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SFR 6: …The Blood Down My Arms, And A Live-Virus Later...The Military's "Sales Funnel":)

SFR 6: …The Blood Down My Arms, And A Live-Virus Later...The Military's "Sales Funnel":)

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SFR 6: …The Blood Down My Arms, And A Live-Virus Later...The Military's "Sales Funnel":)

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16 minutes
Released:
Aug 30, 2016
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There I was standing in a line of people, blood dripping down my arms, this is actually a true story though. I was going through basic and I remember we get to this medical part, this is for the army and we get to this medical part and they're like, "Sit down," they're yelling at us, making us feel like we're not large at all. They're like, "Sit down," and they're like squishing us chest to chest like crazy tight to each other. We had just come from a haircut and they're were like crazy rough. They through us in this chair and they would shave our heads but the guys that were shaving our heads were so rough with our heads that we were all bleeding from our scalps by the time we were done. I look at this now and I just laugh. There's a point to the story, by the way but I just laugh. They're throwing us up against the wall afterwards, they've missed some spots so some of us still have patches of hair coming out the side. They don't care that you're not clean at all either. There's hair everywhere and you're shoved up against the wall. I remember this guy's little blood streak coming down by his neck and right after that they have us go get cleaned up because we go to the medical area. In the medical area they take us and they put us down on the ground roll our sleeves up. They're like, "Take this alcohol swab, wipe down your arms, clean your arms," and it was the craziest thing I've ever experienced, I guess, medical wise. Every time I think of it I always have to laugh. We rolled our sleeves up and we're standing, we call it nut to butt, toe to heel, basically really close to the other guy. You're standing super close and you take one step forward and there's a doctor on each side of you and they have a shot in each hand. You take one step forward and they both go right in to your arm. I got four shots at one time. Boom. Took another step forward, another set of two doctors, each with two shots in each, a shot with each hand. Then I got two more shots on each side. Boom. Took a step forward, two more doctors, each with a shot and it's like factory style. I mean, you took one step forward, boom. One step forward, boom. One step forward, boom. They're not being soft or anything so there's like blood coming down your arms. I remember the last guy, he was giving us a Tetanus shot and this guy must have really, really been having a bad day or something like that because oh my gosh, he was taking it out on us. That dude was jamming that big fat Tetanus needle in our arm so hard, I'm pretty sure it was hitting all of our bones or something because there were these other girls were there that were screaming and stuff. The very last thing that just kind of took the whole cake, they made us take this live virus by mouth. It was this pill, right? We took a step forward and you had to show them that you swallowed it. You put it in your mouth and took some water down and show them that you swallow it because they said it goes in and kills all this crazy crap in your body. They're like, "For the next two weeks that live virus will come out of your pores. Make sure you always wash your hands. Don't touch your eyes," that kind of stuff. They're like, "You're worthless pieces of crap." Of course, everybody gets sick. We were sick, basic training is like two and half months long, we were sick for probably two months of that. Coughing up green crap and you're not really sleeping. Sleep isn't actually that, too crazy, it's the no eating part. I lost fifteen pounds and I was not overweight. We were all like crazy sick and I remember feeling at the end of it, it's funny going in actually because I was like, "They're not going to break me. They're not going to get me." I was a little bit older than everyone else there. I was doing it in the middle of college instead of right out of high school. I had a kid, I was married, you know what I mean? I was gone for like six months total and I remember going in thinking, "They're not going to break me, they
Released:
Aug 30, 2016
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My first 5 years in entrepreneurship was 34 painful product failures in a row (you heard me). Finally, on #35 it clicked, and for the next 4 years, 55 NEW offers made over $11m. I’ve learned enough to see a few flaws in my baby business… So, as entrepreneurs do, I built it up, just to burn it ALL down; deleting 50 products, and starting fresh. We’re a group of capitalist pig-loving entrepreneurs who are actively trying to get rich and give back. Be sure to download Season 1: From $0 to $5m for free at https://salesfunnelradio.com I’m your host, Steve J Larsen, and welcome to Sales Funnel Radio Season 2: Journey $100M