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Welcome to Citizen, we have a very special guest today, Ricky Schlott, I writer, author

now. That's exciting. You've got a new book out. Yes, October 17th, the canceling of the American

mind with Gregory Fiona. Yeah. Almost officially an author, which is kind of crazy to say.

I think officially it's in print now, like you've got physically behind me, so I guess it counts,

but yeah, I'm kind of just freezing for the impact of the book, so it's exciting. Yeah, well,

that's another thing. I mean, so you and I re-entage each other on when Clubhouse was kind of a blip

back in the day, but I followed your work since then, and it's gotten progressively more exposure,

which is nice, because you write from a point of view that I don't see very often, which is

you know, the younger generation and people that are like, can we act like normal fucking human beings

for a while, that whole situation? I don't know what you call that exactly, but that's what it is.

Yeah, I think just like there are a shockingly and depressingly few number of young voices that,

I mean, I would like to think that I tack towards common sense, and there don't seem to be that

many writers that are also Gen Z that feel the same way, although I would say that there's an

enormous audience for it, which heartens me, but you know, it's hard to actually like put yourself

out there, and you know, like I was planning to go to law school and a totally different route,

and this kind of turned me off that entire course, so I understand why most people might think

similarly, might rather just kind of go along to get along and put their head down.

Sure, yeah. It's certainly easier to do that. What, excuse me, what, how did you get into this

in the first place? Like you've got a pretty interesting background. I know your dad is, you got

an old dad, which is nice, so insofar as getting away with things when you're a teenager, but I don't

know how it plays, growing up, exactly, my dad was younger, but yeah, how did you get into,

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