#339 Christian Craighead - The Uncensored Story of the Nairobi DusitD2 Attack

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Shawn Ryan (2:00)

Christian Craighead, welcome back, my man.

Christian Craighead (2:03)

Thanks, Shawn.

Shawn Ryan (2:07)

I'm nervous. How are you feeling?

Christian Craighead (2:11)

Yeah, I'm feeling, I'm feeling all right about it. I'm just going to roll with it.

Shawn Ryan (2:15)

It's a good nervous. It's going to be powerful.

Christian Craighead (2:18)

Yeah. It seems like everyone else is more nervous about this than I am, but maybe I'm just in denial, like always, and then afterwards, and then I'll realize the gravity of it all.

Shawn Ryan (2:29)

Well, I saw you pacing around out front there earlier, so.

Christian Craighead (2:32)

Yeah, that's what I do, my whole thinking, pacing.

Shawn Ryan (2:36)

Well, this is going to be a powerful interview, but you've been on the show once, we did a life story on you, and believe it or not, you made a promise on there that said, if you ever did, you know, recount the actual day, that it would be here, and you kept the promise.

Christian Craighead (2:55)

Yeah.

Shawn Ryan (2:56)

Thank you.

Christian Craighead (2:56)

Here I am.

Shawn Ryan (3:00)

And ironically, we're basically neighbors now.

Shawn Ryan (3:02)

Yeah, yeah.

Shawn Ryan (3:04)

Which is really cool.

Christian Craighead (3:05)

Yeah, we live like 20 minutes, 15 minutes away from each other now.

Shawn Ryan (3:09)

Yep, and last time you were here, you were still in UK, so.

Christian Craighead (3:13)

I was back and forth, yeah, and then I haven't been back to the UK for a few years now, but yeah. Well, pretty much straight after that interview, that was more or less the last time I was in the UK.

Shawn Ryan (3:25)

How does that feel?

Christian Craighead (3:31)

It's a weird feeling because I cannot say how much I love this country. I love it so much in every way. Obviously, there's some things that I'm not keen on or whatever, like everything in life, I can't be happy, but I love this country so much. And I love being here and it's such a privilege.

And I've said this lots of times. I only wish more Americans could see that. It's why everyone's trying to get in, no one's trying to get out, no matter how bad they say it is.

That's one of those things where people say it. The United States of America is so good, even the people who hate it won't leave.

So there's that. So I love actually love being here. And what the strangest, it's strange how things work. So in my hometown, which is in Northern England, there's a small village where I was first baptized into the Church of England. And then that's like my thinking spot. I'd go there and every time I was in the country, or if times were hard, I'd jump in the car, drive from Hereford up to Northeast England, go to this spot and just walk round and kind of get energy off it. And just I love that place so much as well. And the last time I was there, I went to this thinking spot, like a bunch of trees. And something came over me of thinking, this is the last time I'm ever going to be here, which did not make any sense, because at the time I had a plan to come back, I think it was only three, four weeks later, to pick up some more stuff, because I was getting, moving all my footprint over to the United States. So I was planning on coming back, but something is sure as, sure as I knew it, something said, you will never come back here. So me being as dramatic as I am, I was thinking, oh maybe I'm going to have a car wreck and die, or maybe there's going to be something catastrophic happen in the UK. But I was sure that I was never going to visit this place again, and it made no sense. Then it's funny how things turn out, and now that's true.