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patch. co-pong code WLS 10 my guest today is Mike Pius of Cobalt Kinetics. What's up man?

What's going on bro? Not too much, just having fun hanging out.

Let's see, where do we even start? First of all, just tell me a little bit about yourself.

Like how did you come to the gun world

the gun world thing kind of came about from I did 10 years in the army

transitioned out I with the medical, was an X-ray tech, an EMT was on an

ambulance. Got my nursing license, was working in the ER as a nurse, and over almost 19, 20 years things changed and I was just at that point of

getting burnt out. You know at the end of the or around the beginning of the

Obama error and towards the end health care took this weird turn and it was all about of the

of the Obama error and towards the end health care took this weird turn and it was all about cover your ass you know more

emphasis was done on paperwork and keeping yourself out of trouble yeah so the

focus left medical care and And I was just tired. I was working on my nurse

practitioners and my wife only like, you know, you need to do something else. You're getting

burned out and I knew I was. So at the time it was either go to the oil

filled or get into gunsmithing. Oil filled dropped out. Game of gunsmiths.

Nice. That's pretty awesome. You served for quite a while as well right

10 years 10 years total active and did reserves I was a medic didn't do any I did some stuff, but I wasn't a cool guy.

Had some interesting opportunities.

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