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First-time guest Mike Surrail joins us to dish on many subjects, not least of which are military leadership,

the mystique around the seals and the current state of war in Ukraine.

Mike is uniquely qualified to weigh in on all of this and so much more, but true to his character,

he is careful not to denigrate others in his analysis.

An exceptional human with an exceptional resume.

Here it is, episode 594.

So, Mike. So Mike, dude, thanks for turning in. And more importantly, thanks for coming in.

And fucking hanging out.

It's on a nice cold day here in Texas, which is always so rare, ice everywhere.

So you had to brave the elements, which I'm sure we're, you know, overwhelming at times, but

we're able to make it in.

That's so strange. I mean braving the elements, the people in the Midwest are like, what? It's 25. That's a regular day. Oh, yeah. Schools canceled. Shut it down. Yeah, Texans lose their mind. Well, they have no snow removal and they have no ability to ice the roads. Exactly. So when I lived in the East Coast, they would like post this stuff up and they would start running the snow removal and start, you know, and then people just get out and braid it because this is part of the deal here in Texas. People lose their minds. They do. But hey, the one good thing about Texas is you don't have to shovel heat. I think that's why we live there. How do you deal with the heat? Are you good with it?

You know, I'm a lot better with the heat than I am, the cold.

I mean, the one thing about the cold just got back from a trip to Everest is you could always layer up.

But there's a certain point, you know, beyond zero Celsius where it just... I'm just going to casually throw this out there.

I just went on this trip to Everest, whatever.

Everest Base Camp or Summit of Everest?

So we, this one was unique.

We skydived.

So flaccid.

Skydived into the Everest region.

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