#2390 - Jack Carr
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Alright, you're up. My man. What's up?
Good to see you, my brother. How are ya?
Great to see you. Always great to see you.
I've been so looking forward to this. We've been going a thousand miles an hour for, it seems like, a long time. Me too, man.
And I've been really looking forward to talking to you about this book, because I know that you've been obsessed with it. You've been obsessed by this era in human history. Tell us about it.
Yeah, yeah. So this is 1968, Vietnam. And I just launched the book tour, not last night, but the night before. Because last night was Comedy Mothership, Kill Tony, which was amazing. The best show in the world. It was so crazy. The best show to go to. Did they vet any of those people, by the way, before they come up?
Insane people, brilliant people, great comics, terrible comics. That was fantastic.
That's the best show. that was fantastic but yeah i kicked off the book tour with uh david morel who created rambo back in 1972 with first blood so that was a huge honor for me he's been an inspiration to me my whole life and uh i wrote a series of books uh in the 80s brotherhood of the rose fraternity of the stone league of night and fog which were just incredible and i got to kick off the book tour with him out there signed a baby for the first time i've never signed a baby so someone brought a baby through and asked me to sign their kid i was like that seems wrong it does and then uh Then I realized they just wanted me to sign the shirt on the baby, which is a little better than the actual skin of the baby.
So I did that. I'd be worried they would tattoo the baby. Two new tattoos came through. So I saw two new very large tattoos of Crosstown Hawks. That's crazy. I mean, you've had that for a while. You've had people doing that for a while for you. But I remember the first time I got one, I think it was after I was on or right around the same time the first time I was on. So like 2020, the first time I saw it, I texted you and sent it. It was like... Someone tattooed the crossed tomahawks on themselves. I know you've had that with you for a while. And if it was weird the first time, you see it. Now it must be kind of normal because a lot of people have tattoos of you. It's not normal.
It's not normal.
You know, it's weird. It's very weird. They'll probably grow to regret them.
Never.
That doesn't happen with tattoos, does it? No. Not mine. I don't regret mine. I like mine.
It's a life story. It's a life story. Yeah. It's awesome. It depends on what you got. Yeah. And timing. And maybe if you got someone's name on there that's no longer a part of your life. Yeah.
Maybe the wife wants you to get that removed. Perhaps.
Turn into a snake. I've heard that exactly. Exactly. But yeah, the book, 1968, Vietnam. And I thought this was going to be the book that was going to take me the least amount of time because I thought I had this foundation of knowledge when it comes to warfare, Vietnam in particular, those lessons. I've had the influence of popular culture when it comes to the 60s and Vietnam as well growing up. So I thought I was well prepared to dive into this world. And I didn't want to just say that they're listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival and that it's 1968 and then essentially drop a contemporary thriller into the 60s, into Vietnam 1968. Instead, I wanted someone who lived through that era to know that I put in the effort and any sentence had to be written through the lens of 1968 without the benefit of 50 plus years of hindsight.
So if someone is 70 years old, 50 years old, 20 years old, they only have their life experience up to that point to make a decision for perspective on an event. And that took A lot more time than I thought. I got a dictionary from 1969. I couldn't find the one from 1968 I wanted, so I got a dictionary from 1969 to look at how terms were defined back then. A lot of maps from the era, and it took a lot longer, which is why we're here in October and not in June when the book was supposed to come out.
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