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Hollywood Celebrity Bodyguard | Jack English | #55

Posted on 4 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Hollywood celebrity bodyguard, Jack English, chats with Chris Thrall about his time in the marines, the war in Afghanistan and moving to quieter work out in the Beverley Hills.

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Hollywood Celebrity Bodyguard

Before he became a Hollywood bodyguard to the stars, Jack English served as a Royal Marines Commando in Afghanistan.

Transcript from ‘Hollywood Celebrity Bodyguard Jack English’ podcast

Chris and Jack

C – Jack, how are you brother?

J – Morning Chris, how you doing?

C – I’m doing phenomenal mate. I was thinking I need to come up with a new word because phenomenal isn’t good enough now! I was thinking phenmeganomical is that a word?

J – Go for it, just make it up. Brand it, that can be yours.

C – Don’t they say if a word appears more than three times in the media it goes into the English dictionary.

J – Something like that yeah!

C – I’m just going to say some keywords here because apparently YouTube pick up on the first things you talk about. So we’re going to say Royal Marines, Afghanistan, bodyguard and life coach. It doesn’t really bother me but I thought I’d give it a go and see if we got a higher rating on YouTube. So how’s life with you mate?

J – Life’s good mate, life’s good. Quite interestingly enough we’re in the Covid 19 lockdown in the current climate. I find myself to be enjoying it to be perfectly honest. I usually live a very busy, here, there and everywhere kind of life, which I thoroughly enjoy. Don’t get me wrong, I choose it, I love it. I usually get bored being in the same place for too long.

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Prison Officer Strangeways 11 Years | Podcast #56

Posted on 4 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Being a prison officer and spending eleven years in Britain’s notorious ‘Strangeways’ prison, Neil ‘Sammy’ Samworth has many amazing stories to tell. Here he chats with former Royal Marines Commando, Chris Thrall.

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Prison Officer ‘Strangeways’ 11 Years

Neil ‘Sammy’ Samworth spent 11 years as a prison officer in one of Britain’s toughest jails.

Transcript from ‘Prison Officer ‘Strangeways’ 11 Years’ podcast

Chris and Sammy

C – Sammy, how are you brother?

S – I’m good Chris, how are you?

C – Yeah, I’m alright mate thank you, better every day to be honest.

S – Good. That’s what we like to hear.

C – It’s an absolute honour to finally get to meet, albeit through the pleasures of Zoom. I think Zoom is the bane of everybody’s life at the moment.

S – This is my second one, I don’t really know it from the point of view of using it, there we go that’s better.

C – I was trying to think, I had the absolute pleasure of driving to a podcast with Shaun Attwood or it might have been James English, and I was listening to your podcast. I’ve listened to both your podcasts with these guys on the way up in the car, and I was immediately struck Sammy not just with your massive experience as a prison officer but also the compassion that you showed throughout the interview to the people you were in charge of. It was rewarding to hear that there’s people like you out there. I think those of us that grew up with Porridge, you think of Strangeways prison and you think of was it Fulton McKay.

S – Yeah definitely

C – You know that rigid ex military type, and as I said it’s an honour to finally get to meet you…

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Ollie Ollerton Who Dares Wins | SBS | #57

Posted on 4 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Ollie Ollerton is one of The DS in Channel 4’s popular programme, ‘Who Dares Wins’. Ollie was with The SBS and has an illustrious career in the special-forces.

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Ollie Ollerton Who Dares Wins

Ollie Ollerton from SAS Who Dares Wins (SBS Royal Marines Special Boat Service) as you’ve NEVER heard him before – don’t miss!

Transcript from ‘Ollie Ollerton Who Dares Wins’ podcast

Chris and Ollie

C – Ollie how are you brother?

O – I’m good mate, I’m really good, thanks for having me on.

C – Oh, I owe you a massive thanks, for several things. Not just the example you set, which is firing as I say. Also by doing myself and my girlfriend a massive favour by coming on the show. We have worked so hard now and you know you’ve walked that route yourself and taken action. You’ve been yourself, you’ve believed in your dream and if you don’t take action no one is going to do it for you. Forget the fear, take the action, but that doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly hard work. So the fact you’re helping me out Ollie by coming on for a chat, it’s massively appreciated and I know you are a busy man, with another book out.

O – Yeah it’s gone phenomenal but I just want to talk over that because you’ve hit the nail on the head there. A lot of people think by having a TV show and I’m sure we’ll talk about the TV show later. Especially the public points of view, they think it comes easy you know, they think motivation comes easy, they think it’s just a walk in the park, and that’s why both my books have been absolutely honest and also the reason the second book is called ‘Battle Ready’.

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Steven Blades Coronation Street | Marines #58

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Steven Blades was a serving Royal Marines Commando who has served in Afghanistan, then fought on Coronation Street. After surving a tour of Afghanistan and then losing an eye in a savage street fight, former Royal Marines Commando Steven Blades overcame PTSD to embark on a successful acting career, landing a role in Vikings. Steven has also made numerous other television appearances, most notably in Coronation Street and he’s now starring in ‘Sunray’ , which has been created by Royal Marines Commandos.

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Steven Blades Coronation Street

After surving a tour of Afghanistan and then losing an eye in a savage street fight, former Royal Marines Commando Steven Blades overcame PTSD to embark on a successful acting career, landing a role in Vikings and working alongside Milo Gibson.

Transcript from ‘Steven Blades Coronation Street’ podcast

Chris and Steve

C – Steve, how are you brother?

S – Hello mate, I’m all good, how are you?

C – I’m fantastic mate, I’m absolutely delighted to be talking to you. It’s very kind you’ve come on pretty short notice. I came across your profile on Facebook or was it Instagram.

S – Yeah we’ve been connected on Facebook for quite a bit, I’ve been seeing your stuff for quite some time as well.

C – Yeah bad luck! It’s really interesting I’ve just been chatting to a fascinating guy called Ryan the holistic health coach. He’s ex marine and he’s down there in Australia. We were just saying about the Instagram thing, the whole approach to it is really interesting. He’s taking the approach I’m starting to take, which is just to be honest on Instagram. It seems to really resonate with young people now.

S – Yeah, I think that’s the best way to be on social media, I just try to be as honest as possible, but it’s a big market now especially with businesses and companies collaborating with people…

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Robbie Williams Part 2 | Secrets Of The Hollywood Elite | #59

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Robbie Williams and Chris Thrall continue their chat in this Part 2 of The Bought the T-Shirt podcast.

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Robbie Williams Part 2 Secrets Of The Hollywood Elite

Rob and I continue our fascinating chat about the Hollywood elite. Part 1 is here: https://youtu.be/3IuivMFyyMk

Transcript from ‘Robbie Williams Part 2’ podcast

Chris and Robbie

C – Rob, how are you brother?

R – I’m doing really good thanks mate. 10’000 subscribers.

C – 12’000 now, thank you to all these subscribers or friends as I prefer. I hate that commodity thing. You look like you’re in the library mate, what’s going on there.

R – Well last time you joined me, I was in the wardrobe, and tonight it’s much later in the evening in Los Angeles and I’d thought I’d go and get a comfortable chair, because last time I spoke to you the chair wasn’t that comfortable. And if we’re going to have a heart to heart or a tete a tete, then I need to be in daddy’s chair and I’m in daddy’s chair right now. That’s where I am.

C – Have you got a big house over there mate? How does that work?

R -It works like this. You go on tour, you make some money, you think about where you’re going to put that money. Then you get scared of losing that money, so you think, what’s the best thing to do with it. Then you think I’ll put it into bricks and mortar because if everything crashes and everything goes away at least you’ll be left with bricks and mortar and a viable actual thing! So I put my money into a house…

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Agent Handler ‘Bernie’ | Unarmed Combat Instructor | #60

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Agent handler ‘Bernie’ features Bernie chatting with Chris Thrall on the ‘Bought the T-shirt’ podcast.

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Agent Handler ‘Bernie’

Bernie was born in South London and joined the Royal Marines in 1973. During his twenty-four year military career, he served with 45, 40 and 41 Royal Marine Commandos, was attached to the Special Boat Service and also engaged in special duties in Northern Ireland. After his retirement from the Corps, Bernie joined the London Security ‘Circuit’ as a contractor and covered a variety of roles over a twenty year period, ranging from body-guarding an Arab Royal family to providing media security protection to news teams in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He has recently retired from working as a US DOD contractor teaching intelligence methods to the Iraqi and Afghan Army. He has started to write and uses this experience to enhance the realism of his books/scripts, penned under the name W.T.Delaney.

Transcript from ‘Agent Handler ‘Bernie’ podcast

Chris and Bernie

C – Bernie, how are you mate?

B – I’m fine Chris, fine.

C – Are we allowed to say were in the world you are, it’s not going to get you a target on you.

B – No it’s fine, I’m in Spain, in the lockdown of all lockdowns. It’s like being under the Stasi over here mate.

C – Bernie, I’m just going to say a few key words here which apparently work well for promoting our video when it goes on YouTube, that’s not actually the reason I do it but it helps the people at home to know what sort of thing we’re going to be talking about. So we’re going to be talking about the royal marines, unarmed combat, MI5, the intelligence services, the middle east and body guarding…

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The SPECIAL FORCES Experience | #61

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

The Special Forces Experience features Jason Bowen who is a former Special Forces Signaller.

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The SPECIAL FORCES Experience

Jason Bowen is a former Special Forces Signaller who now runs ‘The S.F. Experience’. The S.F. Experience is staffed by former elite operators from the SAS, SBS and SFSG to give members of the public a taste of the hardest military selection course in the world.

Transcript from ‘The SPECIAL FORCES Experience’ podcast

Chris and Jason

C – Jason how you doing mate?

J – I’m all good thanks Chris, it’s a pleasure and a privilege to chat to you mate.

C – Who’s got the best backdrop, that’s the question.

J – It does look a little bit corporate doesn’t it.

C – I’ve been told about what you’re doing and that’s obviously part of what we’re going to talk about, it sounds amazing.

J – Thanks yeah.

C – I’m all up for giving people the military experience without sending them to war. I’m all for peace these days in my old age. But yes incredible. So what is the SF experience?

J – Well it started off back in 2013. Tragically three guys died in the Brecon Beacons on SAS reserve selection. There was a lot of news coverage at the time and it got quite political.

One of the guys fathers, I knew him briefly and I felt sorry for the parents because all this political stuff was going on in the press and the media. There was little compassion for

the parents and I felt like I wanted to do something for them.

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The ‘MAD’ Paratrooper Graeme Bint | #62

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

The ‘mad’ paratrooper featuring Graeme Bint, sees Graeme chatting with Chris Thrall. Braving snipers and IED’s to get food to starving orphans in Sarajevo, don’t miss Graeme’s remarkable story.

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The ‘MAD’ Paratrooper Graeme Bint

Former paratrooper Graeme Bint is the hardest man alive. He and the equally as courageous Simone van Kan braved snipers and IEDs to get food to starving orphans in Sarajevo – in return for beer and diesel. This is a story you DON’T want to miss!

Transcript snippet from ‘The ‘MAD’ Paratrooper Graeme Bint’ podcast

Chris and Graeme and Simone

C – Simone, Graeme how are you my friends?

S – Excellent, lovely to be here

C – Where are you?

S – I’m in New Zealand, Taronga

G – And I’m in Cairns, Australia still

C – You know I love New Zealand, I’ve had the pleasure of spending six weeks there. I’ve had the pleasure of spending six weeks with my brothers and sisters in Australia, and I could talk to you guys about those wonderful countries for hours, but we’re not here to talk about that. What we are here to talk about is the serious road trip.

S – The Serious Road Trip!!

C – That is serious! Ok let me give our friends at home a little bit of background. First I just want to say I do a lot of military podcasts and people know I’m all for peace, and I’m not even going to say anymore about that. What I do want to say is your story, I’ve been so looking forward to hearing it. It is one of the most mental things I’ve ever heard of in my life…

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