Welcome to curious with Josh Pax, start the show.

Welcome back to the curious podcast. My name is Josh Pax and not only am I your host,

I'm your captain, your leader, your sage, your, your, your, your,

apostle, your mentor, your daddy, your, your best friend, your boyfriend,

or girlfriend, your, your son, your adopted son,

and maybe your sponsor, I'm all those things.

This is a curious podcast. My name is Josh Pax and I'm your host and your name is listener and

that's what you do, you listen. And I'm recording this on Memorial Day, which I've heard is not

happy. I stupidly, you know, I have such reverence and respect for the armed forces and the people

that, you know, it's like I can be as coastal snarky, affected, sarcastic as the best of them.

And I fall victim to all sort of the pitfalls of the young white and entitled

as, as many of my peers can. And yet, you know, my reverence for the armed forces and the fact that

they're just so much, they're so much better than me, people who give their lives for this country

and people who are in service to, to their country. Yeah, it's just, it's, it's not lost on me.

What, you know, what that means and, and how it takes a better person than I because I was never

able to do something like that. Nor, nor am I, do I think the military would have wanted me.

Because in 18, I was, I was about 230 pounds, five, nine, still had, you know, hadn't grown my last

four inches flat, footed in an asthmatic. And I'm not sure where I make sense on the battlefield

with those, I wouldn't call them handicaps. I'd call them, I'd call them, you know, hindrances.

And if you didn't even want to go that negative, I would just call them, you know, just fun extra

layers of personality and malady. But I, you know, I wanted to write something in reverence of the

people who serve this country and the people who've given their lives for this country. Because I

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