Gary Brecka

It was, it was crazy.

Um, but

Got an active duty job, moved up to Des Moines, the capital.

You know, was making, I made E-5 sergeant, was making probably, you know, four grand a month.

Got married very young, probably 22, 23.

Mm-hmm.

to someone who was 19, 20.

And it was a great marriage, but we were babies.

And I was still a very shitty person.

And, you know, that, you know, that led me to when I moved to Austin, you know, there's more I'll cover in the middle.

But, you know, went through a divorce, moved to Austin.

But what got me into the ultra sport was Marcus, my little brother in 2021, had two friends that were murdered.

and he was marcus was 16 um and then those two boys the two brothers were seven were 16 and 18 they were brothers yeah and they were his best friends um and and and to to kind of just be completely transparent and tell you the bond that they had um my little brother's mixed um in his dark like dark skin and we lived in

in rural Iowa, right?

Where that is not that he was the only dark kid in this town.

And these two kids, I have their names tattooed right here, Devante and Malachi, they moved into town and they were also mixed.

And so there was a bond between them because, you know, there was a lot of racism towards them and hatred.

And they bonded because they were all, you know, when they became friends, they were

I don't know, seven, eight, nine years old.

And then they grew up together.