do you think?

There's a little bit of both.

I think we're both over indexing on a single fight and failing to learn the lessons.

But on the positive, I've seen a lot of good movement in the last year and a half, two years.

where three years ago when this thing was still kind of like, is this real? Is this a flash in the pan? It was an unpopular opinion that drone warfare is the future of warfare.

There's a lot of, hey, this is just toys.

Like that quote of just toys was one of the things surrounding Replicator and Hellscape is that it was not taken seriously at start.

Last words to

Am I right that True Blue started in 2015? Is that when you guys first? No, I mean, we've been around a

lot longer than that.

That may be when we first kind of organized i don't know exactly when we did andy how we started and i've told y'all this before i don't want to speak about the people but i worked some games um for a one of the assigners here and i thought i was getting one fee in my mind because that's what we had made all summer and i ended up getting a lesser fee and i just told him i would not work for that again and then the next year the tournament director for the Music City Classics called and wanted us.

That's when they started.

So if you look back and find out when they started, that's kind of when we started because he was going to do an elite showcase tournament and he wanted collegiate umpires.

And so me and Alfredo Burkine actually worked their first games.

They had like an 18.

So is that a good summary of sort of the current system and how TrueBlue has improved it?

Give the audience a little context and then we can dive into how it can help.

Well, first and foremost, we're an insurance company, but that's a boring thing to talk about.

Nobody wants to talk about burying their mother, right? You know, nobody wants to talk about that.

And so what I'm really passionate about, Evan, is helping people that are living with abusive alcoholics.

And how all this happened was I have a young lady who works for me, been with me for years.

I never knew that there was any kind of a problem.

She calls me back in January of 2025, and she's crying.

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And he'd always look me in the eyes and say, "How you doing, Mr. Wright?" I loved this kid.

He, he was just impressive, and all the other kids respected him and liked him too.

But halfway through the semester, he disappears.

And I wondered where he was.

He had never missed class.

And, uh, I called up his, his buddy, one of his buddies, AC, and I said, "AC, come here." I said, "Hey, where's Greg?" And he just shook his head and he's like, "Don't worry about it." And I said, "I am worried about it." And he said, "Don't worry about it," and he turned and sat down.

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What does it do to a society or a population when you make people feel like victims? What kind of effect does that have on a society?

Well, it's a great question.

I mean, there are some people who actually are victims.

And then there is the use of victim and victim language for other purposes.

And one of the things I think is just compelling and it's clear, I mean, we understand the history of the country.

We know, in fact, that these are multi-generational impacts.

But, you know, obviously there's a whole substructure that is emerged to use victimhood as a way of getting economic benefits or other types of privileges.

We

What does it do to a society or a population when you make people feel like victims? What kind of effect does that have on a society?

Well, it's a great question.

I mean, there are some people who actually are victims.

And then there is the use of victim and victim language for other purposes.

And one of the things I think is just compelling and it's clear, I mean, we understand the history of the country.

We know, in fact, that these are multi-generational impacts.

But Obviously, there's a whole substructure that has emerged to use victimhood as a way of getting economic benefits or other types of privileges.

Is that something that you think really, really needs to be impressed upon young people as we see what's happening in the news right now?