Joining me today is the author of the Orphan X novels, a comic book writer whose work includes

Batman, Wolverine, and the Punisher, and a guy trying to save the Democrats, Greg

Hurwitz, how's it going?

It's good to see you.

That's the scariest one.

You can write all the thriller novels you want.

It's worse than the Rogue's gallery.

It's worse than any Batman villain or evil theory I've ever heard trying to save the

Democrats, but you're trying.

We're going to get to that in a little bit.

So there's a lot I want to do here with you.

Let's talk Orphan X first and a little bit just about your work.

What got you into thrillers?

You know, the only thing I ever wanted to do is write thrillers.

And my parents did not let me watch TV when I was growing up.

Unless there was Alfred Hitchcock movie on or The Red Sox, where my dad's from Boston.

So that was religion.

And so all that I did was read.

And so I was like climbing the bookshelves to get to, you know, jaws on the top shelf.

And Stephen King.

I mean, I was just into all that stuff by fifth grade.

And I was obsessed with it.

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