Black Ribble Coffee, baby.

Freedom kill them.

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It's good to have you on a show.

Thanks.

Awesome to be here.

So kind of walk me through or walk the audience, me, everybody through.

Like, I've brad for a long

time but um your your professional background leading up to this point because i think it's

interesting and too it provides context for cipher brief yeah um yeah well well first it's cool to see you

again yeah it's been a while and congratulations on everything out here.

So, yeah, so I started out.

One of the smartest things I ever did was got lucky enough to be in the 75th Ranger Regiment

at a pretty young age.

So I did one tour, first Ranger battalion, got out, went to business school eventually

graduated, which was kind of like the path that I thought I was supposed to be on at that

point, right?

My parents were like, you know, you need to go to college.

So I did that.

And then decided I didn't really want to be a stockbroker.

So joined 20th group, actually like at the end of 99. Yeah. Right before the GWAT. And as it turns out, you know, after 9-11, I was lucky enough to sort of be in the first SFAS after 9-11. So October 2001. Seriously? Yeah. Wow. What was that like?

It was cool.

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