Jason Gray has been in the stunt industry for amost four decades working in film, television, commercials and music videos. We discuss his childhood in Iowa, wrestling, the genesis of Orlando's theme parks, live show dangers, sleep deprivation in entertainment, specialisation, The Oscars and so much more.

"Growing up a sports-crazed kid (a champion pole vaulter & wrestler)on a farm in Iowa, I set my sights on first serving my country after high school - then going to college. So after 4 years in the U.S. Air Force as a Security Policeman, stationed in Europe, I came back to the U.S. and graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha on the G.I. Bill with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.

Always aspiring to be in show business, my guidance counseloradvised me to move to Orlando, Florida. So I did! I always wanted to work at Walt Disney World Entertainment. I worked as a production assistant and did a lot of background work. I went to many auditions and finally started working as a stunt performer in one live stunt show after another across Central Florida. (Yes, I was Indiana Jones for a while.) I also got a lot of stunt experience working in Industrials, Corporate Conventions, and TV specials at Disney. I also worked at a number of stunt shows over at Universal Studios Florida.

I later became a member of a highly respected local stunt team in Florida called Stunt Dynamics. We worked and learned everything we could about setting up stunts safely, videotaping & editing action sequences, rigging, action design, and execution with the latest stunt equipment. Most of these performers moved to Hollywood, but I stuck around and was hired to assist in training new stunt performers, choreographing new fight sequences, stunt rigging & safety, as well as creating and developing new stunt shows at Universal. In 1996, I became the stunt coordinator for Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure Florida, and Universal Studios Japan.

Inspiration from my colleagues and my experiences and contacts at Universal Studios and The Walt Disney Company allowed me to move on to stunt coordination and assistant stunt coordinator on many local film, TV, and commercial productions. I have coordinated everything from low-budget features to co-coordinating multi-million dollar commercial productions and music videos.

In 2003, I moved with my family to Thousand Oaks, CA, to be closer to the action. Since then, I have been fortunate to work with many different crews in and around Hollywood on several TV shows, feature films, and well over 100 commercials. I’ve worked on feature films including GHOSTBUSTERS, CAPTAIN AMERICA 2, DUMB AND DUMBER TO and PURGE 2 to name a few, as well as, TV shows like SUPERGIRL, CHUCK, HAWAII 5-0, GRIMM, CSI & SONS OF ANARCHY and MAGNUM P.I. I have coordinated episodes on such TV shows as “You’re The Worst”, “Bones”, “Terriers”, “Drunk History”, “Biker Outlaws” and “The Office”. Some national commercials I’ve coordinated were for Audi, Dodge, Blockbuster Video, K-Mart, Old Spice, Lexus, and Fuze Tea … with Mr. T. I was honored to join an elite Hollywood stunt organization – the International Stunt Association (ISA)."

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336707/

Debbie Johnson is a financial professional and a dedicated nonprofit leader with a profound passion for supporting law enforcement K9 units. Her journey into advocacy began following the tragic death of St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office K9 Baron in 2015, which inspired her to invest significant time and resources to understand the unique needs of these heroic dogs.

Driven by her newfound appreciation for K9 units, Debbie founded K9s United, a nonprofit organization committed to advocating for, honoring and supporting America’s law enforcement K9s. Under her passionate leadership, K9s United and its devoted team work tirelessly to ensure the needs of working K9s are met. Since its inception, K9s United has donated over $2.0 million in equipment and training to more than 1,500 K9 officers and paramedics for these noble dogs in more than 46 states across the nation.

K9s United provides advanced training, including canine first aid, and Debbie has been instrumental in passing Alabama and Florida legislation aimed at protecting and serving law enforcement K9s. Her belief that every working dog in the nation should be protected and advocated for fuels her efforts to champion similar bills at the federal level, including the LEO K9 Protection Act, which was introduced in July.

Beyond her full-time career and her mission with K9s United, Debbie is also a devoted mother to her daughter Emma and a loving wife to her husband BJ. She shares her home with three dogs: Gunnar, Shelby and Homer.

Through her unwavering dedication, Debbie Johnson continues to champion the cause of law enforcement K9 units, ensuring they receive the training and recognition they deserve.

https://www.k9sunited.org/

Trisha Stavinoha is an Army Veteran, Dietitian and elite endurance athlete. We discuss her journey into the military, hydration myths, sports drinks, fluid replacement in tactical athletes, relief aid in third world countries and much more.

Trisha retired in 2018 after a 20-year career as an Army Dietitian, the last 12 years serving in a performance nutrition capacity. She earned her BS in Nutrition from Texas State University in 1998, then joined the Army through their dietetic internship program. She was selected to attend a Sports Nutrition Master’s program at Long Island University, graduating in 2006, then earned her CSSD and CSCS. Since retiring, she added lifeguard, masters swim instructor, and TSAC-F to her list of credentials.

Trisha was one of the first Army RDs to earn both her CSSD and CSCS and uses the knowledge as a competitive athlete and on competitive athletes. She specializes in performance nutrition for a variety of sports to include endurance, strength, military tactical, and combat sport in neutral and extreme environments. She has been on 10 All Army Sport teams and was a walk on for the cross country and track teams during graduate school. She coached and trained with the installation Army 10-miler team and Bataan Death March teams.

Trisha developed the performance nutrition service for the Center for the Intrepid, the military’s premier rehabilitation center for our wounded tactical athletes and advises the local adaptive sports program. She had the grand opportunity to work with the Army’s esteemed World Class Athlete Program, helping combat sport and track athletes reach their fullest potential to qualify for a spot on the Olympic team.

Trisha currently works as a nutrition consultant for Cera Products, Inc., a rice-based hydration manufacturer specializing in products for individuals with unique hydration conditions. This affords her the opportunity to work with a variety of clients to include firefighters. She continues to work with the military, educating on executing a proper hydration plan based on the environmental conditions and workload. She closely follows two principals. 1) Hydration for tomorrow occurs today; hydration for today occurred yesterday. 2) A sports drink alone will not prevent dehydration and athletes must first address baseline hydration with food and water.

While Trisha does work for a hydration manufacturer, she is a dietitian first and her primary goal as a retired Army dietitian is always to educate based on research and not marketing gimmicks.

Mike Landis has been with Destin Fire for 17 years and has been the Deputy Chief since 2024. Mike sits as Region 1 FASAR Coordinator, TRT-109 Coordinator and Team lead, is a FL USAR Rescue Specialist, Paramedic, and is a graduate from Florida State University with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. Mike is a Florida local who has grown up in the Destin area and attended Crestview High School.

Mike's background is in education, working at Northwest Florida State College for almost a decade while teaching emergency medicine course for Medical Outfitter Training Consultants who contracted to the DEA Medic Program among other federal agencies. Mike has been married to his wife Bronwyn since 2013 and they have a beautiful 4-year-old daughter. In their off time, Mike and his family spend time on the water with friends and family.

Geoff Duplessis is a Christian, Husband, Father, Destin Fire Department Captain and member of Destin's FL-TF7 team. He has been in the fire service for 11 years and previously with Ocala Fire for 8.5 years. Geoff was also on FL-TF8 for 5 and was an instructor at the Florida State Fire College.

Andrea “Mahigun” Bogiatto is a Deputy Sheriff in Colorado and a former Italian National Police officer (Reparto Mobile). He developed the Human Factor – Behavioral Architecture Under Operational Pressure, a framework focused on behavioral patterns and decision-making under stress.

His background includes crowd control, K9 environments, and international training collaborations, with ongoing development of a university-level course on human behavior in first responder operations.

Jake Ryks is a firefighter, EMT, and HazMat Specialist with the Saint Paul Fire Department, currently assigned to Squad 1 and HazMat 1. He serves as the HazMat training coordinator within the department. Jake was recognized as the 2024 Minnesota Firefighter of the Year and received the Michael O. McNamee Award of Valor for his role in rescuing multiple children from a house fire.

Outside of the firehouse, Jake is actively involved in advancing the hazmat community through his work with The Haz Mat Guys, where he supports training initiatives and digital education. As the host of the Hazard Class Podcast, he brings a practical, no-nonsense perspective to the job, blending field experience, training insight, and honest conversations about the realities of the fire service.

https://thehazmatguys.com/hazard-class/

Greg Walsh is an athlete, martial artist and the founder of Wolf Brigade. We discuss his journey into extreme sports, the straight edge Hardcore scene, Crossfit, Jeet Kune Do, kettlebell training, youth athletes, mace work, strength and conditioning for the tactical athlete, the aging athlete and so much more.

Greg Walsh has walked upright down a path of resistance for most of his life. The discovery of BMX bike riding and hardcore music in early adolescence derailed the train of convention and sparked a love affair with the underground that continues to burn strong. Through patience and perseverance, he began to make marks of his own within counterculture and has never looked back.

Writing intertwined itself with all his successes and setbacks, and has served as chronicle to the strange and often dangerous occurrences that were never far behind. Greg’s storytelling has been both catharsis and corruptor; If any resolution was found, it has never been without shining harsh light into dark corners, and forcing himself to look.

Those very same unconventional outlooks and subversive sensibilities have also played key roles in the development of Wolf Brigade’s unique and effective methods of strength and conditioning.

Resourcefulness in all realms was hard-learned, any advancement was hard-earned, and every early step was both daunting and vitally important. As unpredictable as it may have been, entering the strength world from action sports and martial arts allowed for a preconceived-notion-free process of program design and system engineering.

Describing his relationship with BMX, hardcore, training, and storytelling as anything but a love affair would be a vast understatement; Each has been its own vicious and driving force, and no stone is ever left unturned in the pursuit of progress.

Strength in solitude and clarity in defiance were to be the most valuable lessons any culture or character could teach him, even as steep as the learning curve often was; While both Greg and Wolf Brigade are relatively new to many eyes, both have been developing in the dark since the turn of the millennium.

Now rounded out both physically and philosophically with decades of martial arts, strength training, and teaching, Greg strives to maintain the proverbial spirit of eternal youth, and the worlds he has shown the ability to link together are proof that even as much as some things change, the most important ones stay the same.

Driven by discontent- but never limited by it- Greg continues to scheme, write, subvert, struggle, and progress, and provokes many others into doing the same.

He currently lives and works on the east side of Rochester, New York.

https://wolfbrigade.com/

Dr. Cordle is a retired Navy captain with 30 years of service and a human factors engineer. In this second conversation, we discuss his family's generational combat service, the current crisis in Iran, the financial cost of forced sleep deprivation, servant leadership, technical competence and his latest book "Letters to Myself".

John was the 2018 Proceedings Author of the Year, Surface Navy Association Literary Award winner in 2013 (with Dr. Nita Shattuck) and again in 2018, and has been recognized for his work in the area of circadian watch rotations and crew endurance with the Navy League John Paul Jones Award, the BUMED Epictetus Award for Innovative and Inspirational Leadership, and the ASNE Solberg Award for Research.

K. L. Sadler is a retired U.S. Diplomat and Supervisory Special Agent with the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service. Over a 26-year career as a sworn law enforcement officer and federal agent, she served in high-threat assignments across Iraq, Afghanistan, Uganda, Mexico, and El Salvador, where she received multiple Superior Honor Awards for leadership and crisis response. She began her law enforcement career as a police officer in St. Augustine, Florida.

Kemmi is the founder of Legalize the Divine, an initiative focused on thoughtful dialogue around conscience, spiritual freedom, and access to nature-based healing traditions, approached with care, responsibility, and respect for the law. She is also stewarding land in the Ozarks with the long-term intention of developing a small, land-based retreat focused on rest and recovery for those living with the invisible wounds of trauma.

In April 2026, Kemmi will walk the Camino de Santiago with her dog, Nona, in a pilgrimage called Nona’s Way, continuing her commitment to service beyond the badge while raising awareness surrounding the need for mental health and trauma recovery in the first responder community.

https://klsadler.com/

Brian Brush is a 30 year veteran of the fire service, instructor and the training chief for the Midwest City (OK) Fire Department. We discuss his journey into the volunteer fire service, wildland firefighting, firefighter fitness, putting family first, his near career ending medical event, mentorship and so much more.

Brian's background spans several states from rural volunteer to metro-sized departments. He has a master’s degree in fire and emergency management, is an EFO, and has Chief Training Officer designation.

RJ Casey has held numerous roles including as an Army Special Forces Medic, Air Force Pararescueman, Physician's Assistant and Stuntman. We discuss his journey into the military, trauma medicine, education, realism in training, working with Mel Gibson and so much more.

RJ has 30+ years of Special Operations experience with the Department of Defense and other government agencies. He has multiple combat tours in countries including Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somalia, and Syria. RJ is still serving while consulting for corporations, feature film/TV, and other organizations. Like every member of Force Blue, RJ donates time to 501(c)(3) non-profits to help fellow veterans and is committed to the conservation of our amazing oceans.