I really want to know what inspired you to start the podcast.

Yeah. I want to get to that.

In my second deployment, I'm in this war zone, and I'm just thinking to myself, like,

I don't know if people in America understand that this is what it's like.

When you're gone this often and what it does to families,

and I hadn't deployed many times like you have, but I've been gone enough to appreciate it.

And this is 2016, 2017, where podcasts are picking up.

And I was like, what am I going to do?

If I could sit down and talk to people like this and share their stories so someone understood what it was like,

the actual pain that goes into it, not the movies, but like all this time where you're alone

and you're missing all these events and you're almost dying and you're watching friends die.

That's what I want to do. That's where the podcast came from. Like I have a very genuine curiosity

as I interview people,

but I have tremendous respect for guys like you who are on the ground, being in the air,

watching you guys do what you did. I never had to go kicking a door. I didn't have to get in the

stack. I didn't have to breach for days on end. So that it is coming from a place of genuine curiosity and admiration as we're doing

these interviews. I mean for me I wanted to help people and I am positive we have and I hope

that people hear those and it makes them stick around another day somehow. I think there's so much

is I don't think that people join the military for a parking spot

at Home Depot, right?

You know, like, I'm not, that's not why, you know, men and women do that.

You know, I think that there is this greater call to service.

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