Jake

But at the end of the day, it's all just a TBI to me.

Because I grew up going to church, I've explored other religions, and I never got within a mile of anything like this.

It's all under one umbrella.

So they said that I had, you know, from normal concussions and stuff like that, people who play football, people who box, and then people who do our job, when you get concussions and you get knocked out, you're naturally going to have some issues.

And so I'm sitting there wrapped in it.

And then all of a sudden this fight breaks out in front of me and I never felt in danger or anything, but I could just see my mind, how it was behaving.

We're seeing that in the NFL with CTE.

And the brain clinic that I went to was actually for us.

And they told us before we started that,

It was for special operators and also ex-NFL players.

If you want a second hit, you need to, you know, if you want a second, third, fourth hit, whatever it is, you need to make sure that it's you that wants it and not your ego.

So it was great that we were there together.

So they said that that's possible.

But then also because of the inherent nature of our job,

we have these low-grade blast waves that come out of the ammo.

Because, you know, this medicine is sentient as well.

And if you abuse it, it will kick you out or show you something you don't want to see.

And every time a round goes off, and again, we're shooting way more of these than we can count, that wave is going through your brain and it's doing some damage with every single round.

And so...

I'm sitting there and this fight breaks out in front of me.