Greetings, Parish Orphans and Retrogrades.

Coming to you with this special show today with a special guest, a very special guest.

Sitting to my right is Harry Crocker, the vice president, executive editor of Regnery Publishing.

He's a military historian. He is a novelist. And besides

that, he's just an all-around good dude. I'm pleased to have you here, Harry. Thanks,

thanks for talking to me today. My pleasure. So both of us, by the way, I think you know this,

the people out there, parish orphans and retrogrades, you all don't

know this. But like me, I'm a bit of a rare breed, a displaced Californian who came to Mississippi.

Californians tend to turn up their nose at Mississippians. And yet Harry is also a California turned

Mississippi. And how's that going for you? You live about 90 minutes from me, Harry. Yeah, no, we are loving it. This has been weirdly a long-term dream of ours. But yeah, we're finally here. I've been here about a month now. Yeah, you're getting unpacked and whatnot. It's weirdly a long-term dream of ours, too. You've seen our place, walked about the grounds a little bit. I just didn't

know when I lived in California that there was such a thing as multiple trees that stood next to

each other, right? People don't know that. There's a thing where trees are next to each other.

Yeah, there's that. Last night, my wife and I were walking around we neutria have you have you

encountered nutria yet no you're like muskrats they're like muskrats that are infesting

Louisiana and coastal Mississippi and they're these big giant rodents but you can eat them

apparently so my I have boys who are hunters so maybe we can bring ever some up chalk that in

the pros column.

At first, it sounded muskrat sounds a little bit like a con.

But, uh, and the, all the Californians out there going like, yep, this is what we thought.

But, but then you turn the corner and you can, you can eat the muskrat. So, uh, in, in your grill, California, we can eat our rats here.

Um, well, so, Harry, aside from being a man who wears many hats and vice president and

and cowboy boots.

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