this little girl comes to her mother and says mom where do we come from and the mother says well we came from God but then God created Adam and Eve so we came from Adam and Eve and she being smart goes to her father and says dad where do we come from and he says well there was a big bang and then the monkeys came and then we came so we came from the monkeys so she's confused she goes back to her mother says mom you told me we come from God or my father tells me we come from the monkeys and the mother says well child it's actually very simple I told you about where my family came from he told you where his came from where did your family come from my came from God did you come from God hey man one of my healthy fears that I think God has given me and given to every person but not everybody utilizes is the fear of heights and that fear probably came when I was in a silverwood at the panic plunge and they told me it will be fun and those of you who don't know panic plunge is you just thank God for your life and I remember I sat in there locked myself in and it goes really slowly 140 feet high and then there comes that click yeah that click and it drops you you know it's not fast it's just 47 miles per hour but those 47 miles it feels like you're gonna lose your soul and you scream and you yell and you and you come out of that and I remember after that day that's when I said from this day on no one will ever manipulate me lie to me push me make me belittle me but I'm not ever going on these kind of crazy things and but I have one of my guys here who who's not like me and spirit of fear has not occupied his life in a healthy way and he was single and a little bit in a crazy edge at that time of his life and so he decided go in skydiving and actually I borrowed his video so I'm going to show you a little video it's just a few seconds when just meet the video kill the aria and so this is Martin over there with another gentleman hanging on the top of him and you have to pay actually to do this and so supposedly he's having fun his father didn't know he was doing this yeah because there's a completely waste of time and also you can ruin your life by doing this you can lose your life and so but they said that this is fun it's interesting I want you to see that a few things that are happening here is one in order to skydive you had to have a guy on the top of him that's one of the reasons why I'm not going skydiving no guys in the top of me but the second the second secret to skydiving is that you do have to have a little balloon over there they call it parachute otherwise you will have the thrill of your life which will last 45 seconds and will end you in a casket and fortunately for Martin he did have the guy on the top and he also had a parachute and because of that he landed safely and he is still here with us his legs work his voice wasn't really working today but his legs still work and not only he survived but he actually got married after that and and everything worked out really well so for those of you who are trying to get married try skydiving it can improve your chances when god designed relationships he designed them with a thrill inside of them god designed marriage god designed physical bodies and god created us to be sexual beings god created us and he put thrill within our life when he designed us to have the idea that god designed us to be people who are bored and people who are not enjoying our life will not be consistent with the scriptures but with god's design as god who designed us to be the people who have this thrill in our relationships and have this you know crush or this warm feeling that goes in when you fall in love and when you you know have these adventurous things in life god designed these things to happen to us but they can happen to us just like skydiving you can have a thrill skydiving but you can also have a thrill that ends in the funeral or you can have a thrill that ends with the video all depends on will you go into that aeroplane with another guy and with the parachute and if you go into the aeroplane into skydiving without another guy and without a parachute you'll still have a thrill a lot of it oh no don't ever tell people if you don't have a parachute you won't have an exciting dive they will have an exciting dive oh they will it's like people who say if you don't have god in your life you will not have you know there there will not be a certain fun in life of course there will be a certain fun in life there are certain fun in alcohol there are certain fun in drugs there are certain fun in nightclubs even though it lasts little but it's still there there is a lot of fun in diving without a parachute the problem with that fun is that it shortly quickly gets out of shadowed by the fact that when the fun comes to an end and it always does come to an end you have to land on your feet and you can't when god designed relationships he designed them in such a way where your thrill ends without a casket without a funeral where the thrill doesn't destroy the drill of your life where the thrill of relationship where the thrill of that excitement doesn't destroy anything else satan on the other hand he knows our desire for the thrill he knows our desire for the excitement he knows our desire for infatuation for love he knows that it's god's given and what he offers to us is he offers to us the thrill he offers to us the excitement he offers to us the infatuation all of it and he says if you go with me you will have that but the only way you can have that is if you throw away the parachute and get rid of the instructor because the instructor will limit your fun and the parachute will slow down your fun get rid of the parachute get rid of the instructor and dive in and you will have an awesome time he offers the thrill every single day even right now as we're sitting 30,000 people are viewing pornography $3,000 is being spent every single second on viewing pornography the average age for a person to be exposed to pornography is no longer 14 but the now is 11 the day where pornography is viewed the most in the United States is Sunday and the least it's un-thanksgiving this week state of Utah declared a health emergency because the state of Utah the residents of that state view pornography more than any other state in the United States and today it's this week it's been declared as a health crisis because Satan offers a thrill without a parachute and without an instructor and he makes it seems like the less of parachute you have and by getting rid of the instructor you are going to have greater and more amazing excitement and thrill along this guy is already dead Paul Paul Hovery or Hovery he was a radio personality really famous radio talk guy and he was sharing once about these guys how Eskimos how they killed wolves and he shared a very interesting story about how they would not attack wolves directly but take a knife with a very sharp blade and cover it with a layer of blood and they would cover it with a layer of blood let the blood dry up then cover that layer again and cover that layer again cover it for about three to five times and they would go into the woods and stick that knife into the ground and abandon that knife and because a wolf you know has a craving inside and it tastes blood from afar a wolf has this craving for a thrill for that excitement for that for that it's excitement to him so he quickly goes in and he comes close to that knife and he begins to lick that knife and he begins to lick that knife more and more and the thrill kicks in and the excitement kicks in until licking that he's not recognizing that he's beginning to lick a warm blood and it's his own blood because the knife that was in the ground is already in his own mouth and the wolf dies and that's exactly what the enemy uses we have a natural desire for relationships we also have a natural desire for sex god made us into physical beings if god did not create a natural desire he would have put wings on you and he would have removed certain body parts but he placed those parts in you and didn't give you wings which means that you are a human you're not an angel and you should stop being an angel but with that said you must also understand you are not an animal an animal lives by their urges an animal doesn't have self-control i mean i know you've been telling your cat to do that but no self-control in their kingdom whatsoever no self-control in the dog's kingdom because they are animals they don't have spirits you and i do and so we must understand that god created us with this natural desire and what the enemy does is he wants to give us something that looks like that and lie to us and tell us that the only really way to live the most thrilling life is to throw away all of god's restraints throw away god out and go and satisfy yourself and listen you will be satisfied you will have the thrill but with the funeral but with the consequences that will make the thrill be the most regrettable thing about your life at that time it will seem like the most exciting thing but without god and without his word the most exciting things becomes the most regrettable things that eventually people testify here and say i thank god he rescued me from that sex is not the problem lust is you know what lust is lust is the athlete's foot it when it's itches and you scratch it to relieve the itching and the itches more you scratch it hoping it will go away but it only intensifies and that's what the devil's plan is and today we are here and the devil doesn't want me to talk about what i'm gonna talk about because uh we're gonna slap him left and right and i know some breakups might happen after this service i know some uh brothers will be left and abandoned and i know some sisters will have to lean on jesus perhaps that's not my intent at all to cause breakups or i just want people to get married that's but i want people to stay happily married but for that to happen we must also deal with this issue we must today settle it in our relationships and before even we get into our relationships of god's way of doing things and the god's way is not to steal your thrill the guy who was jumping with martin his goal wasn't to choke martin his goal wasn't to you didn't see a sour face on him you didn't see this grin you know i am mad because martin is jumping you didn't see that you see you saw excitement the guy was ecstatic the guy was pumped actually he was the one recording everything so that martin can replay it and so that i can talk about it he was not there to limit his thrill he was there to make make sure he has the most thrill and when the thrill is over and it always gets over that he can help him get on his feet see god's goal is not just to help you fall in love god wants to help you live in love you can fall in love with anybody and nowadays anything but live in love my friend that is a completely different story but to walk in love that is a completely different story and you need more than hollywood and batch bachelor series you need jesus christ you need the god's word you need god's power and god's spirit you need a lot of deliverance a lot of community groups a lot of home groups and a lot of jesus can somebody say amen and so i want to look at one guy today who decided to jump from the plane unfortunately he didn't have an instructor i didn't have a parachute it's in the bible and this is second samuel chapter 13 i'm not gonna read that whole chapter it's this guy named amnon i'm gonna call him adrenaline junkie amnon adrenaline junkie amnon let me give you just a little bit of the background about amnon amnon he was the son of king david everyone knows david david is like george washington of israel he's the you know thomas jefferson he's the big guy of israel everybody knows him he's the best king and david has a kid he has actually quite few kids but the first kid that he had his name was amnon now david at this time is 53 years of age amnon at this time when we read about him he is 22 years of age and the bible tells us about this amnon it doesn't even tell us what his ambitions and his goals are because we know what his ambitions are he is the king's kid you know what that means in those days it simply means he's the next king because the king is not a president that he has to go you know get campaigns and get everybody to vote for him his party to vote for him in those days you're a king you got a son and your son whether he likes politics or not he becomes next king whether he has a gpa at all or he went to school whatever he does it doesn't matter he could be he could be mental and stable he's going to be a king and so this guy is already a king he doesn't even have to do anything to be a king everything is ready for him he just needs to wait few more years his dad is going to retire he will take the kingdom he's the guy every dude in israel wish to be like he is the guy every girl in israel wish to be married to even if that would mean sharing him with 40 other women because as a king you owned everything you didn't get some a hundred or three hundred thousand dollar salary like a president your salary was everyone anybody what anybody had that's yours taxes that was your money i mean this guy is loaded he has everything going for him his daddy was the man of god his daddy searched for god he wasn't perfect but he was after god and amnon the bible tells us about him he starts like this he says that amnon was in love doesn't tell us nothing about him just the fact that introduces him at 22 years of age that he falls in love and there's a problem with this love story one is that he falls in love with tomorr let me tell you about tomorr tomorr is 15 and tomorr is his half sister so little complications that's where it's complicated came from very complicated 22 years old and a 15 year old girl and he babu says he falls in love with her and the scripture says and it was improper means it was not right for him to have her but a guy is going to be a king a king god i used to do what he needs to do and wants to do and instead of obeying god's commandments instead of asking advice from god instead of going into his devotional time instead of going before god and say lord god these feelings are there but i know your words as otherwise can you give me some patience and love instead of going to some mentors amnon he has a friend and he asks his friend what who what he should do and his friend gives him an advice very terrible advice amnon follows that advice and next thing that happens is this story ends tragic i have just two points from this story that i want to leave with you one is don't let the thrill substitute your parachute don't let the thrill substitute your parachute i've mentioned it before the enemy will always say that a parachute will kill your thrill if you follow god's commandments you will miss under fun if you live your life according to god's rules you will miss on the excitement therefore jump out without the parachute and hope to have the most fun you can and when you're getting to the bottom call god to be there to pick you up because you don't want to of course have a funeral and that's what the enemy lies to us and that's exactly what this amnon believed he falls in love and he becomes sick with feelings the Bible says he start losing weight he becomes physically sick actually because he's so in love and instead of going to god's word he begins to see his feelings as an indication that this is right and does that which his feelings tell him even though it's contrary against the word of god and eventually he ends up making a mistake that he regrets as christians we must understand our standard is not our feelings our standard is the word of god as christians we must understand is the measuring line for us is not our infatuation just because it feels right it doesn't make it right just because it feels so good it doesn't make it so good were you in love at the age of 14 man it felt right you knew you're gonna get married to the person whose name you don't remember now but how many sleeps you missed you lost your appetite you were losing weight or some of you were gaining weight at that time because you were so excited and there was not one thought in your mind this could ever go wrong this person is perfect two weeks later you found someone else so by now being 2024 you can come to one conclusion your feelings are not consistent they are so unreliable when a married man begins to throw an eye to another woman that is his friend because his marriage is struggling and those feelings become so real and they so they're so strong my friend just because it's real it doesn't make it right and just because it feels good today it does not mean it's good for you and that's a simple truth you have to embrace today because the devil replaces your emotions with God's word God's word holds the heaven and the earth your emotions cannot even hold one hour without switching you have a bad day go drink coffee emotions changed you have a bad day somebody gives you 50 dollars your emotions go through the roof your emotions cannot hold anything they're like this up and down and when you begin to put your life on them instead of the word of God push the parachute out and say no I'm gonna go for the thrill I don't need the parachute I don't need God's word to tell me who I should be with it's my life I can do it on my own my feelings my heart will lead me well it led you last time and it wasn't really good today we live in a generation where love is God supreme court has supreme court has defined if you're in love it's right today in california people are going to court who want to marry their animals it's there are those and studies have been done already proving that there is such a thing as a healthy thing when a man an old man has an attraction for a little child universities have done studies already proven to be right and you will see why is it wrong for them to love if it's not wrong for you to love the problem we have in our generation is we made love the standard God is our standard as Christians love is very important love is very valuable but my friend if I will begin to do everything that I loved I wouldn't be here today because I also like crispy cream donuts my stomach admires them and I get a crush every time I look at them and yes my I get this feeling this rush and this excitement but the problem is there is these doctors and there is these scientists who keep telling me that I shouldn't have it because it will destroy my life and so what I should do is just silence all of them and go and eat if I could I would eat crispy cream for the morning for lunch and for dinner why do not not not do that not because I do not want that it's because I do not allow my wants to determine what's healthy for me and I look at that broccoli and I know that that thing was made somewhere close to Hades but the doctors say that is what's healthy for you so therefore my feelings have to take a backseat and broccoli has to end up in my plate that's how it is with relationships you cannot let your feelings bake take the decision for you you can't throw the parachute out and simply live with this notion that listen if it feels right it must be right that's not how it is because somebody say amen yes you will have the thrill but it will ruin the drill of your life it will end everything else in your life and that's not what God wants for us now you may say well it's a hundred percent right blood we you know we shouldn't be marrying those of you know maybe same sex we shouldn't definitely never be marrying animals we shouldn't never be doing these things but let's leave that out for us what about those that when the word of God makes it clear for us that you shouldn't be in a relationship with someone who doesn't share your values and your belief system but what do we do but we're in love but he's republican but he said he'll change but I'm gonna flirt to convert it will work but I can really change him and then what we do is we make all of these excuses and we drop the parachute out and we're running for the thrill and we're not even thinking about the future because when you're in love why do you need to think let you heart lead and then that that thrill ends really quickly and next thing that happens is the heart is broken and next thing that happens is there's a lot of rejection and next thing that happens is we are looking and next thing that happens is the thrill last is so short but the pain lasts so long until now it's been years and somebody reminds you or something and the pain is still there my friend I really want to challenge each one of you God is not out to get your fun get that out of your head the devil is a liar God is out for you to have fun that he doesn't have to do a surgery on you afterwards God wants you to have a fun without a casket God wants you to have a fun when the thrill is over you run into the drill of your life into the routine of your life into your business into your health into your home group that you run into that your career you run into your school you run into having a house into having a nice vehicle into having things in your life and you don't have to walk on crutches but you keep on living your life continues for the glory of God and for that to happen you have to let God's word and God's standards to determine who you date when you date and how you date who you date when you date and how you date you may say but that's too much control well go skydiving without a parachute and have freedom and when a guy tells you put on a pair she said too much control I just like too tight too tight I just do not like tightness I do not like that at pressure too much pressure everybody telling you what to do and and this is going to hold on to me all the time no I want to break from this at least once he will say you can have a break from this once but it's that once that could be in the place you could be in the place you do not want to be in my friend God's word is not out to take anything from you but your headache but your pain but your depression your disappointment your heartbreak unwanted pregnancies sex or transmitted diseases a divorce disappointment death and lake of eternity and lake of fire that's what God's word is there for it wants to take the bad and give you the good that will last is somebody say man number two take your instructor with you instead of trusting him to catch you take your instructor with you on the journey instead of trusting him to catch you emin decides that his love is the standard not what God has to say and so he jumps into that relationship and instead of asking God he had no relationship with God you don't see reference to God you don't see praying you don't see invoking a priest you don't see any kind of seeking counsel and advice from the Lord you see him just simply taking advice from his friend and jumping quickly into a relationship without God and that's exactly what many times we do not only we ignore God's word when we go into relationships and we suffer calamity but the second thing that a lot of young people and even people who are married that we do the mistake is that when we do not involve God in our relationship when we have God in the universe we have God in church we have God in our Wednesday service that we have God in our Sunday service we have God in our home group we have God everywhere it seems but not in our relationship we don't talk to him about our relationship we don't involve him in our relationship and our relationship doesn't revolve around him God is a spare tire we don't let religion get in between us I heard people say well that is a completely awesome thing you can go do it by yourself but at the same time sooner or later you must understand life is not that long and you're not an I are not that brilliant we need an instructor and his name is God and he wants to help us not choke and he wants to be our advisor in life when we don't have God in our relationships three things will happen is you will expect the other person to be God you will always make the other person to be that which is God you will expect them to be perfect oh and they will be perfect first few months and then you find out the breath things and when they wake up without makeup you didn't recognize the same person that you met on the day you recognize they have flaws they're not perfect and then your infatuation it begins to go down because you didn't fall in love with the date you fell in love with God you thought they were God and they're not it's like that you know ladies said you know I was his I was his goddess and they said what happened now he said well he became atheist when you fall in love with the goddess my friend you will quickly become an atheist because she is not God he is not God but when you don't have a God you need to find one because you were created by a God to have a God you will quickly begin to make something into a God who cannot be God you will quickly find out that your date is going to try to become your doctor your relationship will become a rehab and marriage will become the magic pill that will fix all the problems it will make the loneliness go away it will make the lust go away it will make all of this pain and suffering I've experienced as a child it will kill all of that because now I am married and now I am in love no one can fix all of your problems if they could God will send his son to die on the cross he will send marriage to die on the cross for you he didn't marriage cannot fix anything that Jesus doesn't fix first if you don't have a relationship with God your relationships that you're gonna go into you will expect it to be your rehab you will try to suck literally things that only Jesus Christ can give you they are not the Messiah you say well his name is his name is Jesus his last name is not Christ his name is Juan not Jesus his name is not Jesus and he doesn't have nails yes he may have scars and tattoos but not nails went through his hands and through his feet and that's only one person and if you make him your God you have the privilege and the honor of going into a relationship looking at the person knowing they're not perfect knowing they will never love you always and perfectly because somebody else already does that and they don't have to do that but they can be there for you and they can love you and you can grow in that relationship because somebody say amen if we don't have God in our relationship the second thing that happens is that not only you make someone into a God you begin to act like God means you begin to develop a Messiah complex you begin to look into people like projects you begin to say to things things like you know what I can fix them I can change them they haven't met me yet and once they do you'll see I'll provide for them I'll cherish them I'll pick them up I've seen so many people do that thing I will change him he oh he's cheating he hasn't met me yet just me honey his cheating has nothing to do with women it has to do with his character and you aren't that's just gonna continue oh he's abusive oh he's gonna change once he meets me and you develop this Messiah complex because you don't have a Messiah so you have to pretend to be one every Messiah died on a cross you will die too the only difference the real Messiah came back and you won't you're not a Messiah stop being somebody's Messiah stop being somebody's cure and salvation and you can only do that if you have a savior and you come to your own realization you can't even change you nevertheless someone else I need God to change this man I cannot change my wife I can't even change myself but there is one who can change me and that's the Holy Spirit and when I get to know the Holy Spirit more I recognize I'm a wretchless man that only God can change even my efforts cannot change me only God's blood and the Holy Spirit and when I experience that the last thing I want to do is change someone else if I fail doing it for me I'll fail doing it for you the same that changes me is the same one that can change you and if you don't want to acknowledge him listen honey we can work on this relationship but we're not getting romantic why because I'm not your Messiah because somebody say amen the third thing that happens when we don't have God in our relationship is satan always offers us idiots who gives us advice the ruins our life you know what when emna didn't have God satan had a friend and this friend came to emnan and you know what his friend told him he says lie to your daddy tell your daddy you're sick tell your daddy you got fever tell your daddy you want those pancakes that tamar makes tamar doesn't even cook but she can youtube it tell your daddy that tamar needs to come and cook those pancakes okay okay I'm gonna do that and then he says when she comes I want you to kick everybody out I want you to find isolation because isolation leads to temptation always get alone when you always get alone and then you find yourself in trouble and he says I want you to get yourself in isolation and after that I want you to just do like in the movies you know you saw in the movies you know we're like clothes flying out and just like all this passion you know passion bro it's about passion I wonder if she doesn't like it no the when the girl says no it means yes and that's exactly what this idiot straight from the pit of hell poisons this guy's mind and this guy has no god or relationship with him to check this through and he's like blind sheep led to the slaughter does everything this idiot tells him to do you know what happens he rapes her because she said no amen yes according to the advice of a friend and when she tells him hey so when now you got me let's get married he says no and the bible says he started to hate her with more hate than the love that he had for her he got what he wanted now he didn't want what he got that's the all always the story of people who fly without parachutes and instructors you get what you want and you recognize you hate what you got two years later emin gets slaughtered he gets murdered by absalom who is the brother of tomorrow and guess who's standing by david when the news comes that emin is killed and this friend the same friend stands by david says david don't worry it's just one kid that died emin or you know why he died this was predetermined already actually the moment he did that thing this was already planned so this was actually part of the plan he acts like this was a coffee drink that emin took when he got murdered this friend was sent from the devil himself to destroy his life and that's exactly what happens to people who don't have a relationship with god so close that god is attached to you and you just don't don't fly with god when you're going through trouble you fly with god when you go through thrill when you go through excitement when things are powerful when you got the promotion you got the job somebody bless you with the car you know you finally in that time right now where you finish school and you're ready for a relationship and you got those you know that little spark flying and that time you're closer to god he's right there he's almost like chained to you cheering you on encouraging you you're not leaving him for a second because you do not want devil to sneak an idiot in your life and listen this is how bad friends influence us not by their advice by bother by their influence word influence has three letters in it which is very deadly it's called flu in flu ends a flu doesn't necessarily work now you can get a flu by going in or getting a shot but most of us do not get a flu like that most of us get a flu by hanging out with somebody who has a flu when somebody walks with the flu they don't come into you and say hey i have a flu be careful no even today when people came in i said hey how you doing they said are you feeling better and i know what they're meaning you know if i still have sickness so that they can stay away from me completely acceptable and i asked them to and i said are you feeling better do you have a fever no no i don't have a flu nobody comes and tells you hey my name is lat i have a fever no people come in and you see them coughing you see them you see them a little bit pale do you see them not looking all right and what you must understand at that moment is when somebody has a flu they don't advertise it but they spread it and because of flu it just spreads by coming in contact that's exactly how bad friends spread the devil the devil's kingdom in your life by being there they begin to influence your life and drinking influence your life and smoking influence your life into sexual immorality it just kind of comes on you because you have no one connected to you to fight it off relationship with god it's a life or death issue in the degeneration we live in today satan has traps set up everywhere now he will give you thrill it will be a thrill but it will end up in a ruin or he will set up some kind of a friend he will use your feelings as a standard to deceive you and to light you my friend if you think devil is interested in your well-being you've been lied to devil is not interested in your being whatsoever jesus christ died to prove that he is interested in you he cares for you he created you and he loves you can somebody say man


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The only easy day was yesterday.  Stop trying to hide from the pain. Head up, eyes open. Welcome to The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday, the official Navy SEAL podcast. On May 24th, 2018, Navy SEAL Senior Chief Britt Slavinsky was invited to the White House and presented with the Medal of Honor. He was awarded the nation's highest military honor for his actions in 2002 when he led his team on a daring rescue to save their teammate who was wounded behind enemy lines. In this episode, Senior Chief Slavinsky talks about the importance of team mentality when facing adversity and what service means to him.  Stop trying to hide from the pain. Head up, eyes open. Thank you for sharing some of your time with us. For one, that means a lot, I think, to have your perspective voice in on the podcast. So thank you for sharing some of your time with us to start with. Certainly, happy to be here. For people that might not know you, if you could just briefly introduce yourself and tell us your history with the Navy. Certainly. So I am Britt Slavinsky. I am a retired Command Master Chief. Served 26 years, mostly all of that in the SEAL teams, and mostly all East Coast teams. Went through with Bud's Class 164. Graduated with that in January 1990. And then served with SEAL Team 4 for a few years, and then served with the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, and served at Group 2, as a Command Master Chief, and then retired from the Naval Special Warfare Command. In March of 2002, deployed to Afghanistan in January 2002, but in March of that year, conducted an operation called Operation Anaconda, where I led a seven-man reconnaissance team onto a snow-covered 11,000-foot mountain peak to conduct overwatch operations, reconnaissance operations. During that operation, one of my teammates, upon landing or helicopter landing on top of the mountain, we received heavy RPG, rocket-propelled grenade fire, machine gun fire, damaged a helicopter badly, and one of my teammates was ejected from the aircraft. A teammate's name was Neil Roberts. So my helicopter crashed landed in the valley, and I made the decision to launch an immediate rescue mission with my remaining team members back up to the mountain against superior numbers, heavily armed enemy force, and for those actions during that day, I was awarded the Medal of Honor. And I understand that just happened recently as far as receiving the award. Is that correct? It did. It happened May 24th at a ceremony at the White House. Oh, wow. So just not too long ago at all. Not too long ago at all. That must have been pretty amazing experience. It was. It is still very surreal. I don't think surreal is the right word for it, but it is still very, very surreal. Amazing experience, indeed. Yeah. Tough to wrap your mind around, I'm sure. Yeah, it still is. So let's rewind back to joining the Navy. What or who inspired you to do that? So I think like most youth graduating from high school, I'm trying to figure out what do I want to do with my life. And from an early age on, I was involved in Boy Scouts.  And I became an Eagle Scout. And from what I learned in scouting, that really became the foundation of my life. Boy Scout oath, Boy Scout law, those things are what I made decisions from. They were vitally important to me growing up, from being able to take the heart of the heart to this day. My father was also a UDT guy. So he was in naval special warfare, really back in the early days. He went through one of the beginning classes, about class 13 back in the early 1950's. Wow. So when I was around 13, 14 years old, my dad took me to a silver union where I introduced me to some of his teammates. And from that moment on, wow he's introduced me to this other family that he had and I thought this looks like something very interesting that I want to do very difficult job difficult selection process for the job but very crucial important work on behalf of the nation so retiring from high school I made the decision that I wanted to do something that was more important for me to do I wanted to contribute I wanted to serve my nation and for me that was joining the Navy and then applying to go to the SEAL program did you know what you wanted to do with the SEALs whenever you first joined I know at that point there might not have been nearly as much media coverage about what the teams even did but did you have an idea of kind of what you wanted to do in the teams I certainly did because my dad introduced me to it I'm from Northampton Massachusetts to Western Massachusetts so as you can imagine it wasn't a big presence right of military there so I would not have known of the SEALs probably let alone even the Navy other than my father introducing me to it so really happy to have this opportunity to get this message out to yeah other people in the same particularly there are other people there and just to help them focus hey what do you want to do with your life right right right I kind of set off on the right path what did you do in the SEAL teams as your specialty coming through SEAL training you're trained in various different things when you get to your SEAL team everyone's trained up in a lot of the basic things everyone's a combat diver you do land warfare you do parachute jumping it has a name fits the air and land you do all the specialties there all the special warfare tactics that go with that later on in my career I specialized more in being sniper training sniper instructor but overall the main thing that I'd say that I did is I was the leader first first and foremost above all the other specialties I was I was the leader the one making decisions and executing those decisions you mentioned being a sniper trainer is that what you said instruction instructor okay instructor that's a place where the SEALs do get a lot of recognition what separates the best Navy snipers from other precision rifle teams in the world I don't know if there's a real distinction behind them I think they're going to sniper school there are a lot of great shooters a lot of great rifle shooters most if not all SEALs I think are expert shooters everyone has a capability right to go through the sniper training what you get out of that training though is that you're just going to think differently you're going to look at targets differently you get planning on it you get strategic thought processes strategic in the sense that how you were going to go about going against a target so in an operational sense how am I going to go do this and you get leadership skills out of it because mostly the sniper guys you're solo and a lot of things where you got one partner with you and you're going to go out and do certain operations so instead of having a larger team a much much smaller team so that that's really what you learn how to operate across the whole battle space just you and your and your shooting partner to accomplish a mission well you did say that sometimes you're solo I mean I've obviously never been to sniper training or any precision rifle schools but I think that is pretty common that there's a team there but the solo aspect I think is definitely a little bit different you know it certainly and you're never really alone in the team environment you're never really alone and you have support you have your teammates that are going to be close by but it what you also learned at the sniper schools a lot of times it's just you and you have to rely on you and and what you bring internally to that problem set and the sniper school really helped hone that down to you're the one making all those decisions and that was invaluable to me what's something that you might have wish you knew before you entered the Navy I think things have changed considerably since you entered the Navy does anything stick out in your mind you know with 2020 hindsight looking back yesterday there's a many a number of things I wish I would have known at the moment when I where I was I was learning everything I possibly could I was reading all the books looking at everything talked to everybody that I could possibly talk to about what I was getting into so at the moment which you know was 30 something years ago I felt I was the as most prepared as I could of course from what you see on the outside and when you really get to the program it is completely different of course because you know there's be a lot of hype and a lot of publicity to when you get to it just like well this is totally different than what I thought that it was oh in a good way of course certain certainly much harder because then it all becomes all becomes just very real and your commitment really takes more of a tangible form to okay here I am here's a decision you made and you're going forward with it do you think that most seals have a calling for that kind of sense of purpose that you're talking about people coming into whenever they arrive on the teams I believe so because given the nature of the training the training is really intense there's some 75 80% people that come into the training all of them thinking they have what it takes don't get through for one reason or another and the process is going to weed that out of you there are no shortcuts to Bud's training based on the water demolition seal training there are no hacks for it the process is you go there and you perform better than you did the day before and you just don't simply meet the minimum standards you need to excel those standards excel those standards are not only what the program sets for you but what you set for yourself internally about you internally growing and moving forward every day yeah I think yet that does make a lot of sense that your own internal calling or however you phrase that is I think what pulls people to the teams and then to wherever they end up in the teams whether it's they continue on and be it is a calling about it's about service service above above oneself service to complete strangers to your fellow countrymen those people that are gonna walk by you on the street and look at you and not even think twice about you not knowing what you're doing for them on a day-to-day basis and really being okay with it it's okay right right that you don't know it is a much higher calling of service so we spoke with Ed Byers a few weeks ago and I asked him a question I think that is maybe appropriate to talk to you about too I've learned a lot about the camaraderie and the mechanics of being on the SEAL teams in terms of what is required of them and there's also the external impression that you're talking about people have an impression of what these guys do and who they are and what they're about but it contrasts a lot because I think there's a disconnection there people realize or people believe that these are individuals they're super you know super human individuals but really there's so much more focus on the team and that is what really is defining you know the idea of the SEAL teams and all the people that are operating there they put the teams above themselves right are there parts in training or whenever you're on deployment that you rely more on yourself or does that change and is that ability to change back and forth between the two you think allow you to be successful Navy SEAL or special warfare operator so both SEAL and SWIC operators really any special operator the first person you have to lead if you look at what you see from the SEALs in a SWIC is you see this big tactical side you see the guys in the boats the big guns the fancy electronics the state of the art equipment that those guys they're really industry leading equipment that they're using at SWICs and then the same thing that at the SEAL teams and then you see the image the big burly guys doing all this dangerous and crazy stuff that's really a small percentage of the things that we do you also don't see the the human side of what they do their husbands their fathers they are your little league coaches there you're never next door out there cutting their grass there's still that human element there to it as well and then the level of commitment that also takes you know we kind of called it mastering the switch the switch being you're at home you got to throw the switch in one direction I got to be dad I got to deal with everything at home and then you're gonna go through the switch and you're gonna go to work and then you have to take on this immense responsibility that it is to be in these organizations of doing what the nation is asking of them and when you're in that mode that is the priority your priority then isn't your family life it is taking care of that much broader picture and then the families are at home still bearing that immense weight as well at home they're not out doing that job physically but emotionally they're still there doing it and then they have to bear the burdens at home as well too so immense challenging task for those family members as well so we call it you have to be very good at mastering that switch and you have to be very good at it as well when you're out doing your job because there be one moment when you have to have a what we call the very kinetic response and then switch right away into a very human response because maybe the situation or something other than this kinetic side and very often that's the case a person that can switch back and forth to being exactly what the situation requires I think that in a way separates us from what a lot of other organizations do kind of feeling that is a unique challenge that only certain people are really able to do effectively consistently and well because that's obviously required in your job making that switch fast is part of the process that's what I think really separates the seal and sick training so from other training that's out there so it's not necessary the physical physical piece is really that's going to come pretty easy you know it come easy to most it's that internal piece it's going to be much more difficult and when you are stressed when you are in a very difficult situation you are uncomfortable you're exhausted beyond compare and to be able to make those intellectual critical thinking tasks and make them accurately that is what this training is really going to prepare you to do I believe that's what separates us this this training from from other training is it's training that mental acuity in our people I kind of define part of that is the grit I think that's maybe the working side of that switch right talk a little bit about how you've developed that in your life or if that's even possible to develop it's something that you're born with so that that's the the great man question right is a person born into the situation or does the situation make the person and I think it's becomes a little bit of both right there's a there's an art and then there's the science piece of both things or there's an emotion and a logic piece to all of it you need absolute both of those things to move forward it's a logic piece which is cold hard facts then there's the emotion piece which is your life experiences and things that you've been through both of those things you need to move forward to make the right decisions in life not just in our role but in any life right I think that yeah I think that like foundational right like you're foundational for me that foundational piece came from scouting scouting was that Boy Scout oaths that Boy Scout law and the other adult leaders that I was ran so I think those those programs you know Girl Scouts boys and girls clubs those things are very very important to our youth because it just gives you some foundation and challenges you I think too it does challenge you the young age here you're gonna take our youth you're gonna put your sights on a long goal a long task it's gonna take several several years four or five maybe six years to attain the rank of Eagle Scout and you're young and you're making a commitment there so at an early age you're getting used to responsibilities thinking through things making a commitment and following through yeah following through so you're getting that great you're getting that resilience and there's a lot of difficult tasks and a lot of things are placed on those those young kids in order to complete this task and it really it is just a primer the way I looked at it scouting for me it was just a primer for citizenship I wouldn't have traded that for anything that's huge I don't think enough people are involved in those types of organizations not necessarily them specifically but from a young age especially I think in today's climate that challenging your kids with potentially dangerous things you know giving your kid a pocket knife when they're six years old or whatever the ages you know what I mean stuff like that is kind of almost sounds outdated to a lot of people which I think is really kind of naive to think that those things are at the very core of the very fabric of who we are has a nation you know the pocket knife stuff that they're out there let's teach the kid how you're going to use this thing so yes you don't cut yourself right or an axe like basic things I look at Boy Scouts aside from the character that it develops fire starting mm-hmm you know first aid and and tie a knot you're gonna look at a Boy Scout and say here here's someone that hey the kid that's over there standing that Boy Scout uniform ten years old he could save your life he knows how to do CPR he can stop you from bleeding that kid can absolutely save your life because of training that he's been through so yeah and his mind knowing that he just even taking any action is what stops a lot of people I would imagine that you know then becomes he can look at the situation and go I need to intervene there right I see something going on I have the courage in me to do something and I have the skills to go and do something and that's all when you see in a little ten-year-old boy standing there and the same goes for Girl Scouts as well too so you have Girl Scouts do the exact same thing that Boy Scouts are gonna do you know we don't look at our youth as being oh that kid what could that kid do okay can do a whole lot let me tell you yeah I think the responsibility piece is really huge because I think kind of giving people that permission to take responsibility and ownership at a young age that is something people don't realize that maybe they can even do but are allowed to do and then it's kind of getting them off jumpstart almost yes and the accountability right that you're accountable for your action we don't have a lot right right if you never became a seal what kind of could you see yourself doing other than than that in your life maybe as a kid do you have any other ambitions or looking back on it now really I can't see myself have doing anything else right back to that yeah yeah great man theory is for person born or not like any youth yeah I had my dreams a okay you want to be a fireman or you want to go be a fighter pilot or you want to go be architecture doing engineering and you sort through all those things and you have to go through that process to say okay what do I want right kind of the wine is a true of each of these things and then you kind of say okay this one right here looks the most appealing to me I'm feeling this one is is right for me and it's the right thing to do and that's kind of where I was at I made that decision that hey that maybe is the right place for me to go and yeah very difficult life but I have not looked back once yeah I kind of expected that answer by figured I would have to ask anyway sure to see if you might give us a little gem like you know you want to be a race car driver something like that yeah you're hidden hobby no ballet dancer no ballet dancing you never know I mean I've met people across the board with the Navy Seals I'm sure you can do it I'm sure it's like not much you guys can't do no how I look in tights I can't Foxtrot though can we talk a little bit about fear and getting over fear what are your best strategies for getting over fear so fear is very common very common reaction and it's normal everybody's feels fear everyone is is afraid everybody does if there's a seal that's out there's a sweet guy out there that's gonna say look I'm right now I'm fearless and it run away from that person true courage and I think there are several quotes out there one of them I think comes from a fictional John Wayne true courage is being scared to death but sad on up anyway right that's that's like I'm scared right I embrace it like I'm no like I'm not I'm not gonna hide it yeah I'm scared to go do this but what I'm getting ready to do absolutely needs to be done right now true courage comes from being scared and doing the thing you're about ready to do anyway no one you recognize the risk you know there could be a very terrible outcome but you're gonna go do it anyway cuz the outcome if you don't do something would be much worse so recognizing there's a situation there recognizing you can have an impact a positive impact on what's going on there and then making the decision to go and do on it the strategies that you're gonna have are gonna come from the core of who you are as a person the things you believe in the things in your life that you will do things in your life that you know you will not do and then living them so yeah it's identifying I think some of those belief systems I think or but the priorities I think is what gets in the way of now hearing you say that because if there's no sense of urgency then I'm not gonna do it I'm scared no there's no need to do it right or if it's something that's more personal you need to have that definition for yourself what you're willing to do what you're willing not to do what your goals are to be able to say I'm gonna have to push through this you think that's kind of a big part of it for seal training for the strict train it is a big part of it because although you're going through as a group you're gonna have a group of teammates that around you're going through seal training but what the training is going to do is it's gonna break down that team a little bit but it'll it really is going to get down to the core of who you are as a person now all those little things there's only so much that team effort is going to get you through but remember a team is built up of a lot of individual great efforts and you take those individual great efforts and put them all together and those together they go off and they do great things if you have people there just doing mediocre meeting the minimum standards but that's not really a team certainly not high-performing team right which is the ones that we have so those people are just meeting the minimum standards those are ones we simply don't want around the people that are exceeding those standards so you absolutely need to have someone that's gonna dig deep inside them and say okay this is the way that we're gonna go or I'm not giving in I'm not gonna quit today my body's hurt I'm in pain so is the person right next to me and the thing we're doing right now is really where they're doing and we're gonna go do this yeah that I think that's something that people don't realize about the teams is that there's lots of different personality types but what really connects them in the core you know that the other person at that stage when you guys are finally put together like we're on the same page is that you think that's accurate so it is accurate so being like-minded yes we've all been through the same experiences that we've all been through the same trainings we're like-minded is that we're very I don't want to say singularly focused but we're very committed right to this action what we're doing we have a term that hey it's we're all in in this and that terms you use very freely today if no one really understands what this really means is that when I'm all in I'm here with you right now a hundred percent of your life not just yeah I'm here with you in my life my life what equals my life is not just my heartbeat right it's my soul is my heart it's my dreams it's my family's hopes and dreams and and all the things that they could become all the next birthdays all the all the events those are the all the things that we are going to give up willing to give up for you go see my kids you'll get married you know just experience that living and not existing I'm gonna give all that up for you right my fellow citizens and that's that's really that's what's at risk here when we say all in like I am I'm all in on doing this to protect my fellow citizens I understand that you spoke with a Buds class earlier today yeah what was that experience like what did you talk to them about so spoke with Buds class 3 3 2 they are about a week out from hell week so they just finished hell week and I think there was about 90 of them in there an amazing experience I haven't spoken to a Buds class been that close to a Buds class since I myself yeah right so it was really almost know this real moment for me I'm standing there and I can really picture myself in their seat you know seeing like well I've been right there so I talked to them a little bit about my experience is going through hell week and that things that I remembered and you know I told them I said you know this is just a primer you just went through hell week you've not arrived you're not done yet you got a long road ahead of you but just like I was mentioned earlier hell week is just a little primer for you to get tapped into the resources within you that you're going to need to go forward with the rest of your career so yeah you're going to be sleep deprived you're going to be in pain you know discomfort you're going to be hungry you're going to be angry you're going to be sad you're going to have all those things but guess what inside of all of that you still have to function and how best you do it that's what I told them this is really what the purpose of all this is here you're doing a lot of things maybe you don't make any sense of maybe by Thursday you don't remember the things that you're doing but this is the purpose of it to tap into you the internal piece of you of who you are to say yeah I can get through all this stuff and I can get my teammate through all of this stuff and he's going to get me through all of this little bit of a reality check a little bit of a little reality check say it's and I mentioned to them we have that logo that you mentioned in the beginning of this podcast it says the only easy day was yesterday well I believe words have meaning each word has a definition and that they're put together a certain way to get away at certain emotion everyone has different definitions to certain words to me the only easy day was yesterday and this is what I told the class is I don't care what you did yesterday I really told them this is you may have saved the president of the United States life yesterday great good on you get two minutes get over it you did a good job we're gonna do for me today right we're gonna do the top it so that's what I told them I said hey patch yourselves on the back get two minutes to get over it and then focus on what the next task is ahead so those are the things that I told them congratulations on getting through hell wait right also my condolences right because it's gonna get much harder yeah never stops I mean even look at your career now taking a change that unforeseen you know and you still developing you still looking for I think that's important and recognize and still serving that's right for me a career for the seal on the switch it progressively it's going to get harder and harder and harder the jobs and the tasks are gonna put on you they're progressively gonna gonna get harder they're gonna get more intense that's the career path that our people that goes through I'd like to touch a little bit on adversity and I think we kind of defined a part of what enables you and I think most people to be able to push through that and that's having a direct understanding of the purpose for why you're in that position to begin with and having the vision to continue on are there any other aspects that you can add to that in terms of overcoming adversity any personal anecdotes or anything like so the I have several the best one that I can give you so the night in question where I received the the medal of honor the actions for mm-hmm so you know my helicopter was shot down my teammate had fallen out so I have a downed helicopter shit in front of me I made the decision that I'm gonna take care of the problem in front of us a downed helicopter we got all those that air crew got us all to a safe location a secure safe location it was from that spot that I had a decision to make you know weight of command I was a ground force commander and the responsibility on our commanders that are on the ground is incredible it's national strategic level commitments that are on those guys the people going forward is sitting on their shoulders so I had a decision to make it's in that decision it's in those those moments when no matter what teammates are around you right that leader has to bear that responsibility you're gonna feel absolutely alone and in that moment I did feel alone although I had my teammates around me had air crew around me I felt absolutely alone with the critical decision I was going to make and the decision for me to make was do I go now back to the mountaintop against superior enemy numbers they have heavier caliber firepower than I do I am not outfitted I don't have the equipment to do an assault I was outfitted to do a different mission and if I go now there's a chance that I could rescue my teammate or I could wait three four hours for more reinforcements to come and that is the sure thing that I will go to the mountaintop but it probably most likely be a recovery fully known if I go now the chances of me myself perishing I thought we're a hundred percent I thought it was a hundred percent of me losing more of my teammates and at that moment that piece that came back to me is what I learned as a youth and those were the opening lines of the Boy Scout oath the opening lines are on my honor I will do my best to do my duty on my honor do my best to do my duty on my honor I will do my best to do my duty that echoed in my head as I'm sorting through all the tactical scenario of what I'm going to do it's them and I started listening to it about the third time I was like wow okay I've not done my best and I'm gonna go do this so that's when I briefed my team I said hey we're going back and we're gonna go do this so can't stress to the listeners enough how important is the core of who you are whatever it is that you believe in that's finally important for you going forward how do you make decisions what do you believe in and can the problems you experience if you throw them against whatever it is that you believe in whatever ethos whatever creed whatever it is you belong those things that they're very core Boy Scout oath all that stuff they're just a tool for you to use to make decisions when decisions are difficult to come by that's really at the basis of what they are right I got bad problem right here difficult decision to make I'm gonna take that problem I'm gonna throw it against whatever I believe in for me it was a Boy Scout oath for the seal of sweat gets the seal in the sweat creed you take whatever problem you got you throw it up against it and if it sticks to it guess what I'm gonna go do it if it bounces off of it he made me I probably shouldn't go do what I'm getting ready to go do that's what I look at those things at their core their tools for you to make a decision and they're not just for when you're in uniform therefore your personal life as well if you don't know what you believe in if you don't know what your core ethos is if you don't have one personally then here's the seal one here's the SWIC one what that came from it started in around 2000 ish 2002 2003 somewhere around there that came from our entire lineage from the first day down in Fort Pierce when the first frogmen were made till this present day every word in there every phrase is fact it happened in one form or another so it is a bit ideal but it is a factual thing that all stems from something that happened and we put it down in writing to say this is this is who we are this is what we believe in this is how we'll conduct ourselves that is what those ethos is are there for in kind of stepping forward into the future after that event what aspects in your personal life did you kind of rely on to gain that strength again to kind of push through in your personal life so certainly after the event when we came back off the mountain immediately coming off the mountain which was some 20 hours later I walked into our planning control center you know and I was this is the point when I can finally I can like breathe right I can breathe a little bit and I walked into our command space and I just felt like I'm just exhausted and I just felt like wow that that was some pretty intense stuff that we just went through I really didn't feel like I could move and go forward and I'm standing in our command space and I still had all my gear on and this was the teamwork stuff comes in so my teammate was there in the room recognized in me that I was I looked defeated and I was defeated it I felt defeated at this point and a teammate who is a high-ranking member of the community now saw this in me great he didn't say anything to me he just came up to me this is the definition of teammate comes in for me he came up to me and he just embraced me and say anything and he just just simple human gesture coming up to me right and embracing me and just telling me in this very brotherly way to say look it's going to be okay right but get yourself straight right because I need you and that's basically what he was telling me right and then he let me go and I go back to my tent and that's exactly just what I needed so there'll be times there'll be times when oh man I just can't I can't take another step forward that's when those teammates are going to go hey look I'm here for you right we can do this together so that was immediate aftermath of that and then moving forward yet certainly still those core aspects that they're just going to remain there's going to be difficult times you have to always go back on who that is who you were what you believe in and they will carry you through how do you suggest candidates take care of their mental and emotional well-being whenever they're really pushing themselves or even people that are deployed so everyone is different everyone goes through experiences things different what might be stressful to me is not a stressful someone else right so everyone's going to be in a different situation what I'd say in general if you've made the decision that this is the path that you want to go down whether it be seal whether it be swick you think through it all completely to say why am I going to go do this do I just want to I want a little piece of that image or do I do I really want to go out and I want to serve at the highest possible levels with some of the best citizens that our country could produce if the answer is yes to that then go for it all in and the other piece the mental piece once you've made that core decision and your reasons are sound everything else is going to come easier to you you're going to be able to pull from that because my reasons for being here are sound the training process the pipeline all that stuff is just going to pick you apart maybe you came in for one other reason because you bought into the image you hit the training process and you're like oh my god this is really terrible what I'm doing here worst decision of my life and then you just hold on just a little bit longer and then you hold on a little bit longer you go one more day one more day and you're like well this really is what I want to do so the initial thing I would say which make the decision for why are you into this why do you want to do this and if you're in then you're in don't give up on it and if you're in it and you're having those thoughts look just just wait another minute right and go back to your core reasons why are you here what you really want to do this take a look to your left take a look to your right and say okay this is this is the reason why I'm here for me I look at our flag a little differently than a lot of people and I we can use this analogy for many years I'll pass it on to you guys so it can be very difficult at times you know certainly a lot of things that allow stressful environments that that we go through but if you look at our flag a lot of people look at our flag they see the red the white in the blue the red symbolizes you know the blood and sacrifice that generations have given for the country the white you know innocence purity you know many other definition the blue the field is for justice that's kind of how I look at those things are very readily apparent when you look at the flag but the real core of our flag when you look at it is the thread that holds it all together something that no one no one ever pays any attention to right and that thread passes in and out of all of that stuff and you never see it and you see the flag standing out through a hurricane and the ends may be a little frazzled a little torn the flag is still all together all that we are as Americans is all tied up in that flag and that thread is the only thing that's holding it all together that thread is us that's how I look at it it's that thread I'm gonna get battered I'm gonna get bruised I'm gonna get beat up but I know who I am I know the things I will do I know the things I will not do I know my character's intact this is what I'm gonna do and I'm gonna hold strong and that's what I see as our community is we're the thread that's gonna just hold everything together no matter what it is you're gonna throw against me thank you so much for sitting with us and spending some time with us I know you've got your own life and a lot of other things that you got to do in your life so appreciate you taking the time to speak with us yeah very happy to be here thanks for the privilege find out more at sealswik.com and join us again for the next NSW podcast


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Hey, Abbott, what time is it? It's time for the Abbott and Costello show. We're on the air for ABC here in Hollywood. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go with the Abbott and Costello show. Abbott and Costello show, produced and transcribed in Hollywood tonight for your listening pleasure, with Susan Miller and the music of Matty Malek. Hold on to your tears, folks, for here they are, but Abbott and Luke Costello. Costello, tell me, where have you been? I went over to Sienko Mike. He's been in the hospital for the last 10 days. And Abbott, he's got a nurse with a beautiful blonde hair, blue eyes, and the most gorgeous figure. I've been to the hospital every day. How is Uncle Mike? I don't know. I'm going to see him tomorrow. How can you be such a colossal idiot? On this show, we only want the best. My grandfather's in the hospital, too, Abbott. He's 105 years old. He is? Yes, the nurse feeds him bourbon for breakfast, bourbon for lunch, and bourbon for dinner. Chase her? Yes, but at his age, she's too old to catch her.  Oh, I think starting tomorrow, I'm going to train to fight Joe Walcott. Joe Walcott? Don't make me laugh. Joe Walcott has muscles. I got muscles. Walcott's got stamina. I got stamina. Walcott's got six kids. I got muscles. Why don't you save your money and get into the stock market? Did you ever buy grain in New York or sell barley in Chicago? No, but I sold some wild oats in Glendale. Costello, I think you'll be a loa for all your life. Nobody would hire you. Oh, I had a job last week at the Republic, working for a gene artery. But I got fired. Why? I forgot the tuna's Qatar and the Indians killed them. You'll laugh with our zany stars tonight, but before they continue, listen to this. Oh, yes, I am Abbott. I just met a very gorgeous girl. I think I'm in love. Love you, dummy. You don't even know what love is. Abbott, love is like a poker game. It starts out with a pair. He's got to have Jack her better. She gets a flush. He shows diamonds. And they end up with a full house. Sometimes with a joker in the middle. Costello, I don't believe you've got a new girl. No girl would have anything to do with you. Oh, but I got plenty of girls. My trouble is getting rid of them. When I get rid of one, another one pops up. When I get rid of her, another one pops up. It's like jumping from the frying pan into the arms of Jane Russell. That's jumping from the frying pan into the fire, my friend. You jump where you like, and I'll jump where I like. You want to be careful, Costello. This is leap year. This is leap year, you know. You may get trapped. Leap year is different. Why? Why? Well, it's the year when a woman proposes to a man. The woman makes up the man's mind for him. That's different. Now wait. Costello had juniors a month for marriages. But you don't have to worry. Very few girls would marry you. Very few would be enough. One at a time. In parenthesis, mad. How many girls do you think I need, Abbott? Do you want me to get arrested for trigonometry? No, no, no, not trigonometry. When a man has several wives, it's polygamy. When he has two wives, that's bigamy.  That's monotony. Not monotony. Not monotony. Monogamy. Do you know what monogamy is? Sure, I got a table made out of that stuff. Solid monogamy. You mean mahogany. Oh, no, that's the name of the guy that sold me the table, Patrick Mahogany. No, that isn't mahogany. It's Patrick Mahogany.  Mahogany. Mahogany is the name of the song. Mahogany, don't tell me. Don't tell me. Let's talk sense, please. That's not Mahogany. Let's talk sense. There, that's not Mahogany. That's Mammy. Oh, I've been there, Abbott. You've been where? Mammy, Florida. No, no, no. That's Miami. That's what I clean my sink with. You mean Banami. Banami. Who? Banami, Banami. Now you're back to the songs again. What songs? Banami, Lines Over. Banami, Lines Over. Banami, Lines Over. Lines Over. Just tell you must have had a tough life. Oh, yes, Abbott. We lived next to the YWCA. And every wash day, my mother would blind for me. What's tough about that? You know, I was 25 years old before I found out that horses weren't the only ones that wore halters. Halters. Yeah, speaking of horses, Abbott, how was your wife? Oh, I heard that remark. Oh, I said it for you to hear. One more crack like that, and I'll lower your bicycle seat till your rompers get caught in the sprocket. I'm there, you insult my wife, Castella. Why, she's beautiful. Just look at her. I am looking at her. Mrs. Abbott, when I look at your left eye, I keep wondering. Wondering what? Wondering what your left eye has that makes your right eye keep looking at it. My bunny, Lines Over. Oh, with Magpie, you should talk about my eyes. I'm afraid to look at your eyes. Why are you afraid? I'm afraid a baby kangaroo might jump out of one of those pouches. Ha, ha, ha, ha, I told you. Oh, get over that one fast.  He's feeling a bit spring feverish. He met a new girl, and he's thinking of getting married. Getting married? Huh?  Beauty and the blimp. Oh, goodbye. Oh, goodbye. Goodbye to you, Mrs. Abbott, and 33 skidoo. All right, Castella, that's 23 skidoo. When you get her age, it takes longer to skidoo. Wait a minute. Hey, hey, hey. Who are you whistling at, Castella? That pretty girl in the front row. Well, you can't get a girl by whistling. One time, I got two girls that way. You got two girls by whistling? I had a split lip. How did you get the split lip? Two girls were with a cup. I'm surprised at your actions, Lou. I always thought you were bashful. Well, I used to be bashful, Abbott. When I was born, I stayed in bed for a whole year. I didn't even talk to my mother.  Well, I have to, because to make you look good. And now, wait a minute. When you came in here tonight, you told me that you had a new girl. Have you been out with her yet? Have I been out with her yet?  I wanted a kiss about her father was home. Well, does her father object to kissing? I don't know. I didn't try to kiss her father. Didn't you take her anywhere? Oh, yes, I took her out to eat. It was a swell restaurant, Abbott. That's where I got this jacket. I took it off the hook by mistake. I wish I had a pair of pants to match it. Why did you get some? Nobody hangs up pants in a restaurant.  Honored child, haven't I seen you somewhere before? Why, you showed up high. Weren't you what's year-olds last Saturday night were in a strapless, low-cut evening gown? Uh-huh. And it had a bare midriff? Uh-huh. And the dress didn't have no back to it? Uh-huh. I knew I'd seen your face some place before. One shillie is enough. Don't pad your part. Abbott, it's my new girl, Honeysuckle Epstein. I'm very pleased to meet you, Honeysuckle. Are you the new girlfriend that Castella has been talking about? Yeah, I am. Yeah, yeah? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I show I am. And Castella, honey, when you didn't call me today to make a date, I just went all to pieces. Well, whoever put you back together again sure did a nice job. Honeysuckle, I'm crazy about you. Everywhere I go, I see your face. All night long, your face is before me. I can't sleep. Why not? I'm ashamed to have you see me in my pajamas. Oh, kiss me again. All right. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, kiss me again. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Are you and move going out tonight? What, why, no. That's what I came over to tell you, Castella, Honeytongue. Lon Cheney? Uh-huh. He can't cut me out. I'll break every bone in his body. I'll tear him to ribbons. I'll beat him to a pulp. But right now, a change of pace to let you hear this. Susan Miller to join Maddie Malnick and lyrically take us on a Louisiana hay ride. You greet your friends with a terrible frown. As you under his grip, come along with me on a mythical trip, no tag. Tickets your imagination. Let it have its way. Our magic carpet's just a wag. No use for calling to roll. Sitting in the hay, loving it away, oh-ho. For the time is short, a cracky little whippin'. Get your little ship to go. No use for calling to roll. And this magic sort of rupid to come along with us for guy. Just follow his instructions and you will find you. Start something Louisiana hay ride. No use for calling to roll. Oh, I like that sport. Sitting in the hay, loving it away, oh-ho. Get your little ship to go. Looks like you're going to lose your new girlfriend, Honeysuckle, the Lon Chaney. She's stepping up with him the night you're home. I'll fix that Lon Chaney, stealing my girl. I'll tell that guy where to head in. Oh, you're getting awful tough all of a sudden. Well, I've been taking those physical culturalists from Charles Atlas by mail. You have? Let me see your muscles. Let me see your muscles. I don't get the muscles until next week. But I'm plenty tough. That Lon Chaney don't scare me. I'd like to see that Lon Chaney walk through that door right now. I'd tell him where to get off. I'm Lon Chaney. Listen, Costello, didn't I hear you just say that you were going to tell me where to get off? Yes, Chaney. I'm going to tell you where to get off. Where do you live? Right here in Hollywood. Well, you get off at Hollywood and Vine. Costello, don't you get fresh with me. Remember one thing. I am the wolf man. Yes, Costello. When the sun goes down, he turns into a wolf. Him and five million other guys. Him and five million and one other guys. That's you, I know. Chaney threw you the hard way. What do you mean, the hard way? Push it through. I'll cut it out, Costello. You aren't tough. Oh, no. Lon Chaney, see my fist. What do you think of it? Dirty, ain't it?  And he'll be there for the next two years. Yeah, who is he? Young Dr. Malone. He don't graduate until 1950.  You know what I'm going to do?   I got brains I haven't used yet. Well, don't let him go to your head, Lou. You shouldn't. You shouldn't be jealous of Costello Lon. Oh, I don't know, Abbott. When it comes to women, I'm a little stiff competition.  He's got better riders than me. I don't like your altitude. What? Your attitude. Yeah. I was higher up on the other one, wasn't I? I don't like your attitude, Chaney. You keep away from honey suckle-up steam. I'm warning you to withdraw. Yeah, and suppose I don't want to withdraw. Then I withdraw my warning. All right, boys, let's settle this thing peacefully. I just want to say one thing, Abbott. Listen, Costello.  Stay away from honey suckle. What's the matter, Chaney? Aren't there any other girls in your life? Yeah, but there ain't any life in my other girls. There wasn't any life in that joke either. And any more, you. Mr. Abbott, will you do me a favor? Certainly, Lon. Anything for you, Mr. Chaney. Well, drop by honey suckle's house. Here's your address. Tell her that I won't be able to keep my date tonight. I've got to work at the studio. You bet I will, Chaney. Hey, you've got a pretty fancy name. What do people call you, Lon or Chaney? Well, some people call me Lon. Other people call me Chaney. But my friends call me Junior. Ah. Out of my way, Abbott. I'm off to see honey suckle Epstein.  You can't go on that date tonight. You've got no money. Well, I'll stop at my uncle Mike's house and borrow some. He's loaded. He just sold his invention. What did he invent? A cake of soap, eight feet long and six feet wide. A cake of soap? A cake of soap, eight feet long and six feet wide. Yes. How can you pick it up to lather yourself? You don't pick it up. You just sit on it and slide up and down. I've got her address. And as long as you insist on seeing her, let's go over to the house. Let's. Not here fast, didn't we? Fine, Castelli. Here's how he suckles Epstein. My name is right on the door. Honest child, boyfriend, Costello, won't y'all come in?  That's a gorgeous dress you're wearing. Oh, it's just an old mother hobbit. A mother hobbit? Yeah, it is. Don't look now, but your cupboard is bare. Ah, Costello, you all has got to leave now. I've got to date with Lon Cheney. And he's very, very jealous of me. If he catches you here, he's going to be awful mad. Oh, no, honey suckle. Mr. Cheney stopped off at the studio and asked me to come over and tell you that he can keep his date. He has to work tonight. Oh, well, in that case, what do you think we ought to do this evening? Let's neck. Wait a minute, Costello. You forget that I'm here. Yeah, but I only neck with girls. I'm at the door. Who is it? I didn't have to work tonight. After all, may I come in? Honey suckle, we've got to do something. If Lon Cheney finds Costello here, he'll murder him. I know what to do. Just a minute, Lon. I'm the cake, and if he gets in here, he'll crack my frosting. Now, Costello, here's what we're going to do. You go in my bedroom. Put on one of my dresses, and I'll introduce you as Mr. Abbott's girlfriend. Come on, Costello. Into the bedroom. I'll help you get dressed. Hurry up. All right, take it easy. All right, Costello, get into these things here. Quick. What's this thing? Put this on first. What is it? It looks like a slingshot. That's a girdle. That's a girdle. It's a two-way stretch. No, good for me. I stretch four ways. Oh, stop.  That's it. All right, now, let's go. All right. Hello, bud. What are you doing over here? I just brought my girlfriend over line. I'd like you to meet her. Her name is Miss, uh... My name is Lula Costellonitz. Oh, yes, yes.   Yes, sir? Well, I'm just glad to meet you. Say, honey-suckle, put on some of that music on the victor who will have a dance.  But hold that tiger isn't romantic. It is to another tiger. I... All right, Lord, I'll dance with Mr. Abbott, and you dance with Lulu. Oh, no, now, wait a minute. OK. Come into my arms, me proud beauty. Oh, I'm not so proud. You ain't no beauty either. Now, you just dance, the cake is coming long. But I think I'd... I'd better dance with Mr. Abbott. He's the man that brought me. Oh, oh, terse nurse, that's all right, Lulu. I'm not jealous. Go ahead and dance with Mr. Shady Guy. Oh, it's all right.  Rat, come on, Lulu. Let's cut a rug. Lulu, dear, what was that noise? That was my gutters. It's a long pull from my girdle to my bobby sock. Seem to be getting along fine. I think I'll go out in the kitchen with honey suckle. Hey, Abbott, come back here. Come here. Ah, Lulu, at last we're alone. Let me crush you in my arms. Mother told me there'd be nights like this.  Have you no warmth? What do you think this is? Puppy love? It must be your nose is cold.   Yes, I do feel a spark in the fire. Is it love? No, your cigar is sticking in my ear. You can't deny me any longer, Lulu.  No, no, not today, Lon. Please, Lulu, just one little kiss. No, no, not today. Lulu, why do you keep saying not today? Because today I am a man. Wait a minute.  If you do, I'll never speak to you again. Abbott! 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