There's a JFK assassination conspiracy you probably don't know about.

All these decades later, people continue to be fascinated with the assassination, and just

recently the administration declassified thousands of new documents relating to it, but what

I'm talking about had nothing to do with when he was actually killed.

Someone actually planned to take his life years before he died in Dallas.

Today on Deviant Offscript, we talked to the man who uncovers this story in amazing detail.

Author Brad Meltzer.

Let's go.

Okay, Brad, I have to say, first of all, thank you so much for being with us here on Deviant today.

I'm very excited for you, not just because I'm a big fan of your work, but also your life.

You are a inspiration for ruggedly handsome bald men everywhere.

I mean, really, we should change the podcast to just bald handsome men for one hour.

I'm going to tell my partners after this that I'm starting my own company with Brad Milzer and it's all about, yeah,

the B. H.M. All the Henson, man. Exactly. And I look at my life and I tend to be proud of a lot of the things I've accomplished, but I'm more proud of the things that you've accomplished. You've, you've accomplished a lot. And, you know, we're going to talk about your book, which I'm a big history nerd, so I'm very excited to get into that. But, you know, just a little bit about about your background.

You're an author of fiction,

nonfiction, comic books, amazing commencement speeches. You've hosted television shows. And just from a

sort of a craftsmanship sort of perspective, how do you manage to focus on all these different things and execute on them well?

I can't possibly say the execute on it well part, right?

That is not for me.

I don't know if I ever do that.

But I can tell you on the focus side, a friend of mine, Simon Sinek, knew one thing about me. He figured it out before I did. And he said, for me, the struggle matters. And what he meant by that and what I've taken it to me is when I do something and someone says, hey, let's go do it again, I'm always like, well,

we just did that. Like, I don't want to do it again. I just did it. But the moment someone says to me, you can't do that, oh, that is just catnip to me. So my first, when I first started

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