:45.119 --> 02:13:47.760 of that I am who I am today. 2652 02:13:49.520 --> 02:13:52.680 Uh, Chris Rowlson, thank you very much. 2653 02:13:52.960 --> 02:13:53.159 Dale. 2654 02:13:53.239 --> 02:13:57.159 Do you think you would have whipped ten, says Mancy 2655 02:13:57.760 --> 02:13:59.239 had that fight not been shut down? 2656 02:14:00.159 --> 02:14:04.640 Yeah? Hell yeah all day long. Man. It's funny you 2657 02:14:04.680 --> 02:14:06.359 said that. Bring that up because not too many people 2658 02:14:06.479 --> 02:14:11.239 know about that. So it was nineteen I'm gonna say, 2659 02:14:11.319 --> 02:14:14.319 like nineteen eighty eight, eighty nine, something like that. I 2660 02:14:14.359 --> 02:14:18.640 can't remember now. So I fought the first valley tudo 2661 02:14:18.760 --> 02:14:21.720 match in the United States in Richmond, Virginia. Valley tuto 2662 02:14:21.960 --> 02:14:25.239 is Portuguese. Fore anything goes UFC was just coming out. 2663 02:14:26.880 --> 02:14:28.520 I got you know, I had an opportunity to fight 2664 02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:31.960 this valetudo match, so I went to Richmond. It was 2665 02:14:32.000 --> 02:14:34.439 three five minute rounds. It a sanctioned street fight. There 2666 02:14:34.479 --> 02:14:37.279 were no rules. I broke both my hands, jacked up 2667 02:14:37.279 --> 02:14:39.399 the other guy put him in a sea collar, and 2668 02:14:39.479 --> 02:14:42.199 then I ended up in Richmond, Virginia, and I was 2669 02:14:42.279 --> 02:14:44.199 invited to go up there. I think it was Frank Cucci. 2670 02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:48.159 He had a school up there. He's he hosts this fight. 2671 02:14:48.680 --> 02:14:52.239 I was invited to come up and fight Schimansky, who 2672 02:14:52.399 --> 02:14:55.359 was at the time one of the Blue Team commanders, right, 2673 02:14:55.520 --> 02:14:58.800 and apparently he was the collegiate level wrestler, you know, 2674 02:14:59.000 --> 02:15:02.239 all American bubble law, and uh, they wanted me to 2675 02:15:02.319 --> 02:15:04.199 fight him, so they wanted they come. You know, they 2676 02:15:04.279 --> 02:15:08.159 freight couched it, as you know, Navy Seal versus Delta 2677 02:15:08.239 --> 02:15:11.800 Force Battle of the Elite, right, So so I go 2678 02:15:11.960 --> 02:15:14.600 up there. Actually the unit Sargeant major went up there 2679 02:15:14.640 --> 02:15:17.199 also to watch the fight because we already had some 2680 02:15:17.279 --> 02:15:21.359 beer bets going because up to this point, I don't 2681 02:15:21.359 --> 02:15:23.039 know if you've ever heard of the CT Olympics, but 2682 02:15:23.199 --> 02:15:25.640 it's an event that happens usually like in Austria, they 2683 02:15:25.680 --> 02:15:28.800 invite all the all the SWAT teams counter Terris teams 2684 02:15:28.880 --> 02:15:31.840 to come and compete, right, and uh it's usually seventy 2685 02:15:31.880 --> 02:15:34.439 five hundred teams. We would fill the team every year. 2686 02:15:35.239 --> 02:15:37.039 We actually had to try out for this team as 2687 02:15:37.119 --> 02:15:40.760 five guys and two spares. Uh you know, dev group 2688 02:15:40.880 --> 02:15:44.720 was send their team, and we would beat everybody's ass, 2689 02:15:44.880 --> 02:15:47.359 even the seals in the water. We outswam them, outshot them. 2690 02:15:47.600 --> 02:15:50.159 We always took number of the top five positions, always right. 2691 02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:53.279 And so their starry mayor would have to keep giving 2692 02:15:53.319 --> 02:15:55.560 my Sergeant major a keg of beer. There was always 2693 02:15:55.560 --> 02:15:57.800 a beer bet and some shit like that. So they're like, okay, 2694 02:15:57.880 --> 02:15:59.840 let these two guys fight Battle of the Elite, you know, 2695 02:16:00.159 --> 02:16:01.760 fight for another keg of beer. So I'm gonna go 2696 02:16:01.760 --> 02:16:04.199 win another cake of beer for my star major. And 2697 02:16:04.319 --> 02:16:06.119 so we show up in the morning and uh, you know, 2698 02:16:06.239 --> 02:16:09.359 get all the work up with the doctor the pre checks. 2699 02:16:10.039 --> 02:16:11.399 I think, if I'm good to go, we'll come back 2700 02:16:11.439 --> 02:16:13.800 that night. I'm gonna kick his ass to my agenda. 2701 02:16:14.720 --> 02:16:18.079 And so when I get I show up, they're like, uh, hey, 2702 02:16:18.359 --> 02:16:21.159 the shield got d q's And I'm like, why he 2703 02:16:21.279 --> 02:16:23.640 got herpes. I know what that man he goes well, 2704 02:16:23.720 --> 02:16:25.319 you know if he sports some purpes juice, you know, 2705 02:16:25.319 --> 02:16:28.520 I have all you go blind and sue everybody like 2706 02:16:28.640 --> 02:16:32.040 really what? Okay? So okay? And so they had me 2707 02:16:32.159 --> 02:16:35.440 fight the West Virginia Tough Man champion, and uh I 2708 02:16:35.520 --> 02:16:37.479 made short work of that guy. We can took him 2709 02:16:37.520 --> 02:16:39.159 out pretty fast. But so I never got a chance 2710 02:16:39.239 --> 02:16:41.120 to fight him. But could I have beat him? Hell yeah, 2711 02:16:41.399 --> 02:16:44.040 I'm a fighter, man, I'm pretty damn good. One thing 2712 02:16:44.120 --> 02:16:47.440 I got that most guys don't have is I got heart, man, 2713 02:16:47.479 --> 02:16:49.920 I got big loans, and I got a lot of endurans. Man, 2714 02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:51.959 you beat the shit out of me for hours. Eventually 2715 02:16:52.000 --> 02:16:54.040 you're gonna wear yourself out and that's gonna beat you up. 2716 02:16:54.280 --> 02:16:57.639 You know. But I think I could have beat him, 2717 02:16:57.680 --> 02:16:59.079 No doubt I could have beat him. I know I 2718 02:16:59.079 --> 02:17:00.840 could have beat him. You know, say to you guys, 2719 02:17:00.879 --> 02:17:02.680 he kicked my ass. Man. Only guy kicked my ass 2720 02:17:02.719 --> 02:17:05.159 is Jim West. Yeah. Oh that guy scares me. 2721 02:17:05.280 --> 02:17:08.040 Man, I've been thrown across the room by him a 2722 02:17:08.079 --> 02:17:09.879 few times. I'm kind of test Yeah. 2723 02:17:10.280 --> 02:17:12.399 I mean I don't think you know, like I don't 2724 02:17:12.399 --> 02:17:15.600 think that people who you know, who don't know Smokey 2725 02:17:15.799 --> 02:17:21.920 understand just what and not even just like how tough 2726 02:17:22.000 --> 02:17:24.719 he is, but what a skilled fighter he is, Like 2727 02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:27.120 they don't understand what that actually means. 2728 02:17:27.280 --> 02:17:29.639 He's a skilled fighter. I'd go further than that. I've 2729 02:17:29.639 --> 02:17:33.120 told him this before. He is a skilled instructor. He's 2730 02:17:33.159 --> 02:17:36.000 one of the best instructors I've ever met in my life. 2731 02:17:36.159 --> 02:17:38.200 And and that's where he's real. Like, yes, he can 2732 02:17:38.319 --> 02:17:41.159 kick your ass, we all know that, but his real strength, 2733 02:17:41.200 --> 02:17:44.079 I think is an instruction. I mean he's phenomenally good. 2734 02:17:45.000 --> 02:17:48.920 Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Man. The first time I went to him, 2735 02:17:50.200 --> 02:17:53.399 so my son, God man, he's thirty four now, but 2736 02:17:53.479 --> 02:17:56.399 when he was four, he was all in the ninja turtles, right, 2737 02:17:56.559 --> 02:17:58.239 he was out doing karate chops in the front yard 2738 02:17:58.280 --> 02:17:59.879 and I said, Jamie said, you want to learn karate 2739 02:18:00.200 --> 02:18:02.559 ninja turtles? Y yea yeah yeah? And so I end 2740 02:18:02.680 --> 02:18:05.120 up taking up to YMCA. Okay, that was a joke, 2741 02:18:05.479 --> 02:18:08.040 rise a daycare and we're not getting nothing out of this. 2742 02:18:08.200 --> 02:18:09.760 I get on the phone with a friend of mine, 2743 02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:13.639 Bart Bart Wiggins, he's friends with Smoky. Oh yeah, I go, dude, 2744 02:18:13.799 --> 02:18:15.959 I said, dude, you got any recommendation because yes, man, 2745 02:18:15.959 --> 02:18:18.360 he goes, you need to go see this guy smoky Dad. 2746 02:18:18.520 --> 02:18:20.600 Just go there right now, right, he said, you won't 2747 02:18:20.600 --> 02:18:22.000 regret it. I said, okay. So I go over there 2748 02:18:22.079 --> 02:18:25.079 with my kid. I walk in and there's all these 2749 02:18:25.120 --> 02:18:29.000 boys out, my son's agent. They got these padded baseball bats, 2750 02:18:29.040 --> 02:18:30.399 and I have to beat the shit out of you. 2751 02:18:30.520 --> 02:18:33.200 Dare going for it, you know, you know, like a 2752 02:18:33.280 --> 02:18:37.000 fucking ball. And so Jim's like, hey, weal come in. 2753 02:18:37.079 --> 02:18:38.639 He goes, hey, go out there and fight, you know, 2754 02:18:38.680 --> 02:18:40.920 And my son goes out there, grabs one. He's getting 2755 02:18:40.920 --> 02:18:43.000 it on, you know, and he's smiling, he's happy. You know. 2756 02:18:43.120 --> 02:18:45.280 My kid comes out and said you like that. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 2757 02:18:45.280 --> 02:18:47.239 I want to do it. Yeah yeah yeah. So that's 2758 02:18:47.280 --> 02:18:49.520 how we actually got started. And I told my son, 2759 02:18:49.559 --> 02:18:52.600 I said, listen, man, I said, here's the deal. I said, 2760 02:18:53.000 --> 02:18:55.959 if you start, you have to finish. What is finishing 2761 02:18:56.040 --> 02:18:58.280 me means you gotta have a black belt. You gotta 2762 02:18:58.280 --> 02:19:01.040 win a black belt, you can't quit. You're great, yes, 2763 02:19:01.280 --> 02:19:02.799 And I thought, well, why don't I just do it 2764 02:19:02.840 --> 02:19:05.360 with him right somebody here. So that's when I got involved. Right. 2765 02:19:05.399 --> 02:19:07.959 So now it's me and Jane, my son fighting with 2766 02:19:08.079 --> 02:19:10.479 Smokey right, training with him. And there was under a 2767 02:19:10.520 --> 02:19:14.559 girl named Susan may Ran and Julie, I mean Julia Mayran. 2768 02:19:14.799 --> 02:19:17.440 She was pretty bad ass, man, she's she stayed in there. 2769 02:19:17.799 --> 02:19:19.440 She was one of his other black belts and she 2770 02:19:19.520 --> 02:19:21.920 would take a beating and just kept coming back for more. Man, 2771 02:19:22.000 --> 02:19:25.360 she was amazing. But you know, I so we trained 2772 02:19:25.360 --> 02:19:27.319 with Jim and by the time my kid was seven, 2773 02:19:27.360 --> 02:19:30.360 he got his first three black belt to Jim and Jim, Look, 2774 02:19:30.600 --> 02:19:34.280 you don't do karates and kadas and uh forms for 2775 02:19:34.440 --> 02:19:37.399 your black belt, you know. Yeah, yeah, good boy, here's 2776 02:19:37.399 --> 02:19:40.079 your belt. No, what we were doing is we were 2777 02:19:40.159 --> 02:19:45.360 literally going to karate clubs like in Virginia, closing the doors, 2778 02:19:45.959 --> 02:19:48.600 went there with their master and his students that he 2779 02:19:48.680 --> 02:19:51.200 wanted to promote, and we go in the back room. 2780 02:19:51.280 --> 02:19:54.239 It was a sanctioned street fight, me, my son and 2781 02:19:54.319 --> 02:19:57.959 my daughter back there kicking ass, a real street fight. No, barn, 2782 02:19:58.120 --> 02:20:01.399 this is a fight, you know, and whoever wins gets 2783 02:20:01.440 --> 02:20:04.319 their belt, you know. And we did that all day long, 2784 02:20:04.440 --> 02:20:08.079 which was like cool, watching my son who's seven, watching 2785 02:20:08.120 --> 02:20:10.959 my daughter who is nine and a half, they're out 2786 02:20:11.000 --> 02:20:13.719 there freaking throwing stubs, man beating the ship out of 2787 02:20:13.760 --> 02:20:17.319 each other, man freaking bare enough of going around, you know, 2788 02:20:17.360 --> 02:20:19.360 and they're earning their belt. I go, That's what I 2789 02:20:19.440 --> 02:20:23.200 signed up for. And nobody that I know of did 2790 02:20:23.280 --> 02:20:25.799 that except for Jim West. Yeah, you know, And so 2791 02:20:26.079 --> 02:20:29.520 so I learned from him. You know, the guy has 2792 02:20:29.559 --> 02:20:33.159 taught me a lot. Can't take nothing from him. I've 2793 02:20:33.239 --> 02:20:36.239 got a lot of experience, you know, because of him 2794 02:20:37.000 --> 02:20:39.920 in my own experiences now. But yeah, if you want 2795 02:20:39.920 --> 02:20:42.159 to learn how to fight, Jim West is the guy 2796 02:20:42.239 --> 02:20:42.559 to go to. 2797 02:20:42.719 --> 02:20:47.000 Man, let's keep going through these questions here, Alex Ben, 2798 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:47.440 thank you. 2799 02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:49.000 Dale. 2800 02:20:49.079 --> 02:20:52.200 You started up quite a few successful security companies. What 2801 02:20:52.319 --> 02:20:56.319 are the processes starting a successful security company and keeping 2802 02:20:56.319 --> 02:20:59.399 it good without a race to the bottom outfit. 2803 02:21:01.680 --> 02:21:07.040 Yeah. So, so my first company I started was in 2804 02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:09.440 right after nine to eleven, actually prior to nine eleven, 2805 02:21:09.559 --> 02:21:11.639 seven months fior nine to eleven. I started coming from 2806 02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:14.559 global security consultants. I started getting the nuclear security to 2807 02:21:14.639 --> 02:21:16.639 know anying about nuclear security. Had no idea what I 2808 02:21:16.719 --> 02:21:19.639 was doing, but I went to a security conference for 2809 02:21:19.719 --> 02:21:22.760 the NRC. I said, hey, you guys, it's me I'm 2810 02:21:22.799 --> 02:21:25.000 here for nuclear security. If you ever need some help, 2811 02:21:25.079 --> 02:21:27.000 call me, right. They all were scared of me and 2812 02:21:27.040 --> 02:21:29.799 my partner. We looked scary. We had to ru him 2813 02:21:29.799 --> 02:21:31.600 over to our table with a little shiny things, go hey, 2814 02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:33.159 I give it a little night. Come over here and 2815 02:21:33.239 --> 02:21:34.920 let me talk to you, you know, and do your business. 2816 02:21:35.079 --> 02:21:37.959 Car well. Then nine to eleven happened, and that's when 2817 02:21:37.959 --> 02:21:39.479 this call started. Hey, we need to talk to you, 2818 02:21:39.520 --> 02:21:42.159 blah blah blah. And that's how I got into the business. 2819 02:21:42.239 --> 02:21:45.280 It was very successful. Two thousand and four, we sold 2820 02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:49.719 our company at G four s wacken Hunt. Now what 2821 02:21:49.799 --> 02:21:52.239 does the take So I made a mistake. We've made 2822 02:21:52.280 --> 02:21:54.120 the mistake of selling the company two thousand and four. 2823 02:21:54.280 --> 02:21:57.319 Why because we thought it's going to die off security 2824 02:21:57.600 --> 02:22:00.200 and you know it's always overhead and move man have 2825 02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.959 been more wrong. Ever. Triple Canopy was started after my company. 2826 02:22:04.159 --> 02:22:07.200 There's a long story behind that, but basically, when of 2827 02:22:07.200 --> 02:22:09.920 the guys played the owner played rise my website. I 2828 02:22:10.040 --> 02:22:12.040 met the guy I know the guy personally in beast 2829 02:22:12.079 --> 02:22:15.000 Water and all of a sudden, boom, you know, I 2830 02:22:15.079 --> 02:22:16.799 got a competitor. But they still couldn't get in the 2831 02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:20.079 Nwukele industry. Blackwater was competing with my company. They were 2832 02:22:20.159 --> 02:22:22.879 just getting started again. I was keeping them outside of 2833 02:22:22.920 --> 02:22:26.799 the new co security industry. I owned all that and 2834 02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:28.280 then I sold the company to think I got to 2835 02:22:28.280 --> 02:22:30.399 get rid of it, you know, make money, and then 2836 02:22:30.680 --> 02:22:33.479 it never went away. So I ended up reincorporating again 2837 02:22:33.600 --> 02:22:36.440 something called Risk Control Institute. I sold at twenty eleven, 2838 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:39.280 and then I've been doing that ever since. I you know, 2839 02:22:39.319 --> 02:22:41.840 I've got my company here teaching how comes Indonesia. I 2840 02:22:41.879 --> 02:22:44.920 have a company called Teaching out from Florida. I have 2841 02:22:45.040 --> 02:22:49.760 cheer One Performance Coaching. So these are small enterprises. You know, 2842 02:22:49.920 --> 02:22:53.680 some of them are dealing with security. What's important is 2843 02:22:55.520 --> 02:22:59.799 and this is where everybody makes a mistake, they become discouraged. 2844 02:23:00.399 --> 02:23:02.520 You've got to have a dream. You got to you 2845 02:23:02.600 --> 02:23:05.440 gotta have You have to imagine what you want, what 2846 02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:09.600 it looks like, every every nuance about a company, you 2847 02:23:09.760 --> 02:23:11.159 have to sense it in here and out. And that 2848 02:23:11.200 --> 02:23:13.639 sounds kind of crazy, but it actually ties into what 2849 02:23:13.760 --> 02:23:16.520 I teach, which is autogenic conditioning and future pacing. So 2850 02:23:16.879 --> 02:23:19.360 this company I have here in Volley, I imagined it 2851 02:23:19.520 --> 02:23:22.559 a long time ago and I saw okay, I knew 2852 02:23:22.920 --> 02:23:25.239 I'm the only guy to know anything about training canine, 2853 02:23:25.399 --> 02:23:29.040 the only guy. So suddenly my wife, who doesn't know 2854 02:23:29.079 --> 02:23:30.799 how to turn our computer, didn't know how to turn 2855 02:23:30.840 --> 02:23:33.120 our computer five years ago, now run the MacBook grow 2856 02:23:33.440 --> 02:23:35.040 because I trained her. I taught her how to use 2857 02:23:35.079 --> 02:23:38.840 excels Fleech, she's I taught her about HR. I taught her, Okay, 2858 02:23:38.959 --> 02:23:40.799 we need licensing. Okay, what do we gotta do is 2859 02:23:40.879 --> 02:23:43.440 let her manage that. Oh we need people, Okay, we 2860 02:23:43.520 --> 02:23:45.719 need to train people. We need to find dogs. We 2861 02:23:45.799 --> 02:23:47.639 got to train dogs. So what I did is a 2862 02:23:47.719 --> 02:23:50.920 train the trainer program. I started with my wife. Then 2863 02:23:50.959 --> 02:23:53.959 I hired a field supervisor, and then I hired trainers, 2864 02:23:54.200 --> 02:23:56.079 and I trained the trainers to train the trainers to 2865 02:23:56.159 --> 02:23:58.920 train the handles, train the dogs. And then they started 2866 02:23:58.959 --> 02:24:01.360 to grow in virgin blossom to the point where I 2867 02:24:01.399 --> 02:24:04.319 don't do anything. My wife runs an entire company, every 2868 02:24:04.360 --> 02:24:08.680 aspect of it, licensing, payroll, HR, training, She trains the dog, 2869 02:24:08.840 --> 02:24:11.920 she trains the handlers, She does, you know, a lot 2870 02:24:11.959 --> 02:24:16.520 of the business interactions and networking things like that. So 2871 02:24:17.280 --> 02:24:20.200 it has. But it started with a dream. The dream 2872 02:24:20.360 --> 02:24:23.920 was I would love to live in Bali paradise right 2873 02:24:24.120 --> 02:24:26.639 where I have my own business and I get to 2874 02:24:26.719 --> 02:24:29.520 take my dogs. That if I love my pets and 2875 02:24:29.639 --> 02:24:32.280 make money off of them and to train them, how 2876 02:24:32.360 --> 02:24:35.280 cool is that? It's not really a job. And so 2877 02:24:35.440 --> 02:24:38.840 I imagined everything I have and it became a reality 2878 02:24:39.040 --> 02:24:44.760 because because Albert Einstein said, not just Albert Einstein, but 2879 02:24:45.120 --> 02:24:49.120 Nicola Tesla and many other physicses, success is based on frequency. 2880 02:24:49.319 --> 02:24:53.479 It's not philosophy, it's physics. It's physics. And this is 2881 02:24:53.600 --> 02:24:57.280 the key. It's not about willpower. It has shit to 2882 02:24:57.319 --> 02:25:00.120 do with willpower, has shipped to do with philosophy. It's 2883 02:25:00.120 --> 02:25:01.959 only going to get you so far. Will gets you over. 2884 02:25:02.000 --> 02:25:04.440 The finish line is imagining where you want to be 2885 02:25:04.959 --> 02:25:07.040 and the life that you want to live. I'm actually 2886 02:25:07.159 --> 02:25:09.879 living that life. No, I'm not rich. I don't want 2887 02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:12.920 to be rich. That's not my objective. My objective is 2888 02:25:13.000 --> 02:25:15.319 be happy to experience all the things I want to experience. 2889 02:25:15.840 --> 02:25:18.239 And I live in Bali, and I live in the Philippines, 2890 02:25:18.280 --> 02:25:21.200 and I live in Florida. How cool is that? And 2891 02:25:21.959 --> 02:25:23.879 I make my own hours, and you know I'm coming 2892 02:25:23.920 --> 02:25:26.239 to seven'clock this morning. Do a call with you guys? 2893 02:25:26.319 --> 02:25:30.000 You know, it's the dream, it's the imagination, and you 2894 02:25:30.319 --> 02:25:35.600 it's physics. It's literally physics. It's always physics. That's another area, 2895 02:25:35.959 --> 02:25:38.399 you know. I can't go into that now, but it 2896 02:25:38.520 --> 02:25:40.399 has to do with frequency, it has to do with 2897 02:25:40.479 --> 02:25:44.559 your nervous system, it has to do with metaphysics. There's 2898 02:25:44.559 --> 02:25:47.200 a lot more to go into this, but all my successes, 2899 02:25:47.239 --> 02:25:49.719 everything I've ever done in my life had nothing to 2900 02:25:49.760 --> 02:25:54.399 do with willpower and had everything to do with imagination. Right, So, 2901 02:25:54.719 --> 02:25:58.239 if you want to start a security company, start with 2902 02:25:58.399 --> 02:26:00.520 the dream. What's it going to look like? What do 2903 02:26:00.559 --> 02:26:01.799 you want to look like? What do you want it 2904 02:26:01.799 --> 02:26:03.520 to feel like? How do you want to live it? 2905 02:26:04.000 --> 02:26:05.959 You start with that, then you invoke the next thing 2906 02:26:06.120 --> 02:26:08.719 is called the law of action. You have to do something. 2907 02:26:09.200 --> 02:26:12.360 Start doing the research as I did, Start training the trainers, 2908 02:26:12.760 --> 02:26:15.879 my wife started building it. All of a sudden, I'm 2909 02:26:16.000 --> 02:26:18.639 one man. I'm a one man army, and I got 2910 02:26:18.799 --> 02:26:21.840 sixty five employees, I got forty five trained canines, I 2911 02:26:21.920 --> 02:26:25.000 got a corporation here with a lot of assets and 2912 02:26:25.959 --> 02:26:28.399 kick an ass. Right, it started with it. It started 2913 02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:29.840 with a dream, right, start. 2914 02:26:32.000 --> 02:26:36.000 Alejandra, thank you very much. The same question I asked Paul, 2915 02:26:36.120 --> 02:26:39.559 how what do you think is the best and most 2916 02:26:39.600 --> 02:26:43.399 effective piece of protective equipment and kit a team guy 2917 02:26:43.520 --> 02:26:47.479 can wear? And why is it the mustache? Thanks for 2918 02:26:47.639 --> 02:26:48.200 coming on me. 2919 02:26:50.879 --> 02:26:53.079 This has got thirty three kills. My friend. 2920 02:26:57.079 --> 02:27:00.399 R two D think, uh, did you want to find that? 2921 02:27:01.040 --> 02:27:03.040 Yeah? Actually, actually I do have an answer to that. 2922 02:27:03.399 --> 02:27:05.280 Body armour. All right. So when I was in the unit, 2923 02:27:05.879 --> 02:27:08.719 all we wore was all we wore was body armor, 2924 02:27:08.799 --> 02:27:13.200 was no plates, level three eight, right, and and everybody 2925 02:27:13.319 --> 02:27:15.120 just were the best except for me. I actually wore 2926 02:27:15.159 --> 02:27:18.600 the collar, I wore the plates, and I were the 2927 02:27:18.680 --> 02:27:22.040 growing protect all the time, and people thought I was 2928 02:27:22.120 --> 02:27:24.559 being a pussy go no. And I had a conversation 2929 02:27:24.719 --> 02:27:26.799 with Pete Labor, who was my TRUP commander at the 2930 02:27:26.840 --> 02:27:28.920 time he wrote the book Mission Men, and me, Yeah, 2931 02:27:29.920 --> 02:27:33.559 we're having this conversation about body armor, and his attitude was, look, 2932 02:27:33.559 --> 02:27:35.120 I want to be light, you know, and be able 2933 02:27:35.120 --> 02:27:37.079 to move fast. And I'm like, yeah, I want to 2934 02:27:37.120 --> 02:27:38.639 be able to take a lot of hits and just 2935 02:27:38.760 --> 02:27:41.040 keep on moving nice and slow, methodically and take them 2936 02:27:41.079 --> 02:27:43.520 out right. So it was it was a you know, 2937 02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:47.360 we're opposing you know, uh, you know, posing positions on 2938 02:27:47.559 --> 02:27:49.559 body armor. Most guys didn't want to even have to 2939 02:27:49.639 --> 02:27:51.319 wear it, but they had to wear it, so they 2940 02:27:51.399 --> 02:27:55.600 wore as little as they needed. So then then Mogadishu happens, right, 2941 02:27:56.079 --> 02:27:59.680 and freaking dudes were getting killed. Like the protect helmet, Okay, 2942 02:27:59.719 --> 02:28:02.760 I always wore the kevlar helmet. I got pictures of 2943 02:28:02.840 --> 02:28:05.040 me in the whole unit. Everybody wear a protect except me. 2944 02:28:05.200 --> 02:28:07.719 I'm wearing kevlar, right. Everybody thought I was just a 2945 02:28:07.799 --> 02:28:10.879 pussy til Mogadishu happened. Then they couldn't find enough keV 2946 02:28:10.879 --> 02:28:13.559 of our helmets. They couldn't scrap on enough armor, They 2947 02:28:13.600 --> 02:28:16.520 couldn't reinforce their body armor, they couldn't didn't have it. 2948 02:28:16.879 --> 02:28:20.239 I'm good for me, and I'll fight the war by myself, right, 2949 02:28:21.399 --> 02:28:24.440 And so to me, that's always and I not watched 2950 02:28:24.479 --> 02:28:27.280 it go down in Afghanistan. Right, So guys are going 2951 02:28:27.319 --> 02:28:29.280 out humping the mountains and stuff, and all the carrier 2952 02:28:29.559 --> 02:28:31.920 is a plate carrier, right, They're going right, just the 2953 02:28:32.399 --> 02:28:35.200 plate carrier, and like, why wow, here's the weight, you know. 2954 02:28:35.559 --> 02:28:39.159 And I'm like, dude, everybody, every fob's got a gym. 2955 02:28:39.239 --> 02:28:42.120 Now get your ass in there and go to work people, 2956 02:28:42.159 --> 02:28:44.239 working out until you can carry it all that weight 2957 02:28:44.319 --> 02:28:47.360 and it doesn't affect you. I always wore full armor, 2958 02:28:47.680 --> 02:28:52.239 full plate, full protection, always, always, I don't care how 2959 02:28:52.319 --> 02:28:54.159 high up the mountain I'm going to go. I always 2960 02:28:54.159 --> 02:28:57.239 wore and if and if I was a weakling, I 2961 02:28:57.319 --> 02:28:59.079 make sure I got into that gym and kept walking 2962 02:28:59.079 --> 02:29:01.799 out until I can maintain it. And I always carried armor. 2963 02:29:02.120 --> 02:29:04.280 To me, it's the most important thing you can carry 2964 02:29:04.360 --> 02:29:07.200 beside your weapon, is your armor. I know a lot 2965 02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:09.879 of guys are alive today because they were wearing armor. 2966 02:29:10.479 --> 02:29:12.559 They were taking hits. They were taking hits right into 2967 02:29:12.600 --> 02:29:14.000 the plate, do their best, you know, and they were 2968 02:29:14.040 --> 02:29:18.559 surviving it. So to me, that's the most important equipment 2969 02:29:18.600 --> 02:29:21.680 you could carry. His body armor. Give yourself a chance, 2970 02:29:22.000 --> 02:29:23.959 you know, if it's too heavy, if you're asking the 2971 02:29:24.040 --> 02:29:27.200 gym all right, work out all right, build up to it. 2972 02:29:27.479 --> 02:29:30.079 That body armor eventually will become a part of your body. 2973 02:29:30.120 --> 02:29:32.559 You won't even know you're wearing it. You want, you know, 2974 02:29:32.799 --> 02:29:35.280 it's like my backpack. I carry a backpack around thirty 2975 02:29:35.319 --> 02:29:37.840 five pounds every day. It's my man person to be 2976 02:29:37.920 --> 02:29:39.799 carring it forever, and I get used to it. It 2977 02:29:39.879 --> 02:29:41.840 doesn't even bother me the way it carried all day long. 2978 02:29:42.079 --> 02:29:44.040 You know everybody else would be sniveling about it. But 2979 02:29:44.200 --> 02:29:46.520 you know, if you do something long enough, your body 2980 02:29:46.559 --> 02:29:50.319 will adapt to it. And so my answer is armor, 2981 02:29:50.520 --> 02:29:53.079 where your armor, wear all your armor. Okay, so don't 2982 02:29:53.120 --> 02:29:55.479 take no shortcuts, just like you take a short cut 2983 02:29:55.479 --> 02:30:00.680 with your weapons. Right yeah, yeah, absolutely, dude, plate stop 2984 02:30:01.239 --> 02:30:05.079 stop many otherwise they're not doing any good. 2985 02:30:06.879 --> 02:30:11.159 Uh R two d Thank you very much, Thank you, 2986 02:30:11.280 --> 02:30:14.280 team House, love your work. Another phenomenal interview. Well that's 2987 02:30:14.360 --> 02:30:19.639 because we have a phenomenal guest. Thanks Alejandra. Thanks again. 2988 02:30:20.120 --> 02:30:22.159 With all these things you've done in the private sector, 2989 02:30:22.239 --> 02:30:25.000 how much do you think a giraffe would sell for 2990 02:30:25.319 --> 02:30:28.200 on the open market? When he says over market, I 2991 02:30:28.239 --> 02:30:29.440 think it means black market. 2992 02:30:30.040 --> 02:30:30.159 Uh. 2993 02:30:30.799 --> 02:30:33.079 And he says, hope you can come back, and definitely 2994 02:30:33.159 --> 02:30:35.760 when you're next, when your next book Popstale, we want you. 2995 02:30:36.760 --> 02:30:38.920 The giraffe is a bit of an inside joke. But 2996 02:30:39.000 --> 02:30:41.040 if you had the wage or what a giraffe goes 2997 02:30:41.079 --> 02:30:42.760 for on the black market, what do you think they. 2998 02:30:46.520 --> 02:30:50.280 A giraffe? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got me on that way. 2999 02:30:50.280 --> 02:30:51.079 I have no If you have. 3000 02:30:55.440 --> 02:30:59.639 What well Dale, Like, what what if you showed up 3001 02:30:59.639 --> 02:31:01.680 to one of her clients and they said, Hey, you know, 3002 02:31:01.719 --> 02:31:03.760 I'm trying to get rid of this illegal zoo. The 3003 02:31:03.879 --> 02:31:06.719 last thing I had. This is just a giraffe full 3004 02:31:06.799 --> 02:31:10.200 got you live in Bali? Would you buy it? How 3005 02:31:10.319 --> 02:31:11.879 much would you pay for a giraffe? 3006 02:31:14.920 --> 02:31:19.239 What am I gonna do with it? I don't. Hey, 3007 02:31:19.319 --> 02:31:21.159 they do have zoos here and they actually do have 3008 02:31:21.479 --> 02:31:23.840 uh right, you and Bali have the Baldi Zoo and 3009 02:31:23.879 --> 02:31:26.600 they have all kinds of elephants and tigers and ship 3010 02:31:26.719 --> 02:31:28.280 like that stuff you would find Indonesia. I don't know, 3011 02:31:28.319 --> 02:31:31.040 like to find a giraffe here, but you know we 3012 02:31:31.319 --> 02:31:33.120 probably add a giraffe a couple of bucks. 3013 02:31:33.360 --> 02:31:37.000 I think I think Uh it was J. T. Patton 3014 02:31:37.760 --> 02:31:41.120 who had that. It was yeah, and I think I 3015 02:31:41.159 --> 02:31:42.719 think he said it was like it was like thirty 3016 02:31:42.760 --> 02:31:43.639 six thousand dollars. 3017 02:31:44.079 --> 02:31:50.559 I can't remember, but yeah, Uhman group of LLC. That's Clint, 3018 02:31:50.840 --> 02:31:53.600 Clint Sportman, thank you very much for the Dominate donation. 3019 02:31:53.680 --> 02:31:54.399 I think that's Clint. 3020 02:31:54.760 --> 02:31:54.879 Uh. 3021 02:31:55.440 --> 02:31:57.159 Did you ever get a chance to meet or train 3022 02:31:57.239 --> 02:32:00.520 with Carlos the story before before where he passed? 3023 02:32:00.559 --> 02:32:01.799 I don't think. Yeah, he was. 3024 02:32:02.319 --> 02:32:04.760 That's where we all met Clint. He was a big 3025 02:32:05.879 --> 02:32:08.319 World War two oss fairbar Psyche. 3026 02:32:08.440 --> 02:32:10.600 Yeah. Yeah, we'll have to introduce Dale to Clint the 3027 02:32:10.639 --> 02:32:12.559 next time. Yeah, for sure in the end of the 3028 02:32:12.600 --> 02:32:14.239 City Jungle. 3029 02:32:14.360 --> 02:32:16.639 Jim Scott, thank you very much for your donation. We 3030 02:32:16.719 --> 02:32:17.559 deeply appreciate it. 3031 02:32:18.520 --> 02:32:22.000 And that's that's that's this man, Dale, thank you so 3032 02:32:22.159 --> 02:32:25.040 much for doing this interview, waking up early out. 3033 02:32:24.920 --> 02:32:28.399 There in Indonesia to do this. This has been phenomenal. 3034 02:32:28.440 --> 02:32:28.559 Man. 3035 02:32:28.639 --> 02:32:30.520 It's really fun to catch up with you again, talk 3036 02:32:30.600 --> 02:32:32.680 some more about some of these wild adventures that you 3037 02:32:32.760 --> 02:32:33.239 get into. 3038 02:32:33.879 --> 02:32:35.959 And I'm looking forward to the books. 3039 02:32:36.399 --> 02:32:39.000 You said that the tentative title for the next book 3040 02:32:39.040 --> 02:32:43.920 about your adventures and misadventage adventures is Running the razors Edge. 3041 02:32:45.319 --> 02:32:47.479 You're still working on it though, working on a few 3042 02:32:47.520 --> 02:32:48.680 other projects as well. 3043 02:32:49.680 --> 02:32:49.879 Yeah. 3044 02:32:49.920 --> 02:32:52.200 When when you when you get some of these to publication, 3045 02:32:52.360 --> 02:32:54.120 let us know, we'd love to talk some more. 3046 02:32:54.879 --> 02:32:57.440 Yeah. What I'm gonna do is I've thought about what 3047 02:32:57.559 --> 02:33:00.639 I'm gonna do is make them all ebooks easier to 3048 02:33:01.440 --> 02:33:04.680 copyright it and send it out right, and then if 3049 02:33:04.680 --> 02:33:07.000 for somebody that wants a hard copy then I have 3050 02:33:07.120 --> 02:33:08.920 a source I can go to that can actually print 3051 02:33:09.159 --> 02:33:12.840 right for someone that wants a hard copy. But I'm 3052 02:33:12.879 --> 02:33:14.760 gonna kind of because I actually sell most of the 3053 02:33:14.840 --> 02:33:17.280 e books on Amazon, even my book, most people just 3054 02:33:17.479 --> 02:33:21.120 were you know, pdf copies of itself, kind of the 3055 02:33:21.159 --> 02:33:24.040 way everybody's going now and day. So but for those 3056 02:33:24.120 --> 02:33:27.879 that wanted for nostalgia purposes or in an autograph, I'll 3057 02:33:27.879 --> 02:33:31.319 make hard copies as well. But it's been on my agenda. 3058 02:33:31.440 --> 02:33:33.239 It just seems like every day I get ready to 3059 02:33:33.680 --> 02:33:36.760 now start writing again, something pops up, you know, another 3060 02:33:36.879 --> 02:33:39.280 to do things. It's all good though, It's all in 3061 02:33:39.360 --> 02:33:42.639 the right direction. But I'll have it soon. I'm excited 3062 02:33:42.639 --> 02:33:44.719 about getting it out. I'm excited about getting all the 3063 02:33:44.760 --> 02:33:49.239 books out. I think that once I'm finished with the details, 3064 02:33:49.920 --> 02:33:52.319 and uh, I think I think some of them have 3065 02:33:52.399 --> 02:33:54.959 potential to maybe be a movie, you know, or could 3066 02:33:55.120 --> 02:33:57.079 could go down that roadie you know, because. 3067 02:33:57.799 --> 02:34:01.559 Yeah, Dale, I recently someone was talking about how this 3068 02:34:01.680 --> 02:34:04.120 could make a great movie, and I recently I volunteered 3069 02:34:04.200 --> 02:34:08.280 myself to play a young Dale comstock acid dampit era. 3070 02:34:09.159 --> 02:34:10.719 We need to get him a suit though. 3071 02:34:13.000 --> 02:34:15.200 Back in eighty nine, like Dale was kind of like 3072 02:34:16.040 --> 02:34:19.639 not quite my size, but he wasn't quite Dale size 3073 02:34:19.680 --> 02:34:24.159 today either, So I think like eighty nine eighty nine era, 3074 02:34:24.399 --> 02:34:27.840 I could I could jump into that role Dale. 3075 02:34:28.040 --> 02:34:32.639 So you're doing coaching now for either young young people 3076 02:34:32.760 --> 02:34:37.319 who are are seeking success in whatever arena they or 3077 02:34:37.360 --> 02:34:40.319 even executives. Where can they find you for their coaching 3078 02:34:40.399 --> 02:34:41.920 if they want to hire you? 3079 02:34:43.760 --> 02:34:47.120 I would recommend either go through my website Jill compstock 3080 02:34:47.159 --> 02:34:50.959 dot com or just directly email me American Badass at 3081 02:34:51.040 --> 02:34:52.200 Dill compstock dot com. 3082 02:34:52.440 --> 02:34:53.920 And you do group You do. 3083 02:34:54.079 --> 02:34:56.399 Group coaching like there were if there were a bunch 3084 02:34:56.440 --> 02:34:59.840 of like military hopefuls that wanted to like get together 3085 02:35:00.079 --> 02:35:01.760 a group. Uh do you do things like that? 3086 02:35:02.920 --> 02:35:07.520 Yeah? I do group sessions. It's less expensive as well 3087 02:35:07.600 --> 02:35:10.879 for them, you know, it's more interactive. And then I 3088 02:35:10.959 --> 02:35:13.479 do a lot of mostly private coaching. Most of the 3089 02:35:13.559 --> 02:35:17.120 guys and girls that come to me. My primary demographic 3090 02:35:17.280 --> 02:35:19.760 is men between forty five and fifty nine and women. 3091 02:35:20.520 --> 02:35:22.239 I call them the old man Klan. They're the ones 3092 02:35:22.280 --> 02:35:24.239 that put the kids to college, the wife won't talk 3093 02:35:24.280 --> 02:35:26.440 to him anymore, and they're fat and pregnant and the like. 3094 02:35:26.520 --> 02:35:28.360 You know, I want to I want to recaptu recover 3095 02:35:28.520 --> 02:35:31.319 my life. So I get those guys and then I 3096 02:35:31.399 --> 02:35:34.799 get men between thirty three and thirty seven. Uh, these 3097 02:35:34.840 --> 02:35:38.520 are mostly business entrepreneurs there, some are veterans, some are not. 3098 02:35:38.760 --> 02:35:40.559 They're looking at how it can expand and build my 3099 02:35:40.680 --> 02:35:43.760 business and do more. And then the other group is 3100 02:35:44.000 --> 02:35:47.520 men from nineteen to twenty six. They're either veterans or 3101 02:35:47.559 --> 02:35:49.040 they want to go in the military and they want 3102 02:35:49.040 --> 02:35:52.280 to go into special force, to special operations. And I 3103 02:35:52.319 --> 02:35:54.639 have a I have a unique program just for those 3104 02:35:54.719 --> 02:35:57.159 guys to get them get them ready for to include 3105 02:35:57.159 --> 02:35:59.319 a training program. In fact, I just signed a guy 3106 02:35:59.399 --> 02:36:02.719 up last night. He's actually he's actually a police officer 3107 02:36:03.159 --> 02:36:07.120 SWAT and we want to try out for DEA selection 3108 02:36:07.360 --> 02:36:09.559 and he contacted me, so I'm going to kind of 3109 02:36:09.600 --> 02:36:11.840 put him in that nineteen twenty six year old category 3110 02:36:12.040 --> 02:36:15.559 of training bear for that. So that, Yeah, I do that. 3111 02:36:15.639 --> 02:36:19.319 I do that quite often. I have a pretty full load. 3112 02:36:19.440 --> 02:36:21.120 I can only take some mane people at a time 3113 02:36:21.680 --> 02:36:25.399 because the program is normally eight weeks long. It's two 3114 02:36:25.520 --> 02:36:28.360 hours two plus hours a week on a zoom call 3115 02:36:28.520 --> 02:36:35.559 like this. It's recordable and it goes in stages. But basically, 3116 02:36:35.680 --> 02:36:38.120 what I teach people, really, what I teach people is 3117 02:36:38.159 --> 02:36:40.559 how to think, not what to think. I teach you 3118 02:36:40.639 --> 02:36:42.920 how to think. And that's the key to the thing 3119 02:36:43.000 --> 02:36:46.440 I mentioned in physics earlier. Success is based on physics. 3120 02:36:46.520 --> 02:36:51.079 It is, and I teach the science behind success. It's 3121 02:36:51.120 --> 02:36:54.559 amazing how it works. But I do coach. I've coached millionaires. 3122 02:36:55.399 --> 02:36:57.959 I've coached people who all walks of life. I mean, 3123 02:36:58.000 --> 02:37:04.159 you name it, photographers, police officers, soldiers, you name it. 3124 02:37:04.239 --> 02:37:07.200 I've coached coaching. I've coached international coaches. 3125 02:37:07.479 --> 02:37:09.520 Can Jack sign up to be coached on how to 3126 02:37:09.559 --> 02:37:11.479 hook up with a thirty one year old starlett? 3127 02:37:13.319 --> 02:37:15.639 Put me in the game. Coach, help me in the game. 3128 02:37:16.399 --> 02:37:19.719 It's really easy. Start with shaving the head and doing. 3129 02:37:19.559 --> 02:37:21.639 It the mustache. All right, I'll work on it. I'll 3130 02:37:21.680 --> 02:37:26.920 work on it. It's going anyway, so yeah, I might 3131 02:37:27.000 --> 02:37:28.200 as well just cut to the chase. 3132 02:37:29.559 --> 02:37:33.959 Guys going go check out Dale's book, American Badasslet's out today. 3133 02:37:34.879 --> 02:37:37.399 Please check out our Patreon fown the description if you 3134 02:37:37.479 --> 02:37:38.040 haven't already. 3135 02:37:38.120 --> 02:37:40.239 You get access to these episodes ad free and some 3136 02:37:40.360 --> 02:37:41.799 bonus episodes and ship like that. 3137 02:37:41.959 --> 02:37:42.399 It's cool. 3138 02:37:43.000 --> 02:37:45.319 Uh, next week, we're gonna have Jim Morris on the show. 3139 02:37:45.399 --> 02:37:47.719 He served in Special Forces in Vietnam. He is the 3140 02:37:47.799 --> 02:37:51.159 author of war story The Devil's Secret Name, and his 3141 02:37:51.280 --> 02:37:54.799 latest book is called The Dreaming Circus. I'm really excited 3142 02:37:54.799 --> 02:37:56.879 to talk to him. He's a he's a phenomenal dude. 3143 02:37:57.680 --> 02:37:59.879 So we will be back next Friday with Jim Morris. 3144 02:38:00.319 --> 02:38:03.399 Uh Dale again, thank you really appreciate. 3145 02:38:03.000 --> 02:38:04.760 It, man, thanks for having me. 3146 02:38:05.040 --> 02:38:07.559 We'll see everyone next Friday, all right,