219: Part 2: Jeremy Locke – The message that saved his life 🔥

Game of Crimes

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Locke opens up about his darkest moments — battling alcoholism, suicidal thoughts, and the invisible wounds of war. A decorated U.S. military veteran, Jeremy spent years fighting external enemies, but his greatest fight came after the battles ended — against the pain, trauma, and isolation that haunted him.

Everything changed with one life-saving message from his future wife — a moment that pulled him back from the edge and gave him a reason to live again. Jeremy shares how faith, purpose, and love became his foundation for recovery, leading him to co-found Aerial Recovery, an organization that lives to help others. This is more than a story about survival — it’s a story about hope, redemption, and the courage to rebuild a life when everything feels lost.

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0:00.0	I'm sitting there in the basement of my duplex in East Nashville, and I just think it's all over.
0:08.9	You know, I lied for the one last time.
0:11.4	I can't stay sober.
0:13.1	I'm also mixing prescription drugs at this point that have been prescribed to me.
0:17.1	And the strange thing about suicide, too, when you get to this low of a point is I could
0:24.2	describe and even now I struggle with it but an inability to connect a numbness and a real lack of
0:33.7	excitement unless it's a very dangerous or, you know, a situation that's really
0:40.4	adrenaline raising. I was genuinely happy about deciding to end my life. This weight was going to be
0:47.6	lifted off of me and I wouldn't be anybody's problem anymore. I keep my Glock 19 locked and loaded
0:53.1	ready in my nightstand in case I need to use it.
0:55.8	And I have my cleaning kit there.
0:57.9	And I was laid everything out and I was sitting on the edge of my bed and I was going to make it kind of look like I was trying to clean the weapon.
1:07.2	And I planned on shooting around in my femoral artery on my on my left side.
1:13.1	There was a couple of ways that God intervened for me because as I'm sitting there, excited and
1:21.9	relieved, you know, there was no doubt about it. I was going to do it and I was happy to do it.
1:39.6	Yeah. no doubt about it, I was going to do it. And I was happy to do it. All right, guys, welcome back to part two of this week's episode of Game of Crimes with
1:43.1	Murph in the morning.
1:46.0	I know we left you hanging yesterday, didn't we?
1:58.6	But like I said yesterday, I didn't want to rush through the parts that we're going through now because if you recall, if you haven't watched yesterday's episode, go listen to it now, please, because you need to hear that part before you hear this part.
2:02.6	But where we left it yesterday in a nutshell is Jeremy here.
2:04.0	Jeremy locks our guest this week.
2:07.7	He's finishing up his military career.
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