Hello, ForceCast listeners. Happy 4th of July 2025. I hope you are enjoying some time this weekend with friends and family and those who matter to you. Hey, real quick, no music, no jokes before we get started. Brad doesn't even know what I'm doing this. I didn't want to put him in a weird position. But, um, so, uh, those of you who may know or may not know, uh, former host of this show

and former, uh, partner of mine for 10 years, uh, Daniel Barry and his wife, where

Lindsay were expecting twins, uh, and I can happily report, for those of you haven't heard, that they were

born about a week or two ago, somewhere around there. So we at the Forcecast and myself personally

and the Force.net, we would love to wish them a hearty congratulations, and that is exciting.

And we know that this journey for them is just getting started and it's going to be

exciting and genuinely truly happy. I just want to address this one time because I got a lot of

questions about it. I guess there was a social media post that was sent to me a couple months

ago. Just getting a lot of questions about it and I i just want to answer it because i i have heard

from listeners that may have spoken to daniel um i've heard from listeners that are asking me

questions all the time and so i just want to address it one time one time only um our partnership

did not end um amicably um was uh was a pretty rough ending to both our friendship and the

partnership here uh i'm very sad about that um very regrettable um feeling about that uh it's not

obviously the way a 10 year partnership and a 10year friendship, you would expect it to go.

I still have a lot of love and a lot of respect for Daniel.

Still a brother to me.

Daniel and I have not spoken in probably close to a year.

My hope is that that changes.

My hope is that as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the force

cast next year his voice is a part of that um but then again i don't control that i don't control

you know him or or his um you know or more his reaction or anything like that so i just want to get

that out of the way i know

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