Not my favorite episode , but definitely intriguing . I liken it to futuristic it ' s a wonderful life <| sep |> It should be a requirement to put spez instead of edit when we have to spez something . <| sep |> I liked her Bring it ! gestures . <| sep |> Very boring pic <| sep |> 12 we ' re had the same supplier for as long as I know Brookwood . I have old rucks of ours and I have new rucks of ours . My old ones are more broken in and feel softer because I ' ve earned it . I feel mostly like there ' s a tendency of the Interwebs God bless us to assume that GORUCK is cutting corners here or there on quality . In fact , the opposite is true . That goes for fabrics and construction . 3 We ' ve always had vendors . For a while we tried to grow the farm team , it didn ' t go very well for us in terms of process . So yeah , scaling quality is the goal of our partner vendors . It ' s a lot better . 4 Made in USA and such . We wrestle with this some . Ultimately , RP ' s are one example I wore them when I was in Special Forces and still wear them , they ' re great . I think the litmus test for us is more , would our Special Forces Cadre wear them ? And that goes for anything we carry . 5 Sunglasses I ' d wear them during a Challenge as Cadre and as participant . I think there ' s a tendency of the Events gear to detract from the purity of something like the All American GR 1 etc . Expensive shades are overrated , at least to me now . I have broken so many over the years , I got sick of it . I mean , you need a pair for a summer event , bring a $ 100 pair at your own risk . 6 Oh Java . Check out javaforever . org As for closure , he had autoimmune disease and I had to put him down . Hardest thing in my entire life . I did a news blog post about it , Good Bye Means Java Forever . 7 Call of the Wild or something awesome like that . 8 Survival , and scaling quality gear that we can actually finance . 9 Either one , I ' m a survivor . 10 Yes . I believe it ' s called faith . 15 Smashing Pumpkins . stalk me harder sometime , everyone knows this lol 18 All of it , mostly . 19 When they don ' t have Budweiser . 20 Find a way to love what you do . . thanks for the note from the country where I learned to Scuba Dive . Great place !