Nate Pontius

You got to like find that new thing to become the best version of yourself.

And whenever guys can't find that, they just, and I did that.

I slipped into just being drunk enough to where my ears would be low enough that I didn't really have any ambitions, but I was also just kind of numb to everything.

until I found something to go all in on.

A lot of that... Like I said, there are some great things that you can take from the military.

I think... I think that a lot of that comes from how the Marine Corps rewired my brain.

I'm just like...

I'm a creature of habit.

I mean, you think about going through basic training and bootcamp, it's like you go from being this like slow, lackadaisical, like,

just human and they turn you into this like accelerated creature of like violence and habit and routine and a lot of that is just really kind of stuck for me and I've tried to figure out ways to harness it and use it in a positive because there have been times that you know

It has become a negative, like being too, like forcing everything, like trying to be too structured or too rigid.

It's like, you got to find that balance.

Yeah.

Man, I don't think so.

As crazy as it sounds, I've never...

I've spent a lot of time wondering and thinking about this about myself.

I'm just not really like a brotherhood type of guy.

Those were not really the things that I miss most about the Marine Corps.

Yeah, obviously, we had some tight bonds and going through all those austere conditions and tough times.

We were very close and we had each other's back.