#342 Garand Thumb - SERE Specialist on Surviving the Most Dangerous Places on Earth
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What is the opening introduction and background of Mike Jones?
Mike Jones. How you doing, sir? Dude, welcome. Thank you. I'm really excited to be here. This is it's a little surreal to be in the room, like for real. You know
what I
mean?
There's some cool stuff in here. Oh, did they tell
you about any of this stuff? They did. Uh yeah, he was giving like the full kind of tour of everything. And uh there is uh an insane amount of history from World War II uh you know swords to flags recovered during the evacuation of Kabul. Like I I am in awe of the individuals and the memorabilia and the history that's just surrounding me right now. Me too. Every day I step in here. I was like, wow, dude. What a great setting to have a discussion, to be honest. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Well, I'm pumped you're here. Oh, thank you. I'm I'm pumped to be here. We've been talking about this for uh two years. Two years. I uh I told I t uh when when she texted me about it, I I told you like I got the text. I'm like, Oh, cool, Sean Ryan.
Yeah, I'll hop on. And then that night I was like laying in bed and I was like I am not cool enough to be on Sean Ryan. Dude, you are definitely cool. Well, thank you. I'm I'm I I you know, I came out here, my my buddies are like, dude, you have some fun stuff to say. So I'm just happy to be able to discuss I think some pretty interesting topics um that are very, very applicable right now to this day and age. So I think it'll be a really good discussion.
Yeah, I wanna I mean I would definitely wanna do a a prepping segment. I know you sp you spent a lot of time in Ukraine recently, right? No, no,
no, no. We we've interviewed a lot of people who've come from Ukraine and we've been working very heavily with um uh companies that are drone related, whether it be um, you know, Power Us et cetera, like working on US drone programs, like trying to get those guys up to speed. Yeah, I can't wait to talk about that.
And then I I saw yeah yeah, there's a segment in here where we're gonna talk about You know, the fact that the US and China are so good at jamming each other's Shit. And so so we're doing all this drone warfare, it might just you know, if that were to happen if
if it were to happen there's you
know what I mean, it might just come back down to regular, you know, G Watt rule G Watt stun tactical, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, back to the big handed arm signals.
So it always kinda comes back to field craft, doesn't it? Every time.
Yeah. So yeah, we're gonna have an awesome discussion. I can't wait. But uh and I'd love to chat with you about some YouTube stuff too. Oh yeah. How you're navigating.
Any any believe me, dude. I I will help you out. Um we got some good contacts there. We'll we'll get you we'll get you spun up if you have any problems with them.
We're good. Okay. But um, let me start you off with an introduction. Mike Jones, you're a retired US Air Force Special Warfare veteran who served as both a SEER instructor and TAC P specialist, working alongside conventional and special operations units. You later built your YouTube channel into one of the largest firearms and military focused channels on YouTube, combining weapons testing, survival, and we're going to be able to training and military culture with your own style of humor. You're also the founder of OnWord Research, a tactical gear company built around practical equipment and field use. And More important than any of the stuff I just found out.
You're a Christian. So a hundred percent. Always. Everything every everything Thanks to to God. Thanks to my faith in in Jesus and the fact that He saved me. I I'm very serious about that. I've always had been. I was raised Mormon. Um later became just Christian um from that, but um it's always been a huge part of my life. So
Really? You were raised Mormon and became Christian?
I was, yeah, a hundred percent.
Well, I'd love to hear that. St let's start there. Yeah.
How did that
happen?
That's a that's a great question. So uh I love Mormons first off. I really wanna point that out. Me too. Um like the nicest people on the planet. They're the nicest people and the message messaging in Mormonism is incredible, which is that families are the unit that make up what what makes a country great, that what makes everything so strong.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and background of Mike Jones?
0:05–9:57
2
How does Mike describe his upbringing, faith, and transition from Mormon to Christianity?
9:57–44:18
3
What is SEER (Special Warfare Survival) and how did Mike become a SEER specialist?
44:18–1:22:15
4
What are the toughest survival environments (Arctic, desert, jungle) and how does Mike handle water and shelter in them?
1:22:15–1:34:39
5
Why are A‑10 pilots considered the most versatile and why do they love the aircraft?
1:34:39–1:49:37
6
How did Garand Thumb start his YouTube channel and what early videos shaped his success?
1:49:37–2:13:30
7
What are Garand’s favorite firearms and why does he consider the M4 the best rifle ever made?
2:13:30–2:41:30
8
What is the ultimate survival preparation plan – water, food, community and the first‑30‑day scenario?
2:41:30–3:04:04
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