Shawn Ryan Show - The Debrief with Shawn and Katie | #005 Mike Ritland

Episode Date: October 24, 2020

Shawn Ryan and his wife Katie Jean debrief and discuss behind the scenes and the entire experience of Shawn Ryan Show #005 with Mike Ritland. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website - https://www.shawnryanshow.com Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/VigilanceElite TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@shawnryanshow Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shawnryan762 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So microintly just left. Like four fucking months ago. And we're just getting around to the debrief here. So you start, because I can't remember anything that happened five minutes ago. Well Mike was here and he's somebody I was looking for. He was here? He was here. As in in I think in this right here Shit, I almost forgot about I know it's been a minute. I know Well, it's first thing that comes to your mind seriously Duke Duke. Yep

So when they first got here you take some big dukes When they first got here, we go out and meet them, hey guys welcome to the house, you know, we hug the whole thing. And then he's like, oh, bring your dog in the house. I was so excited to see the dog. And then he said, well, no, not this dog. You remember when he opened the truck door? Yeah. And I'm like, oh, I could put baby and griffin' away. You know, get the mat at the house,

whatever, make them feel more comfortable. And he was like, no, this dog's going directly into his crate. Yeah. So, and then I saw Duke, and I was like, you better put him directly into his crate. Yeah. So, and then I saw a dude, and I was like, you better put him right into his crate. Yeah. And it's pretty stayed. Yeah.

But do you remember Smoky? When he's smoking in the anal pack of some for the first time? That was really cool. Yeah. That was funny. Smoky don't fuck around though. No. He doesn't. Smokey don't fuck around though. No, he doesn't. But he didn't look too motivated to take Duke on.

Hell no. But yeah. God no. But yeah. Well, I thought I went really good though, I do. Yeah, for sure. It was a really good episode. Well, two episodes. Yeah, but then. It was really good episode. Well, two episodes.

Yeah, but then, so one thing I've got to say, I've got to share the story. And I think you probably know what it is. But so between breaks, it was obviously a long episode and a couple episodes. But so between breaks, you guys come downstairs. I'm downstairs, I got Griffin and baby with me. Mike goes open a bag of food, I think it was chips or something.

Griffin immediately goes over to Mike because that's just what he does when he hears any kind of ruffling of any kind of food whatsoever. So he goes over to Mike. Mike starts immediately putting Griffin into his place. Griffin didn't even know what was happening, but he ended up training Griffin. Like that was 13 years of Griffin always running to like a ruffling of bag noise. And then Mike like straight up in like 15 minutes, like train Griffin to stay on the rug

and not come after the food. It was fascinating. I walked in at the end of that. That was impressive. I think I was up here with the crew. Yeah. That was impressive.

But speaking of the crew, so that was the first one, zero five was the first one that you did not film. I know. Or do or take care of the sound. I know. We got a whole crew now. Thanks to Patreon. Yeah. True. Yeah. Thank you, Patreon. But I felt like totally left out. I was just downstairs, like trying to hear something, but I couldn't. Well, his daughter was down there. Yeah. And that was fun. Yeah. And fun hanging out with her. But the whole time we're whispering like seeing if we can hear anything, seeing if you guys like we're going to wrap up soon because we were hungry. Dude, we got so much content. Yeah, you did. You know, we still have, we still have your interview

in the can. And then we have that whole segment with Winona Judd that we haven't released yet. And we have, what else do we have? We have something that's like 10, it's like 10, it's like 10 things, Ritland would get to prep for the end of the world. Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah, he actually had some stuff in there that I had not thought of. So that was great. But yeah, but I'm gonna wait to release it because once again, we're getting censored. So, you know. It's such a shame. Yeah, well, you know, whatever Google will do, whatever the hell Google wants to do. Yeah.

So, well, not to change subjects, but the bite suit. You're not going to let me go on and visit about YouTube, censor shit anymore. No, no, no, not right now. All right, fine. It's coffee time. These mugs are going gonna be in stocks soon. They sure are. Of course, we're only got half the ship in today. I'm trying, I'm trying to go to negative time. I know. Hold me out of it.

The little itty bitty shitty committee is happening over there. Don't do it. It's not a committee. It's not a shitty committee because you haven't joined the committee yet and it's just me. So. Anyways, if the rest of the shipment comes in, these will probably be for sale.

Yeah. Maybe soon. Maybe not. But yeah, the bite suit. Yeah. You were more nervous about my bike suit than I was. Well, Duke was like in the back room, just like marinating for like two days before the bike suit. And then he comes out like full throttle

and you're the target. So yeah, of course I was nervous. I thought I would be wearing like a catcher's mask or something. Something. And I see I'm in the bike suit and then Duke comes out and I'm like, is there like a helmet?

And Mike's like, no, you should be fine. I'm like, oh, should be fine. Okay. That was scary. I know. I was really nervous. And then I didn't say anything but I was kind of expecting gloves to... So there are no gloves or helmet when it comes to the bite suit.

Now it's like this dog is literally going to fucking rip my throat out. I know. I was really nervous. And he didn't obviously... Right. But he did bite my hand by accident. Well, actually it probably wasn't by accident. He didn't bite it. He nipped it. Is that when that like one clip you can see him like just missing your hand? Was that like around that time?

That was the second time. Because I was very, I was like, okay, well, Rutland's, you know, I was like, yeah, whatever. I was being laxed a days ago, you know, and yeah, he snipped my hand. I was like, oh, shit. That didn't feel good So the set that was like the second iteration. I was waiting. I was like, oh but but dude my forearm felt like hamburger for like a a week afterwards and the next it didn't really afterwards and the next, it didn't really,

it hurt, but it didn't hurt like that bad in the bite suit probably because I had a bunch of adrenaline pumping too, but the next morning, I was like, holy shit. Like it felt like, hamburger. Yeah, that dog was serious. Yeah, well, I mean, his bite was so hard, there was blood. Oh yeah, suit, you know, and I was like, shit, I couldn't believe that. But then when I went across the creek to the other side, that's when I got nervous. And the camera guy was getting kind of like scared. First, he was getting, you know,

a little overconfident. I was like, well, dude, you might want to like stand a little bit behind me because I mean... There is a dog coming at you. It's one of Ritlin's dogs, but, you know, I mean... And he wasn't in a bite suit of any kind. No. No. Man. Yeah. And so now we're down a camera guy. But so everybody's looking for a camera guy that has been around in the past four or five months. Don't look here. But now we're just kidding. He didn't get them.

No, although it was a sometimes I wish he would have. But anyways, so yeah, no, they got some good footage. But once I said that, he was like going way back in the woods, he's like, I think I'm just gonna suck the camera here. But in my cat, he wouldn't let the dog get a running go and way back in the woods. He's like, I think I'm just going to suck the camera here. But and Mike had, he wouldn't let the dog get a running, he wouldn't allow him to get me on flat ground. He wanted the dog to run uphill. And he, you know, you're not useless

and I don't want you to feel, I don't think you're ready to feel the full power. And I was like, really? Is it, is it that bad? And he's like, well, you know, and I was like, well, I'm not gonna argue with him. I mean, well, fuck it. I'll just go up hill. Right.

And especially I'm telling you, having him back in that room for like two days before that or a day before that, either way, he had a lot of like pent-up energy ready to go. So I'm glad you were up the hill a little bit, you know. Yeah. So let him blow off some of that steam going up. Yeah. And you interviewed him. Yeah, I did. I was nervous though. I mean, he gets here, we like get settled in, and then it's like boom, like that's my time to go.

So I was definitely a little flustered, but it was a good interview, and I learned a lot. I filmed it, I don't remember any of it. He's super knowledgeable, and it was a good, I got all the answers to my questions. Yeah, so are we getting, uh, are we getting... Tony?

Tony? Well, is dog Tony or what? Yeah. I mean, now it's just waiting for him. Yeah. You're still nervous about that? I was still nervous about it. I'm not going to lie.

Yeah. The only people that need to be nervous about having Tony around are the people that are up to no good that want to come up to the house. I know. Those are the people that need to be worried. We definitely can't let Tony in with like the animals, though.

Right? I mean, we can, you know, we got the chick. It would be great if him and Smokey would just work things out. Yeah, that would take some work. Well, we got leashes. Oh, leashes for Smokey? You know how that went the first time. Yeah.

Well, we got to introduce him at least. Uh-huh. That way he's not, you know, slowly. I'm sure he'll be extremely well-mannered. Well, and I'm sure Mike's got a few pointers for us like to introduce them to everybody. Yeah, but Mike was a fast, he is a fascinating guy. Yeah. You know, I don't, we can go into the dog stuff, but if you go to episode number two, it's all there, but I mean

the amount of how in depth he goes into like the psychology of the water dogs and the PTSD that they go through and all that stuff was I had that's that was some amazing knowledge that not a little hell of a lot of people have. And not only just the dog stuff, but his back story. Right. A lot of that stuff nobody has covered before, like the invasion. Like he was on the invasion.

He kicked the war off. he kicked the war off. Yeah. Kicked the war off. And, I mean, that was, that's a long war, you know. There's still guys over there. But, fucking 20 years later. But, so that's, I mean, he, that was really interesting. The USS Cole stuff was really interesting This whole career, you know, and then and then we'll really got me what I was

Very interested in that I wasn't expecting was the the business stuff especially a lot of the stuff that we talked about offline and There was really cool, you, Mike knows a lot of people. And there's just so many things about that guy that just screams class, you know, and, you know, the fact that his, the, the people he knows, the people that he's introduced us to, and, you know, most time, most time when people have those kind of connections, they're fucking name droppers. And he is not a name dropper, and he is not a numbers dropper, and there is, he's not bragging. He doesn't utilize tits and asks for his marketing. I mean, he's just and you know, what was really intriguing for me is the fact that he's built that big of a business, you know, and he has several businesses and he is not like several businesses and he is not like on social media that much, you know, and he is that whole teamdog.pet training program. But I mean, he barely even advertises it. And, you

know, when he told me how many subscribers he has, I was like, holy shit, man. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of people that are getting training from him on there. And it's good, you know, from what we've seen so far. But yeah. But that was actually very reassuring to me to know, you know, what the times are in today. Like if this shit all goes away, there's other ways to market. And, and I mean, he's proven that it works.

So that that was really cool. But to hear him talk about that stuff. Yeah, all these ways, meaning like YouTube and social media types. Yeah, all, you know, with all the censorship and that kind of shift that's going on right now, it's got a lot of people freaked out, you know, and but, I mean, he did it. He does it and he's not on the gram all the time,

you know, his YouTube channel is like doing well, but it doesn't, you know know he doesn't take it as seriously as us on his YouTube channel because he's yes So many other avenues, you know to me and that he's marketing and and the demand his attention and and You know, we're gonna start exploring those ways too. So yeah, I'm excited about that. Yeah So what's next? What's next? Yeah. Well, I don't know. Should we release some more micro-itland stuff? Well, yeah, I think so. Well, we will. We're going to wait a little bit and let it cool off because we released a lot of information. Yeah. And it's been a busy last couple of months. I mean, that's why we're doing this now in October, you know, because you were like

exhausted from back to back to back to back, you know. So coming around to doing this was tough to find the time. Yeah. Well, it feels good just me and you again. I know. No film crew. Just us. No marketing guys, love you guys,

but you know, it's good to have being the studio with just my wife. That's right. It's nice that I can be back in the studio. Yeah, you don't come up here much anymore. I'm not allowed when everybody's up here. I mean, I'm allowed. Nobody's, oh, come on. But, I mean, come on.

I don't want to be in the way. You're never in the way, babe. Somebody's got to get the snacks ready downstairs. No, no, no, no. Somebody's got to wear the pizzas. Yeah. The beer and wine run. Yeah. Yeah. But, I think we should do a one year, because we're coming up on our one year wedding anniversary.

I think we should do a one year recap. Like if people, if people want to see it, hopefully they comment below, but I don't know. Like the first year of marriage, you know what I mean? A lot of stuff can happen. Yeah. Well, a lot of stuff did happen. Yeah. A lot of good stuff. Yeah. But I don't know, just a video idea. It's a way from my to. Yeah, comment below. Comment below. If you want us to do that, and we'll do it. Yeah. So our one year is in what two weeks. You better know. I know. I remember you pick the date. So you'd remember. I did. Yeah. All right. But so what is what is next? Go ahead. Tell them. I can tell them. Yeah. Go ahead. Travis Kennedy.

Yeah, go ahead. Travis Kennedy. I mean, Travis House. I'm getting them all confused now. How do you get a firefighter accused with a Navy seal? They're both Travis. Yeah. Travis House. Travis Kennedy should has taken off big time. I know. I'm so proud of him. But anyways, this isn't about him. No. But Travis House, he was awesome and so much fun. He called us like the content house. Yeah. So.

Well, don't tell him anything. I know. It's a good time. Yeah. Wrong day brief. But we've even got even more stuff. Yeah, we've got a lot of stuff. Yeah.

Common. But next we've already done. What? That we've already done. So it's like already ready to go. I'm just saying. Babe. You got to give people something to look forward to as much as you did.

We just did. There's a firefighter Travis House common. I know. You know, don't give them everything. All right. I mean, shit. Just a little bit. Well, who the fuck knows if you probably

won't even have a YouTube channel by the way. Good point. So you might know, we'll be out of that. I'm gonna be out now. I'm gonna be out now. I G TV. Yeah.

Woohoo. Or real. Yeah. Oh, wait. They do the censorship too. Okay. Facebook. Oh, shit.

They do the censorship too. All right. Don't go there. Don't go there. All right. We got Travis House come and he's a firefighter. That's right. He was a Marine.

Yep. He was a cop. Yep. He's an author. He's a stand-up comedian. Mm-hmm. And he's a hell of a good dude. And his story is like nothing else that we've done. And it's a fucking tearjerker big time.

But that guy is a hero, and we've been looking for a firefighter for a long time. So that'll be coming out in the next couple days. And till then stay tuned. Cheers. Go buy hat. Please. And a mug. And a mug to a Thera. Some dummies. Now we're just asking you much. Alright, see you guys later. It's time to get away in a new Hyundai vehicle during the Hyundai Getaway sales event at Woodhouse Hyundai, the Hyundai lineup of sedans and SUVs has the capability you need and technology and features you want, like the all-new 2023 Hyundai Powseed and Hyundai Tucson. This holiday season, get into a vehicle that will give you confidence with Hyundai owner assurance America's best 10-year 100,000-mile warranty. Visit us online at WoodhouseHundayOfOmaHaw.com

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