Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Andy Stumpf and welcome to the Cleard Hot Podcast.

So first things first, what does Cleard Hot mean?

It means a lot of things, but in the true military sense of the word,

it's part of the dialogue that you have to have with an aircraft

if you want them to drop a bomb on the ground.

A lot of people think that it's the pilot's choice to drop the bomb,

but actually a controller on the ground is the last one to give that call.

And if you give the call Cleard Hot, you own what comes off the aircraft.

Kind of like I'm trying to own what comes out of my mouth.

I don't necessarily know where the podcast is going to go.

I don't have any overarching goal or end state that I'm trying to get to.

I really just want to sit down and talk to interesting people about interesting topics

and hopefully share a little bit of insight and experience from my previous career

that helps you make some sense of the world around you.

And here we go. First guest is a guy named Ron Ortiz.

No, Ron for about two years.

He is an amazing guy. He's a husband and father first and foremost.

He's been a firefighter for coming up on two decades.

And atop all of that, he is a high level competitive CrossFit athlete

in one of the master's categories.

If you see the guy on the street, he's about, I don't know, seven foot tall ripped,

probably 240 pounds of chiseled steel.

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