Tell me about those operations and how they run the right way.

Sure.

Well, the, the second thing I would add, and, and this is, uh, you know, 'cause it's, you know, a little bit of inside baseball, but since we're talking about it, you know, I've not only experienced on the water at, at the, what we would call the deck plate level, but also at the, the operational, you know, for, for those, uh, uh, who know ball, the operational level of war, so to speak, uh, when I worked at Joint Interagency Task Force South, which is, you know, sort of the, the gold standard of interagency operations.

And in that job, I also, you know, oversaw all of the Coast Guard, uh, uh, a- actually all of the surface, uh, and air assets in the Caribbean and Atlantic theater who were going after, uh, counter-narcotics cases.

So not only the US Coast Guard, but the US Navy, our British and Dutch counterpart and French counterparts, you know, all, all manner of, uh, both international and interagency, uh, partners that have units.

You know, it was, uh, super interesting and, and fun job.

You know, many days it felt like a game of, uh, the battleship.

Um, I do wanna ask one question for you about your run in terms of, what have you learned about running for office that has surprised you? Uh, and does that lead to something that says, "Hey, maybe more veterans should run"? Um, has the experience been something that has taught you quite a bit?

Where are you going to really make a specific concrete policy difference for Floridians? We're thinking a lot about their pocketbooks right now.

Sure.

Well, let's let's start.

Number one, Brian Mass is chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

He's, you know, in defensible respects, the chief architect of the Iran war in Congress.

Right.

And he spends a lot of his time cheerleading that effort.

But that's not going to give you enough money to fix it in the long