I Was A Navy SEAL — Then I Got Kicked Out & Joined the French Foreign Legion | Taylor Cavanaugh
Locked In with Ian Bick
Ian Bick
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 96 minutes
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| 0:27.8 | slash UK slash AI for people. I had a sawed-off shotgun on my passenger seat and sat there, bro, |
| 0:33.8 | really thinking of, dude, I'm just so tired of doing this. I couldn't see the way out of this one. |
| 0:39.5 | I had just gone through all that stuff and built myself back up into the high rise and now crushed it all again and I just was exhausted. |
| 0:46.7 | Taylor Kavanaugh defied the odds when, despite a criminal record as a teenager, he fulfilled his dream of becoming a Navy SEAL. |
| 0:56.6 | He completed Buds, joined SEAL Team 7, and was living his childhood dream. But after getting into legal trouble, he was kicked out of the |
| 1:02.3 | seals, and that's when everything spiraled. Taylor fell into addiction, depression, and hit rock bottom. |
| 1:08.6 | Desperate for redemption, he made a bold move and joined the french foreign legion |
| 1:12.8 | in this episode taylor opens up about his rise his fall and the journey that helped him |
| 1:17.9 | take his life back taylor welcome to locked in man Ian man thank you for having me right |
| 1:26.0 | and thank you for everybody for listening locked in I love the name of that podcast, man. That title was like locked in because it's locked in, tapped in, tuned in, bro. It means a bunch of things, dude. I dig it. Yeah, it's like a play on words. Yeah. We interview people that went to, but it's also like you're focused, |
| 2:01.2 | locked in, and there's just so many ways to go about it. Yeah, man. And that never give it up on yourself, right? Even behind those walls and when the chips are down, you got that redemption arc. And you're a good testimony to that, dude. That's for sure, you know, looking at your story. and it's a trip being here, kind of surreal, like I had mentioned coming in, because I was in a Foreign Legion barracks room, |
| 2:05.8 | dude, and I was watching you and then kind of learned about your story a little bit. I'm like, |
| 2:10.1 | damn, dude, because, I mean, you kicked off your teenage years pretty hardcore and into your |
| 2:16.7 | 20s. I mean, you had, you know, created a mountain, a pile you kind of had to dig yourself out of. And I'm very familiar with that, bro, of it looking insurmountable. And then, you know, then just starting to fucking climb, dude, and climb out. Yeah, and the way I had anticipated climbing was look totally |
| 2:36.1 | different than what I ended up doing to climb out of that hole, too. Yeah, because I saw the, |
| 2:41.7 | you're like, I was working at Whole Foods and things. And that resonated with me because when I was |
| 2:47.8 | kind of, I went to jail and I was coming out of jail at 23. |
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