Oh.

Um, it's, it's, uh, it still is functional in the way that, like, I still do free comprehensive cases, but I've stopped trying to grow it for a lot of re- anyways, back up to when it started though, I was doing a, um, a mastermind with a guy named Patrick Bet-David, who's kinda popular.

He's out of Florida.

Um, but he's like a super, like, hoity-toity businessman, and he's been on Rogan a few times, and he offered this mastermind.

And I was like, "I'm gonna join this mastermind.

It costs money, a lot of money, but I get one-on-ones with this, like, super smart guy." And looking at my stuff, he was like, "Brady, you need to be on TikTok, and you need to be the brand of your charity.

And you don't need to try to sell the charity, you need to sell you." And so I was like, at the time, I was like, "I don't think TikTok...

Yes.

Full circle

... as to my, my history so that, like now I, I'm not part of Comfort Dental.

Uh, about five years ago I bought myself out, and so now my practice is just owned by me and my partner.

We're a private group practice.

So we can do whatever we want now.

We don't have any parameters, so we could hire a hygienist tomorrow.

I've interviewed no less than 15 over the last five years.

Yeah

Yep

... an investigator, so you can't ever, like, make your case to somebody.

But I remember talking to the investigator being like, "You saw the video, right?" He's like, "Yeah." I was like, "And you, what do you think about that?" He's like, "I thought it was funny." I was like, "Yeah.

So it's not real.

It's not a real thing." He's like, "I know, I know." But as a...

And the investigator even admitted to me, like, "As absurd as it is, this is my job.

They're, they tell me to investigate this, and I have to investigate this." So-

I'll, I'll have to look that up.

Interesting.

And I kind of bought that and I still buy into that to a certain degree.

There are some bad patients, but I let them prove it to me when they're in my office.

I don't base it off what insurance that they have.

So if they have some kind of capitation program or HMO plan or something like that, And I feel like there's always a way to make money because there's always a problem with the insurance where it doesn't cover something or they run out of benefits and we still have work to do.

And so there's always, you know, there's always a give and take.

And then plus they're in my chair.

Right.

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...

I gotta do it again.

I gotta keep going.

This is great.

And I didn't really have any other goal other than just to promote myself.

I, I, I've never really been like, "Come to my dental office.

Do you have like a bank, or is it just comes when it hits you and you're on? Are you scripting things? How do you prepare your content?

Talk about that.

Yeah, so we're sitting there.

I'm sitting in a chair, and Dad's walking back, pacing behind all the cars.

And we hear Mom.

We're all watching our phones, and we hear Mom scream from up top on the deck.

And she just comes.

Dad taps me on the shoulder.

minnows and leeches.

Rather than me explaining it, what is, what is the Patriot Academy Leadership Congress?

Uh, Leadership Congress is the most realistic simulated legislative session for students 16 to 25 years old.

You get to actually come to a state capitol or to the Patriot Academy campus.

You get to experience the life of a legislator.

So you bring your own bill.

You work it through the committee process.

You get it onto the House floor and debate it back and forth with your fellow legislators, and all the while, we train the, the students in, uh, biblical worldview, uh, the legislative process, communication skills.

What would you say to parents about this being a place that, that, th- that would be a good place to send their student, uh, next summer if, if this July is obviously too late?

So how about those two things?

Yes, sir.

So taking you back to districts, I mean, We were the three seed coming in, and we had a joke going around that the three seed's always going to come out on top after the basketball, after our basketball team won districts as the three seed.

So we kind of just carried that momentum in and realized that, hey, everybody's saying Gainesville's better than us, Alton's better than us.

That wasn't the case.

But everybody, we played a lot of tough competition to get us ready for the for the Gainesville game and the Alton game in the district.

We played like Willard, Fatima, and Carthage, another big school.

What did you like about them?

No, it's so accurate.

But it's the perfect word to just...

It, it really is.

It's the perfect word to describe-A majority of the people that I interacted with on that show, you know? Um, Chris Pratt was hilarious.

Nick Offerman was, is wonderful and cool and open.

I mean, they were all just very, very nice.

Um, but Amy, you know, we had several scenes together, and it was hard not to break character and laugh.

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Yeah

...

it was around this time that I, I had been married for a year or two.

I really had no direction.

Um, I mean, I, I had a job, but I was miserable, like panic attacks, wanting to walk out all the time.

But it was just a desk job computer with adults, and you could look down the cubicles and kind of see your future a little bit.

And at that point in my life, it really scared me.

Mm-hmm.