So you got a whole, uh, alpha team now, don't you?

But you have a wealth of knowledge that is beneficial to a lot of people and we can move the needle.

How often do you hear a hunting podcast?

We were talked about this. People relate to this.

What's going on everybody? It's Friday morning and, uh, I have Bill with Spartan Forge on the line.

Bill has a pretty cool background and it's pretty amazing what he offers.

But so I don't screw it up. I'm going to let him take it from there. What's going on, Bill?

Hey, man. How are you? Good to talk to you.

I'm good. I'm good. I think with the, uh, the Spartan Forge thing, people, including myself,

when I first heard of it, get confused. He is not making knives. Uh, Bill, tell everybody,

tell everybody about Spartan Forge, your background. You know, what you do, that kind of stuff.

Yeah. Uh, so I was in the military for 21 years. I just retired. Uh, it'll be a, it was a year ago in November.

And, uh, while I was in the military, I worked in various types of, uh, intelligence disciplines,

human intelligence, signals intelligence. I did like cyber on that operation stuff.

Offensive cyber, think of it as like ethical hacking. Um, I did it mostly in support.

My first 10 years was mostly in support of like what you'd call like the green army.

Uh, and then my last 11 years was mostly in support of like the special operations community.

Um, and a lot of that time was spent, uh, developing the tools and then kind of coming back,

testing, recating, refitting, and then going back out and, and, and working in, you know,

live operations with these tools again, doing support to various organizations.

And, um, a couple of those years, I was doing straight development and straight work with like,

I worked with DARPA for two years. Um, and other programmatic offices that were trying to

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