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Ep 494: US Navy Rear Admiral to Whiskey Mogul: Scott Sanders' Side Quest Is Better Than Your Main Mission

Ones Ready

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

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

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Send us Fan Mail Scott Sanders didn’t just go from Navy E-2 to Admiral—he took that momentum and barrel-rolled straight into crafting world-record bourbon and hunting MIAs in Cambodia. The Ones Ready crew sits down with the Tobacco Barn Distillery co-founder and Tours of Duty partner to talk Navy aviation, smacking SEAL brothers, bourbon snobbery, and what it means to chase purpose post-uniform. If you’ve ever wanted to drink patriotism straight from a bottle or launch a 500-lb barrel out of ...

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0:00.0

One's ready?

0:01.0

All right!

0:02.0

Go!

0:03.0

So you guys are going into Special Warfare Assessment Selection.

0:09.0

It's an attributes-based selection model. What does that mean?

0:13.0

Guys, are we running right now to get better than we're practicing running?

0:16.0

Practicing.

0:17.0

Right? I can't.

0:19.0

Freaking.

0:20.0

So there's a holistic picture that we're looking for.

0:23.6

The instructors are giving you input and we're expecting an output.

0:27.6

And everything is for a reason.

0:29.6

If you guys haven't heard my spiel yet, everything that we do,

0:32.6

every single exercise has a connection to the job that you're trying to do. We don't want people at in-doc Special Warfare Assessment Selection,

0:43.3

whatever they're going to call the new course when it inevitably changes somewhere down the road.

0:47.3

I don't care what they call it.

0:49.3

What I need is you to show me the raw materials for the things that I want to build you into. Just like everything else, it's a crawl, walk, run. I can run a keystone just like this. All the way to the agency, you never quit. All the way to ACC you never quit. Taste, like, like, tasty gains. I'm like, bro, they're like one of our sponsors now and he's like i'm taking money

1:12.7

out of your bank i'm sorry but they're becoming so synonymous with like some of the the mill vet

1:18.2

influencer types yeah and we just happen to fall into that category and uh so dynie thank you so

1:24.6

for for making fun of our newest and favorite sponsor right now, Tasty Gaines.

1:29.0

Yeah, Tasty Gaines. Go check out Tasty Gaines, everybody. I know that there's a whole lot of hullabaloo out here, but we did our due diligence. Tasty Gaines is third party verified to actually have the creatine in it that it's supposed to, and it's delicious. I got my first pack of the Tasty Gaines, creatine gummies. I'm going to start slamming those. I'm a big fan of the pre-workout gummies. I can't wait to just house entire handfuls of those. Have you tried yours yet? I'm so terrified to open that package because I don't trust me already. Like, I already have like a little bit of a what we'd call a caffeine problem. And it's so convenient. But I'm going to start doing that because, like, you know, you wake up.

2:02.2

Maybe you're a little late.

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