birth of christ, you know, fighting with each other, squabbling with each other even as phillip of macedon built up his armies to conquer them all. in modern times, political struggles in the france under the third republic while the nazi threat is rising but the french politicians would almost rather bow friend nazis and other. maybe less options in modern day. who knows? we have things going on our world like climate change that's it matly a threat to the entire world. people using it as a political it football instead of, you know, you think everybody would get together as something that can wipe out possibly the human race. i wanted to do an an local log not specifically to the modern day thing but as a general thing thing. >> you started off with nine different characters and points of view and expanded that to 35. how do you do that? >> there are days i wonder if i bit off more than i can choose where i sit around telling myself, did it have to be seven king dotcoms? why couldn'ts i have been five king dotcoms? five would have been a lot. having thrown the balls in the air, i feel co