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if you could recall the scariest moment
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of your life what would that be I say
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the scariest moment was when I was doing
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Mach 2 and I got hit by a missile and
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the airplane was out of control
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spinning violently and I couldn't get
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the ejection seat because hey I'm
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Patrick Sweeney
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welcome to the fearest fuel newsletter
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I'm super excited to be bringing you
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this now I know you're probably not as
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excited as I am
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but trust me after a couple of these
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things I think you will be this first
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episode of fear as fuel I'm bringing you
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the bravest man in the world that's
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Colonel Joe Kittinger Colonel Kittinger
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flew over three hundred and eighty
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missions in Vietnam before he got shot
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down he spent almost a year at the
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infamous Hanoi Hilton prisoner of war
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camp where John McCain was and then he
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became the first person to fly a hot air
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balloon across the Atlantic but that's
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not the bravest thing he ever did the
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bravest thing he ever did was take a
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hot-air balloon up over a hundred
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thousand feet and parachute out he did
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this fifty years before Felix
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Baumgartner did it for Red Bull which
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was 2012 i sat down with Colonel
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Kittinger near his home in Orlando
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Florida
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and he's got some great advice take a
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look well thank you so much for spending
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some time and I know you're a little bit
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pressed but if we can take five minutes
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I've got a few questions for you that
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people out there would love to hear
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first and foremost is your thoughts on
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fear fear is a lack of self-confidence
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so if you have confidence in yourself
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you can overcome fear
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the saddest person is a person that
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doesn't have comments in themselves
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I was fortunate in my military career
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that I had a lot of opportunities to
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face fear and if I had an apprehension
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I would analyze what caused the
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attribute I loved like I enjoyed and I
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have the keys of having a Jeff threat
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that's absolutely incorrect
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I love life but I never did anything
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that I didn't think I was going to
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survive so were you scared when you were
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taking that first step out of the
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balloon for the parachute for the
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Stratford passion have commas in my
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equipment cuff my team talked to myself
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and I was there for a reason and how was
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experimental test pilots I was used to
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being in situations that required a
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different approach that you were going
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into an area never been explored before
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and I was ready to go came time to go I
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was no hesitation I was ready to go I
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had worked for a year and a half at that
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time i set that goal and worked worked
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worked with a bunch of great guys and i
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felt i will let him down also because
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they had worked for my best fit so no I
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had no fear with us let's get ready to
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jump because I had confidence in myself
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right quick so what was the last thing
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that went through your mind or what was
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the last thing you said when you when
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you took that first step I said Lord
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take care of me and he did push the
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button to start the cameras and jump you
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can use fear to the advantage by
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identifying the fact that it is and then
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work how to get out of it how it's a non
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except fear how to have a different
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course a different direction or maybe
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it's the fact that I'm tougher or I'm
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better discipline I'm smarter I'm a
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little sad and you have to have that
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confidence after the conference without
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it you're in trouble
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you were kind enough to help break your
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own record after 52 years you helped the
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Red Bull team and and Felix Baumgartner
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break the the stratosphere record what
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was the difference 52 years the
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difference between a plane back then and
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now is unbelievable it must have been
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the same with the equipment that the Red
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Bull team used versus what you use the
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technology had increased a great deal
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it's two years of advancement yeah and
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pressure suits and parachutes and lots
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of equipment so there was the big
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difference between when I did it when I
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did it was like driving a Model T Ford
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yeah it was like driving a 2018 that's
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wrong yeah big difference in technology
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that transpired but the threat was just
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the same lack of pressure does not
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change the threat of doing something
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that had been done before I was a boy
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scout okay and it teaches the right
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lessons yeah you can take care of
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yourself you go out to the woods you can
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cook you can you can do fish survive
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it's got a really helped me it started
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me on the road that I had confidence I
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could take care of myself anyplace I
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encouraged young men to get into scouts
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it helps them after the community it
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helps society helps our government and
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there's only 1% of the scouts become
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Eagle Scouts but that's needs to be a
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goal when a man here when a boy interest
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in spinkle Scouts his goal should be to
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be an Eagle Scout and that's where the
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lessons you learned it's goal-setting
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and that also helps get away from Evans
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here because if you set a goal and work
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toward that goal you can you accomplish
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even and let's say that you have a new
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job if you have fear the way to take
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tackle that is say I'm gonna do the best
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job I could ever do
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nobody's gonna get to me I'm gonna be a
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success because I'm gonna work hard to
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do it so it takes discipline sake
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self-confidence but they should never
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give up never never never ever give up
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and that's another lesson that's
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important that they set goals and work
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toward those goals if you could recall
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them the scariest moment of your life
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what would that be I'd say the scariest
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moment was when I was doing Mach 2 and I
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got hit by a missile and the airplane
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was out of control spinning violently
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and I couldn't get the ejection seat
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handle because of the g-forces and I I
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was I was felt that I might not live but
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I went to the allman of the ejection
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handle injected my back seat who went
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out first and then I went but I will say
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that was the scariest moment and then
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when I was coming down to parachute they
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were shooting at me from the ground just
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when you thought you made it that was
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that was no fun and and you've been in
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over 91 different aircraft
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93 different aircraft what was your
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favorite one well my favorite of
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prop-driven airplane was p-51 and my
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favorite jet was f4 they were two great
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airplanes and I just love flat both of
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them and I flew all every airplane that
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flew I'd do it for me I never flew an
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airplane I did license because each one
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of them's a challenge and that's why I
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approached it okay well you you were an
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amazing American Hero
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well decorated more Awards that we can
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say thank you very much for your service
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and you've got an 89th birthday coming
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up here in a week or two happy birthday
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thank you very much thank you Karen hey
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I hope you liked the first episode of
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furious fuel
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Colonel Kittinger is an amazing person
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and all that information you can put to
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use every day just keep it in your mind
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what he said about confidence about your
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team and about using fear as fuel if you
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like the newsletter please share it on
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social media and feel free to leave a
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comment below about things you'd like to
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see or other information you'd like to
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gain
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my goal is to help you live the most
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passionate exciting and fulfilling life
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possible that's what fear is fuel is all
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about
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I'm Patrick Sweeney till next time live
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