You were listening to The Battle Ready Podcast. My name is Aaron McMannis and I'm here with my dad, Irwin Rafael McMannis. Glad to be back.

It's good to have you back. You were back from Hawaii. I was in Hawaii for a few days.

So my question is how can you be in Hawaii for a week and not have a sunburn?

So here's the thing. I only was in the water for a few days because then the waves got so big.

But you were surfing. Well, I was attempting. I'm not a surfer.

It's like fishing. If you're attempting, it still counts.

Yeah, but I guess so. You're paddling. I was paddling.

Well, I mean, you're weighing pagan construction surf departments. So I was by the way, I love the hat.

Thank you. It's new. It's not unreleased.

So you guys surfed during the week? Yes. And so I was in Hawaii. I surfed. I'm not really a surfer.

The waves were too big. Twenty foot waves? Yeah.

I wasn't in the water at that point. I was in the water when the waves were little, little, little mini-coopers.

And then it went into full-scale school buses. Like, I'm not kidding. You could fit a school bus in some of these waves.

That's unbelievable. Yeah. So while you're here, I'll enjoy my life. In Hawaii? Yes.

Russia invades Ukraine. Yes. And what begins as massive troops lining the border outside of Ukraine ends up being a shameless act of war.

Yeah. So things escalate. And Putin says he's there to keep peace.

Right. And it's a very peculiar way of being a peacekeeper by engaging a peaceful country in war.

Yeah. In Hawaii is interesting because there's so many military bases.

So, you know, when we flew in, I had called you and told you like landing.

You see all of the fighter jets. You see all of these military, you know, what are they like freight planes and all of this just activity.

And it seemed relatively dormant, you know, normal, just military bases.

And then when Russia invaded all of a sudden, you see all of these humvees everywhere. You see much more activity going military activity going on.

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