Joseph Cabrera has fallen off a mountain, pulled a friend out of a swamp in the dark, and spent a year on an outpost eight thousand feet up in the Afghan mountains with one job: keep the bad guys at bay. He has also, by his own account, never quite figured out what to do with his hands when he's not the one holding the microphone hosting podcasts versus being a guest on one.

In this episode, Joseph walks through the path from a South Texas kid with no mountains in sight to West Point, Ranger School, and years of combat leadership in some of the most physically demanding environments the military has to offer. He talks about the log-walk drill Ranger instructors run over and over, not to see if you can cross it, but to see if you can cross it calm. He talks about smelling like sulfur when a body starts eating its own muscle for fuel. And he  ...