Jon Ossoff

No, I was a mathlete in high school.

I was not...

Anything like this, but I decided to join the Marine Corps.

The limit does not exist.

Yeah, right.

I decided to join the Marine Corps out of high school.

I graduated high school on a Friday.

I went to boot camp on a Monday, but I also went to college at the same time.

Marine Corps does not have an ROTC program, so it was either be an officer or enlisted in the reserves.

That's what I chose, the latter.

I was with Hotel Battery 314, 4th Mardiv out of Richmond, Virginia for the entire time, which was an artillery unit.

And this was 98 to 04.

And then I had watched MMA coming up as, you know, at 94 as an American teenager, just like,

You know, amazed at what had happened and then kind of got back into it after the Marine Corps had kind of well, I mean, during that time, but like really picked it up after the Marine Corps time had ended.

And this was right when in 2005, the ultimate fighter, the reality show on Spike TV had hit and it just sent the sport into another stratosphere.

And I never really intended, to be honest, to do any of this.

it just, I caught a wave at a really strange moment in time.

I was actually doing, um, you know, political messaging and speech work in DC prior to that.

Um, and I got, I hate, uh, I'll tell you off the air.

I actually don't even want to say on the air.