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Hey, what's going on? Welcome to another episode of Software Rep Radio. I am your host, Rad, and I have a very special guest with me.

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But without further ado, I have Dean Stott, former SPS, which is special boat service, not to be confused with special air service.

That's right. That is correct. Yeah. Very correct. Yeah. But also extreme athlete, father, husband, someone who misses his family when he has to deploy and has to write letters or things about them.

You know, this is somebody who's living a life among us, probably teaches software to his kids and next to your kids. You know, these are folks that just go above and beyond the athletic spectrum, right? Extreme athletes like Olympians and Dean, you fall into that. I know you know that.

Yeah. Yeah. Purely by accident. Yeah. But it was, yeah, it's true. Yeah. It is true. Yeah. So I mean, one of the things that I've investigated, you know, through getting ready to talk with you is that you did a 14,000 mile trek all the way to Alaska from Timbuk, too.

All the way to the bottom, yeah, the bottom of Argentina, the southern tip of Argentina to Northern Alaska is the world's the world's longest road runs as you touched on 14,000 miles or 22,000 kilometers.

Depending where your listeners come from. But yeah, it was a world record attempt. And I'd never cycle more than 20 miles before I applied for the world record. And so just sort of decided. No, I wanted to test myself. I always wanted to do a world record. And, you know, as a young boy, you should read the Guinness Book of Records.

But unfortunately, I had a parachute injury, which shorted my career in the special boat service. I did 16 years and had to leave. And so the real record had to be a challenge or had to be a sport that wasn't going to be hampering my knee. Yeah, right.

And so, yeah, my wife then found the world's longest road. I'd only cycle 20 miles at the age of 40. I applied for the world record. And six weeks later, Guinness said, yes, you've been successful on your application.

What year was that that you went through with that? So that was I applied for the world record in 2016. And I set off. It was first of every 2018. So only only five years ago. Yeah, from now.

So congratulations on getting that world record achievement. It's not like you're just stacking pennies in a minute. Okay. Like who can stand the most pennies in a minute? You know, it's like you're putting your body. You're like you're saying, I just want to make sure I'm not going to hamper my knee, right?

Everything else seems to be good on you. You know, funny. You said you were jumping out of an airplane when that happened. Yeah, my dad be in a former SF guy, green beret.

They dropped him on a night jump out here in Utah, but his whole team got hurt when they were above the mountain, but it was a night jump.

And they couldn't see the mountain alone, but the elevation was at. Yeah. So drop the elevation. Yeah. So it dropped him on the mountain in a

couple of hours. Obviously broke things. My dad got head injuries, you know, or a team just in training. Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, we did.

You know, I was very fortunate when I joined the the SPS. It was a business time in U.K. SF history. You know, we were at the SPS. We're in Iraq.

The SPS were in Afghanistan, the rest of the East Coast of Africa. So we're doing a lot in a short period of time, which guys before has had probably been waiting 10, 15, 20 years.

In their career to do so as fortunate as to do the first ever operational jump for the SPS. And that was in Afghanistan.

And so I can I can relate to what your father was saying there is actually because of the high grounds, you know, obviously in the altitude.

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