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TWR Monday | Richard Maverick Returns w/ “Our War Volume 3” · The Whitfield Report

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I'm your host, Sam Woodfield, Recording Herald from right to
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And joining me for tonight's show is Richard Maverick.
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We've had him on the show before, author of the Losers
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series, and Richard was kind of enough to join us.
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This is the first interview we've had back after the whole,
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you know, news a few weeks ago with Charlie Couric, a few
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guests, you know, understand what you've decided to postpone,
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you know, after that that happened.
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And it's just been really kind of a chaotic time for us all.
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But Richard put out a very movie, I don't know if you want
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to call it tribute, but just kind of a, you know, a video on
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Charlie and what he meant, you know, to Richard.
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And so I I found him very moving personally, as someone who met
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Charlie, you know, once as many listeners may or may not know.
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But anyway, Richard, welcome to the show.
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And how have you been, man? Thank you for having me, Sam.
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I've been pretty good. I've been busy, busy, busy
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trying to get the final edits done of the Volume 3 before we
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kick that over for release. I want to see the release dates.
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November 18th. The cover will get a facelift.
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There's already a new cover design for it, so the what you
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see behind me is the art copies so well.
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They are, well, they are copies. Still pretty good, man.
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I I have to say. I, you know, when I, I, I did
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them just on, on the Amazon cover creator thing and they
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turned out I got a, you know, you, you get a picture of it
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from Amazon, right? And I, I took a picture on my
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computer with my phone and I sent it, I, I posted it out.
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A few people are like, you know, you can't see it good.
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You know, you can't see the, the, the lettering good.
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It kind of blends too much. But when I actually got the
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physical copies in of the Ark, it turned out way better than
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than Amazon led me to believe it was going to so.
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Yeah, that. Yeah, that's the thing with like
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the whole cover crater I think I've noticed too.
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And also it helps out like a print copy of the books as well,
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just because like, particularly like if you're doing colors like
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Reds or yellows, like I, I've found that like, you know,
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sometimes like the yellows I use in my font are like a lot
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brighter or a lot darker and print they are on, on the
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computer when I'm, when I'm designing them or, you know,
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something like that. So it always, it always helps to
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have a, you know, approved copy to kind of just check over how
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things look not just in cover, but also in like page 4.
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Yeah. Adding them and what not so.
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I was in. I was in a little bit of a
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hurry. I didn't really let it.
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I just kind of, you know, I ordered, I don't know, 40 copies
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to give away total right off the bat.
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I didn't and got a hold of my other cover designer and said
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hey guy you got a couple weeks, take your time.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean that that sometimes,
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sometimes it's just stuff like that that I think people kind
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of, you know, who's track of that.
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That's why kind of the production part of it, you know,
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takes a bit longer is like I've, I've written, you know, like
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sometimes writing the story itself will only take like about
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like 6 months to a year or something.
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If you're writing a novella, 3 to 6 months, but then, you know,
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making sure that the proofs look good and whatnot.
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That's where I kind of the, you know, the time takes place.
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So and also you've been, you know, pretty good about
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promoting stuff on social media, despite the fact that Instagram
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seems to want to well, I don't know if kick you off is the
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term, but if you no longer have like.
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Enough numbers like. Yeah.
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Yeah, they, they booted me from doing live live because I was
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going live every Sunday and they booted me from it because I need
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1000 followers to do it. So I, I at least figured out a
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cheat code for that. Did did a little video after the
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Charlie Kirk shooting and was able to post it and I was told
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that not the whole video posted but that's fine too so.
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Yeah, well, I, I, I saw that the whole video posted.
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You know, I, I know that this, this isn't like a political
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show, but I mean, I think it's pretty safe to say, you know,
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based on conversation, I know your politics and you know mine.
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Irregardless though, I mean, what was, how have you been
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doing with that whole I guess thing with Troy Kirk's passing?
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I mean, I've heard from, I've heard from multiple guests who
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have just been apartment apoplexic.
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I guess what is your kind of reaction?
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I think you had a pretty good, pretty measured take actually
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compared to some people. Compared compared I I've got the
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unpopular opinion that I think the Republican Party could have
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prevented this years ago and I and half because they could have
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with a Republican controlled Senate, House and Senate, they
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could have passed the bill years ago to shut down the
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unsubstantiated rhetoric, the racism, racism, racism.
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If you have a senator, you, you're a public servant.
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You work for me. And if you're going to call me a
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racist, you better be able to back that shit up.
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Yeah. OK, And if you can't back it up,
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if it's because I didn't vote the way you wanted me to, out
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the door, you go. Special election, replace the
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moron, get somebody else in. And I don't care if it's red or
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blue. The rhetoric's got to quit, but
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the Republicans make too much money off the division, just
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like the Democrats did. That's that's why they won't
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pass any kind of bill that'll shut that shit down.
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That's my, that's my big take on it.
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That's my big take away from the from the Charlie Kirk shooting
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is that it could have been prevented, but no one is willing
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to do it. It's so funny you say that,
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though, because like that's something that I even have
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particularly been, that's something I've actually been
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writing about. Not necessarily in like an odd,
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not necessarily in like a non fiction way.
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But that's one of the things kind of in my, in my series,
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Shadows of Deception, that like a lot of this division and
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whatnot, it almost seems to kind of be planned, so to speak, by
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both party elites. And you know, like I, I've got a
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few people who have been like, you know, well, Sam likes, I'm
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not one of these people that like tries to predict stuff to
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write in my books, Like I'm not going to do the whole Brad Thore
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things. But I mean, I've been in
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political commentary for a long for a long time.
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I've read, you know, I've talked to people in the, in the
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intelligence community. Granted, most of them are, are
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retired, but you know, Even so, like, I don't think a lot of
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this stuff is super hard to like, you know, see if you, if
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you, you know, observe things and, you know, so I, I think, I
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think Obama getting rid of like the Smith Munt act in particular
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was, you know, was pretty harmful.
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And, you know, it's like I've said, I don't really care if
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someone's like an evangelical or if they're like a, you know, or
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if they, you know, believe in the whole LGBTQ thing.
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Like I personally don't like either extreme, but you know,
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you're, you're welcome to have your opinion.
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My whole thing is when it gets to to the point where we where
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we can't even have a civil conversation, that's when I
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start to worry. And we've kind of seen,
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unfortunately, you know, the worst kind of, you know, the
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worst possible result of that. One of the things in my in the
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1st edition of Our War that was released in 2020, that was
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something I talked about in the beginning of the book that I
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actually did remove in the second edition was we need to
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have a civil conversation. You need to get along.
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You need to talk to your neighbor.
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If you can't honestly talk politics with somebody, talk
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about football, talk about the weather, talk to your neighbor.
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You can be friends without agreeing on political ideology,
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which I also believe is replaced the religion.
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Yeah. I I I believe that the
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Republican and the Democrat party personally have become a
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religious divisions of religion for people.
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Oh yeah, totally. So.
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And I mean, granted, I'm, I'll be honest, I mean, I'm falling
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into the tribalism, you know, trap as much as any other person
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in the past, you know, which is kind of one of the reasons why I
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shifted over to writing fiction. You know, like the past five
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years was like I, you know, for my part, like I've recognized
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that, you know, that like, yeah, not everything that
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conservatives do is great either.
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And I mean, it does, it does kind of wear me some of the, you
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know, some of the radical, you know, elements that are taking
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place that are trying to take Charlie's place.
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And, you know, I think I've done a pretty good job of trying to
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call it both sides. But you know, kind of, I guess
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the unfortunate thing is I think the Shadows of Deception, you
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know, which is the title my series, they, they really are
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trying to, you know, to play us off against each other.
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Oh, absolutely. And I mean, I don't think
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unfortunately, it's not as simple as in my books where
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there's a secret cabal of, you know, of Spectre, like, you
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know, people plotting on a smoky boardroom.
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But like, I definitely think that, you know, the media
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certainly makes money off of all this division and it's just
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really unfortunate, so. It's like in my in my second
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book, volume 2, I had a conspiracy theory that I
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introduced toward the end of the book where one party wants gun
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control, yet they feed guns to the streets.
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One party wants the, you know, control on drugs, yet they feed
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drugs to the streets because they're both, they're both
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feeding off. Yeah.
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I, I outlined at the end of the book towards the end of volume
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to that both parties for for those watching this who don't
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know the basis for the books, one man's journey through the
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next American Civil War, I leave it open-ended.
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I throw a conspiracy theory or two, like I said in volume to,
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but I put it out there that it was both parties, that it wasn't
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that it was both parties. Every single bill they pass is
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to protect their power and to screw over the American people.
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It doesn't matter red or blue, they care about themselves.
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It's all there is to it. And that's where the division
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comes in. And that's where the unfortunate
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possible scenario similar to my book could could come into play.
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Yeah. Well, like, well, like I said,
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it seems like, I mean, I've said to people, I, I actually said
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this in the men's adventure fiction Discord.
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And I know it's kind of, it is mostly a political in there, but
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I, I said to a couple of the guys, I said it's very
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unsettling that some of the stuff and that I write that I
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write about. And credit to Jake Woodbury
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because he picked up immediately on the kind of what I was
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getting at. I said it's very unsettling that
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a lot of the stuff that I wrote in that I thought was fiction
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just five years ago is kind of coming.
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Coming true, yeah. Yeah, and like I said, like I'm
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not, I'm not even like a, a guy who was a political science
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major. I, I majored in English.
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I you know, like my extent of like political involvement was I
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ran a a chapter of the College Republicans in college, you
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know, so I'm a little more in tune to that.
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But you know, like I was never like a Paul signage or anything
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like that. But you know, just kind of, you
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know, doing the show and, you know, talking to authors, mostly
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military guys about their experiences and then doing like
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a a Wednesday news, you know, recap show, like it's, you know,
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and just kind of seeing what's going on in the news.
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It's, it's interesting what's going on.
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So anyway, well, you're on to book 3 now, Sir.
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So what can we expect from this installment?
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Well, I will say Book 3 is shorter than the other two
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books. And at first I was a little
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disheartened by the fact that it was shorter.
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And I was, I thought, well, you know, maybe I'll push it out,
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see if I can't. And then it occurred to me.
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Volume 1 takes place over the course of about a year.
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Volume 2 takes place over the course of about four to six
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months. Volume 3, right behind me, takes
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place over no more than 10 days. This is 10 days.
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This is 10 days in the life of the losers.
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And it is an intense 10 freaking days.
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So it's it's, it's certainly a interest.
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It's it's a very interesting ride.
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I've had a little bit of feedback on it already and guys
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are loving so. Yeah, I've, I mean, I, I don't
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know if you sent Jake Widmer a copy yet, but he he was saying
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like last time we talked, he he was like, he was a man.
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He said volume to I think is one of Richard's best, which at the
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time I which at the time I hadn't read volume 2 yet, but I
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I just finished it recently and I would agree.
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Yeah, it was definitely, even when you look at the second
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editions, the various changes that I did make regarding the,
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the the first book specifically Volume 2, when I wrote it as the
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first, as far as first editions were concerned, was my absolute
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best writing. And this book, Volume 3, again,
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I've elevated my writing from what it was even from Volume 2.
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And there's some surprises with this.
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There is some surprises and I'm not going to spoil them.
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I'm going to let, I'm going to let the readers find out.
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So that's always good. I I do have to ask you though,
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do you do you ever surprise yourself as an author?
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Oh yes, with like, with where your story goes.
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Yes, in fact, volume to there was several times where I'm
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like, wow, I didn't see that shit because you you planned
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something and it never the final meeting with King James was a
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great example in volume 2. And I had that I had that in my
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mind. I had told the story to a dozen
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people how that was going to go. And when I sat down and started
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writing, that's not what happened.
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And it just, it just, it was completely different from what I
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intended to write. And I had a few big surprises
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even in, in in volume 3, as I was right.
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And I said, oh, I should do that, you know, And there was a
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couple times his, his fingers were punching keys.
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And I got done read and I got done.
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And I looked up and I read what I wrote and I said, Oh my God, I
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didn't see that coming. Do you ever?
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So do you? I can't remember if I asked you
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this in the last episode, but are you someone who outlines or
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do you? Are you more of a pantser like
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like I am? I I will write down most of the
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time I will write down some bullet points.
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I want these three things to occur.
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Now I have to get there and I'll do it per chapter.
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And I had there was several times writing this one where I
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didn't see, you know, I, I, I wrote a bullet point.
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I said, OK, this is what's going to happen.
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This is where they're the the guys are going to be.
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And then as I got them there, I was like, holy crap, that was
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intense. So.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm kind of the same way.
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I, I don't really, I, I don't really do outlines, but like,
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like you all kind of do bullet points for kind of over, you
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know, kind of like the overview of a story that I have, you
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know, in my, in my head. And then what I'll do is
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generally, once I have like a list of kind of ideas and I just
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use my phone mainly, you know, I keep like like running, you
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know, notepad for each book. And what I'll do it is like all
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is all copy. I'll copy and paste that into
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ChatGPT and then have I'll ask you to be GPT.
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OK, here are my ideas. Where how would I structure
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these in an outline? And where would each, you know,
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theme or idea, kind of, you know, go and what chapter order.
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And sometimes it'll spit something out that I like and
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then, or sometimes it won't and I'll, I'll refine it, but then I
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start drafting from from there. And often times what happened is
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like other stuff will kind of come up, you know, to that will
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kind of fit, you know, in in future books as well.
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So like the book I'm writing right now, American Inferno for,
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you know, book 5 in shadows of deception.
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Initially I was just going to write about the whole Antifa,
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you know, kind of those riots that that are going on and that.
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But then once the but then once the Charlie Kirk thing happened,
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I was kind of like, well, it might somebody might think it's
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a bit early, but I feel like I have to kind of write about that
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or fit that into the narrative somehow.
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Because I do feel it kind of ties into the whole theme of,
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you know, of a terrorist group wanting to bring the country
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down from within or so I've kind of added elements like that into
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the books as well. So and that that's the other
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thing is sometimes at least I've noticed you're your second draft
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or in your final draft can be drastically different from your
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first draft or you know, you started out writing something
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so. Yeah, with, with this one, I had
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a series of notes, you know, I just in the, in the, in my
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phone. Next chapter X happens chapter
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after that rescue mission chapter after that, blah, blah,
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blah. And OK, so I, I, I sit down and
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sometimes I'll write it out in a notebook.
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If I, if I'm, if I can get just to get the wheels turning, I'll
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try to write it in a notebook. And I sat down.
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I've, I'm already coursed into chapter 4 or volume 4 and I was
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writing stuff out and I said, man, I don't like this.
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And I sat down and I thought about it and I tried writing
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what, what my mind was showing and it wasn't coming.
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It wasn't coming out on the notebook whatsoever.
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And I ended up sitting down in front of the computer and what
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originally in the 1st chapter was a paragraph turned into, you
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know, a paragraph of the story being told turned into 2 1/2
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pages of the action. So it it's, it's already turning
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out better than than where it was headed well.
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Well, that that's always good. Where do you think your
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strongest suit in writing has improved?
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You've mentioned that with each, you know, with each book you've
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improved and I think that's the case for every author.
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But is there is there a particular like area of writing
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that you felt you've improved on the most and you know where,
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where do you think you still? For me, the improvement is
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definitely in the details where telling the story.
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Now you can see it in your head, right?
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You, the reader, can read it and see what you can see the
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character on the bridge, so to speak.
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You can see them in an Overwatch position.
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You can see these things better now than you could before.
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And with volume three, well, that that strength is kind of
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the secret of the book, so I'm not going to ruin it.
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And what would you say is still your most like difficult aspect?
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Of I would say definitely the discipline of sitting down and
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getting, getting words on paper. That's the, that's my biggest
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problem. Because I am, yeah, we're, we're
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all busy, right. So sitting down and actually
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opening the laptop, you're getting up like this morning I
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was up at 4:20. I'm like, oh, the alarm goes off
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in 10 minutes. I'm really back down for, you
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know. And at about 6 O clock I got out
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of bed, 630 I think it was when I got out of bed and I could
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have used that two hours to open the laptop, do the work.
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So that's kind of where it's at at the moment is refining the
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discipline. I carry a notebook with me when
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I'm not working. When I'm working it's notes on
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cell phone. I, I have 7 or 8 notebooks with
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every book I've written so far in each one, you know, So I got
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to go back and oh, where, where, where's the notebook that I
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wrote that down in, you know, so organization would be another
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thing I'm not very good at. Yeah, what one thing that people
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have recommended to me that I probably should do is that like
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I need to write like a, they call it like a, they call it
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like a lore, a lore Bible. Because what I, which I get, I
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guess kind of keeps track of like everything in your, you
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know, universe that happens. Because what I, what I have
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tended to do is like, I'll go back and like reread.
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The only time I ever like really reread my books is like when I'm
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writing stuff for, you know, whatever new one I'm writing.
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And I'm like, OK, where, where did I leave off with X
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character? Where did I, you know, or what
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happened in this scene? And did I, did I leave a
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cliffhanger there or did I, you know, or did I wrap this
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storyline up or something like like, like that?
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So one question that wasn't there actually wanted to know
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from, from our previous podcast is who's your favorite character
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to write? And are there any self insert
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characters that you've put? There's definitely self
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insertion in characters. The character William has
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without a doubt has my background, has a lot of my
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personality traits. My favorite character that I've
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written actually though, is a character named Noah in a book
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that is not released. That was a fun character to
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write for me. I've had fun writing all of the
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losers as a whole and developing each one of these guys and
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taking them from average show nobody to you know, quote UN
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quote gunfighters. You know, they're not special
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OPS by any sense the word. They're just, they're, they're
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regular guys putting it in a real shit situation.
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And I've had a lot of fun writing those guys and had a lot
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of fun. You get to see their
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development, you get to see their change.
29:48
You can see their arc and you're going to see quite a bit of
29:56
change in in a couple of characters in Volume 3, change
30:01
that I talked about with people in my little in my little group
30:08
about doing with these guys. And so you're going to see
30:15
you're going to see some big change with with the group here.
30:19
Even with William, who has who kind of peaked pretty good as an
30:24
overall leader of the group in volume to, you're going to see
30:28
him hardline a little bit in volume 3 like you haven't seen
30:35
him do so thus far. Interesting.
30:46
So have you, do you think you're going to continue the losers
30:51
series like is there? Are you?
30:55
Are you are already planning for book 4?
30:58
I'm already working on book four.
31:00
I've got some outline notes, so where I'd I'd written, I started
31:08
writing differently than what I ended up doing and I said, OK,
31:15
well, how can I paste these two pieces together because it would
31:20
work to paste them together. I found that that glue I needed
31:26
and then I bounced to the next chapter that I'm going to focus
31:33
on for this, and I made some notes and again, the discipline
31:42
of it all, sit down, get the computer out, put it together,
31:47
do it, put in the work, put in the time.
31:49
So volume 3 is in the work. Sorry, Volume 4 is certainly in
31:53
the works. This series, the Our War series,
31:58
will end at book 5, the final chap.
32:01
The final chapter's already written.
32:03
I wrote it a year, year and a half ago, so.
32:07
Is is that is that weird then to like kind of know how the series
32:16
ends already but. So yes and no, because when I
32:23
wrote the first book, as you, as you know, is any author, the
32:29
beginning is the hardest part. Yeah.
32:33
And about midpoint of the first book, I said, oh, I know how
32:39
it's going to end. And the way I ended the first
32:42
one, of course I picked right up the very next page for Volume 2,
32:49
and I knew right then and there where Volume 2 is going to end.
32:56
It didn't. Again, there was a lot of
32:58
surprises, but I knew where that last, what that last moment
33:03
would be. So Volume 3 was easy because
33:07
again, you're picking up where you left off.
33:08
Volume 4 has already been, because I'm not, I'm going to
33:11
spoil it. I guess it's, it's going to be a
33:14
year. People forget anyway.
33:15
But Volume 4 does not pick up where Volume 3 left off.
33:19
I'm doing that. I am doing that intentionally.
33:21
So. So starting this book was a
33:25
little difficult. So are you are you doing like a
33:28
prequel then is that is that kind of or?
33:31
The events the where it ends will get talked about later in
33:36
volume. Four.
33:37
OK, Yeah. I I.
33:39
Just just not first page stuff. But again, we've got, we've got
33:44
well over a year for that to to come to pass so.
33:48
Yeah, I the, the instinct, the thing that's interesting for me
33:54
is like, like writing a prequel and writing for characters to
34:03
like technically in the present day timeline of Shadows of
34:08
Deception are, are already dead. But then like, you know, going
34:14
back and like, you know, writing these prequel series, like take
34:20
writing these prequels that like take place in the 80s and
34:22
whatnot. It's like, OK, they're alive,
34:26
but then how do we so like, hey, why do they matter, You know, as
34:33
why should we follow them in their exploits if we already
34:36
know they're they're going to, you know, be killed off, you
34:40
know, some, some at some point. That's always that's always
34:46
interesting is when you're writing a character that you
34:50
know is going to die at some point and following, you know,
34:55
their stories in a way that's actually one of that's actually
34:58
one of the things that I mean, not to not to name drop one of
35:02
the big ones, but that is one thing I'm very curious about
35:05
with the new Jack Carr book, you know, cry Havoc that, yeah,
35:11
follows Reese's dad because we know that we kind of already
35:17
know that Reese's dad was a SEAL during the Vietnam War and we
35:21
know that he had killed off at some point, like right before
35:26
like 911 or something like that. So then kind of like my not I'm
35:33
not interested in, I don't mean this to sound condescending, but
35:36
it's like, OK, we already know that he's going to die.
35:39
So I'm like, what is about his story?
35:41
Oh, but that story, that story has me.
35:45
And again, I and I, I, I understand your point, but at
35:50
the same time you've been given enough and I, I'm, I'm behind on
35:55
my jet car reading, but you've been given enough teasers about
36:03
his father's life that the curiosity is what has has me
36:09
gripped on cry head. I'm, I'm curious enough just
36:13
because like I have neighbors who I've, I've one neighbor in
36:19
particular who's, you know, who served in Vietnam.
36:24
He wasn't special operations group that I know of, but he
36:27
knew a lot of, of SOG guys. And so I'm interested in it from
36:36
that perspective. And I mean, yeah, I think, I
36:40
think Tom Reese, you know, could be compelling.
36:44
I think especially as, you know, as also the TV series and
36:49
whatnot gets developed. So which has been very, very
36:58
interesting as well. I don't know.
36:59
I don't know if you've seen the new Terminal series with Taylor
37:05
Kitsch, but I I just finished that and it was pretty
37:09
interesting. I have actually not watched TV
37:13
in months. Well, good on you.
37:18
I, my, I've got my, my TV sit right over here when I get home,
37:24
actually first thing in the morning when I get home, it
37:26
doesn't matter. I I turn the TV on, I Scroll
37:30
down, I hit the Pandora radio and I listen to the music while
37:34
I'm cooking, while I'm doing the dishes, while I'm writing.
37:38
It's the music in the background.
37:40
I've had no hard interest in sitting down and watching
37:43
anything lately. I don't really want I don't
37:46
really watch much either as far as like Current TV that that's
37:51
like the only thing that I've watched like contemporary that's
37:56
like, you know, more modern. Like right now.
37:59
I'm actually I'm rewatching the the the original run of Dexter
38:03
right now. Nice the.
38:05
The show, the Showtime series, I'm like there, I'm like, there
38:10
are enough series in the past, like, you know, I've watched.
38:13
They're worth the rewatched, like I don't, you know, and
38:19
plus, like I'm I always tend to read like books from like other
38:24
authors in the in the community, like I've got plenty of
38:29
entertainment. You know, Oh yeah.
38:32
Just with reading too. Yeah.
38:35
So and then I imagine too, I don't know if you've shared,
38:44
have you shared much publicly about your career or?
38:49
Not too much. Current job is post office.
38:55
OK. What I did before that, I spent
38:58
20, better than 20 years of my life in the military.
39:01
Surplus business with my family, right?
39:06
Maybe it's time for a career change.
39:08
I don't know. Toying with it now What So.
39:13
Well, I'm, the reason I bring that up is I'm, I'm just curious
39:16
because I, I knew, I know that you, I know, I know that you
39:20
work in the post office. So I'm not sure.
39:23
Yeah, I I talked about it. I talked about it in the lives a
39:29
few times where I brought it up. But I just and at this point I'm
39:36
thinking maybe it's time for a career change.
39:38
Do you ever? Do you get much like downtime
39:43
for like reading or listening to like podcasts or anything like
39:47
that during? The So no, not during the day,
39:50
absolutely not. And here as of late, even my
39:54
reading is a little backlogged. I'm still trying to finish up
39:58
Fade in. I've only got a few chapters of
40:02
that left. And then of course, I've got a
40:04
very expensive library behind me and ahead of me on the opposite
40:09
wall. I mean, there's 200 and 5300
40:12
books in this house right now and I got a couple in particular
40:17
lined up next real quick. I've got a Brad Thor.
40:20
I've got. I am going to jump into the
40:24
world of Stephen King in November just to give that a
40:30
whirl while I continue to write in the Dad life and work, work,
40:39
work, work. Yeah, Speaking of fade in, I
40:43
mean, that's a, that's a, that's a terrific book.
40:47
Yes, it is. I just finished it and I I don't
40:52
know if you saw him, I actually had Kyle on a few a few months
40:58
ago now and man, terrific guy. It also could not be nicer.
41:06
Yeah. I mean, he's just, he's super
41:09
down to earth. And like I was, I was really
41:14
nervous about like interviewing about first just because like
41:17
I've because like I had never really, I hadn't read the Mitch
41:21
Rat books until I got into college And I only started
41:26
reading about like a year before Kyle took over this series.
41:30
And then when Kyle did, I was still in college.
41:34
So like, I was like 20. I was like 20, you know, 21
41:39
years old. And then so like to be
41:42
interviewing Kyle like just a decade later was like, that was
41:47
pretty surreal. That's awesome it.
41:49
Was like, it was like, you know, hey man, like I've, I've been a
41:53
fan for, you know, as long as you've been writing the the rap
41:58
series and so. That was.
42:00
That was really cool. And I don't the I don't want to
42:06
spoil anything but the way that, you know, fade and ends.
42:09
I don't, I don't, I don't know if there's going to be a sequel
42:12
or. Not.
42:13
It's like it's one of those things where it could go either
42:17
way. I'm, I'm hoping that he
42:19
continues to write, whether it be with the Fade character or
42:22
with other things, because I think, you know, I think he's
42:27
really talented and I think he, he deserves a lot more credit
42:32
than just being like, you know, the guy who took over for Vince
42:35
Flynn. Obviously that's going to be a
42:37
huge part of his legacy. Yeah.
42:39
But I think Kyle's tone is very different in his own writing
42:46
than Vince Flynn books. And.
42:48
That I know, and that that's good.
42:51
Yeah, I've got, I've got several of Kyle's books on the shelf.
42:55
And like I said, I it's been a roller coaster ride and for the
43:01
last couple years and trying to get, trying to balance, balance
43:07
life and get back to the reading like I had been.
43:14
And it's here lately, it has been OK.
43:19
I've got the time to read, but I really need to focus on this
43:23
part of the next project or this part of that project and I
43:28
currently have 5 or 6 open projects on my computer.
43:34
I'm going to spoil this. This will be in the official
43:38
release copy of Buying 3, but I am planning to put out three
43:43
next year. Wow.
43:45
Oh, wow. Somebody, actually, Eric Bishop
43:49
had invited me onto a project. And the timing for that was
43:54
really weird because I had just wrote the final chapter for the
44:02
our worst series. And in the final chapter I
44:05
mentioned and I, I just wrote it on in a notebook, which is in
44:09
the pile of notebooks over there.
44:12
But I mentioned this female character who had never appeared
44:15
in a book yet. And Bishop reaches out to me and
44:20
he says, OK, why don't you be part of this project?
44:23
You got to write about a female character that has appeared or
44:28
will appear in your books. Well sweet, I got 1.
44:33
Yeah, I actually, I know exactly what you're talking about
44:36
because I had too and then Matt and.
44:39
Chat and he ended up backing out of the project.
44:42
We were him and I were discussing it and I said well
44:45
the hell with it I'm I'm going to write your story anyway.
44:47
I've already started and I thought, well I'll make a
44:50
novella. And then I had a fan contact me
44:55
and say, well, I want to know more about this guy over here
44:59
and that guy over there. You should write novellas about
45:02
them. And I'm like, you know, it's
45:04
kind of a good idea. I'm already working on one
45:06
anyway, right? And I was kind of pacing around,
45:10
talking to myself. That's how I how I think.
45:12
And I said, oh shit, I've got the perfect 1.
45:15
And I gave the title away in volume 3.
45:17
Interesting. So you'll see.
45:22
You'll it with the official release copy, you're going to
45:25
get the title, and then you'll see where I gave the title away
45:28
after the fact anyways. Yeah, without even realizing
45:32
what I was doing. Yeah, another so that yeah.
45:37
So that was The funny thing with with that individuality in my
45:43
series was an initially like I had I've written the character
45:49
of Jason Miller, Night at the Vagina as like a side character.
45:53
And I was going to come off like in book book 3.
45:59
But then one of the beta readers, a friend I went to
46:02
school with in college was like, I don't think you should have
46:05
called this guy off. In fact, like he's one of the
46:08
most fascinating characters. Like I'd like to I'd like to see
46:11
a novella about him. So then that's kind of one.
46:16
That's why I did and it really thin well, kind of because at
46:21
that time, you know, the men's adventure fiction, the Veritas
46:25
guys, that was when they started doing the whole western theme,
46:30
you know, type of thing. So I'm like, well, this could be
46:34
an interesting, you know, kind of way to, you know, put this
46:38
character out there. So I, I did, I, you know, I
46:42
still published my own implant print.
46:44
But as it turns out, like, not the videline I think is the
46:48
best, is like one of my best sellers this year.
46:55
You know, sometimes you got to give the fans what they want.
46:57
Oh, yeah. You know, even even if, even if
47:01
you're not, you know, fully expecting.
47:05
Because sometimes what the audience wants is different from
47:08
what you know, you might think as.
47:11
There was this there's this spin off idea that I actually had
47:16
sense volume to the original release of volume to back in 22.
47:24
And it was something Jeff and I kind of talked about Jeff Clark
47:28
when I was on with him those all those years ago.
47:33
So the idea of doing spin offs was already already there, but
47:40
to take it to the level, you know, and then then the the the
47:45
conversation with Bishop and turning that project into
47:49
something and then going forward with other projects like, OK,
47:54
this could be fun. Yeah, have you, have you ever
47:57
considered like writing any like stories or series outside of the
48:02
Losers? So the one one of the one of the
48:07
projects that's that's completed to a degree on my computer, meet
48:14
the monster, the character of Noah I had told you about.
48:18
I have 60 query letters out for that right now.
48:25
I'm going to put out another 60 in the next 30 days.
48:30
I am seeking representation because this book I do believe
48:33
is unique and yes it is intended to be a series.
48:39
At this point I've started putting together the beginning
48:43
of the next book for that. There was another series ish
48:50
that I had started back in early 23 that's still open on the
48:55
computer and just it's always here, I just haven't jumped on
48:58
it yet. So, so you think, so you, you've
49:03
self published the Loser series, but with this new one, you're,
49:07
you're, you're going to go more traditional, you're thinking.
49:12
That's what I would like to see happen with a yes.
49:17
In interesting and and you've you've never had anything
49:22
traditionally published. No.
49:24
Before. No.
49:26
OK, so so that will be if it happens, it'll be a a new
49:31
experience for. For all the way.
49:34
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
49:36
It is a project that I had the idea for when I was writing the
49:41
first Our War back in 2017, when I first started writing it.
49:48
And I didn't actually begin writing it until 23.
49:51
And then I just, I couldn't stop writing it.
49:55
It was, it was extremely therapeutic and a lot of fun.
49:59
Yeah. So.
50:01
No, those are, those are always that those are always the best,
50:05
you know, the ones that are kind of therapeutic.
50:11
You know, that is that is one thing though, too, like I guess
50:14
with traditional traditional publishing, I mean, I published
50:18
my I I guess kind of the traditional publishing with
50:22
Veritas for some all my short stories that, you know, one
50:26
thing that I guess is, is always, you know, your stories
50:32
of, you know, authors self-publishing then because
50:36
they give the right away to their stores, they have no, you
50:39
know, they don't own their own franchise anymore, something
50:43
like that. So it's kind of like, OK, so
50:46
which one of your children do you, you know, give away to, you
50:52
know, the publisher or something like that?
50:56
So, so yeah, that's interesting. So you've got Losers Volume 3
51:07
coming out in November and then where's kind of your rear road
51:15
map from there, do you think, is this going to be the only book
51:21
you release this year? Are you?
51:25
That'll be, that'll be it for 25, but I have two novellas and
51:32
Volume 4 planned for next year for 26.
51:37
And we'll see see how, without trying to rush too much, we will
51:42
see how quickly I can get out the first of the two novellas
51:47
for net for 20 seconds. That well, that's awesome and
51:50
and it's certainly ambitious, you know, to do to do 2 novellas
51:57
plus. Yeah.
51:59
Novel I, you know, I've, I usually just do like 2 to 3
52:04
novellas a year and that like, that's enough as is.
52:10
And then you know, the the other the other thing too.
52:12
I don't know about you, but like one of the challenges I face is
52:15
like trying to figure out when to release things.
52:20
Yeah, yeah. My, for me, I would not mind.
52:25
I'm not saying this is how it's going to be, but I would not
52:28
mind seeing the first novella release January, February.
52:34
As far as the second one, I was, that's where the torn portion is
52:40
in my mind. Would I release the second one
52:43
before volume 4 or after that? I don't know you.
52:49
We'll just have to see how it goes.
52:51
Yeah, well, I mean, you've got, you seem to have a game plan and
52:55
that's, you know, more than a lot of authors do just, you
52:59
know, pants things. So, and you're still, I know
53:04
you're not doing the live streams, but you're still doing
53:07
or are you doing the live streams still?
53:10
I tried doing live on Facebook and they boot it after 30 days
53:18
where Instagram you can still go back and watch my lives from
53:21
last year. So I'm going to do probably
53:28
little short videos that I can post in place of the live kind
53:33
of talk about the same thing, give people updates and you
53:37
know, it just won't be with people adding commentary or
53:41
asking questions. Tried maybe like doing YouTube
53:43
or like some stack or anything like that because I.
53:46
Know a couple of guys. One of the guys I know
53:51
recommended the rumble thing that was recommended to me.
54:00
But at this point I'm going to try to consolidate my plates a
54:05
little bit and try to get more work done.
54:09
And if if I, if I do a little pre recorded thing that I throw
54:13
up on a Sunday or on a Wednesday for people to watch and you
54:22
know, ask me questions during the week that I answer on the
54:24
weekend, then that's what I'll end up doing for now.
54:27
Yeah. Well if if you are ever
54:29
interested in doing like any live stream type of things, just
54:32
let me know and I'm always helpful to how about what that?
54:37
Absolutely. Podcasting for a while, but
54:42
anyway, Well, Richard Ware, can people find you in your books?
54:49
They can find me on Instagram and X at our Maverick books on
54:55
Facebook, Richard Maverick books.com or Richard Maverick
54:58
Books no.com there. Not yet anyway, and all the
55:03
books can be found. There's nothing up yet for
55:08
Volume 3 as I was waiting for to finish the edits, which I'll
55:13
have wrapped up this weekend, and then the e-book will be
55:16
available just as quick as it can be.
55:18
But the books can be found on Amazon.
55:20
Well, yeah, we'll be, I'll be sure to link all of your stuff
55:24
in the show notes and I, you know, once the book is out, let
55:31
me know and I'd be happy to, you know, have you back on or to.
55:34
Absolutely. For you.
55:36
Absolutely. And I mean, I want to thank you
55:39
for your time and you know, I know it's, it's kind of been a
55:44
crazy last few weeks, but appreciate you coming on anyway.
55:48
Especially and I I appreciate you for having me.
55:51
Anytime and so folks, go and check out Richard's books, the
55:57
looser series. I think you're going to like it.
55:59
And I do have AI do have one of the challenge coins around here
56:02
somewhere. I think it's on my my other
56:05
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