Here we go. My clever welcome to free range American.

I'm overwhelmed right now from what just the environment. I love it.

Yeah. You know, it's there's a lot of wood, a lot of wood, a lot of burnt wood, a lot of

palette wood. It's a fire hazard. It is a fire. It's called a fire trap. Yeah, it's a fire trap.

Love it. Thanks for coming down, man. Oh, thanks for having me. It's been forever. I know.

So Mike, can I go back? I don't know how many years, 10 years? It's been a while.

10 years. Give or take whatever we were we were back 10 years. And when we first met each other,

you're going through a course. I was teaching the course. You were much taller.

Have you shrank or a little bit? Okay. Got it. Yeah.

Film craft was maybe a little bit. No, you know, you're one of the guys. It's funny because

when you came through, I think we hit it off and I can't remember exactly what we talked about,

but we were talking about a few different things. And you know, there are certain things that I like,

which is tactical competency, which as you know, when you're going through a course like that,

not everybody is tactically proficient in those circumstances. So Mike is kind of like

one, he's a gear head, which I can appreciate. But he also was like AJ square in a way. Like,

you had your shit dialed. You could shoot. You could, you know, you could shoot. You could move.

You could communicate. And it's funny because when I found out you were a star major,

I was like, what? Because he was also pretty cool. And I'm not. And I'm not saying that because,

you know, most started majors are douchebags. They are. They are. Yeah. You're right. Yeah.

No, and this isn't just I love you, Mike podcast. This is just kind of giving people the

context to it. But we started. We kept in contact for quite a while. So when field craft fired up,

like I've been watching you do this for, since you started, like I, in a freaking love it. Like,

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