Hey, what's going on America and welcome to the newest episode of the dear America podcast.

Yeah, the book is launched. It's over. Wow. I feel like I feel like a huge weight has been lifted at this point.

And you know, I mean, thank everybody for all of the support. You know, they'll probably get mad at me for saying this a day early,

but I can pretty much go ahead and tell everybody that we did, you know, over 20,000 pre-orders of the book.

And so thank you, everybody who supported the book so far. No one has written to say that it was garbage book.

And we met. I thought it was so sweet because we met someone who loved the book who is a Vietnam veteran.

We were at a lake house and it just so happened. He was the neighbor and it was the

And it was so encouraging just to meet someone who serves in

your family. What are the odds of that, right? You go on a random vacation lake house and the neighbor of the lake house

finds out you're there and they've got the book. So that's crazy. You know, that that was really cool.

I actually had if I may talk a really random for a moment and people that have not read the book, I will try not to spoil things.

But there's a chapter in the book about tattoos. And in that chapter, there's this huge like bomb shell revelation, right?

About my past and about church and things like that. So the other day, I get this phone call from a Mississippi number.

No idea who it is. And so obviously it's got to be somebody calling my now South Carolina number from Mississippi.

But I know the answer is I don't know who it is. So they write me a message and I won't say anybody's names, but they're like, hey, this is so and so.

And you know, I just read your book and I would really like to talk to you about stuff. And it's not going.

So at first, you're like, but anyway, this person was a person that was in church with me in the youth band, the exact same time, all that stuff was going on.

And anyway, it was really cool because not only does he verify, you know, everything that's in the book was true.

He talks to me about the very same struggles that he has had since all that stuff has happened as well. And so if you hadn't read that chapter in the book, you should.

So you know what the crap I'm talking about. But that was really cool. And that was a really kind of like powerful phone call for me.

Because, you know, for so long, you always just think that is you feeling these ways.

Right. You thinking this way and questioning this and wondering about that.

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