Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 236 of the National Security Law podcast.

We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

It's Tuesday morning, April 4, 2023. I'm Bobby Chesney.

I'm Steve Loddick.

Hello, Steve.

Hi, Bobby.

How are you? I'm okay. I was telling you before we started recording that, you know, we're

really into the crunch period for book stuff. It's six weeks from today.

This book here, I'm holding in my hand, the basic books publication, the shadow docket. How does the Supreme Court uses

stealth rulings to amass power and undermine the republic? Good title.

It is. So six weeks from today's publication day, which means that behind the scenes,

there's like already an absolute like avalanche of stuff that I have to do.

What's the over under on the number of book talks you're going to give,

counting the ones you may have already done?

If you said a hundred, I'd take the over.

I mean, you know, a bunch of those are not formal, like a bunch of those are just like,

hey, I'm speaking to this group and, by the way, here's my book.

You're speaking here in Austin at Book People, our beloved local bookstore.

So I'll post about this on social media next week, because next week begins the real big sort of publicity tour.

But the events that we're going to have live in-person events in D.C., New York, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco.

Is this going to be like Live Aid where you perform at one of these, hop in a plane, and then go to another one the same day?

No.

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