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We've been talking about Israel and Gaza a lot on this show.

We need to break from it.

I'm very, very excited to do this specific episode.

Can you tell the lovely people who you are and what you do?

Yeah, my name is Matt Farwell and I'm a writer currently working on a project

called the Hunt Hunter Tom Clancy,

which was a failed book proposal detailing how both the CIA and military,

put a considerable amount of effort into cultivating novelist Tom Clancy as a propaganda asset and tool for all sorts of things actually.

And I thought it would sell, my agent thought it would sell,

while the other writers I do thought it would sell,

needed a book to pay my taxes, you know, like,

shit, very relatable shit, and didn't get it.

But what I got instead was something almost better.

So most of the original, like Hunt for Tom Clancy book proposal has already come out and

full-formed drafts and I went through and did I don't know when you describe it as like

dispatches riffing on like various Tom Clancy books or like using them as a springboard talk about the real world

shit that inspired it.

It's memoir slash clancy analysis slash pop culture and history analysis kind of all

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