1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:12,200
Speaker 1: M hm true. How is that I knew that the

2
00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,880
Speaker 1: show had started? Because of that, I'm nothing, nothing to add.

3
00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:21,360
Speaker 1: What I love is getting paid my entire salary to

4
00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:25,880
Speaker 1: open shows like this, Because it's actually pretty easy to

5
00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,200
Speaker 1: be an adult if you if you're if you get

6
00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,360
Speaker 1: a couple of lucky breaks that allow you to just

7
00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,440
Speaker 1: grunt into a microphone and then Groggy Ley read Been

8
00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,320
Speaker 1: Shapiro's Terrible book for an hour and a half to

9
00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,560
Speaker 1: your friends. Which is the career path I recommend for

10
00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:45,239
Speaker 1: everyone listening. It's amazing. Uh what success is defined us

11
00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:49,440
Speaker 1: these days? But I accept it. Yeah, I accept it too. Um,

12
00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:50,800
Speaker 1: how are we? How are we? How are we all

13
00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,880
Speaker 1: doing today? On the special, very special day. Ah, it's Friday,

14
00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,000
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. I got a dog in my lap. I apologize,

15
00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:00,520
Speaker 1: I have a dog in my lap. He might be

16
00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:03,120
Speaker 1: there's two dogs in here. They might be joining in

17
00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,240
Speaker 1: the conversation. We'll see. I'm good. I'm glad you have

18
00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,520
Speaker 1: the dogs, Katie, because today isn't it a day where

19
00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,160
Speaker 1: we're going to all get some emotional closure And like,

20
00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,319
Speaker 1: you know, we're all world readers here, you know, we're

21
00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,560
Speaker 1: all fans of storytelling. When you finish a story that

22
00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,480
Speaker 1: has really grabbed you. It's like it can be like

23
00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,640
Speaker 1: losing a family member, Like like there's this this moment

24
00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,119
Speaker 1: of sorrow when you realize it's gone, and we are

25
00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:31,400
Speaker 1: about to take our very last trip into the world

26
00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:35,080
Speaker 1: of Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance. I know if I'm emotionally

27
00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,959
Speaker 1: prepared for this. We started this journey like a full

28
00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:43,040
Speaker 1: year ago, y'all, it's been a while. I mean, by

29
00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,000
Speaker 1: the time we're done, he'll have released Alliance True True,

30
00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,400
Speaker 1: which I just can't wait for. You know, I love

31
00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,560
Speaker 1: a series of books. You know, I've been, I've been

32
00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:55,040
Speaker 1: I I I run one of the largest sub credits

33
00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,280
Speaker 1: for for True Allegiance fans, and the big the scuttle

34
00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:02,160
Speaker 1: butt is that sequel we're finally going to learn Yard's

35
00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:09,800
Speaker 1: name crossed, fingers crossed, I don't know, might save that

36
00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,320
Speaker 1: for the third one. Well, we are going to have

37
00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,200
Speaker 1: to come up with something else to read because I'm

38
00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,280
Speaker 1: not ready to say goodbye to this tradition. Now we'll

39
00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,520
Speaker 1: have to find another book, maybe Steven Seagal's book The

40
00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:28,880
Speaker 1: Way of the Shadow Wolves. You had a visceral reaction

41
00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,720
Speaker 1: to that title, and speaking of visceral reactions. The first

42
00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,480
Speaker 1: chapter that we're coming back to is we couldn't open

43
00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:41,320
Speaker 1: this episode better Brett Hawthorne. Here we go. All right,

44
00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,519
Speaker 1: We're in New York City with Brett. Brett couldn't stop sweating.

45
00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,600
Speaker 1: It wasn't that Prescott. Prescott is the terrible president. Prescott's

46
00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,320
Speaker 1: threat scared him. Not after the public scandal with Diana

47
00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,800
Speaker 1: Kelly bullshit though. It was not after Afghanistan, not after

48
00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,919
Speaker 1: I run, not after spending years apart from Ellen. Prescott

49
00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,400
Speaker 1: would be better off burying the whole situationally avoiding the backlash,

50
00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,160
Speaker 1: making some payoff to Omari, which is the bin laden.

51
00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,520
Speaker 1: This would blow over. Brett wasn't sweating for himself. He

52
00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,200
Speaker 1: was sweating for Hassan. He'd been a fool. He knew

53
00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,080
Speaker 1: that now he'd been a fool far too often, trusting Prescott,

54
00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,880
Speaker 1: serving at his administration and then telling Omari that he

55
00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,160
Speaker 1: knew about Mohammed's association with him. O MARII could backtrack

56
00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,280
Speaker 1: the story. Okay, so Brett's Brett's feeling bad because he

57
00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:27,240
Speaker 1: got his friend, the good Muslim in trouble for telling

58
00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,360
Speaker 1: him about the bad Muslim who is like running care

59
00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,200
Speaker 1: basically like we all remember that there's there's there's the

60
00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:38,880
Speaker 1: there's the anti Muslim bigotry organization that's a front for

61
00:03:38,920 --> 00:03:42,600
Speaker 1: al Qaeda. Um. Because all of the Muslims except for

62
00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,480
Speaker 1: his friend Hassan are bad guys. Um. And Brett got

63
00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,000
Speaker 1: his friend in trouble because his friends sent him to

64
00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,839
Speaker 1: the anti Muslim bigotry people who knuke to New York City.

65
00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,120
Speaker 1: Because the only reason to be against bigotry against Muslims

66
00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:58,920
Speaker 1: as if you're planning to destroy the largest city in

67
00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:03,000
Speaker 1: the country. That's basic of any other logical region. Yeah, yeah, Okay,

68
00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,200
Speaker 1: So he's wondering how Prescott tracked him down. Yeah, because

69
00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,440
Speaker 1: he got caught by the President and the FEDS. Last

70
00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,360
Speaker 1: episode or last chapter, whatever you want to call these things. Um. Yeah.

71
00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:15,480
Speaker 1: So he's in his hotel room. He's in trouble. He's

72
00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,640
Speaker 1: worried about his friend. He picks up his phone and

73
00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:20,840
Speaker 1: he dials Hassan's number. Hassan picks up on the first ring.

74
00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,200
Speaker 1: General Hawthorne, he said, Brett picked up the queue right away.

75
00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,479
Speaker 1: Hassan knew they were listening. Hassan Abdul, I've heard so

76
00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:29,440
Speaker 1: much about you. A mutual friend of ours referred me

77
00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,520
Speaker 1: to you. He said you could answer some questions about

78
00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,440
Speaker 1: chronic philosophy for an article I'm writing about my experience

79
00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,000
Speaker 1: as an Afghanistan and Iran. Okay, So he's they're doing

80
00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,440
Speaker 1: like the the the Koi thing because he doesn't want

81
00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,160
Speaker 1: to give anything away over the phone because he's being tapped.

82
00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,240
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, YadA. Um okay, let's let's let's where's that

83
00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,800
Speaker 1: good Brett Hawthorne action here? Come on, he's getting the

84
00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,240
Speaker 1: climate like we're getting. Come on, Okay, So he gives

85
00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:57,760
Speaker 1: Hassan his address and Hassan comes over, and that's how

86
00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,960
Speaker 1: they're That's how they're going to have a real conversation.

87
00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,480
Speaker 1: Brett puts on Joy Behart to drown out whatever listening

88
00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,680
Speaker 1: devices are in the room. Has been a big joy

89
00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:14,320
Speaker 1: Behart fan. I don't think so couldn't be no. Um okay,

90
00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,640
Speaker 1: so uh the um. So they have twenty minutes of

91
00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,960
Speaker 1: phony discussion about the Koran Um. We still don't know

92
00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,280
Speaker 1: what Brett's actually trying to do. Okay. So this whole

93
00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,680
Speaker 1: conversation they've had is just so that Brett can set

94
00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,920
Speaker 1: up another secret meeting where they're going to actually have

95
00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:36,080
Speaker 1: the real conversation, good writing. We needed these last three

96
00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,480
Speaker 1: pages where nothing really happened. Um So now he winds

97
00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,840
Speaker 1: up later, back at Hassan's apartment. Uh sneaking past federal

98
00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,239
Speaker 1: agents and stuff to have I guess the real meeting.

99
00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,520
Speaker 1: When Hassan led him in, he immediately held up a

100
00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,000
Speaker 1: piece of paper to his chest. They stopped here today,

101
00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,760
Speaker 1: it said the tapes are gone. Brett's face went white.

102
00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:55,520
Speaker 1: So they've known all along, and then they'd waited for

103
00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:57,839
Speaker 1: Hassan to leave the apartment to ransack it. So of

104
00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,400
Speaker 1: a bit, he whispered to himself. Then he read the

105
00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,400
Speaker 1: rest of what Hasan had written. Found your Muhammad. It

106
00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,919
Speaker 1: read Flatbush blew it an address, So that's the terrorist

107
00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,400
Speaker 1: who's in the country to set off another bomb. I

108
00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,400
Speaker 1: guess you could have just this is like nitpicking. We're

109
00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:19,240
Speaker 1: getting the nipicky stage. He read the rest. He read

110
00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:22,679
Speaker 1: the last. I wouldn'tsh back and say that's not nitpicky.

111
00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:26,320
Speaker 1: An overall note. Yeah, you know what say you read

112
00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:28,400
Speaker 1: the rest of what this person wrote, like we know

113
00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,000
Speaker 1: that so far has been written like four pages that

114
00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:35,440
Speaker 1: could have been like three paragraphs where he's like, yeah,

115
00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,960
Speaker 1: we exchanged coded messages until we could actually meet overall. Note,

116
00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,440
Speaker 1: you need a redundancy at it. You need a redundancy

117
00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,080
Speaker 1: at it. I mean, that's the thing when you're when

118
00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,920
Speaker 1: you're writing a piece of fiction, you write it right,

119
00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,800
Speaker 1: and the first draft is always going to be trash.

120
00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,279
Speaker 1: Everybody's first draft is bad. Don't publish that one, Ben, Ben.

121
00:06:56,440 --> 00:06:58,000
Speaker 1: And then your goal should be to go through a

122
00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,919
Speaker 1: few more times and make it short. Every time. It

123
00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,839
Speaker 1: should get a little shorter because you're recognizing, for example,

124
00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:06,480
Speaker 1: that you wrote for unnecessary pages that don't convey any

125
00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:11,160
Speaker 1: useful information about the progression of the story. Um but

126
00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, just a note, yeah, okay, Um. So

127
00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:21,840
Speaker 1: he has to escape from Hassan's apartment. He's dodging federal agents.

128
00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,240
Speaker 1: We have an action scene I guess where. It takes

129
00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,280
Speaker 1: way too long, pages and pages of him just running

130
00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:34,600
Speaker 1: away from guys and hiding. Um, Ben, I was hoping

131
00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:39,240
Speaker 1: for more fun combat General Bret Hawthorne stuff. But okay,

132
00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,480
Speaker 1: so the agents catch him, he gets he's he finally,

133
00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:45,480
Speaker 1: after three pages of very boring running away, he's on

134
00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,720
Speaker 1: the subway platform. The agents catch him. General shouted, one

135
00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:50,760
Speaker 1: of the agents, just come with us. You know, we

136
00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:53,720
Speaker 1: have our orders. Brett breathed, heavily, bent down and put

137
00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,320
Speaker 1: his hands on his knees. He held one finger to them,

138
00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,720
Speaker 1: all right, just catching my breath, guys, and then looked

139
00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,080
Speaker 1: up at them. As the noise of the approaching subway

140
00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,960
Speaker 1: train grew, he he counted down in his head. He

141
00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:05,800
Speaker 1: could see the lights approaching down though. I think he's

142
00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,440
Speaker 1: going to jump on the train. Um, yeah, yeah, he

143
00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:14,680
Speaker 1: jumps on the train. Um. And he successfully runs away

144
00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:20,720
Speaker 1: from the uh the federal agents. Um. Oh wait, no,

145
00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,800
Speaker 1: no he doesn't. They run after him. So we're running again.

146
00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,280
Speaker 1: We're running again. We're running again. This is so many

147
00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:33,040
Speaker 1: pages of just Brett Hawthorne trying to avoid federal agents. Um. Okay.

148
00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,000
Speaker 1: So he find he gets away. He comes out into

149
00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:38,320
Speaker 1: New York City. He's walking around Prospect Park. He's looking

150
00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,840
Speaker 1: for this Mohammed guy. He finds his apartment. Uh. He

151
00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,640
Speaker 1: had almost no chance of avoiding detection if Mohammed was listening.

152
00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,280
Speaker 1: He knew the complex, the apartment complex Mohammed's, and just

153
00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,280
Speaker 1: wasn't big enough. Heavily trafficked enough. Sure enough, a woman

154
00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,200
Speaker 1: from to Be opened her door cracked to get a

155
00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:53,920
Speaker 1: look at him. He cleared at her, and he heard

156
00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,199
Speaker 1: her shut the door and lock it. His hand felt

157
00:08:56,200 --> 00:08:58,480
Speaker 1: in his pocket for a weapon he didn't have. Did

158
00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:02,560
Speaker 1: he normally keep his weapons in his pocket? Yeah? Yeah,

159
00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:04,600
Speaker 1: I mean he he doesn't have anything, but it's not

160
00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,480
Speaker 1: like he reached down by his side where his his

161
00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,560
Speaker 1: trusted side arm was. He doesn't keep his gun in

162
00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:19,200
Speaker 1: his pockets. I got what I got? Yeah, I mean, okay,

163
00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,000
Speaker 1: some of us keep loose knives in our pockets. That's healthy. Um.

164
00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,800
Speaker 1: Eventually you build up an immunity to getting cut. Really

165
00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:32,240
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, it's like strict nine. Um. Okay. So he

166
00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,560
Speaker 1: finds he gets into Mohammed's apartment, but Mohammed has been

167
00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,599
Speaker 1: murdered already. He's had his throat cut, so I don't know.

168
00:09:37,640 --> 00:09:41,240
Speaker 1: There's some fucking terrorism ship going on here. Um. Oh,

169
00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,040
Speaker 1: and Brett has arrived just in time to almost catch

170
00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,760
Speaker 1: the assailant. Um. Okay, so we have an action another

171
00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,439
Speaker 1: action seen here. Um. He gets attacked by the guys

172
00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:57,560
Speaker 1: who just killed this terrorist, um, and he fights them off. Well,

173
00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,960
Speaker 1: he's in the process of fighting them off. Um. There's

174
00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,880
Speaker 1: another boring action scene. Uh. And he succeeds in beating

175
00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,080
Speaker 1: up the guys who killed the other guy and taking

176
00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,719
Speaker 1: them captive. Um, so yeah, he gets puts a night

177
00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:13,240
Speaker 1: to one of their throats and he's out. He's about

178
00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,439
Speaker 1: to torture one of these guys for information. That's that's

179
00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,280
Speaker 1: we're leading in the last paragraph of Brett's chapter is

180
00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:21,480
Speaker 1: a few minutes later, after subduing Mahmoud, who's the guy

181
00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,040
Speaker 1: he is about to torture, Brett diald Ellen. Honey, he said,

182
00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,440
Speaker 1: don't come to New York. I can't stay for certain yet,

183
00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,960
Speaker 1: just don't come to New York. Something bad is okay?

184
00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,760
Speaker 1: So you remember three chapters ago when Ellen called him

185
00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:34,720
Speaker 1: because she was about to fly to New York on

186
00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,040
Speaker 1: behalf of the governor and she gets a call from

187
00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,280
Speaker 1: Brett telling her not to. This is apparently happening contemporaneously

188
00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:47,319
Speaker 1: to what happened three chapters ago. That's why Brett was, oh, okay,

189
00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:52,040
Speaker 1: So now we're back at that part. Well, because goodtinuously

190
00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,560
Speaker 1: building but also continuously going back in time in order

191
00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,400
Speaker 1: to build again, so that there's it's like a zig

192
00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:06,080
Speaker 1: especially if that is um a styleistic choice that has

193
00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:09,559
Speaker 1: not been introduced earlier in the novel. Yeah, you need

194
00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,560
Speaker 1: to make it as not clear, as I will say,

195
00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:16,800
Speaker 1: one thing that has been introduced in this book so

196
00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,960
Speaker 1: far is that Brett will change perspectives and shift time

197
00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,680
Speaker 1: periods at random. Ben, sorry, not Brett. There is that.

198
00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:29,920
Speaker 1: So yes, Ben, Brett whomever. Uh yeah, jokes on me

199
00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,319
Speaker 1: for not paying close enough attention. All right, I'm gonna

200
00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:36,640
Speaker 1: skim more this next bit because this is just the

201
00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,600
Speaker 1: joke is on us for reading this. So our next

202
00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,200
Speaker 1: chapter is in Ellen chapter, and I guess we're finally

203
00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,679
Speaker 1: moving forward in time from where Ellen was three chapters

204
00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:47,680
Speaker 1: ago before Brett's chapter took us back in time. Um. Good.

205
00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,040
Speaker 1: So Brett's been missing for more than twenty four hours.

206
00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,000
Speaker 1: Nobody knows where he is. Um, she's waiting for an

207
00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,320
Speaker 1: audience with the president. She's in New York City. So

208
00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,959
Speaker 1: apparently she flew to New York City. Okay, she didn't

209
00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,840
Speaker 1: get explained to us. Yeah, you know, I'm okay with

210
00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,800
Speaker 1: that because if if you did, if you did a

211
00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,680
Speaker 1: bit where you like wrote about her going there, I'd

212
00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,240
Speaker 1: be like, Man, we don't need this. That's fair. Although

213
00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:14,960
Speaker 1: Cody the next page or so is been going back

214
00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,960
Speaker 1: in time and explaining why she decided to go to

215
00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:24,480
Speaker 1: New York. Um. Um, all right, so we have a

216
00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,559
Speaker 1: little bit about how she expected to be chaotic in

217
00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,640
Speaker 1: the wake of the terrorist attack. But the militarious gene

218
00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:31,120
Speaker 1: a brilliant job of cleaning up the city and opening

219
00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:37,360
Speaker 1: up traffic. So that's good. Um okay, uh, there's a

220
00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:40,120
Speaker 1: great line here. The dredging of the traffic clogged the

221
00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:42,079
Speaker 1: main arteries. The dredging of the Hudson had just come

222
00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,360
Speaker 1: about come to its conclusion. Although the coast Guards still

223
00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:47,360
Speaker 1: patrolled the waters and heavy numbers military men and women

224
00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,000
Speaker 1: seemed to throng throughout the city, occupying every coffee house,

225
00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:52,959
Speaker 1: every restaurant. This, she thought must have been what World

226
00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:58,120
Speaker 1: War two felt like. M couldn't agree more. She expresses

227
00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,240
Speaker 1: that it's calming having armed women and men everywhere, which

228
00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,560
Speaker 1: if they're in coffee houses and rest like, the military

229
00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,760
Speaker 1: isn't just let you keep guns when you're off duty.

230
00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,199
Speaker 1: Like maybe if you were at like a fob in Afghanistan, yeah,

231
00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:11,680
Speaker 1: you'd always want to have a gun near you. But

232
00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,400
Speaker 1: like these guys were sent to a city to assist

233
00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:17,320
Speaker 1: in a rescue operation, they're probably not carrying guns as

234
00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:22,080
Speaker 1: a rule because they're doing recovery work. They wouldn't have guns.

235
00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:23,920
Speaker 1: The army is are gonna be like, yeah, we'll take yours.

236
00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,959
Speaker 1: We're in New York, take your gun to get coffee.

237
00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm shocked he got this so wrong. Yeah, I mean,

238
00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:37,080
Speaker 1: it's just, uh, it's just been wanting to do his

239
00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,280
Speaker 1: you know, master banning over the military thing. Aren't things

240
00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:43,000
Speaker 1: better when everybody has guns and things better when the army?

241
00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,560
Speaker 1: I love to feel comfortable when everybody's got guns and occupying.

242
00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,720
Speaker 1: It's fine. Well, it's one of those things you feel

243
00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:54,520
Speaker 1: safe when everyone has guns. Obviously, I you know, I

244
00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,520
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time around places where everybody has guns.

245
00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,640
Speaker 1: But I don't feel particularly comfortable when there's a bunch

246
00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,760
Speaker 1: of armed soldiers everywhere in the middle of a city.

247
00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:07,120
Speaker 1: That's not a great sign. Particularly, that's a particularly bad sign.

248
00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:08,720
Speaker 1: It's weird because Ben is supposed to be like this

249
00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,560
Speaker 1: kind of libertarian conservative, but the thing he's celebrating isn't

250
00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,680
Speaker 1: like a bunch of armed citizens. It's like a military

251
00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,560
Speaker 1: occupying the largest city in the nation, which isn't a

252
00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,640
Speaker 1: small government thing. But I guess conservatism left that behind

253
00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:28,960
Speaker 1: a while ago. Yeah. Also, she's she she feels safer

254
00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,480
Speaker 1: in midtown Manhattan and the immediate wake of a terrorist

255
00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,920
Speaker 1: attack with soldiers everywhere. Then she felt in El Paso,

256
00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,480
Speaker 1: famous for being one of the safest large cities in

257
00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,640
Speaker 1: the United States, which been continuously forgets. He just thinks

258
00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,520
Speaker 1: it's got to be like a dangerous hell hole because

259
00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,360
Speaker 1: it's close to the border. I'll pass. It was like

260
00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:52,560
Speaker 1: a famously safe city. Yeah, he doesn't want to know that. Yes,

261
00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,200
Speaker 1: but what if in this book it isn't. Yeah, I

262
00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,720
Speaker 1: mean it clearly isn't because the government has declared war

263
00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:04,680
Speaker 1: on Mexico and has invaded from El Paso. Um, but

264
00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,840
Speaker 1: El Paso is number six in the top ten safest

265
00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:12,720
Speaker 1: metro cities in the United States. Um, New York. Uh, well, no,

266
00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,760
Speaker 1: New York is too, okay, So yeah, fair enough. Yeah,

267
00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,040
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's gotten. It's it's it's pretty safe,

268
00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,120
Speaker 1: pretty safe town. So there you go. I guess, fair enough, Ben, Um,

269
00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,600
Speaker 1: although it's weird that she feels extra safe in the

270
00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,359
Speaker 1: wake of a terrorist attack that killed thousands there, Um yeah,

271
00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,400
Speaker 1: but whatever, all right, So she's she calls Ben's friend,

272
00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,600
Speaker 1: the special forces general who sent him on this question

273
00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,880
Speaker 1: in the first place, and YadA, YadA, YadA, she calls

274
00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,360
Speaker 1: somebody else. She's just she's doing a lot of phone calls.

275
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,320
Speaker 1: She's walking around New York phone calling people, like a

276
00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:49,160
Speaker 1: reverse episode of Seinfeld. Um, okay, now she's buying a sandwich.

277
00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,240
Speaker 1: We get about a page or so of her talking

278
00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:56,760
Speaker 1: to a sandwich fender about how the president is angry

279
00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,960
Speaker 1: at her husband. Um, I don't know if that's information

280
00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:04,400
Speaker 1: she should just be sharing with people. Yeah, I've been

281
00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:08,720
Speaker 1: going on. I don't know. They're both eating a sandwich together.

282
00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,720
Speaker 1: She's some he's some sources of his. In any case,

283
00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:14,680
Speaker 1: it's very boring. Um. Yeah, she's just meeting with people,

284
00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:19,440
Speaker 1: meeting with people, talking to folks. Honestly. Yeah, I mean,

285
00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:22,880
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I wouldn't be. She finally, after several pages

286
00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:29,640
Speaker 1: of very boring conversations, finds the place that her husband

287
00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,520
Speaker 1: fought those guys and found the murder dude. Uh, and

288
00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,440
Speaker 1: I think she let's see. Oh yeah, no, she finds

289
00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,800
Speaker 1: so the the assassin that her president fought, or that

290
00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,720
Speaker 1: her her husband fought. Uh, he apparently murdered and he's

291
00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:48,480
Speaker 1: been sitting in the apartment ever since. And yeah, so

292
00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,280
Speaker 1: she's she's she's following in the wake of her husband's

293
00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,320
Speaker 1: murder spree. I guess, uh that's good. Yeah, that's a

294
00:16:55,360 --> 00:17:00,480
Speaker 1: meat cute Okay, so okay, she finally gets you, finally

295
00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,760
Speaker 1: gets set up with her meeting with the president that

296
00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,679
Speaker 1: she's supposed to take on behalf of the governor of

297
00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,240
Speaker 1: Texas who has invaded Mexico. Prescott finally caught Ellen that night.

298
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,720
Speaker 1: They met at a conference room in the hotel. Prescott said,

299
00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,919
Speaker 1: at one end of the long conference table, with Tommy

300
00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,479
Speaker 1: Bradley at his elbow, they placed her at the opposite end.

301
00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,879
Speaker 1: She felt like a little girl called into the principal's office.

302
00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,000
Speaker 1: But realizing that's exactly how Prescott wanted it, she stealed

303
00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,760
Speaker 1: herself for the confrontation. That's a bad sentence, But realizing

304
00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,760
Speaker 1: that's exactly how Prescott wanted it. Comma, she stealed herself

305
00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,720
Speaker 1: for the confrontation. No Ben, that's no Ben. She was

306
00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,359
Speaker 1: surprised when Prescott grinned her, have you seen your husband yet,

307
00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,320
Speaker 1: miss Hawthorne? That little repost Ellen quickly figured meant they

308
00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:40,080
Speaker 1: were tailing her. Not yet, Mr President, she said, In fact,

309
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where he is. She figured Prescott

310
00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,600
Speaker 1: must already know that otherwise he wouldn't have asked. He

311
00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,760
Speaker 1: knew better than to ask questions to which he didn't

312
00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:57,320
Speaker 1: know the answers, Wait, what did you do? That's okay, okay, Um.

313
00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,560
Speaker 1: So they're having a conversation about coming to an agreement

314
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:02,160
Speaker 1: on board or security because again her boss has illegally

315
00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:08,320
Speaker 1: invaded a sovereign nation. They determined that they're at an impasse. Okay.

316
00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,400
Speaker 1: The President leans forward, a sudden seriousness coming over his face.

317
00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can do better than that. Look, see,

318
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,040
Speaker 1: from my perspective, we just faced the most serious a

319
00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:17,399
Speaker 1: terror attack in our nation's history. All I'm trying to

320
00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:19,359
Speaker 1: do is rebuild. All I need is some time, some

321
00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,800
Speaker 1: calm in the country. You've seen the situation in Detroit.

322
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,800
Speaker 1: The world's on fire. Whose fault is that? Mr? President?

323
00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,560
Speaker 1: What did you just say? I said, at your fault?

324
00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:32,440
Speaker 1: Mr President Ellen couldn't back Okay, truth Hower, I guess

325
00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,439
Speaker 1: I guess he caused. He caused all this by not

326
00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:40,040
Speaker 1: bombing Iran, is what she's saying, or having all of

327
00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,960
Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter activists massacred. Yeah, that's that's why

328
00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,600
Speaker 1: the world's Yeah, not enough violence. We need to listen

329
00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:54,600
Speaker 1: to the women more. Yeah, okay, so the President offers, oh, okay,

330
00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,320
Speaker 1: So the President has Brett. Apparently he got captured. And

331
00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:00,480
Speaker 1: after this point and after like they I, they can't

332
00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 1: come to an agreement on the border. He brings Brett

333
00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,960
Speaker 1: in um two secret Service agents ushered in General Bretta Thorne.

334
00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 1: His face was bruised, his clothes were filthy. He looked awful.

335
00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:12,359
Speaker 1: His hands were gashed and scraped his knuckles bloody. For

336
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,040
Speaker 1: a moment, Ellen felt miles away. Her husband blurred through

337
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:19,399
Speaker 1: her tears. Okay. She She ran to him, throwing her

338
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,600
Speaker 1: arms around his neck. He stood there awkwardly, then raised

339
00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 1: his hands to her head, stroked his ear, she her hair.

340
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,080
Speaker 1: She breathed in the smell of him, the wonder of him,

341
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:30,720
Speaker 1: And then he saw Prescott smiling face and came back

342
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,119
Speaker 1: to earth. She kissed his cheek. What do they do

343
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 1: to you? She whispered. He gently pushed her back. Then

344
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,720
Speaker 1: he turned to the President, his hands open, pleading. Mr President,

345
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,960
Speaker 1: He said, you need to call m. M Omari right

346
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,399
Speaker 1: now and get some answers. And why is that general?

347
00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,280
Speaker 1: We've had this conversation before. Okay. So the Brett spent

348
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,000
Speaker 1: his day's tracking down leads there's a terrorist attack. Uh,

349
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 1: he's he's warning the president's about to be a nuclear

350
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,160
Speaker 1: attack on American soil. I've seen the strategy before in Afghanistan.

351
00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,800
Speaker 1: They draw you in with one bomb, then used a

352
00:19:57,800 --> 00:19:59,920
Speaker 1: second to kill those who helped. I think what happened

353
00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 1: to the bridge was the preliminary attack. Prescott paused. He

354
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 1: stroked his chin thoughtfully. Then he said slowly. I don't

355
00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,560
Speaker 1: believe you. You already knew, Brett mused, enraged. So the

356
00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 1: President knows that there's about to be a nuclear attack,

357
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 1: and I guess he's Oh, no, okay, I did. I

358
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,120
Speaker 1: did know. And I don't believe your intelligence is better

359
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,199
Speaker 1: than my c i A, my FBI, my Department of

360
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,920
Speaker 1: Homeland Security. I don't buy this Jack Bower routine you're

361
00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaker 1: putting on. I think you've got the dellusions of grandeur

362
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,919
Speaker 1: and that you always did. Okay, So that was a

363
00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 1: deliberate twenty four reference when he tortured that guy. That's

364
00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:38,760
Speaker 1: nice to see. Yeah, okay, So the president he eddie edda. Uh,

365
00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,240
Speaker 1: it's just like it's because we've stretched this out over

366
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,919
Speaker 1: a year, it is, but like I'm just so not

367
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 1: invested in what's going on? I am I because there's

368
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 1: so many different plots and they're all poorly laid out,

369
00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 1: and everything takes twice as long as it ought to.

370
00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,280
Speaker 1: You're right, Cody, that it might be because we've reached

371
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,600
Speaker 1: this out over the course of a year. Yea. Also, No,

372
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 1: it's bad. It is. It's terrible. It's a terrible there's

373
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 1: a reason it's been stretched out. It's because it's awful. Yeah,

374
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: we've got we've been putting it off a plot that

375
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,680
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense because we've got both There was

376
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,040
Speaker 1: the first bombing, which I guess was covered for the

377
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 1: second bombing using the nukes that Saddam had, but he

378
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:31,399
Speaker 1: hit an Afghanistan. Yeah. And then there's also the evil

379
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:35,360
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter group and their scheme to replace all

380
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,160
Speaker 1: of the cops with black people, which is so far

381
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,480
Speaker 1: is what we've got of the scheme of the Black

382
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 1: Lives Matter crew and fundamental misunderstanding I think. Um. And

383
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 1: then of course there's the attack on Mexico. Yeah, and

384
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,320
Speaker 1: then there's then there's an invasion of Mexico. Um. That

385
00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:59,920
Speaker 1: feels like a good place to take an ad break. Yeah. Yeah,

386
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:16,159
Speaker 1: you know who also would invade Mexico. These sponsors are sponsors. Yeah,

387
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 1: all right, we're back and we're we're just desperately trying

388
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,679
Speaker 1: to close out this book that we are now of

389
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:29,040
Speaker 1: the way through taste the President. Okay. So we we

390
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 1: get to the President and and them are having their

391
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, the breat's warning that there's a

392
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: nuke that's going to be set off. The President doesn't

393
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:41,360
Speaker 1: believe him because he's got his intelligence. Um yeah, okay,

394
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 1: so um, and he basically threatens like, hey, we've got

395
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,160
Speaker 1: your husband around two different murders at this point. Uh,

396
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: and if we wanted to, we could have him convicted.

397
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 1: And Ellen asks why the president is doing this and

398
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 1: he says, because miss Hawthorne, your husband forced me into this,

399
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 1: so did you. The President of the United States is

400
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:00,879
Speaker 1: not just a job. It's a high office. The President

401
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: of the United States can out look ridiculous. He can't

402
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 1: have a two bit jackass redneck governors spitting in his eye,

403
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: and he can't have rogue generals portraying him as a

404
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: weekly days after terrorists bro up the damn George Washington Bridge.

405
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: So here's my offer. We all walk out of here

406
00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: as best friends. Ellen, you told the press that we've

407
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 1: reached an agreement and the state of Texas will be

408
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,639
Speaker 1: removing its troops from the border. You apologize from the

409
00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: massacre in Mexico, and just so your board, Bubba has

410
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 1: a fallback position, you can tell them that I've pledged

411
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:26,679
Speaker 1: to offer up the federal support on the border as

412
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: soon as possible. As for you, General Hawthorne, you retire

413
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,959
Speaker 1: quietly back to Texas with your wife. You keep your

414
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: damn mouth shut because I'm tired of hearing it. So

415
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,160
Speaker 1: that's the deal they're willing to reach. Um, I don't

416
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna fly. Yeah, that's his best comeback.

417
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 1: You keep your damn mouth shut. Also interesting, you know,

418
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: I can't have uh, these governors, you know, mouth and

419
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: back to me. I can't have these reports. Every single

420
00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: president in the history of ever, there's people like you's

421
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,159
Speaker 1: always going to be we're talking about you. Yeah, yeah,

422
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 1: I mean and yes, that's everything about this president. Um

423
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: is funnier based on how Ben went to bat for

424
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,719
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Like everything he said he writes about this

425
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: guy is a lot funnier because the year after he

426
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: published this book, he had to start defending President Donald

427
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 1: almost almost a month after the Book of Public it

428
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: was so Um. That chapter ends with with Brett and

429
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,120
Speaker 1: Ellen deciding whether or not they're going to let America

430
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: get news so they can retire in Texas. Um. And

431
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:44,960
Speaker 1: next chapter the end of the beginning. Uh boy, here poetic,

432
00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: it's poetic. Mark Presscott had gotten his moment, but now

433
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,800
Speaker 1: the time had come for the next step, the actual

434
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: launch of the Work Freedom Program, which is his The

435
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: president is a Nazi because he wants to give people

436
00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,320
Speaker 1: jobs program. He'd spoken with the Chinese government and they

437
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 1: had confirmed their prior commitment to purchase another massive round

438
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: of debt. His advisors had warned him that too much

439
00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: leverage to the Chinese would place the nation's finances at peril,

440
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 1: but his own economist told him differently. The Chinese, they

441
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 1: shared him, could afford to take a financial hit even

442
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: less than the United States by tying the two economies together.

443
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 1: In fact, President Prescott, but we're doing a service to

444
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: the financial future of both countries. A little bit of

445
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: a little bit of China bating there. Um. Yeah, So

446
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,479
Speaker 1: he's he's about to announce his big new works program

447
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna do with the military as a backdrop. It's

448
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: going to have all these soldiers that are in New

449
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: York behind him so that conservatives can't yell him. Because

450
00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: the armies there um. Preparations for the event had begun

451
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: nearly a day in advance. The military set up bleachers

452
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: to hold thousands of troops from across the country. Prescott

453
00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 1: insisted that the most racially diverse troops be placed directly

454
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: behind them for the cameras, and all had them all

455
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: pre screened for their political sensibilities. So that's okay. Uh yeah,

456
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: so Dad, he's getting ready for his big He's gonna

457
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: change America. And now we're back to Brett and Ellen

458
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: who are sitting in the President's hotel trying to figure

459
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,479
Speaker 1: out what they're going to do. Uh. They cry and

460
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: cry and cry, and they're talking about Brett is now

461
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,439
Speaker 1: explaining to her everything that we saw him do um

462
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: in the previous chapters where they weren't together. So that's good. Um,

463
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm glad that he can open up. No, yeah, okay,

464
00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: so um yeah. Brett says that they can't do he

465
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: can't abandon things. They have to go about trying to

466
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,080
Speaker 1: stop this terrorist attack. They can't retire in Texas. Um,

467
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,920
Speaker 1: all right, now we're back to the President's big event.

468
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: Everybody's waving signs. Uh yeah, YadA, uh oh, no, no,

469
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 1: this is solo Dad. So Solo Dad is at the

470
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: President's big event. I think she's about to do a

471
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: terrorist attack. So she's she's going to she's she's slipping

472
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 1: through the crowd. Ricky O'Sullivan, the cop who shot the

473
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 1: dead eyed black boy, is waiting in her car. I

474
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: guess he's he's her wheelman. Um oh, she's going to

475
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 1: try to assassinate the president. Um okay. Aiden's death had

476
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: changed her, hardened her. She knew she could fob off

477
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: the California water. My recollection wasn't aidan. They didn't know

478
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: each other that well. I mean, she he was the

479
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: He was the fed the swat cop guy who then

480
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: got blown up by a drone stick. She met him

481
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: the day they escaped, right, yeah, but he killed the

482
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: rest of the swat team to help her escape. So

483
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 1: they were But it seems like, um a wild way

484
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: to end up. It's a wild path to end up

485
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: to killing the president. Killing the president, yes, yes, I

486
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 1: mean death of this person that she'd known for a

487
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: short period. I don't know, just a note, Katie, why

488
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 1: would you kill the president? Why would I kill the president?

489
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: Would kill the president? Let's all talk about clear into

490
00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: the microphone. To kill the president, the president, the president, President,

491
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: the president. I think he would have to at least

492
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: have been she or she in this book. I'm right,

493
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,680
Speaker 1: very least had to kill the person if I wanted

494
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: to get specific revenge on that president. I don't know.

495
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 1: I wish I had a funny answer. You took me

496
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,320
Speaker 1: off guard. Everyone gets taken off guard when presidents get killed.

497
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 1: That was the great lesson of the Suppruter film. You

498
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: the start of the film, everybody's having a good times

499
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: in me getting arrested in some capacity. I'm not going

500
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: to be happy about it. I mean, we do start

501
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: every episode by saying that the threats against public figures

502
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: that may appear in this episode are in fact legally actionable.

503
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: Um officially endorsed by and officially endorsed by I Heart Radio.

504
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: That was a call Sophie and I made years ago,

505
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: maybe a bad one. I've got the I Heart team

506
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: behind me. Yes, yes, I Heart Radio collaborators with Bernard

507
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: Sanders and with Okay Loves limping me in on a

508
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: crime I you know, the best thing about crimes is

509
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: getting other people involved, which is what Sola dad understands.

510
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 1: Great pivot backed, thank you. So apparently she voted for

511
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: Mark Prescott the first time. Um, because his promises of

512
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: a better America and more caring America appealed to her.

513
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: Then it turned out caring was just a cover for control,

514
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: very subtle then very subtle dig it liberals. So uh yeah,

515
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: she's she's she's in this big crowd, but she's also

516
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: thinking about what happened right after Ricky got killed by

517
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: a drone. Um. So yeah, they'd spent days hiding in

518
00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: the woods because everyone thinks that they're dead. Uh yeah, yeah,

519
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: uh um. Okay, so she's explaining why Solo adds. So

520
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 1: we start with Sola add in the crowd, and then

521
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: we go back in time to after Aiden was killed.

522
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: For bid to spend several pages explaining why she decided

523
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: to kill the president. That's good, that's good writing, ben Um,

524
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: we're just doing another time shift here. Uh, this is great.

525
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 1: Sola Deed felt the handgun in her purse. It was

526
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 1: a three D printed plastic gun. She bought it from

527
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: a gun enthusiast in Ohio. He'd been a nutcat obsessed

528
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: with weaponry with an industrial grade printer at his garage. Prior,

529
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: three D printed guns had been made with a few

530
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: key pieces of metal to absorb the explosion of the

531
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: gunpowder or bullet, but this guy had perfected a method

532
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: of making specialized bullets with a thicker shell that could

533
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: absorb the brunt of her What wait a second, Ben,

534
00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: that's not how guns work. So this is an all

535
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: plastic gun, so it won't set off a metal detector.

536
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: But it's not all plastic because the reason that the

537
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: plastic gun works is that the bullets have extra thick

538
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: metal shells. So there's no metal in the gun at all,

539
00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: just metal in the bullet, and as a result, it

540
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: won't set off the metal detector. Uh huh. I don't

541
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: think he researched that. I mean, I guess she's unloaded it,

542
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: so the bullet is elsewhere and she's just assuming it's well,

543
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: she's gonna load it to kill the president, but she's

544
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: she's assuming that the metal detector. Number One that in

545
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: a place like I've gone through Secret Service checkpoints, they

546
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: don't just scan you for metal. They run it through

547
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,479
Speaker 1: a thing that lets them see what's in your bag.

548
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: They would notice the gun shaped thing. Um. Also, three

549
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: D printed guns don't work that way. But why would

550
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 1: I expect Ben to know about one of the things

551
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: he in this world? It does. It's just a dumb explanation.

552
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: It's just a dumb explanation for how a three D

553
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: printed gun would work. Um, because it doesn't make any

554
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: sense at all that like the bullets going to absorb

555
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: the metal shell of the bullet will absorb the explosion,

556
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: but the bullet has to travel down a barrel, and

557
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: a plastic rifled barrel is not She's not gonna work

558
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: very well. Okay, unless you write it down. He did

559
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: write it down. Okay, whatever I guess fiction authors you get,

560
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: you get a little thing like this. Even though his

561
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: explanations dumb, I'll give it to him. Um. Okay, So

562
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: now we're back back to Brett and Ellen. Sola. Dad's

563
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: got her gun. She's gonna get close to the president

564
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: and kill him. She'd have to get within a few

565
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: dozen yards of the president. That's a long range shot

566
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: with a real pistol. Then, like, it's hard, it's hard

567
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: for most people to hit. Like if you're a good

568
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: shott away. Maybe you know, um, you can you can

569
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: hit reliably with an actual handgun from twenty or thirty

570
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: feet away, a plastic gun with a plastic barrel. You'd

571
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: get have to get that. You would have to be

572
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: at point blank range. Right. Maybe then if it's like

573
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: the kind of thing where you're just gonna shove it

574
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 1: into their face and fire, you're not. You're not hitting

575
00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: anything with that gun from dozens of yards away. Like okay, Ben,

576
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: So thanks to the foot track, think at the heart. Now,

577
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: now we're back to Brett and Allen. They're sitting in

578
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: a limousine um with the White House Chief of Staff.

579
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: He keeps trying to talk to them. Um. Brett turns

580
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: to Ellen. I need to go now, sweetheart. They won't

581
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: let me go anywhere. Once we get to the airport.

582
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: I need to get down to the harbor. But you

583
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: listen to me. Whatever you do, you get on the

584
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: plane with Prescott. I don't know whether this attack will

585
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: come at the event or not, but I want you

586
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: out of this city. I'm so sorry for this out.

587
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for everything we could have had a

588
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: life together. She looked at him, dead in the eyes,

589
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne, I want you to know this. You are

590
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: my hero. God, okay, I just can't even read the

591
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: rest of that. Share the screen and one of us

592
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: will read it. But she She looked at him, dead

593
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: in the eyes. Brett Hawthorne, I want you to know this.

594
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,479
Speaker 1: You were my hero. You always were. I am so

595
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: proud to be your wife. I wouldn't trade my life

596
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 1: for anyone's. They felt the urge to kiss each other,

597
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: then they remembered Bradley in the car and hugged Instead.

598
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: Take a bullet for you, babe, he said, take a

599
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: bullet for your sweetheart. She answered, Oh god, okay it me.

600
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: I know it. Our listeners that a minute. Just because

601
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: someone's in the car doesn't mean you can't fucking kiss

602
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: your wife. What is this? What kind of weird kiss

603
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: shaming is this? You haven't seen her so long and

604
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: you haven't kissed her yet. Come on, they're being watched

605
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 1: by the Secret Service and the President's man, but like

606
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:26,439
Speaker 1: they know they're married a secret. Yeah, like of all

607
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: the things that are going to be a problem of

608
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,840
Speaker 1: the fact that they're like they're doing a quick funk

609
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. Yeah, Brett's Brett's planning to escape. Um,

610
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 1: like he's planning to flee and run away from the

611
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: Secret Service. The fact, yeah they're not close, you can't

612
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: see it, but Cody's face is it's so bad, it's

613
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 1: it's I am convinced that Ben has never kissed his

614
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: wife as a result of this, because some one might see, Yeah,

615
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: someone might see. What if? What if somebody sees it?

616
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,839
Speaker 1: They only kiss in the bedroom under the covers. They

617
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: hugs fully clothed under the covers. That's I mean, I'm

618
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: not going to say that the father of Ben's children

619
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: as a Turkey based but I'm not going to say

620
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: it's not just based on this chapterally speaking, very possible.

621
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: Why didn't like, I know why he thinks bread Hawthorne

622
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: is such a cool fucking name. He thinks he did

623
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: he thinks name. It's unbelieved. It's like so embarrassing. It's

624
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: sad because this is who he desperately wants to be

625
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: UM and he's he spent his life wanting to be

626
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: an imaginary bear of a man who won't kiss his

627
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: wife before going to stop a nuclear attack, unto they

628
00:35:52,920 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: love saying bread Hawthorne, bread Hawthorne Okay, So then reach

629
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: pops open the lock and like jumps out into traffic

630
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: in order to escape from the vehicles. The Secret Service

631
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: can't find him. He sprints around the corner, he loses them. Um,

632
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: there's not Secret Service agents on the running boards of

633
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: the limousine like they're always are on the president's limo

634
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: Um ever since Bernard Sanders one cold nove embery day

635
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: changed presidential security forever, um forever. Yeah, Well, he knew

636
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: he wanted to be the president one day, so he's like,

637
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: I want to feel really really protected, so I gotta

638
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: take I gotta do this. So yeah, that was that

639
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: was Secret Service was slacking. Yeah, when I'm president, They're

640
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: not gonna limos is no top that's a terrible line.

641
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: Let me the top of the top one percent of

642
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: all car all right that something like that. There's there's

643
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: a joke there. We'll figure it out one of these days.

644
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: C Brette's running around, he's he's looking to he's trying

645
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 1: to stop this arist attack. He sees um above the

646
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: huge throng of people waiting for the president to speak,

647
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: a mom omari who's giving an invocation? Um, oh good,

648
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: Uh so the president being evil has has has a

649
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: Muslim giving the invocation for this terrorist attack. Um, there's

650
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: polite of applause. Um. The mom takes a seat, yet

651
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: a yeada YadA. Brett gets is almost at the stage,

652
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,479
Speaker 1: He's close to the stage. The presidents playing videos of

653
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: of of soldiers doing relief work and helping after the disaster.

654
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: The crowd's very The crowd roars its approval. It made

655
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: Brett queezy. There were no pictures of the falling in

656
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: Afghanistan or Iraq, no pictures of the bomb going off

657
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: under the bridge. Yeah, okay, um, yeah, it makes sense

658
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: that you would have pictures of dead men in Iraq

659
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: at a vigil for a terrorist attack in New York.

660
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: That would make other people queezy. Mm hmm. I mean,

661
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess the point that Brett is

662
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: making is at all of the men who died in

663
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan, we're trying to prevent this attack on

664
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: New York, which is why we we had to get

665
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,400
Speaker 1: Saddam's w m d s that are now back in

666
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: America because we invaded Iraq. The point he's making because

667
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: we went to war with these countries because Saddam had

668
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: these weapons and they still wound up over here, maybe

669
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: suggesting that the war was a bad idea. But Ben

670
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: doesn't stop to think about that. Um. So the president

671
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: starts a speech, My fellow Americans, we stand strong, we

672
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: stand together. YadA yadah. He's oh. Okay. The President announces

673
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: that he's authorized his air force to strike Syria. Why

674
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: that's what? Brett asks? What the hell is in Syria?

675
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: Prescott continued. Our intelligence tells us that this vicious terror

676
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 1: attack was masterminded in that war torn country. We felt

677
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: the brunt of their rage, and we took there and

678
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: they took their best shot. Now they will take ours. Okay.

679
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: So he's attacking Syria. Um over this attack that was

680
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: using Saddam's weapons from Iran. All right, and he announced

681
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: the start of the work Freedom program. Um. He gives,

682
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: he gives a speech. He gives a speech. Um, Brett,

683
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: notice is a couple of federal agents in the crowd. Um.

684
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: The speech continues, God, this is just this, it's just

685
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: so boring. Um. Okay, but it was so focused on

686
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: Mahmud that he bumped into a smaller woman in front. Okay,

687
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: he bumps into Sola Dad and he immediately recognizes by

688
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: the way she has her hand in her purse that

689
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 1: she has Yeah, that she's got a gun. He'd seen

690
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: that arm angle before. He knew what the person looked like,

691
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 1: before they pulled a gun from concealment. He's good. I mean,

692
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: I think it looks the same when you're pulling anything

693
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,720
Speaker 1: out of a purse, more or less. But okay, whatever,

694
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: that's fine. Brett, He's a combat general, he knows these things. Um.

695
00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: He responds instinctively by yelling gun and grabbing her hand. Um.

696
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: She fires uselessly into the air. The crowd panics, the

697
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: Secret Service jumps on the President. They pull him off

698
00:39:54,080 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: the stage. Um. Then Brett gets jumped by the Secret Service. Um. Yeah.

699
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: Ellen had watched the proceedings above Air Force One. She

700
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: watched the flustered anchors and the major network news try

701
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: to get a beat on the story, giving out unverified

702
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: information then retracting it. She knew Ben had. Brett had

703
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 1: no cell phone, so she had no one to call. Instead,

704
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: she waited. So the President gets back on the plane,

705
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: his motorcade arrives. Uh. He's angry at everybody, wondering how

706
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: the security fucked up so bad and screwed up his

707
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: big moment. He yells at Ellen about her goddamn husband.

708
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 1: She says, my husband's savior life. Here's what I think.

709
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:30,879
Speaker 1: I think your husband should up at that event because

710
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: he's got a fixation with the mom. Yeada, YadA dada. Okay,

711
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: where's this all heading? Um, So he argues with Ellen. Um,

712
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: they're all on Air Force one. Um. She sees like

713
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: people going through security as they get ready to take

714
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: off to protect the president. She sees a man she

715
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 1: didn't recognize who emerged with his bodyguard from the presidential motorcade.

716
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: The bodyguard carried a large defel bag. Next and stood

717
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: a Secret Service agent, the same guy who tackled Brett. Um,

718
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: I think there's a I think they're gonna blow up

719
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: Air Force one with a new Um. Yeah, I think

720
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: that's about to happen. Um. So she doesn't. She recognizes

721
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: the mm O Mari, who's about to be on the

722
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: plane with the president. They're all buckling in. The mom

723
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: is talking to his bodyguard in Arabic, which is obviously shady.

724
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: The plane takes off, the plane begins to drop. Um,

725
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: oh good lord. Okay. Then oddly the plane began to drop.

726
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: The buildings in Manhattan grew nearer beneath the plane as

727
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: Ellen watched curiously through the window. The voice of the

728
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 1: pilot poured through the speakers. Ladies and gentlemen, don't be concerned.

729
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 1: The President has requested that we descended to a lower

730
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: level over the city of New York in order to

731
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: take publicity photos. Okay, yeah, I guess they're taking plane

732
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: publicity photos. Um. Okay. So that's one thing I really

733
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: hate about liberals. Is there their plane publicity photos. Um? Okay.

734
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: So the President is having the plane fly low over

735
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: New York and at the same time, the m mom

736
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 1: mo mari starts chanting in Arabic. Um. I think it's

737
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: it's his death chant because he's getting ready to do

738
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:03,919
Speaker 1: a terrorism um. And Ellen gradually figures out what's happening. Um.

739
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: The plane circles lower and lower and lower. Oh god, okay,

740
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: so it's the It's obvious that a ten attack is

741
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: about to happen because the Arab man is chanting in Arabic.

742
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,320
Speaker 1: The other passengers looked around, uncomfortably paralyzed by a peculiar

743
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: inability to overcome their political correctness. I know Ellen isn't.

744
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: Though she's not, she's not overcome with political correctness. She

745
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: unbuckles her seatbelt and walks towards Omari, but she gets

746
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: cut off by one of his men, and she shouts

747
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 1: that he has a bomb. Secret Service agents appear, they

748
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: pull their guns. Omary holds up his phone. He says

749
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 1: he just wants to negotiate. The Secret Service agents freeze

750
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: because Omari has been invited by the President. They think

751
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 1: that it's been a mistake. Something could be worked out.

752
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: Um oh God. From the floor of the airplane, Ellen

753
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: looked up at Omary. He was lying. She could see it.

754
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: He was stalling for time. No more time, Ellen thought

755
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: to herself, No more talk, negotiations games. A line from

756
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: her past crept into her head for some reason, no

757
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: loitering cadet. She almost smiled as she remembered, take a

758
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: bullet for you, babe, she whispered to herself, and she

759
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: pushed herself, your faces. Uh, if I was butchering a

760
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: deer right now, I don't think you would look that disgusted.

761
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: And I'm a vegetarian. So she grabs Omari's phone, but

762
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 1: it's not in enough time. Air Force one explodes at

763
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 1: two thousand feet with a nuke um and blows up

764
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: Washington Heights in a bunch of New York City. Um so, yeah,

765
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: it kills, It kills a lot of people. Ben writes

766
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: lovingly about this bomb destroying New York. Yeah. Yeah, obliterated

767
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: full blocks of Washington Heights. Why specifically Washington Heights do

768
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: we think? I don't know. Ben is clearly he spends

769
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: a lot of time talking about New York getting nuked.

770
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: I think he's he likes the idea that's what they deserve. Yeah,

771
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: because of their political correctness. That's why this happened. Um No,

772
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:09,720
Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting. That's where Cardi bs from.

773
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: But it kills a bunch of soldiers too, Yeah, that's

774
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,479
Speaker 1: probably it is Cardie B. He's he's this is all

775
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: his revenge for that song about vaginas. Yeah. I mean,

776
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: these things did not happen in order, but I mean

777
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:26,120
Speaker 1: maybe the song is revenge for this book on behalf

778
00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: of all of us. Yeah. So Brett doesn't see any

779
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: of this because he's sitting in a cell when the

780
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: bomb goes off. Uh, he's turned to stare in the distance.

781
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,040
Speaker 1: He saw the mushroom cloud rise above the profile of

782
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: the New Freedom Tower. Oh no, he whispered, Oh God,

783
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: please no. Then he fell to his knees and buried

784
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: his head in his hands, screaming silently. All right, now

785
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: we're at the epilogue. We're finally here to take a break.

786
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: But we do have to take a break. Yeah, I mean,

787
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: you know who will also destroy Air Force One? Yeah,

788
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: when it's two thousand feet above New York City, MS. Yes,

789
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: they absolutely will. God, I love nukes. Is I can't

790
00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: stop thinking about how Bratt should have just taken that

791
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: goddamn kiss. Yell. He should have taken the kiss, right,

792
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: but he didn't want to be embarrassed in front of

793
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: the White House chief of Staff. He didn't want the

794
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff to know that he kissed

795
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: his wife. It is, it is. It says a lot

796
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: about Ben that he was like, Oh, people in this situation,

797
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: knowing they're one of them is about to die, would

798
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't kiss because they wouldn't want the White House chief

799
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: of staff to know that a married couple kisses. Yeah,

800
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: they would hug politely. They would hug politely in a

801
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: way were leaving forever, and from your perspective, as they hug,

802
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: you could think like, oh, are they also kissing? Yeah, yeah,

803
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,320
Speaker 1: it's it's it's I mean, it's just an emblem. Maddic

804
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: of Ben's talent as an author. So the epilogue, I

805
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: guess the former governor of Michigan is the acting president.

806
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: She's addressing the country from the East Room of the

807
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: White House. Hears in her eyes were genuine. She put

808
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 1: forced them down. I know many of you may not

809
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: know me. Few Americans bothered to learn the name of

810
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:26,879
Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States. Oh, I think

811
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: most generally do. Okay, So the current vice president, not

812
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 1: the current governor. No, okay, she was the former governor

813
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: current vice president, which we haven't heard about since then,

814
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: since up until now, because most Americans don't know who

815
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: the vice president is. The world you don't run with

816
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: a vice president on your ticket. That that isn't happen.

817
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: I also love that the vice president, now the acting

818
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 1: president after a nuke has been set off in America,

819
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: opens her speech by saying, I know none of you

820
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: know who I am, because I'm just the vice president.

821
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: M very funny. By now, I'm sure you have heard

822
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: the news from New York City where a nation's greatest

823
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: city has once again been struck by the scourge of terrorism.

824
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: I'm also sure that you have heard that the President

825
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: of the United States, Mark Prescott, was the target of

826
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: that attack, along with hundreds of thousands of the citizens

827
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: he loved so much. Her green eyes, hardened by years

828
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 1: in the political limelight, glinted. She had earned the lines

829
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: around those eyes, the worry lines around her mouth. Alison

830
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: Martin had fought her way to the top of American politics.

831
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: Uhda uh we have some description of this person. Um

832
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,320
Speaker 1: way too much of a description of this person's backstory

833
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 1: for this moment in the book. Her speaking style was mechanical.

834
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 1: She was unlikable. She did not know she's Hillary Clinton. Okay.

835
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,760
Speaker 1: She did not have the charm of Mark Mark Prescott.

836
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 1: She did not inspire. She was, as she liked to herself,

837
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: a grinder. Yes she did not. She reminded her subordinates

838
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: tolerate losing. I would give my own life to have

839
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: preserved Mark Prescott's. YadA YadA. He's a visionary leader. We

840
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 1: will live for him. Okay, So she's talking about this president.

841
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: Her voice was in pitch and urgency and tenor mirk

842
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: Prescott was always honest with you, and I will be

843
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: no less honest. Here's what we know tonight. We know

844
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: that there was an assassination attempt on President Prescott today

845
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: at New York Harbor. It was thwarted through diligent work

846
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: of our security on the ground. We do have a

847
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: man in custody. Shortly after the attempted attack on the president,

848
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: the President's security team moved him to Air Force One,

849
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: where he was accompanied aboard by media and political figures.

850
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: That the White House has been a negotiation over the

851
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 1: state of Texas. Over why are we talking about Texas now? Um? Yeah, okay,

852
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: we're just going to Texas. Um oh okay. The represent

853
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: so they she announces that Ellen Hawthorne is suspected of

854
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 1: having smuggled and detonated a small yield nuclear weapon aboard

855
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: Air Force One. Um, and so America is now going

856
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: to war with Texas. Okay, that's what what what? What?

857
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Yeah, that's the that's everyone takes Okay, Okay, folks,

858
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: we support it, not disunity, and we must steal ourselves

859
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 1: for the battle ahead. There's also no question that America's

860
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,719
Speaker 1: capacity for rebuilding his building has been damaged. We've lost

861
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: a lot of troops. YadA, YadA. The value of the

862
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: dollar is fucked up. Uh. Let me in tonight with

863
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: a quote from President Mark Prescott, spoken just a few

864
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: weeks ago at the side of the George Washington Bridge

865
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: bombing love for each other. The President said, care for

866
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: each other, sacrifice. Okay, uh okay. So we're going to

867
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: war with and now we're back to leave on Okay.

868
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: Finally there's been really no resolution, like none of none

869
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,800
Speaker 1: of what has happened with Levin has built to anything.

870
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: Um okay. So he's talking. He's on a skype call

871
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,760
Speaker 1: or something with the mayors of a bunch of other cities. Um.

872
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:51,840
Speaker 1: Because he's been made Emmissary of peace. Um okay. Um.

873
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: So he's talking to the mayor of Detroit. Uh. Where

874
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: at war? The war and that wars down south. As

875
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, some of the mayor's nodded, a few looked uncomfortable.

876
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,399
Speaker 1: He pressed on that means we've got to have order

877
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: in our own cities. I know that you're all doing

878
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: your breast best. But as you know, and as Mark

879
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: Prescott said, police departments across this country of a long

880
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: legacy of racial bigotry. With the current shortage of National

881
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: Guard and federal military it available, there's bound to be

882
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: some unrest. He looks at the governor. So here's what

883
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: needs to happen, and here's what President Martin wants to happen.

884
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: You're all going to set up civilian oversight commissions. These

885
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: will be parallel to your city councils and the real authority,

886
00:50:22,360 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: real public authority. If not, I can guarantee violence will happen.

887
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:28,399
Speaker 1: That's a guarantee. So his evil plan is to set

888
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 1: up civilian oversight commissions over the police. Um okay, which

889
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:36,600
Speaker 1: is how he plans to control the country. I guess,

890
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,919
Speaker 1: uh yeah, they no longer ran, the mayor's no longer

891
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: run their cities. Leave on Williams did because all of

892
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: the oversight commissions report to him. I guess, which is

893
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: better than the cops running the cities, which is how

894
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,959
Speaker 1: things actually anyway. Uh oh. Now we're at the South China.

895
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: See the aircraft carrier set more to the man made

896
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: island to top the atolls of the Spratley Islands. The

897
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: Chinese government had spent years dredging the coral reefs, turning

898
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: them in the military outpost in spite of international fere

899
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: the crowd. The crew of the lion Yang, fully two

900
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: thousand strong, had been trained aboard the ship and knew

901
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: her well. They came accompanied by another seven hundred members

902
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: of the air group behind the lion Yang, said a

903
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: flotilla of destroyers and frigates. Okay, so we've got the

904
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: Chinese military here. I guess they're about to do a

905
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor um nce in this book. Yeah. Uh wait, no, no, no,

906
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: they're not um Okay, they're just there's just the Chinese

907
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 1: military is about to meet a bunch of forces from

908
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: the coalition because they're doing uh some sort of um oh,

909
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: they're sending the Chinese army is heading to America to

910
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 1: help with the rebuilding building, but really to occupy the country. Okay,

911
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: because Hillary Clinton has asked the Chinese military to occupy

912
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: the country and help go to war with Texas. Yes, yes,

913
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Uh. And we end on Austin, while

914
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're ending yet, but we're at nine.

915
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: So now we're in Austin, Texas. The impeachment vote against

916
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: Governor Bubba Davis is underway. He's in his office, the

917
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: room dark. He's thinking about Ellen. Uh. There's no way

918
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: that He'd watched the speech from President Martin, disbelieving there

919
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,760
Speaker 1: was no way that the federal government, even this federal government,

920
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: could actually believe Ellen Hawthorne, responsible for the worst terror

921
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: attack in the history of the United States, could believe

922
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: him responsible for that attack. But they had said it,

923
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: they declared war. His bluff had been called. Unless he

924
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: wasn't bluffing, Davis knew that governors all over the country

925
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: were waiting, waiting, watching to see what the House would

926
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 1: do today. He'd spoken with the governors of Mississippi. Okay,

927
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 1: so he'd spoke with the governors of all of the

928
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: southern states. Um, all of the good style of the

929
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: Red States. He's talking, yeah, and he's shared them that

930
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: he had nothing to do with the attack. Okay, I

931
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,040
Speaker 1: see what's been setting up here the federal military. Yea yeada,

932
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 1: yeada yeada. The thought thought of American men and women

933
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: naming guns at each other made Bubba Davis sick to

934
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: his stomach. He'd hoped in a way that the House

935
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: would go through with it, remove him from office, put

936
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: it into all this um that that so he doesn't

937
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: get impeached. He knew soon that he will be at

938
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: war with the federal government, so that's that's where we're going.

939
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: We're going to have another split between red and blue

940
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: states and China fighting for the blue states. So we

941
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 1: do have a sequel in the works. Well, I don't

942
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 1: think Ben's going to write the actual sequel, but I

943
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: think he and I think his hope was that this

944
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: would have been a huge hit and he would write

945
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: a series and they would be made into a blockbuster

946
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: movie that would convince everyone that liberals are evil. It's

947
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: so embarrassing when there's a bad book that's setting himself

948
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: up to have legs like, no, bro, you barely made

949
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: it through this. He barely made it through this, and

950
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: it's not coherent. So okay, I I correct. The last

951
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 1: part we in on his New York City Brett Hawthorne

952
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: is in an empty warehouse that the government's put him

953
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: in because he's too high profile. He's sad about ellen

954
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 1: um okay. A guy, an officer in full swat regalia,

955
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,439
Speaker 1: walks into the room. He was tall, broad shouldered, which

956
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: means he's a good guy. Piece by piece, he began

957
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 1: there'sn't much time, sir, you need to put this ship on.

958
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: Brett looked at him, What are you talking about? You're leaving? General?

959
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: How did you get in here? You want to stick

960
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: around here, that's up to you, General, said the officer.

961
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling you'd be better off taking

962
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: my advice. Britt stood up and began putting on the

963
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: police gears. The officer spoke, General, you're going to walk

964
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: out of here. Keep your face toward the wall as

965
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: much as possible. Show them this I D. It's federal.

966
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: Brett looked at E p A. What do they have

967
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: to do with this? The officer left, This I D

968
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: serves a purpose. Used to belong to a friend of mine.

969
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,000
Speaker 1: When Brett finished suiting up, the officers sat down with

970
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 1: his back against the wall. Only one of us can leave,

971
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,400
Speaker 1: He said, I think this is Ricky Sullivan. So Sullivan's

972
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: giving himself up so that Brett can escape. Um uh,

973
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: So Brett escapes while Ricky takes his place in the

974
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: black site. He gets into the car and he sees

975
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: Sola Dad Ramirez there. He like yells at their because

976
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: the last time he saw her she was trying to

977
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,239
Speaker 1: kill the president. Um, you tried to assassinate Prescott. What

978
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: do you want with me? Sola dad Took looked at

979
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 1: him seriously. Do you want to stick around? If so,

980
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: get out right now. Brett looked at her. You're that terrorist,

981
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: I prefer rancher. The government made me a terrorist, No,

982
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,399
Speaker 1: said Brett, you made you into a terrorist. You're free

983
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: to get out at any time. Brett went silent. She

984
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 1: started the engine. For what it's worth, she said, looking

985
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: straight ahead. I'm sorry about your wife, General Hawthorne, I'm

986
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: sorry for this country. I'm not sorry what happened to Prescott.

987
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: None of that matters. Where are we going? I figure

988
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: you're the general you pick, Brett thought for a moment.

989
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: Then he looked to the horizon again, to the murky

990
00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:20,359
Speaker 1: cloud of ash blotting out the rising stars. He said,

991
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: his jaw on to look. Ellen would have recognized him

992
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:26,240
Speaker 1: meet instantly, his unshakable determination. Let's head, let's head west,

993
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 1: he said, I'm going home. Wait a second, there in

994
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: like the northeast West, isn't from the northeast, isn't Texas?

995
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: So okay? Beautiful, beautiful the northeast Oregon? What are you doing? Wait?

996
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: Why is there still smoke because there was a new Yeah,

997
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 1: but we don't know. We don't know how long it's

998
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:59,760
Speaker 1: been because never tells us fair. That's fair. I'll given

999
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: that they'd probably be smoked for a while after nuke

1000
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: was detonated over New York City. Hate this book. It's terrible,

1001
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: but it is over. It is over. Ben Shapiro's stand

1002
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: in character is looking west from New York towards Texas,

1003
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: which is south um in a perfect sign of everything

1004
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: that this book is. I mean, you know, everybody's got

1005
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: their different opinions this person, uh, says Ben Shapiro. Sureken Wright.

1006
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to write fiction, but I couldn't

1007
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: put the book down. Unfortunately, the events described in the

1008
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 1: book are possible so great from the recent news, I

1009
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,320
Speaker 1: hope what's described here will never become reality. Waiting for

1010
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 1: the sequel, so you know, yes, maybe he's actually great

1011
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: that time. What other reviews that right are left ripped,

1012
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: ripped from the headlines. Who can forget the time White

1013
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 1: Obama was killed by a nuke and Hillary Clinton invaded

1014
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: Texas with China So accurate it's eerie. Yeah, straight from

1015
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: the straight from the headlines. Ben I am glad it's over.

1016
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: It's funny because the thing that is made clear over

1017
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: and over in this book, from Ben's basic lack of

1018
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: understanding of firearms, to his basic lack of understanding of

1019
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: the military, to his basic lack of understanding of emergency response,

1020
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: to his basic lack of understanding of love, and he's

1021
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: he's a man who's never done anything but right shitty

1022
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: political screeds like he's just he's just, since he was

1023
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: a teenager, written bad columns about politics. He has no

1024
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: life experience. He's never been anywhere or done anything but

1025
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: been like a rich kid who argues with people on camera. Um.

1026
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: And it's clear because he can't write about anything. You

1027
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: have to end like and when his characters speak or

1028
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: anything's narrated, it sounds like that. It sounds like he's

1029
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: just doing his little his uh, his town hall columns

1030
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, casualties are good, Yeah, they're fine. We

1031
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: should bomb He's angry because the president wants to bomb Syria,

1032
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: but we should have been bombing Iran Um oh man. Yeah,

1033
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: you know. The thing The thing about it is. The

1034
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: thing about it is you don't have to have had

1035
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: a lot of you don't have to have had life

1036
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 1: experience about something to write about it. But you have

1037
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: to have had life experience to write. You have to

1038
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: have like like experienced things in the world to write well.

1039
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: And Ben is not, and that's made very clear by

1040
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: the book True Allegiance. Yeah. Yeah, also just like, yeah,

1041
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: I think there's a this is the larger issue worth

1042
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: unpacking in the future and many other mediums. But like, yeah, uh,

1043
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: it's just like if you don't really understand or appreciate art,

1044
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:57,000
Speaker 1: then you can't make it. Yes, yeah, that's an interesting Yeah,

1045
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: it just feels like, yes, he's got a vocabulary. It

1046
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: feels like a very simplistic and naive and childlike vision

1047
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: of what is possible. You know, you're not not even possible,

1048
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: none of it's possible things. But like it's just it's

1049
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: just immature. It feels like a kid wrote it, except

1050
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: with a thesaurus, you know. Yeah, it's it's one of

1051
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: those things where I with a good piece of fiction

1052
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,320
Speaker 1: as a general rule, especially if you yourself read a

1053
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: lot and have read some of the same things that

1054
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 1: like the author of The Fit, which if you really

1055
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: like a book, you probably read some of the same

1056
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: things the author of that book. Right, that's just kind

1057
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: of the way creativity works. You can often tell with

1058
00:59:42,760 --> 00:59:44,919
Speaker 1: a really good book, Oh, I'm going to guess this

1059
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: was a little bit of an inspiration and this was

1060
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of an inspiration. You can kind of see,

1061
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: like even if you're not really super familiar like with token,

1062
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, this is a guy who spent

1063
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,680
Speaker 1: his entire life reading like different sort of like old

1064
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: English myths, and that's that's what he's bringing into this book. Um,

1065
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: you can tell that sort of thing because good, good

1066
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: writers steal, you know, That's how it works, stealing or

1067
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:14,959
Speaker 1: just reading, right, Yeah, lets from the phrases. Good writers borrow,

1068
01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: great writers steal right, you know, Like, but you can

1069
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: you can see, like, oh, I can see what inspired you.

1070
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: I can see what your influences were. That's usually that's

1071
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: one of the joys of reading. Um, I don't know

1072
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:28,960
Speaker 1: what inspired been. In terms of fiction, I know what

1073
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: I believe he reads. Yeah, I don't believe he reads.

1074
01:00:32,840 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: There's no sign of it in this book. Yeah. Well

1075
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: I think it's just like stuff right like that. But

1076
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: it's that stuff. It's just like this, um yeah, uh yeah.

1077
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: Just he reads the scripts for for things. That's it. Yeah,

1078
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: and like look at the Yeah, the cover even it's

1079
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: like it reminds you of like a book you'd see

1080
01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: at the airport. Yeah, it does, which is I mean,

1081
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: the cover design isn't bad. It's a good cover. If

1082
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: you're trying to get people to buy a book at

1083
01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: an airport, it's fine, exactly. Like the most competent thing

1084
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,360
Speaker 1: about this book is the cover. Yeah. Um, and like

1085
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:14,200
Speaker 1: you know, but by it's cover all that kind of stuff.

1086
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: But like it's like it's just this, uh, it's chasing

1087
01:01:17,520 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: an aesthetic and that's it. Yes, there's no like substance.

1088
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: This is like I want it to be like this

1089
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: kind of thing with like the flag and like the military,

1090
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be like you know, it's just like

1091
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: this general idea of like what it should should kind

1092
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: of feel like. But even I feel like the word

1093
01:01:34,640 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: feel is a little too generous here. Yeah, And you

1094
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: can tell, like it's it's very clear that he wrote

1095
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 1: this because like like he wrote this imagining those scenes

1096
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 1: in twenty four where you've got like the timer's ticking

1097
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:47,479
Speaker 1: down and like Okay, we gotta do this, we gotta

1098
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: find the terrorists here in this here and like everything's like,

1099
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, this attack is happening, We're seeing the people

1100
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:54,240
Speaker 1: moving around the area that's about to get bombed, and

1101
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: like this this whole like it's it's scripted. It's written.

1102
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: I can tell it's written by somebody who wanted this

1103
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: to be turned into a movie or a TV show,

1104
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: because it's that's the way it's it's it's it's plotted.

1105
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: It it's not written like that, it's organized like that.

1106
01:02:12,360 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: It's like, oh and then you know, a better writer

1107
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:19,200
Speaker 1: and like a director and actors will like inject feeling

1108
01:02:19,240 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: and suspense into this. Sure sign it's a bad book

1109
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 1: because writing for it to be a franchise versus writing

1110
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: a story. Look, I don't even under there's nothing to

1111
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 1: unpack here. It sucks like there's no like eloquent argument

1112
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: to be made. It's just fucking bad. It's just a

1113
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 1: terrible it's terrible. Yeah, it's it's it's very we have

1114
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: but we've we've learned a lot together about about how

1115
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: not to write a fiction novel. And we've learned even more.

1116
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:57,000
Speaker 1: Most of all, we've learned about Ben Shapiro. Yes, a

1117
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: little psyche, Yeah, Comma, yeah, man, the man loves the man,

1118
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: loves his wife, loves a comma. It is interesting seeing

1119
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 1: um the reviews are sort of alongest lines, even if

1120
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: like I'm a I'm a fan of Ben Sjapiro, but

1121
01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,000
Speaker 1: this is not a good or interesting there are a

1122
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:24,160
Speaker 1: lot of it is. It's not exciting. It's poorly written.

1123
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 1: Characters are pretty stilted, like it's it's there, you know,

1124
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: they're very honest. Yeah, someone should have been this honest

1125
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: with him when he was thinking about publishing a book.

1126
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:35,320
Speaker 1: If he had a single person in his life who

1127
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: loved him, Um, they would have put a hand on

1128
01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: his shoulder and said, no, Ben, Ben, you're a millionaire,

1129
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 1: you're you're influential on the right wing. You you political

1130
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: leaders within your party have to get your you know,

1131
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 1: they have to come and talk to you like you're

1132
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: you're you're very successful by the standards with with with

1133
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,440
Speaker 1: which you judge success. This is not for you. This

1134
01:03:57,480 --> 01:04:00,919
Speaker 1: will only Yeah, this is not for you. You don't

1135
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 1: get to do this because oh, but he does. I'm

1136
01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: hoping because they're doing movies, and they're doing movies now,

1137
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:14,200
Speaker 1: I hope that he writes at least he was probably

1138
01:04:14,240 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: demanding that he's I'm sure that's the entire reason. He's.

1139
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: They're also apparently, uh making a music label. Oh my god,

1140
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: we've finally got to hear. Ben Shapiro's rap album is

1141
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: going to drop up The Daily Wire Presents Music. Yeah,

1142
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: none of this is none of this is sitting well

1143
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: with me. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm I

1144
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 1: know they've released that one movie about the school shooting.

1145
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: I don't think Ben wrote it. That movie was made,

1146
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: and the Daily we'll buy we'll buy that and we'll

1147
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: release it under our subscription And we haven't released anything

1148
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: that was written by the team yet. What it seems

1149
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: like the reason it seems like they did that because

1150
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: like they like they have money, but they don't of

1151
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: movie making money. So what they need to do is

1152
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 1: get a movie someone else made by it, have a

1153
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: success that makes a profit so they can get funding

1154
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: to do something and then do their own thing exactly

1155
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: and like to legitimize themselves with like, oh, it's a

1156
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 1: real movie that was made, not like been like writing

1157
01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: truest Allegiance or whatever. And I don't know, I'm sure

1158
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: Ben will get to have his hands in the pudding

1159
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: at some point. I don't know that they'll ever be

1160
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,720
Speaker 1: successful enough for him to get to write a screen

1161
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 1: play because number one, this is unfilmable. Um, you could film.

1162
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 1: You could film a version of it that would probably

1163
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:36,480
Speaker 1: be better than the book if you had hundreds of

1164
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 1: millions of dollars um, But you don't like you his

1165
01:05:42,440 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 1: his studio is years away from having the money to

1166
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: film in downtown New York City, let alone have nukes

1167
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: and tens of thousands of soldiers and go from Afghanist.

1168
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's Caifornia still yea, yeah, it'll

1169
01:05:54,840 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 1: have to be like a very uh contained sort of yes. Yes, yeah,

1170
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: like his screenplay about being in law school exactly. Yeah,

1171
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:11,120
Speaker 1: his drama, his dramay. I'm glad we're done. I am

1172
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 1: to onto the next same. Yeah, we'll find another book.

1173
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 1: Hit us up online, tell us what you want us

1174
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 1: to read, but it'll probably be the Way of the

1175
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 1: Shadow Wolves. Um, Robert's like, give me suggestions. I won't listen,

1176
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:27,400
Speaker 1: but go ahead, I might. I might listen. I listen

1177
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: all the time. Probably you'll at least read them. Yeah,

1178
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: I'll at least I'll at least read suggestions. Not the book.

1179
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 1: Katie Cody do you have any plug ables, bro check

1180
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 1: out our ship. You know, check out the ship. Katie

1181
01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,840
Speaker 1: though was so cool. You guys know where we are at.

1182
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: Some more news on Twitter. You know it. You know

1183
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:02,000
Speaker 1: that things go on. I've read to the first She's

1184
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: so cool. Ah. This is the out of the podcast

1185
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:13,280
Speaker 1: for your babe. Take a bullet, babe. Maybe that should

1186
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:15,880
Speaker 1: be new merch. I don't know, we'll think about it. Yeah.

1187
01:07:17,680 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: I hey, everybody, Robert Evans here just before you go.

1188
01:07:22,360 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 1: I know we've just spent a bunch of time talking

1189
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: about a terrible novel. But I wrote a novel too, uh,

1190
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: and it's either terrible or not terrible, depending on your opinion.

1191
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: But you can find it at a t r book

1192
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: dot com. That's where the text will be. It will

1193
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: be both readable online and in an e pub. Every

1194
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: week we'll publish another three chapters is an e pub

1195
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:42,720
Speaker 1: and also every week we're going to be publishing three

1196
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 1: chapters Monday, Wednesday, Friday on the podcast After the Revolution.

1197
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: So if you just go look up After the Revolution

1198
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: wherever you find podcasts, you can find me reading my

1199
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: new novel, so a t r book dot com and

1200
01:07:56,480 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: After the Revolution podcast. Check it out.