Ten Years in the SAS - What They Don't Teach You | Jay Morton | Ep. 455

Fourteen years in uniform. Four with the Parachute Regiment, a decade in the SAS. Patrol medic and qualified mountain guide. Afghanistan, Iraq, and covert deployments. Jay Morton left in 2018 and went straight up the world's biggest mountains — two Everest summits, one of them solo. Everest comes up, and it isn't pretty. He stood on the summit alone in 2017. Now it's a queue of paying clients short-roped to the top, garbage stacked at Camp 4, two hundred grand for the VIP package. Nobody walks out anymore. They fly — on some of the sketchiest helicopter rides you'll ever hear described. We get into what nobody warns you about: leaving. In the unit, everything is built around you. Someone books the flight. You wake up knowing exactly where to be. Then it's gone, and you're staring in the mirror looking for the guy who used to handle all of it. We talk about chasing a bigger number in a bank account, then realizing a month later you didn't care about the thing you bought. Status versus utility. What his sister, a hospice nurse, heard people say at the end — and what they never said. Also in here: the reality TV machine, the hypocrisy of the silent-professional crowd, twelve coffees in a day, and where AI stops being useful. Concept Expeditions: https://www.conceptexpeditions.com/ Today's Sponsors: Peluva: 10% off and use the following link: https://checkout.peluva.com/CLEAREDHOT Bubs Naturals: For a limited time only, listeners are getting 20% OFF at https://www.bubsnaturals.com by using code "clearedhot" Timestamps: [00:00:00] UFOs, ghosts, and belief [00:06:39] Crystals, shamans, and witches [00:14:11] Guns, carry, and gun laws [00:20:25] Gear upgrades and drone warfare [00:24:49] Life after special operations [00:29:47] Mountains, Germany, and ThroughDark [00:33:45] Injuries and leaving the military [00:45:37] Secrecy, TTPs, and public limits [00:50:29] Bad CQB jokes and UKSF structure [00:55:24] AI, robotics, and modern war [00:58:44] Trading apps and prediction markets [01:08:38] Doomscrolling and mental health [01:12:18] Dinosaurs, pyramids, and skydiving [01:19:54] Guiding work and TV exposure [01:25:48] Hunted and reality TV lessons [01:29:19] Everest crowds and commercialization [01:45:18] Flying and aircraft risk [01:53:24] Base jumping and risk tolerance [02:02:06] Ducati and Isle of Man [02:13:25] Coffee, caffeine, and hobbies [02:18:02] UK decline, policing, and migration [02:29:52] Alcohol and health optimization [02:41:52] Smoking, deployment booze, and books [02:47:53] Aging, money, and bucket lists [02:58:44] Crypto doubts and final wrap-up