Hi, I'm Jesse Tyler Ferguson, host of the podcast Dinners on Me. I take some of my favorite people out to dinner including, yes, my modern family co-stars, like Ed O'Neill. I had friends in organized crime.

Sophia Vigara.

Well, how do you want to be comfortable?

Julie Bowen.

I used to be the crier.

And Aubrey Anderson Emmons.

I was so definitely bad for them at what Miranda when I was like eight.

You can listen to dinners on me wherever you get your podcasts.

You know where I was when I found out about that assassination attempt?

Dintai Fun.

Not Dintai Fun.

A crossbow range.

A state sale?

Who?

It was Gene Smart.

I was in Gene Smart's house.

Wow.

Wow.

Well, I love designing women stuff? Um, no, but immediately found her comic con panel label from her Fargo panel and then immediately knew where I was. So when I spent a year working on a script about America falling into a civil war because of a contested presidential election between a Republican demagogue and a Hillary-like figure.

I read a ton of pre-World War II history just about Weimar Germany and like what happened in that era and I read this book by Sir Richard Evans

called the coming of the Third Reich, the Third Reich in power and the Third Reich at

War. It's this trilogy that I believe people view as the replacement for the rise and fall, that one from the 50s or 60s, whatever it is, because this one is, I think, willing to describe the complicity of everyday Germans. Anyway, I was reading a lot about

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