Andy Stumpf

Which unfortunately, especially in the community that I come from, those two things are pretty often tied, not always, but often tied to alcohol in that decision as well.

And the stats are pretty well back about, you know, the alcohol being, you could speak to this, and you know, the central nervous system, depressant.

It's not like, yay, I'm feeling the best I've ever felt.

It generally will spiral you in the other direction.

But when I look at Dave, he was and is to this day, what I would consider to be the standard for a team guy.

And what I loved about him so much is that not only did he expect that standard from other people, but he held in himself.

And actually more than that, I think I would say he held himself to a higher standard

then he would hold other people too.

If you met his standard, you were going to get two thumbs up.

Probably not a pat on the back, but you were going to get two thumbs up and you were going to know you did a good job.

If you did not meet his standard, which I tested many times, you were very specifically told where you're deficient in life and as a human being.

And he, God, he had a tongue like a whip.

He was awesome.

And, uh,

I think at the end, and this is me speaking for him a little bit, I think he arrived at a place where he couldn't live with the reality that he couldn't hold himself to the standard that he had expected from other people, and I think it destroyed him.

But I don't know if he shared that with anybody.

I don't think so.

Some of the last people that he spoke with knew that he was –

struggling for sure.

He had an alcohol addiction issue for sure.