Welcome to Mic Drop. The podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.

Ladies and gentlemen, you asked for it so I'm going to give it to you. It's a Q&A with me and it's really across the board. It's whatever you want to talk about.

I'm purposefully leaving out most of the dog questions that I got so that I can dedicate those to specific team dog Q&A's.

There's a couple in here. I'm going to answer a bunch of these questions are kind of repeats where I got you know four or five six of the same question.

So if I don't answer your specific question, it's because it was already asked. I'm going to get right into it.

And I just want to say thank you. I'm flattered that there's enough of you that give enough of a shit to hear what I have to say to listen and the numbers that are listening.

I'm flattered. Frankly, I wouldn't fucking listen to me, but I'm glad that you guys want to. So here we go. Selky lab. Ask Mike have a question for you.

How do you fill the void when your dog slash best friend suddenly passes away? I don't know what to do without my baby rip selky baby. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Here's the deal.

Lost fucking sucks plain and simple, whether it's people, whether it's dogs with dogs there. There for whatever reason seems to be an even harder time with them.

I don't know if it's because they live shorter lives or they're better than most fucking people.

That they're loyal beyond measure and in terms of the man's best friend added to we get the better end of the deal 10 times over.

What I try to do and again, whether it's dogs or people is I try to focus on and remember the good the good shit the good times that I had with them.

You know, and appreciate the time that I had with them, you know, not not everybody gets to have that dog that that is everything to them.

I consider to both a luxury and a pleasure to be able to own a dog and to live in a country where we have enough resources and people are wealthy enough to be able to care for an animal in their fucking house.

I think you should appreciate that so think of it more from the big picture I think is a good way to deflect and not sit around.

You know, kind of sulking and feeling sorry for yourself about losing it. It's fucking tough. I mean, one of the tough things about running the war yard foundation is having to make those end of life decisions for a lot of these warriors and it does not get any easier.

Every one of them rips my fucking heart out of my chest and is a couple of days of feeling pretty shitty about it.

But then I think about all the positive impacts that they've had with you know, and again, whether it's saving comrades and arms lives or being you know a hell of a good loyal companion to you remember those good times and don't sit around and think about what you just lost at least as best you can. That's how I like to do it.

All right, in underscore bounds asks, scariest moment while getting hazed.

So it's actually the absence of getting hazed. The first hazing story I was brand new in a platoon at Seal Team 3 and I was the Intel rep. So I was actually at a school when my entire platoon went out of town on a trip and I was showing up basically just one day late to finish the school they left on a Friday.

And I was showing up on Saturday. So I show up the next morning, 15 hours behind the platoon and I get this you know plotting on me with ass eyes. I'm getting I fucked by all the other new guys. There was a bunch of us.

And you know, I'm looking around and there's black eyes and fat lips and hate and discontent. I was like the fuck happened and turns out you know that was the initiation hazing was that night and I missed it.

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