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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today, it is my pleasure to be with Eric Larson.

He is a journalist and best-selling author, probably the most successful author of narrative nonfiction of our time.

He is famous around the world for his titles,

including The Devil in the White City, Dead Wake, Splendid in the Vile, and his latest is

The Demon of Unrest, which is equally fantastic. He's one of only a handful of authors for whom

I automatically pre-order the book. I don't need to know anything about the book other than he wrote it. It's great to be with you today. Thank you. It's great to be here, and I'm so glad you pre-ordered the book. That means a lot. It's you, Amor Tolls, who are just talking about. It might be only you two, actually, that I pre-order automatically for it every time. That's great. That's great great so i love the cocktail choice today so we've got the manhattan which is my favorite mine too

and i generally make it with rye as you can see excellent excellent i'll get that started um i like the

sound effects the cork coming off the gurg gurgle, gurgle, gurgle of the bottle. I think we were talking about... That's my favorite vermouth as well. Good few. Yeah. And I kind of do it all freehand here, just tying it up. I love it. I love it. Now, are you going to have one also oh yeah how about the cherry are

you good with the luxardo i'm fine with or without okay yeah if my wife were here she would she would

want two in the glass and then she would for sure have one okay well we'll double up on the cherry

then she's not here, though. Thank you. Wow. Wow. Very.

These are the good, like the brandy good series. I love them. Yeah. Yeah. This is a high-class bar. Do you have a happy hour or no, no. You know, I kind of sneak the booze around the hallways here.

I'm not sure we're really supposed to be doing this.

All the better. All the better.

But they are allowing it for now.

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