And the Hi, my name is Aaron McManus. Welcome to the Battle Ready podcast. I am here with my

father. Now why do you always call me father? I'm your dad. You're my dad but I but it's like a

father-son thing you know all right well I'm Rwyn-McManus and it's good to see you my son. It's good to see

you dad. So we we who is we, as in you, we're a little controversial on our podcast that released on Tuesday.

Well, it's interesting to me that when I just lay out different perspectives or possibilities

that sometimes people feel anxious because it feels as if I might be indicting their particular view of the world

or their political positions and really I was just saying here are some things that we should pay attention

to because this could be a cautionary tale.

And so we dropped this really fun podcast,

is battle ready on the end of democracy.

And I just wanted to throw out the you know a conversation

that maybe in two three five years we might want to look back and go

hey guys there were signs have you ever had something happen then you look back and you realize there

were signs that warned you but you didn't pay attention to the signs?

Yeah, pretty much like every relationship I've ever been in.

What? That's a different episode. That would be a really good episode.

It would be a really good episode that I hope we never get to.

And so I felt for me, and I guess I kind of drove that particular conversation.

It was important to talk about...

You were driving and I was hanging out the back of the truck going,

please someone get him to stop the car.

But I just think sometimes it's important to say things that it feels like we don't have

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