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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q had, um, I'm, I'm friendly with James Clear and Mark Manson, and I think that they have some of the best-selling books of the last, like, maybe decade, but I would imagine, I would imagine that after a few more years, you're gonna be up there, because you, you were a Navy SEAL, which you've talked a bunch about, but you started writing, but the books are relatively new, right?
A Yep, so, 2018, I started writing the first one when I was still in, as I was getting out of the military, so I think December of 20 14, I wrote my first words. They're the first book. So they, but it came out in 2018, and then there's been one a year ever since, and this is the first year with two books. So I have my newest one, the seventh book in the series, Red Sky Morning, comes out in June, and then I have my first non-fiction that comes out in September. So September 24th, and that's on the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing. Uh, and you probably noticed I weave a lot of history into that as well.
AI assessment note: “Yep, so, 2018, I started writing the first one when I was still in”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q and, and whatever. I would have not thought that you'd give a shit about New York Times, and more so just, do lots of people love this, and does this create, like, financial freedom and, and, like, spiritual wholesomeness for you? You know what I'm saying? Like, if you could, like, make, if you could feel good and, and make money, that would be the win. Not New York Times.
A Yeah. Well, the New York Times, like, you know, like when you see a book that says, uh, number one or just like, uh, USA Today bestseller, what that tells me and what it has always told me is that they didn't make the New York Times list. Uh, so the New York Times list is kind of a benchmark because you can be a number one something on Amazon in pretty much anything. Um, so I knew that that, that's not my, I'm never going to say that. I think the, the, uh, publisher for the first or second book, they put something like that somewhere. And I was like, Take that down. I don't want that in my calculus. That's not, that's not me. For me, like leaving the military, the things that were important, I think it's important to articulate that, uh, no matter what it is, guys, we're all going to go through transitions in life, whether it's a professional transition, death of a loved one, divorce, whatever it might be, but you're going to move on and do something else. Change jobs. And for me, it was financial freedom and being able to control my schedule. And I knew I wanted to write. I've heard from a very early age that after my time in the military, I would write thrillers just like I'm writing today.
AI assessment note: “the New York Times list is kind of a benchmark”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q No shit. You are doing that by yourself?
A So no, each one has a team, and as each project, and a lot of, some haven't been announced yet, um, but you're putting together a team of a showrunner Director, a lead, uh, production team, all those things. Um, and you're essentially putting together this package then to take to, to Netflix, usually through another production company that you have a relationship with. So there's multiple of those going on right now. So I'm jumping between, um, either writing a script, writing a, uh, writing a, uh, executive summary, writing an outline, doing a creative back and forth to see if someone is the right person to be a show runner, uh, for the show or be a lead writer on a show for a new idea. And then I'm jumping back in because I have a deadline on my novel and I'm doing that. And then I have to jump over to the podcast.
AI assessment note: “So no, each one has a team”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.25
Q How does that feel to be? Not a nobody, but just a guy, just a guy making these ridiculous predictions and they're, they come true.
A Yeah. Well, I mean, it wouldn't have happened if obviously if I hadn't, um, so I always really cared about people in the teams and my focus was always on, on the guys and helping them, whether they're staying in or getting out. And I did notice that a lot of other people, especially officers didn't do that. If you said you were getting out, they only cared about you if you were in the SEAL teams and that just wasn't, wasn't me. Um, so if I hadn't helped, Jared out, and at the time, I didn't think anything would ever come back around. That wasn't the reason I did it, obviously. Um, but it did. Came, came back around, and now I'm flying out to Budapest in about a week to go film out there. They're on set right now. Jared's a writer, and a producer, and an actor, and a technical advisor on set right now. Jared Shaw gave, uh, Chris the book, and, uh, and this is the second season, and we have another one coming up here with the second book with, with Chris in it that's, uh, should start filming in twenty-twenty-five. You never know until it's actually all completed. Ready and actually up there on the screens. But, so I try to manage those expectations, but, um, yeah, so now we're off to the races and then there's other Hollywood projects and multiple books and now the nonfiction and I have a, I have a strategic plan that, uh, that I've written out just by being a, a student of all …
AI assessment note: “Well, I mean, it wouldn't have happened if obviously if I hadn't”
Redirected raw tape
D 2 · C 3 · P 3 · Cm 2 2.55
Q What do you think, uh, an author like you, if you wanted to do it, which you don't, but I bet it happens. What would you have, what would a brand charge?
A I don't even know. And at some point, maybe it might turn into, to something like that, where it's a little more, more obvious. And there's like the pod, my podcast is something that, that gets sponsored, um, and has ads on it, but those are obvious, uh, sponsored. Yes. And that's separate. And there's never anything attached to that that says you're going to do any of these posts on social media and you're going to do this gear guide and you're going to put it in the book or you're going to put it in the show. Uh, so none of that exists. Um, and I, I want to keep it pure like that, but I saw the podcast As a way to semi-monetize a little bit of those, some of those relationships, because they want to help anyway. They want to be associated. I have this podcast that, uh, is a way that authors couldn't reach an audience, 2030, 40 years ago. Um, so once again, looking at that battle space, I looked at it at, well, James Patterson. He's been around, as you did your research, since the seventies, uh, as Stephen King, seventies. So there's a reason that those names on the New York Times list that are at the top are the same names that our parents would have opened the New York Times bestseller list and seen back in the eighties, nineties. So it's, uh, I, I realized that, hey, what can I do today to create new readers? Because those authors that have been around for so long, they hav…
AI assessment note: “I don't even know. And at some point, maybe it might turn into”
