I got to know, do you have a favorite race?

Favorite race is my first marathon.

I was thinking really hard about this because I really enjoy my races, but it's got to be my first marathon.

So like I mentioned a minute ago, I was training for these Ragnars.

The longest single run I ever did was six miles.

And I had signed up to run the Bayshore Half Marathon, which is a really popular half marathon up in Traverse City, Michigan on Memorial Day weekend.

So at the kickoff of summer in Traverse City, Beachtown.

Yes.

What is the biggest difference between being in the DC jail where you were for a significant amount of time and the Harrisburg prison camp where you spent the last five months?

The food, for starters.

The DC jail has nutritious food, but the variety is not as much.

There's less fresh fruit at the DC jail.

There are apples and occasional orange and banana.

It's not as tasty or as varied.

At the D.C. local level, there's not a lot of windows in the facility.

Why was it a camp? Were you working?

What might I see there that I wouldn't have seen five years ago?

It would be noisy.

[upbeat music] There's so much construction happening in Pyongyang, and it would be noisy not only from the construction and the bulldozers, but also there'd be a lot more cars on the streets, and not just unrecognizable North Korean brands.

You're seeing Chinese EVs.

And we talked with Westerners who had traveled dozens of times to North Korea before the pandemic, and these same visitors went back, and Pyongyang, at least, looks like any other major city in that lots of people have smartphones.

Their necks are craned looking at their screens.

This just shows North Korea has more resources, more of a technological, digital ecosystem, and, and they're, they're trying to put themselves more on par with, with the rest of the world.

If the economic growth is based on a war that will someday hopefully end and some scams, however successful, is that really an, a, a recipe for a strong economic future for this country?

He

admitted, in a rare way for a North Korean leader, we have food shortages, we are struggling.

And then right on the heels of this was COVID.

And North Korea has no, because it's so poor, it doesn't have great public infrastructure.

So anytime there's a pandemic or a broad health scare, they have to shut everything down.

So they closed its borders and that cut off their trade, particularly with China.

And that really asphyxiated the economy.

It's sometimes harder to oppress people when they've got iPhones.

W- when you first got on the boat, what was, what was stuff that stood out to you?

Well, first, first got on the boat, you know, we were in overhaul, so it was a little different because we weren't underway.

Uh, we had steak and lobster for lunch every Friday, even in the shipyard, because submariners get more money for food, and so we had, we ate really well, even in the shipyard.

But I did get qualified, and, um, and, and so qualified as officer of the deck really early.

And, uh, we were on patrol, my first patrol.

So this patrol is, we lived in Hawaii.

We would fly to Guam.

So that is like in the movies.

in this new kind of construct?

a general concept of how we were going to operate the battalion.

And then it probably changed every day that we were actually out here fighting, you know, from a broader like blackjack perspective, if I had to put what the secret sauce on the tick rotation in 2602, I would say it was our ability to see the battlefield more completely and An example that I would give is when we went through rotation 2502, we were still operating predominantly analog.

And so, you know, when we're updating unit locations in the brigade main, you know, we have the sticky icons and we're putting them on an analog map.

In 2602, all of that was digital.

So we were in real time looking at every single unit that was operating with their MMCS on.

And we could very quickly kind of see the risk and opportunities.

So there's not a set answer, but it's one that we will all kind of always try to balance and struggle with to make sure we're providing those effects and we're that customer service organization that they expect.

They're legacy brands that are being sort of pushed back in front of consumers again.

again.Yes.

I mean, for example, Murphy's is, has the accolade of being number one in Cork.

We introduced a cider which was number one in Sweden, and it went very well, and an energy drink that was number one in America.

So number one in Cork, will that crack it?

Will you be selling, say, those others cheaper in your pubs?

Yeah.

So I won't say anything against Guinness 'cause my old man worked for them for 31 years, but, um, uh, they, they are a brand leader and they, you tend to pay more as a consumer for, for a brand leader.

This third tin doesn't look like it's gonna reveal much either, does it? But let's-

Potentially around the dry areas.

I mean, this may have been in a good spot eight, 10 years ago.

The scrub's just shaded it out a bit too much.

It's good to have some dappled shade on a tin, because everyone thinks, uh, reptiles want to be as warm as possible, but then that's not true.

They're trying to maintain a certain temperature around, I believe it's around 30 degrees or just over.

So if it's boiling hot sunny day, this tin'll be red hot to touch.

W- so what are you advising people to do, and can this also happen in their gardens even?