22 Million Kids a Year - A Marine's 5-Page Fix for Family Courts

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Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

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I've heard that flying a helicopter is much more dangerous than a fixed wing,

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and there's much more incident of things happening.

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Is that true?

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Yeah, and the biggest thing is relative motion.

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So a jet's at 500 knots, but if it's at 30,000 feet,

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how fast is the ground moving under you?

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But when you're at 50 feet and 100 knots,

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and you're dodging power lines and birds...

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all right everybody welcome back to another episode of the space tomatoes podcast i'm one

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of your hosts havoc and we got another guy i'm lx hi how you doing today we're joined by a special

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guest Keith Barton. Keith Barton is a 20-year Marine Corps veteran, former military aviator,

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not a nasal radiator, author, congressional candidate, and advocate for family court reform

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who brings an unusually broad range of real-world experience to a conversation. Also, an author,

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of note, one of the ones I'm interested in is the Proxima War series. However, he has

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a number of other works

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and we'll get into where to check him out.

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Welcome to the show, Keith Burton.

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Thanks for having me, gentlemen.

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I really appreciate it.

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Our pleasure.

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So, 20 years in the Corps, huh?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's a little bit.

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I feel it every day, let me tell you what.

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Oh, I bet.

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Knees, back, ankles.

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All of it.

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Yeah, gotta love it.

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Gotta love it.

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I bet you have no stories from that, do you?

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No, not at all.

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Yeah.

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And I was enlisted to officer too.

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So I got both sides.

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I earned that damn title twice.

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Yeah.

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Oh, so you're actually right now going through a congressional candidacy.

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Is that correct?

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Yeah.

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So I lost, uh, I only ran 85 days the first time and got eight and a half percent of the

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vote facing millions from two different candidates.

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So I did really, really well.

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And then, uh, yeah, I just decided to piss everybody else off and announced the very

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next day that I was running again.

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Interesting.

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All right.

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How does that work?

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How do you actually get to run for that?

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Do you have to collect signatures and do something like that?

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No, it's money.

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And you got to be vetted first.

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And every state has their own laws.

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So you can announce once you're a candidate at any time, but then you get officially on

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the ballot here in Texas, September timeframe.

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Okay.

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So I'll be able to pay my dues, which is actually quite a bit.

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For U.S. Congress, it's almost $3,200.

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And then the vote will be in March.

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So here in Texas, we do the primaries really early.

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So it's a whirlwind.

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That begs the question, is Congress unionized or something?

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You got like a card or something?

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Like you pay you $3,200?

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It pretty much is.

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That's a good way to put it.

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That explains a lot.

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It's completely messed up, too.

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That explains a lot.

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Yeah.

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So, I guess, what is it that drove you to want to become, you know, one of those people?

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Oh, man, I didn't want to.

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I already figured 20 years of federal service was enough.

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But this comes down to child court reform.

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And I am a Lean Six Sigma guy.

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I found the root cause to fix it.

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and it is literally the largest social issue when you account for money and number of people

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affected that the country's ever faced. And I put it number two behind slavery for morally,

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but I can fix it in five pages. It's already written. And so that's really what spurred me

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because enough is enough. It's terrible. It's epically terrible and it's tearing our country

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apart. And it all comes down to money, guys. It's always about the money. And so

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states are federally

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incentivized to break up families.

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I'm going to reverse that.

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Instead,

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we're going to give you this money for following your own

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damn laws and start keeping parents in

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kids' lives.

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That's the basics of it.

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Honestly,

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I think that's a worthwhile goal.

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If there ever was one, that's

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a pretty damn worthwhile goal.

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Yes, sir.

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It fixes so much.

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Do you ever fear that if you get in there

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that somebody will try to slide you in their pocket

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and pay off and do that whole nine yards.

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There's a lot of people making a lot of money in there

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that did not have that money before they got into that position.

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That is a perfect question, and my answer to that always is,

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I'm a Marine, man.

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They ain't shooting at me.

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They don't scare me.

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They not going to My moral values are too ingrained and it 22 million kids a year and their families that are in this system yeah that crazy that means every year and a half

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um more people are in the family court system than there are african-americans in our country

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dang yeah and it's it's a pretty brutal system and especially if you are in certain states when

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when encountering it.

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True statement.

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It can be exceedingly ungood.

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Yeah.

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It is.

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And we call it the black box of the family court system.

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And that's really where it comes.

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Besides the money, it's the lack of transparency.

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And family courts always go with the best interest of the child,

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which is really gut feeling for using discretion to not follow what the law says.

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And that's really where we're at.

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And why I say it so big, and I guess this is even more important to understand,

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is it affects mental health issues in children.

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If we put the parents in their lives equally, we're going to see higher education levels,

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higher lifelong earnings, less domestic violence, less child abuse, less divorce,

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less reliance on SNAP, less reliance on Medicare, less reliance on all other welfare programs.

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And the biggest one is less crime.

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So some studies say it's anywhere between 70% and 85% of all violent crime

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is by a person who was raised by a single parent.

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It is that it's that big.

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And so I fixed it with five pages.

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So there's a lot of technicalities within those five pages on how to do it.

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But yeah, that's really the gist of it is making judges actually write down why they're making these rulings and incentivizing the states to follow their own laws.

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And that's the key, really, because every time somebody tries to change this from the federal level, well, let's face it, they're lawyers and they want to change state law,

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which means they violate the 10th amendment.

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That's not the power of Congress.

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It's an interesting one.

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Having gone through that system myself,

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actually ended up in a situation in a courtroom where they heard the,

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other side.

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And when it came,

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you know,

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that was done.

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I went to respond and was told,

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no,

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you,

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you,

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you don't get to respond.

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And I actually talked to my lawyer after that and said, you know, that's that's illegal.

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You cannot do that.

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I have a right to respond.

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It's part of the whole process.

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And she said, yes, you absolutely do.

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And I said, well, I want to take that guy to task.

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And she said, well, first step is to hire this type of attorney to go to the state to ask them permission to actually do that.

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And I was like, you what?

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And she was like, appeal attorney, you'd have to appeal them based on your constitutional rights, both federal and state being violated.

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Yeah. And that's really, really tough.

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Oh, yeah. She said to start would be about fifty thousand dollars.

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And it was like, OK, just basically priced out of anyone's reach for the most part.

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So how does how does that you know, how do you how does your idea deal with, you know, extreme bias that we all know exists?

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people call it out and you know they do whatever with numbers to make it look like it's not as

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biased but you know you can see the stories you can you can you know it's a reality i lived through

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it and was told i had a case but unless i had about 150 grand it was going nowhere and i didn't

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have anywhere near 150 grand so the the key is to apply um systems that are already working

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and so in criminal and civil court in most states judges already have a checklist at the beginning

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of things that they have to fill out and do okay so they actually go through the entire process but

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no family court has that same checklist and then family courts always come back with if we want to

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try to do this well it's going to cause more work well the data shows that in civil and criminal

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court it actually expedites the process and it even expedites so dca's just for courts of appeals

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their vast majority of their appeals are child cases.

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So by requiring this checklist,

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so the way I'm allowed to require the checklist is states,

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you have to volunteer for this program if you want this money still.

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And these are the requirements to do it.

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And that includes filling this checklist out,

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which would include things like what's the percentage that you're given to each?

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What mother or father do they have primary?

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What state laws did you cite to actually come to this decision But once you put that out on paper where they required to do it then when it actually goes to appeal instead of an appeal court having to go through and find and

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make judgment calls on what the judge meant and whatnot, they got a checklist right in the

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beginning. This is exactly what they meant. And guess what? You didn't follow X law, right?

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Perfect example. So let's give you, my case is in Florida. So Florida has this wonderful set of

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law is called 9803. And it's a hearsay exception law to recording your child under distress from

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abuse. And judges keep out these recordings all the time, even though the state has these

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very specific exceptions for this kind of stuff. So why I know all this is really,

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that's kind of important. So I spent 16 years in the family court system and I spent about a half

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a million dollars in lawyers. I learned enough to where I started winning when I stopped hiring

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lawyers. And I actually won my appeal. And my appeal is now being used for family court advocacy

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and being quoted by family court attorneys in Florida already. And we only won it on August 12th.

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So it was that massive. When you read enough appeals, you realize that district court of

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appeals have their own special language. And when you can read between the lines, you know,

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when they are chewing that judge's ass, well, guess what? They hammered this judge,

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not just a little, like she is professionally embarrassed. And to do that against a pro se

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with a high power lawyer on the other side, it's a black mark on her record. It really is.

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but that's why I was able to learn all this and able to do it.

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since I'm such a nerd and I,

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I research and I started figuring it out and then I just decided to apply

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lean six Sigma,

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just like in my professional life to it.

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And I figured out how to fix it for everybody.

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And that is nice.

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It's still kind of a travesty of justice though,

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when you think about it.

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So this person,

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and I'm just going to say this person got a black mark on the record,

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But chances are they're still sitting on that same bench and they're still adjudicating cases that are coming up and most likely have not truly changed their methods of adjudicating.

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So not yet.

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So, you know, it would be a heck of a lot better if it was like, yeah, you can't do that.

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And so you can't be a judge because that's just off the table.

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You've violated the law, you know.

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Yeah, but they have that process. But guess what? Like the district court of appeals, those are judges, too. And they're still going to give benefit of the doubt to the lower court judges because they're in the same. Right. So you they that judge can't just have a one off and get removed. Right. They got to show a pattern. And so it takes time.

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The problem is you have to have people that are willing to fight it and win because the chances of winning an appeal is so astronomically low that it's really hard to do it.

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And so, and the other part with family court is in the regular county courts, you're going to see testimony and whatnot.

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It's all emotional, right?

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But then it's a totally different skill set when you go to the district court of appeals.

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Now it's actually all what's in the books, what's on the record.

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And that's where I personally, that's where I excel, right?

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Versus because I just, dude, like you're making conjectures through assumptions and whatnot.

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Suddenly somehow that's evidence in a lower court.

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At DCA, they don't care about that, right?

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What does the law say?

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That's what they care about.

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And so that's kind of why it's so hard.

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And that's why it needs to be fixed from the top because they won't fix it until we heard their pocketbooks.

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Well, and also their evidentiary requirements are far lower than other courts because they are a civil court, right?

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And all of the civil courts have this much lower bar to, you know, hurdle to get to where they decide is good.

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So, yeah. All right. Well, that's that's pretty interesting stuff.

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um so what do you what did you what was your what was your job in the military

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i did a lot um so when i was enlisted i was a grunt and then recon marine okay and then uh i

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already had my flight contract so then i went to flight school commissioned went to flight school

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flew the huey all the wonderful built between 1968 and 1975 uh one november and then i transitioned

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to being a logistics officer and then a foreign advisor to the Afghan National Army.

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So it's pretty funny.

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I went through recon and pilot, didn't see combat, became a logistics officer,

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and then I finally started getting shot at.

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How does that work when you I mean do you go into the enlistment office or the recruiter and you say like I want to fly a helicopter Or do they pick you up and up and say like hey martin you gonna fly a helicopter next week get over here or yes it an entire testing process and it very difficult and you know people give us jarheads

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a lot of shit but um we have the highest requirements for flight school by far it's not

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even close and so you have to have a get an actual flight contract and for me i actually had to test

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for it three times because it took that long for my commissioning day.

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So naturally, actually, it was pretty cool.

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I kept getting higher scores on all these tests by the time I got there.

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But you don't get a choice.

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So a naval flight school is Marines, Sailors, and Coast Guard in the same flight school.

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And you go through first what's called primary.

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I flew the T-34 Mentor.

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Now they fly the T-6 Texan.

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It's a fully aerobatic turboprop aircraft.

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And then from there, you'll get, in the Marine Corps, you'll get cargo, jets, helicopters, or tilt rotor.

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And then you go to advanced, so that's your next pipeline.

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So I got helicopters, and then out of helicopters, it would have been the 46 to 53, the Huey or the Cobra.

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And I got Huey because, frankly, I had stick skills.

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If you fly a Huey, it's all fingertips.

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Everything's fingertips.

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So we call her the ex-wife, man.

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If you piss her off, she's going to kill you.

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So you just got to kind of coax her along to what you wanted her to do.

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But the things you can do in a Huey are, it's pretty unreal.

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I've done some pretty stupid, but yet really cool stuff like flying under the Golden Gate Bridge.

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I've probably flown inside Mount Pinatubo at least a dozen times in the Philippines, things like that.

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You go up to DC, you get cleared for 200 feet and below.

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Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

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A helicopter is much more dangerous than a fixed wing, and there's much more incident of things happening.

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Is that true?

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Yeah, and the biggest thing is relative motion.

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So a jet's at 500 knots, but if it's at 30,000 feet, how fast is the ground moving under you?

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But when you're at 50 feet and 100 knots and you're dodging power lines and birds in an aircraft that is not designed for you to whip the controls around,

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and you got to be smooth with it, it's quite a bit different.

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So for sure, but we're all airplane pilots, at least as naval aviators, we're all airplane pilots first.

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We all get qualified.

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So I have a commercial license on airplanes and helicopters.

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Hardest thing about flying an airplane is landing.

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Truth.

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Absolute truth.

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100%.

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I actually had a friend a long time ago.

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He was a veteran of the Vietnam War and he was a Huey pilot.

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and you know he he told me if you ever have an opportunity to get in a huey take it

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but if there's not hydraulic fluid on the floor get out i was like what he goes a non-leaking

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huey is one that's gonna go down and i'm like yeah she's like a harley that way she's exactly

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like a harley that way yeah that's when you're worried about it my my father-in-law tells good

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stories about he was in the Air Force, I guess, in Vietnam, and he did mechanics, and they, I guess,

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flew him out in the jungle to fix downed aircraft, and he's had a lot of stories, but he speaks quite

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fondly of that helicopter. It's pretty amazing. So, here's my other favorite part about it, okay?

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So, every military aircraft has a mission essential task list, okay? So, a number of missions is

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designed to fly the second most in the military is the c-130 with nine huey has 15

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yeah that makes sense right you got everything from troop to logistics to equipment to you know

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i have a gunship to geez i don't know whatever our our primary our primary jobs at this point

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is close air support actually.

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And the laser designator on a Huey is phenomenal.

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So it's the second best in the military,

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but because you're already lower to the ground,

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it's beam divergence, which is important

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so that the missile can track it better.

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So you can host laser guided bombs

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and missiles from other aircraft

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and really hit the target right.

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So they can release, move, and it's following your laser.

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So that's also a very cool thing.

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So I have gotten to, in training,

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hosts a couple hellfires

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from another aircraft is pretty cool to watch.

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That is really cool.

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Yeah, that would

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be fun.

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See, we just nerded out again.

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On a target.

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I would like to do that in a range.

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I don't know about the whole people disappearing

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thing. I'm kind of, yeah,

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I'd rather not do that.

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I'm sorry, did you have your own call sign?

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I'm sure you did, right?

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You want to share that with us?

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Yeah, so we'll explain call signs first, okay?

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Air Force, they're cool, so you sound cool on the radio.

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In the Navy and the Marine Corps, you earn them by messing up.

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Okay.

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Yeah, my call sign is Krusty with a K, like Krusty the Clown from The Simpsons.

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I had this major, his call sign was Hunter.

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And you would think that is freaking cool, right?

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Now, his wife was about 18 years younger than him,

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and that was her stage name as she put herself through vet school.

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Oh, okay.

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Stage name.

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Yes.

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Yeah, the image is there.

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He spent a lot of money to get her to go out with him, I'll tell you what.

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One dollar at a time.

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One dollar.

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So what you're saying is don't go on a demo ride with somebody to call sign

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like Crash or something, right?

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Well, yeah, but here's the unwritten rule, though.

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You can ask a naval aviator what their call sign is for.

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They don't have to tell you.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So because some of them, yeah, they can get really bad.

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So they don't write it on the side of the under the cockpit?

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Oh, yeah, absolutely.

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It's the story behind it.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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So call signs are actually used.

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They're not used for external.

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They're used for either inside the aircraft or in your own section division of other aircrafts, right?

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So you're not calling a JTAC and you're not using your call sign.

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You're using your aircraft number at that point.

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So it's just a personal identifier while you're flying without using your name.

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Gotcha.

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Yeah.

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Interesting.

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And so you did logistics during combat, and I'm assuming that some of that was the impetus for writing the Proxima War stuff?

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A little bit.

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So really what Proxima War is when it comes to the Marine Corps is, and I'm not bragging here because I kind of cheated, and I'll explain why I cheated.

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But we have this school called Expeditionary Warfare School, and it's our education at my level as an officer at that point.

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And I graduated as a distinguished graduate.

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Well, I was able to do that because I'd already been in the ground, the air, and the combat service support.

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So I already understood the whole thing.

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And that whole class is about the MAGTAF, Marine Corps Air Ground Task Force Group.

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So all the tactics within Proxima War is MAGTAF, Marine Corps, real tactics applied 5,000 years in the future.

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So actually, you see it all.

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You see logistics affecting the battlefield.

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You see air support.

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You see ground combat maneuvers, maneuver warfare, all of that, all while going up against a species that considers you ants.

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So, the entire five book series, the plan series, is designed to answer one question.

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And that question is, what would really happen if we met a type two civilization?

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And so, for the people that don't know, so we're under a 0.7 now as humanity.

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so a type one a species can harness the power of their entire uh planet type two is their entire

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star type three is their entire galaxy type four is their entire universe so in this so they're from

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proximus centauri that tri system but their star is a red dwarf right we don't see them because i

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have that planet at a perpendicular rotation to our view.

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Okay.

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But they have Dyson ring capabilities.

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They're a liquid-borne species.

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That would be the only way when you look at that star system that this would work.

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A heavy atmosphere far enough away from that red dwarf where the solar flares are not affecting

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it, but the only way to keep heat and whatnot is high pressure.

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And the other thing is they are silicon-based, not carbon-based.

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And I went through all the chemistry.

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That meant that their environment has to be high sulfur, which also helped me on a couple things because that means that their heat source and their first energy sources could be thermal.

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And so they are liquid-borne, and they go directly from liquid to space and obviously well ahead of us.

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but their red dwarf cannot create enough power for faster than light speed.

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Right?

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And they can't use their two other stars because they are orbiting each other,

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which the gravity would destroy that Dyson ring.

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So the whole point is they don't care about us.

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They want our star.

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That's it.

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And so they are coming.

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And they start about now.

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They try to exterminate us.

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So they hit us with a probe that changes our genetic makeup so that we age extremely fast.

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So we have to do all sorts of things.

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And so we get delayed, which actually also helped another hand waving thing that most people do.

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It's why they still speak like us because we were nearly extinct.

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And so we kind of kept our social network as we kind of built back up.

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I don't want to ruin too much.

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So there's a lot of Easter eggs and there's Easter eggs even in book one that are for book five.

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Cause that the best sci series Right Um so it took me a year and a half to write it Uh I had to cause I had to build the entire universe and I had to work out all the math and the science So when they actually arrive the first set arrives I figured out the orbital mechanics to be

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That's when a time when Uranus and Neptune are actually going to be in the path and a 20 degree cone to block their approach from our view.

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it's so i've done as much as humanly possible not being a scientist to do zero hand waving

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that's pretty cool the entire thing so and then yeah thinking about this we're obviously we're

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probably fighting them outside of our atmosphere right uh correct and and i guess the the first

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first well i got a bunch but you know we're we're strictly conventional weapons for the most part

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and you fire it, it goes, boom, okay, and then it's gone.

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So logistics starts to make you kind of go,

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hmm, how do I get enough payload to be resupplying

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whatever kind of craft is up there,

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especially if we're firing, I don't know,

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hundreds, thousands of tons of munitions out into space?

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So I kept kinetic weapons and plasma, and I only went through plasma because that's the only one that we can scientifically say is possible.

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Right. All these other fake weapons in other sci-fi series is not scientifically plausible yet, like phasers.

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Right. So that's the only that's I stopped it there on purpose just because that and that's with them as well.

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But I mean, obviously, we could still use kinetic weapons, but plasma handles most of your concern right there, right?

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Because of that situation.

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Really, for my anthrocanes, and there's a reason why they're named that, because we're evolved humans at that point.

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But the biggest thing for them is fuel and oxygen.

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so I even have during a battle

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oxygen becomes a major factor

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in trying to get to

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resupply them because that is real combat

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right at any point

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so one of the other cool

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things because they're liquid born

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well their planet

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their

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body hopping so they want

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Enceladus and Europa

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so let me show you something

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so here's a author only copy but i worked out space jumps through the ice into underwater oceans

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there you go

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cool yeah interesting so we fight them in space and under oceans and everything so

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and I don't hold back on the brutality.

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And that's kind of, it's not gore for gore,

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but it's how the environment actually works.

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Like I even have a ship that gets,

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loses propulsion and how it then falls into Saturn's gravity.

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How would that ship get torn apart by the rings?

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Cause the rings are not safe at all.

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We know that, right?

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And so you get to watch this person, you know,

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in the book, just getting eaten alive, you know, right.

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or you know you you're bleeding inside your spacesuit but it seals you're drowning in your

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own blood right it's so yeah it's very brutal well i don't think people think about stuff like

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that too much yeah and how no and then comes the other piece right i mean you've got the radiation

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belt uh and then you've got you know things that like you said right the ring itself even if it was

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made of nothing but dust particles which it's not uh but if it was that's still going to poke holes

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and things because they're going fast, you're going fast, even if you're not, they're going

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really fast.

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And, you know, think bullet, right?

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Small, tiny little thing going really fast makes little holes, right?

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So that's an interesting thing.

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The plasma thing is interesting to me too as well because while I know that we can use

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plasma and there's a lot of design work going on to, you know, create plasma-based engines

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in space, they are all, you know, at least from my knowledge, they're all very, very low power.

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The plasma, the engines that we're talking about are fully functional in a vacuum or,

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you know, the vacuum of space. I don't know that it's a true vacuum, but, you know,

462
00:30:47,805 --> 00:30:53,225
the reason being is, you know, there's very little friction there. So it's putting out the,

463
00:30:53,225 --> 00:30:58,625
you know, weight of maybe like, you know, a folded piece of paper falling, you know, free fall.

464
00:30:59,045 --> 00:31:04,545
So it's not a lot, but you know, over time with no friction, you start to move and you go faster

465
00:31:04,545 --> 00:31:21,298
and faster Now how do you get to the point where you can actually harness plasma in a manner that could be effective and used as a weapon I guess this is one point that we cheat because it almost 5 years in the future They have figured it out

466
00:31:21,698 --> 00:31:26,038
We got better. But that's

467
00:31:26,038 --> 00:31:30,058
again, because that's the only thing that we have enough scientific knowledge that could

468
00:31:30,058 --> 00:31:32,378
be possible. All this other stuff like

469
00:31:32,378 --> 00:31:37,338
shields around your spaceship. No, that's not going to happen.

470
00:31:37,338 --> 00:31:43,678
spaceships being able to warp space, have enough power to warp space. No, it's not going to happen.

471
00:31:43,818 --> 00:31:49,558
So all that stuff is, is not in my book because it's just not possible. There are some theoretical

472
00:31:49,558 --> 00:31:54,738
things in there and I even work out, this is actually pretty cool. In book five, we're going

473
00:31:54,738 --> 00:32:00,958
to get through to the point of understanding. So you know about the hairs around a black hole.

474
00:32:01,498 --> 00:32:06,578
So a flatter circular black hole, like Hawking used to talk about where there's mass being

475
00:32:06,578 --> 00:32:11,378
ejected out so where's that weight of that mass right and then if you go into one of those types

476
00:32:11,378 --> 00:32:19,378
of black holes the theory of it being a gateway to someplace else well then how do you work out

477
00:32:19,378 --> 00:32:25,418
the weight that you just lost that's being shot back out right well then i came up with a theory

478
00:32:25,418 --> 00:32:29,258
of well you're going in as white matter what if you come out the other side as black matter

479
00:32:29,258 --> 00:32:35,738
dark matter and we just solve the equation right interesting

480
00:32:35,738 --> 00:32:42,338
now in the book it's still theory too i don't use it it's a theory and i don't want to ruin the

481
00:32:42,338 --> 00:32:48,218
ending but it's the theory at the end okay and and i think you know i you know a little sad here i

482
00:32:48,218 --> 00:32:54,658
think gene roddenberry might disagree with you you know but that's okay drive's gonna happen man

483
00:32:54,658 --> 00:33:01,538
come on now maybe you can answer me havoc so so when these when these ships jump to light speed

484
00:33:01,538 --> 00:33:07,558
right and then they like get to the where they're going how do they stop so fast because like

485
00:33:07,558 --> 00:33:15,338
how does space brakes work because i mean i can like my name lx it was lx 460 because i put a 460

486
00:33:15,338 --> 00:33:22,198
big block in a mustang like tons of engine but like the thing had no brakes yeah so i just picture

487
00:33:22,198 --> 00:33:29,258
something like that here's how this works imagination you know okay honestly yeah the

488
00:33:29,258 --> 00:33:30,278
The whole concept, right?

489
00:33:30,358 --> 00:33:36,758
I mean, if you think about what the plasma that I was just talking about, right, it's going to push you faster, right?

490
00:33:36,798 --> 00:33:40,118
And it's only a very, very minimal amount of thrust.

491
00:33:40,838 --> 00:33:42,118
And you keep going.

492
00:33:43,278 --> 00:33:54,478
If you turn that thrust off, it's going to take a very, very, very long time before you start to reduce your speed in any appreciable form.

493
00:33:54,478 --> 00:34:15,238
So if you look at things like the ISS and you look at the, you know, the, you know, SpaceX stuff, et cetera, they all have, uh, you know, little ports of, of different rockets that can be fired to change direction, but also to slow your speed, increase your speed, you know, change rotational, any of the axes.

494
00:34:15,238 --> 00:34:15,798
Right.

495
00:34:15,878 --> 00:34:17,138
And that's how it's done.

496
00:34:17,198 --> 00:34:17,438
Right.

497
00:34:17,438 --> 00:34:29,258
So you would have to have something, I would imagine, like a really, really, really big solid fuel booster on the nose cone of this thing that just lit off, right?

498
00:34:29,938 --> 00:34:31,318
Otherwise, yeah.

499
00:34:31,318 --> 00:34:36,458
So the best way to really do it, and this is a more leading series, is a warp corridor.

500
00:34:36,778 --> 00:34:38,378
And that's what I get into in the book.

501
00:34:39,538 --> 00:34:42,618
So that's why they're kind of harnessed Saul.

502
00:34:43,198 --> 00:34:45,238
People that don't know, that's the name of our star.

503
00:34:46,238 --> 00:34:49,218
But if you do a warp corridor, you can only aim it.

504
00:34:49,618 --> 00:34:50,478
It's no return.

505
00:34:50,758 --> 00:34:50,958
Yeah.

506
00:34:51,418 --> 00:34:51,698
Okay.

507
00:34:51,698 --> 00:34:53,458
So you're literally creating a corridor.

508
00:34:53,678 --> 00:34:57,298
You're wrapping space around itself, and then the ship is going into it.

509
00:34:57,298 --> 00:35:00,138
So you don't have to, while you are skipping,

510
00:35:00,898 --> 00:35:04,858
because space is folded up on each other and you're skipping that point,

511
00:35:05,218 --> 00:35:06,398
when you get to the other end,

512
00:35:06,458 --> 00:35:10,118
you're still just only slowing down with the speed that you went into it as.

513
00:35:10,318 --> 00:35:10,418
Yep.

514
00:35:10,858 --> 00:35:11,418
Does that make sense?

515
00:35:11,458 --> 00:35:12,418
Because then it stops.

516
00:35:13,098 --> 00:35:14,218
So that's the.

517
00:35:14,218 --> 00:35:16,058
And I love this description, right?

518
00:35:16,118 --> 00:35:20,318
Someone holds up a piece of paper and says, you know, you're trying to get from here to here.

519
00:35:20,438 --> 00:35:22,798
And it's, you know, a thousand light years or whatever.

520
00:35:23,138 --> 00:35:25,638
And it's not about going from here to here.

521
00:35:25,738 --> 00:35:26,298
It's about.

522
00:35:32,178 --> 00:35:33,078
Now I'm there.

523
00:35:33,618 --> 00:35:34,078
Right.

524
00:35:34,138 --> 00:35:38,458
So you're folding space and you're literally punching through to the other side.

525
00:35:38,738 --> 00:35:42,198
The paper is no longer consequential at that point.

526
00:35:42,198 --> 00:36:08,778
That is an actual scientific theory too. It's just, you know, there's a lot of science behind it and no real way to prove it out. Right. Uh, it, you know, in theory it's possible, uh, but we're not there and, you know, maybe type two, maybe type three before we even see something like that. Right. Because we just don't have the technology. We're not advanced enough as a civilization to get to something like that.

527
00:36:08,778 --> 00:36:34,331
Yep And that kind of what I dealing with here because it a type two that already knows how to build Dyson rings And here part of the other logistics Where do you come up with the matter to be able to build that Dyson ring So they are so far advanced that they are dismantling moons and planets for that construction material That how far advanced the Type 2 would have to be

528
00:36:34,791 --> 00:36:38,791
And I don't even get into how they do it because we don't know how they do it.

529
00:36:38,971 --> 00:36:39,071
Right.

530
00:36:39,331 --> 00:36:41,971
But to be a Type 2, they would have had to have figured it out.

531
00:36:42,151 --> 00:36:42,371
Yeah.

532
00:36:42,651 --> 00:36:44,711
And so that's what we're looking at.

533
00:36:44,711 --> 00:36:48,271
We're watching them destroy moons and other planet bodies

534
00:36:48,271 --> 00:36:50,311
to build these Dyson rings.

535
00:36:50,471 --> 00:36:51,491
It's ridiculous.

536
00:36:51,491 --> 00:36:52,691
And that's why we're ants.

537
00:36:52,831 --> 00:36:54,171
We're just complete.

538
00:36:55,391 --> 00:36:56,651
What do these other creatures look like?

539
00:36:56,691 --> 00:36:58,791
Are they humanoid or something different completely?

540
00:36:59,351 --> 00:37:00,291
Oh, no, absolutely not.

541
00:37:00,391 --> 00:37:02,231
Because I was not going to do men in suits.

542
00:37:03,071 --> 00:37:06,431
So I call them the Centurions.

543
00:37:07,131 --> 00:37:14,611
And one of the cool things about them is everything from their ruling class through their DNA is in three.

544
00:37:15,191 --> 00:37:17,351
And that's partly because of the silicon based.

545
00:37:17,351 --> 00:37:19,831
so their triple helix DNA

546
00:37:19,831 --> 00:37:22,451
and it's to handle all the pressure

547
00:37:22,451 --> 00:37:22,971
and everything

548
00:37:22,971 --> 00:37:24,511
even their tactics

549
00:37:24,511 --> 00:37:25,511
their military tactics

550
00:37:25,511 --> 00:37:26,751
are all in groups of three

551
00:37:26,751 --> 00:37:28,271
and at the very top

552
00:37:28,271 --> 00:37:29,491
there's Proxima Prime

553
00:37:29,491 --> 00:37:30,531
and her two daughters

554
00:37:30,531 --> 00:37:32,991
so they are underwater

555
00:37:32,991 --> 00:37:34,271
they have three eyes

556
00:37:34,271 --> 00:37:35,471
they have a trunk

557
00:37:35,471 --> 00:37:38,011
and that trunk is for

558
00:37:38,011 --> 00:37:39,131
because underwater

559
00:37:39,131 --> 00:37:40,431
you're not going to have vocal cords

560
00:37:40,431 --> 00:37:41,151
you're not going to do that

561
00:37:41,151 --> 00:37:43,431
and I don't do the stupid

562
00:37:43,431 --> 00:37:45,291
you and me can just hear

563
00:37:45,291 --> 00:37:46,111
each other's thoughts

564
00:37:46,111 --> 00:37:48,111
they communicate by touching trunks.

565
00:37:50,271 --> 00:37:52,751
So they can pass information that way

566
00:37:52,751 --> 00:37:56,451
and you can kind of think that that's how they get their hive mind,

567
00:37:56,551 --> 00:37:59,051
but it's the delayed hive mind, right?

568
00:37:59,051 --> 00:38:02,051
Because a true hive mind per science fiction,

569
00:38:02,311 --> 00:38:05,031
we'd never really see because we want to come on, man, right?

570
00:38:05,131 --> 00:38:05,871
But it's tactile.

571
00:38:06,491 --> 00:38:10,731
They have three fins in the back in a triangle pattern.

572
00:38:10,851 --> 00:38:12,111
So everything's rule of three.

573
00:38:12,111 --> 00:38:17,171
And that just really allowed me to create a truly unique alien,

574
00:38:17,171 --> 00:38:20,071
which also means that their spaceships are very cool too.

575
00:38:20,211 --> 00:38:21,511
They're not airplanes in space.

576
00:38:21,791 --> 00:38:26,831
Their fighters are literally a high pressure orb that they float inside and

577
00:38:26,831 --> 00:38:27,631
it's not water,

578
00:38:27,631 --> 00:38:30,511
but that also means that they can handle the Gs.

579
00:38:31,171 --> 00:38:31,451
Yeah.

580
00:38:32,151 --> 00:38:32,591
Boom.

581
00:38:32,711 --> 00:38:33,071
Right.

582
00:38:33,211 --> 00:38:34,471
So all this science is like,

583
00:38:34,691 --> 00:38:36,571
but it also means that they're omnidirectional.

584
00:38:37,531 --> 00:38:38,791
They just change direction.

585
00:38:38,791 --> 00:38:42,511
while we're still forward-facing, right?

586
00:38:42,811 --> 00:38:45,811
And we got to turn and do all the thrusters and all that.

587
00:38:45,891 --> 00:38:50,411
They can just change direction in a swarm.

588
00:38:51,471 --> 00:38:53,231
Can you just imagine trying to fight that?

589
00:38:53,631 --> 00:38:54,151
Unreal.

590
00:38:54,931 --> 00:39:01,251
No, I mean, just putting my little bit of brain power into it,

591
00:39:01,251 --> 00:39:07,131
a type 2 society wants your planet, bye.

592
00:39:07,131 --> 00:39:15,611
like kiss your wife and kids it's done it's over you know but then again that assumes that

593
00:39:15,611 --> 00:39:22,331
you know this type suit two species started out as a warring species they may not have right there

594
00:39:22,331 --> 00:39:30,131
may be other societal you know things that they are going for besides you know uh uh you know

595
00:39:30,131 --> 00:39:37,111
conquest yeah they could have been a predator they could have been a um um they might not

596
00:39:37,111 --> 00:39:39,031
I would have even started out as a predator species.

597
00:39:39,411 --> 00:39:43,171
They could have been consumed and just eventually survived.

598
00:39:43,271 --> 00:39:45,031
We don't know, but that's kind of the point.

599
00:39:45,451 --> 00:39:49,111
You don't want to, if you're going to truly have an alien that's terrifying,

600
00:39:49,311 --> 00:39:52,151
you can't just give the reader everything, right?

601
00:39:52,371 --> 00:39:55,451
I mean, so there's a lot of this that I figured out

602
00:39:55,451 --> 00:39:58,691
that'll never actually go in the books, right?

603
00:39:58,711 --> 00:40:00,751
Because then you just kind of ruin it,

604
00:40:00,751 --> 00:40:02,951
and eventually it'll come out slowly.

605
00:40:03,431 --> 00:40:06,071
I also do this cool thing where I put a reference guide in the back.

606
00:40:06,071 --> 00:40:11,831
so book one has about the anthracanes book two will have a reference guide about

607
00:40:11,831 --> 00:40:19,171
um the centurions themselves book three is actually a prequel so i do book one and two

608
00:40:19,171 --> 00:40:23,531
that way and so you could think like space troopers martian and all that kind of mixed

609
00:40:23,531 --> 00:40:28,451
together well then we because we do the prequel that's my game of thrones book

610
00:40:28,451 --> 00:40:37,551
and how i handle the near extinction to rebuild is through new earth laws because we have to

611
00:40:37,551 --> 00:40:42,691
completely start over so the reference guide for book three will be those laws and they're already

612
00:40:42,691 --> 00:40:52,071
written out and we turn ourselves into a fighter versus breeder class and literally change the

613
00:40:52,071 --> 00:40:57,291
amount of litter that we can still reproduce faster there's all sorts of things so i'm i'm

614
00:40:57,291 --> 00:41:01,271
literally touching every major science through these five books.

615
00:41:01,431 --> 00:41:03,351
And then if I really got into four and five,

616
00:41:03,451 --> 00:41:04,891
I'd totally ruin it.

617
00:41:04,911 --> 00:41:06,891
And I don't want to do that for you because five,

618
00:41:07,011 --> 00:41:10,071
if you're not crying at the end of five,

619
00:41:10,091 --> 00:41:11,191
I did something wrong.

620
00:41:12,471 --> 00:41:14,531
So when's the movie deal coming out?

621
00:41:14,771 --> 00:41:19,331
I know that's why I did write them with making them into blockbuster movies.

622
00:41:20,451 --> 00:41:21,851
I wanted that style.

623
00:41:21,851 --> 00:41:23,311
So if it could actually happen,

624
00:41:23,431 --> 00:41:26,631
that's also why I did all the concept art because I wanted that.

625
00:41:27,291 --> 00:41:28,951
When you're building the universe,

626
00:41:28,951 --> 00:41:30,651
if you have that concept art,

627
00:41:30,651 --> 00:41:33,591
it just, it helps your writing a ton, right?

628
00:41:33,591 --> 00:41:34,931
Because then you're actually thinking about it.

629
00:41:34,931 --> 00:41:38,091
Like even my space carriers, they are modular.

630
00:41:38,091 --> 00:41:39,991
I eventually turned them into modular

631
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:44,777
Because when you think of the logistics of building it, you're going to build it in an orbit.

632
00:41:45,117 --> 00:41:49,677
So in my case, I'm doing the orbit around the moon and Mars, not around Earth.

633
00:41:49,717 --> 00:41:50,477
And we're building it.

634
00:41:50,537 --> 00:41:53,437
And then you can modular piece the ships together.

635
00:41:54,477 --> 00:41:56,697
Because logistically, that would make sense.

636
00:41:57,037 --> 00:41:57,457
Right?

637
00:41:57,577 --> 00:41:58,637
And it's easier to move.

638
00:41:58,637 --> 00:42:03,237
But that means you have to have a standardized production process.

639
00:42:03,677 --> 00:42:07,817
Do you have a physics or science background at all?

640
00:42:07,817 --> 00:42:14,437
no but they were by far my best subjects in school which is funny because english was my

641
00:42:14,437 --> 00:42:21,717
worst subject but math and science were always my highest you know i got through calculus and i did

642
00:42:21,717 --> 00:42:26,637
eight advanced science classes in high school and stuff and then of course let's face it half

643
00:42:26,637 --> 00:42:32,897
of flight school is science sure so and physics yeah absolutely yeah yeah it just seems like you

644
00:42:32,897 --> 00:42:39,357
know a lot of what you've described so far you know has a lot of rooting in invalid physics

645
00:42:39,357 --> 00:42:46,017
that we know of today right at that you know 5 000 years from now we may go yeah those guys were

646
00:42:46,017 --> 00:42:54,857
idiots oh yeah look at superman one right i mean yeah sure but you know i mean at least from where

647
00:42:54,857 --> 00:43:01,217
we sit now right like the spherical orb you know being able to change directions at high speed high

648
00:43:01,217 --> 00:43:08,937
right um that's an interesting one because we we would love to do that but we can't right because

649
00:43:08,937 --> 00:43:15,177
humans just turn to mush and you know we can build a craft that'll do it but the human inside it

650
00:43:15,177 --> 00:43:23,937
they're gonna die so yeah interesting i'm sorry i was just thinking the the changing directions and

651
00:43:23,937 --> 00:43:28,997
you know overcoming the g-force uh it makes me think of those like uap videos and stuff it

652
00:43:28,997 --> 00:43:31,817
Have you ever seen anything like that in your experience?

653
00:43:32,917 --> 00:43:34,677
No, it's not possible.

654
00:43:34,997 --> 00:43:36,797
We don't have that technology right now.

655
00:43:37,457 --> 00:43:37,977
Yeah.

656
00:43:38,377 --> 00:43:40,397
I thought about AI.

657
00:43:40,717 --> 00:43:46,577
And so AI is actually a central character in the book and why we, and it's part of the

658
00:43:46,577 --> 00:43:48,717
earth laws of why we didn't let it advance.

659
00:43:49,017 --> 00:43:54,157
And that's why we still had to have humans in these ships because it does become dangerous.

660
00:43:54,537 --> 00:43:57,257
And then it actually ends up saving the day too.

661
00:43:57,257 --> 00:43:59,597
So another little Easter egg.

662
00:44:00,077 --> 00:44:01,717
It's definitely capable of both.

663
00:44:01,837 --> 00:44:03,157
There is no question about it.

664
00:44:03,157 --> 00:44:05,097
Yes, it absolutely is.

665
00:44:05,137 --> 00:44:09,357
Give you a great recipe for some chicken and at the same time,

666
00:44:09,417 --> 00:44:13,577
hack your competitor and, you know, do not good things.

667
00:44:14,157 --> 00:44:15,097
So, yeah.

668
00:44:15,217 --> 00:44:15,617
All right.

669
00:44:15,857 --> 00:44:21,457
I think the best part about AI in a war like this is its ability to help you

670
00:44:21,457 --> 00:44:26,577
control a craft and make spontaneous calculations that you humanly could not

671
00:44:26,577 --> 00:44:32,317
be able to do. And that's really, along with helping you build these ships, that's how I

672
00:44:32,317 --> 00:44:40,137
primarily use it in the book. But the laws keep it from going further than that. So it's not a

673
00:44:40,137 --> 00:44:47,077
threat to us. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty cool. And you also have like a big

674
00:44:47,077 --> 00:44:55,997
children's book series? Yeah. So that series came second and full transparency became because of

675
00:44:55,997 --> 00:45:04,437
writer's block. Okay. So yeah. And I just, his name is Joey America and you know, I'm a dad and

676
00:45:04,437 --> 00:45:11,477
I wanted kids books that are just different and I wanted them to see cool shit that they don't get

677
00:45:11,477 --> 00:45:19,497
to see. And so book one, Joey America learns how to fly a helicopter. Nice. Nice. And I don't,

678
00:45:19,497 --> 00:45:25,017
and I treat kids like the smart people that they are. I don't talk down to them. I give them the

679
00:45:25,017 --> 00:45:30,557
actual vocabulary because that's what they deserve. And I also want these books to spur

680
00:45:30,557 --> 00:45:36,117
learning with the parents. Right. I'm like, Oh, I didn't know that that was called anti-torque

681
00:45:36,117 --> 00:45:40,457
pedals. I better look this up. Why is that happening? You know? So that's just kind of

682
00:45:40,457 --> 00:45:43,637
how it happened. And then my two-year-old daughter, my God, she is the biggest Joey

683
00:45:43,637 --> 00:45:48,877
America fan there is by far. And I even made her a little cartoon of Joey. Nobody else gets to see

684
00:45:48,877 --> 00:45:54,477
it because it's epically horrible, but she loves it. That's all that counts. That's all that counts.

685
00:45:54,477 --> 00:45:55,037
Yeah.

686
00:45:56,437 --> 00:45:58,077
So that's where Joey came from.

687
00:45:58,217 --> 00:46:00,297
And then I started my travel read series.

688
00:46:00,997 --> 00:46:05,717
And I just, so that was the idea for that was just traveling a lot.

689
00:46:06,657 --> 00:46:09,097
You know, people's attention spans are down.

690
00:46:09,097 --> 00:46:14,457
And I want to be able to finish a book in three hours on a flight.

691
00:46:15,037 --> 00:46:15,157
Yeah.

692
00:46:15,397 --> 00:46:21,397
And so it's a full encompassed story, 100 to 180 pages that you can finish.

693
00:46:21,397 --> 00:46:23,937
And you can enter the series at any point because it's all different.

694
00:46:23,937 --> 00:46:26,737
and it's spread across all these different genres.

695
00:46:26,737 --> 00:46:29,837
And I know that is the, I'm breaking the cardinal rule here, right?

696
00:46:30,577 --> 00:46:34,157
But I'm really not because at the center of all my books is realism.

697
00:46:35,237 --> 00:46:37,217
Yeah, you know, that's my genre.

698
00:46:37,337 --> 00:46:39,557
I mean, we kind of break the cardinal rule as well, right?

699
00:46:39,597 --> 00:46:43,517
I mean, as far as it goes, you know, in the podcast world,

700
00:46:43,637 --> 00:46:45,077
everyone asks, what's your niche?

701
00:46:45,177 --> 00:46:59,430
And I like we don have one You know our niche is we like to talk to interesting people that are you know experts in whatever they have either created or a field that they in et cetera And we just would

702
00:46:59,430 --> 00:47:05,230
like to talk to interesting people, get to know the person behind all this. And, and yeah. And

703
00:47:05,230 --> 00:47:12,550
so here we are. So I think it's fine personally, but I'm, yeah, I'm glad I did too, because it's

704
00:47:12,550 --> 00:47:20,530
not boring. I coached high school football back in the day. So I turned my story as a young high

705
00:47:20,530 --> 00:47:25,430
school football coach into a book because it was fun. And I had some cool stuff that happened while

706
00:47:25,430 --> 00:47:29,770
I was doing it. And it was a lot of leadership learning experience. I was only 25 years old at

707
00:47:29,770 --> 00:47:36,810
the time. And yeah, so I got to turn it into a book. Or I see all these problems with aircraft

708
00:47:36,810 --> 00:47:41,550
procurement within the government. So I wrote a book about it and I fictionalized it. And that's

709
00:47:41,550 --> 00:47:47,030
just kind of the cool thing about being your own boss when you're writing your own books is you just

710
00:47:47,030 --> 00:47:51,650
write whatever the hell you want that you think is interesting that's just all i've done i also

711
00:47:51,650 --> 00:47:57,170
think it's interesting because we've actually had a few military former military people on the show

712
00:47:57,170 --> 00:48:04,250
and one thing that seems to stick out is is it seems like the majority of them

713
00:48:04,250 --> 00:48:11,870
uh, have moved into kind of an artistic field of one, you know, shape or form, you know, from,

714
00:48:11,870 --> 00:48:18,110
you know, screenplay writing to acting to authorship to, you know, you name it. And I'm

715
00:48:18,110 --> 00:48:27,110
like, that's just an interesting divergence there. Right. It's the experience behind it. And that's

716
00:48:27,110 --> 00:48:33,490
why you just get all these stories and you don't have to, cause you have that unique experience.

717
00:48:33,490 --> 00:48:34,770
you don't have to research.

718
00:48:36,090 --> 00:48:37,510
You're writing what you know,

719
00:48:37,830 --> 00:48:41,270
and you got to do some things that most people didn't get to do.

720
00:48:41,590 --> 00:48:43,190
And so that's why it becomes interesting.

721
00:48:43,430 --> 00:48:44,870
So that absolutely makes sense.

722
00:48:44,950 --> 00:48:47,950
And then, of course, most vets are probably like me,

723
00:48:47,970 --> 00:48:49,030
and they just can't sit still.

724
00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:51,090
There you go.

725
00:48:51,390 --> 00:48:51,890
There you go.

726
00:48:52,530 --> 00:48:52,930
Yeah.

727
00:48:53,310 --> 00:48:58,790
What would you say was the most challenging thing to write about

728
00:48:58,790 --> 00:49:01,090
in your Proxima Wharf series?

729
00:49:01,090 --> 00:49:07,470
and on the flip side what was the most exciting and fun part to write about as in general

730
00:49:07,470 --> 00:49:17,070
first off it was learning my pace um because every author and i had to learn this on my own

731
00:49:17,070 --> 00:49:23,110
has their own pace that they write out in their books and i'm fast-paced i am absolutely um and

732
00:49:23,110 --> 00:49:26,630
that's also one of the reasons for the reference guides because i didn't want to slow down the

733
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:31,570
story, wasting a bunch of pages, trying to explain some shit. And I'm like, just go to the back of the

734
00:49:31,570 --> 00:49:37,430
book and you can read about it. Right. And so, um, that was difficult and kind of learning. And you

735
00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:43,730
can actually see a growth in my writing from chapter one to chapter 13 and that's okay. Right.

736
00:49:43,790 --> 00:49:49,790
And because it actually ended up, I didn't go back and fix a lot of it because it matched the story

737
00:49:49,790 --> 00:49:56,050
because in the beginning I have to get through a good 40 years pretty quickly. So, so that happened,

738
00:49:56,050 --> 00:49:56,630
And that was okay.

739
00:49:57,250 --> 00:50:03,470
And then the best part was just getting to invent these characters

740
00:50:03,470 --> 00:50:08,890
and then apply it with my tactical knowledge and seeing it on paper

741
00:50:08,890 --> 00:50:13,610
and seeing that all this stuff that I did for 20 years

742
00:50:13,610 --> 00:50:18,990
and I frankly did pretty well at actually translates to a really interesting story

743
00:50:18,990 --> 00:50:23,010
that most people don't see because you actually get to see command decisions

744
00:50:23,010 --> 00:50:25,490
from the upper deck all the way down to the low marine.

745
00:50:26,050 --> 00:50:28,050
which a lot of people don't see.

746
00:50:28,110 --> 00:50:29,370
They always focus on one, right?

747
00:50:29,470 --> 00:50:33,510
So most of my main characters might be in charge and whatnot,

748
00:50:33,670 --> 00:50:35,750
but you get to see it all the way down,

749
00:50:35,790 --> 00:50:37,890
and you get to see the decisions on the battlefield

750
00:50:37,890 --> 00:50:42,770
and the decisions back at command in the course of the battle

751
00:50:42,770 --> 00:50:44,690
playing out and how they affect each other

752
00:50:44,690 --> 00:50:47,150
because that's really how combat is.

753
00:50:47,870 --> 00:50:51,530
And so that was really cool for me to be able to see it.

754
00:50:51,530 --> 00:50:55,190
And then, of course, then I realized, shit, I'm just –

755
00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:56,770
It's becoming pretty gory.

756
00:50:57,650 --> 00:51:04,110
Well, you know, I would imagine a situation like that would be insanely gory.

757
00:51:04,950 --> 00:51:13,030
Is there a standout protagonist in the story, or is it just kind of the human race is the protagonist?

758
00:51:14,370 --> 00:51:15,490
No, there's numerous.

759
00:51:15,770 --> 00:51:16,050
Okay.

760
00:51:16,570 --> 00:51:17,730
And you don't see it all.

761
00:51:18,410 --> 00:51:18,910
Who's your favorite?

762
00:51:18,930 --> 00:51:19,730
Space itself.

763
00:51:20,270 --> 00:51:22,630
Well, space itself is an antagonist.

764
00:51:22,790 --> 00:51:23,770
Right, right.

765
00:51:24,170 --> 00:51:24,470
Sure.

766
00:51:24,470 --> 00:51:35,370
Yep. The centurions are. There's political theater within it. So there's obviously a lead one. God, you're going to make me ruin it.

767
00:51:35,550 --> 00:51:52,710
No, don't ruin it. So what I was looking for was the protagonist, right? Is there like a central key player that's like, I don't know, a sergeant or a one sergeant or something like that, first sergeant?

768
00:51:52,710 --> 00:51:54,570
you know. So there's a

769
00:51:54,570 --> 00:51:56,670
protagonist for the entire five book

770
00:51:56,670 --> 00:51:58,750
series. And it's a family.

771
00:51:59,190 --> 00:52:12,963
For book one though it Lieutenant Colonel Max Hunter And so we meet him as a second lieutenant and we watch him go all the way up through Colonel through book one And he the main character of book one him and his nephew

772
00:52:13,963 --> 00:52:15,063
So absolutely.

773
00:52:15,063 --> 00:52:24,743
And that's kind of the reason why I had to be so fast in the beginning, because you're not going to understand Max unless you understand his training and what he went through.

774
00:52:24,743 --> 00:52:36,783
And because he was bred to be a warrior class, you get to see how that is handled through that training versus his sister was bred to be a breeder class.

775
00:52:37,083 --> 00:52:38,423
And I have names for them.

776
00:52:38,483 --> 00:52:38,683
Right.

777
00:52:38,743 --> 00:52:40,923
So her whole and that's where his nephew comes from.

778
00:52:40,983 --> 00:52:41,503
Right.

779
00:52:41,543 --> 00:52:45,743
That breeder class is all about as many kids as humanly possible to repopulate.

780
00:52:46,503 --> 00:52:46,763
Right.

781
00:52:46,863 --> 00:52:52,483
So and that allows for some very interesting political tension, if you can imagine.

782
00:52:52,483 --> 00:52:53,603
Oh, I can imagine.

783
00:52:53,863 --> 00:52:54,523
I can imagine.

784
00:52:54,743 --> 00:53:20,223
Yeah. So, so who was, who was, uh, who was Gunny in the, in the story or do you have a gun? You have to have a gun. Yeah. Yeah. Gunny was his nephew. So, um, yeah, Derek Hunter gets promoted eventually up to, to Gunny. So you watch his growth too. And, uh, he has to get a waiver to work for his uncle to be in his uncle's command. Right. Cause I'm, you know, I'm looking at the real rules of today, but yes.

785
00:53:20,223 --> 00:53:26,823
so yeah you see those two and they're frankly they're pretty badass but they're but they're

786
00:53:26,823 --> 00:53:33,043
not superhuman does it make sense absolutely they're just the pinnacle of being up jarhead

787
00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:38,583
they they yeah that's that's a good yeah yeah the pinnacle of gruntness

788
00:53:38,583 --> 00:53:48,343
yes it is which also allows me to put a lot of you know inappropriate dad style marine jokes in

789
00:53:48,343 --> 00:53:54,883
the book too so which is good which is good does everyone get issued like a box of crayons or no

790
00:53:54,883 --> 00:53:59,683
i you know we kind of went past crayons in this point it is 5 000 years in the future

791
00:53:59,683 --> 00:54:04,903
we're not eating circuit boards

792
00:54:04,903 --> 00:54:15,243
that we know of that we know of yeah that's awesome that is awesome so how was the the

793
00:54:15,243 --> 00:54:16,943
the whole publishing thing with that,

794
00:54:17,263 --> 00:54:18,463
like one of the things that,

795
00:54:18,463 --> 00:54:18,983
you know,

796
00:54:18,983 --> 00:54:20,603
always kind of amazes me,

797
00:54:21,023 --> 00:54:22,203
I guess.

798
00:54:23,163 --> 00:54:23,563
So,

799
00:54:24,043 --> 00:54:24,343
you know,

800
00:54:24,363 --> 00:54:24,663
I mean,

801
00:54:24,723 --> 00:54:26,403
having thick skin is a part of it,

802
00:54:26,423 --> 00:54:27,283
but you know,

803
00:54:27,283 --> 00:54:30,763
when you create something and then someone comes back and they redline the

804
00:54:30,763 --> 00:54:32,023
crap out of it and they're like,

805
00:54:32,063 --> 00:54:32,463
you know,

806
00:54:32,683 --> 00:54:36,823
circle this and change that and swipe that and tear that page out.

807
00:54:36,903 --> 00:54:37,383
That's gone.

808
00:54:38,043 --> 00:54:39,143
You know,

809
00:54:39,243 --> 00:54:41,083
I don't care how thick skinned you are.

810
00:54:41,163 --> 00:54:41,483
You're like,

811
00:54:41,563 --> 00:54:42,463
that's my baby.

812
00:54:42,663 --> 00:54:43,523
You just trash.

813
00:54:44,263 --> 00:54:44,783
How did,

814
00:54:44,783 --> 00:54:45,703
How was that?

815
00:54:45,803 --> 00:54:47,343
Was that hard for you to deal with?

816
00:54:47,343 --> 00:54:48,143
I'm okay with it.

817
00:54:48,143 --> 00:54:48,423
Okay.

818
00:54:48,943 --> 00:54:50,303
I'm absolutely okay with it.

819
00:54:50,343 --> 00:54:56,683
And I had about three or four friends that were reading chapter by chapter as I wrote it and helped me.

820
00:54:56,823 --> 00:54:57,223
Awesome.

821
00:54:57,483 --> 00:54:57,723
Okay.

822
00:54:58,083 --> 00:54:59,563
They were Marines too.

823
00:54:59,563 --> 00:55:06,643
But being a logistician and Lean Six Sigma guy, you welcome failure.

824
00:55:07,723 --> 00:55:10,403
Because failure is a data point, right?

825
00:55:10,523 --> 00:55:14,263
And that made it so I could make it right the first time before it ever published.

826
00:55:14,783 --> 00:55:21,163
Um, I went, I first tried to do agent and I don't know if, you know, trying to find an agent is

827
00:55:21,163 --> 00:55:25,403
terrible. So I eventually self-published and amazing. Once I started self-publishing, I started

828
00:55:25,403 --> 00:55:31,603
selling. That is pretty cool. Yeah. I've heard the agent thing is really kind of a, it's like an

829
00:55:31,603 --> 00:55:37,143
insider's club essentially. And unless you know someone, it's almost impossible to get, you know,

830
00:55:37,143 --> 00:55:44,263
even a meeting with one of these people. Um, yeah, very. So you got to have the sales then to go back

831
00:55:44,263 --> 00:55:53,223
And so that's what I'm building now, right, is as the sales kind of continue to grow, then eventually I can go back and be like, well, you missed out on book one.

832
00:55:53,363 --> 00:55:54,303
Let's talk about book two.

833
00:55:55,363 --> 00:55:55,543
You know.

834
00:55:57,143 --> 00:55:57,263
Wow.

835
00:56:00,303 --> 00:56:00,543
Yeah.

836
00:56:00,743 --> 00:56:04,523
I actually tried to write a book a long time ago, about 35 years ago.

837
00:56:04,763 --> 00:56:06,323
I've gotten three pages in.

838
00:56:06,643 --> 00:56:08,323
So any day now.

839
00:56:09,003 --> 00:56:10,203
We finished any day now.

840
00:56:10,903 --> 00:56:11,303
Squirrel.

841
00:56:11,303 --> 00:56:26,443
No, I just, it started off and it was flowing for me and then I hit like this wall and I was like, you know, a lot of it was my inability to properly place things in the correct timeline.

842
00:56:27,343 --> 00:56:28,403
If that makes sense.

843
00:56:28,503 --> 00:56:29,123
It's very difficult.

844
00:56:29,123 --> 00:56:31,623
And I had to keep going back to it.

845
00:56:31,703 --> 00:56:34,643
And I'm like, that doesn't work.

846
00:56:35,343 --> 00:56:39,943
And I just went, all right, I'm shelving this and I'm not ready for this.

847
00:56:40,003 --> 00:56:42,983
I was young too, so maybe I could make a go at it now.

848
00:56:43,083 --> 00:56:46,583
But I don't think I have the patience or tolerance for sitting at it.

849
00:56:47,603 --> 00:56:49,703
Now I say that and I do that all day.

850
00:56:49,963 --> 00:56:52,823
So I don't know.

851
00:56:52,823 --> 00:56:54,923
You kind of got into my writing process.

852
00:56:55,143 --> 00:56:58,323
And my writing process includes using Excel.

853
00:56:59,123 --> 00:57:00,343
Really?

854
00:57:00,343 --> 00:57:03,303
So, you know, let's just take one of my travel reads.

855
00:57:03,583 --> 00:57:07,543
I come up, first I come up with what I want to do, what's the end goal.

856
00:57:07,703 --> 00:57:23,777
And then I write out subplots for each chapter first So I know where the story going And I move things around as I go But then I just then when it time to start writing then I look at chapter one I read through it and I just start hammering at the keyboard

857
00:57:24,597 --> 00:57:26,997
And I don't care what it comes out to at the end, right?

858
00:57:27,177 --> 00:57:28,357
I just put it out there

859
00:57:28,357 --> 00:57:33,357
because editing takes me longer than writing every time, right?

860
00:57:33,437 --> 00:57:34,377
And you kind of got to go back.

861
00:57:34,437 --> 00:57:35,137
What is it with that?

862
00:57:35,237 --> 00:57:36,697
Editing always takes the longest.

863
00:57:36,697 --> 00:57:38,737
Like these things are like so enjoyable

864
00:57:38,737 --> 00:57:40,697
and we can sit here and have a great conversation.

865
00:57:40,697 --> 00:57:42,757
Well, it's probably because I was not very good at English.

866
00:57:42,937 --> 00:57:44,817
Like I said, I wasn't good at English.

867
00:57:44,817 --> 00:57:46,817
Man, diagram a sentence.

868
00:57:47,537 --> 00:57:49,197
No, this is Greek to me.

869
00:57:49,257 --> 00:57:51,577
I don't know what in the heck you're talking about.

870
00:57:52,377 --> 00:57:53,397
Well, no, it goes here.

871
00:57:53,537 --> 00:57:55,617
And I'm like, does it really?

872
00:57:55,817 --> 00:57:57,117
It doesn't sound right.

873
00:57:57,517 --> 00:57:57,917
Yes.

874
00:57:58,677 --> 00:58:00,137
I mean, didn't Einstein film math?

875
00:58:00,257 --> 00:58:01,997
I don't know if that's an urban myth or not.

876
00:58:02,617 --> 00:58:04,237
I think that's an urban myth.

877
00:58:04,437 --> 00:58:05,477
I think that's an urban myth.

878
00:58:05,557 --> 00:58:05,717
Yeah.

879
00:58:05,717 --> 00:58:12,697
I don't think he continued and completed his primary education, I think is, is a reality.

880
00:58:13,237 --> 00:58:16,817
But I kind of highly doubt that he failed math.

881
00:58:16,877 --> 00:58:24,377
And if he failed any math at all, it was probably because he was, you know, well, no, he was,

882
00:58:24,557 --> 00:58:29,217
he was advanced enough to be doing things and they were like, no, you need to do it this way.

883
00:58:29,217 --> 00:58:30,497
And he was like, well, that's stupid.

884
00:58:30,597 --> 00:58:31,477
I'm not doing that.

885
00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:34,637
I already figured this out in my head 10 minutes ago.

886
00:58:34,637 --> 00:58:34,997
Exactly.

887
00:58:35,117 --> 00:58:35,457
Yeah.

888
00:58:35,717 --> 00:58:37,337
Like, I've got the answer right here.

889
00:58:37,437 --> 00:58:38,577
And they're like, no, you don't.

890
00:58:38,677 --> 00:58:40,357
He didn't show, you know, show your work.

891
00:58:40,557 --> 00:58:42,197
No, go away.

892
00:58:43,557 --> 00:58:45,897
Oh, man.

893
00:58:46,117 --> 00:58:49,137
You know, I think Isaac Newton was probably smarter than Einstein.

894
00:58:49,877 --> 00:58:50,117
Yeah.

895
00:58:50,117 --> 00:58:57,417
I mean, there's, you know, hard to say, right?

896
00:58:57,417 --> 00:59:05,837
Because you're talking about a time difference that is, you know, changed, right?

897
00:59:05,937 --> 00:59:12,017
So our knowledge of things by the time Einstein was doing his work had increased exponentially.

898
00:59:12,757 --> 00:59:15,757
So you may in fact be correct, right?

899
00:59:15,757 --> 00:59:27,277
But, you know, Newton didn't have all of the tools available or the published works available to, you know, augment his own efforts, I guess.

900
00:59:27,417 --> 00:59:33,417
yeah at one point though in his early 20s just to figure out a problem he had to invent his own

901
00:59:33,417 --> 00:59:40,517
style of math yep yep that's you know that's when you're like oh my god right i mean he's the guy

902
00:59:40,517 --> 00:59:46,397
that figured out that white light is actually a mix of all these colors right and you know just

903
00:59:46,397 --> 00:59:55,337
the dude was unreal yeah so brilliant minds those those people truly amaze me honestly they really

904
00:59:55,337 --> 01:00:02,257
do. And that the most interesting thing about these extremely intelligent people is, uh, you

905
01:00:02,257 --> 01:00:06,577
can find like a really intelligent person, right? Professor or somewhere, and they can try and

906
01:00:06,577 --> 01:00:12,757
explain something to you and it just kind of right over your head. And then you take someone who is

907
01:00:12,757 --> 01:00:19,837
just brilliant and they can come in and explain it to you and you just go, Oh, I get it. You know,

908
01:00:19,837 --> 01:00:27,477
I mean, they really know it so well that they can dumb it down to just easy for anyone to uptake.

909
01:00:27,477 --> 01:00:39,037
And that's a pretty interesting quality that I've had the opportunity to meet a few people like that in my life, which is, I appreciated it.

910
01:00:40,457 --> 01:00:45,377
I think Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson are perfect examples of that.

911
01:00:46,717 --> 01:00:47,037
Yeah.

912
01:00:47,757 --> 01:00:48,237
Yeah.

913
01:00:48,237 --> 01:01:15,237
Yeah. I mean, you know, both very, you know, very, very intelligent people. Isaac Asimov would be another one, right? I mean, really intelligent person known best for his writing, which, okay. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. I mean, there's just, it's just insane what some people can come up with and just, you know, tooling an idea around for long enough.

914
01:01:15,237 --> 01:01:20,897
they're like ah you know what if we did this this and that and boom you know new scientific theory

915
01:01:20,897 --> 01:01:26,777
and it's like whoa you know yeah but it's amazing where intelligence can be in all sorts of different

916
01:01:26,777 --> 01:01:32,437
places too like it's it's not just science you know there's that kind in every field and that's

917
01:01:33,477 --> 01:01:38,037
well there's there's farmers we have a we have a supercomputer there's farmers out there that

918
01:01:38,037 --> 01:01:42,297
are like that you know what i mean they're like you know they walk up to a broken piece of

919
01:01:42,297 --> 01:01:45,357
equipment i know what the problem is and they go straight to it and they fix it and they're like

920
01:01:45,357 --> 01:01:49,797
yep you know or you're doing that wrong if you do it this way it'll be easier and you're like that

921
01:01:49,797 --> 01:01:52,917
doesn't make any sense that seems like it's a lot harder and then you do it and you're like

922
01:01:52,917 --> 01:01:59,617
okay i was wrong you know that's what 30 years of experience gives you right there yeah lx man

923
01:01:59,617 --> 01:02:05,537
you gotta tell me about this car while he's figuring this out so what'd you do no it's just

924
01:02:05,537 --> 01:02:14,417
a notchback mustang that i crammed a big block into yeah but it it was kind of a project that

925
01:02:14,417 --> 01:02:22,837
i mean it kind of took off but not not really did you twist the frame no it was just a not that big

926
01:02:22,837 --> 01:02:29,437
no it was basically just a takeout motor out of an old lincoln and then uh okay it built a bigger

927
01:02:29,437 --> 01:02:29,977
motor

928
01:02:29,982 --> 01:02:33,702
that I intended to put in there, like a 512 stroker motor,

929
01:02:33,842 --> 01:02:39,802
based on a 460 big block, but it never really came to fruition the whole way.

930
01:02:40,142 --> 01:02:44,482
I mean, it had a lot of torque, but the brakes were still stock,

931
01:02:44,582 --> 01:02:47,182
so that was the dangerous part.

932
01:02:47,962 --> 01:02:51,242
So you had to replace the gearbox and the transmission too then, right?

933
01:02:51,822 --> 01:02:54,182
Yeah, it just had a C6 behind it.

934
01:02:54,902 --> 01:02:55,222
Okay.

935
01:02:56,082 --> 01:02:58,702
And that handled all that power just fine?

936
01:02:58,702 --> 01:03:02,502
Yeah, it was just a stock drivetrain out of an old Lincoln.

937
01:03:03,502 --> 01:03:04,002
Oh, okay.

938
01:03:04,002 --> 01:03:05,002
So you did the whole thing.

939
01:03:05,142 --> 01:03:06,482
So it was, I don't think that makes sense.

940
01:03:07,122 --> 01:03:13,462
But you weighted down the car with a new frame that was much smaller and lighter then by using the Mustang.

941
01:03:13,602 --> 01:03:15,062
Oh, it added a lot of weight to it.

942
01:03:15,102 --> 01:03:15,362
Yes.

943
01:03:15,702 --> 01:03:16,242
Oh, it added.

944
01:03:17,022 --> 01:03:17,622
Oh, okay.

945
01:03:18,122 --> 01:03:18,842
No, no, no.

946
01:03:18,862 --> 01:03:24,102
I'm saying versus the Lincoln frame and body versus the Mustang frame and body, the Mustang is going to be much lighter.

947
01:03:24,102 --> 01:03:27,642
Oh, just the engine and transmission, you know, different drive shaft.

948
01:03:27,642 --> 01:03:29,502
it fit in there

949
01:03:29,502 --> 01:03:30,102
barely

950
01:03:30,102 --> 01:03:32,982
must have been

951
01:03:32,982 --> 01:03:33,462
a pain in the ass

952
01:03:33,462 --> 01:03:34,162
to work on too

953
01:03:34,162 --> 01:03:34,442
then

954
01:03:34,442 --> 01:03:35,862
yeah a little bit

955
01:03:35,862 --> 01:03:36,482
a little bit

956
01:03:36,482 --> 01:03:37,462
not as bad as

957
01:03:37,462 --> 01:03:38,722
my father-in-law's

958
01:03:38,722 --> 01:03:39,182
old Mustang

959
01:03:39,182 --> 01:03:40,182
he had an old

960
01:03:40,182 --> 01:03:42,602
428 Super Cobra Jet

961
01:03:42,602 --> 01:03:43,342
Mach 1

962
01:03:43,342 --> 01:03:43,782
that thing

963
01:03:43,782 --> 01:03:44,442
like you had to

964
01:03:44,442 --> 01:03:44,982
drop the engine

965
01:03:44,982 --> 01:03:45,442
out to change

966
01:03:45,442 --> 01:03:46,202
the spark plugs

967
01:03:46,202 --> 01:03:46,742
on that thing

968
01:03:46,742 --> 01:03:47,322
it was that

969
01:03:47,322 --> 01:03:47,962
that tight

970
01:03:47,962 --> 01:03:50,862
kind of crazy

971
01:03:50,862 --> 01:03:53,322
Havoc you back

972
01:03:53,322 --> 01:03:53,662
man

973
01:03:53,662 --> 01:03:55,382
nope

974
01:03:55,382 --> 01:04:05,482
stop using the air force signals i don't understand those ones

975
01:04:05,482 --> 01:04:09,422
he can hear us so that's good

976
01:04:09,422 --> 01:04:22,282
i don't know als

977
01:04:22,282 --> 01:04:33,242
so lx those are all nintendo games behind you yeah what do you got like almost every one of

978
01:04:33,242 --> 01:04:49,491
them or what almost really yeah well i i started buying them like back in the early 2000s because i mean i had a nintendo when i was a kid i probably had you know like 15 games Then you know I would buy them at flea markets and yard sales for you know

979
01:04:49,511 --> 01:04:50,531
like a quarter a piece

980
01:04:50,531 --> 01:04:51,671
or a dollar a piece.

981
01:04:51,731 --> 01:04:52,191
And I'm like,

982
01:04:52,251 --> 01:04:52,931
I want to get the ones

983
01:04:52,931 --> 01:04:53,531
I never had.

984
01:04:53,771 --> 01:04:54,291
Give them a try.

985
01:04:54,631 --> 01:04:55,551
Most of them are garbage.

986
01:04:56,251 --> 01:04:56,511
Yeah.

987
01:04:57,971 --> 01:04:59,531
Especially the expensive,

988
01:04:59,931 --> 01:05:01,731
rare ones these days.

989
01:05:01,971 --> 01:05:03,151
They're the worst ones,

990
01:05:03,371 --> 01:05:03,991
believe it or not,

991
01:05:04,031 --> 01:05:04,811
for the most part.

992
01:05:05,971 --> 01:05:06,651
Well, it was like

993
01:05:06,651 --> 01:05:07,971
E.T. for Atari, right?

994
01:05:09,091 --> 01:05:17,631
the flashing light i'm going to exit and i'm not sure if this will drop the session oh okay i see

995
01:05:17,631 --> 01:05:26,751
hey that was just the two of us so it didn't kill us that's good blast i it happened one other time

996
01:05:26,751 --> 01:05:33,871
and he dropped off and it uh that it dropped everybody but how long have you two been doing

997
01:05:33,871 --> 01:05:42,471
this uh i think we're going on three years yeah i i had a game podcast it was just audio only and

998
01:05:42,471 --> 01:05:50,331
it was a game that actually he and i met playing it was stupid game but anyway i'm glad for the

999
01:05:50,331 --> 01:05:55,311
people that it brought into my life but yeah it was horrible a horrible horrible waste of time

1000
01:05:55,311 --> 01:06:03,031
and energy and and funds but what was the game you mind telling me war dragons

1001
01:06:03,031 --> 01:06:11,591
it was a phone game it was like a literal mobile game all right can you guys hear me all right

1002
01:06:11,591 --> 01:06:15,651
yeah yeah we can hear you now hey you're on the right side you need to be in the middle

1003
01:06:15,651 --> 01:06:21,091
yeah you know what i'll be wherever i am i guess we were talking about the dating app

1004
01:06:21,091 --> 01:06:24,991
you were using called war dragons they got you two hooked up yeah

1005
01:06:24,991 --> 01:06:33,351
you'd be amazed how many people actually used it as such there were quite a few relationships

1006
01:06:33,351 --> 01:06:39,691
that came of that game people even got married right i don't know how successful and divorced

1007
01:06:39,691 --> 01:06:45,651
subsequently thereafter yeah like i said because once they finally met in person that's pretty much

1008
01:06:45,651 --> 01:06:51,371
how it worked yeah yeah it's crazy yeah sorry about that i don't know what happened i'll bet

1009
01:06:51,371 --> 01:07:04,960
when it comes down to the end it all going to be there And I going to be like but it all How was that again You you can hear us what that it going to keep all i never thought about that yeah i could hear you guys talking

1010
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:10,600
through the whole thing oh all right yeah i and i i could you know hear myself through my monitor

1011
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:16,740
but i could not hear you know you couldn't you couldn't hear me so good chance it'll keep all

1012
01:07:16,740 --> 01:07:23,860
of that. But I guess at this point, maybe it's a good place to wrap things up and start going

1013
01:07:23,860 --> 01:07:30,360
through that piece. And I apologize for this. This is the most technical issues we've ever had

1014
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:39,300
on this platform, which is kind of annoying. Anyway, so one of the questions we like to ask

1015
01:07:39,300 --> 01:07:44,460
all of our guests is throughout our lives, there's a figure that has a lasting and massive impact on

1016
01:07:44,460 --> 01:07:49,380
our lives. And this could be like a sixth grade science teacher, an author, historical figure,

1017
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:55,400
heck, it could be mom. And we like to ask our guests to give a shout out, kind of give back to,

1018
01:07:55,400 --> 01:07:59,300
you know, someone in their life. Who would you like to give that shout out to?

1019
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:05,880
Well, you know, parents is kind of cliche because that's an obvious thing for me. But

1020
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:13,380
so Lieutenant Colonel Alan Salter. And towards the end of my Marine Corps career, I was going

1021
01:08:13,380 --> 01:08:20,220
through a lot of personal stuff and he was the biggest supporter I had outside of family and he

1022
01:08:20,220 --> 01:08:25,960
helped me through it and um ironically enough he is still the commissioner of the same fantasy

1023
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:30,740
football league that we've been playing for now 15 years so I still talk to the man on a regular

1024
01:08:30,740 --> 01:08:38,280
basis but uh yeah he did a lot for me and uh I can't I can't imagine if he wasn't there at that

1025
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:44,520
time so it's out to him that's awesome that's that's a good one that's that's a first for us too

1026
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:52,820
was was he a direct line commanding officer or yeah he was my co okay oh my yeah so i was in um

1027
01:08:52,820 --> 01:08:57,600
the headquarters uh support squadron of the second marine aircraft wing

1028
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:06,380
long story short he was my administrative co and then i had a another it's it's weird when you're

1029
01:09:06,380 --> 01:09:17,449
at the command level you have two different bosses So he was one of them The other boss happened to be this commanding general of the entire MAW

1030
01:09:17,629 --> 01:09:19,409
So entire Marine Aircraft Wing.

1031
01:09:19,629 --> 01:09:21,269
So, you know, yeah.

1032
01:09:22,089 --> 01:09:22,929
Well, very cool.

1033
01:09:23,329 --> 01:09:25,909
So what do you got going on?

1034
01:09:25,989 --> 01:09:27,229
What are you working on next?

1035
01:09:27,349 --> 01:09:28,569
Where can people find you?

1036
01:09:28,629 --> 01:09:29,609
What are your socials?

1037
01:09:29,669 --> 01:09:31,029
Where can people buy your books?

1038
01:09:31,029 --> 01:09:33,189
What's the best place for people to buy your books?

1039
01:09:33,949 --> 01:09:35,669
I made it as simple as possible.

1040
01:09:35,669 --> 01:09:44,869
It's just my website, bartonfortexas.com, and all my social media is on there and my bills that I wrote.

1041
01:09:45,049 --> 01:09:49,949
So I always challenge people, go read my bills because unlike other politicians, I actually wrote them out.

1042
01:09:50,189 --> 01:09:53,709
So I can be challenged and you can find the holes and we can fix it before I go.

1043
01:09:54,169 --> 01:09:57,389
And then I also have a dedicated page for all the books and it's all connected.

1044
01:09:57,869 --> 01:10:00,749
What I'm working on now author-wise is I'm slowing down.

1045
01:10:01,629 --> 01:10:05,769
I'm still building the bones of book two.

1046
01:10:06,109 --> 01:10:09,589
So what I've been doing instead has been translating a couple of books to Spanish.

1047
01:10:10,569 --> 01:10:11,569
Get those out there.

1048
01:10:12,069 --> 01:10:17,689
So my spouse is a naturalized Venezuelan and mama lives with us.

1049
01:10:17,809 --> 01:10:21,389
And yeah, my daughter is going to know more Spanish than me in about a year.

1050
01:10:22,289 --> 01:10:26,369
So yeah, that's kind of, you know, being when you're in South Texas,

1051
01:10:26,369 --> 01:10:29,469
it's kind of a good thing to put your books out in Spanish as well, I would say.

1052
01:10:30,029 --> 01:10:30,229
Oh, yeah.

1053
01:10:30,229 --> 01:10:34,989
Well, I think a lot of the country, it's probably a pretty decent idea.

1054
01:10:35,669 --> 01:10:37,129
You know, that's pretty cool.

1055
01:10:37,769 --> 01:10:38,149
All right.

1056
01:10:38,269 --> 01:10:40,689
Well, you know, hey, this has been wonderful.

1057
01:10:40,849 --> 01:10:44,269
And thank you very much for giving us some of your time.

1058
01:10:44,329 --> 01:10:45,709
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1059
01:10:46,809 --> 01:10:50,789
And thank you for giving us some of your time as well.

1060
01:10:52,249 --> 01:10:53,529
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1061
01:10:53,589 --> 01:10:54,249
We're everywhere.

1062
01:10:54,249 --> 01:10:55,729
I mean, literally everywhere.

1063
01:10:55,889 --> 01:10:59,649
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1064
01:10:59,649 --> 01:11:02,549
and literally everywhere podcasts play.

1065
01:11:03,229 --> 01:11:05,889
So you can also check us out on our website,

1066
01:11:06,209 --> 01:11:07,929
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1067
01:11:08,349 --> 01:11:10,709
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1068
01:11:10,889 --> 01:11:11,489
We'll reply.

1069
01:11:11,669 --> 01:11:12,389
We always do.

1070
01:11:13,309 --> 01:11:14,309
And remember,

1071
01:11:15,349 --> 01:11:16,569
wherever you are,

1072
01:11:17,609 --> 01:11:18,809
whenever you're watching this,

1073
01:11:19,629 --> 01:11:21,069
have an amazing day.

1074
01:11:22,109 --> 01:11:23,109
Thanks for stopping by, Keith.

1075
01:11:23,289 --> 01:11:23,769
See you, everybody.

1076
01:11:24,509 --> 01:11:25,149
Thank you, gentlemen.

1077
01:11:25,569 --> 01:11:26,409
Really appreciate it.