Speaker 1: M hm true. How is that I knew that the
Speaker 1: show had started? Because of that, I'm nothing, nothing to add.
Speaker 1: What I love is getting paid my entire salary to
Speaker 1: open shows like this, Because it's actually pretty easy to
Speaker 1: be an adult if you if you're if you get
Speaker 1: a couple of lucky breaks that allow you to just
Speaker 1: grunt into a microphone and then Groggy Ley read Been
Speaker 1: Shapiro's Terrible book for an hour and a half to
Speaker 1: your friends. Which is the career path I recommend for
Speaker 1: everyone listening. It's amazing. Uh what success is defined us
Speaker 1: these days? But I accept it. Yeah, I accept it too. Um,
Speaker 1: how are we? How are we? How are we all
Speaker 1: doing today? On the special, very special day. Ah, it's Friday,
Speaker 1: it's beautiful. I got a dog in my lap. I apologize,
Speaker 1: I have a dog in my lap. He might be
Speaker 1: there's two dogs in here. They might be joining in
Speaker 1: the conversation. We'll see. I'm good. I'm glad you have
Speaker 1: the dogs, Katie, because today isn't it a day where
Speaker 1: we're going to all get some emotional closure And like,
Speaker 1: you know, we're all world readers here, you know, we're
Speaker 1: all fans of storytelling. When you finish a story that
Speaker 1: has really grabbed you. It's like it can be like
Speaker 1: losing a family member, Like like there's this this moment
Speaker 1: of sorrow when you realize it's gone, and we are
Speaker 1: about to take our very last trip into the world
Speaker 1: of Ben Shapiro's True Allegiance. I know if I'm emotionally
Speaker 1: prepared for this. We started this journey like a full
Speaker 1: year ago, y'all, it's been a while. I mean, by
Speaker 1: the time we're done, he'll have released Alliance True True,
Speaker 1: which I just can't wait for. You know, I love
Speaker 1: a series of books. You know, I've been, I've been
Speaker 1: I I I run one of the largest sub credits
Speaker 1: for for True Allegiance fans, and the big the scuttle
Speaker 1: butt is that sequel we're finally going to learn Yard's
Speaker 1: name crossed, fingers crossed, I don't know, might save that
Speaker 1: for the third one. Well, we are going to have
Speaker 1: to come up with something else to read because I'm
Speaker 1: not ready to say goodbye to this tradition. Now we'll
Speaker 1: have to find another book, maybe Steven Seagal's book The
Speaker 1: Way of the Shadow Wolves. You had a visceral reaction
Speaker 1: to that title, and speaking of visceral reactions. The first
Speaker 1: chapter that we're coming back to is we couldn't open
Speaker 1: this episode better Brett Hawthorne. Here we go. All right,
Speaker 1: We're in New York City with Brett. Brett couldn't stop sweating.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that Prescott. Prescott is the terrible president. Prescott's
Speaker 1: threat scared him. Not after the public scandal with Diana
Speaker 1: Kelly bullshit though. It was not after Afghanistan, not after
Speaker 1: I run, not after spending years apart from Ellen. Prescott
Speaker 1: would be better off burying the whole situationally avoiding the backlash,
Speaker 1: making some payoff to Omari, which is the bin laden.
Speaker 1: This would blow over. Brett wasn't sweating for himself. He
Speaker 1: was sweating for Hassan. He'd been a fool. He knew
Speaker 1: that now he'd been a fool far too often, trusting Prescott,
Speaker 1: serving at his administration and then telling Omari that he
Speaker 1: knew about Mohammed's association with him. O MARII could backtrack
Speaker 1: the story. Okay, so Brett's Brett's feeling bad because he
Speaker 1: got his friend, the good Muslim in trouble for telling
Speaker 1: him about the bad Muslim who is like running care
Speaker 1: basically like we all remember that there's there's there's the
Speaker 1: there's the anti Muslim bigotry organization that's a front for
Speaker 1: al Qaeda. Um. Because all of the Muslims except for
Speaker 1: his friend Hassan are bad guys. Um. And Brett got
Speaker 1: his friend in trouble because his friends sent him to
Speaker 1: the anti Muslim bigotry people who knuke to New York City.
Speaker 1: Because the only reason to be against bigotry against Muslims
Speaker 1: as if you're planning to destroy the largest city in
Speaker 1: the country. That's basic of any other logical region. Yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: So he's wondering how Prescott tracked him down. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he got caught by the President and the FEDS. Last
Speaker 1: episode or last chapter, whatever you want to call these things. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he's in his hotel room. He's in trouble. He's
Speaker 1: worried about his friend. He picks up his phone and
Speaker 1: he dials Hassan's number. Hassan picks up on the first ring.
Speaker 1: General Hawthorne, he said, Brett picked up the queue right away.
Speaker 1: Hassan knew they were listening. Hassan Abdul, I've heard so
Speaker 1: much about you. A mutual friend of ours referred me
Speaker 1: to you. He said you could answer some questions about
Speaker 1: chronic philosophy for an article I'm writing about my experience
Speaker 1: as an Afghanistan and Iran. Okay, So he's they're doing
Speaker 1: like the the the Koi thing because he doesn't want
Speaker 1: to give anything away over the phone because he's being tapped.
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, YadA. Um okay, let's let's let's where's that
Speaker 1: good Brett Hawthorne action here? Come on, he's getting the
Speaker 1: climate like we're getting. Come on, Okay, So he gives
Speaker 1: Hassan his address and Hassan comes over, and that's how
Speaker 1: they're That's how they're going to have a real conversation.
Speaker 1: Brett puts on Joy Behart to drown out whatever listening
Speaker 1: devices are in the room. Has been a big joy
Speaker 1: Behart fan. I don't think so couldn't be no. Um okay,
Speaker 1: so uh the um. So they have twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: phony discussion about the Koran Um. We still don't know
Speaker 1: what Brett's actually trying to do. Okay. So this whole
Speaker 1: conversation they've had is just so that Brett can set
Speaker 1: up another secret meeting where they're going to actually have
Speaker 1: the real conversation, good writing. We needed these last three
Speaker 1: pages where nothing really happened. Um So now he winds
Speaker 1: up later, back at Hassan's apartment. Uh sneaking past federal
Speaker 1: agents and stuff to have I guess the real meeting.
Speaker 1: When Hassan led him in, he immediately held up a
Speaker 1: piece of paper to his chest. They stopped here today,
Speaker 1: it said the tapes are gone. Brett's face went white.
Speaker 1: So they've known all along, and then they'd waited for
Speaker 1: Hassan to leave the apartment to ransack it. So of
Speaker 1: a bit, he whispered to himself. Then he read the
Speaker 1: rest of what Hasan had written. Found your Muhammad. It
Speaker 1: read Flatbush blew it an address, So that's the terrorist
Speaker 1: who's in the country to set off another bomb. I
Speaker 1: guess you could have just this is like nitpicking. We're
Speaker 1: getting the nipicky stage. He read the rest. He read
Speaker 1: the last. I wouldn'tsh back and say that's not nitpicky.
Speaker 1: An overall note. Yeah, you know what say you read
Speaker 1: the rest of what this person wrote, like we know
Speaker 1: that so far has been written like four pages that
Speaker 1: could have been like three paragraphs where he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we exchanged coded messages until we could actually meet overall. Note,
Speaker 1: you need a redundancy at it. You need a redundancy
Speaker 1: at it. I mean, that's the thing when you're when
Speaker 1: you're writing a piece of fiction, you write it right,
Speaker 1: and the first draft is always going to be trash.
Speaker 1: Everybody's first draft is bad. Don't publish that one, Ben, Ben.
Speaker 1: And then your goal should be to go through a
Speaker 1: few more times and make it short. Every time. It
Speaker 1: should get a little shorter because you're recognizing, for example,
Speaker 1: that you wrote for unnecessary pages that don't convey any
Speaker 1: useful information about the progression of the story. Um but
Speaker 1: I don't know, just a note, yeah, okay, Um. So
Speaker 1: he has to escape from Hassan's apartment. He's dodging federal agents.
Speaker 1: We have an action scene I guess where. It takes
Speaker 1: way too long, pages and pages of him just running
Speaker 1: away from guys and hiding. Um, Ben, I was hoping
Speaker 1: for more fun combat General Bret Hawthorne stuff. But okay,
Speaker 1: so the agents catch him, he gets he's he finally,
Speaker 1: after three pages of very boring running away, he's on
Speaker 1: the subway platform. The agents catch him. General shouted, one
Speaker 1: of the agents, just come with us. You know, we
Speaker 1: have our orders. Brett breathed, heavily, bent down and put
Speaker 1: his hands on his knees. He held one finger to them,
Speaker 1: all right, just catching my breath, guys, and then looked
Speaker 1: up at them. As the noise of the approaching subway
Speaker 1: train grew, he he counted down in his head. He
Speaker 1: could see the lights approaching down though. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to jump on the train. Um, yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: jumps on the train. Um. And he successfully runs away
Speaker 1: from the uh the federal agents. Um. Oh wait, no,
Speaker 1: no he doesn't. They run after him. So we're running again.
Speaker 1: We're running again. We're running again. This is so many
Speaker 1: pages of just Brett Hawthorne trying to avoid federal agents. Um. Okay.
Speaker 1: So he find he gets away. He comes out into
Speaker 1: New York City. He's walking around Prospect Park. He's looking
Speaker 1: for this Mohammed guy. He finds his apartment. Uh. He
Speaker 1: had almost no chance of avoiding detection if Mohammed was listening.
Speaker 1: He knew the complex, the apartment complex Mohammed's, and just
Speaker 1: wasn't big enough. Heavily trafficked enough. Sure enough, a woman
Speaker 1: from to Be opened her door cracked to get a
Speaker 1: look at him. He cleared at her, and he heard
Speaker 1: her shut the door and lock it. His hand felt
Speaker 1: in his pocket for a weapon he didn't have. Did
Speaker 1: he normally keep his weapons in his pocket? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he he doesn't have anything, but it's not
Speaker 1: like he reached down by his side where his his
Speaker 1: trusted side arm was. He doesn't keep his gun in
Speaker 1: his pockets. I got what I got? Yeah, I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: some of us keep loose knives in our pockets. That's healthy. Um.
Speaker 1: Eventually you build up an immunity to getting cut. Really
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, it's like strict nine. Um. Okay. So he
Speaker 1: finds he gets into Mohammed's apartment, but Mohammed has been
Speaker 1: murdered already. He's had his throat cut, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's some fucking terrorism ship going on here. Um. Oh,
Speaker 1: and Brett has arrived just in time to almost catch
Speaker 1: the assailant. Um. Okay, so we have an action another
Speaker 1: action seen here. Um. He gets attacked by the guys
Speaker 1: who just killed this terrorist, um, and he fights them off. Well,
Speaker 1: he's in the process of fighting them off. Um. There's
Speaker 1: another boring action scene. Uh. And he succeeds in beating
Speaker 1: up the guys who killed the other guy and taking
Speaker 1: them captive. Um, so yeah, he gets puts a night
Speaker 1: to one of their throats and he's out. He's about
Speaker 1: to torture one of these guys for information. That's that's
Speaker 1: we're leading in the last paragraph of Brett's chapter is
Speaker 1: a few minutes later, after subduing Mahmoud, who's the guy
Speaker 1: he is about to torture, Brett diald Ellen. Honey, he said,
Speaker 1: don't come to New York. I can't stay for certain yet,
Speaker 1: just don't come to New York. Something bad is okay?
Speaker 1: So you remember three chapters ago when Ellen called him
Speaker 1: because she was about to fly to New York on
Speaker 1: behalf of the governor and she gets a call from
Speaker 1: Brett telling her not to. This is apparently happening contemporaneously
Speaker 1: to what happened three chapters ago. That's why Brett was, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: So now we're back at that part. Well, because goodtinuously
Speaker 1: building but also continuously going back in time in order
Speaker 1: to build again, so that there's it's like a zig
Speaker 1: especially if that is um a styleistic choice that has
Speaker 1: not been introduced earlier in the novel. Yeah, you need
Speaker 1: to make it as not clear, as I will say,
Speaker 1: one thing that has been introduced in this book so
Speaker 1: far is that Brett will change perspectives and shift time
Speaker 1: periods at random. Ben, sorry, not Brett. There is that.
Speaker 1: So yes, Ben, Brett whomever. Uh yeah, jokes on me
Speaker 1: for not paying close enough attention. All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: skim more this next bit because this is just the
Speaker 1: joke is on us for reading this. So our next
Speaker 1: chapter is in Ellen chapter, and I guess we're finally
Speaker 1: moving forward in time from where Ellen was three chapters
Speaker 1: ago before Brett's chapter took us back in time. Um. Good.
Speaker 1: So Brett's been missing for more than twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows where he is. Um, she's waiting for an
Speaker 1: audience with the president. She's in New York City. So
Speaker 1: apparently she flew to New York City. Okay, she didn't
Speaker 1: get explained to us. Yeah, you know, I'm okay with
Speaker 1: that because if if you did, if you did a
Speaker 1: bit where you like wrote about her going there, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, Man, we don't need this. That's fair. Although
Speaker 1: Cody the next page or so is been going back
Speaker 1: in time and explaining why she decided to go to
Speaker 1: New York. Um. Um, all right, so we have a
Speaker 1: little bit about how she expected to be chaotic in
Speaker 1: the wake of the terrorist attack. But the militarious gene
Speaker 1: a brilliant job of cleaning up the city and opening
Speaker 1: up traffic. So that's good. Um okay, uh, there's a
Speaker 1: great line here. The dredging of the traffic clogged the
Speaker 1: main arteries. The dredging of the Hudson had just come
Speaker 1: about come to its conclusion. Although the coast Guards still
Speaker 1: patrolled the waters and heavy numbers military men and women
Speaker 1: seemed to throng throughout the city, occupying every coffee house,
Speaker 1: every restaurant. This, she thought must have been what World
Speaker 1: War two felt like. M couldn't agree more. She expresses
Speaker 1: that it's calming having armed women and men everywhere, which
Speaker 1: if they're in coffee houses and rest like, the military
Speaker 1: isn't just let you keep guns when you're off duty.
Speaker 1: Like maybe if you were at like a fob in Afghanistan, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd always want to have a gun near you. But
Speaker 1: like these guys were sent to a city to assist
Speaker 1: in a rescue operation, they're probably not carrying guns as
Speaker 1: a rule because they're doing recovery work. They wouldn't have guns.
Speaker 1: The army is are gonna be like, yeah, we'll take yours.
Speaker 1: We're in New York, take your gun to get coffee.
Speaker 1: I'm shocked he got this so wrong. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just, uh, it's just been wanting to do his
Speaker 1: you know, master banning over the military thing. Aren't things
Speaker 1: better when everybody has guns and things better when the army?
Speaker 1: I love to feel comfortable when everybody's got guns and occupying.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Well, it's one of those things you feel
Speaker 1: safe when everyone has guns. Obviously, I you know, I
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time around places where everybody has guns.
Speaker 1: But I don't feel particularly comfortable when there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of armed soldiers everywhere in the middle of a city.
Speaker 1: That's not a great sign. Particularly, that's a particularly bad sign.
Speaker 1: It's weird because Ben is supposed to be like this
Speaker 1: kind of libertarian conservative, but the thing he's celebrating isn't
Speaker 1: like a bunch of armed citizens. It's like a military
Speaker 1: occupying the largest city in the nation, which isn't a
Speaker 1: small government thing. But I guess conservatism left that behind
Speaker 1: a while ago. Yeah. Also, she's she she feels safer
Speaker 1: in midtown Manhattan and the immediate wake of a terrorist
Speaker 1: attack with soldiers everywhere. Then she felt in El Paso,
Speaker 1: famous for being one of the safest large cities in
Speaker 1: the United States, which been continuously forgets. He just thinks
Speaker 1: it's got to be like a dangerous hell hole because
Speaker 1: it's close to the border. I'll pass. It was like
Speaker 1: a famously safe city. Yeah, he doesn't want to know that. Yes,
Speaker 1: but what if in this book it isn't. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it clearly isn't because the government has declared war
Speaker 1: on Mexico and has invaded from El Paso. Um, but
Speaker 1: El Paso is number six in the top ten safest
Speaker 1: metro cities in the United States. Um, New York. Uh, well, no,
Speaker 1: New York is too, okay, So yeah, fair enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's gotten. It's it's it's pretty safe,
Speaker 1: pretty safe town. So there you go. I guess, fair enough, Ben, Um,
Speaker 1: although it's weird that she feels extra safe in the
Speaker 1: wake of a terrorist attack that killed thousands there, Um yeah,
Speaker 1: but whatever, all right, So she's she calls Ben's friend,
Speaker 1: the special forces general who sent him on this question
Speaker 1: in the first place, and YadA, YadA, YadA, she calls
Speaker 1: somebody else. She's just she's doing a lot of phone calls.
Speaker 1: She's walking around New York phone calling people, like a
Speaker 1: reverse episode of Seinfeld. Um, okay, now she's buying a sandwich.
Speaker 1: We get about a page or so of her talking
Speaker 1: to a sandwich fender about how the president is angry
Speaker 1: at her husband. Um, I don't know if that's information
Speaker 1: she should just be sharing with people. Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: going on. I don't know. They're both eating a sandwich together.
Speaker 1: She's some he's some sources of his. In any case,
Speaker 1: it's very boring. Um. Yeah, she's just meeting with people,
Speaker 1: meeting with people, talking to folks. Honestly. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I wouldn't be. She finally, after several pages
Speaker 1: of very boring conversations, finds the place that her husband
Speaker 1: fought those guys and found the murder dude. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I think she let's see. Oh yeah, no, she finds
Speaker 1: so the the assassin that her president fought, or that
Speaker 1: her her husband fought. Uh, he apparently murdered and he's
Speaker 1: been sitting in the apartment ever since. And yeah, so
Speaker 1: she's she's she's following in the wake of her husband's
Speaker 1: murder spree. I guess, uh that's good. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: meat cute Okay, so okay, she finally gets you, finally
Speaker 1: gets set up with her meeting with the president that
Speaker 1: she's supposed to take on behalf of the governor of
Speaker 1: Texas who has invaded Mexico. Prescott finally caught Ellen that night.
Speaker 1: They met at a conference room in the hotel. Prescott said,
Speaker 1: at one end of the long conference table, with Tommy
Speaker 1: Bradley at his elbow, they placed her at the opposite end.
Speaker 1: She felt like a little girl called into the principal's office.
Speaker 1: But realizing that's exactly how Prescott wanted it, she stealed
Speaker 1: herself for the confrontation. That's a bad sentence, But realizing
Speaker 1: that's exactly how Prescott wanted it. Comma, she stealed herself
Speaker 1: for the confrontation. No Ben, that's no Ben. She was
Speaker 1: surprised when Prescott grinned her, have you seen your husband yet,
Speaker 1: miss Hawthorne? That little repost Ellen quickly figured meant they
Speaker 1: were tailing her. Not yet, Mr President, she said, In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure where he is. She figured Prescott
Speaker 1: must already know that otherwise he wouldn't have asked. He
Speaker 1: knew better than to ask questions to which he didn't
Speaker 1: know the answers, Wait, what did you do? That's okay, okay, Um.
Speaker 1: So they're having a conversation about coming to an agreement
Speaker 1: on board or security because again her boss has illegally
Speaker 1: invaded a sovereign nation. They determined that they're at an impasse. Okay.
Speaker 1: The President leans forward, a sudden seriousness coming over his face.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can do better than that. Look, see,
Speaker 1: from my perspective, we just faced the most serious a
Speaker 1: terror attack in our nation's history. All I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do is rebuild. All I need is some time, some
Speaker 1: calm in the country. You've seen the situation in Detroit.
Speaker 1: The world's on fire. Whose fault is that? Mr? President?
Speaker 1: What did you just say? I said, at your fault?
Speaker 1: Mr President Ellen couldn't back Okay, truth Hower, I guess
Speaker 1: I guess he caused. He caused all this by not
Speaker 1: bombing Iran, is what she's saying, or having all of
Speaker 1: the Black Lives Matter activists massacred. Yeah, that's that's why
Speaker 1: the world's Yeah, not enough violence. We need to listen
Speaker 1: to the women more. Yeah, okay, so the President offers, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: So the President has Brett. Apparently he got captured. And
Speaker 1: after this point and after like they I, they can't
Speaker 1: come to an agreement on the border. He brings Brett
Speaker 1: in um two secret Service agents ushered in General Bretta Thorne.
Speaker 1: His face was bruised, his clothes were filthy. He looked awful.
Speaker 1: His hands were gashed and scraped his knuckles bloody. For
Speaker 1: a moment, Ellen felt miles away. Her husband blurred through
Speaker 1: her tears. Okay. She She ran to him, throwing her
Speaker 1: arms around his neck. He stood there awkwardly, then raised
Speaker 1: his hands to her head, stroked his ear, she her hair.
Speaker 1: She breathed in the smell of him, the wonder of him,
Speaker 1: And then he saw Prescott smiling face and came back
Speaker 1: to earth. She kissed his cheek. What do they do
Speaker 1: to you? She whispered. He gently pushed her back. Then
Speaker 1: he turned to the President, his hands open, pleading. Mr President,
Speaker 1: He said, you need to call m. M Omari right
Speaker 1: now and get some answers. And why is that general?
Speaker 1: We've had this conversation before. Okay. So the Brett spent
Speaker 1: his day's tracking down leads there's a terrorist attack. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's warning the president's about to be a nuclear
Speaker 1: attack on American soil. I've seen the strategy before in Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: They draw you in with one bomb, then used a
Speaker 1: second to kill those who helped. I think what happened
Speaker 1: to the bridge was the preliminary attack. Prescott paused. He
Speaker 1: stroked his chin thoughtfully. Then he said slowly. I don't
Speaker 1: believe you. You already knew, Brett mused, enraged. So the
Speaker 1: President knows that there's about to be a nuclear attack,
Speaker 1: and I guess he's Oh, no, okay, I did. I
Speaker 1: did know. And I don't believe your intelligence is better
Speaker 1: than my c i A, my FBI, my Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security. I don't buy this Jack Bower routine you're
Speaker 1: putting on. I think you've got the dellusions of grandeur
Speaker 1: and that you always did. Okay, So that was a
Speaker 1: deliberate twenty four reference when he tortured that guy. That's
Speaker 1: nice to see. Yeah, okay, So the president he eddie edda. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just like it's because we've stretched this out over
Speaker 1: a year, it is, but like I'm just so not
Speaker 1: invested in what's going on? I am I because there's
Speaker 1: so many different plots and they're all poorly laid out,
Speaker 1: and everything takes twice as long as it ought to.
Speaker 1: You're right, Cody, that it might be because we've reached
Speaker 1: this out over the course of a year. Yea. Also, No,
Speaker 1: it's bad. It is. It's terrible. It's a terrible there's
Speaker 1: a reason it's been stretched out. It's because it's awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got we've been putting it off a plot that
Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense because we've got both There was
Speaker 1: the first bombing, which I guess was covered for the
Speaker 1: second bombing using the nukes that Saddam had, but he
Speaker 1: hit an Afghanistan. Yeah. And then there's also the evil
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter group and their scheme to replace all
Speaker 1: of the cops with black people, which is so far
Speaker 1: is what we've got of the scheme of the Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter crew and fundamental misunderstanding I think. Um. And
Speaker 1: then of course there's the attack on Mexico. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then there's then there's an invasion of Mexico. Um. That
Speaker 1: feels like a good place to take an ad break. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know who also would invade Mexico. These sponsors are sponsors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we're back and we're we're just desperately trying
Speaker 1: to close out this book that we are now of
Speaker 1: the way through taste the President. Okay. So we we
Speaker 1: get to the President and and them are having their
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, the breat's warning that there's a
Speaker 1: nuke that's going to be set off. The President doesn't
Speaker 1: believe him because he's got his intelligence. Um yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so um, and he basically threatens like, hey, we've got
Speaker 1: your husband around two different murders at this point. Uh,
Speaker 1: and if we wanted to, we could have him convicted.
Speaker 1: And Ellen asks why the president is doing this and
Speaker 1: he says, because miss Hawthorne, your husband forced me into this,
Speaker 1: so did you. The President of the United States is
Speaker 1: not just a job. It's a high office. The President
Speaker 1: of the United States can out look ridiculous. He can't
Speaker 1: have a two bit jackass redneck governors spitting in his eye,
Speaker 1: and he can't have rogue generals portraying him as a
Speaker 1: weekly days after terrorists bro up the damn George Washington Bridge.
Speaker 1: So here's my offer. We all walk out of here
Speaker 1: as best friends. Ellen, you told the press that we've
Speaker 1: reached an agreement and the state of Texas will be
Speaker 1: removing its troops from the border. You apologize from the
Speaker 1: massacre in Mexico, and just so your board, Bubba has
Speaker 1: a fallback position, you can tell them that I've pledged
Speaker 1: to offer up the federal support on the border as
Speaker 1: soon as possible. As for you, General Hawthorne, you retire
Speaker 1: quietly back to Texas with your wife. You keep your
Speaker 1: damn mouth shut because I'm tired of hearing it. So
Speaker 1: that's the deal they're willing to reach. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna fly. Yeah, that's his best comeback.
Speaker 1: You keep your damn mouth shut. Also interesting, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't have uh, these governors, you know, mouth and
Speaker 1: back to me. I can't have these reports. Every single
Speaker 1: president in the history of ever, there's people like you's
Speaker 1: always going to be we're talking about you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean and yes, that's everything about this president. Um
Speaker 1: is funnier based on how Ben went to bat for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Like everything he said he writes about this
Speaker 1: guy is a lot funnier because the year after he
Speaker 1: published this book, he had to start defending President Donald
Speaker 1: almost almost a month after the Book of Public it
Speaker 1: was so Um. That chapter ends with with Brett and
Speaker 1: Ellen deciding whether or not they're going to let America
Speaker 1: get news so they can retire in Texas. Um. And
Speaker 1: next chapter the end of the beginning. Uh boy, here poetic,
Speaker 1: it's poetic. Mark Presscott had gotten his moment, but now
Speaker 1: the time had come for the next step, the actual
Speaker 1: launch of the Work Freedom Program, which is his The
Speaker 1: president is a Nazi because he wants to give people
Speaker 1: jobs program. He'd spoken with the Chinese government and they
Speaker 1: had confirmed their prior commitment to purchase another massive round
Speaker 1: of debt. His advisors had warned him that too much
Speaker 1: leverage to the Chinese would place the nation's finances at peril,
Speaker 1: but his own economist told him differently. The Chinese, they
Speaker 1: shared him, could afford to take a financial hit even
Speaker 1: less than the United States by tying the two economies together.
Speaker 1: In fact, President Prescott, but we're doing a service to
Speaker 1: the financial future of both countries. A little bit of
Speaker 1: a little bit of China bating there. Um. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: he's he's about to announce his big new works program
Speaker 1: He's gonna do with the military as a backdrop. It's
Speaker 1: going to have all these soldiers that are in New
Speaker 1: York behind him so that conservatives can't yell him. Because
Speaker 1: the armies there um. Preparations for the event had begun
Speaker 1: nearly a day in advance. The military set up bleachers
Speaker 1: to hold thousands of troops from across the country. Prescott
Speaker 1: insisted that the most racially diverse troops be placed directly
Speaker 1: behind them for the cameras, and all had them all
Speaker 1: pre screened for their political sensibilities. So that's okay. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so Dad, he's getting ready for his big He's gonna
Speaker 1: change America. And now we're back to Brett and Ellen
Speaker 1: who are sitting in the President's hotel trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what they're going to do. Uh. They cry and
Speaker 1: cry and cry, and they're talking about Brett is now
Speaker 1: explaining to her everything that we saw him do um
Speaker 1: in the previous chapters where they weren't together. So that's good. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that he can open up. No, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so um yeah. Brett says that they can't do he
Speaker 1: can't abandon things. They have to go about trying to
Speaker 1: stop this terrorist attack. They can't retire in Texas. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, now we're back to the President's big event.
Speaker 1: Everybody's waving signs. Uh yeah, YadA, uh oh, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is solo Dad. So Solo Dad is at the
Speaker 1: President's big event. I think she's about to do a
Speaker 1: terrorist attack. So she's she's going to she's she's slipping
Speaker 1: through the crowd. Ricky O'Sullivan, the cop who shot the
Speaker 1: dead eyed black boy, is waiting in her car. I
Speaker 1: guess he's he's her wheelman. Um oh, she's going to
Speaker 1: try to assassinate the president. Um okay. Aiden's death had
Speaker 1: changed her, hardened her. She knew she could fob off
Speaker 1: the California water. My recollection wasn't aidan. They didn't know
Speaker 1: each other that well. I mean, she he was the
Speaker 1: He was the fed the swat cop guy who then
Speaker 1: got blown up by a drone stick. She met him
Speaker 1: the day they escaped, right, yeah, but he killed the
Speaker 1: rest of the swat team to help her escape. So
Speaker 1: they were But it seems like, um a wild way
Speaker 1: to end up. It's a wild path to end up
Speaker 1: to killing the president. Killing the president, yes, yes, I
Speaker 1: mean death of this person that she'd known for a
Speaker 1: short period. I don't know, just a note, Katie, why
Speaker 1: would you kill the president? Why would I kill the president?
Speaker 1: Would kill the president? Let's all talk about clear into
Speaker 1: the microphone. To kill the president, the president, the president, President,
Speaker 1: the president. I think he would have to at least
Speaker 1: have been she or she in this book. I'm right,
Speaker 1: very least had to kill the person if I wanted
Speaker 1: to get specific revenge on that president. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wish I had a funny answer. You took me
Speaker 1: off guard. Everyone gets taken off guard when presidents get killed.
Speaker 1: That was the great lesson of the Suppruter film. You
Speaker 1: the start of the film, everybody's having a good times
Speaker 1: in me getting arrested in some capacity. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be happy about it. I mean, we do start
Speaker 1: every episode by saying that the threats against public figures
Speaker 1: that may appear in this episode are in fact legally actionable.
Speaker 1: Um officially endorsed by and officially endorsed by I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: That was a call Sophie and I made years ago,
Speaker 1: maybe a bad one. I've got the I Heart team
Speaker 1: behind me. Yes, yes, I Heart Radio collaborators with Bernard
Speaker 1: Sanders and with Okay Loves limping me in on a
Speaker 1: crime I you know, the best thing about crimes is
Speaker 1: getting other people involved, which is what Sola dad understands.
Speaker 1: Great pivot backed, thank you. So apparently she voted for
Speaker 1: Mark Prescott the first time. Um, because his promises of
Speaker 1: a better America and more caring America appealed to her.
Speaker 1: Then it turned out caring was just a cover for control,
Speaker 1: very subtle then very subtle dig it liberals. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: she's she's she's in this big crowd, but she's also
Speaker 1: thinking about what happened right after Ricky got killed by
Speaker 1: a drone. Um. So yeah, they'd spent days hiding in
Speaker 1: the woods because everyone thinks that they're dead. Uh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: uh um. Okay, so she's explaining why Solo adds. So
Speaker 1: we start with Sola add in the crowd, and then
Speaker 1: we go back in time to after Aiden was killed.
Speaker 1: For bid to spend several pages explaining why she decided
Speaker 1: to kill the president. That's good, that's good writing, ben Um,
Speaker 1: we're just doing another time shift here. Uh, this is great.
Speaker 1: Sola Deed felt the handgun in her purse. It was
Speaker 1: a three D printed plastic gun. She bought it from
Speaker 1: a gun enthusiast in Ohio. He'd been a nutcat obsessed
Speaker 1: with weaponry with an industrial grade printer at his garage. Prior,
Speaker 1: three D printed guns had been made with a few
Speaker 1: key pieces of metal to absorb the explosion of the
Speaker 1: gunpowder or bullet, but this guy had perfected a method
Speaker 1: of making specialized bullets with a thicker shell that could
Speaker 1: absorb the brunt of her What wait a second, Ben,
Speaker 1: that's not how guns work. So this is an all
Speaker 1: plastic gun, so it won't set off a metal detector.
Speaker 1: But it's not all plastic because the reason that the
Speaker 1: plastic gun works is that the bullets have extra thick
Speaker 1: metal shells. So there's no metal in the gun at all,
Speaker 1: just metal in the bullet, and as a result, it
Speaker 1: won't set off the metal detector. Uh huh. I don't
Speaker 1: think he researched that. I mean, I guess she's unloaded it,
Speaker 1: so the bullet is elsewhere and she's just assuming it's well,
Speaker 1: she's gonna load it to kill the president, but she's
Speaker 1: she's assuming that the metal detector. Number One that in
Speaker 1: a place like I've gone through Secret Service checkpoints, they
Speaker 1: don't just scan you for metal. They run it through
Speaker 1: a thing that lets them see what's in your bag.
Speaker 1: They would notice the gun shaped thing. Um. Also, three
Speaker 1: D printed guns don't work that way. But why would
Speaker 1: I expect Ben to know about one of the things
Speaker 1: he in this world? It does. It's just a dumb explanation.
Speaker 1: It's just a dumb explanation for how a three D
Speaker 1: printed gun would work. Um, because it doesn't make any
Speaker 1: sense at all that like the bullets going to absorb
Speaker 1: the metal shell of the bullet will absorb the explosion,
Speaker 1: but the bullet has to travel down a barrel, and
Speaker 1: a plastic rifled barrel is not She's not gonna work
Speaker 1: very well. Okay, unless you write it down. He did
Speaker 1: write it down. Okay, whatever I guess fiction authors you get,
Speaker 1: you get a little thing like this. Even though his
Speaker 1: explanations dumb, I'll give it to him. Um. Okay, So
Speaker 1: now we're back back to Brett and Ellen. Sola. Dad's
Speaker 1: got her gun. She's gonna get close to the president
Speaker 1: and kill him. She'd have to get within a few
Speaker 1: dozen yards of the president. That's a long range shot
Speaker 1: with a real pistol. Then, like, it's hard, it's hard
Speaker 1: for most people to hit. Like if you're a good
Speaker 1: shott away. Maybe you know, um, you can you can
Speaker 1: hit reliably with an actual handgun from twenty or thirty
Speaker 1: feet away, a plastic gun with a plastic barrel. You'd
Speaker 1: get have to get that. You would have to be
Speaker 1: at point blank range. Right. Maybe then if it's like
Speaker 1: the kind of thing where you're just gonna shove it
Speaker 1: into their face and fire, you're not. You're not hitting
Speaker 1: anything with that gun from dozens of yards away. Like okay, Ben,
Speaker 1: So thanks to the foot track, think at the heart. Now,
Speaker 1: now we're back to Brett and Allen. They're sitting in
Speaker 1: a limousine um with the White House Chief of Staff.
Speaker 1: He keeps trying to talk to them. Um. Brett turns
Speaker 1: to Ellen. I need to go now, sweetheart. They won't
Speaker 1: let me go anywhere. Once we get to the airport.
Speaker 1: I need to get down to the harbor. But you
Speaker 1: listen to me. Whatever you do, you get on the
Speaker 1: plane with Prescott. I don't know whether this attack will
Speaker 1: come at the event or not, but I want you
Speaker 1: out of this city. I'm so sorry for this out.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry for everything we could have had a
Speaker 1: life together. She looked at him, dead in the eyes,
Speaker 1: Brett Hawthorne, I want you to know this. You are
Speaker 1: my hero. God, okay, I just can't even read the
Speaker 1: rest of that. Share the screen and one of us
Speaker 1: will read it. But she She looked at him, dead
Speaker 1: in the eyes. Brett Hawthorne, I want you to know this.
Speaker 1: You were my hero. You always were. I am so
Speaker 1: proud to be your wife. I wouldn't trade my life
Speaker 1: for anyone's. They felt the urge to kiss each other,
Speaker 1: then they remembered Bradley in the car and hugged Instead.
Speaker 1: Take a bullet for you, babe, he said, take a
Speaker 1: bullet for your sweetheart. She answered, Oh god, okay it me.
Speaker 1: I know it. Our listeners that a minute. Just because
Speaker 1: someone's in the car doesn't mean you can't fucking kiss
Speaker 1: your wife. What is this? What kind of weird kiss
Speaker 1: shaming is this? You haven't seen her so long and
Speaker 1: you haven't kissed her yet. Come on, they're being watched
Speaker 1: by the Secret Service and the President's man, but like
Speaker 1: they know they're married a secret. Yeah, like of all
Speaker 1: the things that are going to be a problem of
Speaker 1: the fact that they're like they're doing a quick funk
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk. Yeah, Brett's Brett's planning to escape. Um,
Speaker 1: like he's planning to flee and run away from the
Speaker 1: Secret Service. The fact, yeah they're not close, you can't
Speaker 1: see it, but Cody's face is it's so bad, it's
Speaker 1: it's I am convinced that Ben has never kissed his
Speaker 1: wife as a result of this, because some one might see, Yeah,
Speaker 1: someone might see. What if? What if somebody sees it?
Speaker 1: They only kiss in the bedroom under the covers. They
Speaker 1: hugs fully clothed under the covers. That's I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to say that the father of Ben's children
Speaker 1: as a Turkey based but I'm not going to say
Speaker 1: it's not just based on this chapterally speaking, very possible.
Speaker 1: Why didn't like, I know why he thinks bread Hawthorne
Speaker 1: is such a cool fucking name. He thinks he did
Speaker 1: he thinks name. It's unbelieved. It's like so embarrassing. It's
Speaker 1: sad because this is who he desperately wants to be
Speaker 1: UM and he's he spent his life wanting to be
Speaker 1: an imaginary bear of a man who won't kiss his
Speaker 1: wife before going to stop a nuclear attack, unto they
Speaker 1: love saying bread Hawthorne, bread Hawthorne Okay, So then reach
Speaker 1: pops open the lock and like jumps out into traffic
Speaker 1: in order to escape from the vehicles. The Secret Service
Speaker 1: can't find him. He sprints around the corner, he loses them. Um,
Speaker 1: there's not Secret Service agents on the running boards of
Speaker 1: the limousine like they're always are on the president's limo
Speaker 1: Um ever since Bernard Sanders one cold nove embery day
Speaker 1: changed presidential security forever, um forever. Yeah, Well, he knew
Speaker 1: he wanted to be the president one day, so he's like,
Speaker 1: I want to feel really really protected, so I gotta
Speaker 1: take I gotta do this. So yeah, that was that
Speaker 1: was Secret Service was slacking. Yeah, when I'm president, They're
Speaker 1: not gonna limos is no top that's a terrible line.
Speaker 1: Let me the top of the top one percent of
Speaker 1: all car all right that something like that. There's there's
Speaker 1: a joke there. We'll figure it out one of these days.
Speaker 1: C Brette's running around, he's he's looking to he's trying
Speaker 1: to stop this arist attack. He sees um above the
Speaker 1: huge throng of people waiting for the president to speak,
Speaker 1: a mom omari who's giving an invocation? Um, oh good,
Speaker 1: Uh so the president being evil has has has a
Speaker 1: Muslim giving the invocation for this terrorist attack. Um, there's
Speaker 1: polite of applause. Um. The mom takes a seat, yet
Speaker 1: a yeada YadA. Brett gets is almost at the stage,
Speaker 1: He's close to the stage. The presidents playing videos of
Speaker 1: of of soldiers doing relief work and helping after the disaster.
Speaker 1: The crowd's very The crowd roars its approval. It made
Speaker 1: Brett queezy. There were no pictures of the falling in
Speaker 1: Afghanistan or Iraq, no pictures of the bomb going off
Speaker 1: under the bridge. Yeah, okay, um, yeah, it makes sense
Speaker 1: that you would have pictures of dead men in Iraq
Speaker 1: at a vigil for a terrorist attack in New York.
Speaker 1: That would make other people queezy. Mm hmm. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess the point that Brett is
Speaker 1: making is at all of the men who died in
Speaker 1: Iraq and Afghanistan, we're trying to prevent this attack on
Speaker 1: New York, which is why we we had to get
Speaker 1: Saddam's w m d s that are now back in
Speaker 1: America because we invaded Iraq. The point he's making because
Speaker 1: we went to war with these countries because Saddam had
Speaker 1: these weapons and they still wound up over here, maybe
Speaker 1: suggesting that the war was a bad idea. But Ben
Speaker 1: doesn't stop to think about that. Um. So the president
Speaker 1: starts a speech, My fellow Americans, we stand strong, we
Speaker 1: stand together. YadA yadah. He's oh. Okay. The President announces
Speaker 1: that he's authorized his air force to strike Syria. Why
Speaker 1: that's what? Brett asks? What the hell is in Syria?
Speaker 1: Prescott continued. Our intelligence tells us that this vicious terror
Speaker 1: attack was masterminded in that war torn country. We felt
Speaker 1: the brunt of their rage, and we took there and
Speaker 1: they took their best shot. Now they will take ours. Okay.
Speaker 1: So he's attacking Syria. Um over this attack that was
Speaker 1: using Saddam's weapons from Iran. All right, and he announced
Speaker 1: the start of the work Freedom program. Um. He gives,
Speaker 1: he gives a speech. He gives a speech. Um, Brett,
Speaker 1: notice is a couple of federal agents in the crowd. Um.
Speaker 1: The speech continues, God, this is just this, it's just
Speaker 1: so boring. Um. Okay, but it was so focused on
Speaker 1: Mahmud that he bumped into a smaller woman in front. Okay,
Speaker 1: he bumps into Sola Dad and he immediately recognizes by
Speaker 1: the way she has her hand in her purse that
Speaker 1: she has Yeah, that she's got a gun. He'd seen
Speaker 1: that arm angle before. He knew what the person looked like,
Speaker 1: before they pulled a gun from concealment. He's good. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it looks the same when you're pulling anything
Speaker 1: out of a purse, more or less. But okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Brett, He's a combat general, he knows these things. Um.
Speaker 1: He responds instinctively by yelling gun and grabbing her hand. Um.
Speaker 1: She fires uselessly into the air. The crowd panics, the
Speaker 1: Secret Service jumps on the President. They pull him off
Speaker 1: the stage. Um. Then Brett gets jumped by the Secret Service. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Ellen had watched the proceedings above Air Force One. She
Speaker 1: watched the flustered anchors and the major network news try
Speaker 1: to get a beat on the story, giving out unverified
Speaker 1: information then retracting it. She knew Ben had. Brett had
Speaker 1: no cell phone, so she had no one to call. Instead,
Speaker 1: she waited. So the President gets back on the plane,
Speaker 1: his motorcade arrives. Uh. He's angry at everybody, wondering how
Speaker 1: the security fucked up so bad and screwed up his
Speaker 1: big moment. He yells at Ellen about her goddamn husband.
Speaker 1: She says, my husband's savior life. Here's what I think.
Speaker 1: I think your husband should up at that event because
Speaker 1: he's got a fixation with the mom. Yeada, YadA dada. Okay,
Speaker 1: where's this all heading? Um, So he argues with Ellen. Um,
Speaker 1: they're all on Air Force one. Um. She sees like
Speaker 1: people going through security as they get ready to take
Speaker 1: off to protect the president. She sees a man she
Speaker 1: didn't recognize who emerged with his bodyguard from the presidential motorcade.
Speaker 1: The bodyguard carried a large defel bag. Next and stood
Speaker 1: a Secret Service agent, the same guy who tackled Brett. Um,
Speaker 1: I think there's a I think they're gonna blow up
Speaker 1: Air Force one with a new Um. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's about to happen. Um. So she doesn't. She recognizes
Speaker 1: the mm O Mari, who's about to be on the
Speaker 1: plane with the president. They're all buckling in. The mom
Speaker 1: is talking to his bodyguard in Arabic, which is obviously shady.
Speaker 1: The plane takes off, the plane begins to drop. Um,
Speaker 1: oh good lord. Okay. Then oddly the plane began to drop.
Speaker 1: The buildings in Manhattan grew nearer beneath the plane as
Speaker 1: Ellen watched curiously through the window. The voice of the
Speaker 1: pilot poured through the speakers. Ladies and gentlemen, don't be concerned.
Speaker 1: The President has requested that we descended to a lower
Speaker 1: level over the city of New York in order to
Speaker 1: take publicity photos. Okay, yeah, I guess they're taking plane
Speaker 1: publicity photos. Um. Okay. So that's one thing I really
Speaker 1: hate about liberals. Is there their plane publicity photos. Um? Okay.
Speaker 1: So the President is having the plane fly low over
Speaker 1: New York and at the same time, the m mom
Speaker 1: mo mari starts chanting in Arabic. Um. I think it's
Speaker 1: it's his death chant because he's getting ready to do
Speaker 1: a terrorism um. And Ellen gradually figures out what's happening. Um.
Speaker 1: The plane circles lower and lower and lower. Oh god, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's the It's obvious that a ten attack is
Speaker 1: about to happen because the Arab man is chanting in Arabic.
Speaker 1: The other passengers looked around, uncomfortably paralyzed by a peculiar
Speaker 1: inability to overcome their political correctness. I know Ellen isn't.
Speaker 1: Though she's not, she's not overcome with political correctness. She
Speaker 1: unbuckles her seatbelt and walks towards Omari, but she gets
Speaker 1: cut off by one of his men, and she shouts
Speaker 1: that he has a bomb. Secret Service agents appear, they
Speaker 1: pull their guns. Omary holds up his phone. He says
Speaker 1: he just wants to negotiate. The Secret Service agents freeze
Speaker 1: because Omari has been invited by the President. They think
Speaker 1: that it's been a mistake. Something could be worked out.
Speaker 1: Um oh God. From the floor of the airplane, Ellen
Speaker 1: looked up at Omary. He was lying. She could see it.
Speaker 1: He was stalling for time. No more time, Ellen thought
Speaker 1: to herself, No more talk, negotiations games. A line from
Speaker 1: her past crept into her head for some reason, no
Speaker 1: loitering cadet. She almost smiled as she remembered, take a
Speaker 1: bullet for you, babe, she whispered to herself, and she
Speaker 1: pushed herself, your faces. Uh, if I was butchering a
Speaker 1: deer right now, I don't think you would look that disgusted.
Speaker 1: And I'm a vegetarian. So she grabs Omari's phone, but
Speaker 1: it's not in enough time. Air Force one explodes at
Speaker 1: two thousand feet with a nuke um and blows up
Speaker 1: Washington Heights in a bunch of New York City. Um so, yeah,
Speaker 1: it kills, It kills a lot of people. Ben writes
Speaker 1: lovingly about this bomb destroying New York. Yeah. Yeah, obliterated
Speaker 1: full blocks of Washington Heights. Why specifically Washington Heights do
Speaker 1: we think? I don't know. Ben is clearly he spends
Speaker 1: a lot of time talking about New York getting nuked.
Speaker 1: I think he's he likes the idea that's what they deserve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because of their political correctness. That's why this happened. Um No,
Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting. That's where Cardi bs from.
Speaker 1: But it kills a bunch of soldiers too, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: probably it is Cardie B. He's he's this is all
Speaker 1: his revenge for that song about vaginas. Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: these things did not happen in order, but I mean
Speaker 1: maybe the song is revenge for this book on behalf
Speaker 1: of all of us. Yeah. So Brett doesn't see any
Speaker 1: of this because he's sitting in a cell when the
Speaker 1: bomb goes off. Uh, he's turned to stare in the distance.
Speaker 1: He saw the mushroom cloud rise above the profile of
Speaker 1: the New Freedom Tower. Oh no, he whispered, Oh God,
Speaker 1: please no. Then he fell to his knees and buried
Speaker 1: his head in his hands, screaming silently. All right, now
Speaker 1: we're at the epilogue. We're finally here to take a break.
Speaker 1: But we do have to take a break. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know who will also destroy Air Force One? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when it's two thousand feet above New York City, MS. Yes,
Speaker 1: they absolutely will. God, I love nukes. Is I can't
Speaker 1: stop thinking about how Bratt should have just taken that
Speaker 1: goddamn kiss. Yell. He should have taken the kiss, right,
Speaker 1: but he didn't want to be embarrassed in front of
Speaker 1: the White House chief of Staff. He didn't want the
Speaker 1: White House Chief of Staff to know that he kissed
Speaker 1: his wife. It is, it is. It says a lot
Speaker 1: about Ben that he was like, Oh, people in this situation,
Speaker 1: knowing they're one of them is about to die, would
Speaker 1: wouldn't kiss because they wouldn't want the White House chief
Speaker 1: of staff to know that a married couple kisses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they would hug politely. They would hug politely in a
Speaker 1: way were leaving forever, and from your perspective, as they hug,
Speaker 1: you could think like, oh, are they also kissing? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's I mean, it's just an emblem. Maddic
Speaker 1: of Ben's talent as an author. So the epilogue, I
Speaker 1: guess the former governor of Michigan is the acting president.
Speaker 1: She's addressing the country from the East Room of the
Speaker 1: White House. Hears in her eyes were genuine. She put
Speaker 1: forced them down. I know many of you may not
Speaker 1: know me. Few Americans bothered to learn the name of
Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States. Oh, I think
Speaker 1: most generally do. Okay, So the current vice president, not
Speaker 1: the current governor. No, okay, she was the former governor
Speaker 1: current vice president, which we haven't heard about since then,
Speaker 1: since up until now, because most Americans don't know who
Speaker 1: the vice president is. The world you don't run with
Speaker 1: a vice president on your ticket. That that isn't happen.
Speaker 1: I also love that the vice president, now the acting
Speaker 1: president after a nuke has been set off in America,
Speaker 1: opens her speech by saying, I know none of you
Speaker 1: know who I am, because I'm just the vice president.
Speaker 1: M very funny. By now, I'm sure you have heard
Speaker 1: the news from New York City where a nation's greatest
Speaker 1: city has once again been struck by the scourge of terrorism.
Speaker 1: I'm also sure that you have heard that the President
Speaker 1: of the United States, Mark Prescott, was the target of
Speaker 1: that attack, along with hundreds of thousands of the citizens
Speaker 1: he loved so much. Her green eyes, hardened by years
Speaker 1: in the political limelight, glinted. She had earned the lines
Speaker 1: around those eyes, the worry lines around her mouth. Alison
Speaker 1: Martin had fought her way to the top of American politics.
Speaker 1: Uhda uh we have some description of this person. Um
Speaker 1: way too much of a description of this person's backstory
Speaker 1: for this moment in the book. Her speaking style was mechanical.
Speaker 1: She was unlikable. She did not know she's Hillary Clinton. Okay.
Speaker 1: She did not have the charm of Mark Mark Prescott.
Speaker 1: She did not inspire. She was, as she liked to herself,
Speaker 1: a grinder. Yes she did not. She reminded her subordinates
Speaker 1: tolerate losing. I would give my own life to have
Speaker 1: preserved Mark Prescott's. YadA YadA. He's a visionary leader. We
Speaker 1: will live for him. Okay, So she's talking about this president.
Speaker 1: Her voice was in pitch and urgency and tenor mirk
Speaker 1: Prescott was always honest with you, and I will be
Speaker 1: no less honest. Here's what we know tonight. We know
Speaker 1: that there was an assassination attempt on President Prescott today
Speaker 1: at New York Harbor. It was thwarted through diligent work
Speaker 1: of our security on the ground. We do have a
Speaker 1: man in custody. Shortly after the attempted attack on the president,
Speaker 1: the President's security team moved him to Air Force One,
Speaker 1: where he was accompanied aboard by media and political figures.
Speaker 1: That the White House has been a negotiation over the
Speaker 1: state of Texas. Over why are we talking about Texas now? Um? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we're just going to Texas. Um oh okay. The represent
Speaker 1: so they she announces that Ellen Hawthorne is suspected of
Speaker 1: having smuggled and detonated a small yield nuclear weapon aboard
Speaker 1: Air Force One. Um, and so America is now going
Speaker 1: to war with Texas. Okay, that's what what what? What?
Speaker 1: What the fuck? Yeah, that's the that's everyone takes Okay, Okay, folks,
Speaker 1: we support it, not disunity, and we must steal ourselves
Speaker 1: for the battle ahead. There's also no question that America's
Speaker 1: capacity for rebuilding his building has been damaged. We've lost
Speaker 1: a lot of troops. YadA, YadA. The value of the
Speaker 1: dollar is fucked up. Uh. Let me in tonight with
Speaker 1: a quote from President Mark Prescott, spoken just a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago at the side of the George Washington Bridge
Speaker 1: bombing love for each other. The President said, care for
Speaker 1: each other, sacrifice. Okay, uh okay. So we're going to
Speaker 1: war with and now we're back to leave on Okay.
Speaker 1: Finally there's been really no resolution, like none of none
Speaker 1: of what has happened with Levin has built to anything.
Speaker 1: Um okay. So he's talking. He's on a skype call
Speaker 1: or something with the mayors of a bunch of other cities. Um.
Speaker 1: Because he's been made Emmissary of peace. Um okay. Um.
Speaker 1: So he's talking to the mayor of Detroit. Uh. Where
Speaker 1: at war? The war and that wars down south. As
Speaker 1: you know, some of the mayor's nodded, a few looked uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: He pressed on that means we've got to have order
Speaker 1: in our own cities. I know that you're all doing
Speaker 1: your breast best. But as you know, and as Mark
Speaker 1: Prescott said, police departments across this country of a long
Speaker 1: legacy of racial bigotry. With the current shortage of National
Speaker 1: Guard and federal military it available, there's bound to be
Speaker 1: some unrest. He looks at the governor. So here's what
Speaker 1: needs to happen, and here's what President Martin wants to happen.
Speaker 1: You're all going to set up civilian oversight commissions. These
Speaker 1: will be parallel to your city councils and the real authority,
Speaker 1: real public authority. If not, I can guarantee violence will happen.
Speaker 1: That's a guarantee. So his evil plan is to set
Speaker 1: up civilian oversight commissions over the police. Um okay, which
Speaker 1: is how he plans to control the country. I guess,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, they no longer ran, the mayor's no longer
Speaker 1: run their cities. Leave on Williams did because all of
Speaker 1: the oversight commissions report to him. I guess, which is
Speaker 1: better than the cops running the cities, which is how
Speaker 1: things actually anyway. Uh oh. Now we're at the South China.
Speaker 1: See the aircraft carrier set more to the man made
Speaker 1: island to top the atolls of the Spratley Islands. The
Speaker 1: Chinese government had spent years dredging the coral reefs, turning
Speaker 1: them in the military outpost in spite of international fere
Speaker 1: the crowd. The crew of the lion Yang, fully two
Speaker 1: thousand strong, had been trained aboard the ship and knew
Speaker 1: her well. They came accompanied by another seven hundred members
Speaker 1: of the air group behind the lion Yang, said a
Speaker 1: flotilla of destroyers and frigates. Okay, so we've got the
Speaker 1: Chinese military here. I guess they're about to do a
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor um nce in this book. Yeah. Uh wait, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're not um Okay, they're just there's just the Chinese
Speaker 1: military is about to meet a bunch of forces from
Speaker 1: the coalition because they're doing uh some sort of um oh,
Speaker 1: they're sending the Chinese army is heading to America to
Speaker 1: help with the rebuilding building, but really to occupy the country. Okay,
Speaker 1: because Hillary Clinton has asked the Chinese military to occupy
Speaker 1: the country and help go to war with Texas. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that's what's happening. Uh. And we end on Austin, while
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're ending yet, but we're at nine.
Speaker 1: So now we're in Austin, Texas. The impeachment vote against
Speaker 1: Governor Bubba Davis is underway. He's in his office, the
Speaker 1: room dark. He's thinking about Ellen. Uh. There's no way
Speaker 1: that He'd watched the speech from President Martin, disbelieving there
Speaker 1: was no way that the federal government, even this federal government,
Speaker 1: could actually believe Ellen Hawthorne, responsible for the worst terror
Speaker 1: attack in the history of the United States, could believe
Speaker 1: him responsible for that attack. But they had said it,
Speaker 1: they declared war. His bluff had been called. Unless he
Speaker 1: wasn't bluffing, Davis knew that governors all over the country
Speaker 1: were waiting, waiting, watching to see what the House would
Speaker 1: do today. He'd spoken with the governors of Mississippi. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he'd spoke with the governors of all of the
Speaker 1: southern states. Um, all of the good style of the
Speaker 1: Red States. He's talking, yeah, and he's shared them that
Speaker 1: he had nothing to do with the attack. Okay, I
Speaker 1: see what's been setting up here the federal military. Yea yeada,
Speaker 1: yeada yeada. The thought thought of American men and women
Speaker 1: naming guns at each other made Bubba Davis sick to
Speaker 1: his stomach. He'd hoped in a way that the House
Speaker 1: would go through with it, remove him from office, put
Speaker 1: it into all this um that that so he doesn't
Speaker 1: get impeached. He knew soon that he will be at
Speaker 1: war with the federal government, so that's that's where we're going.
Speaker 1: We're going to have another split between red and blue
Speaker 1: states and China fighting for the blue states. So we
Speaker 1: do have a sequel in the works. Well, I don't
Speaker 1: think Ben's going to write the actual sequel, but I
Speaker 1: think he and I think his hope was that this
Speaker 1: would have been a huge hit and he would write
Speaker 1: a series and they would be made into a blockbuster
Speaker 1: movie that would convince everyone that liberals are evil. It's
Speaker 1: so embarrassing when there's a bad book that's setting himself
Speaker 1: up to have legs like, no, bro, you barely made
Speaker 1: it through this. He barely made it through this, and
Speaker 1: it's not coherent. So okay, I I correct. The last
Speaker 1: part we in on his New York City Brett Hawthorne
Speaker 1: is in an empty warehouse that the government's put him
Speaker 1: in because he's too high profile. He's sad about ellen
Speaker 1: um okay. A guy, an officer in full swat regalia,
Speaker 1: walks into the room. He was tall, broad shouldered, which
Speaker 1: means he's a good guy. Piece by piece, he began
Speaker 1: there'sn't much time, sir, you need to put this ship on.
Speaker 1: Brett looked at him, What are you talking about? You're leaving? General?
Speaker 1: How did you get in here? You want to stick
Speaker 1: around here, that's up to you, General, said the officer.
Speaker 1: But I have a feeling you'd be better off taking
Speaker 1: my advice. Britt stood up and began putting on the
Speaker 1: police gears. The officer spoke, General, you're going to walk
Speaker 1: out of here. Keep your face toward the wall as
Speaker 1: much as possible. Show them this I D. It's federal.
Speaker 1: Brett looked at E p A. What do they have
Speaker 1: to do with this? The officer left, This I D
Speaker 1: serves a purpose. Used to belong to a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: When Brett finished suiting up, the officers sat down with
Speaker 1: his back against the wall. Only one of us can leave,
Speaker 1: He said, I think this is Ricky Sullivan. So Sullivan's
Speaker 1: giving himself up so that Brett can escape. Um uh,
Speaker 1: So Brett escapes while Ricky takes his place in the
Speaker 1: black site. He gets into the car and he sees
Speaker 1: Sola Dad Ramirez there. He like yells at their because
Speaker 1: the last time he saw her she was trying to
Speaker 1: kill the president. Um, you tried to assassinate Prescott. What
Speaker 1: do you want with me? Sola dad Took looked at
Speaker 1: him seriously. Do you want to stick around? If so,
Speaker 1: get out right now. Brett looked at her. You're that terrorist,
Speaker 1: I prefer rancher. The government made me a terrorist, No,
Speaker 1: said Brett, you made you into a terrorist. You're free
Speaker 1: to get out at any time. Brett went silent. She
Speaker 1: started the engine. For what it's worth, she said, looking
Speaker 1: straight ahead. I'm sorry about your wife, General Hawthorne, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry for this country. I'm not sorry what happened to Prescott.
Speaker 1: None of that matters. Where are we going? I figure
Speaker 1: you're the general you pick, Brett thought for a moment.
Speaker 1: Then he looked to the horizon again, to the murky
Speaker 1: cloud of ash blotting out the rising stars. He said,
Speaker 1: his jaw on to look. Ellen would have recognized him
Speaker 1: meet instantly, his unshakable determination. Let's head, let's head west,
Speaker 1: he said, I'm going home. Wait a second, there in
Speaker 1: like the northeast West, isn't from the northeast, isn't Texas?
Speaker 1: So okay? Beautiful, beautiful the northeast Oregon? What are you doing? Wait?
Speaker 1: Why is there still smoke because there was a new Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we don't know. We don't know how long it's
Speaker 1: been because never tells us fair. That's fair. I'll given
Speaker 1: that they'd probably be smoked for a while after nuke
Speaker 1: was detonated over New York City. Hate this book. It's terrible,
Speaker 1: but it is over. It is over. Ben Shapiro's stand
Speaker 1: in character is looking west from New York towards Texas,
Speaker 1: which is south um in a perfect sign of everything
Speaker 1: that this book is. I mean, you know, everybody's got
Speaker 1: their different opinions this person, uh, says Ben Shapiro. Sureken Wright.
Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to write fiction, but I couldn't
Speaker 1: put the book down. Unfortunately, the events described in the
Speaker 1: book are possible so great from the recent news, I
Speaker 1: hope what's described here will never become reality. Waiting for
Speaker 1: the sequel, so you know, yes, maybe he's actually great
Speaker 1: that time. What other reviews that right are left ripped,
Speaker 1: ripped from the headlines. Who can forget the time White
Speaker 1: Obama was killed by a nuke and Hillary Clinton invaded
Speaker 1: Texas with China So accurate it's eerie. Yeah, straight from
Speaker 1: the straight from the headlines. Ben I am glad it's over.
Speaker 1: It's funny because the thing that is made clear over
Speaker 1: and over in this book, from Ben's basic lack of
Speaker 1: understanding of firearms, to his basic lack of understanding of
Speaker 1: the military, to his basic lack of understanding of emergency response,
Speaker 1: to his basic lack of understanding of love, and he's
Speaker 1: he's a man who's never done anything but right shitty
Speaker 1: political screeds like he's just he's just, since he was
Speaker 1: a teenager, written bad columns about politics. He has no
Speaker 1: life experience. He's never been anywhere or done anything but
Speaker 1: been like a rich kid who argues with people on camera. Um.
Speaker 1: And it's clear because he can't write about anything. You
Speaker 1: have to end like and when his characters speak or
Speaker 1: anything's narrated, it sounds like that. It sounds like he's
Speaker 1: just doing his little his uh, his town hall columns
Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, casualties are good, Yeah, they're fine. We
Speaker 1: should bomb He's angry because the president wants to bomb Syria,
Speaker 1: but we should have been bombing Iran Um oh man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. The thing The thing about it is. The
Speaker 1: thing about it is you don't have to have had
Speaker 1: a lot of you don't have to have had life
Speaker 1: experience about something to write about it. But you have
Speaker 1: to have had life experience to write. You have to
Speaker 1: have like like experienced things in the world to write well.
Speaker 1: And Ben is not, and that's made very clear by
Speaker 1: the book True Allegiance. Yeah. Yeah, also just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's a this is the larger issue worth
Speaker 1: unpacking in the future and many other mediums. But like, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: it's just like if you don't really understand or appreciate art,
Speaker 1: then you can't make it. Yes, yeah, that's an interesting Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just feels like, yes, he's got a vocabulary. It
Speaker 1: feels like a very simplistic and naive and childlike vision
Speaker 1: of what is possible. You know, you're not not even possible,
Speaker 1: none of it's possible things. But like it's just it's
Speaker 1: just immature. It feels like a kid wrote it, except
Speaker 1: with a thesaurus, you know. Yeah, it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where I with a good piece of fiction
Speaker 1: as a general rule, especially if you yourself read a
Speaker 1: lot and have read some of the same things that
Speaker 1: like the author of The Fit, which if you really
Speaker 1: like a book, you probably read some of the same
Speaker 1: things the author of that book. Right, that's just kind
Speaker 1: of the way creativity works. You can often tell with
Speaker 1: a really good book, Oh, I'm going to guess this
Speaker 1: was a little bit of an inspiration and this was
Speaker 1: a little bit of an inspiration. You can kind of see,
Speaker 1: like even if you're not really super familiar like with token,
Speaker 1: you know, like, oh, this is a guy who spent
Speaker 1: his entire life reading like different sort of like old
Speaker 1: English myths, and that's that's what he's bringing into this book. Um,
Speaker 1: you can tell that sort of thing because good, good
Speaker 1: writers steal, you know, That's how it works, stealing or
Speaker 1: just reading, right, Yeah, lets from the phrases. Good writers borrow,
Speaker 1: great writers steal right, you know, Like, but you can
Speaker 1: you can see, like, oh, I can see what inspired you.
Speaker 1: I can see what your influences were. That's usually that's
Speaker 1: one of the joys of reading. Um, I don't know
Speaker 1: what inspired been. In terms of fiction, I know what
Speaker 1: I believe he reads. Yeah, I don't believe he reads.
Speaker 1: There's no sign of it in this book. Yeah. Well
Speaker 1: I think it's just like stuff right like that. But
Speaker 1: it's that stuff. It's just like this, um yeah, uh yeah.
Speaker 1: Just he reads the scripts for for things. That's it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like look at the Yeah, the cover even it's
Speaker 1: like it reminds you of like a book you'd see
Speaker 1: at the airport. Yeah, it does, which is I mean,
Speaker 1: the cover design isn't bad. It's a good cover. If
Speaker 1: you're trying to get people to buy a book at
Speaker 1: an airport, it's fine, exactly. Like the most competent thing
Speaker 1: about this book is the cover. Yeah. Um, and like
Speaker 1: you know, but by it's cover all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But like it's like it's just this, uh, it's chasing
Speaker 1: an aesthetic and that's it. Yes, there's no like substance.
Speaker 1: This is like I want it to be like this
Speaker 1: kind of thing with like the flag and like the military,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be like you know, it's just like
Speaker 1: this general idea of like what it should should kind
Speaker 1: of feel like. But even I feel like the word
Speaker 1: feel is a little too generous here. Yeah, And you
Speaker 1: can tell, like it's it's very clear that he wrote
Speaker 1: this because like like he wrote this imagining those scenes
Speaker 1: in twenty four where you've got like the timer's ticking
Speaker 1: down and like Okay, we gotta do this, we gotta
Speaker 1: find the terrorists here in this here and like everything's like,
Speaker 1: you know, this attack is happening, We're seeing the people
Speaker 1: moving around the area that's about to get bombed, and
Speaker 1: like this this whole like it's it's scripted. It's written.
Speaker 1: I can tell it's written by somebody who wanted this
Speaker 1: to be turned into a movie or a TV show,
Speaker 1: because it's that's the way it's it's it's it's plotted.
Speaker 1: It it's not written like that, it's organized like that.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh and then you know, a better writer
Speaker 1: and like a director and actors will like inject feeling
Speaker 1: and suspense into this. Sure sign it's a bad book
Speaker 1: because writing for it to be a franchise versus writing
Speaker 1: a story. Look, I don't even under there's nothing to
Speaker 1: unpack here. It sucks like there's no like eloquent argument
Speaker 1: to be made. It's just fucking bad. It's just a
Speaker 1: terrible it's terrible. Yeah, it's it's it's very we have
Speaker 1: but we've we've learned a lot together about about how
Speaker 1: not to write a fiction novel. And we've learned even more.
Speaker 1: Most of all, we've learned about Ben Shapiro. Yes, a
Speaker 1: little psyche, Yeah, Comma, yeah, man, the man loves the man,
Speaker 1: loves his wife, loves a comma. It is interesting seeing
Speaker 1: um the reviews are sort of alongest lines, even if
Speaker 1: like I'm a I'm a fan of Ben Sjapiro, but
Speaker 1: this is not a good or interesting there are a
Speaker 1: lot of it is. It's not exciting. It's poorly written.
Speaker 1: Characters are pretty stilted, like it's it's there, you know,
Speaker 1: they're very honest. Yeah, someone should have been this honest
Speaker 1: with him when he was thinking about publishing a book.
Speaker 1: If he had a single person in his life who
Speaker 1: loved him, Um, they would have put a hand on
Speaker 1: his shoulder and said, no, Ben, Ben, you're a millionaire,
Speaker 1: you're you're influential on the right wing. You you political
Speaker 1: leaders within your party have to get your you know,
Speaker 1: they have to come and talk to you like you're
Speaker 1: you're you're very successful by the standards with with with
Speaker 1: which you judge success. This is not for you. This
Speaker 1: will only Yeah, this is not for you. You don't
Speaker 1: get to do this because oh, but he does. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping because they're doing movies, and they're doing movies now,
Speaker 1: I hope that he writes at least he was probably
Speaker 1: demanding that he's I'm sure that's the entire reason. He's.
Speaker 1: They're also apparently, uh making a music label. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we've finally got to hear. Ben Shapiro's rap album is
Speaker 1: going to drop up The Daily Wire Presents Music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: none of this is none of this is sitting well
Speaker 1: with me. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I'm I
Speaker 1: know they've released that one movie about the school shooting.
Speaker 1: I don't think Ben wrote it. That movie was made,
Speaker 1: and the Daily we'll buy we'll buy that and we'll
Speaker 1: release it under our subscription And we haven't released anything
Speaker 1: that was written by the team yet. What it seems
Speaker 1: like the reason it seems like they did that because
Speaker 1: like they like they have money, but they don't of
Speaker 1: movie making money. So what they need to do is
Speaker 1: get a movie someone else made by it, have a
Speaker 1: success that makes a profit so they can get funding
Speaker 1: to do something and then do their own thing exactly
Speaker 1: and like to legitimize themselves with like, oh, it's a
Speaker 1: real movie that was made, not like been like writing
Speaker 1: truest Allegiance or whatever. And I don't know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: Ben will get to have his hands in the pudding
Speaker 1: at some point. I don't know that they'll ever be
Speaker 1: successful enough for him to get to write a screen
Speaker 1: play because number one, this is unfilmable. Um, you could film.
Speaker 1: You could film a version of it that would probably
Speaker 1: be better than the book if you had hundreds of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars um, But you don't like you his
Speaker 1: his studio is years away from having the money to
Speaker 1: film in downtown New York City, let alone have nukes
Speaker 1: and tens of thousands of soldiers and go from Afghanist.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's Caifornia still yea, yeah, it'll
Speaker 1: have to be like a very uh contained sort of yes. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: like his screenplay about being in law school exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his drama, his dramay. I'm glad we're done. I am
Speaker 1: to onto the next same. Yeah, we'll find another book.
Speaker 1: Hit us up online, tell us what you want us
Speaker 1: to read, but it'll probably be the Way of the
Speaker 1: Shadow Wolves. Um, Robert's like, give me suggestions. I won't listen,
Speaker 1: but go ahead, I might. I might listen. I listen
Speaker 1: all the time. Probably you'll at least read them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll at least I'll at least read suggestions. Not the book.
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