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🗓️ 17 April 2026
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Summary
Week one of the book being out in the world, and I still don't have the vocabulary for the support. Thank you. Genuinely. If you read it, an honest Amazon review costs nothing and helps more than you'd think.
Then we get into the questions. A 25-year-old lawyer writes in about imposter syndrome and getting put on a pedestal for a job he doesn't feel qualified for yet. My take: keep the imposter syndrome. Just find a response that doesn't escalate or deescalate, and move the conversation to them.
Next one hits harder. A Marine turned med student on the "vet bro" archetype, the guy in head-to-toe fatigues at the airport, and the social sandpaper that follows. Why one bad interaction outweighs a hundred good ones. Why comparative service and competitive suffering benefit nobody. And why the best counter is just being a good expression of what you used to be.
Also covered: what recovery looked like overseas vs. now, why special operations runs like a professional sports team, and my honest take on TRT, dosage, and chasing health span over lifespan.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, got the red smoke. |
| 0:02.5 | Okay, gun runs, north and south, west of the smoke, west of the smoke. |
| 0:08.6 | Okay, copy, west of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now. |
| 0:13.1 | Come on winter, baby. Give it to me. I need it. You're cleared hot. |
| 0:16.7 | Copy, cleared hot. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, hello there, world. What a week had has been in my personal life. We're going to start with this. |
| 0:25.8 | I don't have the vocabulary to describe how overwhelmed I am with the support that I have received far and wide from individuals, from brands, from friends when it comes to the release of the book. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm sitting here. I got home last night at midnight. This is Thursday, the day before the episode |
| 0:45.3 | comes out. Finished a, I was going to say a long stretch. It wasn't a long stretch. It felt like it. |
| 0:50.9 | We left Sunday and we got back essentially Thursday morning. But |
| 0:54.7 | Austin first to kick it off. I did a really awesome episode with Chris Williamson for his |
| 1:01.9 | modern William, modern wisdom. I was called it the modern Williamson show. Modern wisdom. |
| 1:06.5 | That I think would be out next week. He puts a little bit more into the back end post-production. |
| 1:11.8 | And then Joe's the next day and then went over to New York. |
| 1:14.8 | I was supposed to do Fox and Friends on the day that the release came out. But I got pushed, but they were expecting some breaking news. Didn't happen. But I did Brian Kilmead's radio show. and then was on Fox and Friends, specifically to talk about the book, |
| 1:26.7 | layered in a little bit of talk about Iran and blockades that I know almost nothing about, |
| 1:30.7 | spoiler alert. and friends specifically to talk about the book, layered in a little bit of talk about Iran |
| 1:28.6 | and blockades that I know almost nothing about, spoiler alert, never been a part of one. |
| 1:33.3 | And I didn't know what to expect. I still don't know what to expect. Every day that I am involved |
| 1:40.0 | in this is another day into the unknown because I have a data point of one on all of this. |
| 1:46.4 | I don't really have any expectations. |
| 1:48.4 | Here's how, and this is how I went into approaching the book. |
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