Schertz

Well, we're gonna learn from you, and we're gonna have fun doing so.

But we always start with an easy question, and kinda just a easy layup to get the podcast started, and it's this: If I was to visit you guys in Schertz, Texas, where I know you guys are based, what would you say, "Mitchell, you need to eat this and do this to experience Schertz, Texas"?

Oh, wow.

So we were-- uh, my students and I just, in class just yesterday we, we were talking about food in Texas.

You gotta do this."

Oh, okay.

So Schertz is in outside of San Antonio, but it's well within the metropolitan area of it.

Okay.

Got it.

And he was from Schertz, Texas, okay? Just north of San Antonio, just south of New Braunfels.

And we get paired up, and we are the exact opposites, okay? Couldn't be more different.

He has posters that look like nothing until you turn off the b- light and turn on the black light, then it's, like, mushrooms coming out of clouds, and, like, weird.

If I was in the room, he'd drop his stuff off, he would leave.

How's it going, Turtlehead?

And Schertz, Texas was about 35 minutes from, you know, the campus, and he had a girlfriend that was still in high school.

She'd come over some nights and hang out.

Got it.

And he was from Schertz, Texas, okay? Just north of San Antonio, just south of New Braunfels.

And we get paired up, and we are the exact opposites, okay? Couldn't be more different.

He has posters that look like nothing until you turn off the b- light and turn on the blacklight.

If I was in the room, he'd drop his stuff off, he would leave.

How's it going, Turtlehead?

And Schertz, Texas was about 35 minutes from, you know, the campus, and he had a girlfriend that was still in high school.

She'd come over some nights and hang out.

I like this person.

DB in Shirts, Texas.

Is that even in San Antonio? Wait, wait.

First, we're going

Lively for me to come here and defend Nyosa.

All right.

Talk about Shirts.

Okay.

He is currently pursuing his PhD in health science.

Brandon led the peer support program in the city of Schertz for three years before co-chairing a regional peer support program with the Southwest Texas Regional Advisory Council and is currently serving on the Regional Peer Support Committee with the Capital Area of Texas Regional Advisory Council.

He was part of the first ever state-approved peer support deployment with the Kerrville flooding incident on July 4th.

He served as the team lead for multiple crews in Kerrville, providing mental health resources to field crews deployed to Kerrville.

Talk to us, how big is your agency? How many folks do you have working with you? Areas that you cover?

Yeah, so a little bit of a unique situation I'm in right now.

So I spent 15 years with the City of Shirts, and as you mentioned, I worked my way up through the ranks, and I was the assistant chief over operations when I left there.

I left Shirts in October of 25.