WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.759 What if the future isn't coming, but is already 00:00:02.759 --> 00:00:05.620 unfolding around us? On this episode of The Throttle 00:00:05.620 --> 00:00:07.860 Journey, I'm sitting down with Beau Short, a 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:10.460 man whose leadership was forged long before the 00:00:10.460 --> 00:00:12.800 technology that we will discuss ever existed. 00:00:13.259 --> 00:00:15.519 He's spoken to more than a million people across 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:19.719 the globe, and today he leads work that challenges 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:23.260 how we think about detection, safety, and health. 00:00:23.899 --> 00:00:25.920 So, Beau survived a plane crash. He survived 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.410 cancer. and he wasn't looking to build another 00:00:28.410 --> 00:00:32.090 company until this one changed everything. We 00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:34.250 talked about prevention instead of reaction, 00:00:34.689 --> 00:00:38.270 about stopping harm before it happens, and what 00:00:38.270 --> 00:00:40.189 it costs to care responsibility when the work 00:00:40.189 --> 00:00:42.649 in front of you has the power to protect children, 00:00:42.950 --> 00:00:45.689 families and entire communities. And we also 00:00:45.689 --> 00:00:48.369 talked about changing how disease is detected 00:00:48.369 --> 00:00:51.829 before it even takes hold. This is a conversation 00:00:51.829 --> 00:00:54.950 about the future and the people shaping it right 00:00:54.950 --> 00:00:58.579 now. 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So hit 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:38.620 that like, subscribe, let's breathe in, get present. 00:01:38.750 --> 00:01:42.189 step into the conversation. So, hey, welcome 00:01:42.189 --> 00:01:43.810 back to another episode of Thrillball Journey. 00:01:44.170 --> 00:01:47.109 I am, I just got to start off and say, and I 00:01:47.109 --> 00:01:50.989 let share this with our guest, Bo, already that 00:01:50.989 --> 00:01:53.950 I'm excited to have him on. This is going to 00:01:53.950 --> 00:01:56.650 be a different conversation, at least from our 00:01:56.650 --> 00:01:59.310 standpoint. But, you know, I think we're going 00:01:59.310 --> 00:02:02.530 to talk about the future right now, based on, 00:02:02.530 --> 00:02:04.799 you know, Other things about our guests and so 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:06.680 I just firstly want to say thank you for being 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.360 and spending your time With us on the podcast. 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:11.759 So thank you both for being here Michael just 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.400 know I'm honored to be here when when when my 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.280 guy told me about this I told him I was thrilled 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:17.939 to do it especially when I found out you're from 00:02:17.939 --> 00:02:20.539 Atlanta I remember I'll just say this I remember 00:02:20.539 --> 00:02:22.340 when I was a kid. So my name is my nickname is 00:02:22.340 --> 00:02:25.879 Bo And I remember going to my mom, because I 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.099 was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. And 00:02:28.099 --> 00:02:29.879 when I went to my mom, I'll never forget, I said, 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.080 Mom, why did you name me Bo, B -O? And she says, 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.180 well, Sugar, you're from Georgia. We don't spell 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:39.360 it any other way than that here. So I'm honored 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:42.800 to talk to a fellow Georgian here, or at least 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:45.740 replanted in Georgia. Replanted yeah, I started 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:50.759 I moved here in 2001 I went to LA and 2003 and 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.759 I moved back here in 2016 and all my family's 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:56.659 here Good. Oh, this is home. This is a great 00:02:56.659 --> 00:03:00.060 place to be home Yes, yes, and you know before 00:03:00.060 --> 00:03:03.900 we get into the just the the the meat of who 00:03:03.900 --> 00:03:06.319 you you know What you're bringing to the world? 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:08.719 The technology and all that good stuff. I want 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:11.479 people to understand you the man and you know, 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:14.340 you are very innovative and you came from innovation. 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:18.639 I think innovation comes from identity. And just 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:22.479 really quick, can you just share who you are 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.680 with our audience? I'd be happy to. Well, and 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.039 I'll try to pick and choose how far back to go 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.680 because at 66, soon to be 67, this could be a 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.919 long fart. So I'll try to abbreviate this for 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:38.360 you. But first and foremost, I was raised by 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:43.180 two incredible parents that were That that were 00:03:43.180 --> 00:03:46.939 always big thinkers and you know what's funny 00:03:46.939 --> 00:03:50.539 cuz when i speak to audiences i kind of use this 00:03:50.539 --> 00:03:54.180 verbiage i say you know that that. You know some 00:03:54.180 --> 00:03:56.020 people are taught that hey do the best you can 00:03:56.020 --> 00:03:58.120 but if things don't work out it's okay well number 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:03.000 one it's not okay it's not okay. Then there's 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:04.539 a group of people that are taught that hey if 00:04:04.539 --> 00:04:06.680 it's been done before you can do it. That's a 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.759 good message to give your kids. If it's been 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:10.340 done before, you can do it. It's an encouraging 00:04:10.340 --> 00:04:13.060 message. I wasn't taught that. What I was taught 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:16.040 was even if it's never been done before, you 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.980 can do it. If it's never been attempted before, 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.459 you can still do it. So I was raised in this 00:04:21.459 --> 00:04:25.319 environment with overachievers who instilled 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:28.879 in me this belief that no matter what lies ahead 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:33.329 of you, you have to overcome it. You can work 00:04:33.329 --> 00:04:35.790 through it so that was the foundation of my thought 00:04:35.790 --> 00:04:38.569 process that doesn't mean i'm not like everybody 00:04:38.569 --> 00:04:41.170 else with my own fears with my own innovate in 00:04:41.170 --> 00:04:43.490 inhibitions and the things i think you know that 00:04:43.490 --> 00:04:46.370 concern me in life. But as i started to move 00:04:46.370 --> 00:04:49.430 through life i. I ended up on a full football 00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:51.189 scholarship at the college of william and mary 00:04:51.189 --> 00:04:54.009 and wimpsburg virginia i was very blessed there 00:04:54.009 --> 00:04:57.410 did i get a yeah i will say this i barely got 00:04:57.410 --> 00:04:59.889 in and i barely got out but i got through the 00:04:59.889 --> 00:05:05.259 process and. But as I entered into my life, I 00:05:05.259 --> 00:05:07.959 was that person. I found myself early on working 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:13.000 about 60 hours a week in a very good job. Probably 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.500 in relation to your peer group, I was doing better 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:19.459 than most of my peers. But I knew at 60 hours 00:05:19.459 --> 00:05:21.279 a week as a vice president for this company, 00:05:21.740 --> 00:05:23.480 I remember I used to sit there in my office and 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:25.480 think to myself, I don't want to die doing this. 00:05:26.109 --> 00:05:29.069 I don't want to die not accomplishing the things 00:05:29.069 --> 00:05:31.329 in a limited amount of time on earth that I have 00:05:31.329 --> 00:05:34.949 to accomplish. And so I just started thinking 00:05:34.949 --> 00:05:37.550 and looking ahead. What's ahead of me? What can 00:05:37.550 --> 00:05:42.730 I accomplish? And as life would have it, I knew 00:05:42.730 --> 00:05:45.089 that it was really on my shoulders as an entrepreneur 00:05:45.089 --> 00:05:47.209 because I realized that's where I was going to 00:05:47.209 --> 00:05:50.850 make it as an entrepreneur. And so I started 00:05:50.850 --> 00:05:52.870 just building my own different kind of businesses, 00:05:53.110 --> 00:05:57.060 companies. um had failures like everybody else 00:05:57.060 --> 00:06:00.600 hit walls like everybody else uh but but through 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:03.800 that process i learned a lot about me and i learned 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:07.519 a lot about how people think um and and as i 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.079 started to have success and you know it's funny 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.279 when you when you have success everybody wants 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.019 to hear how you did it but they don't understand 00:06:14.019 --> 00:06:16.000 it's through the struggle that you're finding 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.879 your way to doing it you know i i interviewed 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:22.060 a guy one time you'll appreciate this who um 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:24.300 when i was writing one of my books who said to 00:06:24.300 --> 00:06:25.860 me, why do you want to talk to me now that I 00:06:25.860 --> 00:06:28.100 made it? Where were you when I was failing miserably? 00:06:28.420 --> 00:06:31.160 And I said, well, no one's interested in your 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.120 failure until you make it. Right. Right. I said, 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:35.800 and he goes, all right, here's here's what happened 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.300 to me. I failed and I failed and I failed and 00:06:39.300 --> 00:06:43.720 then I made it. And and so but the springboard 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:45.759 of that, I became president of the American Leadership 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:48.100 Foundation because I wanted to drive this message 00:06:48.100 --> 00:06:52.980 about more leadership than success principles, 00:06:53.300 --> 00:06:55.800 but leadership is embedded in success principles. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:59.680 And so for about 15 years, I was very blessed. 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:03.540 I had five United States acting senators that 00:07:03.540 --> 00:07:06.819 served on my board of advisors, the former chairman 00:07:06.819 --> 00:07:09.139 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the former director 00:07:09.139 --> 00:07:11.939 of the DEA, people like that. Just people that 00:07:11.939 --> 00:07:15.079 had huge success in life that I liked to be around. 00:07:15.180 --> 00:07:17.100 Different political parties didn't matter to 00:07:17.100 --> 00:07:18.819 me. I just wanted people that thought differently. 00:07:20.860 --> 00:07:22.579 And I did that, and I did a lot of work with 00:07:22.579 --> 00:07:28.089 schools. I've been CEO of a tech company, I've 00:07:28.089 --> 00:07:31.569 owned a bunch of stuff. But during COVID, my 00:07:31.569 --> 00:07:37.209 wife and I decided, hey, maybe I can semi -retire 00:07:37.209 --> 00:07:41.279 because as I was getting older. And I said, Where 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:42.800 do you want to be? And she goes, Well, let's 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:44.980 go to Montana. So we bought a gorgeous ranch 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:48.959 in northwest Montana. And I came down here to 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:51.199 kind of semi retire and run for governor, maybe 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.620 something like that. And I got a call from my 00:07:54.620 --> 00:07:57.579 dear friend, Lee Duke, who's my business partner. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.180 And Lee called me up and said, Would you would 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:04.120 you partner with me and buy this technology with 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:06.459 me and let's let's do something special for the 00:08:06.459 --> 00:08:11.230 world with it? And I don't know if There's a 00:08:11.230 --> 00:08:13.509 scene in The Godfather, the movie The Godfather, 00:08:14.029 --> 00:08:16.750 where, I think it's Michael Corleone, I remember, 00:08:16.930 --> 00:08:18.250 but he's sitting there in the kitchen, he goes, 00:08:18.389 --> 00:08:20.990 they keep sucking me back in. And it was that 00:08:20.990 --> 00:08:23.269 moment where you're like, you know, okay, here 00:08:23.269 --> 00:08:27.389 we go again. But I will tell you this, lastly, 00:08:27.730 --> 00:08:30.389 besides my faith, which is the center of my life, 00:08:31.129 --> 00:08:34.269 my wife, who is the most impactful person I've 00:08:34.269 --> 00:08:38.820 ever met. this thirdly is the most important 00:08:38.820 --> 00:08:43.559 thing I've ever done. Because it has such powerful 00:08:43.559 --> 00:08:48.980 ramifications on mankind and what we can do to 00:08:48.980 --> 00:08:51.139 do some wonderful things in the world. So that's 00:08:51.139 --> 00:08:55.240 kind of a quick snapshot of 66 years maybe put 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.960 together. I'm surprised that you can do that. 00:08:58.379 --> 00:09:01.440 And I think it was a couple minutes. So at least 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.960 the you know, people listening and watching or 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.559 watching they get The world of who you are as 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:10.700 we go into this conversation And you said you 00:09:10.700 --> 00:09:13.159 you were you led the american leadership foundation 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:15.840 and from and I got to go Just based on my research 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.759 and everything. So if i'm wrong in my research, 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:22.399 just let me know It's okay That's okay. Um, but 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.940 but it says you spoken I know you said you were 00:09:24.940 --> 00:09:27.440 a speaker, but you spoke to over uh, one million 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:31.379 people um Around the world and you let the organization 00:09:31.379 --> 00:09:36.840 american leadership foundation and If you look 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:41.740 back in your life, was there a defining moment 00:09:41.740 --> 00:09:46.419 or just a disruption in your life that sparked 00:09:46.419 --> 00:09:50.820 where you are now? I think the older you get, 00:09:50.899 --> 00:09:53.299 the more of those you find, especially looking 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:56.419 backwards. I don't think you always know that 00:09:56.419 --> 00:10:00.240 what you're in the middle of is going to define 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:06.200 who you are 10 years from now. Life is hard. 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.840 Life is hard for anybody. I don't care what you 00:10:08.840 --> 00:10:13.080 have or don't have. Life is hard. And people 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.559 wake up in the morning with hope that it's going 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.259 to be a good day, put their feet on the ground, 00:10:18.059 --> 00:10:21.100 and work to give their family the best of themselves. 00:10:21.419 --> 00:10:24.919 Not everybody, but that's the idea of life. So 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:27.659 when I look back, I can look at a number of things 00:10:27.659 --> 00:10:30.740 in my life. A failed business, let's say. And 00:10:30.740 --> 00:10:33.519 you start to question your ability. You start 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:37.059 to question, are you good enough to have the 00:10:37.059 --> 00:10:39.340 success? Not that you think you deserve, because 00:10:39.340 --> 00:10:42.019 none of us deserve it, but to have the success 00:10:42.019 --> 00:10:45.879 you're willing to work for. And so you find you're 00:10:45.879 --> 00:10:47.899 either someone who's willing to persevere or 00:10:47.899 --> 00:10:50.639 not. Napoleon said, the greatest attribute of 00:10:50.639 --> 00:10:53.460 a soldier is not loyalty or courage, it's endurance. 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:56.580 It's the willingness and the ability to keep 00:10:56.580 --> 00:10:59.000 moving. So I think you look at moments like that. 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:02.340 I was in a plane crash, December 14th, 1996. 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.019 We lost the engine at about 5 ,000 feet. And 00:11:07.019 --> 00:11:09.700 I was a passenger in the plane. And so for the 00:11:09.700 --> 00:11:11.620 next three minutes, you know you're going to 00:11:11.620 --> 00:11:13.679 crash. You just don't know where and what's going 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:16.379 to happen to you when you hit the ground. And 00:11:16.379 --> 00:11:18.940 thank God, literally everybody was able. Some 00:11:18.940 --> 00:11:21.759 were carted away in an ambulance, but the people 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:25.440 walked away. But that changes a lot of your perspective 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.299 and how you see. You realize things are pretty 00:11:28.299 --> 00:11:32.419 easy if you can make it through that. A few years 00:11:32.419 --> 00:11:35.440 ago, I had cancer. I had throat cancer. Don't 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.799 smoke, nothing like that. And I was getting ready 00:11:37.799 --> 00:11:39.840 to go give a speech one day and I felt a lump 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:43.460 under my jaw. And my wife said, that's not normal. 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.929 You need to get that checked out. I ended up 00:11:46.929 --> 00:11:49.289 having a what's called a modified radical neck 00:11:49.289 --> 00:11:51.470 dissection. It's like a nine inch cut. They open 00:11:51.470 --> 00:11:53.370 the fillet you open They took out a bunch of 00:11:53.370 --> 00:11:56.250 lymph nodes and I had cancer in my throat and 00:11:56.250 --> 00:12:00.629 you're laying in bed for 28 days drinking a Maybe 00:12:00.629 --> 00:12:02.789 a half a cup of water. Maybe a little thing of 00:12:02.789 --> 00:12:06.750 jello every day And you get a perspective you 00:12:06.750 --> 00:12:08.830 get you get you get a greater understanding of 00:12:08.830 --> 00:12:12.970 life's challenges So were there were there moments 00:12:12.970 --> 00:12:17.399 of impact for me a lot of them I gave you a few. 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.240 But I think that's no different than everybody 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:23.120 on a daily basis. And through that disruption, 00:12:23.299 --> 00:12:28.059 you're going to find out who you are. And it'll 00:12:28.059 --> 00:12:30.120 help you kind of focus on where you're going. 00:12:30.779 --> 00:12:33.559 I'm a big believer that it's not the how, it's 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:36.759 the why. Hmm. It is the why that you do what 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:39.259 you do when what propels you forward? You'll 00:12:39.259 --> 00:12:42.139 figure out how if you can really sink your teeth 00:12:42.139 --> 00:12:45.659 into the why of your life Yeah, so I hope that's 00:12:45.659 --> 00:12:48.620 helpful in an answer. No, it's perfect and much 00:12:48.620 --> 00:12:52.240 like but I asked a question because it's really 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.759 the It's really what we talk about the purpose 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:58.679 of the disruption and you you've had you've had 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.539 many purposes and just that's why I asked that 00:13:01.539 --> 00:13:04.950 question, but I know for me I was always trying 00:13:04.950 --> 00:13:07.570 to figure out how, but it always got me messed 00:13:07.570 --> 00:13:10.330 up, right? But then - Yeah, no, it's normal. 00:13:11.450 --> 00:13:14.850 Yeah. Well, you'll appreciate this. After I wrote 00:13:14.850 --> 00:13:17.649 my first book, I was a young man. I mean, I was 00:13:17.649 --> 00:13:20.929 probably, I don't know, 42, 43. I wrote my first 00:13:20.929 --> 00:13:22.909 book called Foundation of Leadership, and I had 00:13:22.909 --> 00:13:25.690 a guy who did something I always tell people 00:13:25.690 --> 00:13:29.590 to do. Find someone you admire and not admire 00:13:29.590 --> 00:13:31.710 because of what they have. It's not about admiring 00:13:31.710 --> 00:13:33.950 people what they have. You can go into debt getting 00:13:33.950 --> 00:13:36.990 stuff. It's about who they are. Find somebody 00:13:36.990 --> 00:13:40.549 that you admire who they are. And I said, and 00:13:40.549 --> 00:13:43.110 take them to lunch. Sit down with them over breakfast. 00:13:43.409 --> 00:13:45.009 Pick their brain. I said, people that have had 00:13:45.009 --> 00:13:49.149 success in life are open to telling someone what 00:13:49.149 --> 00:13:52.029 they went through and to help encourage people. 00:13:52.669 --> 00:13:55.570 And I had this guy who's by 10 years older than 00:13:55.570 --> 00:13:57.370 me at the time reached out to me and said, hey, 00:13:57.490 --> 00:14:00.269 could I take you to breakfast? And I said, sure. 00:14:00.470 --> 00:14:02.950 So we sat down and Michael, for about the first 00:14:02.950 --> 00:14:04.990 30 minutes, he kept saying, I don't know what 00:14:04.990 --> 00:14:06.750 I want to do. You know this feeling in life. 00:14:06.830 --> 00:14:08.350 I think everybody's had this. I don't know what 00:14:08.350 --> 00:14:10.009 I want to do. I really don't know what I want 00:14:10.009 --> 00:14:12.649 to do. And eventually I said to him, I said, 00:14:12.649 --> 00:14:15.350 I don't mean this to sound disrespectful, but 00:14:15.350 --> 00:14:17.429 I don't really care what you want to do. It's 00:14:17.429 --> 00:14:20.190 not about what you want to do. It's about what 00:14:20.190 --> 00:14:22.929 do you want? What do you want your life to look 00:14:22.929 --> 00:14:24.870 like five years from now, 10 years from now? 00:14:24.909 --> 00:14:26.909 I mean, how do you how do you want to look back 00:14:26.909 --> 00:14:29.860 and see your life? It's not about What you want 00:14:29.860 --> 00:14:31.899 to do it's about what you want so if you figure 00:14:31.899 --> 00:14:35.039 out what you want. You go do as long as it's 00:14:35.039 --> 00:14:37.519 legal ethical and moral whatever you have to 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:41.220 do to get what you want. And because that's where 00:14:41.220 --> 00:14:44.480 you can find joy and happiness i'm not a big 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:46.360 believer in this happiness thing that everybody 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:50.019 talks about happiness is an emotion. It lives 00:14:50.019 --> 00:14:53.519 and dies based on the moment Joy is something 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:56.279 you live your life with you choose to live with 00:14:56.279 --> 00:14:59.120 joy And I said, but if you just do what you want 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:00.500 five years from now, you're gonna be changing 00:15:00.500 --> 00:15:04.159 jobs again. Mm -hmm I think that's a I think 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.120 it's really a great foundation for For people 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:09.080 to kind of just live off of like what do you 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.419 want? And then that really connects with like 00:15:11.419 --> 00:15:13.480 who you're becoming and that can be more fulfilling 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:16.480 to present person so that when you're in the 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:18.299 future looking back it's like you know you probably 00:15:18.299 --> 00:15:20.799 thank yourself because you're with that kind 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.500 of belief yeah oh yeah i mean because i think 00:15:23.500 --> 00:15:25.320 the first part of my career i was kind of chasing 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.539 just just what i wanted to do trying to figure 00:15:27.539 --> 00:15:30.440 out you know what what i want to do and then 00:15:30.440 --> 00:15:33.019 i think as you get older and i remember my dad 00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:34.779 used to tell me this he said you know so when 00:15:34.779 --> 00:15:37.059 you get grayer now obviously i've gotten really 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:40.259 great he said when you get grayer he said a lot 00:15:40.259 --> 00:15:43.629 more things will make sense about your life and 00:15:43.629 --> 00:15:47.549 what it is, and the time you spent here, the 00:15:47.549 --> 00:15:49.690 value of that time you spent here, because it 00:15:49.690 --> 00:15:53.330 goes by so fast, so fast. And that's why you 00:15:53.330 --> 00:15:55.669 have to give everything you have to every day 00:15:55.669 --> 00:15:59.090 God has blessed you with. Yeah. You know, I was, 00:15:59.289 --> 00:16:03.009 I constantly think, remind myself of that. I'm 00:16:03.009 --> 00:16:06.269 turning 49 in about 10 days here. Happy birthday. 00:16:06.809 --> 00:16:12.399 Thank you. You know, that's a thing that's steadily 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:15.100 on my mind. Like, you know, turning 49, I look 00:16:15.100 --> 00:16:16.899 back and I'm like, man, you know, where did the 00:16:16.899 --> 00:16:20.220 time go? And every time I'm thinking about, you 00:16:20.220 --> 00:16:22.799 know, what I want to create in my life, it's 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:26.559 really like, it stems from, you know, why am 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:29.220 I doing what I'm doing? What do I want for the 00:16:29.220 --> 00:16:31.779 rest of my life? You know, that part there. And 00:16:31.779 --> 00:16:34.759 I think that's just a great foundation. And you, 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:36.799 you had a lot of early influences. You said you 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:41.500 went to William and Mary. uh college and then 00:16:41.500 --> 00:16:45.179 what i've also read is that you uh you had meetings 00:16:45.179 --> 00:16:48.820 with figures like muhammad unis vicente fox and 00:16:48.820 --> 00:16:51.799 admiral thomas more is that is that true yeah 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:54.419 yeah oh yeah yeah this was i think a muhammad 00:16:54.419 --> 00:16:57.379 unis i was invited down to mexico by the then 00:16:57.379 --> 00:17:01.610 um the The sent a box from a president of mexico 00:17:01.610 --> 00:17:04.730 a handful of us were invited to his personal 00:17:04.730 --> 00:17:08.029 residence to meet with mohammed unis and who 00:17:08.029 --> 00:17:12.670 was the nobel prize winner who created the microloan 00:17:12.670 --> 00:17:17.700 concept. And he was just talking about how people 00:17:17.700 --> 00:17:22.420 think and he was talking about in in his community 00:17:22.420 --> 00:17:25.000 it was that he created the grommet bank which 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.779 became the foundational bank which create this 00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:30.700 microloan concept and he would go to beggars 00:17:30.700 --> 00:17:33.079 on the street. And he would give them the opportunity 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:35.299 to be entrepreneurs so instead of asking for 00:17:35.299 --> 00:17:37.480 money they would sell a trinket that was his 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:40.359 whole message and he said that when you empower 00:17:40.359 --> 00:17:46.200 people to to. Live up to a higher standard he 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.019 goes they want that but you gotta you gotta some 00:17:49.019 --> 00:17:51.099 of these people that you have to help them get 00:17:51.099 --> 00:17:55.299 in that place in life and so yeah it was a fascinating 00:17:55.299 --> 00:17:58.359 two days i got to spend with him just to talk 00:17:58.359 --> 00:18:01.519 about people and talk about his background and 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:05.559 the impact he had in the world. Because I believe 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:07.539 you've heard the adage you can teach a man to 00:18:07.539 --> 00:18:09.519 fish or you can feed a man a fish and feed him 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:11.539 for a day, teach him to fish. I kind of believe 00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:15.519 it lives in the middle of that. While you're 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:18.599 teaching people how to fish, you have to feed 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.519 them. There's this place in the middle that if 00:18:22.519 --> 00:18:25.440 all you do is teach and they can't eat, they'll 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.539 starve to death. So in many instances, while 00:18:28.539 --> 00:18:30.880 you're teaching someone how to fish on their 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.819 own, it doesn't hurt sometimes to feed them to 00:18:33.819 --> 00:18:36.339 help them through that process. So yeah, with 00:18:36.339 --> 00:18:40.140 him and Admiral Thomas Moore, former chairman 00:18:40.140 --> 00:18:42.759 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I remember being 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:46.200 in a conversation with him one day, and I was 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:50.440 asking him how you win leadership. And he said 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:52.559 to me, he said, you have to serve, I'll never 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:57.640 forget it, he said, Beau, if I look at my profession 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:01.220 i'm not here to serve my superiors i'm here to 00:19:01.220 --> 00:19:05.099 serve my troops. If i serve my troops honorably 00:19:05.099 --> 00:19:08.099 i'm always serving my superiors in my country 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:12.400 on. And it really was a great message to me as 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:16.259 a young man about. If you will look to the people 00:19:16.259 --> 00:19:19.940 that trust in you and serve them you're serving 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:22.500 everyone else your superiors your country serving 00:19:22.500 --> 00:19:25.420 everything else. But if all you're interested 00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:28.200 in is serving the guy ahead of you, and by guy 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:31.000 I mean man or woman, the guy ahead of you, you're 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.359 not always serving the people that are placing 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.599 their family and everyone else in your care honorably. 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:39.140 And so, yeah, I've been very blessed to learn 00:19:39.140 --> 00:19:41.259 a lot of valuable lessons through incredible 00:19:41.259 --> 00:19:45.319 people. Yeah, when I found that, found out at 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:47.920 least those three people that I could find out 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.079 that you could spend time with, I was like, oh, 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:53.839 wow. Like, that's just, just being in that, experience 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:56.200 in that presence. You just walk away with, you 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.740 know, so much so much great wisdom and knowledge 00:19:58.740 --> 00:20:01.680 that you can apply to your life and people can 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:04.319 learn from that as well. Yeah, you'll get a kick 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:05.759 out of this. I remember one day I was sitting 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:08.240 in if you followed any of you know who John Maxwell 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.460 is, he's a best selling author writes leadership 00:20:10.460 --> 00:20:13.500 books. And I was sitting with in John's studio 00:20:13.500 --> 00:20:17.019 one day and he was talking about, he let me phrase 00:20:17.019 --> 00:20:19.809 the comment, right? He said, Listen, You can 00:20:19.809 --> 00:20:22.470 climb a hill in your backyard and no one cares. 00:20:22.990 --> 00:20:24.890 But if you summit Mount Everest, they write books 00:20:24.890 --> 00:20:27.349 about you. And I remember hearing that thinking, 00:20:27.349 --> 00:20:30.470 okay, that's interesting. Well, a few months 00:20:30.470 --> 00:20:32.190 later, I'm getting ready to go give a speech 00:20:32.190 --> 00:20:35.670 and the other keynote speaker was the first gentleman, 00:20:36.049 --> 00:20:39.069 I feel horrible that I've lost his name, who 00:20:39.069 --> 00:20:42.170 climbed Mount Everest totally blind, couldn't 00:20:42.170 --> 00:20:47.470 see. He was the first blind climber to climb 00:20:47.470 --> 00:20:50.720 Mount Everest. And I remember going up to him 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:52.619 before we went on, because I was there to talk 00:20:52.619 --> 00:20:55.700 about business and leadership and success principles. 00:20:55.700 --> 00:20:59.180 And I remember going up to him and saying, how 00:20:59.180 --> 00:21:02.799 did you do it? Because what Maxwell said to me 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.880 earlier was, if you climb Mount Everest, you 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:08.440 don't do it alone. You do it as a team. You can 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:10.579 climb a hill by yourself, but you can't summit 00:21:10.579 --> 00:21:12.880 Mount Everest by yourself. And so when I was 00:21:12.880 --> 00:21:14.740 talking to the gentleman about how did you do 00:21:14.740 --> 00:21:18.059 this, he said, well, I didn't do it. We did it. 00:21:18.190 --> 00:21:20.450 And I said, what do you mean, we? And he said, 00:21:20.589 --> 00:21:24.029 look, when it got really bad, I can't see. But 00:21:24.029 --> 00:21:26.930 I felt somebody's hand on my right foot push 00:21:26.930 --> 00:21:29.309 it six inches forward. And then I felt somebody 00:21:29.309 --> 00:21:31.910 else's hand on my left foot move it six inches 00:21:31.910 --> 00:21:34.390 in front of that. He said, and we may do that 00:21:34.390 --> 00:21:37.509 for hours. He said, so I can't say I climbed 00:21:37.509 --> 00:21:40.430 Mount Everest. I can tell you we climbed Mount 00:21:40.430 --> 00:21:42.309 Everest. And at that moment, Michael, I remember 00:21:42.309 --> 00:21:44.910 it was like a boulder hit me in the head. That 00:21:44.910 --> 00:21:47.130 goes back to when Maxwell said in his studio, 00:21:47.630 --> 00:21:49.950 If you climb a hill by yourself, no one cares. 00:21:50.309 --> 00:21:52.609 But you can't do something significant in your 00:21:52.609 --> 00:21:57.430 life without a team of people. And so yeah, those 00:21:57.430 --> 00:22:00.230 little moments in your life are these aha moments 00:22:00.230 --> 00:22:02.289 you have. And you don't always know them when 00:22:02.289 --> 00:22:04.670 you have them. Sometimes it takes six months 00:22:04.670 --> 00:22:06.750 later to figure it out that that's what you had. 00:22:07.690 --> 00:22:10.529 I think that's essential, just connected with 00:22:10.529 --> 00:22:14.130 entrepreneurship. When you talk to an entrepreneur 00:22:14.130 --> 00:22:17.359 and they're trying to figure things out. Like, 00:22:17.779 --> 00:22:20.359 when you have a vision or a dream, you know, 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:23.799 you really have to look at it as you taking bringing 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.019 people on with that dream and doing it as a team. 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:28.539 Because I know, if you're trying to do this by 00:22:28.539 --> 00:22:31.180 yourself, as building, you know, building businesses, 00:22:31.539 --> 00:22:32.799 entrepreneurship, and all that kind of stuff, 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.019 it it's daunting when you want to do it by yourself. 00:22:36.019 --> 00:22:39.319 But as a as a team, if you want to bring that 00:22:39.319 --> 00:22:42.680 on, it can. it can be bigger than the hill, right? 00:22:42.779 --> 00:22:45.460 It can be something greater or like a legacy 00:22:45.460 --> 00:22:50.180 that you're trying to leave in the world. And 00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:53.980 so for you, I mean, you've done some great things. 00:22:54.140 --> 00:22:56.319 What is thriving, you know, Thrivewell Journey, 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:58.720 we talk about purpose after disruption, but what 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:03.420 does thriving look like for you beyond like your 00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:10.200 achievements? Oh, thank you. I will I will say 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:13.220 to you very clearly that, and I said it earlier, 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:15.980 I touched on it earlier. You know, I look back 00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:17.759 on the early part of my career and I think you're 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:20.119 just in the quest to try to accomplish some things 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:22.420 so you can accomplish some things, right? You're 00:23:22.420 --> 00:23:24.240 just trying to get somewhere to get somewhere. 00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:28.940 And oftentimes I think the younger you are, we 00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:31.599 kind of keep score differently than you do when 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:34.410 you get older, when you've got things. It's easier 00:23:34.410 --> 00:23:38.309 when you have things to look differently, but 00:23:38.309 --> 00:23:42.049 you should be looking differently. Early on in 00:23:42.049 --> 00:23:44.230 my career, I was very blessed. I was even through 00:23:44.230 --> 00:23:46.109 mistakes, through challenges, through missteps. 00:23:46.190 --> 00:23:48.750 I was very blessed professionally, financially, 00:23:49.029 --> 00:23:54.130 personally. But as I look in my life, why this 00:23:54.130 --> 00:23:56.150 is so important, the work I'm doing today is 00:23:56.150 --> 00:23:59.369 so important is, and this is what I touched on 00:23:59.369 --> 00:24:03.049 a little while ago, my faith. You realize you're 00:24:03.049 --> 00:24:05.869 not here for long, so the length of time you 00:24:05.869 --> 00:24:08.049 have, you better do something significant with 00:24:08.049 --> 00:24:12.250 it. Regardless of your listeners, I respect whatever 00:24:12.250 --> 00:24:18.150 they believe. But for me, I have been put here 00:24:18.150 --> 00:24:19.910 for a limited amount of time to do something 00:24:19.910 --> 00:24:24.190 that makes a difference in the world, to not 00:24:24.190 --> 00:24:26.930 be right. I believe we were all put here. We're 00:24:26.930 --> 00:24:30.109 not put here to be right in everything you say, 00:24:30.130 --> 00:24:32.609 but to live a righteous life. through all our 00:24:32.609 --> 00:24:34.769 mistakes or all the things we do that are wrong. 00:24:35.509 --> 00:24:40.049 So thriving to me today is to attempt to live 00:24:40.049 --> 00:24:43.029 my life in a way that people say, gosh, what 00:24:43.029 --> 00:24:47.410 is it about you that makes you this way? To be 00:24:47.410 --> 00:24:52.210 an honorable husband. And I will say this to 00:24:52.210 --> 00:24:55.009 you, the more I focused on those things in my 00:24:55.009 --> 00:25:00.799 life, the other professional things start to 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:03.279 appear in your life. When you start to put your 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.980 house in the right order, right? I hope this 00:25:05.980 --> 00:25:07.259 makes sense. When you start to put your house 00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:11.099 in the right order, the most, at 66, this is 00:25:11.099 --> 00:25:12.859 what's fascinating. When I think professionally 00:25:12.859 --> 00:25:15.960 now, the most significant thing I've ever done 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:17.779 in my life professionally, I'm doing at the age 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:21.380 of 66. I didn't do it at 40. I didn't do it at 00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:24.640 30. I didn't do it at 50. I'm doing it at 66. 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:28.220 And I guess the message to people right now, 00:25:28.380 --> 00:25:31.200 your listeners, is no matter what you're going 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:33.180 through today, I don't care how young or how 00:25:33.180 --> 00:25:38.380 old you are, if you do the right things in your 00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:41.819 life by people and demonstrate the right character 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:44.440 in your life, the best part of your life is in 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.000 front of you. My wife says something so powerful, 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:50.960 she said your past is not a residence, it's a 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:55.579 reference point. And you can't look backwards 00:25:55.579 --> 00:25:59.880 i think is most people are are told. A lot of 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:01.599 people are told they can't do things a lot of 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:03.700 people are told they're not worthy a lot of people 00:26:03.700 --> 00:26:06.559 are here a lot of things about themselves sometimes 00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:10.319 your people that supposedly love. And and and 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:11.940 if that's a reference point that's something 00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:14.019 to understand but that doesn't define who you 00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:18.109 are. And I think that thriving in it's not as 00:26:18.109 --> 00:26:20.269 hard to thrive financially as people think it 00:26:20.269 --> 00:26:24.150 just takes hard work and focus and asking for 00:26:24.150 --> 00:26:27.089 help. But I think thriving in other parts of 00:26:27.089 --> 00:26:29.529 your life are more important because they make 00:26:29.529 --> 00:26:32.490 the work part of your life easy. Yeah, I think 00:26:32.490 --> 00:26:36.920 that's that's one of the one of the. essences, 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:38.319 I don't know if I could say it that way, but 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.559 one of the essences of the podcast is that, you 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:43.460 know, you talk about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship, 00:26:43.539 --> 00:26:45.099 if you want to be an entrepreneur, if you are 00:26:45.099 --> 00:26:47.299 an entrepreneur, or looking at what at being 00:26:47.299 --> 00:26:52.019 one, like, there's so much more to just the business 00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:54.880 of your life, and who you're being, you bring 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:57.339 that into your business anyway. So it's, it's, 00:26:57.339 --> 00:27:01.940 it's probably, you know, better for you to really 00:27:02.439 --> 00:27:05.619 Live those parts of your life and be just be 00:27:05.619 --> 00:27:07.420 great at those levels of your life for it like 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:10.220 your personal life Get those in order and you 00:27:10.220 --> 00:27:13.240 bring what all that is to your business and your 00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:15.339 business is a reflection of your just your personal 00:27:15.339 --> 00:27:17.920 life Yeah, listen, you're spot -on one of the 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:19.559 things that I always try to explain to people 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:21.920 is and you see this I look I've spoken on stages 00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.220 with with remarkable people Yes, and I will tell 00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:27.339 you with some of those people offstage. They're 00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:30.859 not the same people And what it tells me, yeah, 00:27:30.980 --> 00:27:33.160 it's really, it's scary sometimes and it's sad 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.400 most times because it's like this conversation. 00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:40.240 It's easy to say certain things. It's harder 00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:44.140 to live certain things, but it's easier to say 00:27:44.140 --> 00:27:47.799 it. I think it's, Moyer said, all men are alike 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:49.660 in their dreams and all men are alike in the 00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:51.619 promises they make. What makes them different 00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:54.119 is what they do. It's not what you say, it's 00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:56.609 what you do. And one of the things I try to convey 00:27:56.609 --> 00:28:00.549 to people is you can't not have character in 00:28:00.549 --> 00:28:03.069 one part of your life and then magically have 00:28:03.069 --> 00:28:05.170 character in your professional life. You can't 00:28:05.170 --> 00:28:08.509 do it. No, you either have it or you don't. You 00:28:08.509 --> 00:28:11.349 can't. There's no such thing as segmenting it. 00:28:12.029 --> 00:28:16.690 And so you're right on that if you will, if you're 00:28:16.690 --> 00:28:19.190 striving to be the best dad, the best husband, 00:28:19.569 --> 00:28:21.730 the best wife, the best mother, whatever it is. 00:28:22.140 --> 00:28:24.980 in your personal life and to and to build these 00:28:24.980 --> 00:28:28.160 relationships that really matter in the end and 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:31.240 and you then can bring that into your professional 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.079 life but you can't bring a lack of character 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.380 from your personal life and try to pretend you 00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:39.180 have it in your professional life because you'll 00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:42.779 get caught you'll get caught and truthfully you 00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:45.900 should get caught you know you should be found 00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:49.609 out and so And I think the older I've gotten, 00:28:49.630 --> 00:28:52.509 the more you understand that. The more you understand 00:28:52.509 --> 00:28:56.210 that it's not about being on stage, it's about, 00:28:56.769 --> 00:28:58.569 and it's not about applause and all this junk, 00:28:58.769 --> 00:29:00.950 because who cares at the end of the day? I mean, 00:29:00.950 --> 00:29:02.910 think of somebody famous 50 years ago, you say 00:29:02.910 --> 00:29:04.210 their name, most people don't even know who they 00:29:04.210 --> 00:29:11.690 are. Right, right. Yeah, but you know what? That's 00:29:11.690 --> 00:29:18.170 really good. that speaks to who you are today 00:29:18.170 --> 00:29:21.569 and what you're bringing to the world. Even though 00:29:21.569 --> 00:29:25.490 you try to get out of business. That's right. 00:29:26.109 --> 00:29:29.990 It brought you back in. It's okay. And I just 00:29:29.990 --> 00:29:34.710 want to really, this world that you're creating 00:29:34.710 --> 00:29:38.890 now, it really, it fascinates me. And I'll try 00:29:38.890 --> 00:29:40.769 to... really be present when I'm trying to ask 00:29:40.769 --> 00:29:43.029 these questions because it's it goes deeper than 00:29:43.029 --> 00:29:45.289 what I really truly understand but it's okay 00:29:45.289 --> 00:29:49.069 um so excuse me if I ask questions that you've 00:29:49.069 --> 00:29:53.450 heard before that probably are um just out the 00:29:53.450 --> 00:29:57.069 way so no dude you can't you can't ask a bad 00:29:57.069 --> 00:29:59.650 question in the quantum physics world it's okay 00:29:59.650 --> 00:30:02.819 you're you're and understand I'm not an engineer, 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:04.920 I'm not a physicist, and I'm not a scientist. 00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:07.279 Thank goodness my business partner and I, Lee 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.779 Duke, have surrounded ourselves with the best 00:30:09.779 --> 00:30:13.599 of those. But we're business people. And as an 00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:14.960 entrepreneur, that's what you do. You surround 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:17.339 yourself with people who know how to do, and 00:30:17.339 --> 00:30:19.599 then you just become the leader of all that. 00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:25.299 And that's what you are doing. You're CEO of 00:30:25.299 --> 00:30:30.430 this thing we call, that you call, BMR. and BMRT 00:30:30.430 --> 00:30:34.869 which is a technology and can you just I know 00:30:34.869 --> 00:30:38.490 okay so I know it it's a resonant frequency detection 00:30:38.490 --> 00:30:44.410 identity kind of thing what I found really extraordinary 00:30:44.410 --> 00:30:48.750 was that it identifies every element on the periodic 00:30:48.750 --> 00:30:53.599 table up to and up to 200 cancers so Can you 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:56.900 just start to kind of lay the groundwork of what 00:30:56.900 --> 00:31:01.000 this is before we go into? No, you're good. I 00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:03.460 totally get it. And you handled that very well, 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:06.339 I thought. And you were smart to say BMRT, because 00:31:06.339 --> 00:31:08.700 when you say base molecular resonance technologies, 00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:10.900 you think if you've never said it a lot, you 00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:15.859 think, am I going to get through this name? Yeah, 00:31:15.940 --> 00:31:18.200 I love it. Yeah, I'm with you. So what happened? 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:21.200 Just let me do this in two phases. The first 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.160 thing what happened. So I was out in Montana. 00:31:23.299 --> 00:31:26.019 My wife and I were in Montana and a dear friend 00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:27.640 of mine, Lee Duke, one of my dearest friends. 00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:30.740 He is we've invested in companies together. We've 00:31:30.740 --> 00:31:32.640 done things together. He's that guy. He could 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.819 call me in the middle of the day. And when it's 00:31:34.819 --> 00:31:36.720 daylight outside, though, it's pitch dark. And 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:39.579 I believe it. We have that relationship. I just 00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:42.480 I trust him. You know, so much of being in business 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:47.259 with people comes down to trust. And so his his 00:31:47.259 --> 00:31:52.019 dad. His dad who was a war hero he literally. 00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:56.559 He flew for something called the to the tactical 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.619 electronic warfare squadron during vietnam he 00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:03.200 said receiving the distinguish flying cross i 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:05.440 mean so he served his country very honorably. 00:32:05.950 --> 00:32:11.269 But his job during the war was to look for electrical 00:32:11.269 --> 00:32:15.089 signals from the enemy. And so he flew in. He 00:32:15.089 --> 00:32:18.329 would fly in planes with the NSA, the CIA, people 00:32:18.329 --> 00:32:19.930 like that in the back of the plane monitoring 00:32:19.930 --> 00:32:22.089 with very sophisticated equipment. And then they 00:32:22.089 --> 00:32:24.069 would call in airstrikes. So that's what he did 00:32:24.069 --> 00:32:26.690 and one of the things he did in Vietnam. When 00:32:26.690 --> 00:32:30.460 he got home, you know, for a lot of people. When 00:32:30.460 --> 00:32:33.140 they left Vietnam, Vietnam didn't leave them 00:32:33.140 --> 00:32:37.539 necessarily. So I think that's inherent in war 00:32:37.539 --> 00:32:40.180 anyway. You may leave the war, but the war leaves 00:32:40.180 --> 00:32:43.559 you all the time. And so when he got home, he 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:47.000 was still fascinated with signals, finding things, 00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:50.559 electronic frequencies. And he ended up hooking 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:54.720 up with a guy, and they created this technology 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:59.549 that... takes advantage of resonant frequencies. 00:32:59.609 --> 00:33:02.490 I'll explain that what it is in here in a second. 00:33:02.990 --> 00:33:07.150 And they evolved that to where they got a patent 00:33:07.150 --> 00:33:10.789 on it and they had a prototype. And he was approaching 00:33:10.789 --> 00:33:13.250 80 and he told his son Lee, would you take over 00:33:13.250 --> 00:33:14.769 the company? And Lee said, I don't want to take 00:33:14.769 --> 00:33:19.069 over the company, but I'd like to maybe buy the 00:33:19.069 --> 00:33:21.630 technology and then take it to a different level. 00:33:22.309 --> 00:33:24.890 And so Lee called me because of our relationship 00:33:24.890 --> 00:33:29.619 said, would you partner With me in this and and 00:33:29.619 --> 00:33:33.539 pursue this and i remember i remember for about 00:33:33.539 --> 00:33:37.119 the first 90 days i was li and i co owned it. 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:41.880 And i would say you know if this is true. And 00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:43.900 he laughed he said oh you gotta stop saying if 00:33:43.900 --> 00:33:48.019 this is true you own this with me and so so so 00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:50.279 anything time their skepticism i understand. 00:33:51.059 --> 00:33:53.059 Because even me in the beginning and i was all 00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:56.480 in financially everything with lee. Okay, so 00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:59.079 what is it that we're all into? So here's what 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:02.420 I want you to envision. And go back to fifth 00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:05.660 grade maybe when you saw the Neil Bohr's model 00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:08.500 of an atomic structure. You have this center, 00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:10.880 which is the nucleus, and then you have these 00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:13.800 electrons around it, right? And it really doesn't 00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:15.940 look like that. That looks like a solar system. 00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:18.860 What it really looks like is waves, like clouds. 00:34:19.820 --> 00:34:23.280 But everybody kind of defines it a certain way 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:28.139 in It has that they saw it as a kid but so use 00:34:28.139 --> 00:34:31.019 that picture in your head of an atomic structure. 00:34:32.320 --> 00:34:34.800 What people don't all realize and this is known 00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:37.440 science for four decades but what people don't 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.659 realize is every atomic structure that nucleus 00:34:40.659 --> 00:34:43.960 is spinning. Those protons and neutrons are spinning 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:48.619 and around that an elliptical pattern those electrons 00:34:48.619 --> 00:34:52.230 are spinning as well. That spinning creates a 00:34:52.230 --> 00:34:55.610 resonance, a sound, a frequency. It creates noise 00:34:55.610 --> 00:34:59.710 that you can't hear. Every atomic structure has 00:34:59.710 --> 00:35:03.030 a sound attached to it. When you take two atoms 00:35:03.030 --> 00:35:05.309 and you put them together, you have a molecule, 00:35:05.530 --> 00:35:07.650 right? And that molecular structure has a different 00:35:07.650 --> 00:35:11.869 sound. So hydrogen has a sound. Oxygen has a 00:35:11.869 --> 00:35:13.750 sound. But when you put them together and have 00:35:13.750 --> 00:35:17.579 water, it has its own unique sound. So that's 00:35:17.579 --> 00:35:20.099 a given that's known science we didn't invent 00:35:20.099 --> 00:35:23.599 any of that and if you ever go on youtube and 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:25.860 you see a guy when i say guy once again i mean 00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:28.519 man or woman you see a guy take a tuning fork 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.880 and hold it up and they'll hit it and if they 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:35.280 have a the same style in the same frequency the 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.000 next tuning fork all they have to do is hold 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.880 it and it'll start making a sound because that's 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:43.579 its companion sound right okay so you understand 00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:45.960 that. Yes. Here's what base molecular resonance 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:50.320 technologies does. We have a transmitting antenna, 00:35:50.340 --> 00:35:54.760 receiving antenna. And we send out a very low 00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:59.019 frequency or extremely low frequency wave, ELF, 00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:02.820 VLF. It's on one side of the spectrum. The other 00:36:02.820 --> 00:36:05.579 side would be gamma rays, X -rays, dangerous 00:36:05.579 --> 00:36:09.940 stuff. Ours is where Wi -Fi routers live, cell 00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:14.340 phone technology live. This is less dangerous 00:36:14.340 --> 00:36:16.480 than your Wi -Fi router. Look at it that way, 00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:20.000 it's safer than a Wi -Fi router. So what we have 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.360 is we have a protocol, it's called a frequency 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:26.900 identification protocol, where we know, take 00:36:26.900 --> 00:36:30.900 nitrocellulose and gunpowder. We know what that 00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:34.280 frequency is, that resonant frequency of nitrocellulose 00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:38.440 and gunpowder is based on our algorithms and 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:42.420 our protocols. And we'll send out that signal. 00:36:42.570 --> 00:36:46.489 So we send out that RF signal, radio frequency 00:36:46.489 --> 00:36:50.309 signal, and as it's going, and understand this 00:36:50.309 --> 00:36:52.989 can circumnavigate the globe multiple times in 00:36:52.989 --> 00:36:56.730 a second. So it's that kind of wave that's going 00:36:56.730 --> 00:37:05.010 out. And as it goes, if it goes over nitrocellulose, 00:37:05.230 --> 00:37:08.050 let's say there's a bullet, And it goes over 00:37:08.050 --> 00:37:10.809 nitrocellulose. The moment that happens, the 00:37:10.809 --> 00:37:14.250 nitrocellulose recognizes that frequency, and 00:37:14.250 --> 00:37:17.590 it goes from a stable state to an active state. 00:37:17.750 --> 00:37:21.349 It just, it kind of wakes up because of that 00:37:21.349 --> 00:37:25.670 impact of that frequency. And it's, we use the 00:37:25.670 --> 00:37:29.909 terminology, it sings out for a period of time. 00:37:30.849 --> 00:37:34.840 Here's what BMRT does. we have created now an 00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:40.039 electromagnetic line to that sound. We have a 00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:43.300 receiving antenna and we get the signal back 00:37:43.300 --> 00:37:47.659 that what we were looking for is present. And 00:37:47.659 --> 00:37:51.780 so what makes this, like we can detect a 22 caliber 00:37:51.780 --> 00:37:57.050 bullet at 71 feet. a fully loaded AR -15 with 00:37:57.050 --> 00:38:01.449 30 rounds of 5 .56 in it at 580 feet, 10 out 00:38:01.449 --> 00:38:03.809 of 10 times through multiple buildings. Because 00:38:03.809 --> 00:38:06.070 think about this, in the world of quantum physics, 00:38:06.210 --> 00:38:08.409 the buildings don't exist. It sounds cool, but 00:38:08.409 --> 00:38:12.889 they don't exist in this world. And so what we're 00:38:12.889 --> 00:38:16.789 doing is we're creating, when we go across this 00:38:16.789 --> 00:38:18.710 material, if it's not there, we don't hear anything. 00:38:19.989 --> 00:38:21.869 We just don't hear anything. And the larger the 00:38:21.869 --> 00:38:25.909 volume, Okay, so that's why a 22 caliber round 00:38:25.909 --> 00:38:29.869 is at 71 feet in today's tech. We're doing some 00:38:29.869 --> 00:38:31.989 things in the lab, which we can get it much further, 00:38:32.030 --> 00:38:35.289 but today's technology is 71 feet. Three bullets 00:38:35.289 --> 00:38:38.010 may be 200 feet. It's that kind of thing. That's 00:38:38.010 --> 00:38:41.989 why you get to a fully loaded AR -15. But the 00:38:41.989 --> 00:38:46.889 impact of that is this. Today we have frequencies 00:38:46.889 --> 00:38:50.900 for all elements on the periodic table. Up to 00:38:50.900 --> 00:38:52.920 two hundred types of cancers and other diseases 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.300 and things i can't even talk about publicly. 00:38:58.440 --> 00:39:02.159 That that we currently can detect so when we 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:04.460 did our first study with the center for applied 00:39:04.460 --> 00:39:06.860 innovation of york saint john university new 00:39:06.860 --> 00:39:09.659 york england because it was a brilliant physicist 00:39:09.659 --> 00:39:13.219 leading their organization. They came to the 00:39:13.219 --> 00:39:17.559 united states and we did illegal drugs we did 00:39:17.559 --> 00:39:20.130 cancer. Because they're all molecular structures 00:39:20.130 --> 00:39:25.309 or atomic structures. That's all they are. We 00:39:25.309 --> 00:39:30.630 did uranium. We did plutonium. Some things that 00:39:30.630 --> 00:39:34.010 I could just share a little bit with you. And 00:39:34.010 --> 00:39:37.429 we did nitrocellulose. And then we've since done 00:39:37.429 --> 00:39:39.130 something we can talk about later with the US 00:39:39.130 --> 00:39:41.610 government in a test that they asked us to do. 00:39:42.590 --> 00:39:45.190 But through that we were in the when we did the 00:39:45.190 --> 00:39:47.289 study with the York St. John University. We were 00:39:47.289 --> 00:39:49.550 100 % accurate with no false positives and no 00:39:49.550 --> 00:39:53.329 false negatives Because it is either there or 00:39:53.329 --> 00:39:59.289 it's not there So it has been You don't sleep 00:39:59.289 --> 00:40:03.170 at night because think about this now one of 00:40:03.170 --> 00:40:07.309 the passions we have is is his school shootings 00:40:07.309 --> 00:40:10.309 No parent should ever send their child to a school 00:40:10.309 --> 00:40:11.929 wondering if they're gonna see him when school's 00:40:11.929 --> 00:40:13.860 over Shouldn't even be a thought process. It 00:40:13.860 --> 00:40:15.559 should be, how was your day today? Should be 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.920 the only thought process. We can detect a would 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:25.139 -be shooter as they enter the parking lot. Because 00:40:25.139 --> 00:40:27.780 we can detect in moving vehicles. We can detect 00:40:27.780 --> 00:40:29.860 through cars. I mean, there's not a structure 00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:33.920 that nothing's ever been able to defeat it. So 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:37.719 it's like Star Wars stuff. It just happens to 00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:42.369 be real. So it's that kind of thing. No, you're 00:40:42.369 --> 00:40:44.809 good. I don't blame it. I don't blame it. But 00:40:44.809 --> 00:40:47.510 then again, you think about the internet wasn't 00:40:47.510 --> 00:40:49.389 a thing until it was a thing. The combustion 00:40:49.389 --> 00:40:51.690 engine wasn't a thing until it was a thing. Manned 00:40:51.690 --> 00:40:54.289 flight wasn't a thing until it was a thing. Cellular 00:40:54.289 --> 00:40:56.449 technology wasn't a thing until it was a thing. 00:40:56.809 --> 00:40:58.590 And when it wasn't a thing, people said it could 00:40:58.590 --> 00:41:01.050 never be a thing. And then the next day, it was 00:41:01.050 --> 00:41:04.610 a thing. It was a thing. It's innovation. And 00:41:04.610 --> 00:41:07.639 that's where I... Well, let's talk about the 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:12.199 school safety and prevention. I know you said 00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:16.579 it's not invasive. It's better than a Wi -Fi 00:41:16.579 --> 00:41:19.840 wave. I don't know what you call it. It's OK. 00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:26.550 And so when you look at it, is it out now? cost 00:41:26.550 --> 00:41:29.650 to the to the model for schools it is it going 00:41:29.650 --> 00:41:31.489 to be something that's going to be in schools 00:41:31.489 --> 00:41:33.610 to you know to bring safety to schools because 00:41:33.610 --> 00:41:36.630 we are dealing with a lot of you know uh school 00:41:36.630 --> 00:41:39.869 violence and so you know how how does that play 00:41:39.869 --> 00:41:43.469 into uh in the school school rights and all that 00:41:43.469 --> 00:41:45.090 kind of stuff no that's great we just signed 00:41:45.090 --> 00:41:49.150 a um we just signed a letter of intent to form 00:41:49.150 --> 00:41:51.650 a relationship with a group called safe space 00:41:51.650 --> 00:41:55.369 and so just picture that there's there's these 00:41:55.579 --> 00:41:57.260 Yeah, and you wouldn't even know what it is, 00:41:57.260 --> 00:41:59.699 but there would be a box. I'm just make it easy 00:41:59.699 --> 00:42:01.719 for people to capture there'd be a box around 00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:04.599 a perimeter of a school and what safe space does 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:08.099 is they have some unique technology with AI photography 00:42:08.099 --> 00:42:11.099 and the ability to communicate What we would 00:42:11.099 --> 00:42:13.619 do is we would integrate our technologies because 00:42:13.619 --> 00:42:16.380 we've we're in the process of developing this 00:42:16.380 --> 00:42:19.159 with them We would integrate our technology into 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:23.179 their technology and so we would detect let's 00:42:23.179 --> 00:42:26.289 say somebody has a gun and they're coming into 00:42:26.289 --> 00:42:27.969 the school. They're not in the school. The problem 00:42:27.969 --> 00:42:30.409 with school shootings is you know about them 00:42:30.409 --> 00:42:32.289 because someone's been shot. Because afterwards, 00:42:32.429 --> 00:42:35.489 yeah. It's afterwards. And that's not prevention. 00:42:35.829 --> 00:42:38.610 That's, oh my goodness, what do we do now? Moments. 00:42:38.989 --> 00:42:41.630 So what we've got is the ability when someone 00:42:41.630 --> 00:42:45.869 drives into the parking lot, our technology senses 00:42:45.869 --> 00:42:49.309 that nitrocellulose and it's connected to their 00:42:49.309 --> 00:42:52.050 technology, which would then capture the photos 00:42:52.050 --> 00:42:55.880 plus will automatically lock the school doors 00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.980 and notify the police so when we talk about and 00:43:00.980 --> 00:43:03.219 this we just created this relationship literally 00:43:03.219 --> 00:43:07.699 we just a few weeks ago but but that's so that's 00:43:07.699 --> 00:43:09.739 what's going to be coming to the market we are 00:43:09.739 --> 00:43:13.019 bringing this we're in the process of of advancing 00:43:13.019 --> 00:43:15.659 our technology so that we can you know with a 00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:17.780 different form factor because a lot of its form 00:43:17.780 --> 00:43:20.599 factor driven connect those two technologies 00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:24.360 together So that you don't have a debate about. 00:43:25.780 --> 00:43:27.780 The Second Amendment is not a debate anymore. 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:29.500 It's not whether you believe there should be 00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:33.280 guns or not. It's not that this saves kids from 00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:36.860 getting killed. This saves children from being 00:43:36.860 --> 00:43:39.500 exposed to violence they don't need to be exposed 00:43:39.500 --> 00:43:43.139 to. So that's what the debate should be. How 00:43:43.139 --> 00:43:46.260 do we prevent this? Yeah, I was going to ask 00:43:46.260 --> 00:43:50.619 you with the admission of that in. connection 00:43:50.619 --> 00:43:55.320 with safe space. I know that that is a common 00:43:55.320 --> 00:43:58.219 argument between the left and right and just 00:43:58.219 --> 00:44:02.699 people in general. Do you see that this this 00:44:02.699 --> 00:44:06.159 invention will really kind of get rid of that 00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:09.719 that argument? Well, let's put it this way, in 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:11.940 my opinion, because I'm very pro Second Amendment. 00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:15.920 I'm very pro responsibility as well being responsible 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:20.019 with the Because I don't see these things as 00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:21.699 gifts you have. I see them as responsibilities 00:44:21.699 --> 00:44:26.039 you have. But listen, we live in a day and age, 00:44:26.099 --> 00:44:27.860 Michael, that I don't think the argument will 00:44:27.860 --> 00:44:30.960 ever go away because it's not about the logical 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:33.739 victory in the argument. It's about victory in 00:44:33.739 --> 00:44:36.119 an argument, not the thing that makes the most 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:38.840 sense, just the thing that person A believes 00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:41.360 and person B believes differently. So I don't 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:43.380 think the argument goes away. I think the logic. 00:44:43.630 --> 00:44:47.309 is different now. I think if I can help you because 00:44:47.309 --> 00:44:49.809 at the end of the day, if you're a parent, you 00:44:49.809 --> 00:44:52.929 may be pro guns or anti guns. Doesn't matter. 00:44:53.429 --> 00:44:54.969 The most important thing is you don't want your 00:44:54.969 --> 00:44:58.309 children getting hurt by guns. Right? Period. 00:44:59.250 --> 00:45:02.949 The whole idea of this is to put you in a situation 00:45:02.949 --> 00:45:07.469 where that concern goes away. My business partner, 00:45:07.630 --> 00:45:09.730 when the recent Florida State shooting, his son 00:45:09.730 --> 00:45:12.590 was barricaded in his room and his son's girlfriend 00:45:12.590 --> 00:45:15.590 was running across the quad trying to avoid the 00:45:15.590 --> 00:45:18.550 shooter. Wow. I mean, this is real life stuff. 00:45:19.010 --> 00:45:21.409 This is real life, yeah. Yeah, and the truth 00:45:21.409 --> 00:45:24.030 is, because my belief is, if somebody's going 00:45:24.030 --> 00:45:26.309 to do something wrong, they're not doing it legally 00:45:26.309 --> 00:45:28.789 anyway. They're doing it illegally anyway. Yes. 00:45:29.000 --> 00:45:34.000 But that's an argument that will always live, 00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:37.380 because people have very strong views. I can't 00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:39.539 change their views, but what I can do is help 00:45:39.539 --> 00:45:42.980 protect their children. And this technology can 00:45:42.980 --> 00:45:44.840 help protect their children. Have the debates 00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:48.039 you want. That's fine. But at the end of the 00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:51.300 day, and I would love to see this help solve 00:45:51.300 --> 00:45:54.039 some of those debates. I mean, it's like when 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:57.099 President Trump got shot in Pennsylvania, we 00:45:57.099 --> 00:46:00.900 could have detected that shooter, not would be, 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.659 but that shooter, as he was pulling up to park 00:46:03.659 --> 00:46:06.239 his car, because we'd have these on the perimeter. 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.940 So there are solutions to big problems, and it 00:46:12.940 --> 00:46:16.090 has to be a big solution. to these big problems. 00:46:16.590 --> 00:46:18.530 And so people will still live in the things they 00:46:18.530 --> 00:46:20.570 debate, the things they believe. And I can't 00:46:20.570 --> 00:46:23.909 impact that. But what I can certainly do is make 00:46:23.909 --> 00:46:26.510 some of the reasons that they debate these things 00:46:26.510 --> 00:46:29.230 less important. Because if we have an opportunity 00:46:29.230 --> 00:46:31.489 to help children, it's our responsibility to 00:46:31.489 --> 00:46:34.929 help them. Yeah, I think that's the most important 00:46:34.929 --> 00:46:38.670 part of it all, is really protecting the youth. 00:46:41.539 --> 00:46:43.800 cliche, but the youth, you know, they are the 00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:46.260 future. I mean, so you really want to protect 00:46:46.260 --> 00:46:49.380 them, you know, their young lives that, you know, 00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.260 that can go on and do amazing things, much like 00:46:52.260 --> 00:46:55.639 your company. If I could add this, think about 00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:58.500 this, Michael, my wife was a schoolteacher, taught 00:46:58.500 --> 00:47:00.860 all levels, including college, but her core was 00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:04.239 she was a third grade teacher. And one year in 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:06.679 her being a teacher, they had 18 bomb threats. 00:47:07.860 --> 00:47:10.079 Just think about that for a minute, 18 bomb threats. 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:13.099 They had to close school down 18 different times. 00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:16.159 Okay, so let's say escalate that. Let's say you 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:18.559 actually have a traumatic shooting or something 00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:21.400 like that. But children, you know, it's fine. 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:23.519 You go back to school the next week, but it doesn't 00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:27.300 mean you don't forget what you experienced. So 00:47:27.300 --> 00:47:31.760 the trauma and the fear that you instill in young 00:47:31.760 --> 00:47:33.920 people at an early age is a fear they shouldn't 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:36.320 have. There's enough things in life to worry 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.840 about. Going to school shouldn't be one of them. 00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:41.860 Yeah, and that's the blessing of this is we have 00:47:41.860 --> 00:47:46.219 an opportunity to impact Then it may be cliche, 00:47:46.340 --> 00:47:48.579 but it's a true statement. That's why it's cliches 00:47:48.579 --> 00:47:52.159 It's true is this is the future of in in this 00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:54.199 country and around the world And our job is to 00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:55.679 protect those young people that are counting 00:47:55.679 --> 00:48:01.340 on us to do that Got that. Yeah, very true So 00:48:01.340 --> 00:48:05.139 you have this the prevention of school safety 00:48:05.139 --> 00:48:07.719 and all that and that that's I think that's amazing 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:10.480 um and then two things that we share you know 00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:14.920 i i survived cancer that's no you have you survived 00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:17.619 cancer that's no longer an issue um and your 00:48:17.619 --> 00:48:20.860 technology can identify cancer as well uh 200 00:48:20.860 --> 00:48:24.619 types of cancer and other diseases um what does 00:48:24.619 --> 00:48:26.639 that look like does that is that a thing that 00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:29.119 you can someone can buy in the future like you 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:33.480 know their home well you know number one congratulations 00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:36.579 on on what you did to overcome it. I'm so proud 00:48:36.579 --> 00:48:38.440 of you and so happy for you and your family for 00:48:38.440 --> 00:48:44.619 that. So being my age, when I say the term Star 00:48:44.619 --> 00:48:46.679 Trek, if you're not my age, you're not thinking 00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:48.760 of the original William Shatner Star Trek. You're 00:48:48.760 --> 00:48:51.880 thinking of a different Star Trek. So in my days, 00:48:51.900 --> 00:48:54.880 they had this thing called a tricorder, and the 00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:57.539 doctor would run it up and down people. Today, 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.019 the device stands about three feet tall, weighs 00:49:00.019 --> 00:49:03.039 under 10 pounds. It's like a golf club almost. 00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:06.280 If you go on the website, you see it where we're 00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.519 going with the technology is it'll it'll look 00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:13.880 more like this like a cell phone in that encapsulated 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:18.539 like that. The idea is this. I lost my mom to 00:49:18.539 --> 00:49:21.539 stage four ovarian cancer. She found out when 00:49:21.539 --> 00:49:25.320 it was stage four ovarian cancer. So the doctor 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:28.719 told her you've got a period of time to live. 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:34.079 That's a traumatic. moment yes so i know that 00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:36.599 for myself my mom she had brain cancer so yeah 00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:39.139 oh buddy i'm so sorry god bless you i'm so so 00:49:39.139 --> 00:49:42.840 sorry um so but it's something you that and it's 00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:44.679 something kind of as a society we've gotten used 00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:46.920 to even though cancer you know people are overcoming 00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:48.880 cancer now when they didn't before it's great 00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:52.780 yeah but we have the ability to detect cancer 00:49:52.780 --> 00:49:56.960 at its earliest stages because remember now it's 00:49:56.960 --> 00:50:00.389 it's a it's a It's a molecular structure. I mean, 00:50:00.510 --> 00:50:04.030 it sings out. It has a frequency. It's still 00:50:04.030 --> 00:50:06.429 there. I mean, the sciences, the physics are 00:50:06.429 --> 00:50:08.570 the same. It's just applied in a different way, 00:50:08.630 --> 00:50:10.329 a different frequency, looking for a different 00:50:10.329 --> 00:50:17.690 thing. So right now, we're looking to announce 00:50:17.690 --> 00:50:19.829 something here shortly with Very Large Cancer 00:50:19.829 --> 00:50:23.269 Research Hospital to start going through our 00:50:23.269 --> 00:50:26.219 FDA studies. And, you know, cause you got to, 00:50:26.219 --> 00:50:27.679 that's a different world. Now you're dealing 00:50:27.679 --> 00:50:29.860 with the FDA, you're dealing with tests, but 00:50:29.860 --> 00:50:32.679 the whole idea, what we would, the great world 00:50:32.679 --> 00:50:35.059 one day is this. You go to your primary care 00:50:35.059 --> 00:50:38.440 physician. Um, they get, they weigh you, they 00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:41.019 take your high, they, they, they take your blood 00:50:41.019 --> 00:50:44.860 pressure and then they scan you. Um, and, and 00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:47.099 it's, it's simple. It's instantaneous. It's not 00:50:47.099 --> 00:50:48.900 invasive. You don't feel anything. It's, you 00:50:48.900 --> 00:50:50.360 could do it over and over again. And like I said, 00:50:50.500 --> 00:50:54.789 it's safer than a wifi router. Um, But if you 00:50:54.789 --> 00:50:57.989 have prostate cancer, all of a sudden they would 00:50:57.989 --> 00:51:00.489 get a reading that, hey, we need to take you 00:51:00.489 --> 00:51:04.150 to that next step. We need to send you to a urologist 00:51:04.150 --> 00:51:08.789 or something. We need to do a PSA on you. But 00:51:08.789 --> 00:51:13.510 now you'll know early. And if you can help someone 00:51:13.510 --> 00:51:16.530 early, you can keep this from progressing in 00:51:16.530 --> 00:51:22.849 most cancers. I mean, you can literally save 00:51:22.849 --> 00:51:25.530 millions of people and you can save the system 00:51:25.530 --> 00:51:29.929 billions of dollars by a very simple, affordable, 00:51:30.289 --> 00:51:34.969 non -invasive scan that we have the capability 00:51:34.969 --> 00:51:38.429 to do today. We're just progressing our tech 00:51:38.429 --> 00:51:40.869 so that we can put it in a form factor that it 00:51:40.869 --> 00:51:44.050 can be done in that setting with. And think about 00:51:44.050 --> 00:51:48.690 this, when I went in for my surgery, it originated 00:51:48.690 --> 00:51:52.469 in my throat. But I had it in a lymph node. And 00:51:52.469 --> 00:51:54.829 you know, being a cancer survivor, when you get 00:51:54.829 --> 00:51:56.590 it in a lymph node, you start to wonder, is it 00:51:56.590 --> 00:51:59.909 in other lymph nodes? Has it traveled somewhere? 00:51:59.909 --> 00:52:04.429 I don't know. And so they took out 28 lymph nodes 00:52:04.429 --> 00:52:07.369 around it and found out it was only in that one 00:52:07.369 --> 00:52:10.429 lymph node. But with technology like this, when 00:52:10.429 --> 00:52:12.190 they took out that one lymph node, they could 00:52:12.190 --> 00:52:15.170 have scanned me and said, hey, there's no more 00:52:15.170 --> 00:52:17.329 cancer. We don't have to take out any more lymph 00:52:17.329 --> 00:52:22.320 nodes. There's so many applications so many applications 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:26.659 in the cancer world Yeah, beyond even put on 00:52:26.659 --> 00:52:29.880 that like it's I was going to I was trying to 00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:32.980 figure out how to Structure this conversation 00:52:32.980 --> 00:52:35.119 because I know I was gonna maybe talk about at 00:52:35.119 --> 00:52:36.579 the beginning But I said no, let's just kind 00:52:36.579 --> 00:52:38.940 of flow the conversation that you kind of you 00:52:38.940 --> 00:52:40.260 know talk about it because you have the more 00:52:40.260 --> 00:52:43.679 of the the skill and the know -how and you know 00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:46.639 what it's all about but there's so many things 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:50.670 that this the the the BMR does, I don't know 00:52:50.670 --> 00:52:55.369 if you do you call it BMR? We call it BMRT. BMRT. 00:52:55.489 --> 00:52:57.230 I mean, yeah, just yeah, just call it BMRT. It's 00:52:57.230 --> 00:52:59.809 easy. If you say that it's easy to say. And you 00:52:59.809 --> 00:53:02.690 can say it. And I don't know exactly what you're 00:53:02.690 --> 00:53:05.909 talking about. Okay. Yeah. So there's many things 00:53:05.909 --> 00:53:10.719 it talked about, you know, warped, weaponized 00:53:10.719 --> 00:53:13.519 drones and DNA and all that kind of stuff that 00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:17.039 I found out. And, you know, we deal with human 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:19.420 trafficking. I know it's said that it can detect 00:53:19.420 --> 00:53:22.380 DNA signatures for human trafficking cases. Is 00:53:22.380 --> 00:53:25.659 that a thing too? Yeah, here's what's fascinating. 00:53:25.860 --> 00:53:29.599 So much of our board is comprised of... John 00:53:29.599 --> 00:53:32.000 Walsh is a friend of mine from the National Center 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:35.800 for Missing and Exploited Children. Okay and 00:53:35.800 --> 00:53:38.460 and Robbie Callaway I sat on his PR committee 00:53:38.460 --> 00:53:40.659 for his board of directors Robbie Callaway who's 00:53:40.659 --> 00:53:44.699 chairman of our board was one of the original 00:53:44.699 --> 00:53:47.219 founding board members was the original founding 00:53:47.219 --> 00:53:49.880 board member with the national center and Robbie 00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:52.019 as somebody might you know when we built the 00:53:52.019 --> 00:53:54.579 board quite frankly I remember we were building 00:53:54.579 --> 00:53:57.320 the board and I said look it's not people we 00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:00.949 trust my dad. And who's a hero of mine was the 00:54:00.949 --> 00:54:03.269 chief of staff at the time, Senator Strom Thurman, 00:54:03.309 --> 00:54:05.150 the longest serving senator at the time in the 00:54:05.150 --> 00:54:07.389 history of America. And my dad had been with 00:54:07.389 --> 00:54:09.389 him for 30 years was his chief of staff. And 00:54:09.389 --> 00:54:11.409 I remember telling my business partner, look, 00:54:11.409 --> 00:54:13.489 we don't need people we trust. We need people 00:54:13.489 --> 00:54:16.969 my dad could trust. Because these are people 00:54:16.969 --> 00:54:20.329 that have deep roots, a bigger understanding 00:54:20.329 --> 00:54:24.150 of bureaucracies. And so Robbie, I reached out 00:54:24.150 --> 00:54:28.239 to Robbie immediately and said, listen, We have 00:54:28.239 --> 00:54:32.019 something very special very unique and I need 00:54:32.019 --> 00:54:34.659 to I need to protect it well, but I need we need 00:54:34.659 --> 00:54:38.440 to steward it well There's a lot of stewardship 00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:41.519 in this because it can have such a big impact 00:54:41.519 --> 00:54:46.139 for people in their life So so one of them that 00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:48.780 being said the the human trafficking a lot of 00:54:48.780 --> 00:54:51.719 our a lot of our board members are also Connected 00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:53.659 to the National Center for Missing and Sported 00:54:53.659 --> 00:54:57.130 Children Just wonderful, wonderful people. I 00:54:57.130 --> 00:54:59.190 mean, it's a blessing every day we interact. 00:54:59.929 --> 00:55:01.750 But one of the things that we have always said 00:55:01.750 --> 00:55:05.710 is we can detect DNA. And when Israel got hit, 00:55:06.170 --> 00:55:08.289 I'll just give you kind of a story. When Israel 00:55:08.289 --> 00:55:12.969 got hit, I got a call from somebody there that 00:55:12.969 --> 00:55:15.170 said, can you detect DNA? Because remember, at 00:55:15.170 --> 00:55:17.329 the time, they had like 100 prisoners. I mean, 00:55:17.369 --> 00:55:21.849 they had 100 hostages, forgive me. And so i said 00:55:21.849 --> 00:55:24.210 yeah we can do dna and the individual said have 00:55:24.210 --> 00:55:27.349 you ever done it before and i said no but we 00:55:27.349 --> 00:55:30.989 can do dna it's a molecular structure. We can 00:55:30.989 --> 00:55:34.690 detect everything but light. And we have a we 00:55:34.690 --> 00:55:37.150 have a protocol for for understanding what frequencies 00:55:37.150 --> 00:55:39.670 are so with respect to him because he was right 00:55:39.670 --> 00:55:45.320 he said do it and then let me know. And so, and 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:47.400 our engineering team loves this stuff. So when 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:49.019 we give them something new to do, we said, hey, 00:55:49.059 --> 00:55:53.739 go find, let's prove we can do DNA. So it's very 00:55:53.739 --> 00:55:55.980 quick. I mean, they immediately started swabbing 00:55:55.980 --> 00:55:58.539 people, right? And to get their DNA. And then 00:55:58.539 --> 00:56:02.179 we took one person and we got the frequency for 00:56:02.179 --> 00:56:07.199 that one person. That one swab. What is the frequency 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:11.139 for that swab? I mean, it's deep, deep science 00:56:11.139 --> 00:56:13.760 stuff. But the stories, the overview of the stories 00:56:13.760 --> 00:56:17.920 make it sound so simple. It's not. And so then 00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:20.619 it was as simple as, OK, so let's take the different 00:56:20.619 --> 00:56:23.599 slides with the swabs on them and put them in 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:26.960 front of the detection. And nothing, nothing, 00:56:27.139 --> 00:56:28.980 nothing. And then the one that you have the frequency 00:56:28.980 --> 00:56:31.500 on goes off. But the real secret is now walk 00:56:31.500 --> 00:56:34.980 the people in front of it. And so you start walking 00:56:34.980 --> 00:56:37.460 people in front of it. And the one where we have 00:56:37.460 --> 00:56:40.320 the frequency every time went off and the others 00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:45.750 did not. And so so we can do DNA and if you if 00:56:45.750 --> 00:56:49.630 you just envision this is future thinking but 00:56:49.630 --> 00:56:51.929 you gotta live in the future thinking of life 00:56:51.929 --> 00:56:54.889 right you have to live about where you're going 00:56:54.889 --> 00:56:56.929 not just where you are because you'll never get 00:56:56.929 --> 00:56:58.550 anywhere if you just live where you where you're 00:56:58.550 --> 00:57:02.530 going. And and so you can literally we can set 00:57:02.530 --> 00:57:06.929 up a web of these sensors just look at it that 00:57:06.929 --> 00:57:10.329 way is an easy way to say it. Throughout a city. 00:57:10.570 --> 00:57:12.670 throughout a community. I mean, you have cameras 00:57:12.670 --> 00:57:17.590 at every light now. You have lights along the 00:57:17.590 --> 00:57:21.710 road. You could put these anywhere. And if we 00:57:21.710 --> 00:57:24.510 had a database that had your child's, let's say, 00:57:24.630 --> 00:57:29.250 DNA, and it was in a database that we had the 00:57:29.250 --> 00:57:31.849 frequency, and something happened to your child 00:57:31.849 --> 00:57:35.929 and they were taken from wherever, and you went 00:57:35.929 --> 00:57:38.289 into a system and said, hey, my child's been 00:57:38.289 --> 00:57:43.030 taken. It's kind of like when you get an amber 00:57:43.030 --> 00:57:47.070 alert today. And then we literally could have 00:57:47.070 --> 00:57:52.090 our sensors tuned to that frequency and start 00:57:52.090 --> 00:57:54.530 identifying if somebody's taking them down the 00:57:54.530 --> 00:57:58.530 road, start identifying where they are and then 00:57:58.530 --> 00:58:03.250 follow them through the system. And yeah, I mean, 00:58:03.250 --> 00:58:05.510 the future is unbelievable that you can wrap 00:58:05.510 --> 00:58:07.730 your arms around these kinds of things. But yes, 00:58:07.730 --> 00:58:12.599 we can do DNA, um and it's not just finding someone 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:15.599 that's lost but but identifying somebody that 00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:20.039 doesn't belong somewhere yeah because if somebody 00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:22.760 that doesn't belong in a school yeah there was 00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:25.619 been arrested for the wrong things yeah i was 00:58:25.619 --> 00:58:27.199 that's why i said in the beginning of the conversation 00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:29.480 like i really feel like we were talking about 00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:32.170 the future now in this conversation, which is 00:58:32.170 --> 00:58:34.849 very like, even before this, you know, we started 00:58:34.849 --> 00:58:37.769 the podcast was so interesting to me what this 00:58:37.769 --> 00:58:42.210 thing can do. And I think that, you know, it 00:58:42.210 --> 00:58:45.090 can handle a lot of things. It's all a lot of 00:58:45.090 --> 00:58:48.349 things. But do you do you think that there will 00:58:48.349 --> 00:58:52.349 be people that will be against that idea that, 00:58:52.349 --> 00:58:55.829 you know, you can look at people's DNA and all 00:58:55.829 --> 00:58:58.409 that kind of stuff? Oh, yeah, I mean, because, 00:58:58.570 --> 00:59:02.050 yeah, of course, and understandably so, too. 00:59:02.329 --> 00:59:03.909 I mean, when you're talking about DNA, you're 00:59:03.909 --> 00:59:06.210 talking about something very split. I mean, if 00:59:06.210 --> 00:59:08.329 somebody, I mean, today, if somebody came to 00:59:08.329 --> 00:59:12.090 us and said, my child's been abducted, I think, 00:59:12.190 --> 00:59:14.030 and they're in this area and we got a DNA, we 00:59:14.030 --> 00:59:15.829 could at least know the frequency to help law 00:59:15.829 --> 00:59:18.849 enforcement in that process. Listen, I think 00:59:18.849 --> 00:59:20.409 when you look at it this way, so the question 00:59:20.409 --> 00:59:23.849 may be bigger, and it's a good question. It's 00:59:23.849 --> 00:59:27.059 the ability to do so many things. There's also 00:59:27.059 --> 00:59:30.099 dangerous things that can result from it. Right. 00:59:30.400 --> 00:59:33.320 That's the question. Of course it is. And it's 00:59:33.320 --> 00:59:36.000 more than a fair question. That's why responsibility 00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.679 in this makes a big difference. It's much like 00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:42.820 this is a very dangerous weapon when used wrong. 00:59:43.139 --> 00:59:46.800 It's a very cellular technology. What can a child 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:50.219 access on their parent's cell phone or the internet? 00:59:52.019 --> 00:59:54.019 Weapons are good and they're bad depending on 00:59:54.019 --> 00:59:57.190 who's carrying them. The Internet is good and 00:59:57.190 --> 00:59:59.630 bad depending on not only who's using it, but 00:59:59.630 --> 01:00:01.829 what's being pushed through it to the person 01:00:01.829 --> 01:00:05.510 who's using it. I think every great innovation 01:00:05.510 --> 01:00:08.510 carries these blessings and these things you 01:00:08.510 --> 01:00:11.809 have to be careful of. Every great innovation. 01:00:13.530 --> 01:00:16.690 Manned flight is one of the most incredible things 01:00:16.690 --> 01:00:19.610 in the world, unless it crashes into the World 01:00:19.610 --> 01:00:24.019 Trade Center. Every great innovation has these 01:00:24.019 --> 01:00:26.860 incredible pluses and some of these minuses that 01:00:26.860 --> 01:00:30.900 are devastating. That's why I use the word steward. 01:00:32.219 --> 01:00:35.960 This is so important that this is stewarded properly. 01:00:36.980 --> 01:00:41.500 This is not something you have China build. Right 01:00:41.500 --> 01:00:44.280 this is not something you share technology with 01:00:44.280 --> 01:00:47.179 the rest of the world one in certain aspects 01:00:47.179 --> 01:00:49.780 of this technology this is not technology that 01:00:49.780 --> 01:00:53.260 that that you create so that people can steal 01:00:53.260 --> 01:00:56.300 it if somebody cracks it open you want it to 01:00:56.300 --> 01:01:00.280 self destruct so to speak. Because it's as long 01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:05.639 as you're mindful of. As in any technology the 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:09.460 the downside to it the upside is so great you 01:01:09.460 --> 01:01:13.170 have to protect. From the downside of it and 01:01:13.170 --> 01:01:16.869 that's why I think where how you use it who uses 01:01:16.869 --> 01:01:20.409 it where you use it. Is can be a great blessing 01:01:20.409 --> 01:01:23.210 to save a lot of people and that's how it has 01:01:23.210 --> 01:01:27.010 to be implemented. Yeah yeah answer that because 01:01:27.010 --> 01:01:30.349 I get the question I I think it to believe me. 01:01:30.530 --> 01:01:32.989 Yeah I know it definitely does I mean I think 01:01:32.989 --> 01:01:35.929 about you know a fork is a fork you know to eat 01:01:35.929 --> 01:01:38.949 spaghetti until you use it to jab somebody you 01:01:38.949 --> 01:01:42.800 know I'm saying so. Everything has a responsibility. 01:01:43.199 --> 01:01:47.679 I think the person that is stewarding that responsibility, 01:01:49.239 --> 01:01:51.219 you take the weight of, you know, making sure 01:01:51.219 --> 01:01:53.099 it's doing it correctly. And I think... Well, 01:01:53.099 --> 01:01:55.480 and if you think of cancer, if you think of cancer 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.639 detection, it's not because some people ask this, 01:01:58.639 --> 01:02:00.420 well, what about Big Pharma? What are they going 01:02:00.420 --> 01:02:03.219 to do to you? It's not about trying to take on 01:02:03.219 --> 01:02:06.039 Big Pharma. The reality is if I can help detect 01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:10.320 cancer earlier, means we can put people in a 01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:13.179 situation in a medical setting that I'm not a 01:02:13.179 --> 01:02:18.400 part of that helps cure their cancer or save 01:02:18.400 --> 01:02:20.980 their life earlier. And that's where Big Pharma 01:02:20.980 --> 01:02:23.579 and these other medical devices come into play. 01:02:23.820 --> 01:02:26.340 My job is not to challenge them. My job is to 01:02:26.340 --> 01:02:30.019 help them do their jobs better, more efficiently, 01:02:30.139 --> 01:02:33.480 and faster, right? Because we know the longer 01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:35.199 you have cancer, the more likely that there is 01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:38.039 to die of cancer. If I can catch it early, You 01:02:38.039 --> 01:02:43.019 can live longer. And so when you have a device 01:02:43.019 --> 01:02:45.760 that will be used in a cancer setting, it's not 01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:48.780 the same device that will be used in a gun setting. 01:02:49.179 --> 01:02:51.320 It's a different frequency. It has a different 01:02:51.320 --> 01:02:55.280 wave form factor. It's a totally different device. 01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:57.800 And you can't modify one of them to do the other 01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:00.900 thing. So it can't be modified to do something 01:03:00.900 --> 01:03:03.820 different. i like it i mean i think it's it's 01:03:03.820 --> 01:03:06.059 you know people you know talking about ai and 01:03:06.059 --> 01:03:08.460 ai has its arguments with people and people you 01:03:08.460 --> 01:03:11.579 know great about ai or people don't like ai it's 01:03:11.579 --> 01:03:16.480 a thing everything new has its um you know its 01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:19.380 journey and people either they rail against it 01:03:19.380 --> 01:03:22.639 or they they love it but you i mean just recently 01:03:22.639 --> 01:03:25.159 what i'm finding out in edison you got an edison 01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:29.260 award nomination and yeah that was that was go 01:03:29.260 --> 01:03:31.300 ahead No, I was going to say, it's like, you 01:03:31.300 --> 01:03:36.059 know, like, that's the Nvidia, Tesla, Apple. 01:03:37.579 --> 01:03:40.019 And isn't it I mean, isn't that crazy? Is that 01:03:40.019 --> 01:03:43.280 amazing? Yeah, it's it's an absolute honor. And 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:46.280 it's not even one we applied for. We were notified. 01:03:46.920 --> 01:03:50.940 It was a scientist over in the UK. And then we 01:03:50.940 --> 01:03:55.780 got notified from medicine that we were a nominee. 01:03:56.110 --> 01:03:58.409 For the Edison Award note, the nice thing, the 01:03:58.409 --> 01:04:00.690 neat thing about the Edison Award, it's not like 01:04:00.690 --> 01:04:07.030 their nomination process is that people submit 01:04:07.030 --> 01:04:09.670 nominations. And in most things, then you say, 01:04:09.809 --> 01:04:11.570 OK, you've been nominated. That's not how Edison 01:04:11.570 --> 01:04:14.050 works. You submit these nominations, then they 01:04:14.050 --> 01:04:16.670 call through those and they get rid of X number 01:04:16.670 --> 01:04:18.829 and they say, OK, now these are the people that 01:04:18.829 --> 01:04:21.789 are nominated. So you have to even win a nomination. 01:04:22.489 --> 01:04:25.030 And it's that kind of thing. So it was an honor. 01:04:25.090 --> 01:04:26.909 It was an honor because the people that have 01:04:26.909 --> 01:04:30.489 won the various Edison Awards in the past and 01:04:30.489 --> 01:04:34.130 to be included in that category is an absolute 01:04:34.130 --> 01:04:36.750 honor. And all I can do is give credit to our 01:04:36.750 --> 01:04:42.809 team, my business partner, our board. And you 01:04:42.809 --> 01:04:46.570 take very little. This is that team thing. Everyone 01:04:46.570 --> 01:04:49.010 contributed to something significant. So yeah, 01:04:49.010 --> 01:04:51.730 it's a special honor. So thank you for that. 01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:56.260 Yeah, I think it's amazing. I think what you've 01:04:56.260 --> 01:05:00.460 created and going into partnership with Lee, 01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:04.639 Lee Duke, I think it's probably the perfect partnership 01:05:04.639 --> 01:05:07.099 for something like this from what I'm gathering. 01:05:08.199 --> 01:05:11.059 And I think it's going to be a great thing. And 01:05:11.059 --> 01:05:16.159 I'm excited to have talked to you before it goes, 01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:20.699 you know. public public um and it's just an honor 01:05:20.699 --> 01:05:24.000 for me um to have you on thank you so what's 01:05:24.000 --> 01:05:26.099 what is what what's next what's the next step 01:05:26.099 --> 01:05:30.179 for what you're doing well we just we just concluded 01:05:30.179 --> 01:05:32.400 a government sponsored test and this one i'm 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:34.820 very limited one i can say because it was very 01:05:34.820 --> 01:05:38.940 very specific combatant command um but the government 01:05:38.940 --> 01:05:42.619 sponsored the test And it was a different world. 01:05:42.719 --> 01:05:45.199 I mean, when you do an academic test, it's received 01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:48.000 in the private sector very well. When you do 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:51.239 a government sponsored test, then because the 01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:53.099 government, what government different entities 01:05:53.099 --> 01:05:56.300 will say is, have we ever tested it? Right that's 01:05:56.300 --> 01:05:58.219 great to have an academic test have we ever tested 01:05:58.219 --> 01:06:01.000 so we got a call from the specific group that 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.699 was had been attempting to do something for a 01:06:03.699 --> 01:06:06.539 period of time number of years and had no success 01:06:06.539 --> 01:06:08.639 and they asked us if we would be a part of their 01:06:08.639 --> 01:06:11.440 test and we said sure because I mean that we 01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:15.409 are are are. Our personal directive is listen 01:06:15.409 --> 01:06:17.570 we need to get this to the masses as quickly 01:06:17.570 --> 01:06:20.329 as possible people need to benefit from this 01:06:20.329 --> 01:06:22.309 We don't need to have something we talk about 01:06:22.309 --> 01:06:24.829 we need to have something people live and can 01:06:24.829 --> 01:06:28.809 benefit for their families with and so We said 01:06:28.809 --> 01:06:31.250 yes, we would do it. We went out for a couple 01:06:31.250 --> 01:06:34.769 days and a one of America's premier testing facilities 01:06:34.769 --> 01:06:36.829 There's a lot of this stuff. I can't say so I'll 01:06:36.829 --> 01:06:41.030 say all I can and we some of the detections we 01:06:41.030 --> 01:06:45.039 did five stories underground. It's never been 01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:46.679 done before in history. And the only reason we 01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:48.320 didn't go six stories is they couldn't. They 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:50.300 had the ability to go five stories underground. 01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:54.139 That was it. We did 20 kilometers. The furthest 01:06:54.139 --> 01:06:56.000 I think they'd ever detected what they were trying 01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:58.139 to do was 100 meters. And we were able to do 01:06:58.139 --> 01:07:00.320 20 kilometers. And the reason we had to stop 01:07:00.320 --> 01:07:02.659 at 20 kilometers is there was no more test range 01:07:02.659 --> 01:07:04.579 to go back on. We'd have been in the highway. 01:07:05.340 --> 01:07:09.780 So we had this remarkable result, which is now 01:07:09.780 --> 01:07:13.300 progressing to a different place. We're blessed 01:07:13.300 --> 01:07:17.480 that it got a lot of attention. But when I think 01:07:17.480 --> 01:07:21.840 about where we are and where we're going, it 01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:25.260 is one of those moments in your life. And it 01:07:25.260 --> 01:07:26.500 goes back to what I said in the very beginning. 01:07:26.579 --> 01:07:28.519 You don't sleep at night. You don't sleep at 01:07:28.519 --> 01:07:31.619 night, not because of the financial value this 01:07:31.619 --> 01:07:34.539 has. I started sleeping at night a long time 01:07:34.539 --> 01:07:39.320 ago. professionally like that it's it's the impact 01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:41.460 you know when i talk to people that will say 01:07:41.460 --> 01:07:44.360 listen my son was in a school shooting you sit 01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:46.679 and think man i wish this had been in the world. 01:07:47.340 --> 01:07:50.219 When that before that happened it's it's when 01:07:50.219 --> 01:07:54.409 somebody sends their child off to war may. Boy 01:07:54.409 --> 01:07:57.050 or girl doesn't matter they're there they're 01:07:57.050 --> 01:07:59.829 still their child that they're sending into war 01:07:59.829 --> 01:08:02.929 and they get blown up by an ID and if they're 01:08:02.929 --> 01:08:05.429 fortunate enough to come home but if they come 01:08:05.429 --> 01:08:08.389 home with one leg or no legs you said they say 01:08:08.389 --> 01:08:12.289 I wish this had existed then when you had your 01:08:12.289 --> 01:08:15.730 cancer when when your mom went through her experience 01:08:15.730 --> 01:08:18.430 when. When my mom went through hers, and when 01:08:18.430 --> 01:08:20.430 you and I went through their experiences with 01:08:20.430 --> 01:08:23.329 them, you think, gosh, I wish this had been available 01:08:23.329 --> 01:08:26.510 to them then. And you start thinking about how 01:08:26.510 --> 01:08:30.750 life could be so different, had something as 01:08:30.750 --> 01:08:33.890 unique as this, because it is truly one of one. 01:08:34.170 --> 01:08:37.630 No one else in the world has this. How unique 01:08:37.630 --> 01:08:40.989 this one thing could impact so many people, because 01:08:40.989 --> 01:08:43.369 it's not the person with cancer, it's their family, 01:08:43.670 --> 01:08:46.619 it's their friends. It's everyone around them. 01:08:47.340 --> 01:08:50.380 And so our whole job today is to get this into 01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:53.340 the market as quickly as possible, to benefit 01:08:53.340 --> 01:08:57.539 as many people as possible, just to make the 01:08:57.539 --> 01:09:00.699 world safer, people healthier, and to save a 01:09:00.699 --> 01:09:03.779 lot of untold pain and suffering. I love that. 01:09:03.939 --> 01:09:08.300 I love that. Yeah, I think about, you know, when 01:09:08.300 --> 01:09:10.600 you were saying that, I was thinking about, had 01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:13.770 it been, you know, around when you know when 01:09:13.770 --> 01:09:15.970 i was going through her thing and so forth and 01:09:15.970 --> 01:09:19.250 so on but i think it's i i can't wait for to 01:09:19.250 --> 01:09:22.289 see how it really you know manifests in the world 01:09:22.289 --> 01:09:26.310 um as it already has but um for you to be the 01:09:26.310 --> 01:09:28.470 leader of that i you know i truly appreciate 01:09:28.470 --> 01:09:31.449 you um for doing that thank you world and brent 01:09:31.449 --> 01:09:36.970 being a um just really being a uh uh i can't 01:09:36.970 --> 01:09:39.090 think of the word right now No, I'm missing the 01:09:39.090 --> 01:09:41.770 word. No, it's okay. Well, listen, so from Lee 01:09:41.770 --> 01:09:44.890 and I both, because it is very much of a team 01:09:44.890 --> 01:09:47.529 effort from Lee and I and our board and our team, 01:09:48.069 --> 01:09:50.850 just thank you. Thank you for giving me the moment 01:09:50.850 --> 01:09:55.329 to share that, but most importantly, to encourage 01:09:55.329 --> 01:09:59.729 people, your listeners, about their life, about 01:09:59.729 --> 01:10:03.479 their journey there on. The visions they have 01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:05.920 when i wrote my first book there were five attributes 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:08.119 that i talked about vision courage perseverance 01:10:08.119 --> 01:10:11.220 responsibility character. And that great leaders 01:10:11.220 --> 01:10:14.039 if you kind of do a deep dive with them not leaders 01:10:14.039 --> 01:10:16.960 cuz there's bad leaders to so great leaders good 01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:20.220 good leaders. They have the similar principles 01:10:20.220 --> 01:10:22.520 in the similar attributes of leadership that 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:27.699 they share. And just so just know i mean i always 01:10:27.699 --> 01:10:29.840 love talking about what we do professionally 01:10:29.840 --> 01:10:33.060 but i. To be able to share with your audience 01:10:33.060 --> 01:10:35.239 and number you know that the things they can 01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:38.140 do personally in their life to to accomplish 01:10:38.140 --> 01:10:40.159 their goals and their dreams and their hopes 01:10:40.159 --> 01:10:42.899 hope is a powerful force in human nature. And 01:10:42.899 --> 01:10:45.500 if you wake up every day with it it's great but 01:10:45.500 --> 01:10:48.100 and lastly just to you i'm so proud of you i 01:10:48.100 --> 01:10:51.619 know i'm so proud of what you do and the the 01:10:51.619 --> 01:10:54.239 message you bring to people through your podcast 01:10:54.239 --> 01:10:57.979 and your your your your easy to talk to buddy 01:10:57.979 --> 01:11:00.470 so thank you. Thank you, Bill. Thank you. Thank 01:11:00.470 --> 01:11:03.550 you for being such a contribution to the podcast, 01:11:03.609 --> 01:11:07.409 to the world. And it's just been a pleasure talking 01:11:07.409 --> 01:11:09.310 to you. I mean, I could go longer, but I know 01:11:09.310 --> 01:11:11.750 it's within the hour or so. It's past the hour 01:11:11.750 --> 01:11:14.390 or so. I don't want to kill the time. But thank 01:11:14.390 --> 01:11:17.810 you so much for sharing what you're up to. What 01:11:17.810 --> 01:11:21.829 BMRT is really contributing as well to the humanity. 01:11:22.689 --> 01:11:25.770 And I just want to say thank you. Thank you. 01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:29.520 to all our listeners watches. I don't know, can 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:31.260 people connect with you? Do you have a website 01:11:31.260 --> 01:11:33.140 or anything? Oh, sure. Yeah, let me I'll make 01:11:33.140 --> 01:11:39.300 it really easy. So if you go to BMRT .io, my 01:11:39.300 --> 01:11:40.840 email is on there, but I'll just tell you this, 01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:45.479 but mine's easy. It's bobo at BMRT .io. And, 01:11:46.420 --> 01:11:50.760 and sincerely, I have this big belief that if 01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:53.340 you've been blessed in life, you've got to share 01:11:53.340 --> 01:11:54.899 that with other people, and you've got to share 01:11:54.899 --> 01:11:57.239 that message and encourage people. And I think 01:11:57.239 --> 01:11:59.180 there's always enough time in a day to be able 01:11:59.180 --> 01:12:02.600 to do that. I mean, none of us are so good. Believe 01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:07.359 me, none of us are that good. And it's an opportunity. 01:12:07.739 --> 01:12:09.399 So yeah, people are free to get and you can go 01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:12.619 to our website and you can find me and just God 01:12:12.619 --> 01:12:14.600 bless you and everything that you're doing to 01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:16.760 impact so many people, Michael, into your audience 01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:19.159 as well. Thank you. Thank you, Beau. And with 01:12:19.159 --> 01:12:22.220 that, we'll say, as we always say, make thriving 01:12:22.220 --> 01:12:25.079 our new normal. And we'll see you on the next 01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:28.020 podcast. Thank you. Thank you.