#47 The Canadian Gov does NOT want you to see this. / Special Ops Sniper Refuses COVID Vaccine, Gets Fired

What happens when the fabric of a Tier 1 unit is challenged by a global pandemic, mandates & lockdowns? What does standing up for what you believe in look like? Find out in this episode. This episode has been censored at the request of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command & the National Defence Headquarters by way of a Cease and Desist order. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://hvmn.com - USE CODE "SHAWN" https://mudwtr.com/shawn - USE CODE "SHAWNMUD" https://drinkhoist.com - USE CODE "SHAWN" https://blackbuffalo.com Dallas Alexander Links: Website | Spotify | TikTok | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Please leave us a review on Apple & Spotify Podcasts. Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website | Patreon | TikTok | Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:29Speaker 01

  Mr. President? My company tore me of the explosion on our rig.

• 0:33Speaker 02

  On October 2nd.

• 0:34Speaker 01

  Causing massive water displacement and triggering a tsunami. They all heap the blame on me.

• 0:38Speaker 02

  Tom Cruise is. Digger got us into this mess, and Digger's gonna dig us up. From the director of Birdman and the Revenant.

• 0:46Speaker 03

  What would happen if I stopped going? You stall, you freeze to death, that's what.

• 0:50Speaker 02

  With great power comes great deniability.

• 0:53Speaker 03

  I'm not the first then.

• 0:54Speaker 02

  Digger. See the trailer online. Only in theaters October 2nd. Rated R. Under 17. Not a minute without parent.

• 1:00Shawn Ryan?

  Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the show. Let's go ahead and address the elephant in the room. So, I've got a ton of messages, emails, DMs, calls, on what happened to the last episode, Dallas Alexander, the Canadian special ops sniper, who was on the team that took the world record for the farthest sniper kill of all time. Here's what happened.

• 1:31Shawn Ryan?

  I received a cease and desist from Dallas's former unit, and they are basically saying that I need to pull all the episodes because there may be sensitive content within the episode. So, I'm trying to do what's best for everybody here, okay? If there is sensitive information within that episode, I am not going to be the guy to jeopardize any of the operators within that unit or anything that may compromise that unit as a whole. They are an allied unit to the United States.

• 2:15Shawn Ryan?

  I've worked with them. They are an awesome bunch of guys over there. Now, what I find ironic is...

• 2:25Shawn Ryan?

  Dallas has a legitimate concern that he is being silenced by his former unit because he was fired for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine or complying with mask mandates. Now, I hope that's not what this is about, but if this episode disappears, you know exactly what it was. So, we pulled that episode, we're gonna work with that unit, and hopefully re-release the beginning portion of that episode. The other thing that I've done is I have pulled all operational content out of the

• 3:09Shawn Ryan?

  episode, so there is absolutely nothing in there that could be considered classified or sensitive content. So if it gets pulled, you know what it was. He's being silenced. Now, the other thing that I find ironic about this sensitive subject is, one, Dallas assured me that he had cleared everything with the people at that command before he came on the show. Secondly, what I find ironic is, there was a press release done, giving up the location

• 3:48Shawn Ryan?

  of those operators who were on that sniper team and took the shot when they killed that man before they were even gone from the site. So they compromised the sniper team's location before they even left. Now, I don't know what could be more sensitive than the actual operator's location on-site after they took out an ISIS fighter, but I'm gonna go with the benefit of the doubt here, and I'm gonna hope. That that's all this is. So anyways, there are a lot of people

• 4:28Shawn Ryan?

  out there these days who claim to be patriots because they voted for a certain way, or they watch a certain news channel. It used to mean something to be a patriot. Now Dallas is trying to get his story out, and what he's talking about on here is how he left that unit, which I won't mention the name of the unit because it might be classified. But he's trying to get his story out on why he was fired from that unit. And so if you're going to call yourself a patriot, then I suggest you share this episode with everyone you know. That's the toll I'm gonna

• 5:05Shawn Ryan?

  ask. Share this episode with everyone you know. Please give us a like, subscribe, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. And there's a lot of other podcasts out there. If you guys have the balls to have Dallas on your show, I'd be happy to make a connection for you. This guy needs to get his story out. It's important. They are racing history, people. Do you get it? Alright, I love you all. We have a quick message from Dallas himself. I hope you all enjoy the show. Watch out for those UAPs. They're coming to get you. And that's what we're talking about

• 5:47Shawn Ryan?

  on the episode after this. Love you all. Cheers. Enjoy the show.

• 5:53Speaker 05

  Yo, what's happening, friends? Um, so there's been some concern brought up about the Sean Ryan Show Podcast, about the episode we did together, um, from some entities in Canada here. Um, they're concerned that there might be some OPSEC breaches, I guess. Um, this is something I took very seriously. Prior to going on the show, I consulted with a ton of people currently serving, recently retired, deployed and not deployed. People whose opinions I really, really respect. So that's why

• 6:33Speaker 05

  I went and had the conversation with Sean and talked about what I did and left out the things that I did. Anyway, there's a lot of backlash.

• 6:45Speaker 05

  A lot of backlash coming from certain groups here in Canada. So I think we're going to address them in a professional manner. And that's absolutely what Sean is. So there you have it.

• 7:02Shawn Ryan?

  One last thing, and this is for Dallas. Dallas, I just want you to know, I really respect everything you're doing. So does everybody here in America. And here in America, we fucking love freedom of speech. We love freedom. We love people that stand up for what they believe in, and that's exactly what you represent. It would be an honor to have you in this country. We need more people like you in this country today. So I'm just saying, God bless freedom. God bless you, Dallas, and God bless the USA.

• 7:40Shawn Ryan?

  All right, Dallas, let's get into why you left.

• 7:47Dallas Alexander?

  All right.

• 7:50Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, so the last couple of years, last few years, I kind of alluded to it before a little bit, like, I didn't like the direction that we were starting to head.

• 8:00Shawn Ryan?

  What, let's talk about what year this is.

• 8:03Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, this was probably around, when did the fucking COVID thing start? 2020, right?

• 8:11Shawn Ryan?

  2020, the very beginning of 2020.

• 8:13Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, so it was like tail end, beginning of 2019, maybe, tail end 2018. So it was like just starting, and there'd been a couple of steps throughout my time there where I saw it, saw changing in a way.

• 8:28Shawn Ryan?

  So right about the time all this woke stuff started hitting the news?

• 8:31Dallas Alexander?

  That's right. So in the news, it infiltrated fucking briefing time and infiltrated like different training that they wanted everyone in the Canadian forces to go through.

• 8:43Shawn Ryan?

  What kind of training?

• 8:44Dallas Alexander?

  Oh, like sensitivity training to everything you can imagine, like, uh, from, like, just every category of wokeness, it seemed like there was a sensitivity course that came along with it.

• 9:00Dallas Alexander?

  Now.

• 9:00Shawn Ryan?

  So instead of learning how to kill people?

• 9:02Dallas Alexander?

  Exactly.

• 9:03Shawn Ryan?

  You're learning how to not hurt anybody stealing.

• 9:05Dallas Alexander?

  This is the trade off that I'm like, why the fuck are we doing this? So one, within this gate of.

• 9:15Dallas Alexander?

  There's no, like, we don't have big issues in all of these places. Now, do I think people need to be nice to other people? Yes. Do I think it needs to take away from my fucking range time? Because you have some agenda? No.

• 9:30Dallas Alexander?

  And that was starting to happen, and it was like, a little bit more, and a little bit more. I just saw it going in a direction that I didn't like. Uh, when, like, this COVID thing happened, uh, they mandated...

• 9:50Dallas Alexander?

  So, already, we're headed in a direction that I'm not super fond of. And then, the COVID happened, you know, everything grinds to this unnecessary halt, in my opinion. And we're waiting to see what happens. Like, okay, there's a vaccine coming out, okay? So I'm just reading about it, I'm seeing what they're saying on the news, reading other things. Um, I'm just staying very open-minded. I'm like, okay, what, do I feel like this is something that I am concerned about? Am I scared? Like, is there a fucking black plague sweeping planet Earth? And like, at what level? And it's almost like the protector of the family kicks in, right? Like, what level do I need to be concerned?

• 10:35Dallas Alexander?

  As things were coming, even like what the news was reporting, I'm like, okay, I see, I understand that they're trying to scare everyone. I don't see anything that I need to be concerned of. We're looking at demographics, we're looking at fatality rates, all these things. Like, I, I'm not concerned about this. To me, like, you're getting numbers, like, anyway, I'm just like...

• 10:59Shawn Ryan?

  No, I mean, it came out, you know? It's not, they were bullshit numbers. There's no if, ands, or buts about it. They were reporting people that died in car accidents, motor cycle accidents, people that were shot.

• 11:12Dallas Alexander?

  That's right.

• 11:13Shawn Ryan?

  You know, people that were dying from other illnesses that may have had COVID.

• 11:18Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 11:18Shawn Ryan?

  You could have died from fucking cancer, but if you had COVID?

• 11:21Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 11:22Shawn Ryan?

  You died from COVID.

• 11:23Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 11:23Shawn Ryan?

  If you were in a car accident and fucking died and had COVID, it wasn't the car accident that killed you.

• 11:29Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 11:30Shawn Ryan?

  It was COVID that killed you. You know, so it's...

• 11:33Dallas Alexander?

  The numbers were fudged. And that was, I mean, from the way I see it, that was to just like, get everybody in line, like, be scared, be scared, do your part. I was like, yeah, I don't, I don't think so. From what I'm seeing right now, I'm not concerned about it. So I was like, I look at it like the flu shot. Every year there's a flu shot. I'm not concerned about the flu, so I don't get it. Uh, the government, the unit, had a different opinion because obviously it's the government organization. So they mandated that you had, you had to have it. I was like, I, yeah.

• 12:11Speaker 01

  Mr. President, my company informed me of the explosion on our rig on October 2nd. Causing massive water displacement and triggering a tsunami. They all heap the blame on me. Tom Cruise is.

• 12:22Speaker 02

  Digger got us into this mess, and Digger's gonna dig us up. From the director of Birdman and the Revenant.

• 12:28Speaker 03

  What would happen if I stopped doing it? You're strong, you're freezing there, that's what.

• 12:32Speaker 02

  With great power comes great deniability.

• 12:35Speaker 03

  I'm not the first nanny.

• 12:36Speaker 02

  Digger. See the trailer online. Only in theaters October 2nd. Rated R. Under 17. Not a middle without parent.

• 12:41Speaker 03

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• 12:43Speaker 08

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• 12:44Speaker 03

  Priceline Negotiator.

• 12:47Speaker 08

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• 12:48Speaker 03

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• 12:50Speaker 08

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• 12:56Speaker 03

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• 12:58Speaker 08

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• 13:03Speaker 03

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• 13:06Speaker 03

  Priceline.

• 13:07Speaker 08

  Please stop.

• 13:08Speaker 03

  Priceline.

• 13:09Speaker 08

  Touche.

• 13:10Speaker 03

  Priceline.

• 13:11Speaker 08

  Priceline.

• 13:13Dallas Alexander?

  I just was like, no. In this particular case, no. And I would have done the same thing, honestly, if they're like, the flu shot's now mandatory. I'm like, okay, well, I'm not taking it. I don't, I don't require it. I don't see risk. And, and this is like, as I've evolved, or hopefully evolved, but like, learning about health and all these different things, I'm like, okay, there's, there's places for different medications. It should be up to the individual to make that assessment. Your own fucking health, especially fucking injecting something into your body. Like,

• 13:46Dallas Alexander?

  It's the ultimate like like overstep on someone's freedom like you must inject this. I'm like, okay, I'm like, this doesn't seem like it's for me. I had to go to the appointment anyway. Um, but at this point, we're not ordered to take it. The tricky wording, coercion and all the stuff I saw was like, other than a couple of cases of people that I know that were directly ordered to do it. I even think those were mistakes that people recognized later, like shit, I don't think that was within my,

• 14:25Dallas Alexander?

  like, I didn't have the right to do that. Now that says everything fast, what's gonna happen, who knows? But I saw a lot of fucking coercion and I declined getting my first shots on a Friday afternoon. And by Monday, I was being threatened to be kicked out of the unit, kicked out of my troop by my sergeant major. I'd never seen a reaction, I was telling you this yesterday, like, I've never seen a reaction like that to almost anything. Like, in my opinion, I could have fucking drunk drove my truck through the front gate and it would not be that reaction. It'd be like, hey, man, like, fuck, something's obviously going on. Let's figure it out. This is something like there's, there's pretty, pretty all right support prior to this.

• 15:09Dallas Alexander?

  And it was like a fucking snap of the fingers, like overnight, it just changed so drastically with this narrative that like after being at the end for almost 14 years and just declining. And all I said is, I want to have more time to see something because there was information coming out about like Johnson and Johnson not being great. Don't get that one. Aster Sanica, there's some problems, like there's blood clots. And there's all these, these things. I'm like, I just told him, like, I just want more time. I was like, I couldn't believe the reaction, like so fucking fast.

• 15:41Dallas Alexander?

  It's like, okay, it's like, this is a weird one.

• 15:45Shawn Ryan?

  So what was everybody else doing at the unit?

• 15:48Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, depends on the person. There are a lot of people were torn, but a lot of people were coerced. A lot of people were told like, you're not going to advance your career. You're going to be kicked out. So the end result was you're going to be kicked out of the military, a five F relief, a release, I think it's called. If you don't comply. Like the most drastic shit I've ever seen. So like, not only like, you're, you're not on a list of deployable right now because maybe, I don't know, some other country has a problem with it or whatever. It's like, you're fucking kicked out. Like, it was insane. Uh,

• 16:30Dallas Alexander?

  and that, that led to, so this would have been probably,

• 16:39Dallas Alexander?

  man, I'll say like a

• 16:41Dallas Alexander?

  October, end of the year 2020. By time like everything happened and the, be 2020, 2021, no, 2020. And they were like, this was in place. And now they have a bunch of people that are at the CAF that are like, yeah, we're not doing this. Okay. Begin the release process. You look at what are your options? Um, and there was like exemptions. There were some exemptions that they wrote about.

• 17:10Dallas Alexander?

  Very rarely were those except. So I wrote in to get exemptions for a whole bunch of different things that I believed.

• 17:18Dallas Alexander?

  And I talked, so actually I talked to like an indigenous elder

• 17:24Dallas Alexander?

  from around where I was from. And like, I mean, we didn't really get into it. I'm not really a religious dude.

• 17:33Dallas Alexander?

  In terms of the dogma in any particular book, but I'm a spiritual guy for sure.

• 17:39Dallas Alexander?

  And just I have beliefs in things that are bigger than us. I don't think it's all just an accident of whatever. Um, but the advice I got from like a, a person that I deem spiritual, religious, whatever it is, was like,

• 17:56Dallas Alexander?

  Don't do it yet. Like, this is the same government that fucking took our indigenous people and threw them into like these schooling projects to like, teach the Indian out of them. Like, that was not that long ago. Yeah. There's a scar left on the indigenous people that's like, well, no, we're just gonna trust everything you say. We've done that before. Uh, and it was, it was a sentiment of like, what do you like, what is natural, we feel, what will we believe in our belief system? And I tried to put this into a, like, here's another reason, another reason that I think in this particular time, like, I wanna be exempt from this.

• 18:38Dallas Alexander?

  And like, the cadre of the fucking army or whatever was like, no, that's not legitimate religious fucking thing. Like, fuck you, cocksucker.

• 18:52Dallas Alexander?

  So simultaneous to all this, I'm like, starting to get in administrative trouble, which has never happened before in my career, because I'm not playing the mask charade either. We'd have a conversation in a room, me and you, or whoever was on my team or dead. No mask required, it's fucking stupid. We can all assess this now. It's been going on for, you know, at this point, like, almost a year. Next room, I don't need masks, we can all agree it's fucking stupid. Oh, so and so is coming to the meeting, you gotta put on a mask. I was like, no, no. And this just kept happening, and people would get upset, and I'm like, too fucking bad.

• 19:35Dallas Alexander?

  Like, this is all a charade right now. I see you in conversations with certain people, until it's time to virtue signal to a bigger group or whatever, like, it's all a charade, and I'm not playing this game. And so I'd be like, I'd get in trouble. So, oh, can you just fucking please put a mask on? I'm like, no. Like, the next one's gonna be up the level of fucking administrative problems. Like, at what point are you gonna see that I don't give a fuck anymore? Like, I was now chasing up medical issues that I had, all the MTBI stuff I was telling you about, and I was getting a medical release process started, because I was gonna, I was gonna be kicked out.

• 20:20Dallas Alexander?

  Now.

• 20:20Shawn Ryan?

  How many, how many guys are, are you leading the charge here? Are other guys following in your footsteps?

• 20:26Dallas Alexander?

  I was out front for sure. Um, different people took different approaches.

• 20:35Shawn Ryan?

  Mm hmm.

• 20:36Dallas Alexander?

  I know a lot of people that are no longer in, but were. I'll just like, I'll put it that way. I didn't really get permission for anyone to talk about their own situations, but like. Uh, yeah, I was putting my foot down and most people, whether they caved or not, really appreciated. Now, there's obviously a collection of people that didn't. Um, so I was now chasing up a medical release. Um, in hindsight, I'm like, what a fucking blessing. Cause like I needed to stop exposing my brain to impacts. This was just the catalyst. It was like, yeah, I'm crossing that line.

• 21:20Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, but I, I, I, everything was bringing on these concussion symptoms. So looking back on it, I'm like, whoo. But it just, I couldn't believe how it fucking changed overnight. And then, uh, the final like straw was I was going to a meeting to hear about why my exemptions were declined. Why some person who didn't even fucking come talk to me or talk to the person that I spoke with, declared like religious exemption, no, medical exemption, no. Like even I brought up all of these concerns, myocarditis, all these different things that were showing up in young men who are not at risk of fucking dying from COVID.

• 22:03Dallas Alexander?

  I was just like, no, no, no, no. All of these things are no. So I was going to this meeting for them to tell me why everything was declined. The meeting just happened to be at like a meeting room and put a mask on. Uh, and then.

• 22:17Shawn Ryan?

  Can we have the conversation that you had with the gentleman before you entered that room?

• 22:22Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah. So I was, I was talking, uh, and my like chain of command knew and I don't, I didn't, like my immediate chain of command, I mean, uh, and he was like escorting me and my sergeant major. And he was like, hey, man, they're gonna ask you to put a mask on. I know. And it's like, can you do it? Fuck no.

• 22:46Dallas Alexander?

  So we went in to kinda give the room a heads up. Um, and this was like the ultimate, like,

• 22:54Dallas Alexander?

  like, cause I could have just fucking put it on and I wore balaclavas all over the fucking place. But like the principle behind this nonsense, I was seeing this like, this charade, like it was just such a joke. I'm like, yeah, I'm not doing it. So the RSM comes out. Like, I need you to put a mask on Dallas. I'm not doing it. I don't even own a fucking mask. And, uh, that escalated a little bit. Um, instead of using my first name, calling me by rank.

• 23:25Dallas Alexander?

  I,

• 23:28Dallas Alexander?

  I, I told him when he stature got a little bit up and I was just like, don't get fucking poky chest with me.

• 23:37Dallas Alexander?

  And I use it, I won't use his name here, but. And then he's like, get out. So he goes down, opened the door to this building. I was like, you coming outside with me? He's like,

• 23:51Dallas Alexander?

  just looked away, went inside and that was the last time I ever had access to fucking even get on camp.

• 23:56Shawn Ryan?

  Wow, that's how it ended?

• 23:58Dallas Alexander?

  That's how it ended. So I got in my truck. My, my sergeant major came out and he's like, fuck. I was like, look, man. I know the position I just put you in. But I don't give a fuck anymore. And I drove home. And like my pass never worked again. So all the, the clear out process and everything had to be done through people on camp. Uh, I got a little charge on the way out. Uh, for that. I can't even remember what it was called, but behavior towards the RSM. And that was like the, see you later. That's crazy.

• 24:35Shawn Ryan?

  That's insane.

• 24:35Dallas Alexander?

  It's fucking insanity. I, but like I was saying, I think yesterday I mentioned this, just like.

• 24:42Shawn Ryan?

  I, I liked what you said at dinner. You, you had mentioned that you asked the sergeant major, you said, well, is everybody in that room?

• 24:49Dallas Alexander?

  Hmm.

• 24:50Shawn Ryan?

  Masked?

• 24:51Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah. So I asked, I said, Is everybody in the room gonna be wearing a mask? He said, absolutely. I said, then that means you're all safe. If they work. And if they don't. And you're not safe. Then why are you telling me to put one on? Um, and that's when he got started using my rank instead of my name.

• 25:13Shawn Ryan?

  Well, what else are you gonna say to that?

• 25:15Dallas Alexander?

  Well, it just shows it's.

• 25:16Shawn Ryan?

  Here you go, Sergeant Major. This is fucking what common sense looks like.

• 25:19Dallas Alexander?

  It's just, it was.

• 25:21Shawn Ryan?

  Where did yours go?

• 25:22Dallas Alexander?

  That's the thing. Where the fuck did it go? Um.

• 25:27Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, so that was like the last day. Uh, I was ever.

• 25:34Dallas Alexander?

  All the release. Um.

• 25:37Shawn Ryan?

  Do you feel that that destroyed? A big part of?

• 25:43Dallas Alexander?

  Hmm, no. At least not for me. So one, I think it was already going in a direction that. I didn't like. That it wasn't for me. It was not, the unit was no longer, or is at least rapidly turning into a place. That the people they selected. Were not going to fit in there anymore.

• 26:05Shawn Ryan?

  Mm hmm.

• 26:05Dallas Alexander?

  Um, and I just, I recognize that for me, my own personal thing. So the, the unit is still full of fucking, super hard charging, professional motherfuckers.

• 26:19Dallas Alexander?

  The, like, the, the, the best workforce friends, brothers I've ever worked with. There is a, a portion that needs a realignment. Um.

• 26:32Shawn Ryan?

  Is that portion growing?

• 26:36Dallas Alexander?

  I think maybe because the other portion's shrinking.

• 26:39Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 26:39Dallas Alexander?

  It, it, uh, would appear to be growing. Um. But like, when I, when I, when I go chat with boys, like I, I don't feel like the numbers are growing. Where people are like, yeah, you know what? We need to be forced to do more shit. And we need to like, really soak up all this woke business. Like, no one's saying that.

• 27:02Shawn Ryan?

  Mm hmm.

• 27:03Dallas Alexander?

  Unless the most important thing to you in the world is your career. So like. It's still. There's just still fucking great warriors there.

• 27:13Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 27:15Dallas Alexander?

  So I I leave and like the unit, I never expected whenever I got out, no matter how it was, I didn't expect that like this unit is gonna come to a halt like, oh, my God, Dallas is leaving the unit because you just find a fucking dude in a big organization. Like, the train just keeps going. But there's. I didn't expect it to end like that. But I have just really good friends and brothers out of it all that like, no matter the bullshit, I've had my back in a lot of ways.

• 27:48Shawn Ryan?

  They did. They did lose a lot of stuff, though, by by losing you. I mean, what I'm just, what percentage of the unit do you think left because of the jab mandates and the and the the woke agenda? And because this is happening across the world, you know, and and when I get guys in who are fresh out, I mean, it's horrible. They've demoralized all of the units. And and

• 28:17Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 28:18Shawn Ryan?

  And the attrition rate, it's a joke. The attrition rate is a joke now. They can't keep anybody in. They can't recruit anybody. Because they miscalculated who joins the military, especially who serves in a who who wants to serve in a in a soft environment at that at that capacity of that level.

• 28:38Dallas Alexander?

  Well, I don't know if the people really making the calls for this to happen want units like that.

• 28:47Shawn Ryan?

  Well, that's what I'm. We can get into that in a minute.

• 28:51Dallas Alexander?

  Okay.

• 28:52Shawn Ryan?

  But um, but I guess what I'm saying is, you know, I'm. This is just an estimation. It's not based off any factual information, other than just who I know left.

• 29:02Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 29:04Shawn Ryan?

  The SEAL teams because of the jab and I'm gonna say it's damn close to 50%. You know, between the woke agenda and the jab mandates. I mean, these are the, these are the only people in the fucking country that stand up for what they believe in. Everybody else has just got their head down and they're just trying to get through the day. These are the only fucking people that step up to the plate. Yeah. You know, and they just left. And when they left, let's say it is 50%, you know. I mean, dude, you took the, you took the, you're on the team that has the world record for the longest sniper kill in, in, in world history.

• 29:45Shawn Ryan?

  But and the, the TL is also, I can't remember what step he's at now, but he was being kicked out for the same reason. There you go. So they, here you have an all-star sniper team at the top level. And you're not going to be able to pass that knowledge on. Yeah. To the next guys. Yeah, like the, the corporate. Fucking detrimental that is. The corporate knowledge is, it's, it's fucking mind blowing. And even like, I don't, I don't know the numbers of guys that got out, but I know a large number of people that don't want to be there. And that's just two people. Yeah. That's just two people. Yeah. You know, this, they're not going to get your mindset.

• 30:29Shawn Ryan?

  They're not going to get your, you know, the, the, the hard skills, they're not going to get the soft skills, none of that. Yeah. They're not going to get it, you know, and, and there aren't any other wars happening right now, you know? And so that experience is, it's going to get real thin. Yeah. It's going to get real hard to come by. Yeah. And, um, so yeah, I would say they, they, they lost a tremendous amount of experience and knowledge by doing that. It is crazy. Uh, yeah, it just, there's so many things that seem so backwards to me.

• 31:03Shawn Ryan?

  Now going back to the, you know, do they, you don't think they want people like that? When I saw the defund the police movement happen in the US.

• 31:12Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 31:13Shawn Ryan?

  That was the, I immediately, I was like, they are going to get rid of the old guard and replace that with the new mindset that's gonna do whatever, whoever these fucking people are that are pushing this agenda.

• 31:29Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 31:29Shawn Ryan?

  They wanna re, they wanna, they wanna replace the, the old garb with the new guard that's gonna do whatever they have to say.

• 31:37Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 31:38Shawn Ryan?

  And then we saw a carryover from the defund the police movement. Then the new administration took over. Now we're seeing it, not even just special operations units, military wide. They're restructuring.

• 31:51Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 31:52Shawn Ryan?

  Every, every, everything.

• 31:55Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah. Yeah, well, it's, like historically, almost, and I'm not much of a military historian, but like, you, you have groups of guys in SOF, and I'll say guys, because we've never had a female assaulter, but like, were selected to think outside the box, to use common sense, to assess certain things, to hold their fucking ground, to not get bullied. And then it was like this big surprise at the end, like, oh, you must be going through something, you've changed. Like, motherfuckers, I didn't change, this is who you selected. You selected someone to not be bullied into shit I didn't wanna do.

• 32:39Dallas Alexander?

  And now you're just, you're seeing it. Like, that's, that's what's happening. Like, just standing my ground. Like, this is like the ultimate fucking selection test. And like, so I just, yeah. rode on out the gate and, uh, turned to country music.

• 33:02Shawn Ryan?

  Is there, is there, is there anything you regret about? I mean, you stood up for what you believe in, is there any, do you have any regrets?

• 33:11Dallas Alexander?

  Um.

• 33:16Shawn Ryan?

  To the guys that are still in that unit, you know, when the next mandate comes down the pipe.

• 33:20Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, I, no, man, I, I don't. And I, I stood my ground. I'm trying to think if there's anywhere where I was like, ah, maybe I just do something. I don't think so. I stood my ground everywhere and I know I was a pain in the ass to people because I'm like, I'm not doing that. And now it's next level. I'm not doing like, I'm not even signing that administrative fucking wrist slap that you're giving me. Shred it, keep it. I don't care. Like, it, it was just so absurd.

• 33:50Dallas Alexander?

  I couldn't wrap my head around it. So I did, I stood my ground in places.

• 33:56Dallas Alexander?

  And I'm so happy now that I'm out that I did.

• 34:00Dallas Alexander?

  And like I said, it was, looking back, like all the concussions, MTBI stuff and everything piling up. I think it's a good thing overall anyway.

• 34:11Dallas Alexander?

  But I, in that sense, no, no regrets at all. And I was telling people my opinion, why I was doing it, you know? And I, I don't care. If guys wanted it, go fucking take it. Take two, take three, five boosters and stuff like, I don't. I don't particularly care what drugs you assess personally that you want to use. Use everything Pfizer makes? Use none of what they make. Like, I, I truly fucking believe in freedom.

• 34:45Dallas Alexander?

  So it was never like, hey, man, don't do this, don't do this. I'm like, here's some things that I'm reading. Here's some things that I'm seeing. Think about it.

• 34:53Shawn Ryan?

  You're not an anti-vaxxer. You just want choice.

• 34:56Dallas Alexander?

  I just want choice. Anyone can take whatever they want. But it definitely got me looking into more ingredients of things. And it started with me and my family a while back. What's in our food? What's in our cleaning products? What's in our water? Was it? And I'm like, I'm not going to do all of this. And then like, what's in that thing? Ah, there's some M R N A and a bunch of other things we don't really know. Sure, give it.

• 35:23Dallas Alexander?

  So it's it's just, I'm not anti-medication, I'm not anti-vaccine. If those are the things you want to do. I am anti you telling me what I have to put in my fucking body to fit into society. We have to go to a restaurant. Like, those are our mandates in Canada, like, you show a vax pass, you can't come eat here.

• 35:45Shawn Ryan?

  No shit?

• 35:46Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 35:47Shawn Ryan?

  That's real?

• 35:47Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 35:49Shawn Ryan?

  Everywhere?

• 35:50Dallas Alexander?

  It's it's now it's done. Uh, it's mostly done. Um, but the mandate from the government is like, you can't get on a plane, a train, or a bus. You can't go eat at restaurants. Every restaurant was required, or they could be shut down to ask you for proof of fucking COVID vaccination.

• 36:13Shawn Ryan?

  Wow.

• 36:13Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 36:15Shawn Ryan?

  I've heard they're they were doing that in some states here. We don't do that shit here in Tennessee.

• 36:19Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, I gotta come to Tennessee more.

• 36:21Shawn Ryan?

  You might like it.

• 36:22Dallas Alexander?

  You'd fit in great.

• 36:25Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, so it's just, for me, it's always been just like, it's the the freedom I question. I'm like, so many guys gave so fucking much to try and have that fight for freedom and like, you know, friends that have died. And like, for fucking, for it just to be like, not even taken, really, so much as just like, handed right over.

• 36:49Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 36:49Dallas Alexander?

  Most people are just like, fuck, take it, take my freedom. I'll take this so that I can go eat at a restaurant. If that's what you say I need to do. I'm like, oh my god.

• 37:03Speaker 00

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• 37:32Speaker 01

  Mr. President? My company informed me of the explosion on our rig on October 2nd. Causing massive water displacement and triggering a tsunami. They all heap the blame on me. Tom Cruise is.

• 37:43Speaker 02

  Digger got us into this mess, and Digger's gonna dig us up. From the director of Birdman and the Ravennet.

• 37:49Speaker 03

  What would happen if I stopped growing? You starve, you freeze to death, that's what.

• 37:53Speaker 02

  With great power comes great deniability.

• 37:56Speaker 03

  I'm not the first then.

• 37:58Speaker 02

  Digger, see the trailer online, only in theaters October 2nd, rated R, under 17, not a minute without parent.

• 38:03Shawn Ryan?

  Where do you think this all came from?

• 38:06Shawn Ryan?

  Or is it stemming from?

• 38:08Dallas Alexander?

  Um, I see, like, okay, these are conspiracies, but I don't know, I don't know at what point they just, they come out of the realm of, it seems like nothing ever gets out of the realm of conspiracy if it's not in the news to some people, regardless of what it is. Like, there's now a ton of, you can go back and watch hours of video where they're like, here's what the vaccine is, here's what it's going to do, here's what it's gonna do, and you just see that narrative change as like it's undeniable. Everyone's triple vaxxed and still getting COVID, oh, but, uh, it's gonna, it's gonna, you're not gonna die, or you're gonna die less. Like, there's no fucking way to measure that.

• 38:52Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 38:53Dallas Alexander?

  I had COVID twice, and I'm like, I didn't die, it was uncomfortable. But like, if I had three shots of whatever, was that going to be less than I had?

• 39:05Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 39:05Dallas Alexander?

  How the fuck do you measure that? It's the, it's a good way to trick people though, because it's a, it's a metric that you can't measure. You can only have someone say, you're not doing your part, because you might die in an ICU and take up a bed for blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I did my part and my COVID didn't kill me. You're like, what the fuck? It's clever as shit to have the narrative change from dead stop, this is gonna stop you from getting or spreading COVID. Those videos are out there, your president said that, a bunch of people said that. And then, oh, well, no, it was never really intended to stop the spread, it was to, uh, reduce critical symptoms.

• 39:44Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 39:45Dallas Alexander?

  And people are like, yeah.

• 39:48Shawn Ryan?

  It's insane.

• 39:50Dallas Alexander?

  It's insane. Like, this, people, conspiracy theorists, were saying it six months ago, like, hey, this is not, they've never produced any studies that are showing them stopping any kind of spread.

• 40:02Shawn Ryan?

  Cat's out of the bag now. I know a ton of people who got the jab, who got COVID.

• 40:08Dallas Alexander?

  Absolutely.

• 40:08Shawn Ryan?

  Like, the cat is out of the fucking bag.

• 40:12Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 40:12Shawn Ryan?

  You know, and people, I just saw, I don't even watch the news anymore, anymore, but my wife had it on this morning as I was walking out. And I, I saw they have another booster coming out.

• 40:23Dallas Alexander?

  Oh, yeah.

• 40:24Shawn Ryan?

  Fifty percent of the country is gonna bend over and take that booster. They're probably waiting in line right now. All excited to take it.

• 40:32Dallas Alexander?

  It produced, so, there's like, the way I see it is a spectrum. On one side, there's a lot of money at play. And people do crazy shit for money. Companies make a fucking shitload of money. When policy dictates profit, the first fucking people purchased are the policymakers. So that, there's like, that's just like the common sense, I feel like we can all agree on, there was a lot of people that made a lot of money off this. Let's just say that's like the lower end of it all. To the other side, we're seeing things that really fit in line with a globalization that wants to happen, and this is a good catalyst for it. They say it, they, I mean, like, the people who want it, write in their own book.

• 41:17Dallas Alexander?

  The Great Reset, they put it out, everyone can go read it, it's not a conspiracy, the guy's name is on it, he wrote the fucking book. This is what we want. This has now led into a whole bunch of different ways that they can implement things. Like, you have to show proof to get into this restaurant. Maybe a handier way would be if there was an international digital ID where we knew what everything was doing, and if you don't agree, you can't get on a flight from this country to that country. Like a digital ID for everyone to travel everywhere.

• 41:48Dallas Alexander?

  That's being worked on. That's already there. This is not conspiracy. The government of Canada has a known digital, known traveler digital ID program, sponsored World Economic Forum, Air Canada, certain airports. This is on the fucking government website. Wow. So there's not a conspiracy at all. You can log in and go check it out. Known traveler digitally ID system. A year ago, to say this was a huge conspiracy. Come on. They don't, they don't want that. Like essential, a central, a digitally backed central currency or whatever the acronym is for that.

• 42:27Dallas Alexander?

  That's another thing. So like, on the, everyone should believe and be able to see that like, there's just a lot of money at play. A ton of people made fucking billions of dollars. And on the other side, there's a lot more things pointing now that the next step that they said they want to make is where it's going. So I think that's what it was about, somewhere in that spectrum.

• 42:53Dallas Alexander?

  What's next? It was fucking, who knows? It's crazy.

• 42:58Dallas Alexander?

  Have you seen the interview with this, like the CNN reporter that was like chatting, that was caught like on a,

• 43:05Dallas Alexander?

  like a camera was recorded or a phone was recording? And they're like, yeah, we're told to push all the COVID narrative, blah, blah, blah, blah, all through this. First like, okay, well, what happens now? Like it's all over. It's like, oh, the next big push is climate change. Like we have to, all of the momentum is going to be put in that. You're going to see it on every single screen. You're going to see it on everything. And the video got out, people were still like, no. Damn. The fucker works for CNN. Yeah, it's, I just saw it again. I mean, it's pretty obvious. Somewhere. Well, that's the thing. If you, I mean, lots of people see it, but lots of people don't. And even with a recording like that, people are still like, no. What? No, it's your fucking truck that's doing it. Okay.

• 43:51Dallas Alexander?

  It's insane. It is insane. Oh, it's a rabbit hole. Go down that one in a long time. We, yeah, well, we could spend.

• 44:00Shawn Ryan?

  Hours on that topic, but.

• 44:03Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 44:05Shawn Ryan?

  But let's move into psilocybin and psychedelics.

• 44:08Dallas Alexander?

  Okay.

• 44:08Shawn Ryan?

  Let's get done, let's get on something a little more positive.

• 44:10Dallas Alexander?

  Yes.

• 44:11Shawn Ryan?

  So you get out, you're dealing with some of the trauma.

• 44:17Shawn Ryan?

  At some point you decide.

• 44:19Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, so getting out, uh, I was noticing like I was seeing a lot of concussion symptoms. Uh, a lot of that kind of manifested itself as anger in a typically not angry person. Uh, my brother dying, uh, I was having a hard time processing. So all of that and like, and immediately after it was like, that's when I was like, I was drinking a lot of whiskey. Um, and then as time passes, I'm like, it was still kind of definitely a struggle. But I was like tapering kind of my daily behavior. Um, and I started hearing about, uh, the effects of like a big dose of psilocybin.

• 45:06Dallas Alexander?

  There's podcasters I listened to were talking about it. Uh, there's studies I was seeing being done for things like, uh, PTSD, trauma, depression, anxiety, all these things, alcoholism. Um, or just addiction in general.

• 45:21Dallas Alexander?

  And I was like, fuck it. Like, what do I got to lose? A, a bunch of people whose opinions in health I respect. Um, opinions on, on mindset and growth, like just a bunch of things. I'm like, a bunch of Googling, can you fucking die from taking too much mushrooms? Consensus is no, uh, you can be in different realms for sure, but apparently no. Now, there's some odd outlier cases, like I was saying, I think there's like mental issues of, of some sort, like. Do your research before you take this advice.

• 46:00Dallas Alexander?

  But I was like, okay, it's not something that people overdose from. I'm not gonna be like, because what happened is I read about it, got the Kohl's notes that I thought I needed, set in setting. I was in a meditative state and I was like, set some intentions, and fucking threw down, I think it was four, four to five grams the first time. I like sent my wife, my fiance and baby out of the house. It was like, okay, like, I don't know, I'm not gonna have my phone on, but I'll message you. And like, I think it's like six or eight hours, this stuff is gonna take time to process. So I was sitting in my living room,

• 46:38Dallas Alexander?

  and it like started to kick in, and it was the craziest, not craziest, it was like I was saying, it was like one of the most profound days of my whole life, when it was all said and done. It was such a release of so many things, like,

• 46:55Dallas Alexander?

  from an outside perspective, I'm glad Sarah wasn't still there, because it would have looked like I was having a terrible, terrible trip. Like, I was on the ground and like I got nauseous, and I was like crawling to the bathroom. I thought I was gonna puke. I'm like, I wasn't sure. And there was a bunch of things and advice I had gotten was just like, you just gotta let go. Like, when this comes, just fucking let go. And I was struggling so hard, my ego, to narrate what was happening. And like, just like, and it's almost like you're getting to a panic state. And with that, I was so nauseous. I was like, oh yeah, just like, you gotta let go, you gotta let go, and things are fucking crazy.

• 47:39Dallas Alexander?

  Visuals are crazy. Looking in the mirror and my skin is crazy. And it's like, it's reptilian shapes and stuff, like, it was wild. And I was like, just, you're letting go, let go, let go. And I did, and I like laid down and just like the angle, my back was to the window, but everything went dark and silent. And I was like, I remember

• 48:04Dallas Alexander?

  just like throughout the whole thing, having like this beat like in my body. It was like a powwow, like a, for me, like my indigenous background, just like I heard like a powwow drum the whole time and I felt so fucking like connected to earth sort of thing like it's probably won't make a lot of sense to people who have not done psychedelics, but I just, I fucking cried so hard.

• 48:32Dallas Alexander?

  And it was like a release of, I don't even know, it was like a fucking river coming out of me. And it was like, it was kind of laid on my side away from the window and everything was dark, but it was just like flowing and then it went like deep, deep into this hole and it was like this fucking scared as I'd ever been. I was like, I'm in hell. Fuck. It's like quiet, empty. I was like, I'm dead or something. I'd like even just my own thoughts were so fucking loud. Um, and then I, I like saw like my brother in, in that place. And he was kind of like,

• 49:10Dallas Alexander?

  like, why are you having such a hard time with this? And it was almost like, I'm over here, so now I know, but like, just like, I didn't go anywhere.

• 49:22Dallas Alexander?

  And it's like, what the fuck? And it was like, he was, he just threw whatever means, I don't even remember if it was like saying these words, but just like, I've, I've gone nowhere. Like I'm, I'm always as close as like to as thin as your eyelids kind of thing is what I came out of it with.

• 49:41Dallas Alexander?

  And I was like, what the fuck? And this warm feeling came over me.

• 49:45Dallas Alexander?

  And like, and I was no longer like afraid that I was dead, I guess. Um, and then at the same time, like this, it's crazy, this, this octopus like thing like gave me almost like a hug. I just felt like so warm.

• 50:06Dallas Alexander?

  And it was like it was my little daughter. Like that essence or whatever. And I laid back down like I I turned over. I looked at the ceiling and it was like this fucking. Path to heaven, man, like my living room. See, I look at a million times since then now and I'm like, what the fuck? Where did this come from? But like, I was seeing. Like a lineage. Like all it was like a path. All of the men in my family to like great, great, great, great, great, wherever. And it was like all of that was a part of me. I'd never felt that before. Do you have that much? Do you know about your family lineage? A little bit. As far as it went, do you think?

• 50:50Dallas Alexander?

  No, no, no, no. There was like. Mystery people in that thing. But like it was. It's just a part of me. It was an intuitive feeling. Yeah, like the wisdom. This everything that is me is like from all of these different. These men. And then almost. Just after it was like the same thing, but for all the mothers. In my my line, like it was like the the love and warmth from that side. It was almost like all the way up to like mother earth sort of thing, you know? It was weird, man, and it was like. It it happened a couple of other times and we can talk about the stories later, but it was like. As much as.

• 51:36Dallas Alexander?

  So many of the struggles here feel like you're alone. Do you know what I mean? Like? A lot of it and we're terrible for this in our community of just like. Well, that fucker's not gonna understand. I'm talking to this guy. He doesn't get it like. And I'm not even like my I didn't have a crazy career. I had some close calls a couple of times. I they don't. And I've been snapped back to those in a couple of loud scenarios, but like. Some of the guys you had sit in this chair. I'm like, well, since yesterday, like to just be humbled to be telling the story, but like. I have not had that level of career, so I can't imagine. Some guys. Just thinking they're in it alone. You know what I mean? Like people don't fucking get it.

• 52:17Dallas Alexander?

  And I always I had that, but it was this was showing me like you're like it was such a fucking warm embrace of like all of this lineage of mothers really that like you you never shit's really hard. You're just like you're not alone. You come from this. You come from all of this. And none of these people went anywhere. Physical state obviously has gone somewhere. It's in the fucking ground or a pile of ashes, but like the being is like this is all you all the way up to the fucking beginning of time like

• 52:54Dallas Alexander?

  it's so crazy to even talk about at this level to try and and I see it so clearly like I don't I didn't forget anything of this entire trip as I as I recall.

• 53:07Dallas Alexander?

  And it was like six hours of these like little lessons, things I didn't know. I needed to like pull on. What do you think the most important thing you took out of it was? Hundred percent. It was it was my my brother like it was that I just I had a feeling now that was night and day from beginning to end of like this this loss this

• 53:35Dallas Alexander?

  this expectation that I had like, oh, you're gonna be here forever to fucking do all these things together, hunt and fish and see Caleb and man get married and Gigi at some point and like just like you're gonna be here and fucking play music and all these things.

• 53:50Dallas Alexander?

  It was like he was like, okay, got it. You had a bunch of expectations. It's all your ego. I'm still here. I didn't go anywhere.

• 54:02Dallas Alexander?

  And that that was that was the biggest thing for sure. That was like

• 54:08Dallas Alexander?

  I don't know how many, I probably had eight drink to numerous every single fucking day since he died until that point, almost. There was a couple of times, I'm like, okay, I was trying to sort through it, but this was like, boom. When I came out, I was like, holy shit. It was, it was night and day. I was like, I don't even have a desire to, to drink, to, to cover up the things I don't know how to process, kind of thing.

• 54:39Dallas Alexander?

  Now, I still drink. The relationship with alcohol,

• 54:44Dallas Alexander?

  I, it has changed a lot.

• 54:50Dallas Alexander?

  And I, I look at it now, like, the way I had a lot of time in my life.

• 54:59Dallas Alexander?

  Just like, it can enhance some fun. I fucking, I love the taste of a good bourbon or a glass of red wine beer. Like, I, I really do enjoy alcohol.

• 55:10Dallas Alexander?

  But like, the, the lesson,

• 55:13Dallas Alexander?

  it's like, and I told this to my niece.

• 55:17Dallas Alexander?

  If life is good, if, if you think, like, you're doing, like, you're not in a dark place particularly, have a glass of wine. Like, in indigenous communities, there's a big problem with alcohol. Um, and it's a slippery slope, man, and I've, I've kind of like, teetered, gone too far this way, tried to come back, take some time off.

• 55:43Dallas Alexander?

  But it's, it's why you're doing it. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's, it's hugely important, because it's not like, corn juice, grape juice, or fucking barley juice, but that's not, the issue is not with some liquid substance. In my opinion, it's what it's covering up, or what it's,

• 56:07Dallas Alexander?

  what it's being used as a crutch to process, I guess. Why are you using it to cope with? What are you using it to cope with? Yeah. Is that what you're getting at? That's what, yeah, like, like, there's an underlying thing. If you feel like shit, like, for me, it was very clear with my brother dying. I'm like, I don't know how to fucking deal with this. I don't, the tools that I thought I had are not working.

• 56:34Dallas Alexander?

  So that one, it was like temporary numbing agent essentially.

• 56:43Shawn Ryan?

  So you want, you've done two more.

• 56:45Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 56:46Shawn Ryan?

  Psilocybin trips since.

• 56:47Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 56:47Shawn Ryan?

  What's, what sparked those? You just didn't feel like you were.

• 56:51Dallas Alexander?

  Uh.

• 56:51Shawn Ryan?

  Did you need more?

• 56:52Dallas Alexander?

  I, I think the way I look at it for myself. After discovering it. Um, I want to use it.

• 57:03Dallas Alexander?

  Probably every year. Um. And I'm going to look into more guided things and stuff like that. I did the first few by myself.

• 57:13Dallas Alexander?

  I have a big ego. I think, I, I don't think I would let go as much if someone else was in the room. For the first couple. Um. And I didn't know what was gonna happen either. Like I didn't want someone supervising me and then I get violent. Like I'm holding a dead person when I wake up or something. I'm like, I don't know what this is gonna do. Now, I don't think I have any knowing what comes out of me when I've done three times, but like. I have no want to be violent in it. So that, that was kind of a, okay. Like the whole thing, I could not imagine like being in a fucking fight when I'm like that amount of psilocybin. Uh. So yeah, the second one was just like.

• 57:58Dallas Alexander?

  Continuing, continuing work, like there's still.

• 58:04Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, there, there's just, it always offers something new, I think, from my experience. Um. The last one I did was. Just at the end of this last year, October, November, something like that. It was wild. I did seven grams of penis envy strain. And for this one, I went to like our little cottage beach house. By myself, again, I'll let like a couple of candles, make a fire. Setting, setting meditation. And this one was a fucking insane mental battle, like. But.

• 58:44Speaker 00

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• 59:14Dallas Alexander?

  By the end of fighting with myself for, say, I couldn't imagine fighting, but it was like an internal. Let's go into it. I'm really curious. So I took them. They came on fucking fast. And I was like, oh, shit. Ah, fuck. I did too much. I wasn't ready to do it again. Like, maybe I'm jumping the gun. It had been now nine months or almost a year since the last time. Ah, I didn't know. Again, I got nauseous. This time I actually threw up. And I was just in such a fucking internal battle. Like, no matter if I, like, I find that if I close my eyes, you really go deep inside.

• 59:59Dallas Alexander?

  If you open your eyes and look at something, it comes out. But no, like, no matter where, there was just no escape. And it was like four hours of this. And then I, it was so, I almost wish I would have recorded it on a GoPro or something. The sounds I was making, man, were like a fucking animal. I remember it. I'm like, I don't know. I was growling. Like, there was all these crazy things. And I still had that, like, that drumbeat that comes every time I take it. But, and I was just like fighting, fighting and growling. And I just felt like such a fucking animal. I was like, there's, I, and then it was, it was, kept saying, like, you have to go through this fight.

• 1:00:41Dallas Alexander?

  Like, your life, how you go about it, how you process things, whatever the next step is. Like, you just left the unit. You're going into the unknown. Like, you need to know that you have this fight. And I was like, fuck. And then it, it kind of like coned. And something came over me that was like. The best way I can describe it is like you've graduated. Damn. And it was like you are strong enough for fucking anything this world throws at you. And I was like, holy fuck, I'm getting tingly talking about it. I was like, Jesus, I didn't know, the whole time, I'm like, you're just like, it was this, you're in it.

• 1:01:24Dallas Alexander?

  You're all by yourself. Nobody's coming. This fight you have to be strong enough for. When it was all said and done, I was like, holy fuck, I'm like, I am strong enough for it. Um, so that kind of tapered off. It was crazy night that tested it.

• 1:01:43Dallas Alexander?

  It was tapering off into the evening. And I was like, this is not the right way to process, by the way, I'll say that right now, what is about to go down. Um, but I, I'd made an obligation early in the day for something that evening. And I pushed the start time a little bit because something happened. So it was like, I was not in a great place to be in public, but I was like, fuck, I already said I was gonna do this, I'll go do it. And like, I wasn't like, still like, tripping, but I was like, I was now super tired, emotionally drained. I was like, okay, what a lesson. And I went and did it was like to go to a hockey practice and like, help my nephew get ready. So I come in, my family's there and stuff. Sarah's like, how was it?

• 1:02:27Dallas Alexander?

  It's like, just like tired, just trying to drink some water and like, still processing everything.

• 1:02:35Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, like drained. And then we go to hockey and we hadn't heard from her dad for a day and a bit.

• 1:02:45Dallas Alexander?

  It was just super unusual. Like, he called us like, three times a day, everyone, just like, and he wasn't feeling good prior.

• 1:02:55Dallas Alexander?

  I'm like, oh no, fuck. I'm like, did anyone go? No. And I was like, yeah, I'll go check on him after this practice.

• 1:03:05Dallas Alexander?

  So we went to his house. And I'm like, I told Sarah to wait in the truck. She's like, oh my God, why? I'm just like, just give me a second. I go into his apartment and he was dead on the ground.

• 1:03:19Dallas Alexander?

  And I was like, fucking goddamn it. Like, it's, I've seen a lot of dead bodies. So that part wasn't like a crazy shock to me. But I'm like, I have to go outside and I have to tell my fiancee that her dad is dead. And I gotta call my friend and brother and team leader from multiple, like just her brother, that his dad is dead. And he's getting like, I'm like, fuck. So I kinda had a little moment and you know, it's just like, like,

• 1:03:59Dallas Alexander?

  the processing was a lot easier because of the first psilocybin trip I went on. So I'm like, just kinda had a, man, it was a pleasure. Like, I'm sorry that this is how it is, but like, I know that you're around. But it was still like to go outside and I went around to her side of the door and she fucking lost it. And she's like, no, no, no, don't like,

• 1:04:21Dallas Alexander?

  I can imagine like the reaction is just, it was terrible. So I called her brother and

• 1:04:29Dallas Alexander?

  he came down, we just started dealing with it and like went late into the night kinda thing.

• 1:04:35Dallas Alexander?

  And it was just,

• 1:04:38Dallas Alexander?

  it was such a, like a terrible evening.

• 1:04:43Dallas Alexander?

  But it's, I find it so strange that I got that lesson right before that. Like I don't, it's, it was just the events of it. You don't think that's a coincidence, do you? Uh, no. No, no, no. I don't think it's coincidence at all. How it all happened.

• 1:05:07Dallas Alexander?

  But it's fucking interesting, that's for sure.

• 1:05:09Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah, that's for damn sure.

• 1:05:11Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:11Shawn Ryan?

  Is your wife tried psilocybin since then?

• 1:05:14Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, no. So she has plans to.

• 1:05:16Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:17Dallas Alexander?

  She wants to. She's looking for the right place. I don't, she doesn't wanna do it all alone, which I, I, from what I read, the best way to do it is like, have someone experienced, kind of walk you through the process.

• 1:05:28Shawn Ryan?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:05:29Dallas Alexander?

  Um, and that's probably what I'll do going forward. I might, I might try and, uh, the next time, and I am in no hurry to do it again right now. But when I do, I try something like ayahuasca and have it guided, um, and see what I get out of, you know, a person that knows kind of where to guide these things. Um, but yeah, she, she wants to at some point.

• 1:05:53Shawn Ryan?

  What about your brother-in-law?

• 1:05:55Dallas Alexander?

  Um, I think that he will also at some point. Or he might have, like, so he's a, he's a bit of a,

• 1:06:06Dallas Alexander?

  he'll, he knows, he knows that it's fucking good. He sees as, he's a health nut into all the same things, like really. Um, so I'm not a hundred percent sure he hasn't done it in a place and just not said anything about it. Uh, he's also kind of reserved a little bit. Uh, he's a, man, you might, if you weren't gonna have a second Canadian on here, you might wanna have a chat with him.

• 1:06:31Shawn Ryan?

  Right on.

• 1:06:32Dallas Alexander?

  If you guys got any conspiracies, you'll be here for a long time. Uh, yeah, so I, I, I'm a huge fan of it. Um, there's some things, again, that you need to be cautious about, but like my mother had and is having, like, just as you can imagine, her, her son dying, a super hard time. I know that she's interested in, in doing it as well. Uh, there's a couple of clinics, I think, that are, it's like, it's coming into a place where it might be available soon for some of this, this big trauma stuff, so I'm hoping that fucking everybody does it.

• 1:07:09Shawn Ryan?

  Man, I know they got, you're familiar with MAPS, right?

• 1:07:12Dallas Alexander?

  Uh, yeah.

• 1:07:13Shawn Ryan?

  So I know they're doing a, a big study, um, with MDMA and, and I think they're using prisoners.

• 1:07:22Dallas Alexander?

  Okay.

• 1:07:22Shawn Ryan?

  Um, and, um,

• 1:07:26Shawn Ryan?

  I can't really say anything, but there's a, there's another group that I used to be with and

• 1:07:32Shawn Ryan?

  their experience, they're, they're doing studies on them with MDMA and supposedly having amazing results.

• 1:07:39Dallas Alexander?

  And I've heard some that were combos as well, like psilocybin and MDMA or uh, well, wasn't yours, it was Ibogaine and 5-MEO?

• 1:07:49Shawn Ryan?

  5-MEO DMT, but that wasn't a combo. I did, I did Ibogaine on a, I think I did Ibogaine on a Wednesday and I did 5-MEO on a Friday.

• 1:08:00Dallas Alexander?

  That's pretty fucking close.

• 1:08:01Shawn Ryan?

  It's close, but it wasn't, it wasn't. I think what you're talking about though, with the combo is, is both of them are

• 1:08:08Dallas Alexander?

  Administered at the same time, yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:10Shawn Ryan?

  And so I haven't done that. I did a very light psilocybin journey since, um, nothing like your experience. I did two grams and had one of the most amazing conversations with my wife that I've ever had before.

• 1:08:26Dallas Alexander?

  It's so, it's, it's a magical mushroom.

• 1:08:31Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah, it is, it is. I think a lot of people will get a lot out of it, especially our politicians.

• 1:08:38Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, man, I, I hope that, and I've had some friends do it after hearing my story and there's a couple of guys and it's just like, I've never heard it not help somebody yet. Now, I'm not saying it's impossible, or I'm not saying that that is not possible, whatever it is, but like it's helped every person that has taken it with like,

• 1:09:04Dallas Alexander?

  intention or not, really, like even, some people get slapped in the face with like, here's an intention you should have had, you know?

• 1:09:14Dallas Alexander?

  But yeah, I think it's, I think it's huge, man. I think for guys who've gone through crazy careers in this stuff with just what you see and what you do and the time away and the fucking, just how you grow into a person in that environment.

• 1:09:34Dallas Alexander?

  Again, this will just, this will bring you, it'll shine some light on some things that you might not have otherwise seen.

• 1:09:44Shawn Ryan?

  What do you got coming up? So now you're, now you're big in the country music scene?

• 1:09:48Dallas Alexander?

  Well, I'm putting my foot in the door. Yeah. So I'm here to chat with you and then I'm gonna write songs in Nashville for the week. Um, I've got a bunch of different appointments lined up with like these professional, like fucking real deal songwriters. So I'm super excited to learn from them and see what we can come up with. Uh, we're writing for an album to do a, to do an album to be uh, kind of recorded between here and Canada. And I just wanna fucking meet people and play tunes. Music's always been such a big part of my life and a very therapeutic part for a lot of it also.

• 1:10:28Shawn Ryan?

  Do you have any particular ambition with this or are you just along on the journey?

• 1:10:32Dallas Alexander?

  Like, if you would have asked twenty year old Dallas, if this was the path I was taking instead of going to JTF2, it would have been the same reason. Am I enough? Is it like, you know, I gotta prove some things? Now I just wanna write good songs because I love good songs. Music has helped me so fucking much that I know

• 1:10:59Dallas Alexander?

  that uh, a song with truth, it can do crazy things. Like it can really help people. And just some of the songs I've written now employing them to like veteran communities and stuff like, I've had big, strong fucking dudes like crying. They're like, man, like you can't write a song like that if you didn't have a career in this. Like it fucking hits home. And like that is crazy to have and music does that. So I wanna write good songs. I wanna write fun songs too, man. Songs are great for heartache and heartbreak and hard times processing, but they're also like you have good music on and times are good and it's that much better.

• 1:11:40Dallas Alexander?

  So the real intention is to just fucking write good songs and play them for whoever wants to listen.

• 1:11:48Shawn Ryan?

  Do you think, do you still have some of those songs that you wrote about your brother?

• 1:11:53Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah, I actually played one live for the first time. Uh,

• 1:11:59Dallas Alexander?

  When did we play November? And it was the first time I'd ever been able to play it in front of anyone and not like start crying. But yeah, I played that one live and there was, it was, the room was silent. I couldn't believe it. And then there's a handful of people that were brought to tears and I'm like, it's, it's such a,

• 1:12:25Dallas Alexander?

  it's such an age old way of connecting with someone, you know?

• 1:12:29Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:30Dallas Alexander?

  So I like the country music that I love is they're telling the fucking truth, like the, the struggle, the good time, the heartache, whatever it is, they're telling the truth in the song. So, yeah, I have some of those songs. I don't know where they're gonna go. I don't know. You, you write songs and sometimes I'm like,

• 1:12:52Dallas Alexander?

  you just get it out and then you don't touch it again. Sometimes you come back to it and play it because it connects you to something or a certain moment.

• 1:13:04Dallas Alexander?

  I don't know. I just want to keep learning how to do it.

• 1:13:10Dallas Alexander?

  So that I can keep doing it.

• 1:13:14Shawn Ryan?

  Well, man, I kind of want to wrap this up, but um, thank you for, for coming in here and sharing your story and I wish you the best of luck.

• 1:13:24Dallas Alexander?

  Thanks so much for having me.

• 1:13:25Shawn Ryan?

  And I have a whole list of people that I'm dying to connect you with and I'm gonna do it as soon as we flip these cameras off. But one last question.

• 1:13:34Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:35Shawn Ryan?

  If you had two or three people to recommend for this show, who would it be?

• 1:13:40Dallas Alexander?

  Oh, man. Do they have to be Canadian?

• 1:13:44Shawn Ryan?

  They can be whoever you want.

• 1:13:45Dallas Alexander?

  Okay, so I think at some point, if he's ready, my brother-in-law would be a great chat. He's got a lot of war experience. He is very uh, fucking respected.

• 1:13:59Dallas Alexander?

  And you guys will have a fucking interesting dinner conversation also. Uh, he would be good. Uh, I think that to get a perspective maybe from the UK guys would be cool. Stas and the Through Dark guys, I can give you his contact. Um, I don't know. I know he'll be around for SHOT Show, but whenever it is, I think it could be cool to hear what, how the cultures are the same or different, you know, um, from, from over there.

• 1:14:27Dallas Alexander?

  And if it's something in a non-tactical space at some point, I gotta say my sister's doing really cool things in Canada. She's really helping indigenous community.

• 1:14:37Dallas Alexander?

  She was like a pro boxer. She's dabbled in everything from acting to modeling and fitness and she's, you know, like me, had a hard time processing my brother, our brother passing. But she's a fucking fighter, a scrapper, so maybe that would happen at some point. Yeah, most of it's fucking my family and my friends, man.

• 1:15:02Shawn Ryan?

  Right on.

• 1:15:02Dallas Alexander?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:03Shawn Ryan?

  Well, hey, man, seriously, I wish you the best of luck in this.

• 1:15:06Dallas Alexander?

  Oh, thanks so much.

• 1:15:07Shawn Ryan?

  Yeah.

• 1:15:08Dallas Alexander?

  Fucking hell, yeah.

• 1:15:10Shawn Ryan?

  Cheers.