and he's now a schell fellow at the nation institute, and he writes for all kinds of different places -- rolling stone, the atlantic, gq, and those kinds of places. so thanks for being with us. sebastian junger, at the end, is the author of "the perfect storm," which was on the bestseller list for, like, five years, i think; a very long time; movie with george clooney. and even before 9/11, i think you were saying 1996, you were going to afghanistan and reporting from there; did a profile of ahmad shah massoud in 2000 that became a national geographic documentary; more recently embedded himself kind of on and off for a year in the korengal valley of afghanistan with a unit from the 173 airborne brigade combat team-embedded along with the photojournalist, late photojournalist tim hetherington, who was killed in libya in 2011. and you used some of the material from those-you know, from that reporting for your book, "war," and a documentary called "restrepo," which won the 2010 grand jury prize at sundance. sebastian is also -- he's had an interest in dangerous jobs for a long time. one