The Church of Universal Life and Rick’s ordination. Tim’s experience of the clergy in the military and Rick’s change of heart after his role with Casualty Assistance. Extortion 17 and Rick’s “compassion disorder.” The Museum’s Trident House Charities Program: addressing the spiritual health of those in the Special Operations Community. Grounding new SEALs in their heritage. Showing Naval Special Warfare leadership the value of investing in incoming operators with history and heritage. Tim praises the Marine Corps for their approach to legacy education. The fear of letting one’s predecessors down. Blackwater pardons and private military groups resourced inappropriately.

The Senate runoff: Georgia politics and painful lessons learned. The obligation to accommodate citizens with convenient voting and wicker basket ballot collection in the middle of farm fields. Tim’s priorities for President-elect Biden: domestic versus foreign policy themes. Addressing super-spreaders, the Proud Boys, Boogaloos, Antifa, and “the fringe” of society. A fighting retreat and tidying up wars abroad. Investing more in education, constraints in education, and “The Way of the Left.” The Museum’s work with the Special Operations Forces community. Tim’s “Home by lunch wars” versus Rick’s SEAL Team SIX recall cycle.

The impetus for the Friendly Fire Podcast and the history between Rick and Tim. The needs of the Navy and unclassified communications between couples in the Special Operations community. The Flag Retirement Ceremony at the Museum’s Memorial Day Service and honoring the fallen at the Museum’s Memorial Wall. Vaccinating for COVID and the government’s omnipotent power?

A split nation: has America’s prowess degraded? A call for welfare reform and accountability for hand-ups. Taking control of one’s body and Rick’s vasectomy in a military hospital. The middle class: the backbone of this country and education as the pathway to it. More consideration given to “the average American” and the need for greater investment at the working and middle class level. Charisma, a vision, decision making, empowerment, and Navy SEAL Museum momentum. 

Are holidays just a distraction for our military men and women? The level of frenzy in the world of Special Operations–how to reduce the manic? PTSD, depression, drug use, TBI, dysfunctional families, and suicide: the deep scars of Special Operators who have given greatly. Winning hearts and minds or throwing troops at it? Marriage and the military and the motivation to wed. Rick, the Karaoke King.

Voter fraud or "rubbish, speculation, and fake news"? Skepticism and distrust of the voting system, a fracture in our nation, and how COVID changed the election conversation. "The New Normal" since COVID and never another Snow Day. Classified to the American public no more: the Museum chases additional acquisitions from missions–including the tail section of the Black Hawk from the bin Laden raid.

Pampered military representatives? China training at the Canadian border: reasonability or vulnerability? The SEAL cage mentality, vaccinating for COVID to prevent conditions for spread, Vietnam veterans who served honorably against their desire, and the need for more military recognition award medals.