#14. SAS Hero & Brutal Jungle Selection - Jay Morton
Eventful Lives Podcast
Dodge Woodall
5 • 857 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
We chatted about what it takes to make the SAS, the mental challenges and the time his summit of Everest turned into something from a horror movie.
Jay has served 14 years in the military including 10 years in the SAS. He was on the most recent series of SAS Who Dares Wins and has climbed Everest TWICE!
Jay has so many stories to tell and is a pleasure to chat to.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eventful Entrepreneur. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Roger Woodall, founder of the Borma Sevens, the world's largest sport and music festival. |
| 0:12.0 | With all events in 2020 grinding to a halt, I'll be bringing people back together, but in a different way. |
| 0:24.6 | Just had a crazy chat with a real-life action man, Jay Morton. |
| 0:28.6 | We spoke about 10 years in the SES, being shot at, going on the TV program, Who Dairs Wins, jumping out of planes, climbing to the top of Everest, not just once but twice, and the second time it turned in something crazy out of a horror movie. Jay has so many ridiculous stories and was an absolute pleasure. Here's the man himself, Mr. Jay Morton. Jay, welcome to the show, mate. |
| 0:55.3 | Thanks for having me on Dodge. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, mate. |
| 0:56.9 | Good to have you on here. |
| 0:58.0 | What made you choose the military and how old were you? |
| 1:00.8 | So I went in the military when I was 19. |
| 1:03.9 | I guess it was, there's a few reasons, really. |
| 1:08.5 | One was I never really enjoyed school or got energy from school, found it quite boring. |
| 1:14.5 | Didn't really like being stuck indoors, stuck in classrooms, found the lessons and the teachers probably uninspiring. |
| 1:23.3 | It's weird looking at it now, a lot of the subjects that I found boring, I'm really interested |
| 1:28.2 | in geography history. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | I think it's because it's not forced down your neck. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | When it's forced down your neck, you kind of push it away. |
| 1:34.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.6 | And I'm an active guy, probably, probably like you, enjoyed sport, enjoyed PE. |
| 1:38.6 | Yeah. |
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