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Yeah... I'm a 7-year overnight success story:) Avoiding pain would've taken me longer to get where I am now...
Hey hey, how you guys doing? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Sales Funnel Radio.
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All right, so four years ago I was at basic training. It was winter time, which is a terrible time to go, and it was probably the second day. I mean, you know the quintessential Hollywood scene where the drill Sargent comes on the bus and he yells at you and has everyone get out, right?
I mean, that totally happened. We got on, they're screaming at us, you get on the ground, you're just doing endless pushups forever, you're sprinting back and forth in the dirt there, you're laying around all over the place, they're making you roll. I mean, they're doing everything they can to dehumanize you, right, and make you realize that you are now a number, you know?
It was interesting, you know, to go through that experience and to feel that, and to actually feel the shift inside of me, and that was really interesting.
But probably, honestly, the second or third day, you're scared out of your mind ... anyway. And they say, "All right, go grab your stuff," obviously with much different tone than that, but basically they start marching us over to ... which is more like a run, you know, you're basically running everywhere ... but they start getting us over to the spot and hand us all a gas mask, you know? And this thing looks like it's straight out of Call of Duty, you know what I mean, if you've ever played that game, or like the movies or whatever.
It's got the big knobs on the side, it's got the big, you know, the big circular glasses. I start getting fluttered, you know. We all do. We're about to go inside of a gas chamber, and it's no joke.
So, what we start doing, we start practicing basically how to put the mask on, right? One side you inhale really hard and it seals it around your face, the other side you blow out really hard and it ... you know what I mean? And it clears out any gas that might have been left in there while you're putting the mask on. We're standing outside of the gas chamber, we're in the middle of the forest and there's this gas chamber that's sitting there.
It's really, really, really interesting experience. They told us, "By the way guys, if you shaved today," which you're supposed to all time, "If you shaved today, just letting you know, it's going to burn your face, because it's going to get inside your pores really bad." And I was like, "Oh, all right. Sounds good. Crap."
So, we're helping each other, we're putting the stuff on, and putting these masks on and stuff like that, and then all the sudden they're like, "Okay," you know, "Next group," or whatever, and we're all going in as these groups. It's funny, because when you heard these guys go in as groups all you could hear in the ... like, as they started running in was just this ... I mean, like this coughing, a little screaming, you know? It was like you're going into a haunted house but it was real, you know?
Anyway, it was our turn, so we put these gas masks on outside and we start running inside of the gas chamber. You had to keep your head down and put one hand on the shoulder in front of you and just start running, following the guy in front of you.
I don't totally know why they had us do that, it might of just been part of the whole experience of sit down, shut up, and don't think at all, you know what I mean?
Anyway, but we get inside there and it was like ... I don't know if they purposely made the light like a misty green color, I mean, there's green ... it was green everywhere. The air was green, everything was green. And they take us and they shove us up against the wall, and they're like, "Okay, turn it on," and immediately I could tell that the gas was burning around the lining where the masks end and my face began to be exposed.
I just immediately could feel it, it was really, really weird. It's very interesting sensation. I could tell that it was trying to get around on my face, and you know, mentally you have to start ... you know, you kind of self talk a little bit, you're like, "All right, you know, you got this. Totally fine," you know? I was excited but nervous. I love that stuff, but it's also scary. It like scary stuff that puts me on the edge like that. It's really ... Oh man, you feel so alive, it's really interesting.
Very interesting sensation. I've had many experiences like that in my life...
Anyway, what they started doing is they started going person by person and they would go, "Raise your mask up, say the last four numbers of your social security," you know, which means scream it, "Scream the last four numbers of your social security, and your full name, and your birth date. And then what you're going to do is whatever air is left inside your lungs, hold it, put the mask back on. You're going to clear the mask with whatever air is left in your lungs, and then you'll reseal it.
And you'll know really fast whether or not you actually did it right." And you're like, "What the ... okay, all right." Now, this is just CS gas, but it was pretty high doses, you know what I mean? This is not normal stuff, you end up ... Anyway, I'll go into that in a second.
It was pretty interesting, though, because ... So, we cleared the mask, you know, and these guys and a few of the girls just start freaking out, like someone's trying to attack them kind of thing. They were jumping all over the place, the drill Sargent's shoving them back crazy hard up against the wall again, like, you know, "Shut up, get back there," you know?
And they get to me and I was like, "Man, like, what the heck is this crap? What did I do?" And I took the mask and I yell, "Larsen," last four of my social, you know, "April 22nd, 1988," and I start yelling all these things, I put it back on my face, and I clear the mask, and I reseal it, and I could tell I didn't totally reseal it correctly on the left side of my cheek, but I was trying to make it that way so it wouldn't get back in. I could tell instantly just the ... it was like insta lung burn, just ... like burn the lungs really bad, and you're like, "Holy crap."
They go through person by person and then what happened was they pull us over to the side and they said, "All right everyone, you're going to take off the mask completely and we're going to do PT inside of the gas chamber." Meaning we're going to start doing pushups and sit ups, and we're going to start jumping jacks and whatever.
Whatever it was, the point was to get the heart rate up, make us breathe really hard, and just start ingesting tons of it. And we're like, "Oh my gosh," so we just start doing it, and I take off the mask and my eyes start burning and watering like crazy, right?
Guys start breathing it in, we all start breathing it in, and what happens with that kind of gas is that it comes inside of you and it's actually, on a molecular level, your DNA's allergic to that type of gas.
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