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Out of all the commands that Christ gives,
there's... none that he's telling you to go
to the synagogue.
Among this hedonistic world, I'll build my church.
In the depths of what people think is impossible,
I'll bring the Spirit.
There's always a plan, but,
the plan is the first casualty of war.
We killed everybody that was trying to kill us, and...
yeah, the guy's trying to kill you, you're trying to kill them.
One, two, three, four, five--
I follow Christ's model, which is, "Deny yourself."
"Take up your cross and follow me."
I had a very real sense that this might be it.
I'm probably-- this could be it.
I'm probably gonna fucking die today.
Inside of all of us is two people.
...to the right.
There is the spirit of who you are,
and there is your anti-self.
Your anti-self wants to be comfortable, it wants to find
the easiest way out.
You're gonna feel... like this is too hard.
It's not.
- Let's go! - Oh!
Let's go!
- ...so hurry up, they're waiting on you! - Let's go!
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
It's not gonna be a problem.
You guys are gonna fucking get through this.
And just in case, it's not called the "If we quit"
it's the fucking "Never quit," that's all there is to it.
You guys understand who we are?
- Yeah! - Let's do it.
Let's go, let's go.
Let's go, double time, let's get going.
Stay professional to the end, you guys understand, hooyah?
Hooyah!
Hurry up, hurry up.
One more is the right answer,
- let's go, start loading up, hurry up. - Sir.
Standard grade spelling here.
Alright, so first off, we--
in order to take a look at a belief,
'cause this is still based upon a belief,
what's going on there, right?
What-- What is impostor syndrome in your thought process
or in your terms?
Is it... somebody... that thinks like,
they're... not a part of the crew?
Not a part of a crew? Okay.
And so if that's your thought process,
well then what happens is...
if I'm just purely random,
and there was no hard work or grace or rather even...
nothing that... led to the creation of the situation I'm in
- Mm-hmm. - or, well then that means
- it can easily go just as well. - Mm.
- Does that make sense? Okay, - Yeah.
so, like, in your terms, what does that mean?
They're there for, like, no reason,
and so they can just like maybe... die for no reason.
Yeah, your brain's gonna wanna say to do it.
Now, whether you do or not is irrelevant to the outcome,
but that thought, that you have something in opposition to
your value set...
...people start to believe that they're
the only ones that are struggling with doing...
what their values are.
- Whe-- you got any questions or thoughts? - No.
'Cause you guys do gotta get out of here f-- shortly.
I... don't think so.
So my name is Jordon Bowen. Um...
Attributes that describe me,
I think for me... everything comes down to...
responsibility, integrity...
Um... I believe I'm hardworking,
relentless, persistent.
And... um... I think I'm decently intelligent,
but where I'm not... I'll just go back to persistent.
Yeah.
When-- you good?
So when you're looking at, um...
on this... "Struggle to do
- what you believe" piece, - Yeah
- if what you believe... is not rooted in any truth, - Yeah
then that struggle you feel is probably a healthy thing.
My name is Jesse Bowen,
and I would describe myself as a mother,
a business owner, an entrepreneur,
a free-spirited soul.
My name is Slade Bowen.
What I can tell you about my family is that we're all great
because we all hang around as a family.
My name is Brodie, and... my mom and dad,
like, they're always trying to help people.
Like, some people could look at us as role models,
and I think that's great. I think it's awesome.
The only one I could say that I get tired about...
is probably just Brodie.
- Yeah - Hurry up and eat your food.
You guys gotta get out of here.
I-- I'll go do that first.
- So... I'll see you back here at nine? - Yes.
Have fun, guys.
Because, you know, for us...
A friend of mine has said this to me years past.
And he said, like, "Hey man, if your children leave your house
at 18 years old, and... they don't know what you know
from character and application standpoint,
then you f-- you fucked up."
Either you're gonna take responsibility for that outcome,
or...
you're gonna farm that out to somebody else.
And so like, as we just, you know, Jess and I
dissect-- cause he started in public school.
Alright? So he was in public school for what?
- Two yea-- Three years? - Three years.
You have this perception of what you think a homeschooler
or home-school kid is gonna be like.
And so... we kind of had that in the back of our mind.
And Slade was in... I believe, second grade.
And he came home, and he... said something,
and we don't-- I don't remember exactly what it was,
but it was not what we... would've said.
Something maybe... he believed in,
or I-- it was something weird.
And we're like, "Where did you hear that, buddy?"
And he heard it from his teacher.
And it was like, so... drastically different than,
not just our belief system, but what I believe is just a--
a logical outcome when you-- when you just assess
the facts in front of you.
I was like, "Oh man..."
Jordon's like, "Okay, let's do this. Let's take a year.
You home-school em', and we'll see what happens.
If the year is not good, we'll put 'em right back into school."
I'm like, "Okay, I can handle that. I can do that."
And so we, uh-- we did a year, and we were like,
"Oh my gosh, we're so thankful we did this."
You, know, It wasn't easy by any means.
It's not easy at first because...
you're used to your kid being at school all day.
No, I've never gone to regular school, and, I don't want to
'cause I-- I don't like to be in one spot for too long.
Like... I have to go. I have to be on it.
So... I've never gone to real school,
and I don't really want to.
You know, our kids...
can go run around, and... they can do whatever they want.
And then we have just a couple hours to sit down with them,
and you get used to-- you-- just like I'm used to Jordon every day.
Like, you get-- you all become a unit together,
and you learn to be with your kid every day, and--
and I can't imagine not...
spending that time with my kid every day, you know?
What do we got for food here?
- Ready for your liver? - Yeah.
Let's go.
Do we ever eat fast food? Not normally.
- I love - For all the inquisitive
people of the world,
it won't kill you to eat raw liver.
Well, that's not true. It definitely could kill you.
You're up.
It's-- It's better for you than how it looks.
Without a doubt, the food system
is the most detrimental thing that we have.
Awesome! So first I wanna say thank you to Ms. Jean
for letting us come here and give this nutrition seminar.
Um, a little backstory, my name is Jessie. This is Jordon.
Uh, we're Brodie's parents. And we have been training people
and teaching them about nutrition for over 14 years now.
Curious for you kiddos.
So... do you think about what you eat currently
when it comes to your training? Raise your hands--
show your hands if this even crosses your mind.
The question is... if the chemicals aren't bad for you,
if it's not a big deal, why are we using 'em?
Why don't we just... use normal food? Why are we using 'em'?
Okay, well, because it's cheaper to make,
and they wanna get people addicted to taste, right?
Real quick, can you give me what you think is a good food, right?
We use the words good and bad a lot.
- What's a good food? - Carrot?
Carrot. All right, what else?
- Strawberries - Strawberries.
- Watermelon. - Watermelon.
- Peppers. - Peppers.
Yeah, so we talked a lot about a bunch of fruits now,
a couple vegetables snuck in there.
What about... meat?
Mr. Jordon and I have done
every diet you can imagine in the world.
We try it all because we want to see what works the best
for ourselves, and for all the people that we train.
So what we have found, because we work out a lot,
we're athletes, is that protein is so important to recover,
to build strong muscles, to just feel good.
Like if you don't eat well,
you're not gonna feel like doing anything.
If you don't feel like doing anything, you're gonna end up
having much higher levels of depression and anxiety.
You're gonna get heavier. You're gonna feel
less secure about yourself.
If you feel less secure about yourself,
you're gonna have harder times in your relationships.
Your confidence is gonna be less.
You won't go for the job you should have went for.
You're gonna feel inadequate.
It is just such a snowball that happens,
and it all starts with food.
And we'll just end it with this so you guys
can get back to practice. But what I would suggest,
it's what I did, and what's-- Brodie and I started at the same time.
We did a 30-day, you can call it a "challenge,"
or we did a "30-day experiment."
For one month, I'm gonna see if I can really focus on
my macronutrients, my proteins, my fats, and my carbs.
See how good my gymnastics is--
See how much better you feel.
The best drug dealers on the planet
are the people that make food.
Alight, Slade, did you know there's a tornado watch out right now?
- No. - Yeah.
So we're going to the pavilion
So... let's go to the beach.
All right, so we are heading to...
the Destin Lifeguard Junior Program.
So it's a junior lifeguard program that the kids do
every year, and it's, uh, three-week-long program,
um, in hopes when they turn 16, they can become lifeguards,
and, uh... that's Slade's path.
So... in two years, he'll be a lifeguard on the beach,
so it's pretty awesome.
A strict father?
I guess that depends. It's not a loaded question,
but it could be a loaded answer.
Yeah, I think I'm...
ultra-strict to principles.
That's one of the biggest challenges
that you're gonna face today,
To the beach!
One of those principles is having a good time, right?
So... not in the traditional sense.
I am... big on principles.
I'm big on character.
We have-- we take what works for us, and we use it.
We're not... set on a certain way to parent.
We have standards, right? and expectations,
but we have that on ourselves, too.
And we have failed, and our kids have seen us fail.
But...
we try to show them that...
through modeling and role modeling, that...
that is life,
and... it's gonna happen, right?
You are gonna fail in life, but it's how you...
take w-- your failures, and you look for growth,
and you continue on.
There's a difference between failing and quitting.
Absolutely, we don't quit, but failure is gonna happen.
Stay tight!
Christ says, "To all who would come after me, deny yourself,
take up your cross, and follow me."
We give our kids tons of freedom to make choices and errors
and faults and failures.
Three minutes. I'd like to get my ankles down.
I won't feel my feet for a little bit.
What we don't give them freedom to do
is to live negligently,
be disrespectful, to have bad character, to live with
a lack of integrity. Those are non-negotiables.
Your bones get straighter, and your leverage, right, like the ability to lift.
It's one of the reasons we constantly set up structured
challenges for our kids.
I think people have a lot of misconceptions about
kids lifting weights because it's so foreign to them.
On three, two, one, go ahead.
I was pretty young when I did my first clean, so--
I started maybe doing like s-- like Olympic lifts and stuff.
It's like, when I was like three or four... that age.
You see Brodie or Slade do a-- a dead lift.
People are like, "Oh, my gosh, her back."
"I can't believe you would do that," or, "She must hate that.
You must make her do that."
You know, they have all these misconceptions about
strength training, but yet they don't-- they don't realize
a child can't dead lift like Brodie did, right away.
There's no way they could walk up and even move the barbell.
So there's no really risk of injury because...
they couldn't even pick it up.
I want my children to know life has challenges.
It's going to be hard.
You're gonna gain perspective. It's okay.
And it is probably the singular
best reason to let your kids work out.
It's why we let our kids work out, 'cause every single day
the weights can win.
Twelve, 13...
- Do not give up! - 14,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.
Let's go!
Three, two, one!
First off, speak up.
Second, what are you, fucking home-schooled?
Can't you count to eight? Let's go.
Always one more. Ten! Let's go, Hutch.
It's always one more, baby!
One more. Who's gonna carry the boats?
- Let's go! - One, two...
- Oh! - We're done!
Hurry up!
Be respectful.
You should do it quick. Quickly.
So I grew up in a very small,
what they would say village, um, in Illinois.
I grew up on a farm,
but not the typical farm most people think of.
I grew up on a soybean and corn farm.
Um, I grew up with my family, my mother and my father,
and my brother who is five years younger.
- Where? - No, it-- it comes out of its skin.
- Exactly, that's what it did. It was like-- - It was outside.
Uh... but when I was, I believe, 13, my parents divorced.
And so that was... pretty hard on me
because I didn't see it coming.
It was hard when you're so used to your family together,
and then they tell you,
"Oh, no, we're-- like, we're-- we're done."
So... that was really hard. You know?
That was-- was a-- probably the hardest time of my childhood.
I'm like...
I'm like, I know it's Greek yogurt.
- You can taste it. - See, we're tracking you down. Slade.
I ended up working for a state farm and realized
I hated sitting at a desk.
I, like, racked my brain on what I could do,
and I don't even know how I thought of the military.
But I drove-- I found the recruiter's office.
I drove there by myself, and I just walked in.
But the Air Force was there, and I chatted with them, and, um,
it was a great chat, and I thought, "Okay, let's do it."
I had no idea what I was signing up for.
I had no idea, like, basic training.
I... just was like, "Sign me up, let's do this."
Hey! Ah!
Wait. Eyes.
Up, up, up.
I was born here in Florida, in North Florida.
My upbringing, um, kind of socioeconomically,
was a little bit of everything, which was super wild,
but it was a ton of fun, to be honest.
Like, so... definitely...
got into a lot of fights, really, just...
due to being different sometimes. You know what I mean?
You have the burden to prove
- Hmm. - formation,
reach, and damages.
I've always felt as, like, a strong protector of people,
but I don't... remember, like, an aspiration for a certain job.
First, I was thinking-- I graduated high school,
and, like, especially being of the millennial age,
it's like, "Well, what are you supposed to do?"
You're supposed to go to college, right?
At the end of my 10th grade year,
I had, like, a... .9 GPA,
and it's because I...
didn't really-- I didn't care. Like, I was...
un-stimulated, it was very boring, and across,
like, junior-- senior year, I went from, like, a .9
till I graduated with a 3.3. My family, at this point, had
started to be able to actually make enough money
to send me to college, and kind of everything came, I would say,
like, into line where it wouldn't be an issue.
By this time in high school, I was thinking
I'd be an engineer, and so I went and did, like, a little tour
at Georgia Tech and stuff, and I walked around, I was like...
"I don't think I'm responsible enough for this situation."
Like, this... just looks, A, mad boring, and B...
it looks like a-- it looks like there's just a--
a host of opportunities for me to make poor choices
as opposed to, like,
advance what I should be doing in life.
So I was like... "I think I'm gonna join the Army."
- Here's everyone... guys. - Jesse, the mag is in your...
I gave it...
So after serving a year in Korea,
I started at the leadership school the next week, and...
all of us airmen are in this, like, big banquet hall.
Jordon was in front of me. I saw him walk in, and, like,
his whole posse walks in. And I'm like, "Who are these people?"
After selection, it's about a two-year program, all in all.
You got six months of what they call the apprentice course,
six months of just paramedic alone.
After I got out of that training, I got stationed at the
23rd Special Tactics Squadron, uh, in Herbertville, Florida.
In that place, what happened is I was doing some training there,
right? And that's when I... snapped my leg,
spun my leg on a jump, spin, snap,
like, foot turned into a golf club.
Finger outside the trigger well.
I'm gonna check left, check right,
and then we're going to the next one.
I was able to study a whole lot.
I made sergeant, went to the sergeant school, walked in
and saw the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life, yeah.
She was smart. She didn't want anything to do with me, right?
but I was clever and charming and patient, um...
I'm gonna put this in here.
Alright, perfect. You getting
- Well, the kids are better than me. - Yeah.
And so we went from...
just friends going through training
to over the course of a deployment,
like building a friendship, relationship.
I got home, I wanna say... either right in the beginning
of... November, somewhere in there the same year,
and, uh, we got pregnant with our son, Slade, that December.
Nice.
Yep, you're good?
Did you have close moments in combat?
Yeah, for sure.
- ...you were under. - Mm-hmm.
So like 9/11, 2001, I enlisted in 2003, right?
Like, we watched 9/11 happen, sitting in homeroom,
and so for us it was very... very much like...
"I'm definitely going to wanna make an impact if I can."
So I remember... the first time I got shot at,
the first time I shot somebody as well... on the ground,
we had five different teams of guys,
and we had went in and secured like this really big compound.
We're there to do a counter-terrorism job,
they're trying to kill us, we're trying to kill them, it's--
it's pretty simple, right? I understand why they hate us,
that stuff all makes sense to me. It's not lost on me,
but I'm called to do the job I'm supposed to do.
And so... we're getting ready to walk through,
and one of the guys that was more senior than me was like,
"Hey, we're gonna get shot at when we get out of here."
And I was like, "All right, sounds good."
And... he was right.
Reset trigger, we're good.
So...
I hear 'em...
coming off, and I'm like--
so I remember I dropped down,
and I look and I'm like, "Oh, this is surprising."
And then I can hear...
And I'm like, "Shit, that's bullets
coming by my ears, right?"
I'm, like, looking, and I'm like, "Okay."
I identify one of the guys that's shooting at us.
And, uh, I remember I pulled him up in sight,
and I just remember thinking I put my finger on the trigger,
and I'm like... "Alright... like, this is it.
I'm gonna take this dude's life."
And it wasn't overly difficult for me,
because... I literally could hear the rounds coming by me.
He's there to do a job. I'm there to do a job.
My job at the time was to kill this guy. He's trying to kill us.
It was pretty simple, and, uh... I shot the first one.
I definitely missed. It was a cold-bore shot. I missed.
And then, uh, the second round, I shot him.
It was clear I killed him.
And then, um... hmm...
...it's a weird sense of initial hesitation to shoot-- you know,
to shoot somebody. Um...
There's just like a...
...there's a-- a small risk analysis
that's running through your head.
That was the first time, and then, uh,
subsequent to that... yeah, plenty of times.
That was the easiest to remember, but... yeah, yeah,
guys trying to kill you, and you're trying to kill them.
I live in Douglasville... and I lived in...
like, not section-- specifically section housing,
just low-income housing, right?
Commercialized projects, if you will.
Everybody is broke, you know?
You had to go in at nighttime pretty much, 'cause...
there was a high-- high likelihood of crime
and those types of things. But, uh...
I don't have any memory of this, but... my parents,
my biological parents
split up when I was real young.
And then from there what happened is
my mom met somebody else.
I'm not gonna ever weigh more than 115.
No!
I'm super grateful for the man that my mom married, right?
So that's who I call "Dad."
It's... I-- I was adopted by him when I was 16 years old,
um, so my last name changed and...
Alright.
Aww! I love it!
He's the most impressive man I've ever met--
- But-- - Your stepfather?
Yeah, that's right, that's right.
And so, uh...
I-- it's just not even close. He's-- he's incredible.
Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this time together,
all the father's in the room, it's so special,
we're just so grateful that...
He was always very loving, and would definitely always, like...
help to let me think through these processes,
but he also didn't have a low standard either. You know?
And so, I'm super grateful for that, and my mom as well.
You know? She, uh, had a pretty rough upbringing.
Come on.
Both of them, I thought they did a... exceptional job as parents,
and, um... I'm super grateful for it.
My father, Jeff, was... uh, a lot different,
kinda in what he wh-- what did and what--
what that looked like day to day.
So, like... for me... it would have been
a greater injustice for me to not give credit
to who it was that was there and taught me
to ride a bike and all those things.
But that didn't mean that I hated my biological father.
It didn't mean that I disliked my biological father.
- Um... Where? - That right there.
That's not poison ivy.
- Yeah, pretty neat, huh? - Very nice.
I've been saying so.
- See, it may be rain. - What is that?
I know what it feels like to have a dad, right?
And that was Jeff, who's raised me since I was a child.
The same thing that my children feel with me,
I-- I know what that is supposed to feel like.
So... what do I call... you know, the relationship
that I have with my biological father?
I think the closest thing that makes the most sense
is like... an uncle? You know what I mean? Like, somebody
that you have a great affinity for, that you care about.
- Yeah, come on, let's head inside. - Yeah.
Listen listen
He was just young. He was just young and made a bad decision,
and I think... it's a decision most people make,
which is... tomorrow won't be here, right?
It's-- there's always a little more time
I'll get to... trying to make sure I invest
in this relationship down the road.
But there is no tomorrow. You know?
My dad worked really hard to be a great dad,
and at the same time, he worked about 16 hours a day,
five or six days a week.
And I remember thinking, as a child... "I love him,
I'm so grateful for him, he teaches me,"
and I also wish I saw him more.
I will call an ambulance if you need one before
- You'll call a ambulance? Okay. - If you need one.
And so when I got older, it's just-- by proxy,
I always thought...
"I wanna be successful as much as the next guy,
but...
18 years isn't that long."
So... Slade's gonna be 16.
I... think I could have made a lot more money
over the last 16 years,
for sure, as Jess could have too,
but I wouldn't have him the way he is.
Public school, they probably need it for their
They pulled it all out of schools, but yeah, it's crazy.
Jordon, what's the real reason why you, um...
decided to go to law school?
Biggest thing for me... was... COVID, more than anything.
They shut us down during COVID, as they did everywhere else,
you know? And we... understood...
why they shut us down
in the very beginning, you know? But then as it progressed,
it was pretty-- pretty interesting and pretty difficult
to see, like, why certain businesses were open
and why others weren't, and then we came to a point,
we had prayed about it, and we were like...
we're opening back up. Like...
if you wanna come down here and arrest me, you come on.
Looking at available material
we found all of this,
you know, and yet we still read through discovery...
America has the best of the broken systems.
That's what I think, right? So...
we're not perfect, but the American legal system
is better than everybody else's.
I was fine with whatever outcome that happened.
Like... I don't care.
I mean... whate-- If I had to sit in jail for a year
to do what's right, that's-- it is what it is.
At that point, it was like, "This is so crazy.
There's enough people that will eventually become intolerant.
They're going to either pick up a sword or a pen."
And so for us, we felt like... "I'm gonna get a law degree,
and then... we can, A,
stand up for people that otherwise couldn't, and B...
I now have the ability to not have to pick up a sword.
I can now pick up a pen and stand before."
Now to Jordon for the application.
Yeah, as Catherine stated already,
a company of the magnitude of Bayer should have known,
therefore they have intended to... introduce to the consumer
that these statements were reliable.
Do you think the law is logical?
I think parts of it are... very logical, and I think...
parts of it are just proof that humans are humans, and...
no matter what, people are flawed.
And... until you have a culture where everybody's
willing to be selfless and serve each other,
and at that point the law's not even needed,
then the best you can hope for is a good logical system.
That's a wrap.
How do you make it perfect?
How do you... get to this kind of Utopian outcome?
I don't think you do on this life.
It's like 2 a.m.
It's the coldest day in Texas in five years.
And the pool is where... you smash everybody.
Every time you're getting smashed...
they're... holding you under, guys are passing out,
pull 'em out, put them on the deck.
'Cause everybody's tough until you can't breathe.
I remember I was diving in. I'm like going under...
and it was just a transcended moment for me.
I'm swimming... I'm combing, I'm popping up,
and it's like it just landed on me.
I'm fucking unbreakable.
Once I had Slade there was no way I was gonna go--
go back to the military. Um...
Even when I first enlisted, I...
did not have aspirations to be a 20-year soldier.
And so for, uh, Jess and I, it was-- it was-- it was simple.
I had served my country honorably, and now
it was time to make sure that I... give all that I can
to help prepare this young man for the world.
We kind of made a list of all different jobs
when he was about to get out.
We had like a whiteboard, we had like--
kind of like what we have-- you see all around here.
We had a whiteboard, and on the whiteboard
we were like, "Okay, cool."
Like, "What jobs could we do where we're together
and we could raise kids?"
And like, we wrote down crazy options.
We had bail bondsmen,
we had like... own a gym.
I'm Jessie, if I haven't met you yet.
The route that we ended up choosing was probably
the sketchiest route in 2009,
but... it offered the most amount of time
to actually be my wife and son.
So right back here is where Jess, um, Miss Katie-Kate,
and Kristen are going to be going over some
mind-muscle connection, some glute growth...
And so we had this vision... of like a playground,
literally like an adult playground.
We're like, "Let's create an environment
that people want to come to".
Get the most out of your core exercises
and... grow your glutes.
You're in charge of that shit.
It is not in charge of you, ever.
If he tries to go into a squad...
He got home, and we were open like two weeks later.
I mean, we were like... literally working night and day.
But during this whole time, we lived in the gym,
so... we cut costs... on everything.
We sold our-- we went down to one vehicle,
but we didn't want to tell anybody we lived in the gym.
So... it was kind of like a secret to like,
"Oh, this is our office. Like...
is our office." But we lived there.
We lived in the gym for... two years, I believe.
Jess is...
uh, absolutely instrumental
to our success, period. I don't think--
I don't think it would have happened for me alone.
I'd have probably been contracting, but...
- Perfect. - Woo!
So I was the seller. I was
the one that would sell it, 'cause Jordon's like,
"I'm not doing that." I would coach, too,
but he would be more of the coach,
and I would be the seller.
Ready, set, go.
Um, I wouldn't say she was an introvert, but if you had to
put her... as a classification, she was an introvert.
But the minute we opened the gym, she's like,
"There's a job to get done here."
And... she did fantastic.
Three, two, one, go!
Back then in 2009, it was like...
"Make them puke, and they'll sign up."
This was before CrossFit.
I mean, CrossFit had just started.
But this was before any type of workout like that.
The workout was, like, kettle-bell swings, pull-ups,
um... some sit-ups,
maybe a run if they were really in shape.
We'd have them all come in one by one, and uh,
they'd try it out, they'd puke, they'd sign up like that.
And then they'd go tell, like, five more friends, like,
"You have got to do this workout."
"You've gotta do this workout. It's crazy."
And so, like, the next day, we'd have, like,
five more people that would come in.
We'd give them the workout.
They'd all throw up. They'd sign up.
And we had so-- I mean... we grew so fast.
And we did not think we were gonna grow fast.
We had a budget, and the budget was--
I think it was like we had three months.
If we didn't get 60 people in three months,
we couldn't pay our bills.
And so... we... just grinned, I mean...
And then slowly but surely, word of mouth,
just grew and just grew.
And we reached 100 members, like, so fast.
For us... the parts of the military that we loved...
we wanted to implement that in our business.
Okay, one, it has to make a difference in people's lives.
And then number two is, this place needs to be a place
that when you get off work, and you're wiped out,
and you're tired, and you go like...
"Man, I can't wait...
to go to the gym... where I'm going to feel uplifted."
Not, "I have to go to the gym."
"I want to go to this place."
"I want to be uplifted."
Mmm, real quick Brodie, go, "Test, test, test."
Test, test, test.
Sure, what do you need, chair?
You know, it's, uh-- it's caught, not taught.
For our kids... we didn't even say, "Do this."
We're just doing it, and they start squatting with you.
...do is, for...
You know, it's-- You already know this stuff, so...
just have fun, right? Presentation...
They see Mommy squatting, they wanna squat.
They see Daddy doing push-ups, they drop down to do push-ups.
...staying straight and we're staying very neutral.
For Slade, it was definitely natural.
Um... You know...
it was more modeling.
He-- he was with us all the time, and so we'd-- you know,
when we were living in the gym, a lot of times... I--
we'd finish class, so I'd go out and I'd be working on stuff,
and Slade would follow me, and I would have him
hold on the rings, he would hang on the rings...
and we would just play, like, literally just play.
And I thought, "Wow, like, kids can learn this.
Like... they're picking it up faster than adults."
What if you go-- What if you go like this, three...
...squish your arm.
I would go lighter than that.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I got it, got it.
So "Savage Patch Kids" is our fitness app,
our kids' fitness app.
I've had this dream for a kids' fitness app
for... probably eight years now.
I... have seen what it has done for my kids
and what strength training has done and how...
it has just... changed their lives in so many different ways.
And I feel for kids that don't have that...
you know, avenue. They don't-- they don't even know.
And I feel like that was kind of me as a kid.
I loved fitness. I l-- I would've loved
Savage Patch Kids app.
- Nice! - Oh, wow. Look at that form.
That's perfect knees over toes.
That is beautiful.
And so I thought, "How cool would it be
if we could create an app and we could teach kids from all over
the world how we taught our kids."
And... we did it, and we did it in a way
where... y-- like, maybe you're at home
and all you have is, like, a kettlebell or a dumbbell.
Well, that's fine. We can teach you.
We can build a strong foundation for you.
Two would be like, what?
Like a...
Back?
And the elbow's four?
What I've seen is only positives.
Their confidence is... insane.
You know, I think th-- for Brodie too,
especially being a-- a girl, she feels strong,
you know? she feels confident.
She feels like... "Okay, like, I got this in life.
I can-- I can go over there and pick up that barbell."
That gives her so much confidence, and I can see that.
And I see that in women in the gym every day.
So it's not about what you look like.
We've never done that with our kids.
It's never about... what they look like.
It's how they feel... about themselves.
Do they feel strong? Do they feel good?
So there are challenges with the app, for sure.
Um, one, I feel like is-- when we started our gyms,
we could go talk to people, right?
We could go and say, "Hey,
come to this gym, you're gonna love it."
Just for the next 12 weeks, the focus is going...
But with the internet, it's harder.
You only have-- people's attention spans are like...
that.
So to, like, explain something...
and only have a short amount of time
that people aren't gonna swipe... is a big challenge.
- Oh! - No, no, you can go ahead.
Number two... is getting parents to invest.
I mean, truthfully, it is.
A lot of parents wanna just... go take them somewhere.
And even if a parent doesn't know how to...
do a perfect dead-lift or a perfect squat,
you still... you still can learn,
and you still can grow, right?
You can do it with your kiddo.
Small instructionals... will yield results.
Because now I see Brodie and Slade, but I'm telling you,
at three and four, they did not move like that.
And I think pe-- people have a perception that,
"Okay, well... yeah, of course Brodie can do that cause she--
her parents own a gym and tha-- she moves like that."
Well, that's not true because... Brodie didn't move like that.
And it took us a lot of years
and a lot of patience, of course.
People are always going to say something.
And you might read 100 positive comments,
and you read one negative comment,
and it will ruin your day.
People, uh are always gonna think what they think.
I think the people that think kids shouldn't
work out are one of two things.
Either one, they genuinely believe that.
They think that there's like an epiphyseal plate issue
or growth plate issue, and kids working out
is gonna stunt their growth.
And the other people... are people that
either are not working in their kid's lives
or they feel inadequate about their own actions,
and it's a projection.
"You shouldn't do that," because they're unwilling to do it.
And... unfortunately, I think that that's the vast majority
that will often hide behind the, "That's bad for your kids."
Just-- Just, you know what? just relax... and keep it there.
Ready? Big jump.
We gave you just a ton of pointers
and advice and stuff, so we kinda put it into application.
It was super helpful.
All right, cool. So... what does this look like?
So let's take... just from...
what we were talking about on that high crush.
So everything is about... me being able to stand next to him.
As far back as the kids can remember,
they don't have a memory of not being... in the gym or active.
And I look at it more like...
when did you teach your kids to speak?
That's really the same thing.
We taught our kids to work out
the same way you teach them to speak.
Basic words, basic movements.
More complex words, more complex movements.
Two hours of jiu-jitsu training.
So the kiddos are gonna train no-gi,
so they'll train without their gis on,
and then they're gonna switch over to their gis,
and they'll do an hour of gi.
And then Jordon and I are gonna do an open mat session,
so, there'll be other adults there.
While the kids are competing in gis,
we'll be doing open mat jiu-jitsu in our gis, so...
Good? One, two.
That was
They're getting ready for the world competition for jiu-jitsu,
which is coming up in July.
So kids from all over the world come to compete
in Orlando in July,
and they battle for the number one in their age group,
their weight, and their belt.
We have taught our kids to have grit, right?
Like, we don't want our kids to be soft,
because the world is-- is tough.
Come on, Brodie!
Let's go! Get up, get up!
So we are so thankful when our kids lose at this age,
because we teach them it's not about losing.
It's not about losing.
We have kept zero medals.
Of anything they've competed in,
we've thrown every medal away, because it doesn't matter.
Because we don't care about that.
We're building their character, and they gotta know that
there's always gonna be another competition,
and they can't have that fear of the unknown,
because... that is what cripples people.
Hurry up, let's go!
Left, right, left, left.
My job is to help take care of you.
One!
And there's some shit going on in your environment
right now that I want you to pay attention to.
- Down. - Six!
If you don't pay attention to it long enough,
you're going to fucking die.
Nine!
Let's go, let's go!
Close your eyes. 30 seconds.
I want you to figure out, remind yourself, as the sun rises,
why is it that you are here?
- One, two, three, up! - Come on!
So the military needs special operators, right?
And so special operators, by nature, "are special."
They're gonna go do something that is unique.
And... you just basically need people that have
super high risk tolerance, right?
A week before Slade was born, I thought I was gonna die.
They launched us off on a hurricane
rescue mission off the coast of-- of Texas.
There was this 564-foot boat
that was listing-- it was taking on water.
And it's got these eight Chinese sailors
on board this boat, and they call for the Coast Guard.
Coast Guard's not gonna go. They call us. We're gonna go.
And... I remember they called me.
I'm at home, like, in pajamas, hanging out with Jess.
And like, "Hey, we need a-- a fixed-wing team leader.
Can you come in?"
I kiss Jess goodbye... and we get on the bird.
We're getting ready to go, and...
I, like, stop for a second,
and I'm, like... "I'm about to fly into a hurricane.
Once again, I'm staring at death, right?
I'm, like, looking at death, and I'm like... "Let's go."
Get on the-- get on the airplane. We fly out to Texas.
We get out over the water, and, dude, the view of it was nuts.
So we're looking out the back of the C-130,
and I remember I pull in the three guys that are with me.
I'm like, "Hey, guys...
chance of survival is not great.
You guys got families?
Anybody doesn't wanna go? I get it.
No-- you don't have to go."
And they're like... "Nah, we're going, dude."
I... hoped that my son is okay.
That was my thought, you know?
I'm never gonna see him.
I'm good with it. Let's go. And so I made the decision.
I was ready to go, and here's what happened. Praise God.
We're coming in on kind of the last little leg.
The storm's so bad that it ends up ripping
the windshield wipers off of the helicopters.
So they can't come in and hold a hover. They can't see.
So the mission ended up getting canceled at the like,
11th hour where we're looking at this, and it's like...
yeah, if we can't get off, there's no reason to go in.
In hindsight, now I get to look back, and I go, "Man,
God was so kind to me because... he let me just...
conquer all these things that, like,
I think plagued people for a lot of their lives.
I know I'm willing to die."
So I was gone about 300 days out of the year...
right? um...
But when I would come home, Jess was still the same adult.
She was-- we were-- we worked, we talked through things.
Then we had Slade, right?
And...
...he would drastically be a new person
every time I came home, right?
I watched him crawl from Afghanistan.
I watched him, you know, learn to walk from TDY...
and, uh, you know, being on different training things,
and...
...I did not feel it was responsible to bring...
a man into the world...
and leave him... to help sort through it himself.
- NASB. - Wait, say again?
- Where are we starting, Jay? - Uh, John 14.
What is a church? I guess it's a--
if you look at it from a legal standpoint,
well, in Christian America, it might seem-- mean something,
but... under the laws of what God's calling a church is,
me and you talking about Jesus is a church, you know?
And so John 14's a pretty interesting chapter.
So... to give the backstory to that, right? Before this...
in John 13, Jesus sits...
I've known since I was pretty young that
I had a unique, kind of personality.
So I didn't have like much... of an affinity for the church
or... any of those things.
Both my parents, I think, called themselves Christians,
and they definitely are now, but, um, we didn't go to church
probably for a couple reasons, but like... we were really poor.
And I remember... like, early... we went to a church
and... somebody had something to say to my dad
about the way he was dressed, right?
Calling him to account for, like, "Hey, don't you think you
oughta dress a little... nicer or whatever?"
And so... like, I--have always been super observant.
I even remember then, I'm like, "What a bunch of phonies.
What a bunch of hypocrites."
And so we actually didn't continue
to visit churches very much.
And so what God says in Romans is that...
the revelation of God and the creation of the world
is apparent to all men around you.
It would took probably about... two years, um, once he was out
and then he... became a believer.
And it's like-- I think that really helped him
to, you know, believe in God and understand that
there is a reason why things happen.
And so, you know, I was just praying
that something would happen. And then at the gym, which is funny,
a guy joined, and this guy was a believer.
And he was not like what... Jordon saw at church. He was different.
Jordon was like... "I'm gonna read the whole Bible." He goes,
"I'm gonna read the whole Bible 'cause I don't believe it's true."
"I'm gonna read this Bible to teach him a lesson."
And the other side of me, 'cause I think there's
a dichotomy in all of us,
the other side of me is like...
"Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there's...
something that's gonna change my life here.
Who knows?"
And she has made a commitment
to follow Christ and be baptized, is that right?
- Yes. - Awesome.
And so... I thought what we would...
So I started reading the book of John.
I read John 1.
And then in John 2... it's wild.
...in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
It was the first time for me, I was like, "Whoa!
That don't look like soft Jesus.
I could get down with that Jesus."
Yeah, I mean, we're two chapters in, and he's--
he-- he stands for something.
He read the entire Bible, and that's when he believed.
He's like, "No, I believe.
Like, it's-- it's true.
Like, I-- I see it."
Growing up in the streets of Atlanta gave me a short temper.
And so... as I, like, grew up, I had a very short temper
because I didn't have a tolerance built up to be able to
deal with those things, right? So I had to learn some of that.
And really what happened for me was... as I started
actually reading the Bible, and I made a commitment
shortly thereafter that I'd read the Bible, every single day.
And I have now for like 12, 13 years.
And the v-- the hole, the void...
that roller coaster happiness... closed. Right?
So I... feel a sense of peace and contentment
that materialism just can't fulfill.
Like... I can be in anything in life,
and it's perfectly okay with me.
And I feel complete.
The last year of our life, it was a
pretty... interesting year, I would say. Um...
After COVID, we kind of... changed our life,
sold our house, lived in an RV for an entire year.
Living in an RV full-time is... not like going
on vacation in an RV.
It was scary
"Are you not entertained?"
- No, I'm not. - Brodie!
It's supposed to be fun. When we bought the RV,
we definitely... still found moments of fun.
And it was a collective decision, but like,
"Hey, I'm gonna uproot you from your house,
and we're gonna go travel around," and kind of like
the materiality of what that looks like can change. But...
I get to live in every socioeconomic class, and you know what I learned?
None of them are the ones that make you happy.
It's your mindset, who you're with--
So you have a lot of memories as a family.
Yeah, I knew...
that this time was not gonna stop,
and I had better... take advantage of
spending time with them. And so... that was the goal.
It was super fun, but it was challenging, of course, too,
because, you know, we all kind of work from home.
We do school from home. So... you know,
a year was-- a year was enough. A year was awesome.
Hey, buddy! Hey, cutie!
- Is it super hot? - Very, very hot.
It's hotter than the springs, definitely.
So when we came back from our year of RV life,
we... were trying to find a spot to live,
and the economy is pretty rough right now.
So we've... you know, been praying
for the last couple years to find...
the right spot that fits our family, and we finally found it.
Alright, so we are gonna go to see the goats first
and probably the chickens.
I would say the last year was a lot of hard work.
And patience, a lot of patience, for sure.
And I speak goat.
- Then you wanna check out the chickens, bro? - Yeah.
So that's Cock Diesel. He's our bigger rooster.
And then I forgot his name.
- What's his-- He's-- - I--
Is it Russell Crow?
Look at that, man. You gave yourself no option
and just rocked it.
It's our nature!
- One last big one! - Ah!
All right. Warm back in.
See those three lines.
Keep breathing on.
Take all that ice off you.
Come on, this is not gonna change anything
Keep your head underneath. Keep the head underneath!
It was after COVID, right? We did the RV trip.
And, um...
I ended up getting, like, a weird rash from jujitsu.
Like, you can get a lot of, like, different things--
- Mm-hmm. - It's jujitsu, right?
And so I had this weird rash. I went to the doctor.
He gave me a pill. I took it for ten days.
And I told Jordon... "I don't feel right."
You know, I don't feel... right.
You know, it's like you drink alcohol or something.
And you're like, intellectually, you're still there...
But, like, chemically, you know things have changed.
It's like that in the exact opposite direction.
It's so cold!
Welcome! Come on in!
My hormones tank. I've never had an issue.
I've never been ultra emotional. I've never been depressed.
Like, I've never understood-- "What do you mean you're depressed?"
- Like, just do something, right? - Mm-hmm.
She was just, like... in a perpetual sense of anxiety.
She loved me. She was still great to the kids.
But I could just see the pain in her.
And it was terrible for me, for sure.
I felt ultra depressed. I was like...
I d-- [chuckles] I don't know what's going on.
Jesse's one of the most stoic people I've ever met.
That's been her personality forever.
I re-- Dude, I remember...
we were in Arkansas.
This is so unlike Jess, but...
That...
- ...and like that. - Oh!
You can eat it.
And she's like, "Hey, I'm just, I-- I just gotta
go for a walk or something."
And so...
she's gone for a walk. She's walking around.
It's been a little longer than, like, I expected to see her.
I find her, and she's, like... crying.
She goes-- she's like...
"...I f-- I feel so off." She goes, "Like I--
I don't even care if I live or die right now.
And I know that's not normal. That's not right."
Like she-- intellectually, she knew it wasn't right.
But, like, emotionally...
I think we just started praying. I started praying with her.
You know, when your hormones tank like that, you--
it's rough for women. You know, it's really-- it was really, really hard.
Like I said, I've never been depressed. And now I understand
when people say that they have depression.
I never thought, like, "Oh, I don't wanna... be here."
But I was like, "Jordon, I'm having thoughts of, like...
I don't care."
I realized that there was no level of convincing her.
I just had to be more certain that she was gonna be okay
than she was uncertain.
And so I just... leaned into the fact that...
"Jess... I know you're afraid, I'm not. You're gonna be okay."
And... 10,000 times later, her cycle
ended up kicking back in.
And, uh... she felt drastically different,
you know? And-- and a lot of stuff changed,
uh... It was definitely a hard time for her.
It's hard for... all of us.
I love her, and...
...as shitty as it is, and as shitty as it feels,
I knew that she was gonna come out
a level of stronger that she's never...
even experienced herself...
And she did.
Ladies and gentlemen...
Awesome. So today we're out here with Brent Riviera
and the AMP World crew.
They're gonna be going through a little bit of a day
in the life of the Bowens.
- Did I put my hand in front of your face? - Yeah, but it's okay.
- Oh, snap! - Look at that!
Go up, I'll take a picture.
That's pretty wild.
Alright, close out.
Hey guys.
- What's up? - How's it going? Hi, how are you?
Yeah, man, we're having a lot of fun, uh...
It's obviously a whole lot different than, like,
what we're used to on a day in and day out.
So, like, so much of what we do is, like...
realistically what you can integrate
into your life, what's a lot of fun.
So what we're doing here is just a giant caricature of that.
- There you go! - Yo!
- Twelve is actually impressive. - Nice, nice!
Two!
Yeah!
It's, like, so much fun because we just get to do, like...
out of the ordinary-- well, we do stuff that we do, but, like,
out of the ordinary, it's just...
- So fun. - So much fun.
All right, here we go. Three, two, one.
The Bowen family has been doing fantastic.
Um... they've been absolutely killing it.
We've been, um, filming a lot
these last few hours, and they've been just on it.
Um, they've been quick with, like, the jokes
and things like that.
Come on, come on. Come on!
Yeah. Come on. Come on!
They have been literally amazing
right from the start, the get-go.
They've been just... providing the lines.
They're so, um, enthusiastic about being here and...
be a part of this. So, uh, yeah, they're doing a great job.
Never skip leg day!
- Oh... - Good job!
Two!
- I'm trying! - Three!
- Didn't it feel great? - Yeah, I feel great.
Come on, hurry up!
We're gonna miss our next time-fall, and instead
we're gonna stay here through that iteration.
So hurry the fuck up. Let's go.
Alright, good.
Up.
Down.
- Let's go. - Hey!
Four!
Five!
Stop! Hurry it up. Hurry it up.
Hurry it up. Hurry it up.
London Bridge is falling. Let's go!
Shimmy down. Shimmy down.
Hey, you either have to do it or you get to do it.
Mindset is everything. Where we at?
Give me a ruck. Let's go. Hurry up.
Let's go. Double time. Let's get going.
Let's go. Let's go.
Come on, let's go.
Let's go!
- Yeah! - Never quit!
I gotta lay down. I gotta lay down.
Coswell, get up! You're a medic
Watch out. Everybody move, please.
So after the military, this was probably a few years after
he got a call from a friend that said...
"Have you heard of anti-human trafficking?"
I know the slides they made us do in the military.
That's supposed to be a thing.
So human trafficking, for, like, lack of a--
a better definition, is...
exploiting humans for monetary gain.
In the States, the American legal system
is kind of difficult to even help anybody,
even people that are in these situations.
So where a lot of the anti-trafficking and stuff
happens is overseas as well.
overlapping dialogues speaking in foreign language]
Went to Africa. He went to-- we went to Uganda in Africa.
Uganda... is interesting, that's for sure.
Beautiful country. Beautiful people. Interesting.
We got called there... because we were hearing, like, reports
of child sacrifice... kind of the witch doctor thing,
and massive amounts of young women, kind of teenage women
that were getting shipped to Saudi Arabia.
So we got into the country.
We ended up working with some really local trusted assets,
and, weirdly enough, we helped them build some businesses.
Businesses for good guys to give the-- the women
jobs and stuff to do in-- in Uganda.
If they don't have some way to have an economy,
then they're gonna let themselves get shipped off.
So we-- we did a pretty wild system--
and that's kind of the soft way. It's like,
sometimes you wanna to just go kick in a door
and save people, and sometimes you're like,
"We gotta figure out how to solve this problem another way."
Yeah, say hello.
- Say hello to Brodie. - Hello to Brodie.
Yeah!
He went to Nepal, um, and then he went to Ukraine
with the anti-human trafficking, and that was... incredible.
I don't really ask too much about that because
I don't want to know the details because it is pretty...
rough and sad.
Before the war started...
there's American non-profits
that were already working with orphanages in Ukraine
to try to get kids to, you know, um, be adopted to...
different American, uh, citizens or just to find homes.
When the war started, nobody cared about them, of course.
And so these non-profits in America were like...
"How are we gonna get these people out of the danger zone?
'Cause like, all the way over in the east."
We got contacted by... these different non-profits,
a multitude of them, and they were like,
"Hey! can you guys go in and get them out?"
"We've got, like, hundreds" and, they had hundreds
of widows and orphans that are trapped, and...
we got the wildest reports.
Like, you know, all the bad stuff you kind of hear about
in terms of like... people being raped, all it-- it's all real.
It's all happening, right?
And so... I go tell Jess, I'm like, "Hey, Jess...
how do you feel about... me going to Ukraine
to get in between the floats," that's what they're called,
the forward line of troops.
So you got the Russian troops coming in,
Ukrainian troops coming in.
They're trying to kill each other.
This is where we're going in to pull people out.
Gather these people up, bring 'em back.
Gather them up, bring 'em back. Gather them up, bring 'em back.
Put them on trains. Get them to the West.
I'm like, "Jess, how do you feel about that?"
And she's like...
"Did you pray about it?" And I did.
"Yeah, sounds good."
Oh my God, I'm not gonna die
'cause God told me to do it. I'm sure of it.
Traveling towards the capital.
Current state of situation is this dark.
We were in six days after the war started.
The entire country's blacked out.
There's artillery coming down.
Russian tanks on fire.
Shit's bad.
Danger left and right.
Trying not to get shot by the Ukrainians, right?
Trying not to get shot by the Russians.
And we didn't have a dog in the fight.
We were just there to pull people out.
All right, Redcon fam, heading up.
You can probably hear the... air raids in the background.
So they're dropping, actively dropping right now.
Too easy. And we're going' get it in.
If you wanna know a wild moment from that one,
we pull up to this house. We get out.
We can hear... on the distance.
We can hear what's happening. We can hear the tanks.
We can hear stuff happening.
And we pull up and we're like, "Hey, come on."
And... there's a husband and wife there.
She has her children.
And then she has these orphans with them, right?
And I'm watching her husband and her say goodbye to each other.
And it was unreal, man, 'cause it was like...
...for sure this fucking dude's dead right now, right?
It's like, how close they were.
And, like, I got to just-- weirdly enough,
I watched them, like, say goodbye...
...with a certainty, 'cause the men couldn't leave.
So-- I mean, war sucks.
We get them in the van.
Uh, We get them back behind the lines.
And it was just like...
...hours of silence. I mean, there's nothing you can say.
I mean, you don't even know what to say, you know?
Just to watch them say goodbye was crazy. Yeah...
And I remember driving, as-- I mean, I was scared.
I had a very real sense that this might be it.
Guys, so, it's 5:30 in the morning.
We're headed towards-- towards Kiev.
As you see, it is absolutely pitch-black.
So I wasn't scared. I was just like
taking on the magnitude of like...
"Dang, all right, Slade's this old. Brodie's this old.
If I get killed right now...
it's probably gonna be all right. God's got a plan."
But it was like, "I'm probably... this could be it."
Because it's-- it was nuts.
"I'm probably going to fucking die right now."
And I remember asking God, like, "God...
...I feel like...
I got more to put into those kid's life before now,
so what's gonna happen?"
Because I don't want to be foolish either.
I don't-- I'm not the guy who goes like...
"I gotta go save people. Fuck my family."
That's not me.
I'm the guy that goes, "If God tells me to go,
I'm gonna go."
And now we're coming into the 11th hour where
the real-- the real hell's about to start.
And I just remember going like, "God, if I'm gonna go in here
and not serve your will... I don't wanna do that.
So do you want me to go?"
And it was like...
...the fire of certainty.
Honestly, the biggest thing I prayed about,
that I wouldn't have to kill anybody.
I'm here to... just save people.
I don't have a dog in this fight.
I hope that nobody puts me in a position I gotta kill 'em.
'Cause I would, I was coming home.
Like, I'm gonna figure out how to get back
to Jess and the kids.
God won't have His glory made manifest by cowards.
Life is war.
It is war.
There's deception and evil out there.
To avoid criticism...
...say nothing...
...do nothing...
...be nothing.
All pain is temporary.
It doesn't matter what's before you.
Success is the only way.
You burn the ships and you take the island.
You wanna be great?
You wanna make a name for yourself from your actions
and not... the way that you describe yourself?
Then that's gonna involve...
...natural fears.
That is the path to greatness.
- Two! - Down!
Three!
- Down! - Four!
- On cue! - Now!
- Five! - Down!
- Six! - On your backs! Move, kids, let's go!
On your backs, now!
Feet at the wall! Let's go!
We're covered!
Stand the fuck up! Let's go! Stand up!
Stand up!
Turn that fucking music down.
Turn the music down!
Team, about-face.
Gentlemen... be a light in the world.
As you step forward, you are that motherfucker.
- Hooyah? - Hooyah!
Thank you guys for your time.
If you guys want some feedback, hooyah.
But right now, let's put our hands together.
You guys fucking got it done.
Bring it in.
You are a dog on a different level.
I have seen you in dog fights with people.
You have an uncommon level of being comfortable
with the uncomfortable.
I just encourage you to stay in that setting.
What... I want to do after I graduate is go be a PJ
like my dad because... I like that job
where it's like helping people.
And then probably after the military, I wanna go become like
a lawyer like my dad so I can help people there too.
Yeah, I am definitely gonna be sad when he leaves,
but I know that he will be having fun.
So as long as he's having fun, I'm glad that he's going
to be in the military
'cause I know he wants to do that,
and he, like-- he loves survival and he loves stuff like that.
So, I will be sad, but I'm glad he'll be having a good time.
You know, you're looking at going in the military.
- What's that look like? - Definitely be a PJ.
- Yeah. - Probably do the reserve so I can do school as well.
Why do you think you want to be a Jay?
Be able to jump out of planes,
- do med stuff - Mm-hmm.
- to help people. - Yeah, yeah.
Scenarios like rescues and stuff.
Yeah, obviously your mom and I believe in you.
Going into the world...
you're gonna experience a lot of challenges.
But most of those will be to try to get you... to be...
...different than the way that you know you're supposed to be.
And some people will hate you.
Such is life.
What do you think will be
some of your biggest challenges as you press forward?
What do you think selection is going to be like?
Do you think it's going to be similar
to the Never Quit course?
- Probably, mostly. - Yeah, right?
You're gonna walk in,
and there will be guys that are in better shape than you, right?
Like, I had Olympic swimmers there.
- Yeah. - Incredible shape.
But...
...they lack the characteristic of selflessness
to the point of death.
Jesus says, "Go sell your tunic and buy a sword,"
in the same way that you have to be prepared
to be capable of violence
so that you can be peaceful.
- Yeah. - You know what I mean?
You know, it's funny, um...
If you ask any operator, they'll tell you the same thing.
"Most of my memories are of our epic failures."
Whenever I got out of the military,
you the-- the absolute central reason for that was?
- No - It was you... right?
So I'm gone 300 days out of the year at the time,
and the reason I got out was because...
I was shucking my responsibility
to not give you the character that I believed that
should have arrived to you, right?
The greatest accomplishment that I can have in this life
is to develop character in my children.
And when I look at your character,
you're so far ahead of where I was at your age,
like 15 years ahead.
You know, the sky is the limit for you, man.
You can do anything that you wanna do
so long as you will be selfless, maintain discipline,
and hold your integrity in the face of all adversity.
Walk softly and carry a big stick, son.
Nobody... is going to live your life but you.
- Yeah - So you can't live your life...
for the perception of others.
- You know what I mean? - Yeah
- I love you, man. - Love you, too.