Brad Meltzer

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5.0 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Brad Meltzer: tequila Brad reveals what it takes to make him wear his underpants on the outside, the wildest forms of terror attack that he brainstormed with the CIA and FBI while a member of the Red Cell Unit, some hilarious insider stories of Barbara Bush, what’s underneath the White House, how he started his “I Am…” book series for kids, and how he first fell in love with the writing process.

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0:41.4	Welcome to Dedicated. i'm your host doug brunt today we're with number one bestselling author brad melzer brad is the author of fiction
0:46.6	nonfiction books for young adults tv shows and comic books he can count among his fans former
0:52.2	presidents george h w bush and Bill Clinton, both of whom have
0:55.9	helped Brad with his research. He's participated in a U.S. intelligence work group that included
1:00.8	the FBI, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security in which they brainstormed ways in which
1:05.9	terrorists might attack us. I just finished his novel, The Escape Artist, a thriller, which was fantastic.
1:12.2	He's such a talented writer, and I'm thrilled he's here with us today. Brad, welcome. Thank you, Doug. I appreciate that. Now, your drink order today was sort of open-ended, just tequila in any way. So I chose Ennejo tequila for us. Yes, well, that was what, you know, they said to me, it has to be a drink, and I was like, you know what I want? I always want to have something that I haven't had.
1:30.1	Like that to me is much more interesting than my favorite drink. Some people need their favorite drink. My favorite drink is still out there. It's still, you know, I don't know what it is. It could be something I don't know. Oh, I love that. The creative juices are still flowing with you. I mean, I don't feel like I got to give up.
1:24.8	Like, you hit 50 and you've got to give up and be like, I've tasted everything in the universe, and this is the answer.
1:29.5	No.
1:29.9	Well, I'll give you a little background on this then.
1:31.3	Yeah. you. I mean, I don't feel like I got to give up. You hit 50 and you got to give up and be like, I've tasted everything in the universe and this is the answer. No, I'll give you a little background
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