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JFK Book Reviews - 11-22-63 By Stephen King · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, And welcome to JFK Book Reviews, the
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Speaker 1: division of the Lone Gunman Podcast. I am Rob Clark.
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Speaker 1: He is Joe Borelli, and today we're going to be
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Speaker 1: reviewing the book eleven, twenty two sixty three by none
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Speaker 1: other than Stephen King. And look at this.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's a good spot there.
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Speaker 1: She may be the thickest one yet, I think so.
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Speaker 1: And she's got a good thump to her when you
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Speaker 1: tap that ass. You know what I'm saying. She's a
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Speaker 1: big girl, Big bad Bob loves the big girls. So Joe,
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Speaker 1: tell us a little bit more about this book here
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Speaker 1: that we're going to be reviewing today.
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Speaker 2: Sure. So it was released in twenty eleven, obviously by
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Speaker 2: Stephen k and the first by a Schreiber Publishing division
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Speaker 2: of Simon and Schuster Incorporated from New York. Yes, and
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Speaker 2: the first words are this book is a work of fiction,
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Speaker 2: and any reference to historical events, real people, or real
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Speaker 2: locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents
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Speaker 2: are products of the author's imagination. And it is Steve.
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Speaker 2: It was Stephen King's sixtieth book. And when I saw that,
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Speaker 2: I was like damn. He should have wrote two more
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Speaker 2: made at number sixty three, but it was announced on
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Speaker 2: his website in March of twenty eleven. There was some
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Speaker 2: short excerpts released in June twenty eleven and October Entertainment Weekly,
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Speaker 2: New York Times and Rob. This book received a lot
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Speaker 2: of rewards. It became a number one bestseller. It stayed
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Speaker 2: on the New York Times Bestseller list for sixteen weeks.
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Speaker 2: It won the twenty eleven Los Angeles Times Prize, Times
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Speaker 2: Book Prize for Best Mystery Thriller and twenty twelve International
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Speaker 2: Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel. It was nominated for
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Speaker 2: the twenty twelve British Fantasy Award for Best Novel and
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Speaker 2: the twenty twelve Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Speaker 2: And the novel was also selected by The New York
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Speaker 2: Times as one of its ten best books of twenty eleven.
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Speaker 1: So Wow and.
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Speaker 2: Also as You Know was adapted into a Hulu mini
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Speaker 2: series Hulu in twenty sixteen, starring James Francos among others.
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Speaker 2: And I will say the guy who plays Lee does
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Speaker 2: kind of resemble him. Maybe he was time traveling. You
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Speaker 2: never know. You can get this from from thrift books
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Speaker 2: for as low as let's see, they're all ranging about
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Speaker 2: twenty bucks for the lower copies target Walmart and going
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Speaker 2: up to thirty dollars. And I saw one on Etsy
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Speaker 2: for three hundred dollars. I was like, Oh, and it'd.
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Speaker 1: Be signed in Stephen King's Blood Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah right, or written to JFK Jr. Signed signed by
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Speaker 2: the guy in Daley Plaza. It consists of six parts,
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Speaker 2: the original softcover ten ninety pages and the hardcover Slash
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Speaker 2: online pdf version eight fifty nine pages. It obviously does
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Speaker 2: not have an index or end note section, but does
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Speaker 2: have about a fifteen page after word section, which I'll
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Speaker 2: address in my closing thoughts and Rob. This book definitely
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Speaker 2: has a fictitious loan no time traveling.
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Speaker 1: It does. Was that good? Yes? Yes? Now I'm going
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Speaker 1: to preface this by saying, Joe that I grew up
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Speaker 1: a huge Stephen King fan, not just reading his books,
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Speaker 1: but I mean kids my age grew up on Kujoe.
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Speaker 2: It no iPads, no iPhone.
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Speaker 1: And I mean right, Salem's Lot, the Silver Bullet. I
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Speaker 1: mean these are iconic Stephen King novella adaptations into cinema
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Speaker 1: that opened up you know a whole new audience to
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Speaker 1: his books. Christine forgot about that one. And like I said,
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Speaker 1: I grew up a Stephen King fan. I read a
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Speaker 1: lot of his books. And you know, as you get older,
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Speaker 1: you tend you know, you have to start working, you
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Speaker 1: have a family, You have less time to read books. Right,
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm very picky about what books I
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Speaker 1: read nowadays because I don't have time to just sit
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Speaker 1: there and read every decent book that comes out, right, right,
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Speaker 1: I really woo me.
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Speaker 2: I am one agree, yes.
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Speaker 1: But back in twenty eleven, of course, being interested in
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Speaker 1: this subject, this book wooed me right now. I did
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Speaker 1: have the original hardcover and I don't know what happened
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Speaker 1: to it. So in one of my used books trips,
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Speaker 1: I picked this up. As you can see, this was
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Speaker 1: published well after the Hulu adaption came out. It's on
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Speaker 1: the cover. But I did have the original hardcover and
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Speaker 1: I I had it in one of my cars the
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Speaker 1: last time I saw it, and I don't know what
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Speaker 1: happened to it. I lost it over the years. So
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Speaker 1: I decided to pick up the paperback just so i'd
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Speaker 1: have it because it fell out of the trunk. It
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Speaker 1: might have who the hell knows, you know, the kid
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Speaker 1: might have spelled a milkshake on it or something, or
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Speaker 1: puked on it, who knows. So you know, Stephen King
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Speaker 1: is the master of horror yes, right, he is the
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Speaker 1: master of horror writing. And I think, you know, sometimes
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Speaker 1: when you have geniuses that are contemporary to the time
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Speaker 1: that they're true masterpieces aren't recognized until long after they're gone. Yes, Fortunately, though,
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Speaker 1: you know, we have a master of his genre alive
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Speaker 1: right now and still working, which is amazing, you know,
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Speaker 1: to be alive at the time when Picasso was alive,
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Speaker 1: or Andy Warhol or Jackson Pollock or you know, John Steinbeck,
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Speaker 1: you know, just great novelists, great artists, great musicians. You know,
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Speaker 1: they generally don't get their flowers until long after they're gone.
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Speaker 1: But Stephen King gets his. And I believe this was
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Speaker 1: his first foray into historical fiction, meaning while sometimes his
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Speaker 1: books are set in the past, he's a big fan
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Speaker 1: of writing things in the time that he grew up,
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Speaker 1: like in the fifties and sixties. I mean, you see
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Speaker 1: when Christine was set, you know, you know, you see
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Speaker 1: when stand By Me was set. Yeah, you know, a
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Speaker 1: lot a lot of his stories revolve around settings back
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Speaker 1: in the early fifties and sixties, because this is the
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Speaker 1: time that he grew up and this is the time
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Speaker 1: that he loved.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Rob I watched a YouTube video recap of
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Speaker 2: him talking about this book, saying it brought him back
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Speaker 2: to the fifties and sixties and you know, describing that
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Speaker 2: era and how it smelled and how the dress is,
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Speaker 2: you know, how people dressed. So yeah, one hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And while this is by no means a horror novel,
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Speaker 1: by no means, it is very much a complex I
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Speaker 1: would call it a science fiction novel more than anything
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Speaker 1: because of the time travel aspect, right, and the paradox
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Speaker 1: is that, of course that introduces into the story. And
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Speaker 1: this is a very multi layered story. And me and
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Speaker 1: Joe were talking before the show, you know, it kind
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Speaker 1: of it's hard to follow unless you are really dialed
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Speaker 1: in because you're jumping back and forth between time periods,
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Speaker 1: multiple time periods, multiple names, multiple places, things that have
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Speaker 1: happened before, things like this. It's a lot to keep
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Speaker 1: straight and really understand, you know, and take it in.
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Speaker 1: You know, I mean, imagine reading this book, Joe, if
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Speaker 1: you knew nothing about the Kennedy assassination. You know the
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Speaker 1: fact that we know some stuff about the Kennedy assassination.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's pretty cool. But somebody that didn't know
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Speaker 1: shit about it, this would just be a time travel
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Speaker 1: book for them. But you have this story. In the
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Speaker 1: backdrop of this story, you have a main character who
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Speaker 1: is struggling in his real life, you know, seemingly without
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Speaker 1: a purpose. I believe. In the book, Jake is a
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Speaker 1: ged teacher, okay, high school teacher. Yeah, he's a high
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Speaker 1: school teacher and he teaches ged classes on the side
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Speaker 1: at the local community college or whatever. And you know,
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Speaker 1: he's not really happy with his life or how his
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Speaker 1: life is going. So you have him struggling with that.
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Speaker 1: Then you have him being introduced to a whole new
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Speaker 1: world and unbelievable world, one that he can go back
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Speaker 1: in time and visit the past and influence things changing
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Speaker 1: in the future. Now the premise of this book, right,
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Speaker 1: So he meets this guy named Al who owns this
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Speaker 1: burger joint that out the back door, the burger joint.
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Speaker 1: If you're down a couple steps, all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: it dumps you. At eleven fifty eight am on September ninth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight. Blah bloh, in the middle of this
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Speaker 1: small little town, this quaint little town. And of course,
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Speaker 1: you know, he goes through and describes, you know, the people,
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Speaker 1: the cars, the music, the atmosphere, the food, the drinks.
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Speaker 1: You know, getting a root beer float just tastes amazing,
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Speaker 1: you know, and seeing all these cool cars, these cool
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Speaker 1: old cars, and hearing the cool old music and just
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Speaker 1: how people were in the fifties, you know, just very nice.
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Speaker 1: And of course he does start some weird character in there, right,
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Speaker 1: this drunk bum you know with the yellow card. Uh,
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Speaker 1: Bill Turcotte, I can't remember.
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Speaker 2: George McKay.
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Speaker 1: He's got a couple of games.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the bar cender who joins Jake's mission.
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Speaker 1: No, Oh, it's a guy who's got to pay money
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Speaker 1: to Every time he goes back, there's always like this
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Speaker 1: drunk asshole what you know that they can see him
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Speaker 1: and seems to remember him at times through his drunken stupor.
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Speaker 1: But so the premise of it is every time he
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Speaker 1: goes back, he can go back for as long as
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Speaker 1: he wants, right, he can go back for two years,
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Speaker 1: but in our reality only two minutes have passed. So
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Speaker 1: you know, he can go back for ten minutes and
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Speaker 1: two minutes have passed here, or he can stay for
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Speaker 1: ten years and two minutes of past here in our world.
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Speaker 2: I would have loved to have that ability.
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Speaker 1: Man right loved Every time he goes back, everything resets.
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Speaker 1: So it's not like you can go back and make
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Speaker 1: some progress and then come back to reality for a
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Speaker 1: little break and then go back. No, you got to
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Speaker 1: start from scratch every time you go back. Now, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to read a little piece of Al the burger
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Speaker 1: joint owner, telling him about how things are, and he says,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the river of history, the watershed
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Speaker 1: moments most susceptible to change are assassinations, the ones that
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Speaker 1: succeeded and the ones that failed. Archiduke Franz Ferdinand of
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Speaker 1: Austria gets shot by a mentally unstable pip squeak named
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Speaker 1: Gavrilo Princip and there's your kickoff this World War One.
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Speaker 1: On the other hand, after Clause von Staufenberg failed to
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Speaker 1: kill Hitler in nineteen forty four, the war continued and
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Speaker 1: millions more died. Al said, there's nothing we can do
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Speaker 1: about that. Archie Duke Ferdinand and Adolph Hitler. They're out
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Speaker 1: of our reach because they can only go back to
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight, right, And Jake is saying, I thought
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Speaker 1: of accusing him of making pronounal assumptions and kept my
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Speaker 1: mouth shut. I felt like a man reading a very
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Speaker 1: grim book. Thomas Hardy novels say you know how it's
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Speaker 1: going to end, but instead of spoiling things that somehow
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Speaker 1: increases your fascination, It's like watching a kid run his
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Speaker 1: electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to
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Speaker 1: derail on one of the curves. As for nine to eleven,
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Speaker 1: if you want to fix that one, you'll have to
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Speaker 1: wait around in the other world for forty three years.
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Speaker 1: So if you want to change, if you want to
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Speaker 1: make nine to eleven not happen, ever, you could go
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Speaker 1: back to nineteen fifty eight, but you would have to
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Speaker 1: stay alive long enough in that world for forty three
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Speaker 1: years until nine to eleven happens in two thousand and one.
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Speaker 1: We're supposed to happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it. And following who.
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Speaker 1: Says, you'd be pushing eighty if you made it at all,
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Speaker 1: and he says, now the lone star flag Thenome had
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Speaker 1: been holding outside of our's house made sense. It was
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Speaker 1: a souvenir of his last jahnt into the past. You
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Speaker 1: couldn't even make it to sixty three, now, could you,
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Speaker 1: Because our is sick, Al is going to die. Al
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Speaker 1: has cancer, and he's tried a couple times to go
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Speaker 1: back and change the outcome of the JFK assassination. But
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Speaker 1: every time he's tried, he's failed. It still happens, and
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Speaker 1: now in the real world he's dying. So this is
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Speaker 1: why he's telling Jake about this, and he wants Jake
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Speaker 1: to continue to try to change history. And he says
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Speaker 1: to this, He didn't reply. He just watched me. His eyes,
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Speaker 1: which had the look of roomy in vague when he
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Speaker 1: let me into the diner that afternoon, now look bright
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Speaker 1: and almost young. Because that's what you're talking about, right
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Speaker 1: Dallas in nineteen sixty three. Ali says, that's right. I
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Speaker 1: had to opt out. But you're not sick, buddy, You're
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Speaker 1: healthy and in the prime of your life. You can
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Speaker 1: go back and you can stop it. He leaned forward,
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Speaker 1: his eyes not just bright, but they were blazing. You
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Speaker 1: can change history, Jake, Do you understand that? John Kennedy
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Speaker 1: can live. So this is how the main character, Jake
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Speaker 1: gets sold on this mission, right because he's not really
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Speaker 1: missing out anything here. Every time he leaves and comes back,
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Speaker 1: it's been two minutes, right, so he's not really fucking
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Speaker 1: his life up here right now. Of course, there has
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Speaker 1: to be a story within the story within a story
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Speaker 1: within a story with Stephen King. Okay, there's, like I said,
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Speaker 1: there's multiple layers to all this. So of course he
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Speaker 1: goes back and he meets Sadie, this beautiful blonde and
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Speaker 1: falls in love with her. But every time he has
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Speaker 1: to come back, like something will happen where he goes
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Speaker 1: back and he tries, you know, because he has was
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Speaker 1: it basically almost a little over four years between September
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight and November sixty three, yea, to alter
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Speaker 1: the course of history.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Lee Harvey Oswald does not even return to
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Speaker 1: the United States until nineteen sixty two, yep, June. While
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Speaker 1: there he has time to formulate a plan to figure
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Speaker 1: out how he can derail.
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Speaker 2: This, but about three years ish.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like something always happens, and there's a
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Speaker 1: theme of time always fighting back in this movie or
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Speaker 1: this this book, you know, like like time doesn't want it,
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Speaker 1: or you know, time doesn't want to change, like it
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Speaker 1: will fight you back and it will try to derail
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Speaker 1: your efforts. Right, And of course he meets his check
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Speaker 1: and he falls in love with her. But every time
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Speaker 1: he goes back, everything resets, so he has to meet
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Speaker 1: her again. He has to get her to fall in
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Speaker 1: love with him again. But of course that is easier
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Speaker 1: every time because every time he goes back, the more
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Speaker 1: he knows about her. He knows her favorite flowers, her
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Speaker 1: favorite flag fragrances, or favorite foods, or favorite.
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Speaker 2: What's that Adam's Sandler movie? Was it Fifty First Dates?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it kind of reminds me of that a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, something like that, something like that, something
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Speaker 1: like that. So you have these multiple tracks going in
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Speaker 1: this book, along with a social commentary and of course
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Speaker 1: the thought process of what life would be like in
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Speaker 1: the world, not just the United States, but in the
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Speaker 1: world had John Kennedy lived, Had he lived, would his
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Speaker 1: brother have been killed? Would Martin Luther King have been killed?
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Speaker 2: That's a really good question, something I honestly contemplate a lot,
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Speaker 2: and I know you do too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, would the Cold War have lasted into
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Speaker 1: the nineties. You know, how would life be different, not
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Speaker 1: just in our daily lives, but for the good of
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Speaker 1: the world. You know, we always have this fan or
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Speaker 1: fairy tale image of Camelot and how great John Kennedy
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Speaker 1: was as a leader, and how he could have changed
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Speaker 1: the world and it would be a much better place
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Speaker 1: than it is now. But is that reality? Would that
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Speaker 1: have happened? Would he have been become a beloved president,
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Speaker 1: ran for a second term? Would then his brother his
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Speaker 1: brother have ran for president and had two terms? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's crazy to think about.
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Speaker 2: Teddy too wanted to run until.
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Speaker 1: The child right, Yeah, I mean it's crazy how.
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Speaker 2: Much iful left. Yeah, the dynasty could have lasted kind of.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if our country had the right leadership and been
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Speaker 1: on the right trajectory to lead the world instead of
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Speaker 1: dividing it and the bullshit we have now with you know,
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Speaker 1: religion and intelligence services and everything trying to divide us,
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Speaker 1: could they have united us? You know, And that theme
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Speaker 1: is explored in the book, and it doesn't always turn
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Speaker 1: out right, you know. I don't want to give too
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Speaker 1: much of the plot of the book away, But again,
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Speaker 1: if you haven't read it, by now you should so
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Speaker 1: believe me. These themes are examined and taken into consideration
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Speaker 1: and explored thoroughly. As for time travel aspects, there's there's,
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Speaker 1: of course, different kinds of time travel. Stephen King, I
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Speaker 1: believe he said he started writing this book in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy two, he got fourteen he pages into it and
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Speaker 1: quit because it was just too daunting of a task
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Speaker 1: to wrap his mind around at the time of how
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Speaker 1: the world could possibly have changed, you know, and without
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Speaker 1: the benefit of hindsight being twenty twenty. Writing the book
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Speaker 1: when he did in the early two thousands he gave
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Speaker 1: him a better perspective. And of course he was working
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Speaker 1: at the time in the early seventies, so he didn't
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Speaker 1: have a lot of time to research a lot of
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Speaker 1: the stuff that he would have needed to to get
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Speaker 1: the book right back then. So I'm glad he waited
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Speaker 1: a little bit to do it. And I don't know, Joe,
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Speaker 1: I just and of course how it ends. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Stephen King, I believe the way he does things is
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Speaker 1: I don't know that he always knows how his book
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Speaker 1: is going to end. I think he mentions somewhere in
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Speaker 1: the afterward that his son actually helped him change the
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Speaker 1: end of the novel due to time travel paradoxes or something.
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Speaker 2: Kind of like our weekly episodes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think he writes like two, three or
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Speaker 1: four novels at the same time, and when he gets
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Speaker 1: stuck or when he's in a bad place on one
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Speaker 1: of them, he'll move over and start writing another one, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, and then when he gets stuck on that one,
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Speaker 1: he'll stop until he has a good idea and then
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Speaker 1: go back to something else. So I think that's how
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Speaker 1: he writes, right. And you know, a book as complex
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Speaker 1: as this, I don't think you would need like a
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Speaker 1: gigantic whiteboard to chart this thing out. Should the flow
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Speaker 1: chart for this book? So to me, it was pretty,
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Speaker 1: you know, pretty impressive to see how he interwove everything,
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Speaker 1: explored a lot of options, and then tied everything together
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Speaker 1: at the end and gives us this classic love story ending.
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Speaker 1: But with that being said, Joe, let's hear your thoughts
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Speaker 1: about it and your rating, sir.
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Speaker 2: All right, so I say this every week. This is
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Speaker 2: going to be a hard one to rate. I'm just
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Speaker 2: going to read something from the afterwards section. He goes
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Speaker 2: Ruby was heartsick at the thought of Jackie having to
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Speaker 2: return to Dallas for Oswald's trial. The widow would become
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Speaker 2: a national spectacle, he said, her grief would be used
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Speaker 2: to sell tabloids. Of course, the irony there is how
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Speaker 2: many thousand books have been written about the JFK assassination
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Speaker 2: since unless, of course, Lee Harvey Oswald came down with
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Speaker 2: a bad case of the deads. The assassin died at
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Speaker 2: Parkland skipping a little Parkland shortly without making a statement,
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Speaker 2: thanks to a strip who needed twenty five bucks and
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Speaker 2: a half assed show boat. Of course, referring to Ruby,
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Speaker 2: so he's obviously landed on the low nut side. He did,
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Speaker 2: you know, go to all the locations and go to
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Speaker 2: Dallas for his research and stuff like that. And I
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Speaker 2: think I was watching one of his interviews on this
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Speaker 2: book that he hopes that it would bring some people
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Speaker 2: into the JFK assassination milieu. Right, So if that's the case,
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Speaker 2: and listen, it's it's fiction, which of course factors into
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Speaker 2: the rating, and it explores explores all the themes that
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Speaker 2: that you just eloquently talked about, themes of fate, consequences
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Speaker 2: of altering history. Shit, I'd love to have a time
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Speaker 2: machine behind me and go back and be chilling behind
25:55
Speaker 2: the pick of fence, you know what I mean, and
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Speaker 2: love and you know it's it's there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: depth and layers to it, like you said, And I
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Speaker 2: don't really know where to land on it, man, I
26:10
Speaker 2: think I'm just listen. It really depends on your preference
26:15
Speaker 2: if this is your type of thing. It's not a
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Speaker 2: JFK research book obviously, So if you're like most of
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Speaker 2: our listeners and our document nerds, probably isn't the book
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Speaker 2: for you. But is it entertaining. Of course, if you
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Speaker 2: prefer the Hulu version with you know, James Franco, that
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Speaker 2: could be preferable to some people with their preferences. So
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Speaker 2: I don't know where to land. I'm going to land
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Speaker 2: right in the middle. Five thumbs up.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Joe. Well let's see here. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a Stephen King book, folks. It can be heavy
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Speaker 1: at times, it can be complicated at times, and I
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Speaker 1: think he balances everything involved in this, including the love story,
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Speaker 1: including time travel, and including real historical events that happened,
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Speaker 1: real historical people into his interpretation of if we could
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Speaker 1: go back and save JFK. What would happen, you know,
27:43
Speaker 1: And I think this book does a great job of
27:48
Speaker 1: illustrating what we call the butterfly effect or chaos theory,
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Speaker 1: how one simple small thing could change everything, and not
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Speaker 1: always for the better. Again, this is not JFK research
28:09
Speaker 1: book reviews. This is JFK book reviews. It's just a
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Speaker 1: book about JFK. And it happens to be the subject
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Speaker 1: matter of this book, so it can it combines for
28:19
Speaker 1: me two of my favorite genres, which is Stephen King
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Speaker 1: and eleven sixty three. Now I get there is some
28:31
Speaker 1: facts wrong in this book. You know, of course, there's
28:34
Speaker 1: going to be blatant research mistakes. Stephen King is not
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Speaker 1: a JFK researcher by any stretch of the imagination. He
28:44
Speaker 1: doesn't have the time, okay, And I get it. Yeah,
28:48
Speaker 1: So he's only as good as who he's reading and
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Speaker 1: where he's getting his information from, you know, people helping him,
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Speaker 1: you know, research things. And I get it. You know,
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Speaker 1: these things are not going to always be caught in
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Speaker 1: the editorial process. And there are some factual inaccuracies in here,
29:08
Speaker 1: but again it's work of fiction, so you just have
29:11
Speaker 1: to take that for what it is, you know, It's
29:18
Speaker 1: not the first novel to explore time travel. When it
29:23
Speaker 1: comes to the jfk assassination, it's not the first movie
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Speaker 1: to do so either. You know, these these are just
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Speaker 1: fantasy questions in one's mind. If we could have if
29:43
Speaker 1: we can go back in time, if we could save
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Speaker 1: JFK from being killed that day, but he only got
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Speaker 1: killed two weeks after that, you know, that would be
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Speaker 1: like the ultimate bummer, you know what I mean, Like
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Speaker 1: you saved him that day, but they get him two
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Speaker 1: weeks from now. Now you got to go back to
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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight start all over again. Price You know
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Speaker 1: these these It's fun in my brain is how I
30:13
Speaker 1: can describe this book. It's fun in my brain. I
30:17
Speaker 1: enjoyed it to me with everything wrapped into it and
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Speaker 1: for it being what it is, Joe, a fictional take
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Speaker 1: on a time travel you know, historical perspective. To me,
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Speaker 1: it is a thick masterpiece In doing so so, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give this book ten guns up.
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Speaker 2: Our first ten.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 2: And I respect that. Uh, It's just that the genre
31:18
Speaker 2: genre isn't for me personally, which is of course why
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Speaker 2: we differ on our book reviews and leave it to
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Speaker 2: the listener to you know, decide if you want to
31:27
Speaker 2: read it or not. But I respect it, sir, I do. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're not into science fiction shit, if
31:33
Speaker 1: you're not into Stephen King really and reading, like you
31:36
Speaker 1: can watch the Stephen King movie, but you need to
31:39
Speaker 1: read the dude, read it because it's way different than
31:43
Speaker 1: the movies. And if you're not into the way he writes,
31:48
Speaker 1: and you're not into science fiction or time travel or
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Speaker 1: paradoxes or you know, theories and all this other crazy shit,
31:56
Speaker 1: like this is like the perfect storm for me to
31:58
Speaker 1: read this book because it's it comes as everything that
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Speaker 1: I did. Stephen King is writing a science fiction time
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Speaker 1: travel novel about JFK. Fucking take my money, take my
32:11
Speaker 1: fucking money. You got it. You got it not once, twice,
32:16
Speaker 1: and I bought the series on Hulu on Blu ray
32:19
Speaker 1: you got it three times. And now I'm giving you
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Speaker 1: more because I'm hyping this book here on YouTube and
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Speaker 1: telling you to get it read it. And if you're
32:30
Speaker 1: into the same kind of shit, you won't be disappointed.
32:32
Speaker 1: If you're like Joe, maybe you will be. I don't know.
32:37
Speaker 1: But again, this is what makes us different people. We
32:40
Speaker 1: have different opinions and that's it for this one. And
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Speaker 1: if you like this book review, folks, make sure to
32:47
Speaker 1: tune in here on YouTube every Friday night at seven
32:50
Speaker 1: pm where we live stream a show all about our
32:55
Speaker 1: investigation into the murder of John F. Kennedy. And we
33:01
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33:03
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Speaker 1: So in the meantime, check out an older book review,
33:14
Speaker 1: check out our podcast playlist over here, and we'll see
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Speaker 1: you next time here on JFK Book Reviews. Until then,
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Speaker 1: pup up, up, up up up peace.
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Speaker 2: Thank you everyone,