[Music]
the sea was angry that day my friends
George Costanza said like an old man
taking back soup at a diner this
particular day I was with 10 of my
closest friends carrying a rock 45
pounds of weight we’ve been training
together for 12 months now this
particularly experience we had hours
under her belt he’s 45 pound rocks were
to be carried for 10 miles their deep
sand this sea kept pounding on the
shores of the west coast of California
pump I got the spray into her face the
water was over 48 degrees Fahrenheit was
cold at that time light hamstring was
ripped my leg was swollen my knee was
swollen my arms were trembling under the
weight of this rock I had a moment where
I honestly didn’t think for the first
time in my life I could go any further
the weight was too heavy
I looked up a baby seal instructor
barking orders at me he said it’s easier
to keep up and catch up Smith let’s go
my teen starting to move up I fell
behind down on one knee this rock the
weight of it crushing two years before I
was sitting at Elm cafe Nettleton on the
patio during a cappuccino
and a half hour of contemplation to
myself thinking a little bit about my
beautiful family a thriving business how
good life was the Sun was up blue sky
Humbert and then I received a phone call
when everything will change sure many of
you have had phone calls like this you
know what it feels like
my mother just voice trembling on the
other line
my sister had cancer and not the good
kind but she was a young mother the
daughter was only 3 or 3 years old at
the time and so we all knew that she
would fight this we would help her fight
it and we would win six months later I
was at a cancer clinic with my sister
she has lost 80 pounds through her
treatments I remember in his cancer
clinic carrying her from room to room
she waved next to nothing in my mind I
thought I will carry you for as long as
it takes I will carry you forever if I
have to if we can beat this if that’s
what it takes I’ll carry a sing at her
hospital bed two months after that her
head of mine she said Jared how kind of
like my little redhead daughter grow up
without her mother how can I possibly
kina she passed away
I was left in the week of grief as many
of you have been in your lives I’m sure
not sure what to do unchartered waters
should I pick up a bottle should I just
bury this thing and move on
should I get dizzy have interesting
conversation with my sensei of 20 years
a mentor of the friend even Houston
we sat down and I said what should I do
I feel like I’m left with such huge
disparity waves of it crashing over top
and he said fight hardship with hardship
what do you mean by that
he said find something tough that
requires a team of people around you to
accomplish go do that it’ll give you a
sense of direction and focus well one
thing led to another I chosen an
impossible adventure with Navy SEALs
that would require 12 months of training
to prepare I recruited 18 men we
whittled down to 11 for two hours
sometimes four hours a day of training
in preparation for what would become
what we would call our crucible we were
pretty excited about this opportunity
and that year was good one for me it
provided me with that direction
focus something death honor my sister
was in every push up every Burpee every
single pull-up that I did I thought
about the pain that she had to the dirt
and it made my pain a little less so
there we were after all of this training
standing in this incredible facility
called seal fit commander mark Devine
former SEAL team 3 commander owned and
operated his facility he allowed us to
come and find out what it meant to be as
he said the real
Navy SEAL first few days his tenth were
part torture Park GI Joe part fun
weapons training hand-to-hand combat we
did a lot of training simulations long
runs in the beach we had a lot of fun it
was tough but we knew that these seals
were preparing as for what would become
our crucible the crucible was modeled
after hell week and for those of you
that have watched any Hollywood Navy
SEAL movies you’ve had a glitch just a
mannequin 92 to our minutes there to our
sessions on the beach under 350 pound
dogs with rocks on what’s called the
grinder which is a cement concrete pad
in the training facility this would be
an endless hour after our regimen that
was intended to greatness
and the idea that was that when you meet
your end the learning starts so there we
stood at the beginning of what would
become our crucible not sure what would
happen to us hands on her back waiting
and anticipation and a Navy SEAL when we
had never met before smaller men ripped
shredded arms tattoos everywhere
he started pacing back and forth hi boys
so the Canadians are here I know would
like to be a Navy SEAL
I hear you’re tough you don’t look tough
I need you to know I’ve made men and
women waiting tougher than you truck
within the first four hours of my
simulation if you don’t Navy SEALs to
with Memorial today more Memorial Day
and today happen to be the one you said
you know what we do we celebrate the
lives of the men we’ve lost where our
sisters our brothers we have a barbecue
we toast them I’ve lost eight men in the
last 12 years but I’m not with it
because I do what I’m told to come out
here and spend some time with the
Canadians if you want a Navy SEAL
experience one thing to say to you you
better not waste my time it would begin
from there and there were three profound
moments over the next 36 hours Ernie now
you get animals with four men raced the
only thing we had to recover was
Gatorade and fig burps I swear to God if
anyone here has a big barbecue right now
there were three profound things that
hit me in this experience the first the
first happened when we were asked to go
into the high plank which is essentially
in this position it’s the high plank
position to push that position many of
you probably tried it
our instructor said Smith your team
what’s your max high plank was it eight
minutes of 25 seconds we tested it many
times before
zip ticket number between 29 and 30 he
did and we went into high plank position
and hit it six thirty
this was after about 22 hours training
we thought we were gonna die I looked
over at my buddy Bennett is there a poor
shaken like this the seal instructor
kick bargain Adams stop shaping Bennett
just help a minute seven he said okay we
are gonna cheer together the following
easy day we’ve got this who young and we
started cheering this chant together I
want you to finally just feel what it
felt like through an experiment we’re
gonna cheer this together and count
three four four different rounds we’re
gonna stay easy day we’ve got this
hooyah let’s scare people outside the
Citadel
with the volume we chanted that probably
1370 times and then we looked up shaking
in a puddle of sweat and we realized
that we had made it to 31 minutes we
celebrated the celebrations were
short-lived
during one of the next evolutions who’s
after surf torture and then just before
beach wars we were asked to blinkers and
headed to the water was 3 o’clock in the
morning in the night was long darkness
is not your friend on the beaches with
five Navy SEALs and as a team we linked
arms we were asked to back into these
huge pounding waves in the search and
layer heads down on the sand and let the
waves crash on top of us over and over
and over again and the steel is claimed
that we would be able to last at least
20 minutes this position every time that
we crashed on top of us
frigid water here you couldn’t breathe
you couldn’t see you can speak instead
was in places that I didn’t even know I
had
Blake dermis I started in on this
self-talk of pity talk to myself that’s
horrible I can’t do this anymore
so cool I was actually shivering so
badly that one of the instructors say
that’s not shivering this Jack Henry
stopped jackhammering sniff I was
praying it my my buddy next thing you
would pee in the waters
and then I had a moment when my
instructor said if you’re focused on
yourself right now you won’t last
another minute
your job is him the man next to you his
job is you get out of your head boys
it’s profound as soon as I started
focusing on Montgomery to my right my
swim buddy
the man I’m supposed to protect I asked
how you dealing with that right have you
got this hold on can you change the
evolution with the rocks is called the
will to live our instructor had said the
reason this devolution is called the
will to live because if you don’t think
this is life or death you won’t make it
through the first month we have ten
miles of hiking and when we see sweat on
your faces we’re gonna put into the
water when we see a set of stairs in the
valley we’re gonna go test out the
stairs to see if they can withstand the
weight of you and your rocks well by
this time we were delusional by this
time we were stinking product over fate
we have so much Gatorade in it it was
pouring out of our course we looked like
at the pot nest then taped in her hair
and one of our teammates had a small
concussion and blood all over and we had
blood all over our shoulders from
carrying these walks we were disaster
Smith TV here to keep up and catch up
there I was with my rock my who’s the
nation was that I was carrying my sister
but this time I couldn’t carry the
weight it’s too sad could go any further
I thought I’d be stuck there forever all
of a sudden one of my teammates came up
behind me just handle my back come on
Smith
let’s do it other teammates circle back
you put their hands on my back put their
hands on each other and we carried it
rocks for the next nine miles and not
one step did I not have someone’s hand
on my back my challenge for you it’s not
seek out happy moments so you go tough
moments hardship crisis this is where we
learned when we meet our end the
learning begins the transformation
happens I don’t care what your challenge
is it doesn’t matter if it’s a moment of
silence for three days doesn’t matter if
it’s a marathon
doesn’t matter if this train with Navy
SEALs find your challenge and go do that
do it with the team and remember cheer
together hooyah remember to focus on
others in your moments of despair and
remember to allow others
[Applause]
[Music]
the sea was angry that day my friends
George Costanza said like an old man
taking back soup at a diner this
particular day I was with 10 of my
closest friends carrying a rock 45
pounds of weight we’ve been training
together for 12 months now this
particularly experience we had hours
under her belt he’s 45 pound rocks were
to be carried for 10 miles their deep
sand this sea kept pounding on the
shores of the west coast of California
pump I got the spray into her face the
water was over 48 degrees Fahrenheit was
cold at that time light hamstring was
ripped my leg was swollen my knee was
swollen my arms were trembling under the
weight of this rock I had a moment where
I honestly didn’t think for the first
time in my life I could go any further
the weight was too heavy
I looked up a baby seal instructor
barking orders at me he said it’s easier
to keep up and catch up Smith let’s go
my teen starting to move up I fell
behind down on one knee this rock the
weight of it crushing two years before I
was sitting at Elm cafe Nettleton on the
patio during a cappuccino
and a half hour of contemplation to
myself thinking a little bit about my
beautiful family a thriving business how
good life was the Sun was up blue sky
Humbert and then I received a phone call
when everything will change sure many of
you have had phone calls like this you
know what it feels like
my mother just voice trembling on the
other line
my sister had cancer and not the good
kind but she was a young mother the
daughter was only 3 or 3 years old at
the time and so we all knew that she
would fight this we would help her fight
it and we would win six months later I
was at a cancer clinic with my sister
she has lost 80 pounds through her
treatments I remember in his cancer
clinic carrying her from room to room
she waved next to nothing in my mind I
thought I will carry you for as long as
it takes I will carry you forever if I
have to if we can beat this if that’s
what it takes I’ll carry a sing at her
hospital bed two months after that her
head of mine she said Jared how kind of
like my little redhead daughter grow up
without her mother how can I possibly
kina she passed away
I was left in the week of grief as many
of you have been in your lives I’m sure
not sure what to do unchartered waters
should I pick up a bottle should I just
bury this thing and move on
should I get dizzy have interesting
conversation with my sensei of 20 years
a mentor of the friend even Houston
we sat down and I said what should I do
I feel like I’m left with such huge
disparity waves of it crashing over top
and he said fight hardship with hardship
what do you mean by that
he said find something tough that
requires a team of people around you to
accomplish go do that it’ll give you a
sense of direction and focus well one
thing led to another I chosen an
impossible adventure with Navy SEALs
that would require 12 months of training
to prepare I recruited 18 men we
whittled down to 11 for two hours
sometimes four hours a day of training
in preparation for what would become
what we would call our crucible we were
pretty excited about this opportunity
and that year was good one for me it
provided me with that direction
focus something death honor my sister
was in every push up every Burpee every
single pull-up that I did I thought
about the pain that she had to the dirt
and it made my pain a little less so
there we were after all of this training
standing in this incredible facility
called seal fit commander mark Devine
former SEAL team 3 commander owned and
operated his facility he allowed us to
come and find out what it meant to be as
he said the real
Navy SEAL first few days his tenth were
part torture Park GI Joe part fun
weapons training hand-to-hand combat we
did a lot of training simulations long
runs in the beach we had a lot of fun it
was tough but we knew that these seals
were preparing as for what would become
our crucible the crucible was modeled
after hell week and for those of you
that have watched any Hollywood Navy
SEAL movies you’ve had a glitch just a
mannequin 92 to our minutes there to our
sessions on the beach under 350 pound
dogs with rocks on what’s called the
grinder which is a cement concrete pad
in the training facility this would be
an endless hour after our regimen that
was intended to greatness
and the idea that was that when you meet
your end the learning starts so there we
stood at the beginning of what would
become our crucible not sure what would
happen to us hands on her back waiting
and anticipation and a Navy SEAL when we
had never met before smaller men ripped
shredded arms tattoos everywhere
he started pacing back and forth hi boys
so the Canadians are here I know would
like to be a Navy SEAL
I hear you’re tough you don’t look tough
I need you to know I’ve made men and
women waiting tougher than you truck
within the first four hours of my
simulation if you don’t Navy SEALs to
with Memorial today more Memorial Day
and today happen to be the one you said
you know what we do we celebrate the
lives of the men we’ve lost where our
sisters our brothers we have a barbecue
we toast them I’ve lost eight men in the
last 12 years but I’m not with it
because I do what I’m told to come out
here and spend some time with the
Canadians if you want a Navy SEAL
experience one thing to say to you you
better not waste my time it would begin
from there and there were three profound
moments over the next 36 hours Ernie now
you get animals with four men raced the
only thing we had to recover was
Gatorade and fig burps I swear to God if
anyone here has a big barbecue right now
there were three profound things that
hit me in this experience the first the
first happened when we were asked to go
into the high plank which is essentially
in this position it’s the high plank
position to push that position many of
you probably tried it
our instructor said Smith your team
what’s your max high plank was it eight
minutes of 25 seconds we tested it many
times before
zip ticket number between 29 and 30 he
did and we went into high plank position
and hit it six thirty
this was after about 22 hours training
we thought we were gonna die I looked
over at my buddy Bennett is there a poor
shaken like this the seal instructor
kick bargain Adams stop shaping Bennett
just help a minute seven he said okay we
are gonna cheer together the following
easy day we’ve got this who young and we
started cheering this chant together I
want you to finally just feel what it
felt like through an experiment we’re
gonna cheer this together and count
three four four different rounds we’re
gonna stay easy day we’ve got this
hooyah let’s scare people outside the
Citadel
with the volume we chanted that probably
1370 times and then we looked up shaking
in a puddle of sweat and we realized
that we had made it to 31 minutes we
celebrated the celebrations were
short-lived
during one of the next evolutions who’s
after surf torture and then just before
beach wars we were asked to blinkers and
headed to the water was 3 o’clock in the
morning in the night was long darkness
is not your friend on the beaches with
five Navy SEALs and as a team we linked
arms we were asked to back into these
huge pounding waves in the search and
layer heads down on the sand and let the
waves crash on top of us over and over
and over again and the steel is claimed
that we would be able to last at least
20 minutes this position every time that
we crashed on top of us
frigid water here you couldn’t breathe
you couldn’t see you can speak instead
was in places that I didn’t even know I
had
Blake dermis I started in on this
self-talk of pity talk to myself that’s
horrible I can’t do this anymore
so cool I was actually shivering so
badly that one of the instructors say
that’s not shivering this Jack Henry
stopped jackhammering sniff I was
praying it my my buddy next thing you
would pee in the waters
and then I had a moment when my
instructor said if you’re focused on
yourself right now you won’t last
another minute
your job is him the man next to you his
job is you get out of your head boys
it’s profound as soon as I started
focusing on Montgomery to my right my
swim buddy
the man I’m supposed to protect I asked
how you dealing with that right have you
got this hold on can you change the
evolution with the rocks is called the
will to live our instructor had said the
reason this devolution is called the
will to live because if you don’t think
this is life or death you won’t make it
through the first month we have ten
miles of hiking and when we see sweat on
your faces we’re gonna put into the
water when we see a set of stairs in the
valley we’re gonna go test out the
stairs to see if they can withstand the
weight of you and your rocks well by
this time we were delusional by this
time we were stinking product over fate
we have so much Gatorade in it it was
pouring out of our course we looked like
at the pot nest then taped in her hair
and one of our teammates had a small
concussion and blood all over and we had
blood all over our shoulders from
carrying these walks we were disaster
Smith TV here to keep up and catch up
there I was with my rock my who’s the
nation was that I was carrying my sister
but this time I couldn’t carry the
weight it’s too sad could go any further
I thought I’d be stuck there forever all
of a sudden one of my teammates came up
behind me just handle my back come on
Smith
let’s do it other teammates circle back
you put their hands on my back put their
hands on each other and we carried it
rocks for the next nine miles and not
one step did I not have someone’s hand
on my back my challenge for you it’s not
seek out happy moments so you go tough
moments hardship crisis this is where we
learned when we meet our end the
learning begins the transformation
happens I don’t care what your challenge
is it doesn’t matter if it’s a moment of
silence for three days doesn’t matter if
it’s a marathon
doesn’t matter if this train with Navy
SEALs find your challenge and go do that
do it with the team and remember cheer
together hooyah remember to focus on
others in your moments of despair and
remember to allow others
[Applause]
[Music]
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