The One About Do You Have What It REALLY Takes To Survive?
Untraditionally Lala
iHeartPodcasts
3.4 • 13.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This is reality on a whole other level! Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test Directing Staff Rudy Reyes and Billy Billingham bring their no nonsense, kick-ass, tough love attitudes to reality TV, and explain what it’s like to train their celeb recruits each season! They talk Cam Newton, Dez Bryant, Hannah Brown, and Kyla Pratt and reveal who’s surprised them the most, who’s disappointed them the most, and why they think Chef Gordon Ramsay and NFL superstar Tom Brady would make great future recruits! Plus, Rudy & Billy share the impact and influence their military careers have had on their families and parenting styles!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my little badasses. |
| 0:08.1 | I am so fucking intimidated by today's episode. |
| 0:11.9 | No, I'm nervous. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm shaking. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm never nervous about any guests, but today I have the directing staff of special forces. Welcome Billy. Welcome Rudy. Holy shit. |
| 0:25.8 | You guys aren't nervous. It's a place to be here. We are far from nervous. Yeah, we're very |
| 0:30.5 | thankful, but yeah, we've toppled regimes. This is nothing. Well, I read through your backgrounds and |
| 0:36.4 | your resume, and I immediately looked at Easton. |
| 0:39.4 | I was like, okay, first of all, I have so many questions. |
| 0:43.5 | And second of all, I've never been this intimidated by anybody. |
| 0:48.1 | So I love the show. |
| 0:50.2 | It is absolutely fantastic. |
| 0:52.1 | But I really relate to the people who, after the the first mission say I'm done and go home. |
| 0:57.1 | Those are the most relatable to me. |
| 1:00.0 | And I just immediately went into I have breast implants, so I can't go on the show. |
| 1:07.3 | Like that was my excuse because my mother is really into it as well and said, |
| 1:11.9 | you should do this. You should test your strength. I was like, let's not because then I can say |
| 1:16.6 | that I have all the strength in the world, but I don't have to prove anything. And that's the category |
| 1:21.0 | that I sit well in. Well, La La La, you know what? Believe it in a lot, Lala, it's such an opportunity |
| 1:27.3 | because we do have recruits that come on for the good reasons, like they want to reconnect to patriotism. Some of them have parents and or grandparents that served. Others want to see what they're made of, maybe looking for a new tester challenge. Everyone is shocked about how difficult it is in different ways. |
| 1:47.7 | And you'd be surprised. |
| 1:48.8 | You may think you're weak or you may think you're afraid. |
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