Hello Odyssey. I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.

And I'm Jesse with Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. Welcome to the official Adventures

and Odyssey podcast. Today we're shining a spotlight on this month's club adventure, Ambush.

It's an episode about Ron Perkins' time overseas with the military.

We've never had an Odyssey quite like it.

To give us insight into the story that led to the story, we brought in someone who knows this subject firsthand.

Former Marine Josh Hassel.

Uh-uh. Not former Marine, as we'll learn in the interview.

Oh, right. Once a Marine, always a Marine.

We'll hear about Josh's time in the military, how he brought authenticity to this episode,

and yes, about a flock of sheep.

Let's get right to it. Hooram.

Josh, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. I appreciate you having me on.

Yeah, you know, this is your first time on the podcast.

Yes.

And so I want you to tell everybody what you do here at Focus, or maybe what you don't do.

Because there's so many roles, it seems like.

I'm in charge of podcasts and broadcast marketing influencers and the ambassador program where I'm point person for

anybody that wants to deal with focus from outside of focus third party. Okay. All right. Well,

you served in the U.S. Marines. First, thank you for your service. Tell us about your role in the military. What led you to join and what type of work did you do?

Well, I joined a little later in life at 27 and I'm an Eagle Scout, my best friends, seven of them are Eagle Scouts, our Eagle Scouts, and they were all officers in different branches.

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