Hey guys, welcome to the podcast to interviews active and retired police officers, but they're

most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job.

I am Steve Gould, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, good to have you here, gonna be a

great episode.

I have a deputy sheriff from NorCal, Northern California.

He has done patrol, he's acted as a bay lift and he's also been on their transport team.

So bay lift and transport are two things I never really talked about on this podcast.

I want to pick his brain about that.

And another really interesting thing about this guest is he essentially had to do the

police academy twice.

I don't know if you've been to police academy or not or how much you know about it, but

it is a huge life event.

It's super stressful.

When you're in it, it's very stressful and everything rides on it.

If you fail, please academy, your career as you know it as a police officer is over for

the time being at least and it's terrifying.

After you graduate, often police officers kind of speak very lightly about police academy

and joke about the good times and we kind of forget about how just how intense it is and

how good it felt to graduate from like a five or six month long paramilitary police academy.

So our guest here, Thomas, he is on the job currently so we're just gonna go by Thomas.

He failed academy at week number 18 of 20, which is brutal.

But he persevered, he read the entire academy and became a police officer, which I think

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