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All right, let's get started. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back again to the Flip Lifestyle podcast. Shane Sam's coming to you live here again this week to talk to another amazing member of the Flip Lifestyle community. And today, my guest is the one, the only Stephen Morris. What's up, Stephen? How you doing, buddy? What's going on? My brother, I am so excited to be here, man. I was telling you earlier, I am caffeinated, I am sugared, and I am ready to rock and roll, bro. That's amazing, dude. I have no caffeine because I, for some stupid reason, decided to cut caffeine for a couple weeks. I do this every once in a while. So I remember what it's like to be a human. You know what I'm saying? But like I'm going to feed off of your caffeinated energy. And you kick the sugar. I'll make sure there's no sugar. I won't sugar coat anything while we're talking today, man. We just got off a Q&A guys. So we are high as a kite.. Man, we were at a Flip Lifestyle Q&A, and we've been having fun for over an hour. And then we were sitting here talking for like 18 minutes. And I said, Stephen, we haven't even hit record yet. We got to do something, man. We need to stop talking. So let's catch everybody else up with what we've been talking about the past little bit, Steven. Tell us a little bit about your background before you found flipped lifestyle and tell us about your online business.

Yeah, Stephen. Tell us a little bit about your background before you found flipped lifestyle and tell us about your online business. Yeah, man. So in 2001, August 17th,

2001, I joined the Army. And we all know what happened three weeks later. And so my life became just a list of deployments and combat and pretty much everything else.

And I did it for 16 years until the Army finally told me it's time to separate.

Thank you for your service, bro.

That's the only reason guys like us get to podcast eventually, man.

So appreciate you, brother.

Yeah, 100% man.

And I loved what I did.

I loved the Army.

And in 2000, I got shot actually in 2013,

which was all pretty much signed, ultimately signed the, the, my death warrant for my military

service. So, you know, I drew it out another four years, basically.

Thank God. It didn't sign your actual death warrant.

Bro, it was close. I'm glad you're alive.

Okay. So they're like, thank, they got it. You came back and it was just like it ended your career. I don't want anybody to think I'm interviewing the ghost of Stephen Morris because you said it was your death warrant. I got shot and then my death warrant got signed. I'm like, Are you a ghost?

Like, what is happening, bro?

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