Spoiler Episode | Another Try with Gene Koon

The themes that we talked about that we didn't want to spoil, the reason why...

Really, this whole outside of the mafia or the cartel, the reason all this happens.

Was that part of, like, why that theme? Did that come also as a result of just writing the book or did that come later?

It did, yeah.

Yeah, it just, I wanted another group after him.

So I had more wheels going, gears going at the same time.

That was just one more layer to the story.

But did you want people, after they put the book down, did you want them to think about the idea that politicians aren't really thinking about the people, I guess we could almost say? That they haven't felt the pain that other people have felt in order to make decisions that will actually impact the people, their constituents?

Yeah, I do believe that it goes back to where how many...

And once again, even though this is a political action book, I don't want to get into politics too much.

But where I'm at in my life and seeing living through the Vietnam and what's going on is there's the John Fogerty song, Fortunate Son, and I'm not a senator's son sort of thing.

And it's like the politicians...

And years ago, Teddy Roosevelt, his sons went to war, and there have been other politicians' sons that have gone to war.

But it's rare, isn't it? And so I just thought, let's not get preachy, but let's just put a mirror up to the fact that things would be a lot nicer if everybody got involved, if anybody's going to get involved.

Yeah.

It made me think at the end about that and about how we don't always know what other people have been through when we judge them, because judgment is something we do naturally as humans.

We often don't stop to think about what have they been through, which led to these decisions.

And we also glorify a position, especially in TV, when you see an American position versus someone else.

And then sometimes I stop and think about how that other person felt when these things happened rather than the reverse idea, if you

like.

Yeah, yeah.

And since this is the spoiler section, what really struck a tone in me is there's so many mass active shooters out there.

And once again, I see it time and time again where it really strikes a nerve with people when it happens, but it's still happening and we're not doing as much as we should be or could be to address that situation.

So it's going to happen again.

And let's maybe look at it a little bit so it doesn't happen as often.