I'm Maria Konnikova. And I'm Nate Silver. And our new podcast, Risky Business, is a show about making better decisions. We're both journalists who moonlight as poker players. And that's the lens we're going to use to approach this entire show. We're going to be discussing everything from high-stakes poker to personal questions. Like whether I should call a plumber or fix my shower myself. And of course,

we'll be talking about the election too. Listen on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever

you listen to podcasts. Hey, what's going on? This is Rad, the host of Soft Rep Radio, and today is a very

special episode. This, I can't even, Radio, and today is a very special episode.

This, I can't even, I don't even know how to explain it.

Okay, so Veterans Day is right around the corner, and I have three classy veterans.

I said classy.

They didn't.

I did.

So we'll let them define that on the show today.

And we're going to talk to each one of them a little bit about what they did,

where they came from. But first, I got to tell you about our merch store. Soft rep.com forward

slash merch has all of our branded items. I want you to go check them out. Shop, buy something.

Christmas is coming up, birthdays, anniversaries. I mean, who doesn't say, honey, can I please have a branded

soft rep flashlight? Yes, they do. They want that. So go buy that. Okay. Thank you.

Second, we have a book club. It's book, excuse me, it's softwrep.com forward slash book hyphen club.

For those of you that already know and part of it, thank you. For the newest listener out there,

it's soft rep.com forward slash book hyphen club. Now, once again, I'm your host, Rad, and I have

a ensemble today, okay, as you see from the link that you joined. So I'm just going to kind of name

off. I have Josh Corel. I have Mike Deeds and Brian King.

Now, Josh comes from the U.S. Army.

Mike comes from the United States Air Force.

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