All right, everybody. Welcome back to the three of seven podcasts. Holy smokes. We got, we have a special guest for you guys today.

I've been so pumped about this episode. No pressure by the way, Chris. What's up, brother? Yeah, special is one descriptor.

We doctor. That's doctor. Don't call him, Chris. We have our first doctor on the podcast, but even, okay, I'm gonna ask you this later,

but even more important to me, we got another team guy on the podcast is so cool to have another team guy in the studio, man.

It's special to me. It is. It's it's taking us a bit to get together. I know we've crossed paths a few times in downtown Rome, Georgia,

because it's such a large place we wouldn't run into each other. But yeah, that was sarcasm. My wife says I'm not a lot of use that.

So, but yeah, Chad and I have crossed paths quite a few times just in passing and here recently at one of the local restaurants and yeah, I've been looking forward to it.

Me too, brother. Me too. And I just noticed it looks like a Toyota dealership out there in in in front of the in front of HQ.

They, Chris, what is up with team guys and Tacomas, man? They last. And spending eight, you know, the truck I would like to get is 80 plus thousand dollars.

I just checked here recently and it's like, I can't bring myself to do it. Maybe if I win the lottery, what do you want? I don't play the lottery.

Do you want the tundra or like a souped up Tacoma? I would just I would want a full-size something that I can tow a trailer with.

Yeah, a bit better, but I mean, I went from an outback being in California, San Diego, where hunting is more or less frowned upon.

And so I was getting into the beach scene, paddle boards, that whole thing. And then when I came out to the East Coast, I started hunting, putting a harvested deer in the back of an outback.

It worked once, but I saw that that might not be the best thing in the future. So when we sold our house in Virginia, my wife finally said, she said, you know what?

Get your truck. So we went out and got and she goes, do you have to get new? And I went, well, they used our 30 and there's no one's 32. I might as well get the new one. Yeah.

So I've got a five year old truck with 50,000 miles on it. So it's, you know, that's what it's for. It's for putting turkey and deer and dead squirrels and things that I get out in the woods and get after.

I just remember you, you know, after team, man, you pull up in front of the team. And it's like just a parking lot full of Tacomas.

I mean, that yeah, it's just a parking lot full of Tacomas. So well, when the bonus is kicked in that kind of upgraded to the full size truck, so it's the honest.

Well, dude, like I say, it's an honor and a pleasure. I got, I want to, I'm really interested in starting at the beginning of your story, Chris, because what year did you join the Navy?

1987, 87. Okay. Where'd you grow up in Virginia Beach? Really? Yeah. Okay. My dad was a mass chief in the SEAL teams. Okay. I'm learning new stuff the whole time. This is, this has given me a little insight, because I was, I'm interested in in your generation, because it's, I think it's so much different than mine in a way, because we were in a war when I joined the Navy.

You guys in the 80s, there wasn't a whole lot going on. There's always something going on, but there wasn't a big conflict. And I just, I just have to, I have to wonder what, what drove you to become a SEAL during that, at that place in time. And also, there were no books about SEALs. There were no movies about nobody knew what this thing was.

Well, I grew up, you know, on weekends where people were doing camping trips and stuff like that. I was at the team area with my dad. He was in UDT 21 and then SDVs. So I grew up crawling around in them, exploring the attic, finding different gear, all of that kind of stuff. So I had an awareness of it.

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