You were listening to The Battle Ready Podcast. My name is Aaron McMannis, and I'm here with my dad, Irwin Rafael McMannis. It's good to have you here today.

It's going to be with you. Sound very, very formal today.

I'm just trying to get my podcast voice back.

All right. Well, yeah, but you know, infuse a little happiness a little bit. I'm happy. I'm happy. We've just had meeting after meeting after meeting.

Yeah, that's why when you're stepping the bell ready after you had like five hours of meetings, you kind of have a little loss of energy.

Yes, a little low. I need a battle nap. Battle nap. But I'm glad to be here. Let's dive in. We're going to have some fun.

We're going to have some fun. So today is kind of like one of those days. What are we going to talk about?

Well, first of all, it's a beautiful Los Angeles day rainy. Not really. It's raining. It's cold. Did you did at least to show you the video?

It's snowed at in Whittier. No, at Creasy School. If you don't know Whittier, it's just outside of LA. And there should be no snow there.

There should be no snow there. Well, I had a meeting this morning, and I got a text saying, I can't be at the meeting. I'm snowed in.

And I thought it was spam. It was a joke. That was a joke that I live in Lancaster. And I can't make it. And then I got another text saying,

Hey, our, our specialists can't make it because they've been snowed in. And I realized there's snow in Lancaster California.

Like a lot of snow. I woke up this morning. It was it was cold. Cold cold. But it's fine. I'm not going to complain. It's actually cold in other places like Minnesota and Michigan.

It was constant. It doesn't matter. We're here. We're in Los Angeles. We live in life. We're having a great day.

But I would say one thing was weird. We go on these runs. Yeah, sometimes a week. And when you say we, you don't mean me.

No, I've never seen you run in my life. No, no. I always told people, I'm Latino. If you see me running, call the police.

That's not okay. That's not okay. That's inappropriate.

I'm allowed to say that of my own people. I was saying it way before there was a political practice.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So here. Okay. So we finished our run and we're looking up.

At the end, I'm like, guys, we can't we got to like pick up the pace. Like it's definitely going to start raining.

And we come out. We grab a coffee and we come out. And literally two parts of Beverly Hills, West Hollywood.

One is black skies. And then within like a palm tree distance, it is completely sunny and bright.

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