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This is Unbreakable

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with Jay Glacier, a mental

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wealth podcast build

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you from the inside out. Now

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Here's Jay Glacier.

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Welcome to Unbreakable mental Wealth podcast

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with Jay Glazer.

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I'm Jay Glazer and I have a return

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guest on today.

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He's my brother.

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But also whenever I try and tell his

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story, who had first roll?

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He's fucking Captain America second of

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it.

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When I try and tell a story, he always kind

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of gets a little no jayme, no, No,

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he gets a little but hurt because he hates bragging about

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himself and I love bragging about him. It is

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I said, Captain America. He was

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a ward of the Silver Star by President bush Am.

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I right there, President bush Kay for

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his credible heroic

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acts in the Marines. He

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played football Naval Academy. He

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was the WEC light Heavyweight Champ of the World.

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He was the fifth Did you get it's the fifth

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rank middleweight in the world in UFCA, fifth rank.

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You can't nod do You gotta hate people gonna hear you and.

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Claim you know what you're doing. You know you're making

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me blush. You know I don't like any You're trying

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to make me feel uncomfortable. I know what you're trying to.

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Do, absolutely miliar, but also that

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this guy is my brother and to

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see him kinda make

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the transition from like, oh wait, wait, let me get back to the

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home. He also went after

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the Marines, you run hired heroes,

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right, okay? And then you

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went and got a master's

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at Ivy League school.

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Is that correct? One head?

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It's Kellogg? So Northwestern? Similar?

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Is that?

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Is that not? They're not They're

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not technically Ivy League.

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But it's that's why you gotta check me in

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my stories.

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I would I would say, we're ranked higher, I would

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say, and

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then tell me about.

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What you do now.

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Sure.

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So now I run the largest

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military housing company in the country.

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We've got sixty thousand.

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Homes across a variety of

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military install thes's been doing this for now almost

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four years. I've built in and

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acquired when I took the job, an incredible

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team of people who are super passionate

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about managing these communities

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and really trying to do some very

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innovative stuff in military housing to continuously

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improve the communities they live in and

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reinvest back into these homes.

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So it's been a wild ride. It's really

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exciting, but you.

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Know, technically it's it's it's running a

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private equity company. So I have left television

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and I remember articles coming out today. I know Brian left

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to go be a realertor no, I love to

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go back.

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Up to this.

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When he retired fighting, he became my co

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host of the UFC on Fox and that even

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did college football broadcasting as well, Like what

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did you guys do on a Tuesday?

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This is Bron's dead?

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It was, as you know, man, TV is

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a blast. It was the least stressful

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job all ever

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half my life. You for you

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well you you your job is

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pretty unique and and and all the contacts

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you have to maintain.

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But Brian I we also the UFC

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together. Her first one together was in

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Breska, right Oman, Nebraska. And you

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know, this is Prendy aspiring producer out there.

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Make sure you watch your talent and so I'm

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doing what you want to do. Make sure you know what

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what's going on?

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What is there?

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So they're trying to tell me to throw This is

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Brian's first hour ever

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in television. First they try to

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tell me to throw to a

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I guess it's a package that they're going Anderson Silva and

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the copy was about Ronda Ralsey.

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So I just kept talking right and Brian's

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just looking at me and they're screaming, read

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the copy, Read the copy.

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I'm just not reading the copy. And then when they

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realized, like, oh, we're sorry, now read it.

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They do you remember what happened next?

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It was either it went out or went upside

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down.

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It was upside down.

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The company is up upside down the screen and I remember

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you you're trying to trying

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to keep with it.

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Yeah. No, And then they moved the jib camera

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over past you, so I had to climb.

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Over your lap. You're reading.

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I remember, Producer,

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when I wanted you were right on my lap.

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I remember. But

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this guy became my brother. And look, one of the

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reasons I'm having a mom.

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Because he and I now are doing something really amazing

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together.

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And I think a lot of people out here have followed

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my stem cell journey where you know,

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it prevented I've had two extra years

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without having to get a.

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Fusion that may need or three three

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level fusion.

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I may need one on one point because I'm still beating on my

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body, but it's bought me two years. And

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then recently it regrew

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my torn bicep tending back.

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It anchored it back in and healed my

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super Spinana's tear and another rotator cuff terror

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Versitas, which I was supposed to get surgery

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around. All of it healed and I called

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Brian and I'm like, came in. You know, I've

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always had to be of service. I started two other

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charities, one being Touchdown

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Dreams.

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For children who were kind of fighting for their lives.

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And it was like make a wish on steroids,

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and I like to say because it was it was connecting

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football players and coaches with a child,

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but for the more of the long haul and

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just like one big day or great week

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er, we're so along those lives. Then I started another charity

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called the MVP Merging Vets and Players, where we

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you know, paired, we put together combat vets

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and for we're pro athletes. I'm working

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on another charity now where

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hopefully I get there, called the Unbreakable Charity, where

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I can scholarship people for therapy

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and mental health therapy. But this next one is

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really cool, and I've

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just joined the advisory board for this stem

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cell place I'm talking about where we can

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now get combat vets and

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pay for them, scholarship them to go get healed

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for free, all on us and

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man, Brian to you know again, they

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were talking to me about, hey, you know, how do you

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kind of want to vet the vets and I was like, no,

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there's one guy I want to vet them through, and that is it,

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and that is Brian stand And I just kind

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of want to talk about it a little because I'm excited

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for what we're about to do and

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and Brian's is vet.

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We're going to talk about him first, Robbie

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Gas. But also I sent.

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Somebody down to I'm illerot Ruiz. I just want

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to tell people what we're doing, and I'm just

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I'm excited for it.

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Dude.

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Well, I mean, look, I'll start with the like

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to get a call, you know from

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you where you know we're talking life. Then out

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of the blue, You're like, hey, Brian, I

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want I want to talk to you. Can you help

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me with something?

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Right?

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And I'm like, okay, yeah, what can I help you with?

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Jay?

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And you know, for anybody who's

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in and there's been, you know, there's a lot of a

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lot of amazing combat veterans in our society

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now and for all of those who have been into

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combat and serve with people. Right when

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you've got the opportunity to potentially

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help somebody that was wounded

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on you, either on your flank or in

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this case, right under your command, it's

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an emotional thing, right. It was totally

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unexpected, but like, literally, hey, Brian,

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can you help me identify

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a wounded service member to go to

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this five star location

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and receive cutting edge

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stem cell therapy? And I

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was like, it's too good to be true. You know, for

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me, every I think every leader

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in combat has at least a few

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moments that you constantly

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replay in your mind over and over for the

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rest of your life.

7:03

Right.

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It's just it's the burden of leadership, and

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that's something that if you want to be a leader in

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the military and you're going to go to combat, that is,

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you know, something that you have

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to bear, and it just happens. But Robbie

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is one of those guys, and he has been in

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such pain and taken on

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and sacrificed so much that

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it was incredible, and I was just hopeful that

7:23

he would be willing to do it, right, because he

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was afraid at first that if I go take on

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this therapy, it could hurt

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my benefits through the VA. Right,

7:31

So not only do we not have access to

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some of this cutting edge stuff for our wounded service

7:36

members, right, he's worried that if he gets

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gifted this scholarship to go do it, that

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could impact you know, his service now.

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And so look, Jay, I'm

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so grateful right when he was sending

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me texts from down there with him and his wife

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eating at these beautiful restaurants and he's getting

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this therapy with everything he has been

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through since that day. Man,

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It's just I can't tell you

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how much it means to me that you

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call. You know, a million people

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you could have called, right, but you asked

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me that one of the top

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I know, brother, But I'm not downplaying this, right,

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Like this meant the world to me to see.

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I contacted Robbie before coming on here.

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He's checking enemies like yeah, this and this actually

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do feel better already, but they told me it's

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going.

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To take more time.

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Like to hear that after knowing the

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amount of surgery is this man has endured

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that sacrifice his wife and kids have made.

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It fills my soul because I owe that.

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I owe that man, I owe that man more

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than anybody could imagine.

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Now, you know, so people don't know what happened to him,

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what happened to you guys? So I know you guys, you

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guys, why don't you explain the story? Because

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the reason why you're a silberstar, right? You were good

8:43

forty five guys, You were leading, right, and you kind of got ambushed

8:45

and we're stuck out there for about four days?

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Is that what I'm Yeah, it was. We

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got tell us what happened, don't you know?

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But anytime metals start getting slung

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around and awarded, you're

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in the wrong place, wrong time.

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And y'all had to get through some stuff. And but

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but pacific to Robbie.

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You know, that night we had to

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go reinforce a unit and

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I had lost I had had a catastrophic

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kill on a tank two days before, and so we

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were going to reinforce this unit that had been duking

9:13

it out at this bridge for days,

9:16

and they needed support and they needed supplies,

9:18

and we also needed a way to try and fix that

9:20

tanker toe the tank back after.

9:22

We were done reinforcing them. Wow. And

9:24

so we're riding up through there and

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we didn't know.

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This is Iraq.

9:29

Right, this is Iraq western Alambar Province,

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right on the Syrian border and right

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at the Euphrates River in an area called

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Al Chyme.

9:37

And we didn't know these tankers.

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That never worked with the tankers.

9:41

We met the tankers in the middle of the night,

9:43

in the middle of the desert, shook hands,

9:45

and then I put a map down and I gave my order

9:48

for what we were going to undergo, and

9:50

raiders were about to get ready to go. The

9:52

tanker who is driving the tank recovery

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vehicle called a Mike eighty eight, and

9:57

he was going to be.

9:57

In between the two other tanks to protect him.

10:00

Like, hey, look, once we get on that asphalt

10:02

out of the sand, I'm only going about

10:04

ten miles an hour, right, it's pretty slow,

10:07

So just know we're going to be slow rolling

10:09

so your first vehicles don't get too out ahead

10:11

of us, which is really concerning

10:13

because this was a hot area. We expected

10:16

we were going to get into contact to get through the city

10:18

to get to the bridge, and that's exactly what happened.

10:21

Right, we get into contact and we're

10:23

getting hit with an ambush,

10:25

lots of RPGs and then a few

10:27

IEDs go off, and as the

10:30

tanks begin returning fire, and

10:32

you know, Robbie's on a fifty cow, he's in the lead

10:35

vehicle, he's in the turret of a Humbie

10:37

and he's returning fire. The tanks

10:40

were hitting the buildings where they were firing down

10:42

through the windows with the RPGs,

10:45

and when they did that with the tank rounds,

10:48

right, the debris just completely

10:50

washed out our night vision goggles. And

10:53

so when that happened,

10:55

right, we had to be really slow methodical.

10:58

But Robbie's driver missed

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the final turn to get to the bridge

11:03

right right after they

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got hit either with an I E. D or an RPG

11:08

in the back of their vehicle caught on fire.

11:10

And so at that point,

11:13

right, I've got to reorient the patrol

11:16

and they release suicide

11:18

vehicles into the kill

11:20

zone and the tanks get to

11:23

and Robbie and his vehicle

11:25

get hit with one, and you

11:28

know, those explosions are yeah,

11:31

I've said this before, right like you hear

11:33

it, And the first.

11:34

Thing that goes through your head is I just got five kids

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killed.

11:37

And you know you're you're setting the cord

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and you're designating who's going to recover the vehicle.

11:41

You're getting back.

11:42

You know, you're, you're, you're, you're moving to the point

11:44

friction as a leader to get to the kill zone where they are,

11:46

to make sure the vehicle gets linked up and you can get

11:48

your casualties. We're gonna put them all in that Mike eighty

11:50

eight recovery vehicles tank great armor.

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And I had a corman in there right ready.

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And I get to the vehicle and

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Robbie's got a piece of shrap in

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his skull. I mean

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the size of a three ring binder.

12:05

It was massive. And he

12:08

got a nineteen year old kid named Jeff Lampson

12:10

jumping on top of the vehicle who was maybe

12:12

a buck thirty, soaking wet. Robbie's

12:15

you know, two fifteen at the time, right,

12:17

and he's picking.

12:18

Robbie up out of the up, out of the

12:20

turf.

12:21

Robbie gets shot in the arm as they're doing

12:23

it, right, We're trying to fire back and suppress.

12:25

We can get Robbie out of there and the rest

12:27

of the vehicle. He was the most unbelievably

12:30

lucky. He was the most significantly

12:33

wounded. Everybody else we had

12:35

some legs that were damaged

12:37

bad you know, concussions.

12:38

One guy was half his body with really.

12:41

Horrible burns, the vehicle commander, but the

12:43

vehicle held up to the blast and

12:46

saved their lives. But I knew if we didn't get

12:48

Robbie out soon, he was gonna die. He was gonna bleed

12:50

out. And so we were able to get him out. And

12:52

as we're getting Robbie on on the bird,

12:55

he's just upset with himself, saying, I can't

12:57

believe I let them get I can't believe I let them. He

12:59

was mad that the suicide vehicle got

13:01

to him and he could stop it with a fifty count, which

13:04

it won one. When you can't see anything

13:06

is incredibly hard to do and he's

13:08

getting shot at in all directions. Anyways,

13:11

we finished that mission, and you

13:13

know, Robbie lives, but he then goes

13:16

on to have multiple brain

13:18

surgeries. Right, he's got the

13:20

guys.

13:20

That origined somebody he was firing back for

13:23

about two days with that trap.

13:26

No, no, no, no, he he had to lead, He's

13:28

got to lead. He's got to get off the battlefield right

13:30

now. But after he gets hit, right and we're

13:32

getting them out of the kill zone. Yeah, but then

13:34

he's sitting there getting on the metavag bird well

13:37

where I'm calling an airstrike, and he was just

13:39

mad, like he was mad that

13:41

he hey, that I can't believe that vehicle

13:43

got my boys.

13:44

He was so focused on the wrong team.

13:46

Yep.

13:47

I mean it was unbelievable. And

13:49

he would then undergo multiple brain surgeries,

13:52

all extensive rehab. He's

13:55

had just horrible headaches

13:57

and just horrible ongoing pain first whole.

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And you could see it when you visibly see the man, you

14:02

can tell, right, you could see,

14:04

you know, from his head and the scarring, and

14:07

you know he's he's lived in Alabama

14:10

and he has just been raising his family

14:12

with his wife, his beautiful kids, and working

14:14

hard and coping with all of this pain

14:17

all the time, memory loss, headaches, and

14:19

it's just there's just not much you can do. And

14:23

you know, now you give me a

14:25

call and we get this opportunity,

14:27

this cutting edge treatment right where they

14:29

genuinely believe, hey, we can help. And

14:32

so I'm just so excited to hear

14:34

he's already feeling better in a couple of

14:36

areas.

14:37

Makes me so excited. And you know, as you

14:39

know, stem cell.

14:40

Can take you know, could take months

14:42

to really set in and regenerate. And

14:45

I'm just I'm beyond grateful and the

14:47

fact that we can start doing

14:49

this for more people, right,

14:52

it is amazing. And who knows where that leads. It may

14:54

only lead to us getting a handful of

14:56

people through that treatment.

14:57

But what does it do.

14:59

If we can to get some of this legalized

15:01

in America and done properly

15:04

and make it maybe accessible through your VA

15:06

benefits?

15:07

Right, And that's exactly and that's what the other reason

15:09

I want to bring you in on it because I got

15:11

a big voice. You had a powerful voice.

15:14

So together, I think that's one of the things we can do. Also

15:16

because here's here's the truth, folks.

15:18

It's you know, these about thirty five

15:20

thousand for stem cells, but we all

15:22

pay for it together, right, So Origins

15:25

pays for it, I pay for it, Brian pays for stuff.

15:27

We're doing it together. But it's bullshit

15:29

that we used to have to pay anything. It should be readily available

15:31

here and they know it works here because you're allowed

15:33

to have your own child's and medical cord. But

15:36

you know, I think one in biblical cord I was told. Now

15:38

listen, you can fact check me or not. It's

15:40

so basically one in biblical court could serve

15:42

up hundreds of people. So I

15:45

shouldn't have to pay. You shouldn't have to pay, We should

15:47

have to pay. It should be Walter read, it should

15:49

be readily available. America is not there yet.

15:51

Why you know, we all have our I have

15:54

my different beefs with certain things, you

15:56

know, pharmacoo come with you know, industries,

15:58

things like that. But that's why I think it's

16:00

important for us to really bring attension to these

16:03

great results. When people, maybe the VA,

16:05

maybe the new administration, who knows,

16:08

they go, hey, there's something to it here, and

16:10

if we can help our veterans. We've

16:12

been hearing these two guys screaming from the rafters,

16:14

let's look into this.

16:16

I couldn't look. I couldn't agree more.

16:17

And you know, I know you've got to be

16:20

careful what you but you're right, like we

16:22

push.

16:23

Our first response to everything is here, take

16:25

some pills, right, take some drugs.

16:27

Put these in. Let's experiment with these.

16:29

And you know, I'm sure people

16:32

all in various industries and just in

16:34

life have seen that with their own family members, but harvested

16:37

correctly with the parents' permission, right,

16:40

all of this can be done with the right regulatory

16:42

body, so that we're using this umbilical

16:45

cord whatever the science is

16:47

to help people and bring cutting edge

16:49

therapy so that people can heal and

16:52

not have to take drugs for the rest of their

16:54

life.

16:54

Why wouldn't we want to do that.

16:56

So the first guy we said now was a friend named

16:58

Ellert Luiz, who was also the vet

17:00

I ever really kind of helped between

17:02

the years, way before I ever started MVP. He

17:04

started coming to Unbreakable Gabe Rangel, who was

17:06

our head coach and Tom and GM served

17:09

with them in the Marines. At some point asked, Hey, can

17:11

I a couple of my guys who serve trained for

17:13

free and Unbreakable my gym?

17:15

Like absolutely no doubt.

17:17

So he comes in and I

17:20

used to say with Elliott, So Elliott

17:22

for people, don't he got he got injured really

17:24

bad rescue in these American POWs

17:27

and he's had now I think he's had eighteen surgery in

17:29

his left leg. He got multiple sclerosis,

17:31

which I didn't know you could get from trauma,

17:33

so you're born with it. And his right foot

17:36

doesn't work, so he's at drop foot and

17:38

since I've known him, which is going on

17:40

now about twelve years.

17:41

At least since I've done He can't put his own

17:43

pants onthing. He has a hard time dressed himself.

17:46

My wife has to put his pants out.

17:47

So when they gave him this opportunity to

17:49

start bringing that combat vets, I said,

17:52

I got the first ball because he's put just the most

17:54

beautiful soul, like, dude, this is la

17:56

Ruiz. Elliott had an MS flare

17:58

up and he's in the

18:01

hospital. Doesn't say anything, he's hospitalized,

18:03

he's in bad shape. He just calls me to check

18:05

up on me. And then a day later I found

18:07

out he's in the hospital. I'm like, he dude, what

18:09

the fuck you didn't tell me you're in the hospital.

18:12

He goes, well, it's not why I call it.

18:13

I called a checkup on you. Who does

18:15

that? Who does that?

18:18

So I believe it's just incredibly selfless

18:20

people right, selfless?

18:21

So we bring him down, folks, and folks,

18:23

this is you. Look on his instagram.

18:26

He calls me about a month after

18:28

and he says, I'm a training NFL training camp.

18:30

He says, I don't know do it to do? And I said,

18:33

what's going on?

18:33

He goes, my right foot is working,

18:36

and again since I've known him, his foot did not

18:38

work. He dragged it and drop foot and

18:41

I said, you think it's maybe the placebo effect,

18:43

and he said it can't be.

18:45

I had no nerve in that ankle.

18:47

This must have regrew grown the nerve

18:49

in my ankle.

18:50

And five months after

18:53

that, this guy who cannot put his

18:55

own pants on entered a

18:57

tough mutter race, and oh

19:00

my god.

19:01

And then I was back at the Origins

19:03

in August.

19:04

He had hit us up with having multiple

19:06

scourses, like I can't really be on the heat more than two

19:08

hours. He was at Disney World

19:11

an hour eight with his daughter

19:14

carrying her saying I would never be able

19:16

to do this if not for these stem

19:18

cells. And I was like, oh my

19:20

god. And then I went to words and I said, can we

19:22

start doing this on a larger scale, whether

19:24

it's hey, we can just person my person,

19:26

my person. I'll just keep doing it and talk about

19:28

we could raise money for it. And I

19:31

got the perfect guy to bring in on you. But I mean, dude,

19:33

think about that. But that's what we're saying. It's bullshit.

19:35

I should not have to pay for it. Well, to reaching me doing it.

19:37

Yeah, they should be paying for it.

19:40

It's cutting edge, right, we should we should

19:42

have cutting edge stuff, and like look when

19:45

you look at the American economy, it can go.

19:47

We should be able to do this for everybody, right, we should

19:50

be able to have an affordable cost of health care. And

19:52

if there's cutting edge science out that they can heal

19:54

people without having to take prescription

19:56

medication for the rest of their life, we should be looking

19:59

to do it. I'm super excited

20:01

to bring this to you know, we have a

20:04

pretty large generation of combat vetters

20:06

who suffered traumatic brain injuries

20:08

and significant wounds from blasts.

20:11

Right, and if this, if this.

20:13

Can all of a sudden improve their quality

20:15

of life and reduce that pain. Like you

20:17

know, Robbie, he won't

20:20

mention it, right, He's just too tough to mention it. But

20:22

sometimes if I talk to his wife, Brittany,

20:24

you know, show talk about what he endures,

20:26

that difficulty sleeping and just doing regular

20:29

daily activities. You know, it's just incredible

20:32

that the opportunity to send some

20:34

people like him, who've done

20:36

so much and suffer through

20:38

so much, you get an opportunity to heal. And I'm

20:40

so excited for it and

20:43

I can't wait to send more. And like we

20:45

said, you know, hopefully, right, hopefully

20:47

this can become a movement to start bringing

20:49

care like this.

20:50

You know, it's scale because for a guy like Robbie,

20:52

what did he have to lose? Right? Like

20:54

what in nothing? Right?

20:56

He was like signing, it doesn't impact my VA

20:58

benefit, sign me up. And he comes back

21:00

and he actually loved that. He was treated

21:03

so kindly by everybody, had

21:05

a wonderful time with his wife while getting therapy

21:07

and treatment.

21:08

It is how Star.

21:09

Plays, folks.

21:09

It's you're think of Panama and there's like it's so funny

21:11

because I had some football coaches who went to this one

21:14

because it's basically legalizing most a lot

21:16

of the countries.

21:17

But I know this play.

21:18

I trust this place because this was a guy

21:20

named Percy Knox her who used to run API, which

21:22

I trained at when I was actually so trying to fight

21:25

and uh in like oh five or so along those

21:27

lines, but they and now they're

21:29

exos. But he was in charge of training

21:31

and training every football player Department

21:34

of Defensive Seals Delta.

21:36

That was their last line. So I knew him and trusted

21:38

him when you go down. So my point

21:40

is these.

21:40

Football coaches they went out to this place. It

21:42

was like in a strip malle, like in Gui

21:45

or stain Antigue. I'm like, what are you doing, Like

21:47

go to my place? Like you like this this place

21:49

is incredible. But every time somebody

21:51

sees it, like brih, you start right, it's like it's

21:53

a brand new Miami Panama. The place

21:56

is like it's two

21:58

of the restaurants there are mon and Rose, his favorite

22:01

colinary experience, experience of the planet.

22:03

It's really something incredible.

22:05

Sort to hear him also because we were talking to him

22:08

right at first, he was like, I don't know, I don't know.

22:09

I'm like, Robbie, you had nothing to.

22:10

Lose, like and then to hear him

22:13

on the backside and to be

22:15

on that text shape with you're just so excited

22:17

for this experience. It was a

22:19

healing of a lot of time, but ended up being a

22:22

vacation for him and his wife of a lifetime too, because

22:24

that's really what it is.

22:25

It's incredible.

22:25

I mean, look, I got stem cell years

22:28

ago in a hole in the wall place in America,

22:30

and you know I had separated my

22:32

right shoulder three times and

22:34

I've never had an issue with it since. And this

22:37

is nowhere near right the

22:39

level. This is old school first

22:42

legalized stem cell and

22:44

you know now right, I've never had

22:46

another issue. I'm a

22:49

huge believer in it. And the experience

22:51

Robbie had which just amazing, right, it's just

22:53

amazing.

22:53

And to be able to bring this to more people

22:55

will be will be powerful. And I'm excited.

22:57

You know, you to leverage your voice, do

23:00

that means the world.

23:02

So you know, I just want to go back. I'm

23:04

going to touch shame with you, guys.

23:05

It's one of the most powerful text Chains've ever been in my life.

23:09

I'm gonna try and keep together. But where

23:13

he was begging you for this and

23:15

you.

23:16

Were then telling him how

23:18

that night, that day has

23:21

haunted you since, and his response

23:23

to was like, Brian, serve it under you

23:26

was the greatest experience in my life.

23:27

Like I am looking at this like, oh

23:29

my god.

23:30

The bonds that you guys have, It's

23:33

it's.

23:33

So hard, right, You

23:35

never want to be part of something, you

23:37

know when you're serving it. You know a lot of people when

23:39

they serve, they want to be a part of combat. Then you see

23:42

combat, you generally don't really want

23:44

to see a whole lot of it because it's tough and people

23:46

you genuinely care about get hurt,

23:48

and to replay

23:51

that moment and constantly

23:53

wish you could have made a different decision, a better decision

23:55

for him and those other you know,

23:58

marines in that truck, and then get the opportunity

24:00

to help and have

24:03

him be in a place in his life where he's

24:05

happy, he's loved, he's

24:07

got a family, and I

24:10

could try to pay him back. It's

24:13

it's really powerful, man, It's powerful,

24:16

and in that bond, it never you.

24:18

Know, it never goes away, It never goes you.

24:20

You had mentioned though again on that and then just get

24:22

a little deeper about you still live

24:24

in and regret.

24:25

And I don't think that's I can't tell

24:27

you how to think, but I don't think that's fair to.

24:29

You because you didn't start it, you know what I mean. Like, you're

24:31

doing a job you signed up some people like

24:33

me don't have to do. How do you give

24:35

yourself like I hope A A

24:37

are you are you giving yourself more grace? Now now

24:39

that you've heard his.

24:40

Response, Yeah, you know you

24:43

do right, And and it's funny I got

24:45

to practice. I preach because when I talk to, you

24:48

know, other combat officers that are

24:50

in training before they go out, you

24:52

know, one of the things I let them know is that you

24:55

have to be able to forgive yourself.

24:57

You're going to be put in a situation in combat.

25:00

It's really hard to pitch a shut out, and

25:03

it's very chaotic and what

25:05

can go wrong will go wrong. And

25:07

for you to remain effective as a leader

25:10

in combat, you have to forgive

25:12

yourself because if you can't, you're

25:14

not the best version of yourself for the rest of that

25:16

deployment, for the rest of the time that they serve under you, for

25:18

the rest of your career. And so I

25:21

feel like I'm in a place where you

25:24

can both regret something

25:27

but at the same time forgive yourself for it.

25:29

I can at the same time wish I

25:32

had a more perfect answer that night, right,

25:35

but at the same time understand

25:37

that, hey, I didn't create that situation,

25:39

right.

25:39

And Bombers, it's not There's

25:42

nothing you could do to predict

25:44

what they're going to do.

25:45

That's right and no different than you

25:47

know, Robbie has his own regrets,

25:49

which are even more you

25:52

know, hard to comprehend, right, like that

25:55

suicideical hit because I couldn't take it out with the fifty.

25:58

You know, while he's envygs

26:00

ers n.

26:01

That Yougagos are washed out.

26:03

Every every combat veteran has

26:06

some of that. You see it all the time in football players,

26:08

like you drop a pat, you make a you blow

26:10

a play, and.

26:11

It loses a big game. Like they have a hard

26:13

time forgetting this is a resturant. You

26:15

magnify this.

26:16

You magnify this times one hundred, right,

26:18

because you have to then watch

26:21

the families go on without

26:23

that that person. Right, there's there's

26:26

deeper regret, but that's also a part of it.

26:28

When you sign up to serve, right, that's

26:30

also a part of it, and you sign

26:32

up, you know, to to carry that burden.

26:35

And look, I'm okay with that.

26:37

It's not awesome, but but that's

26:39

what I sign up for and I'm damn proud that I

26:42

did.

26:42

Hey, you know what I hope for you?

26:43

Also, I hope you won't go back and you watch

26:45

this and look at what you're saying

26:48

and be able to give yourself the grace Like that's

26:51

pretty cool, motherfucker right.

26:52

There, Pretty bad ass dude.

26:55

You deserve to look at yourself like that, dude,

26:57

the way I am and everybody else is right now, Look.

27:00

I appreciate that, and and what I appreciate

27:02

more is is you You were

27:04

able to create a situation and

27:08

I got to send my marine to

27:10

something to where afterwards, right, there was

27:13

that text exchange where he

27:15

was you know, he knew

27:18

you know I still loved him, and he knew I never

27:20

forgot and that I don't take what he went

27:22

through for for granted. And

27:25

you know that's that's priceless, right

27:28

that that's priceless, And you wish

27:30

you could have that kind of connectivity, you could do something

27:32

that special for every person you served

27:35

with that got wounded. And it was just it

27:37

was it was really really incredible and something

27:39

I'll never forget.

27:40

Bro.

27:40

Your heart is massive, and it

27:42

was a lot, it was a lot of logistics to make

27:44

that happen and make that work and and

27:46

and it's incredible.

27:47

And that's where you came in. How

27:50

was you?

27:50

But did it give you some healing when

27:53

you saw Guest saying like, my

27:55

biggest, biggest thing my career serving under.

27:58

It, it feel is your soul right

28:01

to be able to

28:04

do something like that more so than

28:06

any victory or business deal you can

28:08

get, you know.

28:09

And I remember, you know, showing

28:11

the pictures to my wife, Michelle, and

28:14

you know, she is the.

28:16

Most patriotic person and most

28:19

supportive of my military

28:21

background. And you know, she

28:24

does not allow me to allow moments like that

28:26

to pass without really

28:28

stopping.

28:29

For a second and internalizing

28:31

them.

28:31

And it was really awesome, and I just

28:34

I'm so hopeful that that Robbie could start

28:36

to enjoy a more normal life going forward,

28:39

you know, and not endure

28:41

the.

28:41

Guy the pain and the headaches and the things

28:43

he's been dealing with for years.

28:45

Man, There's two things before I let us

28:47

go.

28:48

One, you get to hear more, a lot more from

28:50

Brian and I as we continue to try and figure out

28:52

ways to send more of our veterans down there or maybe

28:54

get some more attention to here in the States. But

28:57

two, you bring your wife up. I'm gonna

28:59

leave it with this again. Brian's been one of my

29:01

best friends for years. You know, we've trained

29:03

in sweat and bled in a different kind of way than

29:06

what he's done with veterans. He just

29:08

beat my ass for a few years. But I

29:10

tried to talk to Brian a lot about faith. Become a huge

29:13

god guy, right, And it's not religionous faith

29:15

three totally different things. And I

29:17

never knew until meet your wife and then go to

29:20

your wedding where it was very

29:22

very god centric.

29:23

I'm like, wow, there you go, and

29:27

just she not talk separately about it.

29:28

She said, you know, Brian always thought

29:30

if there was a God that he would you

29:33

know, how can.

29:33

You forgive you?

29:34

You know, you could say it better with all the

29:36

stuff he's done in war, and

29:39

for her to teach you that God

29:42

loves you no matter what was man, that

29:44

was one of the most joyful,

29:47

joyous, fulfilling things

29:50

I've ever heard or seen in my life, because I've

29:52

been trying to you know, like it doesn't hurt us

29:54

to have faith, but not Brian.

29:55

Right.

29:56

But I never looked at it, and I never knew that's the way

29:58

you felt about it. Who told them?

30:00

Which I'm like, this girl special, But she's

30:02

opened up. He's opened up to her like

30:05

this.

30:06

There's nothing I can't tell her, and she is

30:09

she has walked a ten

30:11

times harder path than I

30:13

have in her life. And her

30:15

faith is incredible and our

30:17

our faith is a family.

30:19

Is incredible and I couldn't

30:22

agree more. There's nothing there's nothing

30:24

important in my life that I don't pray over.

30:26

I don't pray before now, And it's

30:29

amazing how often

30:31

those prayers get answered, maybe not

30:33

always the way you ask for, but exactly

30:35

the way that you need them to be. And

30:38

you know, case in point this this situation

30:40

with Robbie, you know, when you mentioned this and me

30:43

hoping that he would be willing to go and

30:45

do this, because it's it's nervous for anybody

30:47

when they first get this, you know, the call to do it.

30:49

And to see him sending pictures with him

30:51

and his wife dressed up and being treated

30:54

so well, right, it

30:56

just it warmed my heart to see him smiling

30:59

and get the text back from the last week. I'm

31:01

feeling better, like it's just it's powerful

31:04

man, That's that's prayer's answer.

31:05

It was.

31:05

It was a pretty cool thing because he was down there with Elliott

31:07

this past time, because Eli went down there specifically

31:09

for his multiple scores this iss time, so we were able to

31:12

redo Elliott also so we can continue

31:14

in his journey and put the two of them

31:16

together. And the bomb they had in there was

31:19

absolutely amazing.

31:21

Brian brother.

31:22

I'm We've been teamateing a lot of things together,

31:24

man, but this this may be our I'm hoping

31:26

this is one of our biggest ones.

31:27

Yeah, obviously I hope so too, Brother.

31:29

I hope so too.

31:30

Your your parts, your heart is so huge,

31:32

man, And I just I appreciate you, brother,

31:35

I appreciate There's there's so much you

31:37

know about youth that that goes well

31:39

beyond the NFL and Scoop

31:41

Badge and everything else that that people don't know that

31:43

I get to know. And and I love

31:45

you, man, and I'm just so grateful that you called

31:47

me and said, hey, I got you know, can can

31:49

you find somebody? Can you can you have

31:52

one of your one of your guys go do this? And

31:54

it was just incredible. What an opportunity

31:56

of a lifetime that any any combat

31:58

leader or service member would would dream

32:00

of they have one of their team members

32:03

go and get this opportunity.

32:04

So I can't wait to do it for more people.

32:06

Well, folks, that is Brian's damp former quarterback

32:09

and with the linebacker Naval Academy, former

32:11

Marine retire Marine that should say

32:14

Silver Star, WC Light

32:16

Everyweight Champ fifth rank middleweight

32:18

and UFC former cos

32:20

the UFC on Fox, former

32:22

broadcaster for college football, and

32:25

obviously uses

32:27

his time way better.

32:28

Than I do.

32:29

The one only Brian stand Brian,

32:31

Love you, buddy.

32:32

Let's keep walking to walk together my mind. Love

32:34

you brother. Thank you,