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I apologize for the delay there.

It's a few technical issues, as we frequently do on this show.

This is what happens when two Rangers are hosting and producing and directing and

every other freaking thing.

But we're so happy to have with us today. I'm going to see on the first try Mark

Mark Palerropolis. There you go. All right awesome. Mark is a former CIA case officer or operations officer.

He spent nearly three decades with the Central Intelligence Agency.

He served all over the Middle East,

and he also spent some time in Russia which will get in probably

towards the latter side of this show.

We're very excited to have Mark with us today. I'm Jack Murphy by the way. This is co-host Dave Park. Thank you for joining us live tonight and I think we'll jump right into it. I mean Mark usually Dave you go ahead and ask it this is this is your your time here.

So Mark Jack and I both big comic book geeks and so we always like to ask our heroes

What's your origin story like where do you come from? What was your childhood like? What drove here? How did you wind up in the CIA?

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