A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts.

Get ready to enter the Lion Heart with your host, Lawrence Dunning.

Well, so nice to get connected with you.

And you have such an interesting story.

You're doing amazing things with your literary work.

So I'm really excited for this one.

Lawrence, it's a great honor to be here.

And I'm really glad that we connected.

So the first thing about your bio is you have such an interesting background.

You're a fifth generation from a pioneer ranching family.

And I admit I'm incredibly ignorant on the ranching lifestyle until I watched the show Yellowstone.

And it's an incredible, I really enjoyed the show from a philosophical perspective.

You have the Native Americans that are upset with the ranchers because they were there first,

and then the ranchers are upset with the people coming in, the developers trying to develop it and modernize it.

So you have the interplay between those three groups.

I just think it's so fascinating, and I never really appreciated the ranching lifestyle until I watched that show. And my God, what a life at ranching. It's so fascinating, and I never really appreciated the launching lifestyle until I watched that show.

And my God, what a life at launching it. It's just incredible. Well, Yellowstone is a little bit,

I mean, probably more Hollywood. Yeah, of course. But with my family, just summary, my background is

predominantly Scots-Irish. So those folks would come from Scotland and then to Northern Ireland and then always kind of pushing the frontier. And when they came to the United States in early 1700s, that's kind of the way, and I'm talking just the Glass family worked, just kept pushing frontiers and going

west. Everybody was always going west. So the ranching began after the Civil War. My family was

in Central Texas. And of course, post-Civil War, everybody was poor, war veterans.

The state was offering relatively cheap land out west.

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