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The Ben Shapiro Show

Andrew Klavan | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 24

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Author, screenwriter, and Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan joins me to discuss the craft of writing novels, how he went from being "intellectually agnostic" to deeply religious, and why he decided to out himself as a conservative Christian in Hollywood. Date: 10-21-2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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When you are in the mind of the character, you're there.

0:03.4

You're just completely believing what he says.

0:05.0

And that way, you let the story go.

0:07.6

You're here with your beliefs.

0:09.0

You're here with your vision.

0:10.2

You let the story go and just tell itself.

0:19.2

Hey, hey, and welcome.

0:20.2

This is the Ben Shapiro Show's Sunday special guest, Andrew Claven,

0:23.8

who you may know from such things as me pitching membership at the Daily Wire. We'll get to all

0:27.6

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It's a luxury mattress at a non-luxury price, helixleaksleep.com slash Ben Guest, and you get $125.25 off your mattress order, helixleaf.com slash Ben Guest. Drew, I have to start by asking you, what the heck is another kid? What are we even talking about? It's a story about this kind of little slub nebish in Hollywood who's come out to be a

1:46.9

big filmmaker a little bit of success and it all melted away and now he's turning 30 he's not

1:51.9

happy he knows he can see he's going down that road where he's never going to quite make it

1:56.2

never going to pull away Hollywood is filled with people like this. And everything is just kind of going

2:01.4

wrong in his life. And one day, he opens a door, walks through the door, and he finds himself

2:06.4

in a locked room, in a medieval castle, a dead body on the floor, and a bloody dagger in his hand.

2:13.6

And the guards kick down the door, grab him, drag him, throw him into a dungeon, and tell him he's going to trial for his life. And he can't believe, he thinks he must have a brain to him. And the weird thing that keeps happening to him is every now and again, he'll go through another door, he'll be back in Hollywood. Like a minute later, a second later, there's no time past it. And in Hollywood, he finds that people are hunting him all of a sudden, and he has no

2:35.6

idea why. And so these two mysteries are unfolding in two completely different worlds, and yet

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