Welcome to the Red River edition of Talking Texas. I'm your host Hudson Standish, joined as always during the 2022 football season by my friend and co-pilot.

And the author of The Road to Texas, Mike Roach, Mike, book sales have been flying off the shelves, but I do realize that they are stocked

primarily by Amazon and online distributors now.

They're flying off someone's shelf, whether it be at an Amazon distribution center or not.

It's been a good week.

It was a surreal, Tuesday was a surreal day.

Excuse me. I think it was a,

um, it felt like when they told me October 4th, I was like, that's forever. And then all

the sudden it's here. And so, uh, the response has been really good. I'm really excited by it.

And, uh, I think everybody's been happy with it. So, um, and I was even able to use a lot of book content this week talking about Red River

because we had some great memories of Red River from old players in there.

And I thought we're pretty cool to get to share with their Horns 24-7 readers.

Mike, I know you're being a little bit modest about the success that the book is having.

Real quickly, can you kind of give the listeners the stats for how it's doing?

I'd love to, but I won't get the stats until next week.

I mean the Amazon stuff we talked about today.

I was trying to say you, but I could have.

Yeah, yeah, the, the Amazon,

I think we were as high as number three on the bestsellers list and number one in the football

coaching category. So I don't really know how those categories work because during pre-sale,

it would, I would look and it would be number one in travel, number one in sports and all sorts of things like

that. So it would constantly change. What I saw today, number three bestsellers, so not just

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