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on Sunday. I'm very glad to be joined today this Sunday Memorial Day weekend. My friend

Michael Wood, a Marine Corps veteran, and I'm going to serve his two tours in Afghanistan. We'll

talk like that a bit. And as a friend of the bulwark a contributor i think occasionally

did the bulwark isn't that right yeah yeah very important pieces pieces in the bulwark

and businessmen in in dallas texas and so michael thank you for taking an hour half an

hour out of memorial day weekend to no thanks for asking me this is uh this is going to be fun thank you

i think it is so we first met when you were we'll come back to this we're we're weekend. No, thanks for asking you. This is going to be fun. Thank you.

I think it is. So we first met when you were, we'll come back to this. We're running as a Denver Trump Republican for Congress and a special election. They would admit a little before that, but we got to know each other better in outside Dallas and I guess early 2021. But before that, you grew up in Midland, Texas, went to NYU, I believe. and then straight from NYU into the Marine Corps.

So that's a, I think, grew up in Midland, Texas, went to NYU, I believe. And then straight from NYU, to the Marine Corps. So that's a, I think Midland, Midland, NYU Marine Corps is probably an unusual trajectory there in the 2000s. So say a word about how had that all happen. And then talk, let's talk about more all day about your experiences, obviously fighting. Yeah, everybody is always sort of surprised when they find out that i was born and raised in midland and then i went to school in new york and i joined the

marines and i really don't have a great answer for it other than it's kind of insane that we let

you know 17 year olds make these big life decisions like that and uh i've got uh four daughters and one the oldest one just finished her freshman year in high

school, so we're starting to think about college and whatnot. And now that I'm, you know,

38 years old, I'm just thinking about how scared my parents must have been whenever they

dropped me off in Manhattan whenever I was 18 years old and I just can't imagine

that. So I really don't have. Had you had some connection to New York, to NYU, to anything?

No, I took one school trip to New York years before and then I just, I applied and I got in

and we, the money stuff worked out and I

love Midland I love that I was raised in Midland but I think just 17 year old Michael just sort of

wanted to see the world and sort of maybe try the opposite of Midland which for better or worse

meant you know New York certainly was yeah Washington Square in New, eighth, eighth street in New York or 14th Street,

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