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The Debrief with Shawn and Katie | #006 Travis Howze

Publish Date: 2020/11/25
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Griffin seems pretty fired up about it. I know. I wonder if his snoring is picking up on the mic. Probably. Right, Griffey? All right. Well, 006, Travis House and the books. Another signature on the board. Yeah. Done. Firefighter. Check. Yeah. Real quick, before we get started. What's up? The hat. We did a hat donation. We got 15 left. We are donating to...

Coach Mulkey Inc., which is after Travis's best friend. And so Louis Mulkey was a coach, a teacher, and a firefighter who died in Charleston Nine Fire very honorably. And so basically what this foundation does is they –

They give scholarships to underprivileged kids. Yeah. And so we sold... We have 100 hats made. We're selling for $100. And...

We're donating all the proceeds to this charity, and we have 15 left. I think the proceeds will be right around $8,000. So if you haven't bought a hat yet, there's 15 left. We're never going to make them again. Nope. It's a firefighter slash vigilance elite hat. Get it on the website. And for people that don't know, there's no website that goes along with the

Foundation. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's like a grassroots foundation type thing. Yeah, they don't waste their fucking money on social media or web design or any of that. Everything goes to the kids. Direct. So pretty awesome. But Griffin seems pretty fired up about it. I know. I wonder if his snoring is picking up on the mic. Probably.

Yeah. Anyways. But yeah, so first of all, though, it was filmed how many months ago now? It was a minute ago. It was a minute ago. So just like our last debrief, we're still behind on this debrief. We're running a little behind. A little bit. But he did get a farm. I know. You know, that's cool. He's been looking for a farm for, I think, over a year. And he's had deal after deal fall through. Yeah. And...

You know, he watched our land video and bam, closed down a farm. So sent us a couple pictures last night right before we filmed this. That land video must bring good luck. Yeah. Hint, hint, wink, wink. Hint, hint, wink, wink. If you want to learn what we look for when we're buying land, go to the website and it's $1.99. Yeah. That's it. I had so much fun filming that with you though, babe. Like...

That was a fun one. That was a good time. And that property sold. I know. You sold it. Wow. You sold it to, you know. Yeah. Well, we can't say who we sold it to because they don't want to be named, but that's pretty cool. Anyways, back to Travis. But yeah, Travis was a lot of fun. And the way that we found him or he found us was he contacted us and, um,

Luckily, his email really stood out to me. And I remember telling you about him downstairs, I think at the breakfast table. And I was getting choked up just telling you about the video that he had that goes along with his website. And yeah. Yeah. No, I remember, you know, we get a lot of inquiries, you know, of people nominating themselves to be on the show. And yeah.

Usually that's an automatic dismissal. And and I thought that was going to be too. I was like, wait, this guy's nominating himself. And then you showed me the video and then we picked through the book and did a little research and we've been looking for a firefighter. And it was like, holy shit, man, this guy is like the perfect fit. Man, he was. And excuse me.

Man, what a tearjerker. I know. But what a cool fucking dude. He really is, though. And I just had so much fun having him here and everything that he's done. I mean, firefighter, cop. No, wait. Marine, firefighter, cop, firefighter.

Stand-up comedian and now... Author. Yeah. Motivational speaker. Crazy. Yeah. Like you were saying, quite the underachiever. Yeah.

So all you people out there that aren't doing shit, what's your fucking excuse? Or if you can't make up your mind what you want to do, just do it all. Go for it. Just be like Travis. Red line, blue line, green line. Do everything. Now he's a fucking farmer. Yeah. But no, cool, dude. And PTSD from first responders and mill is just one of those things that I never thought that got enough attention and it never will.

Um, but, but man, now he's, you know, dedicating a huge portion of his life to help law enforcement, firefighters and vets. And he fits every one of those communities. And, uh, you know, he wrote his book, create your own light, self-published easy read, but good read. And, um, and I'm not a reader. So, um,

And I did read it. And, yeah, I mean, hell of a dude doing great things. Has been doing great things ever since he joined the Marine Corps and ever since. So what a stand-up dude. I know. And one thing that I really like, too, is that he's sober. Yeah. I think that's really cool. Did you guys talk about that? Yeah, we did. You want to share anything? Well, he didn't...

Go through like AA or the program or anything like that. So he just decided one day he was done with it. Well, it sounds like that's when everything started turning around for him. Big time. So that's awesome. I know. It's really cool. But but well, yeah.

Who do we got next? Well, hold on. One thing he did want to, well, one thing he kept kind of making fun about our house about was he kept calling it the content house. I don't know if he was making fun about it, but it was the content house because we were posting all this stuff and tagging him all the time and having a lot of fun with it. But since then, you and I are off social media. We did. I forgot about that. Yeah.

So we're no longer the content house. How long has it been for you? Like late September. So do you miss it? Do I miss it?

Do I miss the gram? Yeah. And all the censorship and bullshit that comes with it? Yeah. Hold on, let me think. Fuck no. Which is why we started making videos and putting them on our website, because it's censorship free. Whoa. And I don't have to listen to a bunch of fucking assholes leave shitty comments under our stuff. Yeah. And...

We're a lot more productive without checking our phones and all of that. And Griffin agrees. Griffin's up. Yeah. That woke him up. Welcome to the show, Griffey. He's like, I miss the groom. But, well. Yeah. Who do we got next? 007. 007, Ed Calderon, Mexican drug cartel.

expert yep a real macgyver a real macgyver tsa's worst fucking nightmare the smuggling expert yep he's a pretty cool dude too yeah he is that was neat but i don't i don't even know what to expect from that episode well i guess you'll have to wait and find out when we release it on thanksgiving you showed me the teaser and i'm teased

It looks good. Well, let's go take care of that. Yeah. All right. See you later. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Happy Thanksgiving. Go eat a shit ton of turkey and go into a food coma. Big time. All right. Happy gobble gobble. We're out. Right, Griffey?

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