Supporting Veterans With PTSD | Media Mind Control #26
Supporting Veterans With PTSD, features Graeme Bint chatting with Chris Thrall. Graeme is an ex airforce paratrooper and an expert in the topic of PTSD. We discuss sham-wars and the media mind control.
Transcript Snippet from ‘Supporting Veterans With PTSD’ podcast
Hello Friends,
Today I talk to Graeme Bint all about sham wars, media mind control and soldiers suffering with PTSD. This is a must watch video for all young men and women thinking about joining the military or doing your PRMC. Graeme Bint is a former RAF paratrooper with a fascinating insight on the above topics plus his thoughts on the military industrial complex and the banking scam.
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Special Boat Service Legend | OP Spartan Founder | #24
Special Boat Service Legend, features Stephen Burns MC chatting with Chris Thrall about his time with The Royal Marines, then going on to join the SBS. He now runs ‘Operation Spartan’ which is a unformed services and veteran community.
Special Boat Service Legend | OP Spartan Founder | #24
Transcript snippet from ‘Special Boat Service Legend’ podcast.
Hello Friends,
In this podcast I talk to SBS legend Stephen Burns MC, about his time in the marines and SBS. We also talk about the struggle of leaving military service, including finding focus after hitting the self destruct button with drink. Stephen used ‘Rock2Recovery’ to understand where his PTSD originated from. He now runs ‘Operation Spartan’ which is a unformed services and veteran community. A spellbinding journey from rock bottom to the tip top.
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How to Run | A Royal Marines Commando Explains #21
A Former Royal Marines Commando Explains How to Run and Why It’s Imperative You Do, as well as the physical, mental, spiritual and educational barriers you impose on yourself by NOT running or exercising
A Former Royal Marines Commando Explains How to Run and Why It’s Imperative You Do, as well as the physical, mental, spiritual and educational barriers you impose on yourself by NOT running or exercising
Transcript snippet from ‘How to Run’ podcast
Hello Friends!
Not surprisingly a supporter of the channel has asked me to make a video on how does someone get into running if they don’t have a clue where to start. Another reason I wanted to make this episode is that for me, running is one of the best things in my life and it has been for a long time now. It wasn’t always that way. For some people the idea of running seems abhorrent and something they should be scared of. I want to talk to you about what running really is.
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Can A Westerner Join The Triads? | Triad Doorman Explains | #19
Can A Westerner Join The Triads, features Chris Thrall chatting about his time when he was working as a doorman for the infamous Hong Kong Triads.
Chris Thrall is one of the few westerners to have worked for the secretive and savage Hong Kong Triads.
Transcript snippet from ‘Can A Westerner Join The Triads?’ podcast
Hello Friends
I have been asked how many foreigners work for the triads and even if foreigners can work for the triads. The short answer is no, but there are some exceptions, of which, I’m going to try and explain. I was never a triad, I worked a nightclub door for them and this how I became an affiliate.
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Held Hostage At Knifepoint In The Jungle | A true crime story | #16
I nearly lost my life while fighting off kidnappers. In this podcast I discuss the time I was held hostage at knifepoint in the South American jungle, a true crime travel story.
Transcript snippet from ‘Held Hostage At Knifepoint In The Jungle’ podcast
Hello Friends.
Today I’m going to be talking about the time I was kidnapped at knife point in the jungle. I’ve been quite lucky and backpacked through every single country in the Americas, so that covers North, Central and South America from Alaska, down to the tip of Argentina, Tierra del Fuego.
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What It’s Like To Be Shot At | A Royal Marines Sniper Contact #15
What It’s Like To Be Shot At, features my story of serving in Northern Ireland and dodging the odd sniper!
In this podcast I discuss what it’s like to be shot at (with a Kalashnikov AK-47) by a sniper whilst serving in the Royal Marines Commandos
Transcript snippet from podcast
‘Hello Friends
I was asked the other day “what’s it like to be shot at?”. So, I’ve been shot at or had a gun pulled on me, probably more times than I care to remember. I’m just going to run through and describe some of those experiences … ‘
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I Joined the Royal Marines For A BET! | Podcast | #8
A MUST WATCH if you’re thinking about joining the elite Royal Marines Commandos. Before the Potential Royal Marines Course (PRMC) I was homeless and joined for a bet! Here I discuss tests such as the endurance course.
Transcript snippet from ‘I Joined The Royal Marines’ podcast
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I’m going to be talking about how I ended up in the Royal Marines Commando, and going through the worlds toughest infantry training which took 32 weeks.
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Forty Nights: My Escape from Crystal Meth Hell
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Celebrity SAS Who Dares Wins 2020 Podcast with Colin Maclachlan
I’m Chris Thrall, a former Royal Marines Commando. In this incredibly insightful podcast I chat to former Special Air Service Trooper Colin Maclachlan about his career in the Special Forces and working alongside Ant Middleton, Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox, Oliie Ollerton and Billy Billingham on the hit Channel 4 TV show SAS Who Dares Wins.
Colin explained the difference between the SAS, Navy SEALS, Delta Force and the Special Boat Service, ‘SBS’, and their various military roles.
In addition to Operation Barras and HAHO and HALO skydiving, we discussed the current debate highlighted by former SAS soldier Rusty Firmin, who helped plan the Iranian Embassy hostage rescue during the 1980 siege of whether the shouting and swearing on the show is realistic or TV planning. Plus how celebrities like DJ Leon Rolle, Countryfile’s Helen Skelton, Jack Maynard of YouTube fame, boxer Tony Bellew, former footballer Josh Fashanu, Anthea Turner, Brendan Cole, Nikki Sanderson, radio DJ Yasmin Evans and Paralympian Lauren Steadman would fare in reality
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My QUADRUPLE Ironman Challenge!
Dear Friends
My name is Chris Thrall. I’m an author, adventurer and former Royal Marines Commando (link to my bio ). Last year I ran an ultramarathon a day from John O’Groats to Land’s End. This year, on September 8th 2019, I will complete a quadruple ironman distance triathlon.
That’s a 9.6-mile swim, a 450-mile cycle and a 104-mile run – in seven days
I will be highlighting the alarming rate of veterans suicide and raising vital funds for Rock 2 Recovery, a veterans’ mental health charity.
A quadruple ironman distance triathlon will present quite a challenge. I’m not a natural swimmer. The furthest I’ve ever cycled is fifty miles. I’ve not run more than four miles in training as I’m in constant chronic pain from degenerative spine damage and a host of other injuries. But no matter what hardship I endure, it will never be as much as some of our veterans are going through.
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- You can cheer me on at Plymouth’s lido pool on Sunday 8th September from 9am onwards or cycle around Yelverton Aerodrome and Burrator reservoir with me on Monday through to Thursday
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‘Serving in the Royal Marines was easy compared with being a crystal meth addict’
Chris Thrall advises people on how to quit drugs
By AMY JONES The Sun
WHEN handsome young Marine Chris Thrall left the Forces to move to Hong Kong, he expected to make his fortune.
But within months he was homeless, alone and fighting an enemy more dangerous than anything he faced serving his country — crystal meth.
Chris almost lost his sanity and his life after becoming addicted to crystal meth, also known as ice. Now he supports others how to quit drugs and has written a bestselling book, Eating Smoke, about his experience.
Click HERE to read about how Chris’s life was before he quit drugs and showed others how to quit drugs.
He says: “I loved my time in the Marines and the challenges that came with each day. But looking back, it was nothing compared to what I faced at the height of my addiction to crystal meth.”
Sadly, Chris is one of a growing number of the drug’s victims.
Meth is twice as addictive as heroin and more damaging to health than crack cocaine.
After ravaging communities across Asia, Australia and the US, it is now on Britain’s streets, sold for as little as £10 a gram — which is enough to keep a user on a permanent high for nine days.
Chris, from Plymouth, never dabbled in drugs during his time in the Royal Marine Commandos. He joined up at 18 and served seven years, including stints in Northern Ireland, before quitting to launch a marketing firm in Asia.
He said: “I loved being a Marine. I was doing something for my country and earning better money than friends who’d gone to university. But I got involved in an exciting business venture and went to Hong Kong to make my millions.”
Unfortunately, the venture failed and his company went bust.
Chris, now 42, says: “It was hard. I had racked up a lot of debt and suddenly I was jobless.”
He found a job at a Hong Kong firm marketing computer chips after answering an ad.
A few months after joining, Chris walked in on a colleague in the toilets smoking meth, which can also be snorted or injected.
He recalls: “He offered me some and I thought, ‘Why not? How harmful can it be if he’s smoking it in the middle of the day?’ I took two puffs.
“Back at my computer, I suddenly felt this rush. It was like nothing I’d ever felt. I knew I was addicted straight away. The next day I wanted more.”
At first crystal meth — scientific name methamphetamine — made Chris feel fantastic and there was no shortage of dealers.
He says: “I could pick it up on the way home from work. It was as easy as buying milk.”
But things soon got out of control.
Chris said: “I was getting nowhere in the office so I got a job as a nightclub doorman in Wan Chai — the red light district. I thought if I worked at night, I wouldn’t be able to take drugs.
“But that soon went out the window. My addiction was life consuming. I was on it constantly. It overloaded my brain and I began to lose the plot. You’re incredibly tired so you hallucinate. On top of that, psychosis starts to develop. I found myself wondering how to quit drugs.”
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Chris Thrall is the author of Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent into Drug Psychosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heartland– a bestselling true story. He now gives his advice on how to quit drugs.
Chris will shortly be writing a post on how to quit drugs