 Dylan Schumacher, Stadell Defense, and another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is Verbal Judo, The Gentle Art of Persuasion by Mr. George J. Thompson, PhD. He's since deceased. And this book I've read because I'd heard it referenced in a couple places. John over at Active Self-Protection references a lot. He says, make sure your verbal judo is strong. And I thought, oh, he must be referring to this book. And so I picked it up and read it. And I got to say this book is extremely helpful. I read this book because I wanted to be able to have a better understanding of how to talk to people in conflict situations, right? Someone tries to rob you, you draw down on a guy, and now you can have a conversation. And I wanted to know how to have that conversation better. However, this book goes well beyond the scope of mere confrontation conversation. And he writes a lot of it from his perspective of being a police officer for five years, and how he had to try to talk his way to situations and talk people into compliance. The whole idea of the book is being in that conflict situation and being able to get voluntary compliance from someone, right? Rather than forcing compliance. And that's the art of verbal judo, is being able to get voluntary compliance from someone. But I think it, like I said, it goes beyond that into just communication in general and how to talk to people in general. Again, particularly in that conflict, right? But in general, it's helped me with my communication. It's helped me talk to my son better. It's helped me talk to my wife better. I bought a copy of this book for my wife and told her we're going to read it and we're going to meet every week on date night and we're going to go through this book because I just think it'll help our marriage and our communication. So take that for what it's worth. But I'm a big fan of this book. I would recommend this book to you if you have to talk to anybody. I mean, honestly, if you're at work, if you're married, if you have kids, if you have to talk to other people, I would recommend this book to you. I think it's very helpful. Particularly for those of us, of course, right? Who decide to carry guns every day because we believe in America. I think it's helpful to have this in your pocket because it gives you another option to be able to head a problem off before you have to go to guns, right? If you go to guns, to some degree or another, you've already lost. But if you can talk your way out of a situation and gain voluntary compliance and as a civilian that would most likely mean them getting to leave you alone and or you getting a chance to leave, that's a win. We chalk that one up as a win. We didn't have to shoot anybody today. That's always a win. So, I recommend this book for that because I think it'll give you more tools in the toolbox. Make sure your verbal judo is strong. So, recommend. It's a short read. It's a real quick read. It's like a hundred and, okay, it's almost 200 pages. 190 pages. Didn't feel long. Went real quick. Highly recommend verbal judo. I will leave a link, of course, down in the description. Do brave deeds and endure.