Liberty Risk

🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk  Bestselling author Eric Blehm joins the Liberty Risk crew for Part 1 of a wild conversation about Navy SEALs, DEVGRU, military history, and the incredible true stories behind his books Fearless, The Only Thing Worth Dying For, and Haunted by Heroes. Eric takes us back to his childhood in Southern California, his early days chasing a professional snowboarding career, and his unexpected connection to the rise of DC Shoes, Ken Block, and Rob Dyrdek. He even managed to sneak into National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as an extra, complete with a mullet and a pretty ridiculous behind-the-scenes story involving Randy Quaid. After 9/11, Eric shifted his focus to telling the stories of America's warriors, starting with the men of ODA 574 and their harrowing mission in Afghanistan. He shares how those early experiences taught him the difference between official military reports and what really happened on the ground. Then we get into Fearless, the incredible story of Navy SEAL Adam Brown, a man who overcame addiction and a troubled past to become one of the most respected operators in DEVGRU. Eric shares some downright unbelievable coincidences surrounding Adam's story, how the death of Osama bin Laden changed the fate of the book overnight, and what it was like earning the trust of Adam's teammates. The conversation takes a much heavier turn when Eric describes traveling to Alaska and Virginia Beach to interview seven DEVGRU operators who served alongside Adam. Just eight weeks later, every one of those men was killed in the Extortion 17 helicopter shootdown, the deadliest single day in Naval Special Warfare history. Eric has held onto those interviews for 15 years, and their stories are finally being told. We cover everything from the early days of snowboarding and the wild world of DC Shoes to Special Operations history, the brotherhood of the SEAL Teams, and the stories that deserve to be remembered. Eric's new book, Haunted by Heroes, releases December 1st, with a foreword by Jack Carr. This is Part 1, Part 2 launches Monday and we dive deeper into Adam Brown, the Extortion 17 tragedy, and some incredible discoveries Eric made while researching Haunted by Heroes. Subscribe to Liberty Risk for new episodes every week.   🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk    Get to know Eric better at the following links. ✖️ Eric's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ericblehmofficial  ✖️ Eric's Website - https://www.ericblehm.com  ✖️ Preorder Haunted By Heroes here - https://www.ballastbooks.com/ballast-bookstore/haunted-by-heroes use code LIBERTYRISK to help support the show!   Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts   Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com  ✖️ MCON (come hang with us Oct 23-25!) https://mcon.live  ✖️ Bingeworthy Snacks Beef Crisps - https://bingeworthysnacks.com  ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com  ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc 

🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk  Surinder Goode is back for Part 2, and this one goes off the rails pretty quickly. After nearly three decades married into the SEAL Teams, Surinder has accumulated exactly the kind of stories you'd expect, and several you probably wouldn't. We get into old-school barracks drinking games, Edward Forty Hands, "slap the bag" wine games, tequila-fueled nights in Bahrain, and the time a friend drank enough red wine to projectile-vomit while spinning on a barstool, leaving Surinder's newly built man cave looking like an active crime scene. Then there's life as a SEAL wife. Surinder talks about the infamous "Pink Squadron," getting propositioned while Chris was deployed, shutting down gossip at her coffee cart, being labeled a "betch" for refusing to play along, and her philosophy after 28 years married to a Team guy: hold your own, maintain your independence, pick your battles, and whenever possible, keep communication under ten words. We also get the story behind Surinder's Coffee Shack, including quitting a six-figure job on the spot, spending six months counting cars outside the Navy Exchange to prove her business plan, and eventually turning one coffee cart into 13 locations serving the military community. Somewhere along the way we also manage to cover stolen valor, Operator Syndrome, testosterone, psychedelics, ibogaine, military marriages, and why decades of nighttime operations can leave your body convinced sunrise is bedtime. It's inappropriate, hilarious, occasionally serious, and pretty much exactly what happens when Surinder Goode sits down with the Liberty Risk fellas for 3.5 hours. Surinder Goode Part 2 is live now. Check out The Goode Show on YouTube, Spotify and Instagram @thegoodeshow. Subscribe to Liberty Risk for new episodes every week.   🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk    Get to know Surinder better at the following link. ✖️ The Goode Show Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thegoodeshow    Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts   Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com  ✖️ Bingeworthy Snacks Beef Crisps - https://bingeworthysnacks.com  ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com  ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc 

🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk  Surinder Goode has spent nearly three decades around the SEAL Teams, married to recently retired Team One legend Chris Goode, who racked up 15 deployments over a 30-year career. But long before Coronado, the Teams, deployments, and life as a SEAL wife, Surinder had already lived one hell of a story. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Surinder takes us back to growing up in England's Back Country as the daughter of Indian immigrants. At 16, her family told her they had set her up in an arranged marriage 😳 Never one to be told what to do, she packed what she could carry, left home in the middle of the night, and spent the next several weeks homeless before beginning to build a life completely on her own terms. She talks about working her way up in the restaurant business, dealing with discrimination and a male-dominated culture, talking back and holding ground, and eventually answering an ad that would take her out of England and halfway around the world to Bahrain as a flight attendant for Gulf Air. The conversation also gets into immigration, assimilation, traditional Indian family dynamics, the difference between British and American culture, and some of the experiences that shaped the woman who would eventually find herself deeply embedded in the Naval Special Warfare community. There are also plenty of detours, inappropriate stories, laughs, and the usual Liberty Risk bull 💩 along the way. Part 2 coming on Monday - SUBSCRIBE for new episodes of Liberty Risk every week! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk    Get to know Surinder better at the following links: ✖️ Surinder Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sangray_goode  ✖️ The Goode Show Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thegoodeshow    Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts   Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com  ✖️ Bingeworthy Snacks Beef Crisps - https://bingeworthysnacks.com  ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com  ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc 

🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk    Former Army Ranger Cameron "Cam" Fath is back for Part 2. Part 1 was about everything it took to get to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Part 2 starts off with a WILD story about the legendary "Georgina", then we find out what happened once Cam got to Regiment, and eventually, what happened when it was all over. Cam talks about being the new guy in Regiment, the relentless standards, getting hazed for seemingly everything, and the kind of mistakes you only make once, including accidentally dumping diesel fuel into a building's drainage system and leaving his entire company smelling it for the next year. Then we get into Syria. Cam takes us inside Firebase Raqqa, where his platoon lived in an abandoned schoolhouse previously occupied by ISIS. He talks firing hundreds of 120mm mortars a day, casualties coming through their CCP, and the strange reality of returning from a combat deployment with imposter syndrome because his war didn't look the way he thought combat was supposed to look. Cam also talks about becoming a host of Netflix's Toughest Forces on Earth alongside Dean Stott and Ryan Bates, traveling the world and training with elite military units.  Naturally, there are plenty of side quests. The epic Ranger Rendezvous, the Ranger Regatta, Korea, and Rangers and SEALs discovering they apparently have their own versions of the same ridiculous military legends. But things get more serious when Cam leaves the Army. Within a day of getting his DD-214, he was arrested for DUI, followed months later by another arrest and county jail. Cam talks candidly about losing his sense of purpose, depression, veterans court, therapy, meeting his wife, losing fellow Ranger Leandro Jasso, and eventually figuring out who Cameron Fath was when being a Ranger was no longer his identity. Plenty of bad decisions, plenty of laughs, and a surprisingly real conversation about what happens when the uniform finally comes off and you have to decide who you are underneath. This is Cameron "Cam" Fath, Part 2. Strap in and let's go! 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk    Get to know Cam better at the following links: ✖️ Cam Fath Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cameroncfath   ✖️ Cam Fath Website - https://cameronfath.com    Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts   Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com  ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com  ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc     

🏴‍☠️ Want to hang LIVE with Kevin, Nick & Ryan? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon crew: https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk  Former Army Ranger Cameron "Cam" Fath joins the boys for Part 1 of a two-part episode covering his path from a pretty normal childhood in Southern California to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Although "normal" gets questionable pretty quickly. Before the Army, Cam was a nationally ranked hip-hop and breakdancer, training alongside future Hollywood actors before eventually trading dance floors for the infantry. Turns out the footwork, coordination, and body awareness weren't completely useless either. Years later, he'd find himself applying some of the same skills to CQB. Getting to Regiment was a little more trouble. Cam nearly lost his Ranger contract before he ever shipped, turned 18 during Infantry OSUT at Fort Benning, survived the general insanity of basic training, made it through Airborne School, and then spent two months sitting around in pre-RASP purgatory waiting for his shot. From there, the stories start piling up. A genuinely creepy night alone in haunted WWII-era barracks. A training exercise that accidentally puts a group of Rangers carrying blanks face-to-face with a guy holding a very real shotgun. The difference between earning a Ranger tab and wearing the Scroll. The constant threat of being RFS'd. And the culture inside the 75th Ranger Regiment where getting selected is only the beginning. Of course, the SEALs have their own stories. A conversation about Airborne School reminds Ryan about the time he was underage, using a borrowed ID, caught in a strip club raid by the ATF & DEA, talked his way out of it, and then got kicked out of Airborne School a few days later for something completely unrelated. Army Rangers and Navy SEALs compare notes on selection, training, hazing, military culture, and the wildly different yet similar ways their respective communities operated. And somehow, this is only Part 1. In Part 2, Cam finally gets to Regiment, heads to Syria, somehow ends up on a Netflix show with Dean Stott and Ryan Bates, and eventually finds out that leaving the Army might be harder than getting into it. Part 2 launches Tuesday. Pour yourself a drink, pull up a chair and hang out with us. Cheers! 🍻🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ WANT TO GO DEEPER WITH LIBERTY RISK? Join the Liberty Risk Patreon Community for the stuff that doesn't make it into the episodes: behind-the-scenes footage, conversations between breaks, private community chats, merch & partner discounts, and plenty more. 🥃 Black Site members also get invited to our monthly Virtual Cigar Night where you can grab a drink, light one up, and hang LIVE on Zoom with Kevin, Nick & Ryan. No livestream. No audience. Real two-way conversations with the guys, other members of the LR crew, and occasionally a special guest or two. 🤫 If you enjoy the show and want to be more than just a viewer, come join the crew: 👉 https://www.patreon.com/cw/LibertyRisk    Get to know Cam better at the following links: ✖️ Cam Fath Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cameroncfath   ✖️ Cam Fath Website - https://cameronfath.com    Liberty Risk Hosts: ✖️ Ryan Williams - https://www.instagram.com/invictus5326 ✖️ Kevin Kent - https://www.instagram.com/therealkevinkent ✖️ Nick Betts - https://www.instagram.com/n_betts   Liberty Risk Podcast Sponsored by: ✖️ Black Rifle Coffee - https://www.blackriflecoffee.com  ✖️ Bulkhead Energy Drink - https://www.bulkheadenergy.com  ✖️ Liberty Risk Merch - https://www.liberty-risk.com/collections/shop-all ✖️ Industry Threadworks (screen printing apparel) - https://www.industrythreadworks.com ✖️ Archive 3PL (fulfillment for E-com brands) - https://archive3pl.com ✖️ Krupto Strategic Media - https://kruptostrategicmedia.com ✖️ K-Squared Advising - https://www.k-squared.cc