Speaker 1
I just ike, didn't, i didn't, i tried a couple novels
Speaker 2
and it didn't work. And
Speaker 1
novels don't war a focus. If i fi et me lie down. Nd, i could listen to a novel, but if i'm
Speaker 2
n my car something, it's got to be exactly so novels, it doesn't work for me. But non fiction absolutely works for me. And this book, by the way, i don't know if i'm just becoming kind of a dad, cause this is like a dad type of book.
Speaker 1
As i'm gat some tie, getting old, ar oldest ten
Speaker 2
and seven. But i am getting a little more into like, history, like this. Bg, about north korea, a was fascina. I don't know anything abouti what it's like to live in north corea. And that's what this book was about. And is truth, it was an american history book, but she does it in a way where it's very much like a narrative. Like it's a big book. It's 900 pages, so it's, it's incredibly audio book. It took me like two months of neonotnon stop listening. But it was really well written, and well read, too, by her. What was the best thing you learned from the history of america?
Speaker 2
why? Well, that stands out. But how about, like, right after the civil war, construction, like, what a crazy period that was for, like, black power. How how high of a percentage of, like, black voting was in the populace? How many black people were elected in the south? And were like running shit and like, all the rights that they had for like, this brief period after the civil war, because of all the rules of reconstruction, it happened that there was actually this moment that like, they had fought for all these rights, and it was like amazing. And then it was like, osit like, we're coming back. We're fucking white southerners, and we're going to make it worse. Then it was like almost worse than it was ever before and wipe all that out. But that there was that little period i had no idea about any of that. Yeits like you got a bomb, an now you getting trump. That