Thank you for tuning into the three questions. Again, I hope this is again. And if it's your first time, you're in for a good one because my guest today is Max Brooks is the author of all those all that crazy zombie shit.

Yeah, that's how I refer to it. So they're well said. Yeah, but you're a writer. You worked on us an L for a while. And now now you're pretty much just right books, right?

Yeah, I'm pretty much a novelist. I divide my time between writing books and my two think tanks that I'm a non-resident fellow at.

Which are? I don't know anybody to think tank. Oh God. Yeah. Well, the first one is a civilian think tank in Washington, DC.

It's the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. And the other one is a military think tank called the Modern War Institute at West Point.

And so both of those are focused on national security and that those that's my night job. And why and I mean, did you are you schooled for that sort of thing?

Apparently I am. I did not know this when many years ago my book World War Z was chosen by the president of the United States Naval War College to be on its reading list.

And when they called me and asked me to speak, I said, you know, you should have got the right guy. And I think if you that lecture is on YouTube. And that's how I open. I say, is there a is there a

lieutenant commander Max Brooks wandering around Comic Con saying, wait a minute, I think there's a problem. But you know, what I do in my writing is I present a fictional threat.

And I attack it with real world solutions. Yeah.

Which requires years of research into how this world really works. And so even though the problems may be fictional zombies are in the new book Bigfoot.

I am an understanding on on threat management and crisis and disasters. And so that's why I work with the military because I can speak their language.

Yeah. And that was just purely from having done research with what I think is just to it, you know, like it.

At the time, you know, as you as you did that it was three books, right? It was the How to Survive a zombie apocalypse.

Yeah. First one was the zombie survival guide. And then that was World War Z. And now I knew one is devolution.

Well, but there were two versions. weren't there like two versions of the of the first book?

Well, the first book zombie survival guide I had I had some recorded attacks in the back that we we adapted to a comic book.

Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah, because I just was to me, it was just so fascinating.

Both of those books, I mean, the first book, the How to Survive a zombie attack was more comic.

I mean, it was more sort of overtly comic. Don't you think or or not not to me. You know, that was the funny part.

If there was a joke, the joke was on me. Yeah. Because they tried to position it because no one had ever written a book like that.

So they thought, well, this guy can't possibly be as much of a nerd and a loser as this book is. He must be tongue in cheek.

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