War Fighter Talk Real Advice Real Fast

The problem that we see in the community, right, I mean, we put out these Facebook posts and very, I don't know, educated people write articles and, and then you slide it in front of a warfighter and we're like, what the heck are you talking about? You know, it's never from the first person perspective. And a few years ago, Carl Monger and I were traveling around the country teaching law enforcement officers how to work with, with warfighters who were in crisis and nobody knew how. And we found that once we started talking about it from a first person perspective, like, Hey, I'm the guy you're coming out and seeing, and I'm the guy, this is what I'm going through and this is what you're going to deal with. And this is the best way to deal with it. Otherwise we don't have the same fear response. So the fight's going to be on and we really want to avoid that fight. And, and that worked really well. So, you know, long story short, I got to give a lot of credit to Anthony Farina who put out a book called Suicide Note. Now it's called Last Round, but the format that he made it in really inspired me to do something too, because he wrote it in verse, just like Sun Tzu is written in verse and, and stuff like that. I thought, you know what? This is really tight because I can spend an hour reading this. You know, you give me a book that's, you know, 300 pages, it's going to take a while, you know, and the line spacing, if you have TBI, is difficult. You got to read with some sort of index card and it's just, it's just laborious. And so we got together, Jeff and I, we've been talking and we've been friends all this time. And I, I swear to you, if it wasn't for Jeff, I don't know where I'd be in this whole, this whole thing, because he was the guy that I could reach out to. Hey bro, I got this going on. I got that going on. You know, what do you think? And he'd always say, I don't know, let's explore it. Let me look at my stuff. Let me, let me find out. You know, he's got a great database, but the same way that we had conversations between us is kind of what you get to peek in on when you read FPL because we're talking to you just like a warfighter talks to a warfighter and you can be done with the book in an hour. If you have, you can read it if you have TBI and you, and if you follow what it says on how to, it's kind of like a little bit of work bookish, you got to circle some things, but you can always refer back to it and go, Hey, where it says it still works, that's the thing I need to do. And so that's kind of how this thing got started. Jeff is a great inspiration to me, the entire special operations community, you know, everything he's done with, with the special operations forces, health, health initiatives with task force dagger always been amazing. And I just asked him, I say, would you partner with me on this thing? And he's like, yeah, let's do it. And we both agreed, you know, we're going to give somebody the task force dagger too, for all the stuff that they've been doing. And that's, that's kind of the whole thing. Sorry to be long-winded about it, but I want to make sure everybody understands that this is warfighter talk. It's warfighters talking to warfighters. You can be out of it in an hour and you'll probably have more information that you'll ever see in any one place and you'll, you'll see how it works. Yeah, Patty, I'll add one thing on that too, is that one of the problems we have, right? I'll take it back to the military's mutual understanding, right? Situational understanding of these problems. And what happens is you always get these people, like I call it PhD to GED and GED to PhD, right? You have to get those two languages where there's mutual understanding.