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First-Han accounts with your host, Steve Gold.

Welcome to the podcast at interviews active and retired police officers about the most intense, bizarre, and sometimes humorous moments on the jorb.

It is I, old ginger face, here with you as always.

Thank you for finding the show.

Thank you for listening.

I appreciate you. I'm going to bring you right to the guest because not that you even know of. We've, we've attempted to do this three times. We've been having technical difficulties and I don't want to take too much of the guest's time up. So I want to get right to him. excited to have them sent to me by a fan of the show, the great Tom Hamilton, friend from church, also a 31-year

veteran of the Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff's Department. He was on SWAT. He was on HDT,

which is hazardous device team. Sounds like bomb squad type stuff. And dive team member.

Without further ado, let me bring on the great billy perry billy hey hey stephen how you

doing buddy i'm good man thank you for coming on brother honor to have you honored to have you

be here thank you so much i'm i'm humbled actually oh that's that's great man i appreciate that yeah

i mean you know this is like i love these kind of guests where I just someone who's listening to the show or not a lot knows somebody in their, in their, in their real life. And he's like, they know, like, this guy's got this experience. These are the gold nuggets I need to get a hold of, you know, 31 years with Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff's Department, that's, that's not,

that's no, uh, joking around. That, that place is pretty serious. It's pretty hopping. Yeah,

heck yeah. And it's Florida, so you know it's going to be good. Exactly. We definitely have our

sheriff Florida man. It's 842 square miles. Wow. That's the jurisdiction. Yep. And the hazardous device team,

bombswild, like you said, we were responsible for 13 counties. The dive team was

responsible for almost that many counties too. And we, we did a lot with you, Wasi. That's awesome.

And so on the bomb team, were you the guy that was like cut cut the blue wire that guy

i was one of i was one of many probably the worst uh we had we had several we had two teams actually

and i was blessed enough to to be a team leader at the end for one of the teams and uh um super humbled by the

literally i was i was probably the worst I was okay at CQB

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