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Welcome to Dedicated. On this show, we often have household names, but with the asterix

that the household needs to be full of avid readers. Today, no asterisk required. I, of course,

knew about Montel Williams from his Emmy Award-winning show. And when I was preparing

for this conversation today, I learned that's only a small sliver of things. 22 years of military

service, including a stretch in naval intelligence, a specialty in cryptography. Montel Williams

retired from military service in 1996. With so many honors and commendations, we can't even start to list them here. We'll run out of time. So when I learned that Montel was writing a book about the aircraft carry intrepid, I'd initially thought, well, Montel's a journalist and a great storyteller. It should be a good book. When I learned the rest of his career, I realized he is the perfect person to write this book. And I was right. It's terrific. I devoured it. It's full of cool naval history. It's well told. And it's also getting great reviews. I saw New York Post. Best book. Amazon editor's pick. So congratulations. I'm so excited. Welcome to the show. Thanks for having me for sure. And we're going to have some cranberry and sparkling water today.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Okay, great. We often will booze it up. You have little cocktails, right? Yeah, exactly. You're more of a, like, maybe CBD. Mine's a mocktail, huh? A little mocktail for the day. Yeah, I kind of, I shifted over and do a little bit more CBD kinds of drinks. Oh, my son. Sirius XM is not going to love that.

But I, yeah, I... I shifted over and do a little bit more CBD kinds of drinks. Serious XM is not going to love that.

But I, yeah, I stop, it's really very funny.

I stopped drinking.

Not because I really wanted to, but out of choice for the diagnosis that I got years ago.

So I've done to try to drink, really, honestly, for 25 years.

I mean, I may sip a little bit of champagne on New Year's, but I kind of pass on it because medication I take it has a weird reaction to it.

Yeah, yeah, I want to ask you about the MS stuff.

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