Scott Payne

And, uh, but as I grew up and, you know, I became a cop uniform first.

And like I said, vice and narcotics, uh,

I just, if I look back, I guess I've always kind of had that servant's heart.

Because it's a calling, right?

I mean, you're not doing it for the money.

That's for sure.

You're not doing it for notoriety.

But it's a calling.

So that shepherd's mentality, that servant's heart, bully a bully's kind of thing.

Yeah.

And then once I became a vice narcotics investigator at the sheriff's office, I went to the state office.

undercover school and got certified.

And once I started doing them and I had the bug, I just, I mean, my mentor was, uh, one of my men, one of my many mentors was Gary Ward at the Greenville County Sheriff's office in South Carolina.

And he, uh, I mean, hell, he was the world's strongest man in the late eighties.

Really?

Nobody could beat him in squat bench and deadlift.

And he was a former Marine.

Wow.

And, uh, he had done some undercover and, uh, biker clubs and stuff.

And man, I just, I was so fascinated.