Shawn Ryan Show - The Debrief with Shawn and Katie | #007 Ed Calderon

Episode Date: January 28, 2021

Shawn Ryan and Katie Jean debrief and discuss behind the scenes and the entire experience of Shawn Ryan Show #007 with Ed Calderon. 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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But Ed Calderone. Yep, that was back in a real world nacho Libre. Yeah, TSA's worst nightmare. He's not really a nacho Libre. He's TSA's worst nightmare. I don't even know if he likes nachos. But we know he likes gummy bears. He does like gummy bears. He likes them a lot. How many bags of gummy bears did he crush? Holy cow. How many did he crush? Yeah, personally. I don't know. That was a long day though that he was here. He

does love the alpacas. He does, but he really, really loves the gummy bears. So do we can't keep him in stock. I know. I don't know. Literally, we just ordered like 10,000 bags of gummy bears. Yeah. And they're like gone. I know know like that. And it's not me eating them all. I know. They're out of the house finally. Yeah. Well, most of them. I think we've got 40 bags left in the house. A little bit less than that now. But I don't know who's keeping New Year's resolutions because people are just buying up the gummy bears. So unless a New Year's resolution was to eat more sugar, which could be. Yeah.

Why not? Yeah. They're selling that quick. And when I ask, but yeah, Mr. Calderone, that was a lot of fun. Was it? Yeah. Well, you weren't up here with them for five hours. No, but I was like enjoying all the breaks. That was a lot of fun. It was fun. Downstairs and you know, Ed is like the first, the first Mexican American that we've had on. Yep. And, you know, we've been keeping it pretty diverse.

Yeah. You know, so. I know in 2021 you want to have a woman on. Yep. So that'll be cool. Yeah, I would like to have a woman on the show. That's so weird. Oh my god.

But dude, Ed's story was fucking amazing. It really was. You know, that was really, you just wanted to keep listening. You know, not that all the guys you don't want to keep listening, but man, that was just way out there, you know. And it was different. It was a different subject matter for both of us, you know, because it's been veteran, you know, special ops guy after special ops guy, and they all have, you know, awesome stories that are extremely unique, and then we brought in Travis

House, and Ed's was just, it was just a whole another, you know, it was a whole another left turn. We went on a left turn with Travis House, bringing in the firefighter cop, author, motivational speaker, and it went really good. You know, I was a little worried about that because it wasn't the typical. It wasn't, it was out of our wheelhouse, you know, and then, and then we bring in Ed, and we do another, We go take another turn, you know, hard left. And, but shit, man, they loved it. The audience loved that episode. And they compared our episode to all of his other episodes.

And he's been on some major fucking podcast. And all of them said, you know, it's the best interview that they've heard with Ed Calderone. So for those of you saying that, thank you very much. But you know, it's always get really nervous interviewing these guys. And because I want to give them the best interview, but when it gets down to it, when they sit down in that chair, it's fucking easy, because everything coming out

of their mouth is extremely, it's just captivating all of them, and especially, I needed a different subject matter, you know, to mean to kind of keep, keep going, you know, I need some fresh material and bucket A man, he knocked it out of the park and some of the stuff he was talking about, especially with China, you know, and everything that's going on today. And, you know, we just got through the election. And there's been all these conspiracy theories and all this shit and a lot of, and a lot of truth to, you know, going, going with, with corruption, you know, in China and everything that they're doing, especially South at the

border where he was describing. I thought it was a really good time to bring all of that to light, you know. Yeah. No, the timing was, was perfect for that. But um, yeah, it was, it was really good. Yeah. I really enjoyed it. I really enjoyed getting to know him. He just had like a really good energy about him. He's a confident. Yeah. Really confident in what he does.

Mm-hmm. And so he touched a new skill on one of the breaks I heard. Oh, yeah. He was somehow phone chargers came up. I think he was looking to plug his phone in or something. And he recommended that I get a certain type of phone charger and I was like, well, why? He was like, well, you could decapitate someone with it.

Oh. I thought he was going to say maybe you could charge your phone a little faster. With that one. But yeah, so not only did we break for sandwiches, but I learned a new skill. Don't piss that man off. No, definitely not. You know, I don't know if I told you this, but he gave me a $9. Diddy. Yep.

Wow. And take a look at that. One million dollars. What are you going to do with all that money, babe? Buy some goats? Goats? Yeah. What I'll probably do is

buy myself some more gummy bears. But yes, no, seriously, said this came out of, it's a, I wish it was a million dollars, but it's still pretty fucking cool. It's like a sticker that these narcos like put under the steering wheel and their taxi. Why? It's like some kind of good luck thing or really?

Some motivated. So they put a million dollar, like a million dollar bill, or really? Keep some motivated. So they put a million dollar, like a million dollar bill, a gold million dollar bill like on the, in the taxi. So he ripped this out of a taxi. No way. Yeah, gave it to me. So we're going to have this framed and we'll put it up next to law.

What, you're not going to put it in the Vic? I don't think the Vic is even starting right now. That is cool though. Now we'll put it in, you know, we'll put it in, we'll get it framed. He gave us a bunch of stuff like some cool coins and. Yeah, and those little cards that he gave us still have mine. Yeah. And the Christmas card, he gave us death cards in the Christmas card that he sent. So yeah, I want to get all that stuff framed and we'll put it up in the Christmas card that he sent. So yeah, I want to get all that stuff framed

and we'll put it up in the studio. And who knows how much longer we're even going to be in the studio, you know, that's true. We're looking at a new studio. That'll be nice. That's cool. I mean, although there is something about this studio that I've said before, and I still believe it. When people come here and they're in our house and then, you know, we're getting to know one another and then they come upstairs and there's something about the energy and the intimacy here that it's just, it just feels good. And I think people really open up when they're in this chair, you know? Yeah. Yeah, I'm not, what does that mean? Are you worried to bring people into a new studio?

No, it'll be great. The show's gonna go to shit. No, I don't think it's gonna go to shit, but I do think it's been really nice here, you know? But getting it out of the house is gonna be really nice. So, yeah. it'll be good. Yeah, it will be. I think I'm going to go with the whole new design. Really? Yeah. You should film it. We will. We'll film it. We'll put something together.

Maybe take some poles or something. See what you should do. You want me to put some poles in there? No. No. No. No. No poles. in there. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah. Well, that those could be exciting polls too. But it'll be nice to have it out of the house. Yeah. We've had a good run here. And there's a lot more to come for 2021 with the show. Yeah, there is the, well, we can't talk about that yet, because we still owe

everybody another debrief. I know, but And you know a lot of people want to like they want us to crank these out and Do like do it weekly, but I'm not gonna do it Don't do it. I would love to do that But the quality of the show would go this way, because I, you know, how much I've researched these shows, you know, before they show up. It's a lot. And people don't realize that.

Yeah. Well, you know, the prep work behind it. They still like it, but, you know, and, and I don't want to like, we're selective, you know, we're so liberally selective with who we have on the show. And following size, men of that shit matters. I don't care about that shit. But what I care about is that they're doing good in the world. And you know?

Yeah, quality rather than quantity. Yeah, I'm not going to bring some fucking turd in here to sit in that chair. Yeah. So. We haven't been getting a lot of emails and, you know, Yeah, I'm not gonna bring some fucking turd in here to sit in that chair. Yeah, so We haven't been getting a lot of emails and You know about people that are recommending people and so that's always good, you know Yeah, I'm keeping a folder of all those. I would like to interview a Vietnam veteran and a World War 2 veteran

So if anybody out here is listening and knows of a, anybody who's served and either one of those wars who's done something amazing, extravagant over the top, whatever, email us. Go to the website and email us. because I would love to I would love to kind of keep switching it up a little bit you know so the annom that world war two that that would be really really fucking cool yeah maybe like a fast mover like a f16 pilot or a 10 pilot like a fast mover, like a F-16 pilot or a A-10 pilot for a specter gunship, AC-130 pilot. That would be cool. That would be really cool. That'd be different. Or, you know, fuck it. Let's get an astronaut out there. Yeah. Going to the moon, man.

But yeah, I want to keep switching up the content. Yeah. It keeps it interesting for me. Ed's story, you know, all the shit that he's went through. You know, another thing that really stood out about his interview was when he was talking about his mom. And his mom was saying there is no coming home now. I know.

And I was like, fuck, man. Like, I think I was starting to is no coming home now. I know. And I was like, fuck, man. Like, I think I was starting to tear up a little now. Yeah, for sure. But, but what a solid human being, you know, he really is. Like, he just, you know, and he's the first one we've ever had that showed up. We did the podcast and he was gone.

I had dinner with him that night before it, a nice stay call us up in Nashville, but showed up 9 a.m. was here until. Yeah. The three hours of the morning had a couple of Corona's. Typical Mexican fashion. And then him and his boy were out the fucking door gone. Yeah. And, uh, but I think I think we'll see him again. I do too. He's a fucking cool dude. I do too. And, uh, I, you know, it's, I love being around that guy. Yeah. He's a really cool dude.

Like I said, he just had a really unique energy about him. Yeah. It was, it was really interesting. Yeah. And, um, and, uh, to kind of talk to him about the PTSD and, and, uh, what treatments he's been through and, and, uh, that was, that was cool too. And, shit, I forgot to even mention this. The guys that got him across the fucking Mexican border, I served with. Really? Yeah, at the same seal team, that name came out off the record.

And yeah, I can't put it in, you know what I mean? But yeah. What a small world. No shit, right? He dropped the name and I was like, I'm sorry. Did who? And he said his name and I was like son of a bitch. I was a fucking seal teammate with that guy. That's crazy It was either a seal teammate or team two, but Yeah, I haven't heard that name in probably 10 years. Oh my goodness, you know, and and he held dead

Yeah, got him across the fucking border. That's incredible. And I'm still like really good friends to this day. So that's really cool. Yeah. Wow. That's really neat, babe. Yeah. I thought that was cool. Yeah. But well, we got to start cranking these out a little bit faster. I know. We've been pretty bad about it. I mean, we did have like the holidays and all that happen, but there's no excuse. We're like exactly two months behind. Yeah. And weren't we on the last one too?

It might have been a little bit long, but, but, but we're going to do the next. We got to add a Gallagher next. We've already released his podcast. We'll debrief that later, but I gotta wait until your interview with Andrea is complete and then we'll do that debrief. So hopefully next week.

But we'll crank it out. Let's talk about what's coming. Okay. Well, we've got a flannel being released. Does everybody hear that? There are vigilance elite flannels. They are finished. Mm-hmm. All we're waiting for is the product photo. I'm not going to lie. There's not very many of them. No. Because we weren't sure if you guys really want them or not. So I mean, we get a lot of emails, but yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, you just never know. You can email all day long, but we've fallen for this before. I know. But so I don't know. I

don't know if they're going to sell. They're going to sell. They might not. They're hot. They look good. Well, if you want a flannel, there's, I can tell you this much. There's like almost 600,000 people subscribed to the podcast to the show or to Vigilance lead channel. We didn't get 600,000 flannel. So I just, we don't have that kind of bank role. So if you want one, my suggestion would be go to the website and sign up on the email list because that's where we give all the updates. Anything cool that's happening, you got to be on the email list. So we got like, you know, all kinds of good shit happening. We do.

You know, so and then we got, I'm really excited about the next like food item though. I know me. Me too. Should I talk about that? No, they're not coming to the house this time. They're going right to fulfillment center. The small bites are going right to the yeah, I didn't know if you're going to actually drop the name of them, but shit. Might as well. Might as well. Catch out of the bag. Now, small bites. They are amazing.

Let me tell you something. If you have an addictive personality, careful because they're that good. Yeah. I've heard they've, you know, what? We know somebody that compared them to crack. Yes. They're that addictive. Yeah.

Not that I've ever done crack. I haven't done crack either. I've done a lot of things but crack isn't wonderful I haven't done crack not knowingly but But but I have done a lot of some more bites They're really good. I'm super excited about those. Yeah, those are gonna go For sure probably I don't know, I don't think the flammels are going to sell, but the flammels are going to sell. Those are gone. They are. Yep. I'm going to have to get a personal stash. And how about that hat you're wearing?

That's the new green one. I love that one. I think that's by far my favorite hat so far. I don't know if it's my favorite, but it's pretty cool. But now that we've like flooded them with shameless product shout outs, let's wrap this thing up. All right. Ed Calderone 007. What a fucking badass. Total badass.

Cannot wait to meet him again. Yeah, it'd be fun to have him on the show again for sure I mean anybody would be fun to have again, but yeah, he's a really cool dude one person right now I'll top your head if you wanted to have him on the show again go Nick Kephalitas Nick. Yeah, no shit I love Nick and Jillian like I just're, I like hanging out with them. They just had a baby. They did just have a baby. Yep. Yeah.

So that's another reason they come up. I get to see the baby. I would like to have Nick on the show again. Yeah, that was a good time. And they were here for a couple days. And it was, it was fun. Yeah. What about you?

Top of your head. I would go Nick. I would go Nick, but honestly, I could have, the way we do these shows, we build like, it's so fucking personal. Like the personal, like the connection. Yeah, that is spent here while we're filming on and off set is just it's I mean shit. Ed was only here for.

You know, less than 24 hours. Yeah. And like. I feel like I know the guy. Yeah. I mean, like a lot more than I should. I don't know, weird way. But I could have any of them again. I would love to get, you know, I'd love to get Don back on here after he gets through his fiasco, you know, which is still on hold. Everybody wants an update, but there's no fucking update to give. Glover. I would love to get Glover back on. Yeah.

Glover's cool. You know, and see, I mean, his business has grown tremendously. And, uh, and a lot of the shit that he went through in 2020, uh, was just for him to pull out of that and do what he's doing and is just, I mean, that's a whole story in itself. Travis Kennedy. He's going a whole other direction now. It sounds like I don't want to drop that bomb, but it sounds like he's doing really well. You know, Nick doing really good Travis, you know, Travis has got his farm. He's farming his ass off. Ed and then and then Eddie. Yeah. Mate, but I don't want to have anybody on too fast, you know, and we got to let some space going between. But and I'm excited about what we've got coming and this year in 2021. So kicking it off with a real fucking like master at his craft. And

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