You were listening to The Battle Ready Podcast. My name is Aaron McMannis and I'm here, my father, Irwin Raphael McMannis. It's good to have you here this morning.

It's good to be here on this, uh, uh, Dre L A day. It's gloomy. It's been rainy. Yeah.

We've been, we've been having a winter. We have. This is as close as we get to seasons and I'm ready

for our long season of summer to come. It's, it's, yeah, I'm ready for summer to come. I'm also ready

for it to not leave. This is the longest winter we've had in a long time. We have, but it's so necessary.

It's so necessary. I mean, what do you mean by that? Oh, I mean, the, the air is cleaner. Uh, the

rain really does clean the atmosphere. The, you know, we finally have rain. The drought seems to be

dissipating. Um, things are green. I mean, I remember we were, we're not even allowed to water

our lawns. Everything was dying. Now everything is flourishing. Nature has a way of doing that.

So it's good. This circle of life. A circle of life. Well, usually L.A. just has a semi-circle.

Okay. So a couple of things I just want to dive right into. It's kind of an exciting week, but more

than anything, um, I got a shout out, uh, one of the Patreon members, Carl Johnson. He,

he, he caught that we dropped your new book title in the last episode. How did he pick that up?

I don't know. We kind of just threw it out there and he, he, he, he commented on the Patreon. I was like,

did you guys just casually throw out the new book title and didn't make it a thing?

So we're going to talk about it a bit more today. So you're saying that our Patreon members are

just a little sharper that all I'm saying is shout out to Carl Johnson on Patreon and the team and,

you know, if you want to be a part of Patreon, you can, you can jump on it as well. There's some private

episodes. There's some, some, uh, uh, unreleased content we put up there. And, and as we,

we build that community, we're going to keep growing it. Um, you can, I think it's like five,

10, 20 dollars a month. All right. Awesome. I'm going to make, I'm going to give you a challenge.

Let's find you. Did you just cut me off? Excuse me, sir. I'm inspired by you. Oh,

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