The Viall Files
E1034 - Randall Cobb Talks Special Forces, BravoCon Debrief, Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives & RHOC Reunion P2
18 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What happened at BravoCon?
And I'm like, turns out I was wrong. I wasn't really paying attention. I show up in Vegas and I'm like, oh, I look at the itinerary. I'm like, oh, we're going. Oh, no. And I was like, maybe they have some fancy upgrade. Now, there was a reason in Justin's defense. He got directed. Well, let's leave it at that. And then Justin just booked it.
And it's like a hotel that hasn't seemed to have much of a makeover since 1973. Yes.
You walk out into the hallway. The lights flicker. It's dark. It's cold. I'm kidding. It's dark. It's cold. There's blood on the walls.
I get in. I get in first. I'm like, so why are we staying here? Leia laughs at the comment. Leia hadn't checked in yet. I thought there was like a catch or like there's, I don't know, something.
It's like, matter of fact, I want the penthouse.
I don't think the penthouse would have been much better. Anyways, then we go to get dinner. It's me, Sierra, and Justin. We're waiting on Leia. Leia's about to join us. And then all of a sudden, Justin gets a text that Leia was checking. No, then Leia tries to check in. And then the rooms are under Justin's name. So Leia can't get in. And Justin's trying to help Leia.
And then we think we help Leia. And then all of a sudden, we get a text from Leia that she passed out. Oh. in the lobby.
Oh my God. Oh, I heard about this.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Randall Cobb share about Special Forces?
She just passed out. She woke up with paramedics over her.
What? Wait, Leia, what happened?
It's true. She doesn't remember.
It was the smells. It was the lights. It was the everything.
I just... The crazy part was I was on the phone with them saying, my wife is stranded in the lobby and needs a room. Why did you need... They're like, sir.
You're on the phone.
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Chapter 4: What challenges did Randall Cobb face with his house fire?
Everyone's like, sir. We know. We know.
No, this always works when you say my wife.
By the way, I passed out and I know the person on the phone was like, wife? Diva, my wife is on the line. Girl. By the way, I was Mrs. Phillips all weekend. I was Mrs. Phillips all weekend.
Oh, my God. Congratulations, you two. Period. Justin saying my wife didn't work.
Me passing out on the floor didn't work. I still couldn't get a room. Oh, my God.
The crazy part is that I said my pregnant wife is stranded in the lobby. Why did you name my room Justin's second room? I gave you her name. So I was like, what is this? And she passes out somewhere in the between of me being on the phone with them.
Oh, my God.
Because they were like, we can't do anything. We can't do anything. You have to be here to let her in.
Wait, did Leia make it to dinner? No, did not. I ordered Chipotle. But this very nice woman named Jacqueline, shout out Jacqueline, saved my life. She was there. And then Sierra came and helped me. Nick and Justin didn't come to help you?
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Randall Cobb face during Special Forces?
So they have like, what do they know about that night?
I mean, they know that we had a fire. They lost all their toys. They know that they don't have anything from their rooms. All the things that they cared about the most, they don't have any of that stuff. We stayed at a friend's house that night. We had another friend open their home to us and we stayed at their home for a month until we found a rental home. So now we're in other people's spaces.
And then we're in a rental home and Now we were building a house when we first moved here. So that house took three years to build. And then when we got in there, like 13 places over the course of their life. And my oldest is at his fifth school as a seven year old. So like he knows nothing but like transition.
And, you know, so that that's one of the reasons like us here, them having that stability is huge for us.
What is, uh, as far, how did you and your wife kind of work through all that with all that chaos? Like we, we talk a lot about relationships on this show, but like, how did your, you and your wife, like make sure you stay connected and on the same page?
Because I think, you know, when times get scary, you know, sometimes you, it's easy to disconnect from, you know, your partner and things like that. How'd you guys do that?
It's a lot of work. And you know, one thing that we've always talked about is like, our love is not work. Like that's the easy part. The other stuff becomes the difficult parts of the schedules and the whatever life may throw of us, you know, putting those pieces back together, but our love doesn't change. Like I know that she's got my back.
I got her back and we'll get through anything and everything together because we have that communication. We have that Those moments when times are rough, we know we have each other at the end of the day. And home is wherever she is. That's my home. We could be anywhere in the world. We can live in Iceland for all I care. I know that my home is with me.
Back to Special Forces, what was the challenge that really you hated the most?
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Chapter 6: How did Randall and his wife maintain their relationship during chaos?
The tunnels, the tunnels that, that, that crushed me. Well, I didn't realize how claustrophobic I was. Like I've, I've definitely, I knew I had a little bit of that, but I didn't know to what extent to what level, but you know, like every mission, right. Going into it, you never knew what you were getting into. They would give you an idea. So for that mission, we're going to bomb a cell tower.
Well, our group was meeting together and we're thinking like, oh, like, oh, we saw palm trees that were that were cell towers. So keep out of the look for palm trees. None of that matters. Everything that you thought you were game planning for, like none of that matters once you start. And, you know, I'll never forget to Foxy slapped me upside my head so hard.
They don't know why they didn't show that on TV. But I jumped down into the ditch and he was telling me to stay low, but I guess I wasn't low enough. And he slapped me upside the back of my head and I fell to all fours and started crawling. You started going through the tunnels and you start to realize they're getting smaller and smaller and smaller. And then...
You go, you flip over and you're going through the water, uh, trying to keep your head above, um, above water.
Chapter 7: What was the most memorable play of Randall's NFL career?
And I mean, that was, that was the craziest one for me. Like I had, I had night terrors that night, like woke up in the middle of the night, like completely unzipped my, my sleeping bag and like, was like looking around up in the middle of the night for like two hours. Yeah, it was rough.
We joked a little bit before we started about the, uh, snack box. Yeah. But I mean, what went through your head when you went back and you placed that empty box and you saw DS Dorm on it for the first time? Were you like, oh, we're fucked?
Yeah, so I felt like playing football, right? Sometimes our coach will throw us a bone. Like, oh, you've been having a great day. We're going to have no meetings in the afternoon. We're actually going to go bowling today, have a little team bonding moment. So when I saw that box in my mind, I was like, Oh, they're throwing us a bone.
Nick Young, Swaggy P, the whole time, all he was talking about was Coke. We had passed like 18 wheelers that had like the Coke sign on. Oh, I just want a Coke. I just need a Coke right now. Just please let me get a Coke. Somebody give me a Coke. And then finally, like, he leaves. And then we come back and there's a box with Coke. So in my mind, I'm like, oh, this was. They heard him. Yeah.
These guys are being so nice. I'm holding Coke up to the camera like, Nick, we wish you would have been. We wish you were here. Yeah.
but yeah i brought i brought it out everybody like we all indulged enjoyed i guess the chanel told us in the cafeteria i don't remember hers i'm i probably was in a trance because i got a sweet tooth like you saw that twix yeah yeah yeah sorry i can't hear my wife tell you she came after after halloween she she looked in the trash can and saw a bunch of candy wrappers and she was like which one of you kids took i was like oh that was that was my bad
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Chapter 8: How does Randall feel about the current state of the Green Bay Packers?
Or are you scared to kind of go back to the group and be like, guys, I fucked up. That was for the DSs. Like, we're going to be punished.
No, I wasn't. Because in that moment, I was like, I got to take ownership. That's nobody else's fault. That's mine. I presented that to y'all as we got a treat. They're looking out for us, not realizing that it wasn't what I thought it was. So yeah, that was tough.
What was the water that they threw on you? Was it from the toilet?
We thought that in the beginning. Yeah. And then we realized it was just like sand and toilet paper that they had thrown in the water. So it wasn't. Okay. Yeah. But they were calling us the shitty crew after that. Oh no.
Oh no.
I want to talk a little ball with you as a Packer fan. I am curious. Danny and I were talking at dinner, and we were just talking about his time in the league. But I was fascinated to hear him just talking about, as a fan of football, I'm just a fan, right? I watch it. It's my Dungeons and Dragons, right? Right. It's like... I ride for my team. It's not my life. You know, I'm not playing.
I'm not like doing the thing. And then when like, you know, my team loses, I'm like bummed about it. And I think as fans, sometimes I think we don't, you know, we don't like see the players almost as like it's human in a way, right? Like online discourse is like, you know, you're just like, holy shit, you know, like fans can be pretty harsh.
And also just like when a player's hurt or tired, I think as fans, we're just, you know, it's like for anyone who plays like fantasy football or Madden, it's just like, if your player's rated a 99, you're like, well, he's a 99. Yeah. He's always going to play like a 99.
Exactly.
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