All right, welcome back.

We're going to be talking to an author who has, as I point out, he's an Emmy Award winner

and many other types of awards like tellies and things like that.

But he's also a writer.

He's got a new novel out.

It's called Revolution Empire.

I read you one of the reviews from a homeschool curriculum

training and support group, Home Link Yakima, said it offers the brutal truth of absolute power

and the preciousness of the freedom that can defeat it. Another review said, serious though

its themes are, Revolution empires above all entertaining highly

readable it will find a big audience and so his ideas will be deservedly spread wide

stories like revolution empire give us hope that the young will leave behind a better world

than that which previous generations have handed them and then finally. To pull the reader deep into a web of

dystopian oppression and thrilling intrigue, Rob has created a strange new world that will be

eerily familiar to careful readers and students of history. And I would say probably to careful

observers of what is happening to us right now.

So joining us now is Rob Travolino. Thank you for joining us, Rob.

Pleasured be here, David. Thanks for having me.

Let's talk a little bit about what inspired this. I'm sure there's a lot of parallels to

contemporary events and dystopia novels. What inspired you to write this?

Oh, man, it's been a long journey. Yeah. contemporary events and dystopia novels. What inspired you to write this?

Oh man, it's been a long journey. Part of it really just comes out of my career.

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