Yeah.

Uh, I was hanging out with a guy who was posing as a special operator, and a guy named, uh, Jonathan Keith Edema, otherwise known as Jack, and a lot of your listeners who have experience in Afghanistan might very well have heard of him.

Um, and, uh, we, we got into a discussion about, uh, someone I knew in El Salvador that he knew and, uh, and I was talking about going out and interviewing the FMLN in El Salvador and then getting captured and, uh, and he said, uh, i- he said something to the, the, the effect of, uh, "Well, if I ever find out that you're out interviewing the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, I'm gonna, I'm gonna kill you." And I s- I interrupted him, uh, to make a clarification on something, and the next thing I knew, boom, he had pulled out a gun from his ankle holster and shot me, and the bullet went that far from my shoulder in through a couch and into the wall behind me.

Uh-I realized he was upset that I had inter- interrupted him.

So I sat forward and with a totally straight face, trying not to show that my heart was beating so hard it was gonna pop out of my chest, and I said, "I'm sorry I interrupted you." [laughs] And there was another, a real special operator in the room who said that was the coolest thing he ever saw.

Um-

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