I brought up stuff that I've never brought up before. Not even to Amber. I wrote stuff in this book

that Amber didn't know that no one of the planet in fact knew

and it wasn't until I finished the manuscript itself that I needed to call Amber

and tell her, hey, there's some stuff in this book that you don't know about.

Okay, welcome to the podcast. This is a special episode and I'm going to read your questions

about Lacka River. Tomorrow as this releases every Monday morning so as this releases tomorrow

is August 1st. If you're listening to it in real time or on the actual day it releases which

most people probably won't but for the people that are my book Lacka River comes out tomorrow.

So motivated by that. So excited. I mean probably a little bit nervous about it too because it's

just I looked back on the the process of this and January of 2021 is when I finished the proposal

to start pitching the publishers. So before that you know is when I was putting my thoughts together

so it's been quite a process and I remember putting together that proposal and when we

finally ended up getting the publishing deal the green light to write the book. They were talking

about fall of 2023 and I remember thinking that's decades away. It feels so long from now and

now here we are literally one day tomorrow it releases and so if you haven't gotten Lacka River

yet. First of all let me just give you my little pitch. This is my life story and well at least

the last five years which have been the most impactful of my entire life and we're going to cover

in this book with me. I'm going to cover the the journey through grief and loss of my little boy

three year old boy River as we lost him my wife and I lost him and the book is going to open with

that. In fact I got one right here. I got it right here. The book opens with that chapter one.

We're going straight into it. So let me start reading the very beginning it says soak in this

moment because it won't last forever. It was the last thought I remember having before everything

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