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Ben Owen

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2474 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We've been looking for some because I've lost this hat two or three times now and flipped out about it. And you found it? Found it, yeah. But I need to find some backup patches. So if I find one, I got you.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

We've been looking for some because I've lost this hat two or three times now and flipped out about it. And you found it? Found it, yeah. But I need to find some backup patches. So if I find one, I got you.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I'm dumbfounded, honestly. Like, I thought I had a collection of some pretty cool shit.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I'm dumbfounded, honestly. Like, I thought I had a collection of some pretty cool shit.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

I'm dumbfounded, honestly. Like, I thought I had a collection of some pretty cool shit.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So, you know, I've got a nonprofit called We Fight Monsters, and a guy that we did a lot of stuff in the Afghan evac with, General David Hicks, he's got something like 3,600 hours in an A-10, and he gave me that barrel. If I remember correctly from his Kandahar deployment, it's shot out, which I think that was the most violent deployment he had. So it's ended some lives. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So, you know, I've got a nonprofit called We Fight Monsters, and a guy that we did a lot of stuff in the Afghan evac with, General David Hicks, he's got something like 3,600 hours in an A-10, and he gave me that barrel. If I remember correctly from his Kandahar deployment, it's shot out, which I think that was the most violent deployment he had. So it's ended some lives. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So, you know, I've got a nonprofit called We Fight Monsters, and a guy that we did a lot of stuff in the Afghan evac with, General David Hicks, he's got something like 3,600 hours in an A-10, and he gave me that barrel. If I remember correctly from his Kandahar deployment, it's shot out, which I think that was the most violent deployment he had. So it's ended some lives. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So that is one of, I think, seven. They got seven barrels, right? The GAU-8? I don't know. It's from the Big All Canyon. So when you call in Cass, that's what is shooting.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So that is one of, I think, seven. They got seven barrels, right? The GAU-8? I don't know. It's from the Big All Canyon. So when you call in Cass, that's what is shooting.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So that is one of, I think, seven. They got seven barrels, right? The GAU-8? I don't know. It's from the Big All Canyon. So when you call in Cass, that's what is shooting.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Oh, yeah. We brought you a humidor, too. We made it. Seriously? Yeah, so it's down there in a box next to that barrel. We opened up a wood shop in Memphis to teach homeless vets woodworking and gang members and anybody else coming off the streets. And so they made you a humidor out of black walnut and curly maple that was grown or felled and milled in Memphis.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Oh, yeah. We brought you a humidor, too. We made it. Seriously? Yeah, so it's down there in a box next to that barrel. We opened up a wood shop in Memphis to teach homeless vets woodworking and gang members and anybody else coming off the streets. And so they made you a humidor out of black walnut and curly maple that was grown or felled and milled in Memphis.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

Oh, yeah. We brought you a humidor, too. We made it. Seriously? Yeah, so it's down there in a box next to that barrel. We opened up a wood shop in Memphis to teach homeless vets woodworking and gang members and anybody else coming off the streets. And so they made you a humidor out of black walnut and curly maple that was grown or felled and milled in Memphis.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So I think there were really two pivotal moments. And one of them actually goes back into active addiction. And we'll get into this much deeper later. But my last six months out there, I did not want that life. I had been tired of it. And I had two options. I was going to get sober. I was going to die. And I didn't want to die.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So I think there were really two pivotal moments. And one of them actually goes back into active addiction. And we'll get into this much deeper later. But my last six months out there, I did not want that life. I had been tired of it. And I had two options. I was going to get sober. I was going to die. And I didn't want to die.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

So I think there were really two pivotal moments. And one of them actually goes back into active addiction. And we'll get into this much deeper later. But my last six months out there, I did not want that life. I had been tired of it. And I had two options. I was going to get sober. I was going to die. And I didn't want to die.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

and jess and i used to pray a foxhole prayer multiple times a day and it wasn't something along the lines of god get us out of hell together and we'll come back for everybody left behind so in 2019 he did get us out of hell together eventually i left first but uh later that year we were a few months sober at the time and my best friend overdosed and died and um we hadn't yet

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

and jess and i used to pray a foxhole prayer multiple times a day and it wasn't something along the lines of god get us out of hell together and we'll come back for everybody left behind so in 2019 he did get us out of hell together eventually i left first but uh later that year we were a few months sober at the time and my best friend overdosed and died and um we hadn't yet

The Shawn Ryan Show
#178 Ben Owen - Inside the Life of an Addict

and jess and i used to pray a foxhole prayer multiple times a day and it wasn't something along the lines of god get us out of hell together and we'll come back for everybody left behind so in 2019 he did get us out of hell together eventually i left first but uh later that year we were a few months sober at the time and my best friend overdosed and died and um we hadn't yet