That was a good one.

Yeah, that was very good.

I'm gonna put it up there at top three.

Top three, wow.

Yeah.

Okay. You know, sometimes conversations, they're just so ephemeral. You can be out

with your best buddy and have a lousy conversation one night and you can run into a total

stranger and have a great conversation.

Scott Mann is neither.

He's a guy whose books I've read, who's been on this podcast before,

but he brought their receipts today, man.

I just had a completely engaging conversation with this guy and I knew we'd have a good one.

I wasn't expecting a great one. Well, I'll tell you I wasn't either just because of you and I was pretty sure he was going to be great and he was I'll tell you I sat here like a Christmas ham that's how I know it was really good because I didn't feel the need to say anything.

It was a really, really good conversation about a lot of topics and it was very deep.

And let me just say this about Scott, is that he has thought through these ideas.

Oh yeah.

He seems a lot like you in that regard to me,

that you talk and think through these things

before you really, really want to say it out loud. Well the difference is of

course Scott's a retired Green Beret who served with incredible distinction for a long

time and then ran Operation Pineapple Express and got a lot of people out of

that horrible situation during that incredibly I'll just say it botched withdrawal. But he is really concerned about the country and he

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