All right. All right. Um, we live, Blake. Oh, yeah. Okay. All right, everybody. Welcome back to the three of seven podcasts. I know this is a odd time and odd day, odd hour. You guys aren't used to seeing us here on a Tuesday.

Morning, it is Tuesday, right? Yeah, it is Tuesday, giving Tuesday, giving Tuesday, but we have a great opportunity today that has been offered up to us by a, well, I'm just going to call him a friend and a brother and a mentor of of mine.

He came into my life. What's it been about a year ago, being January of this year, pull that mic, pull that mic, run up to you, being January, January this year, January. Okay. So yeah, almost a year ago. I met being for the first time at, uh, at the proving grounds and didn't have any idea who he was. What kind of man he was. I had no idea. He was just somebody else that was there to train.

Right. And then being came up to me at the end of the proving grounds and, and just, um, shared some words with me that were, I guess on his heart, however you want to say it, and it was very encouraging and life giving and, and it was a really cool experience.

And from that point forward, I mean, I realized, okay, this is a special dude. And I actually began to realize that as I heard you during the AARs throughout the course of the proving grounds mission, right? I was listening to the, you know, you were giving us a little bit of your story, you know, during the AARs and, and just the way you spoke and yeah, man.

And so from that point, praise the Lord, we've been in, you know, we've been, been in contact with one another. We've trained together multiple other times and, and, um,

dude, everything about you is just, uh, I don't know. It inspires me. And, uh, everything about you.

I don't know. I look up to you. You know what I mean? I really do. I look up to you as a, as a, as a, a man of God, um, as a, you know, a husband, as a, all the things that you've, you've shared with me about your life. I'm like, it gives me something to aspire to, uh,

I don't know, not, maybe not to be, but to, to get better, right? So being came all the way from dag on Arkansas to sit down and have a conversation with who the crap lives in Arkansas, man.

Everybody that's hiding, brother, but it's no good. You don't want to go there. All right. Nobody needs good Arkansas. All know, you don't need to say that. You don't need to reveal the location.

Man, I have, I have to actually have some really fond memories of Arkansas. Yeah, how come that? So that is where we used to do land warfare training in the Navy. We did that in Arkansas.

And, um, it was, I guess the reason I taught land warfare for a little while. And of course, I went out there every, for every plea pre deployment workup. We went to Arkansas to do land warfare. And then I taught out there for about a year.

And, uh, it was the best deer hunting of anywhere that I've ever been. Well, especially where you hunt. Yeah, I mean, we were hunt, we were hunting in places that we weren't really supposed to be hunting, but we had access to because we were who we were.

And, uh, I have a lot of fond memories of Arkansas. So, um, yeah, we don't call it hunting. We call it sniping.

Okay. They just stand out there. Yeah. Yeah. No doubt, man. That's a beautiful state. So thank you for coming, me. No, thank you for the kind words as well. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

So, dude, you want to, you're going to run a hundred miles.

I don't know if I'm going to run the whole time. I mean, there'll be some walking in there, some hiking in there. Yeah, some crawling maybe.

I, you know what? I know a red hat too. That's kind of wrong with me. I've been meaning to tell you, mean, I was on what did you got here? I wouldn't recommend doing that.

We're doing a hundred miles. Doing a hundred miles. You don't recommend it. You have it. I mean, mean, do you, do you have any idea how hard it is to run a hundred miles? Of course not.

Did you, did you have any idea how hard it was going to be to be married?

Uh, no. No, did you have any idea? Tech guy? How hard it would be to become a father? No. It's the same thing, man. I have no idea. And it's probably better that I don't know. That's how I see it. So I don't know. So what?

So what? A hundred miles, man. How do you mean? I'm 55 55. It's like that little placard. You got behind you, right? The man in the arena. Isn't that what that's all about?

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