All right. And we have been able to finally get a hold of our guests. We had difficulties getting through. Michael Yon is our guest. He is a guy who's a former Special Forces soldier, former Green Beret. And he has been doing reporting and many other things.

And we're getting him on here at the very last minute.

And I asked Michael if he would like to reschedule for another day,

if we just do it with the time that we got left.

We're going to go with the time that we got left,

which is his preference.

So we had a lot of things that we wanted to talk to you about,

Michael.

What would you like to start? You want to give us a little bit of a background about your work before we talk about some of the specifics about either what you saw in Japan or what you saw in Panama or about prepping?

I know that's a real passion of yours.

Give people a little bit of a background as to what you do.

You're a reporter who travels a world. Tell us a little bit about that.

I never call myself a reporter, by the way. But I was a war correspondent for years, Iraq, Afghanistan,

Philippines, Thailand, they got kicked out of Hong Kong in 2020 and on and on and on.

Let's speak years in various wars. And a lot of combat, there's a big difference between a war correspondent and a combat correspondent.

Most of the war correspondents just kind of go and hang out in the hotel.

That's not me.

Right now, you might hear it.

You might hear a helicopter in the background.

That's a black hawk that just landed nearby.

And I'm in the Darying Gap right now.

I don't know if you can hear that. You probably hear the birds at least.

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