The Debrief with Shawn and Katie | #005 Mike Ritland

Are the cameras on they're on we're recording. we are. recording.

is that funny yeah. it's our product so mike ritland just left. like four [ __ ] months ago. and uh we're just getting around to the uh  debrief here so you start because i can't remember.

anything that happened five minutes ago well mike  was here and he's somebody i was looking for he. was here he was here as in i think in this right  here [ __ ] i almost forgot about that i know. it's been a minute i know what's the first thing  that comes to your mind seriously duke duke yep. so when they first got here takes  some big up when they first got here.

like we go out meet them hey guys welcome to the  house you know we hug the whole thing and then. and then he's like i'm like oh bring your dog in  the house like i'm so excited to see the dog yeah. and then he said well no not this dog you  remember when he opened the truck door yeah. and i'm like oh i could put baby and griffin away  you know get them out of the house whatever make.

him feel more comfortable and he was like uh  no this dog's going like directly into his. crate yeah so and then i saw duke and i was like  you better put him right into his crates yeah. and in his crate he stayed yeah but do you  remember smokey wanted smokey in the alpaca song. for the first time that was really cool yeah that  was funny smokey don't [ __ ] around though no.

he didn't look too motivated to take duke to  take duke on hell no but yeah god no but um yeah. well i thought it went really good though i do  yeah it was a really good episode two episodes. yeah but then um so one thing i've got to say i  gotta share this story and i think you probably. know what it is but so between breaks you know  it was obviously a long episode and a couple.

episodes but so between breaks you guys come  downstairs i'm downstairs i got griffin and. and baby with me mike goes like open a bag of  food like i think there's chips or something. griffin immediately goes over to mike because  that's just what he does when he hears like any. kind of ruffling of any kind of food whatsoever so  he goes over to mike mike starts like immediately. like putting griffin into his place griffin didn't  even know what was happening but he ended up.

training griffin like that was 13 years of griffin  always running to a like a ruffling of bag noise. and then mike like straight up in like 15 minutes  like train griffin to stay on the rug and not come. after the food it was fascinating i walked in  on the at the end of that that wasn't that was. impressive i think i was up here with the uh with  the crew yeah that was impressive but speaking of.

the crew yeah so this was that was the first  one zero zero five was the first one that you. did not film i know or do or take care of the  sound i know we got a whole crew now thanks to. patreon yeah true you know thank you patreon but  i felt like totally left out i was just downstairs. like trying to hear something but i couldn't well  his daughter was down there yeah and that was fun.

yeah i had fun hanging out with her but the  whole time we're whispering like seeing if. we can hear anything seeing if you guys like  we're gonna wrap up soon because we were hungry. dude we got so much content yeah you did you know  we're we still have we still have your interview. in the can and then we have that uh that whole  segment with wynonna judd yeah that we haven't. released yet and we have what else do we have  we have something that's like 10 it's like 10 uh.

it's like 10 things ritland would get to prep for  the end of the world oh that's a good one yeah he. actually had some stuff in there that i had not  thought of so that was really good yeah but i'm. gonna wait to release it because once again we're  getting censored so so you know such a shame yeah. well you know whatever google will do whatever  the hell google wants to do yeah so well not to.

change subjects but the bite suit you're not gonna  let me go on and [ __ ] about youtube censorship. anymore no ranting not right now all right fine  it's coffee time these mugs are gonna be in stock. soon they sure are of course we only got half  the shipment today i'm trying i'm trying to go to. negative 10. i know hold me out of the little itty  bitty shitty committees get happening over there.

don't do it it's not a committee go  there it's not a shitty committee. because you haven't joined the  committee yet and it's just me so. you're anyways if the rest of the shipment  comes in these will probably be for sale. yeah maybe maybe not soon but yeah the bite  suit yeah you were more nervous about me. than i was well duke was like in the back room  just like marinating for like two days before the.

bite suit and then he comes out like full  throttle and you're the target so yeah of. course i was nervous i thought i would be wearing  like a catcher's mask or something something. and i i see i'm in the bite suit and then duke  comes out and i'm like is there like a uh helmet. and mike's like no you should be fine i'm like  oh should be fine okay that was scary i know i.

was like all right and then uh i didn't say  anything but i was kind of expecting gloves. too so there are no gloves or helmet when  it comes to the bite suit and i was like. this dog is literally going to [ __ ] rip  my throat out i know i was really nervous. and uh he didn't obviously right but he did bite  my hand by accident well actually it probably. wasn't by accident he didn't bite it he nipped  it is that when that like one clip you can see.

him like just missing your hand was that like  right that was the second time because i was very. i was like okay well rutland's you know i was  like yeah whatever i was being laxadaisical you. know and uh yeah he snipped my hand i was like oh  [ __ ] that didn't feel good so the set that was. like the second iteration i was waiting i was  like oh but uh but dude my forearm felt like.

hamburger for like a a week afterwards  and the next it didn't really. it hurt but it didn't hurt like that bad in  the bite suit probably because i had a bunch. of adrenaline pumping too but the next morning  i was like holy [ __ ] yeah like it felt like. hamburger yeah that dog was serious yeah well  i mean his bite was so hard there was blood. on that suit you know and i was like i couldn't  believe that but then when i went across the creek.

to the other side that's when i got nervous  and the camera guy was getting kind of like. scared first he was getting you know  a little overconfident and i was like. well dude you might want to like stand  a little bit behind me because i mean. there is a shock it's one of ritalin's dogs  but you know i'm i mean and he wasn't in a.

bite suit of any kind no no man yeah  and so now we're down a camera guy. but uh so if anybody's looking for a camera  guy that hasn't been around in the past. four or five months don't look here but no  we're just kidding yeah he didn't get him. no although sometimes i wish he would.

have but anyways so yeah no what they got some  good footage but yeah well once i said that he. was like going way back in the woods he's like  i think i'm just going to set the camera here. but and mike had he wouldn't let the dog get  a running he wouldn't allow him to get me on. flat ground he wanted the dog to right run  uphill yeah and uh he you know you're not.

useless and i don't want you to feel i don't  think you're ready to feel the full power. and i was like really is it is it that bad and  he's like well you know and i was like well i'm. not gonna argue with him i mean [ __ ] it i'll  just go uphill right and especially i'm telling. you having him back in that room for like two  days before that or a day before that either way. he had a lot of like pent-up energy ready to go  so i'm glad you were up the hill a little bit you.

know yeah so let him blow off some of that steam  going up yeah and you interviewed him yeah i did. i was nervous though i mean he gets here  we like get settled in and then it's like. boom like that's my time to go so i was definitely  a little flustered but it was a good interview and. i learned a lot i filmed it i don't remember any  of it he's super knowledgeable and it was a good.

i got all the answers to my questions yeah  so are we getting uh are we getting tony. tony well his dog tony or what yeah i  mean now it's just waiting for him yeah. you're still nervous about that i'm  still nervous about it i'm not gonna lie. yeah the only people that need to  be nervous about having tony around. are the people that are up to no good that want to  come up to the house i know those are the people.

that need to be worried we definitely can't  let tony in with like the animals though right. i mean we could you know we got the chicken it  would be great if him and smokey would just work. things out yeah that that would take some work  well we got leashes a leash for smokey you know. how that went the first time yeah well we gotta  introduce him at least that way he's not you know.

slowly i'm sure he'll be extremely well mannered  well and i'm sure mike's got a few pointers for. us like to introduce them to everybody yeah  but mike was a fast he is a fascinating guy. yeah you know i don't we can go into the dog  stuff but if you go to episode number two. it's all there but uh i mean the the amount uh  how in depth he goes into like the psychology.

of the of the warrior dogs and and the ptsd that  they go through and all that stuff was i that's. that was some amazing knowledge that um not a  whole hell of a lot of people have and and not. only just the dog stuff but his his break his his  back story right a lot of that stuff nobody has.

covered yeah before like the invasion like he was  on the invasion he kicked the war off yeah kicked. the war off and um i mean that was that's a long  war you know there's still guys over there but. [ __ ] 20 years later but um so that's i mean he  that was really interesting the uss cole stuff was. really interesting um his whole career you know  and then and then what really got me what i was.

um very interested in that i wasn't  expecting was the the business stuff. especially a lot of the stuff that  we talked about offline and um. that was really cool you know  mike knows a lot of people and uh. there's just so many things about that guy that  um just screams class you know and uh you know.

the fact that his the the people he knows the  people that he's introduced us to and you know. most time most time when people have those kind  of connections they're [ __ ] name droppers. and he is not a name dropper and he is not a  numbers dropper and there is he's not bragging. he doesn't utilize tits and ass for  his his marketing i mean he's just and.

and uh you know what was really intriguing  for me is the fact that he's he's built. that big of a business you know and he  has several businesses and he is not like. on social media that much you know  and uh he has that whole teamdog.pet. training program but i mean he barely  even advertises it and uh you know when.

he told me how many subscribers he has  i was like holy [ __ ] man yeah i mean. it was there's a lot of people that are getting  training from him on there and uh and it's good. you know from what we've seen so far but yeah  but uh that was actually very uh reassuring to. me to know you know with what the times are in  today like if this [ __ ] all goes away there's.

other ways to market and um and yeah i mean he's  proven they work so that that was really cool. but to hear them talk about that stuff yeah all  these ways meaning like youtube and social media. yeah well you know with all the censorship and  that kind of [ __ ] that's going on right now it's. it's got a lot of people freaked out you know and  and but i mean he did it he does it and he he's. not on the gram all the time you know his youtube  channel is like doing well but he it doesn't you.

know he doesn't take it as seriously as us on his  youtube channel because he's he has so many other. avenues you know what i mean that he's marketing  in and and that demand his attention and and uh. and you know we're gonna start exploring those  ways too so yeah i'm excited about that yeah.

so what's next what's next yeah well i don't  know should we release some more micro lens stuff. well yeah i think so um well we will  we're going to wait a little bit and. let it cool off because we released a lot  of information yeah and it's been a busy. last couple of months i mean that's why we're  doing this now in october yeah you know because. you were like exhausted from back  to back to back to back you know so.

coming around to doing this was um was tough to  find the time yeah well it feels good just me and. you again i know no film crew just us no marketing  guys love you guys but you know it's good to have. uh be in the studio with just my wife that's  right it's nice that i can be back in the studio. yeah you don't come up here much anymore  i'm not allowed when everybody's up here. i mean nobody's loud oh come on but i  mean come on i don't want to be in the way.

you're never in the way babe somebody's  got to get the snacks ready downstairs. somebody's got to order the pizzas the beer and  wine run yeah yeah but uh i think we should do um. a one-year because we're coming up  on our one-year wedding anniversary. i think we should do a one-year recap like  if people if people want to see it hopefully.

they comment below but i don't know like the  first year of marriage you know what i mean. a lot of stuff can happen yeah  well a lot of stuff did happen yeah. a lot of good stuff yeah but i don't know just a  video idea it's a way for me to yeah comment below. comment below if you want us to do that and we'll  do it yeah so our one year's and what two weeks. you better know i know i remember you picked  the date so you'd remember i did yeah all right.

but so what is what is next go ahead tell him i  can tell him yeah go ahead travis kennedy i mean. travis house i'm getting them all confused now how  do you get a firefighter confused with the navy. seal they're both travis yeah travis house travis  kennedy's [ __ ] has taken off big time i know.

i'm so proud of him but anyways this isn't  about him no but so travis house he was awesome. and so much fun he called us  like the content house yeah so. well don't tell them anything i know all right  all right wrong debrief but we've even got even. more stuff yeah we've got a lot of stuff  yeah common well next week we've got a gun.

what that we've already done so it's like already  ready to go in the pipeline i'm just saying. babe you got to give people something to look  forward to we just did there's a firefighter. travis house coming i know you know yeah don't  give them everything all right i mean [ __ ] just. a little bit well who the [ __ ] knows we probably  won't even have a youtube channel but good point. so uh you might know what we do.

igtv yeah or real oh wait they do the censorship  too okay facebook oh [ __ ] they do the censorship. too don't go there don't go there all right  we got travis house coming he's a firefighter. that's right he was a marine yep he was a  cop he's an author he's a stand-up comedian. and he's a hell of a good dude and his story  is like nothing else you know that we've done.

and um and uh it's a [ __ ] tearjerker big time  but that guy is a hero and and we've been looking. for a firefighter for a long time so that'll be  coming out in the next couple days until then. stay tuned cheers. go buy a hat please in a mug and a  mug too if they're up some gummies.

now we're just asking too much  all right see you guys later. you.