together all the dynamite ideas and quotes given to me by john guess the buy mike fors shchlt, randall wints, the mayor of birmingham >> i want to jump in with an a audience question. practical equip, how long did it take to write this book? >> i sold the book proposal in august 2020 and submitted the manuscript in march of 2021 which is ridiculous. >> that's very fast. >> but. >> you have to sort of like drop everything and just focus on this or able to multitask and write a full. >> no i was doing anything else. but i -- it was -- every single moment of my time that was not spent with my kids. >> gotcha. >> to the extent that all of my social interaction tp during pandemic so i had my friends and family in the bubble. they heard a lot of -- it was a real period i was writing the stone mountain chapter which has a lot of klan involvement okay today's klan facts and my family was like, why? >> it took over your life for those months in many ways not surprising. >> still very urgent to write. i was in the middle of the countryside in vermont for the pandemic. i had family members who are, you