Sebastian Junger

But the girl, one of them was able to get one bar of signal.

Like in one spot on the driveway, like one bar.

And she called the ambulance.

And the ambulance guys came.

And you go into something called compensatory shock if you're bleeding out.

And the body senses in its miraculous way, it senses that, you know, there's a five alarm fire going on here and we got to tighten our game, right?

So it literally shuts down vascular like blood flow to parts of the body you don't need, like your legs and your arms, your skin.

And it sort of hoards the blood in your chest

Your abdomen, your chest, and your brain around your heart, right?

You know, those things go, you're dead.

So it collects the blood around there and keeps it there through muscular tension, right?

And you don't know you're doing this.

But what happens is your blood pressure goes back up and suddenly you're sort of back in the world, right?

And I was no longer going in and out of consciousness.

I was suddenly I could see again.

The ambulance guys get there and they're like, how are you doing?

I'm like, well, you know, belly pain, but I don't want to be a complainer here.

I'm feeling a little better, you know, maybe blah, blah, blah.

My wife, and this is why there's a famous statistic, married men live longer.

My wife is like, you know what?