How I Survived In The Jungle & Fought Somali Pirates | Minutes With | @LADbible

circuit and obviously while we were talking about You know, they've been taking me They've taken me twice They've taken me once to Afghanistan, you know, just for a short period of time, but they've also taken me in a toga. In my own mind I was pushing my luck here, okay? I was thinking what can I do well. I wrote a book called Born Fearless big plug, okay, when I wrote it I knew it was going to start closing a few doors down, but I was a little older and I thought well, it doesn't matter so much now because I want to try to make the transition. and do something else, but when I first thought I had taken my foot off the gas I couldn't, I couldn't find any work, the book had done well, but I wasn't going to back off the book and I had a little money saved in the bank back then and I was drinking and I was drinking right and I'm one of those people, if I did something I'd do it to the absolute Max okay, so I was drinking too much.

I'm starting to have a little trouble. I had a little home at home and I put a window but I didn't put windows with I'm going to put a window with a bed, I mean I'll throw a bed. my front window, um, there was a neighbor and I called him a lot and I must have told him, I don't want to kill you or whatever, like you know, I mean, because the next minute a bunch of police showed up and dragged me away. I left my house I had to hang out with them I went to the police station, they entered my cell and the first one they tried to accuse me of attempted murder by this crazy man, even the lawyer on duty, this is crazy, anyway, she I said go to climb in front of the peak on Monday.

They will try to remind you that you are in custody and try to fix this so they took it down to try to gbh. I felt good, although it was like and. Look, this is again some mental health stuff that's coming up here. People have always told me that you're crazy if you talk to yourself. Well, I'd tell you now that you're crazy if you don't because I looked. in Marcel's mirror in Winchester and the guy I saw was completely fine. I knew, you know, although I wasn't guilty of trying this, trying that, and trying that, in fact, probably, at worst, there had been a bit of noise. done like you know what I mean and I've broken my own property?

So what, just so you know that, as an aside, I would still manage to put myself in a position that I was now in, you know, my freedom won't be taken away, so you know that I had made a mistake in my own mind. I had a proper job with myself. You know, it took me a while to figure it out. It took me about four or five, about six weeks in Winchester before they finally let me leave on license. I put myself on a label, uh, I stayed at my brother's house, all kinds of layers and restrictions were finally removed.

I managed to get them to let me stay out until midnight because I told them I thought I'd be working in the city and all that. kind of thing, I lied like a cheap Japanese watch, you end up in the office, you know what I mean and then he might offer me a job in Albania, so I went to Albania, the label completely came off me and I said, look, you just need to be there, the day you had to go to court, I went to court, everything was dropped, the judge actually had to go out and I ended up with, I think a section five, you know, a disorderly conduct charge, which that caused someone of my normal firmness to feel for his caress his security is nothing you can do with that if you spit at someone in the street or call him a name, you know it was nothing, so everything was fixed, but in the end It damaged what was my credibility.

As for working in the security business, you can't. You know my license was revoked when I was on the label. I wasn't going to get her back right away, so now they cornered me when I didn't have a job. I literally had nothing. I called all the normal places where I have work. Nothing, nothing, I'm sorry, Phil, no, I can't do it now. No, nothing. Now I'm in that brown sticky stuff and I was. There's nowhere to go so I thought to myself, what I'll do is go on Facebook and see if anyone has it and I'm on Facebook and my cousin contacted me.

I said, look, Phil, he said. I have a construction site and he was running a construction site in Sutton in London, he said look if you come there he says you can, you can go out, you can work, he says it at night if you want to stay there, yes I can get a caravan or something like that, if you can stay there he says you can, you can be security and at night he used to charge like 15 20 quid if he had it and he had to go to places like Ivy and all that. that and I'll grab a copy of my book and if I heard any of these like any of these guys talking about television and by the way, my name is Phil, yeah, and I was supposed to introduce myself to other people's conversations and before you.

I knew it. I managed to break through with Black on Sky News. It's as if all of this is related to terrorism. Why couldn't I break through with Black? And every five

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. I'm at Sky News and they finally gave me, they gave me the documentary, um, which was the Big Fields War documentary, which was very well received. One thing I've learned in this industry, no one is going to give it to you. I'm going to give it to you and if you and I remember my adoptive mother, I may not have gone to her, but she always used to tell me if you want a job, do it yourself, like you know, and I think that's it. the path for me and you know, even when I talked to Bear I said, you know, I can't trust anyone in this industry, you know if they're friends or not, I have to go out and I have to do my thing and that's exactly what I'm doing and I will never give up on what I do because you know I believe in myself if no one else does.

Do you have any advice that you would like to give to anyone that yes, my advice to anyone is to look, as far as we know, life is not a rehearsal, okay, we are not here, we are not here, preparing for another chance, later You will get out of life what you put into it. Just never give up, many times you will be in a situation where you are at the bottom of the pile, but when you are at the bottom of the pile, you are still breathing in your lungs. Well, there is a chance that you can reach the top of that pile again and I would tell anyone to never give up on your dreams and hopes and you will eventually get there.

It may be the long way, but you will do it. eventually you get there and even if you didn't do well, at least you gave it your chance. I looked up and I could see two guys with a PKM belt fed with a washer and they were beating the guys, my rifle just shoots. 1500 meters, so I had to do it. I call it throwing. I threw the bullet.