Hi, I'm Mayor McManus, and you were listening to The Battle Ready Podcast. I'm here with my dad, Irwin Rocco, McManus. How you doing, Dad?

I'm doing great. It's good to be here today. I love your background. And we also have with us, Brooke and Austin joining us again.

Hello. They are here with it. It's good to have you back, Brooke. You were gone for a week. You were in Nashville at the double wards. How was it?

It was awesome. We are going to win in the future. That's cool. That's a good way to say it on the competition. It was literally a competition, but that's okay.

That's actually a competition. That's right. I tell Maria. I remember when I went to my first book awards and my book lost to a dictionary to an encyclopedia of terms.

And that's when I realized I was probably never going to win a lot of Christian awards.

Okay. So here we go. It's Friday, and we are one week away from launching something that is quite possibly one of our favorite things that we do.

But before we get into it, we're going to talk all about it. We're going to talk about why we're doing it, what we're doing, and how we're going to do it, and we want everybody to be involved.

And we're going to give a little bit of like a little taste, a little taste of the thing we're talking about. That's releasing next Friday.

But until then we just started a Patreon. At the Patreon's interesting because we just broke 200 Patreon, which is kind of exciting.

I got a little thank you guys. That's amazing. It went from like 34 to 200 so fast.

It went from like six like my mom. My mom doesn't even subscribe. My mom doesn't even subscribe.

Your sister doesn't subscribe either. No, she does not subscribe. She doesn't listen to this podcast. This isn't for her. It's okay.

But really grateful for that. I think it's like 220 people subscribe, which doesn't turn five people.

Turn seven people. Someone just someone to subscribe. That's kind of exciting.

So you know, it's interesting. We've gone good feedback, bad feedback, overall good feedback.

But I'm actually really excited about the Patreon crew. You know, the guys from the minimalist, we're talking to us about it and it's unique way to kind of create a space where you can connect on a deeper level.

I'm not sure that we're going to put out episodes on it every week, but already we have I think three or four unreleased episodes that don't exist anywhere else.

So you know, you enjoy bad already. You want to get some more of it. Go and check it out. Just want to support and be a part of the podcast.

Check it out. Patreon.com slash bad already podcast. It's kind of cool.

Yeah, no, part of what I love about it is that we've done this for five years and never created really a mechanism for people to give or to invest or to say thank you.

And Patreon really has been something people have been asking for. They've been asking for way that they can give. They've been asking for way they can support battle rate with they've been asking for way they can support us getting this conversation out to the world.

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