Ep 473: Paralyzed to Podium: Drew Outstanding’s Savage Comeback Against the Vax Mandate Nightmare

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Pj, Cct, Combat Control, Tacp, Government, Special Warfare, Assessment And Selection, Education, Pararescue, Special Reconnaissance, Tactical Air Control Party, Special Operations, Fitness, Selection, Self-improvement, Air Force, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Send us a text Buckle up, Ones Ready fam, because this episode is a gut-punch of raw truth and unrelenting grit. We’re sitting down with Drew Outstanding (@drewoutstanding on X), a badass Army vet who went from slinging Applebee’s two-for-20s to slaying in Iraq, only to get sucker-punched by the DOD’s “safe and effective” COVID vaccine mandate. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t safe, and it damn sure wasn’t effective. One day after the jab, Drew was paralyzed, thrown into a medically induced coma, and...

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0:00.0	One's ready.
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.1	What's up, everybody?
0:08.0	Welcome back to the podcast.
0:09.0	It's me.
0:09.3	It's Peaches.
0:09.8	You know us.
0:10.6	We brought on our great friend Drew Outstanding.
0:12.7	Go follow him over on X at Drew Outstanding.
0:15.9	He's awesome.
0:16.9	He's got a story that you were just absolutely not going to believe.
0:19.9	I don't know if you guys remember, but there was this whole thing called COVID,
0:22.6	and then the DOD did this thing called a vaccine mandate.
0:25.3	We were told that it was safe and effective.
0:27.4	Well, Drew Outstanding has a little bit of a different experience with that whole thing,
0:31.8	considering that a day after he got the vaccine,
0:34.4	he was completely paralyzed and ended up going into a medically induced
0:37.8	coma with Guillain-Barre syndrome and then was spent, he spent another six months completely
0:42.6	paralyzed inside of the VA, but that's not even the most interesting part of his story.
0:47.3	This guy has come all the way back. He's doing extreme sports now. He's on the speaking tour,
0:51.8	and his main goal is to make sure that we don't forget
0:54.5	all these terrible things that happened. Drew was an awesome dude. Met him personally out here in
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