February 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Our Bachelor Nation OGs Bob Guiney and Trista Sutter are reconnecting with her Special Forces teammate, professional surfer Alana Blanchard!
Alana shares how her children helped her train for the show, because sometimes it feels like you have to carry the weight of the world on your back! She opens up about how hard it REALLY is to go through the challenge of Special Forces.
Plus, find out why people call Alana and Cam Newtown “twins”!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi everybody, this is Trista and Bob and we are here.
We are here today for the Almost Famous OG podcast
to talk to Alana Blanchard, who was one of my
cast recruits on Special Horses World's Toughest Test. Did way
better than me, And of course you probably all know
(00:27):
her from her professional surfing career and that amazing butt
on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh my gosh. I literally, Bob, I have to say
I wrote her when we could start following each other
on Instagram because you're not supposed to follow each other
before they announced the cast, and I wrote her immediately
and I'm like, oh my gosh, please can you share,
share your your tips in getting that beautiful?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you so much for having me on the podcast.
I'm so excited. And I think you did amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean that was just, you know, a crazy, crazy experience,
and I just remember you being like the sweetest.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was like when you left, I was like so sad,
because I felt like when anyone left, it was just
like I don't know, I was like, no, you were
just I don't know. I felt like you helped me
because I was.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Like, Wow, she's doing it. Okay, I got this.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're so sweet. I remember when I was leaving, you
were like, oh, I'm so sad you're leaving, and you know,
you were just so kind to me. So thank you.
But you literally you crushed it. I do not understand how,
especially the hike day, the hike where you were like
(01:59):
way in advance of it seemed like all of the
guys and of course they show the clip of you
saying that in preparation you carried your kids around. That
is great preparation.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Totally.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean I think for any mom, like that's just
kind of what we do, right, like when you have
little ones and we have a lot of hills and
trails here, and I'm a surfer and there's a lot
of hills and trails to get to like the surf breaks,
so we're always kind of going up and down things and.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We're carrying our kids.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So I think that definitely benefited me because I was
just kind of used to it, and my kid is
well back then he was pretty much the exact same
weight as the burkin, so it was perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I was gonna say that had to be.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You know, my wife when we had our kids, all
of a sudden, her arms were just ripped and I
was always like, how are you doing this? And I
realized she's carrying around forty pounds all the time exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, constantly just carrying things.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And yeah, I think I don't know something about I
just actually like doing those kind of things. So the
I feel like any of the athletics stuff in those challenges,
I was.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Like, Okay, I got this.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I feel like that kind of was my strong suit,
where the other like mental stuff was like definitely my weakness.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh girl, I feel like the total opposite.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think so. Watching it,
you came off like a powerhouse. I don't know how
you're going to have that stuff. Yeah, don't you think, Trista.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, well, I was gonna say, I didn't mean
the opposite for her. I meant the opposite for me.
I felt like the mental I could do the physical
I had a really hard time with. But Bob is right, like,
I don't think the mental part. It seems to me
as an outlook an onlooker, you did not seem weak
(03:57):
in the mental department. I mean, girl, you survived what
was it, five hours of the torture noises in your ear.
I don't know how you even survived five hours.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, that was definitely and I'm pret I feel like
it was longer. I came out and it was seven am.
I think we started at like one am with the
torture noises, and I just I but looking back, I
kind of wish I just stuck it out just a
little bit longer.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Driving me crazy, just being cold, being in the stress
positions and just listening to that noise. You kind of
start like going crazy, like for a little bit. I
feel like for the first hour or two I kind
of was just out of it and I kind of
like zoned out. But then like after a while, you're
like I just can't handle this anymore. And you keep thinking, Okay,
(04:51):
they're going to stop it. They're going to stop it,
because looking back on the last few seasons, I'm like, oh,
that doesn't you know, it's probably like three hours of
you know, hell or what.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I could do that. But it just kept going
and going and going, and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I was like, please let me talk to the lady
because I would rather get like drilled by her than
be in that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I would rather her tell me I'm a bad mom.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Whatever she wants to say. I'm like, I'll talk to
you however long you want. Just don't don't leave me
in here anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But I just was it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Loud, like with the headphones really loud, so.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Loud, so loud, you can't hear anything else, you can't see,
and you're just in those stress positions so you can't relax.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And after like a night of running and.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You're just exhausted, and then they they want to like, yeah,
they it's just crazy looking back on it. They want
to push you mentally, Like they told the lady like, oh,
she's having a hard time, you know, she's missing her kids,
and they kind of played into that, I think, And
yeah they looking back, I'm like, oh, I wish I
(05:57):
kind of understood, like why they like say things or
do things because they want to push you so hard
mentally to break.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, I was watching it.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I mean Tristan I talked about this afterwards because I
got you know, I've known Tristan. I you know, we
used to date and we've known each other twenty some years.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I was out here season of the Bachelorette before they
made me the on my.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Own, but I seeing her on the show was like,
it was made me emotional because I'm seeing my.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Friend go through all these challenges.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Then I got emotional again in this last episode thinking
about my wife being in that situation and having someone go,
you know, you're a selfish mom being here. I mean
I would I even said to Tristan, I'm like, I
don't even know what I would do if someone was
like challenging me in that regard.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
That would have set me off for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Totally.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah. I think at that point that when they took
the stuff off, you're so out of it, and they
told us to be really docile, do not speak back
to them unless you're like asked a question.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So I was just like, and I.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Just remember being like, I understand that, uh huh, Like
I just but I guess like at the same time,
if I really think about it, I probably did kind
of feel like a bad mom doing that, like being
on the show and being away from my kids because
I only weaned my second.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Like a month before the show.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I just was like, I don't know, it's so crazy
as a mom, you just have this, like as soon
as you leave your kids, I think you just have
this like anxiety or whatever it is. Yes, guilt, mom guilt,
and I'm sure dads get it too, but I just
wasn't I would, I wasn't used to being away for them,
and like, I'm glad you guys are like, oh, you
(07:46):
did so good, because I felt like, I'm like, I
just cried all the whole time on National TV.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
No yeah, no, no, no, I mean honestly, I feel
like all of us felt like we cried so much,
but it didn't they didn't really show a ton of it,
and you you crushed it. I was just so freaking impressed.
I mean, I am not a surfer at all. I
hate open water. I you know, I don't know that
(08:11):
I've even ever tried surfing, but I feel like everyone
should think, let's go surfing, because clearly, if you are
able to get through Special Forces like you did and
your your main career, obviously, I know you work out too,
but is surfing that there's something to be said for
(08:32):
surfing to prepare you for Special Forces? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Totally, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I think I think it's just the constant, like you're well,
I think there's a few things. I think our environment
with surfing constantly changes, so we're kind of used to
so we have to like think on our toes.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And then we're kind of used to being put in
situations where you're like, Okay, this is kind of crazy
and scary, like if you're surfing big waves and you're
kind of feeling uncomfortable, but you have to breathe through it.
You can't like freak out because if you freak out,
it's gonna be worse for you. Yeah, and then it's
like just I think, you know, I've been surfing my
whole life, so I have that like endurance, So I
(09:12):
think there is something to say with like that definitely
helped me. And I feel like if I didn't have that,
I would have been out, you know, on the first
day for sure, because mentally I don't think I was,
you know, as strong as you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I just I don't know. I was just like this
is crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Like that first day when we got into our area,
I was just like I can't sleep here, Like this
is this is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like how are we gonna sleep good here? But I
ended up seeking good because I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, because you don't have your kids, you don't have
the stresses of normal life, and we're freaking exhausted every
time we got the chance to finally lay down totally completely.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, Like I was worried about that was my biggest
worry going into it. I'm like, how am I going
to sleep on a cot? But then I think you're
just so exhausted, and I ended up sleeping kind of.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Good, totally okay. So I would like to know. I
know in the mirror room you talked about with Bethany
Hamilton and her you were with her when she right
(10:24):
when she was bit by the shark. And what I
want to know is that obviously was a very traumatic
experience for you growing up. Does Special Forces replace that
as your most traumatic experience or.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I mean, I feel like, you know, I mean, because
I was so young at the time, I feel like
I bounced back way faster than a bit happened now.
But I mean seeing yeah, I mean I did see
my friend's arm get bit off, and I it's a
little bit uncomparable, I guess, but I compare the Special
(11:04):
Forces to like giving birth, wow, because I feel like,
I mean, I had my both of my kids naturally,
and I feel like they're like in par like.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
In different ways.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But I mean, yeah, like the shark attack, like that
was just more traumatic I think long term. And but
like my reasoning behind doing Special Forces was like seeing
my dad react. He saved her life, like he got
the Turner kid on her arm, and I was like,
I want to do that, Like because I have kids now,
(11:40):
I'm like, I want to do that for I mean,
hopefully my kids never are in that situation, but you
just never know, and especially having boys, they just get
into everything. I'm like, I want to be able to
react like how my dad did, and like if I
need to save a life, I want to save a life,
you know. Like so I guess that was kind of
why I that up, and I just was like inspired.
(12:02):
I've always been inspired by my dad and how he
reacted in that situation.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Did he have special training? Do he have like Special
Forces training or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Nos training?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean, I think as a surfer, we are kind
of you know, used to like people, especially in Hawaii,
people will come and they can't swim and then they
get sucked out into a rip current and like we've
had to save people before, Like you know, give our
board to them or whatever it is. So we are, like,
(12:31):
I guess, kind of you know, used to situations like that.
But when there's a situation, I feel like, you know,
you're like your friend's arm getting a bit off.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You just go into total shop and you just react
how you need to.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I mean, I was not like, I was not okay
when I was when I was in the situation, I
was like throwing up. But my dad was just like
laser focused. You know, he knew he needs to save
his daughter's best friend. And if he did so, I
just always, you know, admired that, and I was like, I,
you know, I want to be that way if there
(13:09):
was ever a situation like that.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, are you guys still beesties?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
We're still super close.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And she actually lives like ten minutes away from me,
and you know, she travels a lot for like more
like motivational speeches and stuff, so she's always traveling.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But when she's home we get to surf and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's so cool. Yeah, Okay, I know we have to
go really soon. I have one last question. And if
I'm making this up, sorry, my brain doesn't work quite
right since I had children. But I'm sure. So I
feel like you and Cam at the reunion we're calling
each other twin. Yeah, yes, okay, tell us that story.
(13:53):
Where did where did you and Cam Newton being twins
come from?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, Like, I mean there's obviously time where you're we're
all in the bunk and we're just like, you know,
we wanted and Cam and I feel like Cam and
Golden especially like entertained us.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
They were so funny, always telling us.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Stories and I was like, I want to learn how
to be a gangster, Like I forget how it even
like came about, but he just started teaching me like
slang like twin and like you like to this. I'm like,
and it was just like this whole thing. I wish
everyone was like, gosh, they have to show that it
was hilarious, but no, they didn't show it. I think
(14:34):
they wanted us to look like we were really, you know,
feeling it. But there were sometimes when we were cracking
up and the DS would be like, what are you
guys doing in their shut up, like no laughing, But
it's so hard to not laugh when like Cam and
Golden are just like telling these stories or teaching me,
(14:55):
you know, these slang words.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's like, it was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
That is so cute. I didn't know what you guys
were talking about. I should have asked you about it then,
but I was like, okay, we need to we need
to know the story.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, he taught me a few other ones. It was, yeah,
he's he's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Hysterical, he is such Oh my gosh, did you sorry
This is a total side note, but did you notice
on the first day he had a diamond anklet on? Yes,
and then and then I don't know if you saw
it after this, but on the last day when you
guys were in interrogation, they had it. You know, you
guys all had to strip, and he stripped and took
(15:36):
his socks off and it was on him. It was like, still,
I think he had it on the entire time, I
thought he lost it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I thought so.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Too, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Maybe they maybe they got it back anyway. Isn't that funny?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
That's so funny. Yeah, because I remember him being like, oh,
I just lost like a I don't know, like fifty
thousand dollars or something crazy ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And now I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I would never warm up you have the best choice
to throw that in your combat boot.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know, yeah, maybe not. Okay, we've got to go.
I really quickly just want to say I've been following
your story about Coda, your son and his eye.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yes, he's doing so much better. It was just another
you know, bump in the road. But he's doing so good. Yeah,
thank you so much, of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well thanks for joining us. We appreciate it, very inspiring.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Thank you for being here. We appreciating your face.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, see you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Bye bye, and thanks everybody for listening to almost famous
to O G's.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
We'll be back with more
This is the almost Famous podcast with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hi everybody, this is Trista and Bob and we are here.
We are here today for the Almost Famous OG podcast
to talk to Alana Blanchard, who was one of my
cast recruits on Special Horses World's Toughest Test. Did way
better than me, And of course you probably all know
(00:27):
her from her professional surfing career and that amazing butt
on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Oh thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Oh my gosh. I literally, Bob, I have to say
I wrote her when we could start following each other
on Instagram because you're not supposed to follow each other
before they announced the cast, and I wrote her immediately
and I'm like, oh my gosh, please can you share,
share your your tips in getting that beautiful?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you so much for having me on the podcast.
I'm so excited. And I think you did amazing.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean that was just, you know, a crazy, crazy experience,
and I just remember you being like the sweetest.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I was like when you left, I was like so sad,
because I felt like when anyone left, it was just
like I don't know, I was like, no, you were
just I don't know. I felt like you helped me
because I was.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Like, Wow, she's doing it. Okay, I got this.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You're so sweet. I remember when I was leaving, you
were like, oh, I'm so sad you're leaving, and you know,
you were just so kind to me. So thank you.
But you literally you crushed it. I do not understand how,
especially the hike day, the hike where you were like
(01:59):
way in advance of it seemed like all of the
guys and of course they show the clip of you
saying that in preparation you carried your kids around. That
is great preparation.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Totally.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean I think for any mom, like that's just
kind of what we do, right, like when you have
little ones and we have a lot of hills and
trails here, and I'm a surfer and there's a lot
of hills and trails to get to like the surf breaks,
so we're always kind of going up and down things and.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We're carrying our kids.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
So I think that definitely benefited me because I was
just kind of used to it, and my kid is
well back then he was pretty much the exact same
weight as the burkin, so it was perfect.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I was gonna say that had to be.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
You know, my wife when we had our kids, all
of a sudden, her arms were just ripped and I
was always like, how are you doing this? And I
realized she's carrying around forty pounds all the time exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Yeah, constantly just carrying things.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
And yeah, I think I don't know something about I
just actually like doing those kind of things. So the
I feel like any of the athletics stuff in those challenges,
I was.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Like, Okay, I got this.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I feel like that kind of was my strong suit,
where the other like mental stuff was like definitely my weakness.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh girl, I feel like the total opposite.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think so. Watching it,
you came off like a powerhouse. I don't know how
you're going to have that stuff. Yeah, don't you think, Trista.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I mean, well, I was gonna say, I didn't mean
the opposite for her. I meant the opposite for me.
I felt like the mental I could do the physical
I had a really hard time with. But Bob is right, like,
I don't think the mental part. It seems to me
as an outlook an onlooker, you did not seem weak
(03:57):
in the mental department. I mean, girl, you survived what
was it, five hours of the torture noises in your ear.
I don't know how you even survived five hours.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Yeah, that was definitely and I'm pret I feel like
it was longer. I came out and it was seven am.
I think we started at like one am with the
torture noises, and I just I but looking back, I
kind of wish I just stuck it out just a
little bit longer.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Driving me crazy, just being cold, being in the stress
positions and just listening to that noise. You kind of
start like going crazy, like for a little bit. I
feel like for the first hour or two I kind
of was just out of it and I kind of
like zoned out. But then like after a while, you're
like I just can't handle this anymore. And you keep thinking, Okay,
(04:51):
they're going to stop it. They're going to stop it,
because looking back on the last few seasons, I'm like, oh,
that doesn't you know, it's probably like three hours of
you know, hell or what.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
But I could do that. But it just kept going
and going and going, and.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I was like, please let me talk to the lady
because I would rather get like drilled by her than
be in that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah, I would rather her tell me I'm a bad mom.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Whatever she wants to say. I'm like, I'll talk to
you however long you want. Just don't don't leave me
in here anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
But I just was it.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Loud, like with the headphones really loud, so.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Loud, so loud, you can't hear anything else, you can't see,
and you're just in those stress positions so you can't relax.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And after like a night of running and.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
You're just exhausted, and then they they want to like, yeah,
they it's just crazy looking back on it. They want
to push you mentally, Like they told the lady like, oh,
she's having a hard time, you know, she's missing her kids,
and they kind of played into that, I think, And
yeah they looking back, I'm like, oh, I wish I
(05:57):
kind of understood, like why they like say things or
do things because they want to push you so hard
mentally to break.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, I was watching it.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I mean Tristan I talked about this afterwards because I
got you know, I've known Tristan. I you know, we
used to date and we've known each other twenty some years.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I was out here season of the Bachelorette before they
made me the on my.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Own, but I seeing her on the show was like,
it was made me emotional because I'm seeing my.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Friend go through all these challenges.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Then I got emotional again in this last episode thinking
about my wife being in that situation and having someone go,
you know, you're a selfish mom being here. I mean
I would I even said to Tristan, I'm like, I
don't even know what I would do if someone was
like challenging me in that regard.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
That would have set me off for sure.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Totally.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Yeah. I think at that point that when they took
the stuff off, you're so out of it, and they
told us to be really docile, do not speak back
to them unless you're like asked a question.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So I was just like, and I.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Just remember being like, I understand that, uh huh, Like
I just but I guess like at the same time,
if I really think about it, I probably did kind
of feel like a bad mom doing that, like being
on the show and being away from my kids because
I only weaned my second.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Like a month before the show.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
I just was like, I don't know, it's so crazy
as a mom, you just have this, like as soon
as you leave your kids, I think you just have
this like anxiety or whatever it is. Yes, guilt, mom guilt,
and I'm sure dads get it too, but I just
wasn't I would, I wasn't used to being away for them,
and like, I'm glad you guys are like, oh, you
(07:46):
did so good, because I felt like, I'm like, I
just cried all the whole time on National TV.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
No yeah, no, no, no, I mean honestly, I feel
like all of us felt like we cried so much,
but it didn't they didn't really show a ton of it,
and you you crushed it. I was just so freaking impressed.
I mean, I am not a surfer at all. I
hate open water. I you know, I don't know that
(08:11):
I've even ever tried surfing, but I feel like everyone
should think, let's go surfing, because clearly, if you are
able to get through Special Forces like you did and
your your main career, obviously, I know you work out too,
but is surfing that there's something to be said for
(08:32):
surfing to prepare you for Special Forces? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Totally, yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
I think I think it's just the constant, like you're well,
I think there's a few things. I think our environment
with surfing constantly changes, so we're kind of used to
so we have to like think on our toes.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And then we're kind of used to being put in
situations where you're like, Okay, this is kind of crazy
and scary, like if you're surfing big waves and you're
kind of feeling uncomfortable, but you have to breathe through it.
You can't like freak out because if you freak out,
it's gonna be worse for you. Yeah, and then it's
like just I think, you know, I've been surfing my
whole life, so I have that like endurance, So I
(09:12):
think there is something to say with like that definitely
helped me. And I feel like if I didn't have that,
I would have been out, you know, on the first
day for sure, because mentally I don't think I was,
you know, as strong as you.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
I just I don't know. I was just like this
is crazy.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Like that first day when we got into our area,
I was just like I can't sleep here, Like this
is this is disgusting.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Like how are we gonna sleep good here? But I
ended up seeking good because I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, because you don't have your kids, you don't have
the stresses of normal life, and we're freaking exhausted every
time we got the chance to finally lay down totally completely.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, Like I was worried about that was my biggest
worry going into it. I'm like, how am I going
to sleep on a cot? But then I think you're
just so exhausted, and I ended up sleeping kind of.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Good, totally okay. So I would like to know. I
know in the mirror room you talked about with Bethany
Hamilton and her you were with her when she right
(10:24):
when she was bit by the shark. And what I
want to know is that obviously was a very traumatic
experience for you growing up. Does Special Forces replace that
as your most traumatic experience or.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I mean, I feel like, you know, I mean, because
I was so young at the time, I feel like
I bounced back way faster than a bit happened now.
But I mean seeing yeah, I mean I did see
my friend's arm get bit off, and I it's a
little bit uncomparable, I guess, but I compare the Special
(11:04):
Forces to like giving birth, wow, because I feel like,
I mean, I had my both of my kids naturally,
and I feel like they're like in par like.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
In different ways.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
But I mean, yeah, like the shark attack, like that
was just more traumatic I think long term. And but
like my reasoning behind doing Special Forces was like seeing
my dad react. He saved her life, like he got
the Turner kid on her arm, and I was like,
I want to do that, Like because I have kids now,
(11:40):
I'm like, I want to do that for I mean,
hopefully my kids never are in that situation, but you
just never know, and especially having boys, they just get
into everything. I'm like, I want to be able to
react like how my dad did, and like if I
need to save a life, I want to save a life,
you know. Like so I guess that was kind of
why I that up, and I just was like inspired.
(12:02):
I've always been inspired by my dad and how he
reacted in that situation.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Did he have special training? Do he have like Special
Forces training or anything like that?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Nos training?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
I mean, I think as a surfer, we are kind
of you know, used to like people, especially in Hawaii,
people will come and they can't swim and then they
get sucked out into a rip current and like we've
had to save people before, Like you know, give our
board to them or whatever it is. So we are, like,
(12:31):
I guess, kind of you know, used to situations like that.
But when there's a situation, I feel like, you know,
you're like your friend's arm getting a bit off.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
You just go into total shop and you just react
how you need to.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I mean, I was not like, I was not okay
when I was when I was in the situation, I
was like throwing up. But my dad was just like
laser focused. You know, he knew he needs to save
his daughter's best friend. And if he did so, I
just always, you know, admired that, and I was like, I,
you know, I want to be that way if there
(13:09):
was ever a situation like that.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah, are you guys still beesties?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:14):
We're still super close.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
And she actually lives like ten minutes away from me,
and you know, she travels a lot for like more
like motivational speeches and stuff, so she's always traveling.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But when she's home we get to surf and stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's so cool. Yeah, Okay, I know we have to
go really soon. I have one last question. And if
I'm making this up, sorry, my brain doesn't work quite
right since I had children. But I'm sure. So I
feel like you and Cam at the reunion we're calling
each other twin. Yeah, yes, okay, tell us that story.
(13:53):
Where did where did you and Cam Newton being twins
come from?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Yeah, Like, I mean there's obviously time where you're we're
all in the bunk and we're just like, you know,
we wanted and Cam and I feel like Cam and
Golden especially like entertained us.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
They were so funny, always telling us.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Stories and I was like, I want to learn how
to be a gangster, Like I forget how it even
like came about, but he just started teaching me like
slang like twin and like you like to this. I'm like,
and it was just like this whole thing. I wish
everyone was like, gosh, they have to show that it
was hilarious, but no, they didn't show it. I think
(14:34):
they wanted us to look like we were really, you know,
feeling it. But there were sometimes when we were cracking
up and the DS would be like, what are you
guys doing in their shut up, like no laughing, But
it's so hard to not laugh when like Cam and
Golden are just like telling these stories or teaching me,
(14:55):
you know, these slang words.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
It's like, it was hilarious.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
That is so cute. I didn't know what you guys
were talking about. I should have asked you about it then,
but I was like, okay, we need to we need
to know the story.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Yeah, he taught me a few other ones. It was, yeah,
he's he's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Hysterical, he is such Oh my gosh, did you sorry
This is a total side note, but did you notice
on the first day he had a diamond anklet on? Yes,
and then and then I don't know if you saw
it after this, but on the last day when you
guys were in interrogation, they had it. You know, you
guys all had to strip, and he stripped and took
(15:36):
his socks off and it was on him. It was like, still,
I think he had it on the entire time, I
thought he lost it.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I thought so.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Too, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Maybe they maybe they got it back anyway. Isn't that funny?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
That's so funny. Yeah, because I remember him being like, oh,
I just lost like a I don't know, like fifty
thousand dollars or something crazy ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
And now I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
I would never warm up you have the best choice
to throw that in your combat boot.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
You know, yeah, maybe not. Okay, we've got to go.
I really quickly just want to say I've been following
your story about Coda, your son and his eye.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yes, he's doing so much better. It was just another
you know, bump in the road. But he's doing so good. Yeah,
thank you so much, of course, of course.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Well thanks for joining us. We appreciate it, very inspiring.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Thank you for being here. We appreciating your face.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Okay, see you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Bye bye, and thanks everybody for listening to almost famous
to O G's.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
We'll be back with more
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