Now it's time for the Anchorman podcast with Matt Gates and Dan Ball.

We are joined today by Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.

And Anna, I, if I'm not your biggest fan, I'm definitely like at the upper tier of the fan club.

I am at least on the board of the fan club.

And when I tell people about your background, a lot of people don't know that you were in the

military.

I was just wondering if you could take us back to the moment when you decided to join the

military.

Why did you do it? What was in your mind? And now, you know, as a mother, a congresswoman,

looking back, how did it impact your life? Yeah, so I really wanted to go to school and I had

absolutely no way of paying for it. And ultimately, you know, my dad was struggling at the time with substance

abuse and wasn't really in the picture. And my mom had two younger kids from another marriage. And so

for me, I needed a avenue of really getting out of a bad situation. Sounds like chaos. Yeah.

Looking back in it, I actually didn't think that my life was abnormal. And I mean, you know the rest of my bio, but it wasn't until I joined the military.

And I was like, maybe it wasn't the best circumstances.

But I ended up actually being at an event, and I overheard two young guys talking about the GI Bill

and how they're going to be starting school.

And they were like 20 years old.

Anyways, they ended up being Marines at Camp Pendleton.

And I asked what they did, they told me.

And so I actually mapped quested, so this is going to date me a little bit, but I map

quested, I printed directions, and I drove to a recruiter's office.

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