Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 906 | Just Don’t Say Anything… Guest: Brad Thor

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

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Those of you still sitting in the airport, how you doing? You're all right? Nearly 17,000 flights were delayed. More than 1,400 were canceled over this past Independence Day weekend. Yay! So if you're still at the airport, I mean, I am so sorry, but I hope you're okay.

I mean, I asked how you're doing. I expected you to, you know, just say, I'm okay, I'm just waiting here. But it wouldn't surprise me if you said, I'm not good at all. I want to get to where I'm going. The good news is, and I know that there was, you know,

the glitch at American Airlines that had, you know, pilots dropping trips, so they had, you know, a number of flights. canceled. American says it was a glitch. We've got everything under control. Don't worry about it. It's fine.

Our transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has addressed the chaos. And he's on it. He is on it for you and me. He has, well, he's called on the airlines to do better. So everything,

is going to be fine. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So what would you do if you looked in your bank account and your check this month was 300 times more than you usually get? What would you do? Do you report it? Do you withdraw it? Do you just leave it there and pretend like it didn't happen and hope that nobody catches it? I think that's probably your best bet. is to just pretend like it's there. I mean, pretend like you just don't know it that's just there. It's the way it is. That's what, you know, that's the money that's in my account.

Well, this happened to an employee in Chile, Chile, and apparently he went to the company and said, hey, um, it looks like, uh, I got this massive chunk of change in my bank account. Uh, you know, is that a, is that a, that's a, problem, right? And they said, yeah, uh, it is. And he said, okay, well, I'll give the money back to you tomorrow. And when tomorrow came, he was gone. He withdrew all the funds and no one has spoken to him since. He's just gone. Now, they attempted to, you know, make contact with him. And in the story, it says they were contacted by the man's lawyer, saying that he had resigned from his position.

Apparently, he has a lawyer now. The guy, makes like $700 a month, the equivalent to $700 a month in the United States of America, which is less than what is the average take-home pay in Chile, according to this story. So I'm amazed that he's got an attorney, but he does, according to the story, and the attorney said, yeah, he's resigned from his position. They're just busy looking for the guy now. Oh, okay, I guess he's going to be charged. If they find him, or maybe he is charged him.

They just have to find him to actually give him the charges with misappropriation of funds. He didn't misappropriate any funds. You gave him. You were the ones who misappropriated the funds. He just decided that he didn't want to give it back. Now, that's a really, that's a whole different thing. We hear stories all the time about people getting, you know, a mistaken amount of money into their accounts.

And sooner or later, it catches up to you because the bank or the companies realize, hey, what happened to that extra $29,300. What happened to that? Where did it go? We paid bill $230,000. He was only supposed to get $700. That's a little bit of an issue. So, you know, sooner or later, you know, it comes around.

That's different than finding money. That's different than, you know, if you find money, you just keep your mouth shut and put it in the closet and use it to buy food and put gas in your car with cash, buy some shoes, buy the kids some clothes, and continue to use the incoming regular money to pay your bills and you, you know, you don't, you just don't say anything. All right. That's, that's free money. This is a little bit different.

What he did, you know, I mean, he knew he went to them and said, hey, there's a problem. And then he decided, yeah, you know what? And I'm just going to take the money. and get out of here. Really, really a different thing. It'd be tough not to do what he did. No question. Although, if you're going to do what he did,

like withdraw the money and leave, which is tough, you probably need to not tell the company that you know they screwed up. There was a screw up in your account because now the red flags are everywhere, right? So you probably just need to take it and not say anything and go.

That's why I think, you know, you just pretend like a, not there and you go buy a few things and then sooner or later they come back you don't say anything and sooner or later they go hey uh you did did you did you notice that we paid you 230,000 instead of 700 what i thought that was my new salary i thought it was a bonus from the company yeah we're going to need that money back all right well i spent some of it so i'll give you back what i didn't spend and we'll call it even probably get away with it probably be fine but to just take it all yeah that's a mistake it might be tough it'd be really hard not to withdraw it and go away especially if

you've been used to living on 700 bucks a month and now you've got 230,000 dollars I'm guessing that that's a step up so wherever he goes he's going to be living a tad bit better than he was and he could live for a long time continuing the lifestyle that he was already on so So I'm sure that's what he thought about when he decided to withdraw the money and disappear. Speaking of disappearing with a lot of money, I see someone in Vermont won the Powerball over the past weekend, $366.7 million. Congratulations. I'm sure the tax bill will come due in Vermont, but oh well, you're going to get the cash option as $208.5 million. so after the taxes and everything else you know you're going to end up with 100 million something like that maybe 110 million 120 million something like that I would hope for more and maybe that's an argument

to take the you know to take the yearly payment for 30 years but I never would do that you don't know if it's going to be around so I mean Even if you have to suffer, say, yeah, I won $366.6 million. And after I took the cash payout and paid the taxes, I ended up with $100 million. Okay. That's still a pretty good day. Really a pretty good day. And there's still all kinds of lottery tickets out there that has no one has claimed.

I mean, they're talking about another mega millions million dollar ticket is a about to expire. And there's a lot of people that win a million dollars from these power balls and mega million drawings. I mean, the mega millions today, for those of you listening live, today is the 5th of July, 2022. The mega millions drawing is tonight, uh, 7.5 at 11 p.m. for 370 million dollars. The power ball now, the next power ball is only, I don't know, that's for tomorrow for 35 million.

35 million cash value 20 million after taxes what are you going to take home 10 million I mean what are you going to do with that nothing by a trailer still

yeah probably so good luck good luck I hope someone wins boy do I hope someone wins I was looking at the chart for unclaimed Mega Million and Powerball jackpots. And this chart goes from 2002, it has 2003, then it jumps to 2006, then it jumps to 2011, and then it jumps to 2013. So in 2002, $19 million when unclaimed.

Wow. Then it dropped in 2003 to 46 million. And that's still a lot. 2006 dropped to 31 million. Then in 2011, it jumps back up to 77 million. And then in 2013, way down to 17 million. Just amazing that people would not claim their tickets. And I understand how it's possible.

You lose a ticket. It gets stuck in the seat of the car cushion and the couch. It's up in the cupboard where you set your tickets. and you, you know, you pull them down and there's one sitting there that you don't check and you don't see it till you move or clean the cupboards, whichever it comes first. And, you know, there it is and you don't claim it. But if you're looking at it like that, you realize that, you know, they, when you go to check, it says, you know, that there was, you know, a million dollar winner in whatever state won the money.

And if it's the state where you bought your ticket, And then you have to think to yourself, maybe it's me. And you look for that ticket. I mean, I was really incredible to me that someone would let that happen. But it does. So if you have tickets laying around, check them out. You only have so much time. You know, there's only some states give you 90 days.

Some states, I think, give you 180 days. The length of time depends on the state where you purchase the tickets. but I think it's mostly 180 days. I think that's a general time frame. So get to it. Get to it. All right. Let's go to the break room.

I need something cold to drink desperately. Congratulations. I are in order to Jaws, Joey Jaws, Chestnut, who wins another battle at Nathan's. hot dog eating contest. Here's George Shea with the announcement. The 63

Nathan's famous hot dogs and buns look on his works ye mighty and despair. For he has surpassed the kings of Egypt and the rock on which he stands

is not a rock. It is the United States of America. Think about it. With 63 Nathan's famous hot dogs and buns for his

15th championship Joey! Think about it. Congratulations to Joey Chestnut. I will say a little disappointing, though. You know, congratulations, and I'm a 15-time world champion, I get it, and he's eaten, you know,

a record of 1,152 combined hot dogs. You know, is his storied career. I mean, heeding as much as you can, as fast as you can. that's pretty American. That is, God bless the United States of America for that right there.

But let me just say that's 63 in 10 minutes for Joey. He's slipping a little bit. I know he's still number one. He's got the championship at all and he's got the mustard belt. But, you know, I mean, his own record is 76.

And 63. I mean, who, Joey, what are you doing? What's going on? I mean, I know his only loss right his only loss was to Matt Stoney in 2015 but once he took down

Kobayashi he was you know he's going strong plus I guess we have to congratulate the women's division Miki Sudo reclaimed her title after taking a year off for her pregnancy despite sporting a wrist injury ate four hot dogs that was just short of her own

personal best so she didn't even beat her own record. What is happening? What's going on? The COVID layoff got everybody messed up? I don't know. And then I saw where, I think, well, Joey, she had a wrist injury. Joey came in with crutches.

And then some guy rushed the stage. And, you know, the guy that rushed the stage was protesting Smithfield foods. Exposed for animal cruelty, worker abuse, and pollution. And so he'd stormed the stage and ran into Joey. And Joey was like, yeah, no. Grabbed him around after he realized, he runs into Joey. After he realizes, Joey just grabs him around the neck, throws him down. And then he goes back to eating.

I mean, that's maybe, you know, there you good. Maybe that's where he lost his mojo. It didn't, you know, go for the record. He just went for the win. Anyway, congratulations for their championships. Another championship, Joey Chestnut and Miki Sudu. I envy these people who can speed eat like this, man. I've said many times, I can't.

I've been in, I think I've been in one or two, you know, contests like that where, you know, you have to eat the most. And I just, I'm not a speed eater. I am like the Kenyan of eating, okay? I'm going for distance. I'm going for distance. I'm not going for, you know, I'm not going for speed. speed and quick.

I'm going for distance. That's me. I'm the Kenyon of food eating. That's me. Got a ton of emails sent to me, sent to the show, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com over the extended weekend. And we'll get to those in a moment. But first, let me tell you about Racon Wireless earbuds. Lately, I've been listening to a lot of, well, murder podcasts.

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I don't know what they identify as reminded me that the inmates are now supposed to be called customers, offenders, or residents. Because apparently inmate is a derogatory term and may hurt their feelings. So, you know, they're pissed because, you know, the inmates get their feelings hurt, but correctional officers get called guards and no one says, a word so just remember it's correctional officer not guard okay all right I'm sorry okay mr. correctional officer email from Eric there are a lot of things I've learned from your show and probably nothing more important than your ketchup Jeffie hack steak and shake was out of you know I was just thinking about steak and

shake the other day I haven't had steak and shake in a long time anyway I digress steak and shake was out of the ketchup cups so thankfully i remembered your fast food wisdom and grabbed a cup and filled that bad boy up thanks for saving the day love this show well and then he sent a picture of the family and of the cups you're welcome uh i also remember giving you this hack that you could use in case of emergency when you're going to a fast food restaurant and they you know like wendies i use them for an example because they're famous of being stingy with the packets and you're you know you're going to a fast food restaurant and they're you know like wendies i use them for an example because they're famous of being stingy with the packets and you're yet they have the big pumps out at the counter for you to fill up the little cups. They always give you a free cup for water. You know, you say, I need a glass of water. You know, whether you buy a soda or frosty or whatever you get, but I need a glass of water. And they'll give you, you know, a plastic cup. It's not a glass, by the way.

But I need a cup of water. And they give you the smaller plastic cup, perfect size for a lot of ketchup. And then take one of the small tops. And it fits right on. The water cup, and you're good to go for your takeout ketchup to take with you wherever you go. You're welcome. Email from Jesse, a man in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has wanted for stealing books from the public library at Knife Point. It's been years since I've gone in a public library, but I'm pretty sure you can still borrow books for free, right?

So does this qualify for Stupid Criminal Award? well yes but when you read the actual story the guy when first of all i gotta say this you know you get the books for free but you need some kind of identification and you can't you got to be a you have to live in the area some kind of weird rules now so i mean anybody can go in and read anybody can go in and read what they want uh you just can't check them out but apparently this this guy put in a couple of dozen books in his backpack and then was uh trying to walk out of the library and they said hey uh how about checking out those books and he said no and tap the knife he was carrying on his side so i'm sure every librarian in the country would say okay go

ahead you got me go ahead so maybe he's going to sell them uh maybe he's trying to make a little money to eat with i don't know you know that's why you would take the library books like that but there's still he's this criminal this madman criminal is still on the loose he's wearing a great t-shirt with blue around the sleeves and neck and kail i'll police are busy looking for this criminal who stole books armed armed robbery from the library in carlyle pennsylvania then i got a couple of emails of that uh you know one was one i want i want to say maybe i'll listen to the show all right here's here's this hey jeffy here's another show to bin John, gritty and cold. And the show is zero zero zero.

Yeah, I've already talked about it. Okay, I love the show. I told people of this audience to watch it. I don't know where you been. I appreciate you coming on board to chewing the fat. Make sure you tell your friends and neighbors to subscribe to chewing the fat. I appreciate it. But, you know, I did tell you about zero, zero, zero.

and I was watching a terminal list on Prime with Chris Pratt. I'm not finished. I have a couple episodes left. But, you know, it's been really good. I'll give you a full review when I finish it. I did start watching Joe Pickett on Paramount Plus. There's 10 episodes, 9 are already dropped. I was really bummed.

I thought it was all 10. And I got to the 9th, and if I didn't realize that the 10th one wasn't there, I wouldn't have watched the 9th. I would have waited so that I could watch the last two at the same time. So I decided, okay, I'm going to finish it off. And I got done with nine, and then there's no 10. Oh, what the hell? I'm so bummed.

So I got to wait for the 10th one to get Joe Pickett. He's a game warden, not a park ranger. And that's pretty good. It's pretty good. It's all right. It's kind of, you know, Yellowstone-ish. This is kind of where the show that Kossner wanted to do about what was happening in the national parks, kind of along those lines.

It was interesting. It was worth the watch. I finished Godfather of Harlem. What, man, I really liked Godfather of Harlem. I mean, Forrest Whitaker is great as Bumpy Johnson. Nigel Thatch plays Malcolm X. He is awesome as Malcolm X. The story, Godfather of Harlem, has a lot of a timeline with Malcolm X as well.

Vincent Donofrio. It's got some great character. There's great actors in the show really good and there's two seasons. I'm guessing I was told there's going to be a season three It's been renewed, but you know who knows when they're gonna start shooting it. I guess it's supposed to start shooting Season three this summer We'll see if that happens. I mean, I hope it does But the first two seasons were really really worth watching and then you know you have you know dark winds an old man and only murders in the building and those are you know weekly shows now so you know i don't know if i'm going to it's tough for me to i want to

just watch it all so they're only dropping one or two episodes a week i know that uh only murders drop two i think they're going to drop two each week which is which is okay i'm all right with that but dark weds and old man are just dropping once a week and it's just like so much just give me the shows would you please please just drop the shows like the podcast serial killer that we talked about I interviewed at McElnerney and it's about uh let's his face the baby killer the abortion doc Kermit Gosnell I mean I just want to hear them all four four have dropped already I think we saw we said in the interview there was going to be six I think there's six episodes the first four are awesome great I just want to hear them though I mean I listen to I just want to hear them

let's go I just want to drop them And so, you know, I'm left waiting in the wind. That's all. I'm left waiting in the wind. And then I got a couple of emails that looked like I'm going to make some money. I'm a little excited. I got an email from barrister Oscar Smith under the heading of urgent claim. Attention.

Hope this message reaches you sound and safe. Ben really worried over the non-reply of the information I released to your family. Kindly confirmed to me if you have received it or not. Wait, what? Yeah. subject reference our file number 342 U.S. 4.7 million, which is about late engineer Brad's inheritance estate claim. Oh, yeah, I haven't responded to that because I didn't see it. I'm attorney Oscar Smith and I happen to be his personal legal counsel and to witness to him the day he

made the last deposit investment savings account before his demise. I need you to stand as the next of kin beneficiary. You're on the list of the only family surviving members considered most likely to be related to the late engineer Brad, and it's my prerogative to ensure that you understand what is at stake and to ensure success. Please note that this proposal needs quick audience. As you can see, it's very important you confirm the receipt of the above subject sent from our law firm chamber,

full name, contact address, telephone, nationality, date of birth, marital status, occupation. Ha! Okay. I need the above listed information from you for, a reconformation and verification to enable our law firm to proceed with the processing of all legal documents by the Federal High Court, which you will be submitting to the bank as the authentic next-of-kin beneficiary to this fund to state while we file for the inheritance claim application. Please feel free to call or text me if you need further verbal clarifications.

Thanks for your cooperation and endeavor to treat this matter as urgent with utmost confidentiality while they await your quick and swift response. Oh my gosh. That's utmost confidentiality. I probably shouldn't have shared it with you. Warm regards, Barrister Oscar Smith. And he gives me an email address

and a telephone number and a WhatsApp number and attorney at law at the end. So I could be looking at, you know, some money. And, man, barrister Oscar Smith is out there working for me. All I need to do is give him all my information.

So maybe I'll text him. You know, maybe I'll just call Barrister Oscar and say, hey, what up, bro? Can you just send me the $4.7 million? And I don't think I'm going to do that either. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move.

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Brad Thor's Rising Tiger hits the streets where you can get it, where you don't have to pre-order, you don't have to do that nasty Bradthor.com pre-order. It should be on the racks. How are you, Bradthor? Welcome to doing the facts. Thanks, Jeff. I'm doing great. Doing great. You know what? You would think all these years, it's like 20 years. I've been at this. And it's still just exciting the day you come out with a new book. It's still so much fun. So this is what book 850, 8501, something like that, right?

851. You're good. Yeah. That's what I thought. I thought I was right out that. That's fantastic. I loved it. Another great read, of course. Another fun read for Scott to be back on the road. Now, when last, the last book, we were based, you know, in Finland and we had Russia, and we're still obviously involving China with that, but it was in that neck of the woods. Now, in Rising Tiger, we're in India. And of course, China is involved again. Amazing how that happens. But you were, you know, you were ahead of the curve, not by much on what was happening. in Europe.

And now, I mean, it seems like you're probably not far off the curve with what's happening in today's world with Rising Tiger. So when do you just start writing faction or factual books other than faction? Well, you know, and I love this term faction because you don't know where the facts end and the fiction begins. And with Rising Tiger, it was actually a new story. paper article two summers ago a group so the opening scene and rising tiger that really happened two summers ago chinese troops came over the himalayas into this uh disputed border region with india

and since 1996 there's been an agreement no firearms are allowed in this area because they don't want it to heat into a war and lord knows we're going to follow agreements oh yeah especially when the chinese are involved absolutely they're going to but they do but they do with this time they didn't bring firearms but they made their own weapons, as you saw in the book. Iron rod studded with spikes and baseball bats with barbed wire. It's like something out of the Walking Dead. And there was a six-hour hand-to-hand melee in the Himalayas. And I'm just the devastation of people being thrown off of cliffs into 1,000-foot drops.

And I said, this is amazing. And the more I looked at that part of the world, I realized, number one, no, none of my contemporaries had set a thriller there. And I thought, okay, that's a cool area to exploit. And number two, I was fascinated by the fact that America may be the oldest democracy, but India is the world's largest. And they're a natural ally for us, particularly now with the international pariah Russia has become to get into India and tighten it up. So the premise behind the book, I thought, wouldn't it be cool if we tried to create an Asian version of NATO? And you know the Chinese would go nuts if we tried to do that. But India is the same threat to China.

on their doorstep that Putin saw Ukraine and the democracy in Ukraine. So it was just too fertile that ground not to go in there and set a thriller there. So it was hard, though, Jeffrey. I've never been to India. I couldn't go because the Delta variant was, and I like to go and be on the ground in these places, but the Delta variant was terrible. And my wife's a doctor. And she said, listen, she said, yes, I get it.

You don't want to get COVID. She said, but let's talk about what else could happen. She goes, if you get in a car accident, you're not getting. into a hospital. They're overwhelmed. She said, you could fall and break your leg at the hotel. You're not going to get into a hospital. So I ended up reaching out to a bunch of spies and special operations people that I know that have been in that part of the world and been to these locations to get real interesting color details from that. Yeah. I mean, it's fascinating. It makes me want to go to. I don't know that I ever really thought about, you know, hey, you know, that's someplace I need

to go. But as you're reading it, you're like, yeah, I could go there. That sounds like. like fun. That sounds like it would be, you know, I'm not looking to kill anyone or be killed. So, you know, it sounds like it might be fun. All right. So as I'm perusing through Rising Tiger, I put some posted notes here just to remind myself of some things that I really enjoyed. Like the red hot screwdriver through a butterflies wing. Have you ever seen that happen? Have you ever seen that happen? That is a beautiful analogy. Yeah. I love it. Wasn't me, though. Wasn't me?

Wasn't you? It wasn't me. That's fine. That's fine. Plus, I was noticing a string of pearls. Faction? That's real. That's real.

The Chinese naval bases in the places. Yeah. So this has to do, the Belt and Road initiative is largely on land. And then the string of pearls is doing the same thing. So they have basing agreements and things like that. And even commercial shipping port agreements that can eventually be military. So I was fascinated by that. That's incredible.

So with the new NATO gathering between India and Australia and Japan, right. But we're seeing how much of your world changes when you go back to the past, the last book, where, I mean, we're now allowing Finland and Switzerland as NATO. Or Sweden, yeah, that changes the game over there. Absolutely. It shows you how badly Putin calculated, right? Not only is he seen at least a third of his fighting forces, probably more at this point, wiped out. And all their precision guided munitions are gone.

So they got to drop these big dumb bombs and hit shopping malls with them. But yeah, he really misjudged it in the last thing he wanted was Sweden. Sweden had one foot in. They were kind of half pregnant, but Finland. Boy, that was a shocker that they came in. And it's almost as if now that that happens, I mean, and I don't want it to happen, but just stepping aside from Rising Tiger for a moment. It's almost like that's our way of getting boots on the ground because they are right next door. I mean, something bad's going to happen.

And we're going to have boots on the ground. It's just going to happen. And as the Pentagon has war games going to war with Russia, one of the concerns was is that if Finland was not in NATO, that they wouldn't let us base there. So we've got Norway and we base in Norway. But if we ever had an issue where the Russians tried to take, and that was my book Spymaster a few summers ago, if they ever tried to take one of the Baltic NATO states, Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia,

the Rand Corporation war game did like a thousand times, and we lost every time and Putin won. And part of that was that we didn't have Finland on our side. That was always an issue. They were going to remain neutral and stay out of it. But now with Finland in, it makes it much harder for Putin. to make a move on one of those Baltic states.

I feel like we're over, we're overestimating the, the strength of Russia. Oh, we definitely did. I feel like we're, you know, the great fighting days of the Soviet Union, in those days, I mean, Ukraine was fighting for them. And now Ukraine is fighting for them. I don't know. It's just, I feel like we've overestimated. I don't know that Putin wants any of us.

He doesn't want any of us. but he would love, and he's proven it. He's got this Peter the Great strategy. He wants to knit back together the Russian Empire. So he wants to go back into these former states, these satellites and things like that. Like he'd love to take Georgia. I mean, he went after Georgia under George W. Bush and here the whole Ukraine thing. I was actually stunned.

I didn't think he was going to do it. I thought it was saber rattling. And I thought so too. Blown away. I got to be honest. I'd like to say I called it. I didn't. I didn't think he was going to do it.

Yeah, I don't think I honestly believed he would. do it either, but, you know, here we go. All right, so one mistake I saw in the book was, let me get my, let me get my pen here. This needs to, this needs to be typed out. I'll just, I'll just email you, Brad. Don't worry about it. You don't need you right now. Where it talks about you have a man here working for the Carlton group of West Sutton, who is renewing his subscription to the Blaze in the book, which, you know, fantastic. Thank you. However, he's not using the promo code, Jeffie, which I got some time off.

That seems to be a mistake in the writing. Was that edited it out? Was that it was an issue? We had a space issue. We had a space issue. Yeah. There's not a lot of paper. It's hard to come by during COVID.

So yeah, we had a space issue. I apologize. I'll get that updated for the digital version, though. I can push that out tonight. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. And I do love throughout the book, the music that's a part of the book. is so, so great.

It just brings end, my gosh, when you start talking about no one talks about the barquees. You know, I could go back a thousand years and I was managing a record store during the days of the barcais and cool and the gang and Earth went fire and all those guys were, you know, was all, you know,

huge, huge stars. And nobody remembers, I mean, really, except for, you know, people who look back at history and go, yeah, the barquets, yeah. We just started thinking about great bands. You don't think, oh, yeah, the barcaes. No, and that's why I wanted to do it. So I needed to create that character that Harvath would have guide them through India, right?

And so it's this ex-cop that I, and that's something I learned doing this book, Jeff, is that I didn't know that at our embassies, we actually do hire local retired cops who can help navigate the local police force. So I wanted to. It's brilliant, right? The old boy network, he knows everybody. And I wanted to create an Indian version of Sean Connery in the Untouchables, but with a better sense of humor. And I thought, what are he in Harvath going to kind of bond over? And I thought, all right, it's either books or music. And I wanted to go with music and have him say, these are R&B groups. And Harvath say, no, these are funk groups. And both of them are right. All the bands that they fight over in. the book can be classified as R&B and as funk. So they don't have to really like each other on that point, but they do have to appreciate that they both like the same things. It's really great.

Yeah, it's a great idea. Then at the end of the book, the line is going to take time to enjoy it. How many more books are there? Because I have a feeling that Scott isn't going to take time to enjoy it. He's not going to be able to. I just signed a new contract with Simon & Chuster. This is book one of a new four-book contracts. So is Scott going to be on the ISS?

Is he going to go to the new moon? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've been to India now. What's left? Where do I take them? I got to take them up to space, right?

I don't, I got to tell you, I don't know. And that's what's so funny is the world is moving faster, I think, than ever before. No question about that. So I like to be ahead of the headlines. I like all my books to stay evergreen. So it doesn't matter. Like, I never wrote about Ben Laden because I knew eventually. we capture them or kill them.

But that really is the challenge for me as an author is how do I write about stuff that people are not seeing and draw attention to it and have them go, oh my gosh, I'd never thought about this, this, and this part of the world. Essentially what I end up doing, Jeff, is I'll have, I'll sit down with friends of mine who are in the intelligence community, special operations, or law enforcement, or diplomatic corps, and I'll say, what is not getting enough attention in the press? What keeps you up at night? and what do you think we as the United States needs to be paying better attention to?

And that will be the geopolitical backdrop upon which I'll set my thriller. There'll be a problem in there for the United States and Harvath will be the solution. But I haven't found that next summer set piece yet. I don't know what that is. And a lot of it's just because I can't figure out where we're going to be a week from now, much less a year. Yeah. Well, I'm sure it will come to you.

I was really a fun read again, Brad Thor's. Rising Tiger on the shelves today. I mean, you can go to Bradthor.com and get it if you want. I mean, he hawks his wares there on his website. And he's got to- And remember promo code Jeffie for 10% off. At the blaze. Yeah, yeah.

If they can get 10% off on Bradthor's website, go for it. Give it a shot. Type it in. See if it actually works. Yeah. If it doesn't, there's an issue. Yeah. All right.

So, Brad, you honestly, I thought you'd at least tell me that that Scott is going to go to the space station. So now I'm a little disappointed. So I'm just going to be done with you. Okay. Okay. That's it. Thanks.

Last one. Brad Thor, Rising Tiger is the latest book. I appreciate it, Brad, very much. It was another great read. And if you haven't read it yet, read it. It was fantastic. I appreciate it. When does the series start on Prime?

That's Jack Carr. It started Friday night, the terminal list. July 1st. Which I've only got a couple more to go on it. It's okay. I've been binging it. It's okay. It's all right.

I've been enjoying it. It's fun. That's fun. And then Mark Greeney, the Grey Man, comes out in theaters July 15th. And that movie with Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling streams on Netflix on the 22nd. Mark Greeny's another great thriller author. The Grey Man, that's called. So again, when does Scott show up?

I'm working on it. It's the funniest thing. What are you been doing with your life, man? What is happening? I know. I just slacken. Writing all the books, not paying enough attention to Hollywood. I just, I get, you know, I got to work on that motivation.

So, I mean, are we, are we, are we just working on? Seriously. No, no, no. We're in a position right now where we have a showrunner. We have a director. We have everything. Yeah. So we're supposed to be out pitching when everybody comes back from summer vacation.

So pitching to all the streamers and in that kind of a thing. So we'll see what happens. And that's why I'm so glad. see the terminal list doing so well. I've got my hopes for for the gray man because Jack Ryan's done very well. So that's a rising tie. So it's really good. Reacher was Graham is in the same back of the woods. Yeah. Good recasting with him. Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. He did great. So I mean, you're definitely in the in the window to be let in. Yeah, iron's hot. Absolutely. Yes. Brad Thor. Thor, thank you for being on. I appreciate it. It's good to see you, my friend. The latest book, Rising Tiger.

We'll see you later. Thanks, Jeff. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.