What shapes his life? What happens to Lafayette?

I get a lot of questions when I'm doing book talks or interviews, and people wanna know the difference between how Americans view Lafayette and how the French view Lafayette, and there's quite...

There's a gap there, obviously.

He's a hero here, has many, many fans, and is almost idealized, a romantic figure here.

He's a far more complicated and less popular figure in France, obviously, because his legacy in the American Revolution is far, i- is not pristine, but is cleaner than his legacy in the French Revolution, which he was actually...

He comes back to France.

He's a hero.

How did that happen and how did he respond to that sort of triumphal heroic embrace by the Americans?

Yeah, we all find our roles.

Yeah.

And, you know, I bought a duplex in 2019.

So that was before we were married and she was living.

two and a half hours away from us and we're, you know, long-term relationship.

And then, so I was, I bought that and then had a tenant there.

So, you know, eventually, you know, we got married, she moved out back to Buffalo.

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That's where I spoke to Ryan Cole, engineer, composer, and chess hobbyist.

Music is kind of my passion, and so I started to find that there was a lot of crossover in a lot of ways that affected the way I thought about music when I was playing chess also.

So I enjoyed playing, but then I felt like it had additional benefits as well.

The first and kind of cheeky answer

is there's a musical called Chess.

But I'm not going to go with that because that's too easy.

I think maybe another easy answer that's no less apt is maybe something with Bach.

Because Bach was the great contrapuntal composer, right? Like that he wrote all of these fugues that had all these different voices that work together but against each other.

... that out of the way.

Oh, man.

Um, that's a great question.

I think all three service academies are phenomenal institutions.

They're, they're places filled with people that have signed up to do something a little bit more than just about themselves, and the process that they go through not only to, to get into those schools, but to go through those institutions and graduate, um, is different than every other school out there.

And even if it's, you know, there are some really good academic schools out there, there are some very strong athletic schools out there, and then there are some very strong schools that provide opportunities in both at the same time.

I mean, I'll use, I'll use Notre Dame as an example.

It's a d- completely different sport.

The states now, of course, many more than the 13 he had left behind, rolled out the reddest of carpets for him.

Oh, my.

You know, I try to make it a contemporary comparison so that people will understand.

And sometimes I say Taylor Swift.

This is probably the first time Taylor Swift has been mentioned on this show, right? Safe to say.

Okay.

Hopefully the last.

Um, comes back and americans are debating that but he wasn't bashful about speaking to it

[dramatic music] [monsters roaring] [objects crashing] [monsters roaring] So how much ADR, uh, do you guys have to do on this show, and what's, what's your approach to keeping as much of the production track as you possibly can with all this insanity going on, you know, in, in, in production?

As far as ADR goes, there's not a ton of technical ADR.

Like, we're able to clean a lot of things up.

Michael Clarke, our production mixer, gets us a lot of good recordings, and you, we get these assemblies built with 15, 16 lavs wide because that's how many kids and that's how many soldiers and that's how many people are in each episode or in each shot and whatnot.

So we've done a great job cleaning them up.

As far as ADR goes, there's a lot of like maybe a couple little plot points they wanna throw in, or like for the oner in episode four, all those y- callouts that the kids are doing, the brothers write all those, and some of those would get messy on set.

But it really is a combination, and I think a lot of it flows really seamlessly because it is a combination.

There was little bits and pieces maybe, but-

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... products are being processed.

You'll read it whenever you go through the labels, it'll have those warnings in real small print, "May have traces of nuts and things," all of these different things, because when they're creating your kibble, they're just taking the scraps of different types of wheat-Animal skins, hair, all these different small scraps in there, just heating them up really hot, putting them through an extruder to make the kibble shape, and then they spray on the particular nutrients and vitamins that you see or read on that particular bag.

It's really a overfeeding of high-calorie, dense food, which makes your dog look and feel full, but in reality there's no bio-nutrients available.

The nutrients that are in there are all crude, so it isn't the most available for them, and most times it just passes right on through their system without them really absorbing it.

So it's really just like with any other processed food.

It's really just a way to have a very high caloric dense meal to, in order to be able to stretch your money.

So what are you proposing with your website Pawtrition?

Anyway, you tell me what your thinking is now about clotting and the spike protein these days.

Yeah, well, I'll share a personal story.

When I got Delta myself, even the hair follicles in my toes hurt.

So there was nothing natural about this infection.

You know, my thoughts on the shots, again, most people know me for coining the term clot shot.

And those adenovirus ones, the J&J and the AstraZeneca, we knew back in the late 80s, early 90s with gene therapy that adenovirus vector vaccines could induce an antibody called platelet factor number four.

So the primary mechanism of those two shots is with autoimmune antibody that would cause the platelets to clump.

And then what should people be doing if they're worried that they're still producing spike protein?