Scott Mann

But as we were talking about Pineapple Express over the last couple of years, I think one of the things that's been cool about it is this was a group of veterans from across the country who just tried to do something.

to help their allies when nobody was coming, right?

And all I did was write the story and try to chronicle it as best I could.

But what I found was a lot of people were inspired by these veterans who stepped into the arena when nobody else did.

But they were also really inspired by the Afghans in the story.

And that was my hope was that

the Afghans would really become the protagonists, these commandos and special forces and female soldiers and minister of foreign women's affairs who risked everything for freedom.

And so I got this message from a lady on LinkedIn.

Her son, Tyler, her name's Carrie.

Her son, Tyler, had to do a book report on someone who had inspired him recently.

And he had to like write about it and then do a sketch of this individual.

So she sends this to me on LinkedIn.

And Tyler drew this at 15 years old.

And he's a huge fan of your show.

He follows you, he listens to every episode.

But he drew this picture of Nizam shooting.

And then Nizam on a mission straight from the book

Right?

And he did the illustrations himself freehand and then wrote his little book report on Operation Pineapple Express as where he drew information.

And what his mom told me was that he really dials into your show, man.