Delta Force Operator Tyler Grey | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 121

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 185 minutes

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Summary

Tyler Grey grew up in Bakersfield, California, joined the army in 1998 and quickly advanced from training into the 75th Ranger Regiment, 2nd Battalion, spending most of his time there as a Sniper. He spent the rest of his career at Ft. Bragg. Grey deployed four times - two each to Afghanistan and Iraq - before he became disabled from an explosion that occurred during a late-night house raid that turned into a gun-battle in Baghdad in 2005. Nowadays, Tyler's an actor, producer, and director on the CBS show SEAL Team, where he puts his skills to work teaching others about the challenges our country's heroes face every day. But how did he get to work on an actual television show? Do people assume he used to be a SEAL? And what exactly happened in that late-night house raid in 2005 that changed everything?

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
02:00 - ...But I Play One on TV
07:30 - Military Rivalries
10:00 - Morning Routine
12:30 - Hit on a Motorcycle
16:00 - Combat in Hollywood
22:00 - Filming Action Isn't Easy
24:00 - I Do All My Own Stunts
30:00 - Breaking Into Hollywood
36:00 - Real Kits, Real Guns
42:00 - Breaching Pyrotechnics
44:00 - On-Set Shootings on The Crow & Rust
49:00 - Growing Up in Bakersfield, CA
54:00 - Green Beret Dreams, Army Ranger Realities
1:11:00 - A First-Mission Combat Story
1:15:00 - The Best-Kept Secret in the Military
1:20:00 - Spec Ops Training Starts at Zero
1:27:30 - Feeling Like a Superhero
1:28:00 - A 2-Man Graduation
1:30:00 - Big Boy Pranks
1:32:00 - A Delta Force Operator
1:36:00 - A Thirty-Thousand Foot View
1:37:00 - Horribly Wrong
1:42:00 - A Fallujah Walkout
1:44:00 - Brilliantly Operated
1:50:00 - Military Married
1:52:00 - Second Deployment, '05-'06
1:54:00 - A Morbid Curiosity
2:01:00 - A Cool Dog Story
2:06:30 - Getting Blown Up: A Play-by-Play
2:31:30 - 60 Days in the Hospital
2:35:30 - 30-40% Mobility
2:38:00 - Being In Sets You Up for Being Out
2:43:30 - A Fundamentally Self-Destructive Person
2:46:15 - L.T.S.D.
2:52:30 - Self Destruction is Growth, Kinda
2:57:30 - Finding RAMBO

Support Tyler Grey:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/tyleragrey
SEAL Team on CBS: https://www.cbs.com/shows/seal-team

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Transcript

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0:00.0	a hit in Sodder City, again, Sir Kawi Target, which was common.
0:05.0	We hit the house the most gunfire I'd heard at one time by far.
0:14.5	And we were kind of at a tactical conundrum because you had a hallway and at the end of
0:19.6	the hallway was a door, you know, maybe it was 7-8 meters, I don't know, but you can't
0:24.7	hook your nade into a door.
0:27.3	So the only way to do it is I'm going to shoot, you know, through the wall and then
0:30.9	at the door frame to where we can just go up close enough to hook a grenade in.
0:35.0	That was the only thing we could do.
0:36.7	I remember him going down to grab a grenade and then that was it.
0:46.1	Everything exploded.
0:55.7	Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about
1:01.4	your feelings.
1:02.4	Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest
1:08.1	to the podcast.
1:09.1	He spent 10 years on active duty and that's between the second Ranger Battalion and Delta
1:14.5	or CAG, a total of three combat deployments.
1:18.0	He's the colon owner and involved with Spectre, which specializes in high-end R&D for top-tier
1:23.7	operational units.
1:25.6	He's an actor, producer and director on the hit CBS show, SEAL Team and he took Bing the
1:31.5	Gray Man to the absolute next level.
1:34.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the stage, Tyler Gray.
1:37.1	Hello.
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