Welcome to Conversations that Matter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We have another special edition special guest. Actually, I think it's your second time, right?

Being on the podcast, Thomas. Yeah. We have a reoccurring special guest, a frequent flyer hopefully for months and years to come.

Thomas Accord, he's going to be talking about a book that he just helped compile and it's called I had it pulled up here.

See this is professional podcasting who is my neighbor is the name of the book you can get it on Amazon and and I actually I got it on Kindle

But I'm wishing that I got it on hard copy because I think I think this is something that I don't hopefully it will survive a purge but it's something I want to be able to pass down because there's just so many good things that you compile here.

How big is it by the way? It's a large Kindlebook. Is it you have like a hard copy of it there that you can show us or?

I don't have one with me right now, but it's as it's as big as a like a dictionary or something. I mean, it's a's a big fat thing okay and you didn't write most of that you're the compiler you you helped write the forward then and some introductions and so forth right that's right it's it's an anthology it's a reader and so it's more of like a

it's an anthology it's a reader and so it's more of like a reference work and we did

write little introductions for each section and the intro and afterward. Okay. I was just actually trying to pull up where people can get it. Is it just

Amazon or are there other places as well? It's at Amazon. It's also at Apple I Books. And I think that I think the

Nook store is going to carry it, but I don't even know. Yeah, Amazon's the big

place where people are getting it. Yeah, all right, I found it there.

It's paperback 25 bucks, Kindle, 10 bucks,

marked down from 25.

So it's a reasonable price for all the information you're getting

and it's arranged by someone yourself and and

Darrell Dow is the other person who you guys know what you're talking about and so I want to just

first ask an open-ended you know why did you decide to put this together?

What's the book about?

So this came about, the idea that came about in 2015 when all the sort of the national discussion in politics turned toward some of the

themes in the book which deal with nationhood borders immigrants and things like this and we began to encounter a lot of new literature, a lot of old literature that we had never read.

And as we were reading this, we were finding a sort of contrary view to the prevailing narrative in America and that many people had never accessed this.

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