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Chapter 1: Who is Shawn Ryan and what is his background?
This was like a year and a half ago. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. But no, dude, I'm pumped to have you here. Sean Ryan, this guy's become like an absolute inspiration to like millions of people. I know you're in the Navy, you're in the CIA, so much military, you know, experience and stuff like that.
And now you started a podcast and I think you've just obviously become like a help to so many people and inspired so many people. Did you ever think that like back then, did you ever think you'd be doing like a podcast now that's so successful?
No, definitely not. I didn't, I didn't even like talking to people. So I still get nervous for these damn things. Yeah. Do you?
A little bit. Yeah.
Yeah.
You're considered a legend too. So you always want to do a good job, right? Yeah. If you guys have not tried out the prize picks app, you got to download it right now. You guys know me. I've tried every single app when it comes to firing on sports and prize picks is by far my favorite. What I love about PrizePix is instead of choosing teams, you're choosing individual players.
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Chapter 2: How did Shawn Ryan transition from the Navy to podcasting?
Yeah.
Every day, all day long. I was always into, like, GI Joes and shit, even as a kid. And the military, I just always had a draw to the military. I wanted to go to war. I didn't know what that looked like. And so then I started looking at special operations stuff, Marine reconnaissance. Nobody would take me because I was little. Nobody really took me seriously. I was probably like about 30 maybe.
And the Navy recruiter stuck his head out and was like, hey, have you ever thought about being a SEAL? And I was like, what's that? So he gave me some pamphlets. I went home, studied it, went to the library. We didn't have the internet at the time and checked out all the books, started renting movies about SEAL teams, the National Geographic and Discovery Channel stuff was coming out.
And so I was like, yeah, let's do this. And I wanted to make my dad proud, man. I just always felt like a failure being the oldest. And just fucking everything up. You know, all I really cared about was booze and chicks.
Yeah. I'm still in that phase. I'm getting over that phase.
Hey, good for you, man. Just getting over it. It took me a long time to get out of that phase.
So six years in the Navy, what was that like?
You know, I went to boot camp. That was kind of a joke. And then went to Bud's. That was really hard for me. Got through that, went to SQT, went to jump school, and then showed up at SEAL Team 8 only to find myself to go to Europe, to Germany. So more booze and more chicks, which was great. I was just like, man, I didn't go through all this training to – Booze with Germans.
Beat people up at Oktoberfest and shit. And so I had made my decision to get out then. And then we got back and then we went to Afghanistan. We did some stuff in Afghanistan. It was right after Red Wings happened. So Red Wings was the Lone Survivor movie with Marcus Luttrell. And so it just wasn't like a great time. You'd think we'd go over there and just fucking kill everybody.
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Chapter 3: What are some of Shawn Ryan's most memorable interviews?
All right, if you guys have been following me, you've been seeing I am trying my best with all the traveling, all the partying to try and stay in the best shape I can. A few years ago, you guys saw me do my 120 day transformation. I followed a very, very strict and effective workout program that was designed by my coach, Todd Norman. This guy's an absolute expert in the industry.
He has a ton of experience and he designed my workout program from scratch. And that was me being on the road, drinking every week, not access to good food. So I basically told him, Todd, we got to make this program available to everybody. I've partnered with him on TNMLifestyle.com. Fill out a quick quiz. It's totally free.
We're accepting a very limited amount of clients because this is one-on-one coaching. If you're chosen, you're going to get a call from a trainer. and create a completely custom workout and diet plan for you. Diet's the most important part. You look good. You feel good. I feel like that translates to everything else in life.
So also guys, while I was in India, I ran a fucking marathon too, which my trainer Todd actually helped me train for as well. We also have marathon programs available now on TNM. So if you want to run a marathon like I did, you can get a completely custom tailored plan depending on what level you're at to train for a marathon as well, which is pretty cool.
Then when you get into the Gulf of Aden up into the
suez canal um that's kind of when you're you're you're ready for some shit to happen i did one trip and then um the agency got a hold of me and wanted me to contract directly for them without the companies so that what they would do is they would like recruit the best guys supposedly the best guys and so i went back to the agency doing that they actually hired me like two weeks after i got arrested in miami
What'd you get arrested for?
2012.
Okay. Is that resolved now? Yeah.
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