And this is something CIA taught us too, that human beings need to feel connection.

And I think it's important because what we were taught is that people need to feel connected.

We were never taught that people actually need to connect.

So a big part of what a case officer's job is is to actually simulate the feeling of connection.

And if you can control someone else's experience, if they can feel like they are connecting to you, even though you yourself are protecting yourself, separating yourself, not actually connecting to the other person, that feels very genuine. And that feels very authentic and intimate and powerful.

It's been three weeks since I've been home.

Yeah.

It's been a long time.

And then I was only home for two days. Yeah. Prior to that, and then it was another three weeks that I was gone. And even this time, I'm only home for like six days before

I leave. Yeah. And it's the holidays, man. Like this is, we are happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving. We had a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. Thanksgiving lunch that I made, which was soup.

I'll take it.

Anything that you cooked I would have eaten.

Except salmon.

I think that was the word.

We did that last Thanksgiving.

I know.

Thanksgiving salmon was the year before.

And I had regrets. But what I'm,

what, uh, what I am struck by is that, you know, these long stretches that I'm gone, because

I'm filming with History Channel, these long stretches that I'm gone, they get harder each time.

That's interesting. The first time that I filmed gone, they get harder each time. That's interesting.

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