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- [Jordan] Hi, my name is Jordan Brandis.

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I'm a Database Administrator

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for the Network Operations Branch.

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I'm a husband, a father,

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a boulderer and an ex pool hall junkie,

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and this is my story.

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Don't ask me if there's something that

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my coworkers don't know about me.

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- [Interviewer] Do you
have any secret talents?

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- Secret talents.

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I'm pretty good at playing
pool, played for a long time.

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I don't know if it's necessarily a talent

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or hard work I put in.

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Played for a bunch of years,

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worked at a pool hall for a lot of years.

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Thought about going pro
at some point in my life,

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but there was no money in pool back then.

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I don't know if you consider
that a secret talent,

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but that's what I got for you.

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- [Interviewer] What's your favorite band

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or musical group of all time?

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- I was talking about this
with a friend the other day

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and I came down to Derek and the Dominos.

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I don't know if you remember them

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from the sixties, seventies, yeah.

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Only one album, I think,

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but one album, one live album, I believe,

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but just a good group of musicians

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and I can always listen to their music.

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- [Interviewer] What would your wife say

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is your most annoying habit?

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- Having to be right all the time.

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(laughing)

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Even though I'm not right all the time,

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I still think I'm right all the time.

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And most of the time, she's right.

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(laughing)

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- [Interviewer] What motivates
you to come to work everyday?

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- My family, you know,
raising my kids, my wife,

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supporting them,

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and then the standard answer

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of coming to support the war fighter

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which is very important.

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But you know, thinking
about it in a micro basis,

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it's, you know, my family that
gets me here every morning.

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- [Interviewer] Do you believe in ghosts?

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- Yeah, I've never experienced any,

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but I know enough people
that have that I trust.

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So yeah, I believe in
ghosts, a hundred percent.

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- [Interviewer] When making
peanut butter and jelly,

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do you put the peanut
butter on the bread first

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or the jelly?

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- Peanut butter,

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but then I put also a small
layer of peanut butter

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on the jelly bread,

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so then it doesn't get soggy.

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Yeah.

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- [Interviewer] What's a
food that you absolutely love

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and would eat every day
for the rest of your life?

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- That's tough.

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Sinigang, it's like called,

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it's sour soup,

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it's a Filipino dish.

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It's amazing.

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It's like, I don't know,

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some kind of soup with either
pork and beef and bok soy,

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and I don't know how to
make it but it's amazing.

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- [Interviewer] What's
your go to midnight snack?

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- Oreos.

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Yeah, Oreos and milk.

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Double stuffed, single stuffed,

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depends on the night.

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- [Interviewer] What's
the stupidest argument

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you've ever been in?

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(laughing)

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- That's hard to choose from.

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I grew up in a family of arguers,

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so we had a lot of stupid arguments.

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- [Interviewer] Favorite TV show as a kid.

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- I mean you had all the TGIF shows,

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Family Matters, Home Improvement,

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I'm gonna go with Home Improvement.

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Yes definitely, love that show.

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- [Interviewer] When you were a little kid

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what did you wanna be when you grew up?

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- I always wanted to be
like in the CIA or like,

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some type of secret agent person as a kid.

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Obviously, I didn't make it.

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(laughing)

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- [Interviewer] Along those lines,

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who was the best James Bond?

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- Sean Connery.

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- [Interviewer] Who was the best batman?

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- Micheal Keaton.

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- [Interviewer] What's the
best thing about being a dad?

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- Just trying to impart
like all the pieces of you

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that you think are good
onto your children,

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and the fact that they
love you unconditionally,

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like as parents.

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Parents screw up all the time, obviously,

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there's no book on it,

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and kids just love you no matter what

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as long as you're real with them,

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they're real with you pretty much,

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so, I don't know, its the best part.

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