American Hero's: Air Force Veteran Danielle Young

Welcome to the studio. Air Force veteran Danny Young. Hello, appreciate you taking time out of your day to come come speak with us. I think we're going to enjoy this immensely. So first of all, before you joined the Air Force, where'd you call home? Nebraska? Good old Nebraska? What part of Nebraska in the midwest, right in the middle around grend Island, Hastings, Carney, the Tri city area. A lot of tornadoes, So where would that be in relation? I grew up My best friend was from Nebraska. So where Scott's Bluff? Where is that in relation? Anywhere near it? Yes? Okay, pretty close. Scott's Bluff is is a distance away, but yeah, we've been there a couple of times, but I don't know the exact cause I never drove, so like I'm one of those that I got to drive there to figure out how to get there, down the road to the right, past the other tree. Yeah, one of those things. But yeah, around Grand Allan Casey's Carney area. Had my first boyfriend in Carney, Nebraska, so that was kind of fun and he wanted to marry me, and it just was interesting. But he won the Army and I went there force, and I was like, Okay, well sorry, I can't do that. He asked me on my graduation date to marry him. He was my high school sweetheart. So we've got a proposal story already, Trent. Yeah, that went the wrong Well, it might have went the right way for you. It was. I still liked him. Mike's Graskin's Wow, So I still like him. He's but he's married and has like Azilian children. So his mother said, uh so, what was maybe a motivation? Why why go into the military? I had blue eyes. I love our country, man. I just I think it is amazing what people can do when they come together and put their differences aside and work together for the common good and you know, serve our flag. And I've just been very patriotic ever since I've been a little girl, going to rodeos. And there's one coming up here in Lynchburg and on my birthday, and so we already have tickets. We're already going there and see Jacob Corwin and stuff, and it's just really exciting to be a part of that kind of situation. And we always saluted the flag and we didn't kneel or whatever. You know what I'm saying all that that's been going on in disrespect, and we always grew up. You know, my dad was a highway patrolman. Well, actually my uncle was a highway patrolman. That dad was a small town cop in Elgin and Ewing, Nebraska. He was also in the military, So I followed in my dad's footsteps. And literally they used to make a joke that if you walked in the boots of your former family, you were gonna you were predestined to go into the military. And I found that amazingly cool. Of all the stories I've listened to other veterans, they've done that too, whether it be the mother, the father, mother and father now going into the military. So I just I've had a lot of really good experiences going into the military. I had a really rough childhood, but you know, I looked forward to going in serving our country and doing my job to the best of my ability for what I was given, and I gave it my all, you know. So we worked a lot of shifts. Back in ninety three to ninety six just to ask, yeah, go ahead, what made you choose Air Force? I mean, was it the recruiter, was it their uniform, was it the history of that or versus the Army, the Navy, the Air Force. The Marines choose Air Force. Blue eyes just like cold Yep. She goes, Honey, you're gonna look really sharp in your uniform. I want you to go in the Air Force, and that it's more difficult to get in the Air Force and it is in the Army because they're just grunts. And I'm like, okay, Mom, I'm yes. Dad. He's like, I don't care which bunch you go in, just go in and serve your country and and be proud. And I'm proud, very cool, proud. When you when you got to boot camp? Where was that San Antonio, Texas? Okay? Was that were you? Did you prepare yourself mentally or were you prepared for it? No, not at all. I was like, the first thing I remember is being a rainbow, you know, different colors, you know, and all different colors and everything. And they stripped us down to like camouflage and they're like yelling in my face or like we'll get my basic training, their mentals. You know, I'm like, great, you know what I get into here? You know, they came like one inch away from the Bill of my cap and we're yelling at me, and I'm like, what do I do? What do I do? You know, No, I wasn't prepared. I was not prepared for what I I was about to experience. So after basic training, yes, where do you? Where do you end up? After that basics training? I went to tech school in Bloxi, Mississippi. So that was kind of fun. That was interesting. I got massive migraine headaches and stuff there, so started some of my traumatic events and stuff that you know, kind of transpired over at the time. But Bloxi was fun, it was interesting. It was Marti Gras. I'm nineteen ninety four, so they allowed us to they allowed us to wear the beads of Marti Gras on the outside of our uniform, a lot of rags, and I was like, that's not right, we can't do that, you know. I was so politically correct, and I just really respected the uniform and I always look good. I always got great performance evaluation stuff like that, and just because I cared about it, you know what I'm saying. Oh yeah, I wanted to be a good example of what it looks like to be an airman, you know, or whatever. So that was pretty fun. So what at tech school? What are you learning that? Wow, that's a good question. Glad you ass that. I'm surprised. So, yeah, I didn't learn much. No, I'm joking. I learned a lot, volumes and volumes of books just stacked all the way up above my bunk in Tech School and Blossissippi, Mississippi. Let's see, it was Air Force Regulations manuals and instructions fr FM and fi's and so we had to memorize all the all the books and parts of it. You know, Liker thirty nine eleven is airman assignments. I still remember that. We had to remember parts of it. We had to remember part of it. All the master sergeant and tech sergeants and everybody else failed to tests because we had to memorize a lot of it and then kick it back and take a computer test. Close booked. No, you could not look in the rags to see what they were and what they were about. So I got cross trained at the convenience. So the military, we all know how that fells. So what they don't know and they probably figured out I don't know how to do fractions were squat. They didn't teach us that in country school. I've made it to fifty years old, have no clue, and I'm in contracting. Just use this whole numbers, the whole enough, close. Enough for how ull it up? That's right. Yeah, So at that point you said, what year is that? Ninety four ninety three into ninety. Four forty four. Okay, so desert storm is going on. The desert shill desert storm. Yes, sir, we don't hear much about that. It's crazy because we grew up about it. Yeah, we don't hear about it now. It's like the Silent Vietnam, only earlier. You know what I'm saying. They skip. I'm like, oh wait a minute, you forgot about us were here, you know what I'm saying. So when you were, you were you thinking you're gonna end up in combat somewhere or in your training they kind of knew what you didn't know. You know. At that point, you're just. I'm just being obedient as a soldier. I was doing anything and everything that I was told to do, from whatever I mean, doing the latrine queen or whatever the whatever they told me to do my sergeants told me to do. I would be obedient, and I would do that, no questions asked. I just just did it. That's just the way I was as a as a child. You know. I didn't I didn't disrespect them or nothing. I just I appreciated what they were doing for our country. And we were serving the same team, you know, whether you were army or Navy, or Air Force or Marines or coast Guard or Space force, now where we were all working as a team, as a unit, as a as a company, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, So that was. Like so cool to be able to experience that. And the diversity. Oh my goodness. If you got to see my picture of my basic training, we had so many different types of women. It was fun in the showers and I was like going, oh my goodness. It was a little too much for me, but uh, you know what, I got over it. And when you get called out and then you you have to go to pt right away, you get a thirty second shower and then you're out. I mean it was like how to go, you know. And so and then I was a chowerrunner in basic training. We forgot about that. So I was a chower runner in basic training, and I was considered Ermann Smiley because I'm always smiling, sure, and I don't care what I went through. We like looking at him, and I wanted to laugh at him because I was like, are you serious? You know, I didn't know if they were serious or if they were playing. And so they're like, from now on, you're Erman Smiley. And so that's my nickname from basic training, and I've carried it all the way through. So even on the back of my cell phone it's Erman Smiley. I'm the girl Smiley. So I love the military. I loved what it was about. I had some really unique experiences in there that that were traumatic. But other than that, I think we're in tech school. Is that like in an air wing division? Is it? What kind of mys? What kind of duty is it? Well, I started out. I don't remember my career field as far as information management is concerned, because I never graduated to get my three m O three one H three m O three one, I believe is what it was. When I was a cook, I was conveniently transferred to the place where I don't know fractions remember that, So I was cross trained into a cook and I'm like, going, I'm sitting there taking tests, I'm like I can take a test, but that I mean when I go to try to master all together and scoop potatoes and crack eggs and whatever, and I can do three eggs with one hand. That's pretty impressive for a girl. I got good fluctuation. So, but we had a lot of really cool stories anywhere, from Airman Baker putting the whole egg shell in the it called for a whole egg, he put. The whole entire. Egg, yeah, literally, And so it was funny because we joke or like when it comes to putting a whole egg in there, Airman Baker, don't do that, just put the egg white and the yolk. And how ironic did you have a cook named Baker. Baker putting in the egg in the bakery? Right? And that's funny because we had Airman Rudolph And it was during Christmas time when I went in and yes she did. She face planted boom right down on the right, down on the patio, and she come up with a scratched nose. We felt so bad for her. She did not have a season or anything, so thank you Lord, but she had everything else going on with her. She just face planted on there come up with a bright red nose. And it was right at Christmas time. So we call her Erman Rudolph. Wow. Yeah and so and then I was Airmand Salts back then, not young. I'm merry now. So a second marriage, I went through a divorce. It was really bad. But this is a long story. But we had Sergeant Master Sergeant Peppers as my commander. He was an African American with Jerry White, with Jerry curls real tight, you know, and real fro like. And I'm Airman Salts. So we had Airman Salts and Sergeant Peppers. All the cooks had cool stories. We had major, minor and minor major. We had everything. It was crazy, it was fun. It was a trip. How long did you do that? Well? I was in the Air Force for two years and months and eight days exactly. I got out on August Say at the nineteen ninety six, at four point thirty in the afternoon on a Monday. It was very traumatic. I did not know how to become non military, you know what I'm saying. I was used to people telling me what to do, what not to do, when to do it, how much to do it, and all that. You know what I'm saying everybody told me my my marching orders, and so that was confusing to me. I didn't know how to sink or swim or survive in the in the secular. Was there a fault to stay in? Yeah, but I had a trauma happen in the military, and it was pretty rough, and that's why I had PTSD. And so I had an experience in there that was pretty rough and probably a lot of people can identify it with it, you know, as being a female, you can kind of get where I'm going there, and so it was pretty scary. It was very traumatic, and so I thought, you know, I'm like, I'm going to stay in. I'm gonna stay in. I'm going to stay in. But I made a base inspector General report on the gentleman and my supervisor that were that were harassing me because I was cute, by the way, I was a fox is what I was. So, Yeah, I had an eight pack. I was like, Cindy Crawford is what I was told. So, but now I'm not and so but God is so good, So like, it doesn't matter what you look like. It's a matter of your heart and your attitude. And so that's what I've really started focusing on you know, it's not about what you look like, it's it's your heart and your attitude and how you know your attitude. Your attitude determines your altitude, and so I really focus on that now. Since you went through that traumatic experience. So you think the military has learned from any of its mistake. Yes, I do. I'm trying to believe that. When I went to the review or they when they discharged me from the military on August eighth, nineteen ninety six, they they kept me away from the base, you know what I'm saying for for a length of time. I think it was like a year or something. I don't remember exactly, because I was just freaking out, trying to survive, trying to make ends meet financially. Sure, I didn't know how to get a job. Nobody taught me how to do that. The military was my job, that was what I was dedicated to do. So they didn't do any what do you call that now, like entry like when you exit the. Military orientation, yeahdation, I don't want to talk about. Yeah, So they never did anything the exit orientation on how to survive, how to do a checkbook, how to do, you know, how to go to work or how to bring in the income and what to do with it or anything like that. They didn't train us on any of that. Neither did my parents because they didn't know. So I'm like going, Hey, what do I do? So I try to get a job, and I couldn't keep it job out of the military, one thing right after the other after the other. I've been technically homeless three different times on people's couches in their basements, and there are homes of on the couches. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, but I'm telling you if you look at me now, you wouldn't know that though. Sure, but that's just been my history, you know what I'm saying. I've come from tragedy to triumph. Yeah. And that's a really cool resilient nature that I have that I don't come up with on my own. Do you know what I'm saying. No, I'm sure there's a person out there or people out there that listen that hear this, and that's you know, that's part of your story that's important. Is Yeah, that is you know, And that's why I was curious if the military if you think that because you obviously hear stories within the military, and you just wonder if the military has changed some of its ways or if some of it is still bad or good or you know, And so I am curious. So you get out, yeah, struggling to make it. Yes, you know, in the real world if you want to call it that, outside of the structure. And so, is there a point there where a light bulb goes off, or is there someone there that helps in this journey or is this all on your shoulders? At this point it was all on my shoulders, unfortunately, and I got to speak to what I'm doing now currently. I just finished up my suicide prevention training and orientations and stuff. I'm with you. I i c c I International Christian Counseling Institute, and so I'm actually a mental health and stress and TRAUMACARE coach. So I'm working on helping other women, preferably women because I'm a woman, deal with their military sexual trauma or whatever their traumas might be, or addictions stuff like that. If you're in prison, I can I can help you with prison ministry. You on the right track, you know, moving forward? Is my organization that I'm trying to do a nonprofit with General D's out here in Alta Vista and it's called Women Moving Forward WMF, and so that's really a cool opportunity to get that out there, get them going in the right track. I think that right now. Mentorship is a very key thing for me. Miss June Hunt, eighty six years old, is through Hope International or Hope for the Heart International, and she's out of Dallas, Texas, Plano, Texas actually, and so she's just been a really good instrument for me to learn and glean from and learn and how to prepare and get ready for ministry. So this is a big, a big new area in my life. And I'm really grateful to General D's and Miss Kathleen D's out here at Alta Vista for the last three years. They've really helped me grow and change and teach me how to be a leader, you know. And I'm like, I'm not really a I don't think I'm a really good leader, but they see it in me, and I'm like, help, you know what I'm saying, how do you go? You had mentioned you were homeless, you know, maybe three times in life on the way. How do you go from I guess you were stationed, you said Biloxi, Mississippi, and then was it Omaha? Were you? Yes, a race So that was from our discussion beforehand that you were there too. How do you go from there to land in Lynchburg? What's what's that? What's transition? Fill in that gap? Ye in, good question. Let me see. So you're going from Omaha to let's see, I got married out of Omaha to my first husband, David. I won't say his last name on the air because I don't want to give him any credit, but just saying, just saying, is. This period during some of your struggles. Yes, okay, yes, oh yeah, because of because of my MST survivor's skills and stuff. Like when we were going to have our honeymoon, I told him, I'm like, man, I can't do this, and like I was traumatized in the military, and I told him what that word was, the R word, and you know, I told him, I'm like, I can't do this right now, I just can't, you know, And like he got really mad and frustrated and want to kill the MF if you know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying. So like that's what his attitude was so he got kicked out of the military and blamed me for getting him out because of his attitude. And so we stayed married for about three years, and we moved to Pennsylvania and I accepted Christ after about two or three years. I had his income a little bit, he worked off and on, but primarily I was alone a lot. And that was a very big struggle with the suicide and stuff. When you're in those moments of being alone, is that when you found therapy in Christ? Is that what ended up bringing you to Christ? Yes. The divorce was Christmas even, nineteen ninety nine, and so it took about a year. I went back to Nebraska and I went back to where my family's from. I went back to Nebraska and stayed with my mom and dad out at the lake, and they let me stay there for a little bit while I went through the divorce from my first husband, Dave. And I can promise you that it was a very challenging time. Oh sure. I mean he left completely committed adultery. Left was worshiping Satan into duns and dragons into tomb raider I mean, and poorn and everything. I mean. This man was a piece of work, and people are like, how do you go from I'm here in Trent over here and go how do you go from here to hear? I'm like, I honestly don't know. I literally remember sitting at the parade field one time with a knife to my wrist, and I'm telling you, I did not know what to do. I did not did not know what to do. I didn't know why I was having what I was feeling after the trauma, you know what I'm saying, right after it. And I was told that. I was told by the security officers while I was sitting at the parade field at offit. Are you fine? I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to cause any more problems and I'm good. What they didn't know is what I was struggling with on the inside. I think that's why I got into mental health and stress and trauma coaching is because I've dealt with that. I've been there, I've done that, and I don't want to go back, and I don't want anybody else to have to go through it alone. To somebody who is struggling like you were, you you found it difficult because there you didn't feel like there was anybody there wasn't. So how do you help someone today who has those same feeling? What did they do? How do they know there's people out there to help. Them, because you got to show them that you care. You have to build a relationship with them. I have to ask questions like you guys are doing with me. This is what my job is going to be in the future. I already know that is. Be like, Okay, so I hear you, I hear your heart, I hear your going through this right now here. Let me tell you what's next. Okay, this is what you need to do. You need to see your primary doctor. You need to go to you know, your physician and talk to them and tell them, you know what, I'm going through depression, I'm going through anxiety. I'm having bipolar issues. You know. They're like, what's that? You know? I haven't been asked that many so many times for women. I don't know if it's a military thing, but they seem to have that a lot. And so I'm like, so, what's your struggle, what's going on with you? And get to know them and put myself in their shoes for a little bit and see how uncomfortable that feels. For a mile in your maccuslin kind of thing. So that's kind of what I that's kind of what I want to do is get to know them, you know what I'm saying, and find out about them and get to know them, know their name, you know what I'm saying, Like Trent and Brian, Matt, Me and Emma and Caitlin. That's what it's all about, is building up relationships and getting to know people and letting them know they're not alone. They're not alone. There's somebody out there that cares. And that's me, Danielle J Young. You know what I'm saying. Now, I'm Danielle J. Young, but I've had many different names, but I'm I'm that Now. You can feel the passion. I mean obviously it is. And do you get you know when you're because you're going through this journey, Yes, sir. Do you feel like it's I don't want to use the word therapeutic because that's not the right word hopeful, but yeah, do you find it helpful that man? This is this is helping me just as much as it's. Helping absolutely, it is more of a blessing to me to get to know these people and what they've been through than anything that I've been through. You know what I'm saying, Mine is like that big when it's compared to what they've been through. I mean, these people have been through like Vietnam veterans and stuff. My gotness. I'm like, dude, if they did that, I would be like right up on their behind, you know what I'm saying. I just fight for the right to party. But yeah, that's kind of where I'm at. And I think the way to look at it is you served our country. Yes, you're still serving our country. I'm still serving it exactly. It's all right. Tell me, we're talking to Danielle Young, air Force veteran. You're listening to life, liberty, happiness. So one of the things that I want to kind of touch on here is your faith in this process. So obviously you're you're here to let people know that there is help out here, you can get help, don't be alone, reach out. Yes, but how is faith driven a lot of these things in your life? Let me tell you what, Without my faith, I'd be dead. I mean, that's that's how serious it got. I mean, it just it's and I've had a couple of episodes over the course of years, especially like when I went through the divorce that was very lonely. Not alone, but lonely. I mean, you can be in a room of people like this and still fill alone on the inside. It just it just happens, you know what I'm saying. It's it's really your mindset, it's your mentality, it's what you're going through, you know what I'm saying, the struggles that you have on the inside. And I think that the soul is so important, and I think we're missing the soul issues. And that's why on my book his soul scars smoothing, because I have so many scars from a head to toe, you know, from different abuses and stuff and near death at two and a half. I'm just telling you, I don't know why or how I got to be resilient, but it is a God thing, and He's protected me and He's provided for me. And why I don't understand, maybe just because I want to get back to other people, you know, something that has not been given to them, and that is freedom, and that's love, and I love the people. One of the things that I've always found difficult in my own faith is how to portray it to the non believer that you quite understand, like there are a lot of people that you can reach. But oftentimes, as a Christian, people speak, but people who are non believers, they just don't know what you're really talking about. So what I want to know in your faith is, you know, how do you how do you fall back on that? Because that's the question that I get a lot from people that may not necessarily be non believers, but they're looking for facilating that commitment that we've made and we understand, and you don't really get how nice it is to be, you know, walking in the faith. Well, I can tell you the only way, the only way up is down. It's a reverse it's a reverse triangle. And I'm gonna tell you straight up, there is no hope other than what I believe in, and that's in Jesus Christ. I mean, there are other ways to him, but it is him, and he is my hope and he is my destination and that's who I live for and that's who I serve. I just happen to have the country behind me, you know what I'm saying, moving forward, and they're they're progressing me moving forward. But I can tell you. The only way to go to the top is go down, is serve, be a servant, be that for somebody else. Think of other people higher than yourself. Don't think of self more self less. You know what I'm saying. It's a reverse of what our society is telling us. And love is not for everybody, it's it's for everybody. It's through Jesus Christ that we that we get our hope. And that's what I've been broadcasting for twenty five years now that I've been an official Christian. But I had to go through a lot of pain and a lot of suffering to get to the other side. I pray nobody else has to. But if they have to, they have to then look up and your redemption draws near, you know. So it's it can happen at any time. We don't know. You know what I'm saying. Life is a vapor, is here today and gone tomorrow. I could preach, but I'm just saying I'm not gonna, but I could. I could because I know what I'm talking about. I've experienced this stuff. I know what the what the fake is. I oh man, you all, you don't know how much I struggled. I said I was a Christian in the military. I was not a Christian in the military. I was a hypocrite. I was thinking that I was saved. I pretended like I was. I carried my Bible even but then I went to the bar and I drank. Not the bars make you bad or anything. I get what you're saying that that's what I did. That's what I did, That's what I was taught to do, you know what I'm saying. And now there's something different, there's something better, there's something more hopeful, more exciting about the future. And it's weird. Yes, it's weird. It's it is. That's how it's actually how I describe it. It's weird. Is there were times when I used to say in my walk of faith that I used to say, I don't want to quit drinking. I don't want to, you know, not be able to have alcohol. I remember having these conversations, and then when you finally understand and you really dive into your faith, you don't those things become meaningless. You can still have a drink, but they just become meaningless at that point, right, And so it's interesting and that's I enjoy you know, learning about people in faith because everybody's got a different story, but the story is always so awesome. When they come back down to the same person. Though yes, I mean there may be different journeys. And my email is pre you through at hotmail dot com because God allows you turns. And in my life, I've been literally from let's see, it would be Nebraska to Pennsylvania to Maryland where I got baptized in Laplain in Maryland up by DC. I was there for September eleventh, breathing in the fumes and the bodies and everything. Of September eleventh, I was literally at the Pentagons cleaning the windows of the Pentagon people when I saw the smoke over across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to the right side, and so I don't know exactly where that is, but I kind of want to go back, but I kind of don't want to go back in time fate. But that was my first day back from taking care of my dad back in Nebraska when he had bypass surgery back in two thousand and so I can promise you this. I've been through a lot of traumas, but I'm going from trauma to triumph. I'm going forward I'm moving forward and I don't want to go backwards. Yea, you know what I'm saying. And my only way forward is with the Lord. You know what I'm saying. That's the only way i can go because if I go backwards, I'm going back into the lifestyle I just came from. And I'm like, no, no, that's okay. I'm good. Well, before we get you out of here, what's what's the future? What's what you got coming up? Good? Good question. I'm glad you asked that, right, very good. So, like I said, we have women moving forward. General D's. I just did a mentorship with General D's. Actually I just finished up on May I believe ninth. It was my last session with him. I got free sessions with him, which I probably shouldn't say, but you can edit it later. But anyway, So that was a lot of money, a lot of like twelve hundred dollars or something like that, I think, or something like that. It was a lot of money that he he sponsored me for because I think he sees the potential of me helping other women in the future. Yes, and he's putting his money where his mouth is. It just is a little different. You know what I'm saying. So he gave me his time because time is money, and so I'm really grateful to General D's and Miss Kathleen. I mean they wow, even I'm gonna cry because they're just amazing people. And I respect them totally. I mean, I see what they're doing. I backed their play. I respect what he did. I served him in the military. Wow, I haven't known General D's since probably when I went to it would be what do you call that temporary duty? I couldn't think of that term because I'm thinking about Christ. But when I went to temporary duty, I served him at the flight line at I believe it was Internal Look ninety six, I think is one of the two temporary duties that I went to, you know, off base of Nebraska. So that was cool, that was it was fun. But we literally took the whole entire dining facility in a bunker kind of got like this a little bit, just a flat bunker, and we clean everything and clean it all up. We got letters of a common days from everywhere from Wow, General Kults to whoever else. I mean, I've got like a stack like that. And it wasn't because of anything I did. I just did my job and did it well, and then I served him and I'm like, you were in at the same He's like, so we hooked up. Then I lost track of him, and then all of a sudden, like we moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, and I'm like, what are you doing? Lord? You know what I'm saying, And then we find that we're in his back doorstep. I'm like, is that you And he's like yeah. I'm like, oh, that's crazy. So there's weird and crazy in this story. But you know what, it's all for God's glory, and that's what it's all about, you guys, is serving others, loving others, and moving on and just keep going. You know what I'm saying in a forward, progressive manner. Yea you know about face kind of thing. Well, thank you so much for joining us today. Like I said, we mentioned it earlier. The passion, yeah you have it exudes and your last question too, oh yes, question. Down. Then we forget. Everybody thinks they get away, but you're not getting away. So our last question is this. You can pick one person in history, dead or alive. You get to hang out with that one person who is it? And where do you hang out with them for twenty four hour period? Oh, Billy Graham. Oh wow, that's the first time we got that answer. That's a great an, that's a great Graham. Oh my gosh. We just toured the capitol this weekend and so I have a little DC on my arm. I'll see it. Come on now, it's glowing. I'm talking. No, it's cool. We had a really good time. We went to Bouldercrest up in Bluemont, Virginia for the PTSD retreat and we spent four days up there in the cabin. It rained every day, but and we missed the West Virginia flood, but we were right there in the It was really bad. But anyway, so we went up there and we just had a really great time Ryan and and Trent just rusting and relaxing in the log cabins. They're beautiful. They didn't miss anything except for a couch instead of a chair, you know, but they had heated seats on the toilet. A little bit. That's a great answer, I'll say. Before you feel right out too, I want to say this. I mentioned to it before and Brian picked up on it. You glow and your energy glows toss and you were you were called smiling early in your career, and you still are, and you can see it is and keep using that to help keep there. It's a fantastic thing you're doing. Thank you again, pretty bless you guys. All right,