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Mike Drop

Leaving The NFL To Join The SEAL Teams, Trump's Strategy in Iran & More | Ep. 286 | Pt. 1

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

News, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Politics

4.96.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Clint Bruce, former NFL linebacker who walked away from the league to become a Navy SEAL, completed multiple combat deployments, and now leads Trident Response Group while co-founding Carry The Load to honor our fallen, sits down for a powerful conversation on leadership and resilience. From the intensity of competing in the NFL to the unforgiving demands of SEAL training, Clint shares hard-earned lessons on conviction, discipline, and doing what’s difficult when it matters most. This is a raw, unfiltered discussion about mindset, purpose, and what it truly takes to earn your place among the elite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.

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We're having a baby.

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We're having a baby.

0:07.0

I've always wanted to be mom.

0:09.0

And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.

0:12.0

I have no idea what we're doing.

0:13.0

Thank you. I have more of an idea.

0:15.0

I think of it like a Tamagocchi.

0:17.0

At the end of all of this...

0:20.0

We're going to have a little baby. Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming exclusively on Disney Plus. 18 plus subscription required T's and T supply. Leaders talk about what they don't want to talk about. They say what they don't want to say. They listen to what they don't want to say. They're listening what they don't want to do and they plan for what they don't want to happen. And the willingness to do that is what makes them a leader. Football is a violent game. That's one of the things I love about it. And I wasn't afraid of getting hurt, but you know, you see someone get hurt and you ask yourself questions and go, man, if I got hurt in such a way that I couldn't pursue becoming a team guy, I would have wasted the trust and placed me by the nail

0:56.7

cat. I'd never really done anything that required that amount of toughness and that variety

1:05.1

of toughness for that period of time. If you have a conviction, like, who cares how hard it is?

1:10.2

If you were in Trump's shoes, would you have done what he's done as it relates to Iran for the last 12 months?

1:19.6

I think there's no absolute right sense. But I will tell you that it's wrong to think that Iran would not continue to try to affect what it very

1:29.0

openly says it once to affect.

1:34.8

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2:03.6

and nutritionists, team dog food, where no peace goes to waste.

2:08.4

Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest

2:12.1

to the podcast, a guy that I have known for probably just about as long as anybody in the SEAL

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