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Real Fake Seal

Real Fake Seal

By: AJ Buckley
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Even though his role as Sonny was fiction, AJ Buckley gained a front-row seat into the world of Navy SEALs, their discipline, mindset, and brotherhood. Real Fake Seal is where AJ takes those lessons and brings them into real conversations. From Hollywood to high-stakes business, fatherhood to fitness, and everything in between, every episode explores what it means to approach life with a SEAL mindset, authentic, disciplined, and unfiltered.

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Episodes
  • From Guilt to Purpose | Scott Graves on Supporting Special Operations Veterans and Kids | RFS #15
    Dec 31 2025

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    In this emotional episode, AJ Buckley talks with Scott about guilt, heroes who don’t make it home, and the pressure that never turns off when operators return from deployment. From the song “Heroes” to the story of a lodge built for dads and kids to reconnect, this conversation dives into purpose, faith, and higher calling.

    It’s about real boots-on-the-ground support instead of empty posts. Real stories, real tears, and real work for the men and women who gave everything.

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    57 mins
  • Grayson Russell on Faith, Family & Hollywood | RFS#14
    Dec 23 2025

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    Grayson Russell takes it from the Listening Room in Pigeon Forge “redneck Disneyland” by Dollywood to the moment a brutal, true line hit him in Walmart by the salmon. He shares the family truth his dad revealed, why his mom didn’t know, and how it became the song “Turned Out Good,” played for crowds from 100 to 30- 40,000 then bringing his dad on stage as the evidence.

    They also hit old soul songwriting, Irish ballads, touring, opening for Grammy winners, and the episode’s closing stretch on kids, purpose, and life on the road.

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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • Daniel Corbett's Full Story - The American Mercenary, Hell Week & Serbia Arrest | RFS#13
    Dec 16 2025

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    AJ Buckley talks with Daniel Corbett SEAL Team Six operator and author of "The American Mercenary" about the future fight: a “gorilla squadron” operating in onesies and twosies, language-driven intel, and why full-scale assault elements are fading.

    Corbett breaks down Green Team’s unforgiving standard, shatters the biggest mercenary myth—no ethics and explains how saying “absolutely not” is part of the job. The conversation turns to Serbia, where there’s no jury only a judge and how that ordeal rewired his approach to risk, trust, and knowing exactly when to walk away.

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    1 hr and 14 mins
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