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Hey, what's going on? This is Rad and I have a special edition of Soft Rep Radio today. As always, I bring you the hits. I got the people who are making things happen and today I have Daryl Fanon with me who is running a production company for film and television, right? Is that correct?

Yeah, man. We're technically more than a production company, but we can get into that. Yeah, for sure.

Well, and also your army veteran served in the United States Army. I believe the military occupation specialty also known as an MOS is called a 68 whiskey. Is that right?

That's right, man. That's it. Yeah, medics. Let's go.

Before you jump into your history, I heard a story that you never talked down to a medic because one day your ass will be looking up at one. Is that right?

That's right. That's right. That's right. I mean, look, thankfully, I'm always kind to the guys who talk shit to me because you know, that's who I am. So it would only be light torture, whatever.

Rem and that thing down their nasal passageway, gently.

Exactly. There's a fair and geo airways like, you know, you needed to hook up because you drank too much. Maybe you wouldn't get a full back. You know, that kind of fit.

Now, how long did you do that in the military for?

So I joined at 17 years old. I was pretty young when I joined and I was in for nine years. So I was around for a minute.

I grew up rural Tennessee joined the military to kind of find my bearings. It was actually a really crazy story. I don't know if can I jump into my back story?

Tell me, yeah, it's what made you join the militaries or something like before this.

Yeah. So basically, born into a hyper conservative sect of Christianity, it was actually like a cult. So I wasn't allowed to listen to music. You know, we were talking about rockstein all that earlier.

There definitely wasn't allowed to listen to music. It wasn't allowed to go to the movies, couldn't own a TV, couldn't wear shorts, play sports.

You know, those kind of normal things. So at 17, I realized like, oh no, I believe a bunch of crazy shit. I got to figure out my life.

And so I joined the army to kind of do that. And of course, I had never even been cursed at, right?

So I joined the army at 17 years old as this kid who grew up like under a rock, extremely sheltered. And it was insane.

As you can imagine going from like super shelter to the US military, it was wild.

You know, I can understand this is our forced gut moment right here. It's like, do you even know what it's like to not have legs? He's like, I do.

I do. I was raised Mormon my whole life. You couldn't.

Oh, yeah, not only did they have to adhere to strict guidelines, they had additional guidelines that were in place on top of those.

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