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Good morning, good morning, good morning to you Mr. Darrell and everybody else I've heard this morning. I've been listening for a little bit. I woke up late. We didn't have no reason to get up early. Grandson spent the night last night. And since he spent the night, Rick could sleep in. So we did. It was kind of nice. I've been listening for a while and I heard y'all talk a little bit about the President's and Secretary of War speeches yesterday. It seems like the majority of y'all don't like it. I can understand that. I would say the majority of y'all probably wouldn't understand the warrior ethos anyhow. Not to be ugly about it. It's one of those things. Unless you experience it and lived it, you really can't understand it I don't think. First off in the military there's really two kinds. Something everybody should know. Every job in the military is to support one thing. Winning. Period. That's what it's all for. We have a military because they're bad ass, they're strong, they're feared, they're respected. So inside of a military there's really two kinds of people. You have combat arms, which are the people who do most of the heavy fighting. And then you have everybody else. There's a running joke, or I'm sure it's not really a joke, but there's a running thing in the military, in the Army. We'll all speak specifically to the Army since that's which I served. They call the infantry the queen of battle. Every job in the United States Army, every single job in the United States Army is to facilitate the infantry. Period. Now that being said, inside the Army you have those who are infantry or any combat arms really. Medics would fall into this I would say, or medic in Iraq. He was in the thick of it with us. They have this warrior mindset. When I was in, and I was in between 2000 and 2006, when I was in physical fitness was of the utmost importance. And it may have been because of the units I was in. I mean I don't have experience in any units that wouldn't be combat arms. But I was also a paratrooper, which is a step up from normal infantry people. A big step up from everybody else who's not infantry. So maybe that's why physical fitness was pushed to such an extreme. I'm going to take a quick break. So I am completely for, 100% with the Secretary of War, Hegseth, I always mess up his name, on the physical fitness levels. There should not be a male version and a female version. There's a job to be done. No matter what sex you are, that job still needs to be done. The standards of that job are the standards of that job. We don't lower standards for anybody. You meet them or you don't get to do the job. We need that warrior mindset. That rougher than civilian mindset in the military. It's important for a spirit of core. It's important for the fact that most people in the military are there to become stronger, to become bigger, to become a better version of themselves. I was one. So that's just my thought on the military thing. Y'all can say, oh that was crap, it was bullshit. Okay, the generals are not going to clap anyhow. That's not what they do in the military. You don't take curtain calls, if you will. Everybody is making a big deal. The generals didn't clap. No, they don't. I've been in a million briefings in my lifetime and a bunch of them in the military. I can tell you, every time we got briefed, any time in the military, when somebody got done talking to us or telling us what was going on, we didn't stand up and clap them. That's unacceptable. They're doing their job just like we are. Those generals and those admirals did not stand up and clap because they're non-partisan and uniform. Or at least they're supposed to be. So I think unless you've actually served and have the warrior experience, you really wouldn't understand to begin with. So anyhow, that's a long over, but I thought I would get that out. I had been listening to that for a while. Like I said, if you really want to get some really good insights, let's get some other people that are actually technically in the military right now. That would be an interesting point of view. I have a few of those points of view. My daughter, future daughter-in-law is one of them. She's actually in the Navy right now. So I kind of get an inside scoop. I've got friends who are still in the military from when I was in, believe it or not. And we talk. So I know what they really are thinking. The ground troops really do love Hexy. They love him. So I just wanted to put that out there. KJ5ILQ. Back to the next show.