Bill Maher

YES, THAT'S TRUE.

Yeah, so, but when I, the level of detail, because I knew Sumter and I knew, you know, okay, blah, blah, blah.

I knew the big, kind of the big pivot moments, but the way they break it down and they talk a lot about Major Anderson and Pete C. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis and all the politics and the things that were going on, it just reminds you like, oh, this is us.

This is every day, you know.

There may be big things going on, but so many things can be decided and judged.

it's that's the thing the the some of the biggest tragedies and i'm not saying the civil war was a tragedy it was actually a very good thing it had to happen so so many times people go into things half cocked and they end up in a in a quagmire and a cesspool they just because nobody thinks about the

you gotta think about the beginning, middle, and end.

It's like when you write a play or do an act or whatever, you got a big opener, something strong in the middle, and then a big closer.

Right?

Go all the way to Baghdad.

And he was like, no, these are the parameters we set up in the beginning, and that's it.

That's probably like a Dennis Miller reference for some people.

Oh yeah, something like that.

You're too hip for the room, man.

You didn't fight in that war.

What war did you?

I was actually on the parade deck.

I was in Officer Candidate School during that.

During the first Gulf War?

What about the other Iraq War?