Mike Pesca

I don't think it captured sort of that aspect of it.

So it I think in the book and sort of Destiny of the Republic, which is what Death by Lightning is based on, technically, this other Garfield book is called Dark Horse, written by a Senate staffer some 25 years ago.

But very, you know, I like the more detail it goes into the Republican convention and

Gives you a lot more on that, which as a political junkie, I just love.

And I do always want to remind people, you know, this, the mythology that just anybody could become the nominee at a convention is the Garfield story.

And it was sort of because it happened once, it became the myth that sort of made political conventions.

We've all dreamed of a convention taking over the process when it only time that happened.

was in the 1880 Chicago Republican Convention.

So I think the book does a good job of that, but I do think the series gave short shrift to the fact that he was alive for months and it was due to poor medical treatment that he died, right?

The bullet didn't kill him, poor medical treatment killed him.

And then the second thing was the circus that was the Godot trial itself.

And I think it didn't necessarily capture what the public was feeling.

But there's a reason Chester Arthur flips.

There's a reason Chester Arthur, right?

And oh, by the way, the public blamed Arthur at first as part of, you know, sort of this, that this was all due to Roscoe Conkling and all of that.

So, yeah, let's just say that I am...

That's why I was disappointed in it, because I think two are the more fascinating parts of it.

Look, they did an OK job at the convention and they allowed that process to play out.

I want to I got I'm obsessed with I'm going to end with this here.

I'm obsessed with Pluribus.