We wont be live everywhere for long but now were screaming live on our Youtube Channel on facebook and also connected directly to the live stream at our local stage and we love doing these longform interviews like weve done with david marcus and earlier this week with chris c call for our book Club Interviews are doing with the rate lewis rosa about his book fiery but mostly peaceful and weve also done a couple of other book interviews. Inext week, in 10 days june 1 where going to have a very special exclusive Live Book Club interview with the great jack parr, former navy seal, now with his fifth book of this week and by the time we talked to him june 1 will be a New York Times number one bestseller in july premiere of the brandnew streaming series is series of books which will start chris pratt. The guy is bigtime and hes great and he loves his country and i just dropped j the book and hes going to be with us june 1. Heres the deal. 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The best way now is for you to integrate without live stream, you can talk to me may 25 does not june first. Already im making mistakes. This is why i need jeffrey to help me and correct me. It is next week, its may 25 next wednesday is when we got jack parr. Thank you sarah and jeffrey for referencing that, i appreciate it. If you want to interact you can ask questions of me, ask essence of our great guest julio rosoff. Ndasking about specifically the book and his coverage of the rights. Is there a difference, will get into that in a moment. Also asking about his time in the marine corps. I see your question if you are a member of our local community your austin will be prominent at first and the rest of you freeloaders will have to wait. Anything else ive got to do . I want credit for im using my mike for i went on. I do bigtime show business i have people who unmute my tmike. There are people. Ive got no people here. If anyone wants to be one of my people will talk about it. I need people. All right. Lets bring him on. Hes the man of the hour, americas sweetheart. Hes a United States marine core member and theres no such thing as a former marine and now hes my colleague at the mighty town hall media and partner. He is julio rosoff. There he is. I feel like yours playing second base for the mets. Anything new york is obviously not up to par. Where are you from originally . Guest 45 minutes outside chicago, thats where Wheaton College is. Jokingly referred to as the harvard of christian colleges. D i grew up in the detroit area and when my brother moved to chicago, it was one thing and when he started his family, i Reince Priebus when his son was born, i remember going to celebrate with him, congratulations, you have a son, heres my curse for you, hell grow up a bears fan. Its true. He was good one time but that was before i was born. Exactly. Typical bears t fan. Just wait till last decade. Yeah. Exactly. All right. What are you drinking tonight, by the way . I have a little red wine with me. Im not drinking anything. I had water beforehand. Swing by jot presence that i guided and theyre around me and you show up around 4 00 in the afternoon usually. Im not his boss and down th line. Were going to get in the book i want to talk about what led up to the book first because i doubt when you were on the streets covering these riots in the back of your mind you were thinking, yeah, im going to write a book about that. Yeah. No, the kind of joke whistled tell people that we sometimes have working on the book. The main when it comes to the case of working on this, i didnt think when it all started out back in may, the two Year Anniversary coming up, the idea that i had was oh, the main thing was covid and everyone was concerned about that. When minneapolis popped up, i thought ill go cover this and then ill come back and things will just return to moray mall. Off the Trump Presidency in election year, in 2019 right after that i covered chaz that first week up in seat and willda then the day they got back from at leeanne taxer i was in dc and thats when they tried to tear down the interjection and they landed and i was like, oh, shoot. Ut late july and s early august i s thinking about it and then facing it already and i went on the front lines with all of that you already had kind of an outline and you didnt have to go back and remember everything that happened because you were documenting it as you went. Kind of, yeah. I honestly didnt give every ominute detail like i kind of o in the book. Even then it doesnt go over every single step i took just because they had the thing to do yes i go and then i leave. But my mindset changed from, okay, this is going to be a one and done or two and done to these things are never going to stop and then in the book i write that the idea is righting the darn thing and i was meeting up with the source up by capitol hill for the first time in a while since covid and i hadnt seen him this well in person. He really just said write the book. It was after that meeting in early august where i thought okay, im going to do that and my main concern was amm i going to have enough to write about. I knew there was going to be there had to be more analysis and kind of a fallowup to follow up to a big undertaking while also maintaining and doing my job. Not like i could take a two, three month sensorineural bat cal to work on them. Sabbatical to work on them. I could but i had never written a book and didnt know if i was going to get a book deal in the first place. There were pros and cons about it. Heres the thing, i just realized they hate my lighting. Itll take me 30 seconds to fix it and while db of interaural that, i want you to i do that i want you to tell everybody about when you joined the marine corp. , how old you were and how that decision came about. Ill be back 20 seconds into your answer, stand by. So i enlisted in may 2014 and or maybe 2015. That wasnt 20 second, you liar. Even better. Growing up i was interested Many American history but American History in general but specifically military history and i got that start after joiningg the Military Branch wih the veteran saying which one specifically. What are your feeling . My family on my step dad side was steeped into the marine corp. And i grew up and in the latter half and he was a world war ii veteran and fought for okinawa and he enlisted at 17 right after high school and after world war ii,as he was discharged from world warar i ad ables to join the marine corp. Reserves and during that time. He got out of the deployment to korea because he had more than two kids. So this is your great grandpa joining the marines here in world war ii and youre obviously the fourthh generation down from there. Generation andt then i come along and so i kind of was really fascinated with how the marine culture is and how its very again, its been tradition and history and very war mentally even if you are just admin, which i was not, thankfully. Was your great grandpa alive when you joined up . Yes, he was. You got pictures of yourself with him in uniform. We were able. I got pictures and he actually died in 2018, last week. Last week in 2018, on the 15th. He was able to see me and i graduated from boot camp since 2015. I was able to my job in the marine corp. C was logistics. I said i can do both and i can do active duty and wait for you bigger and funny story with that is people are all for not dropping out of college in 2017 to enlist fulltime. I think it was the good decision to do but at the time it was a bit of a risk. Thats when we first met andc we were associated with the examiner at the time actually. There was a protest you got in the middle of and ill be honest with you, there was an editorial position at examer, i dont think they knew what to do with you, julio. I dont think they understood how to harness your talent and its great you ended up at town hall. It was youd be a reporter or a News Reporter which is how Media Companies were structures for a very long time and i didnt want to be dedicated to just one thing and didnt want to just be on breaking news and there was opportunities cocover folks and i went out and did it and combining social media while covering a live event. Because of how things were structured, i just didnt fit into doing what i wanted to do. We parted ways. Amicably. T i was nothing for the best for the people of the examer and they have their examiner and they both have their ways of doing things and we ended up at town hall and Creative Vision and Business Vision recognizes they best way to utilize both f us in r very different ways and, boy, did you flourish. Its important that everybody understands this about writing the book and mostly peaceful and 2020 riots and fade patterns rights of america and people will make the mistake this is a tournament of or a chronicle of your experience on the street covering thesehe riots. But this is actually, this book is in the purest sense of the word in a visceration opportunistic the legacy corporate media. This is other journalistic endeavors and getting reporting on the riots and thats it. Thats the beginning and end of your participation and then other people will use that anotherrage now. Your power is that you were there and saw what was happening and you were able to blow away all of the myths that the media were telling us and youre a media critic and happened to be in the middle of the story telling the truth and used that truth to criticize the media and am i far off base from what im trying to do here. No, youre exactly right and it was bunny when the tame came and i have the belief in youre gob that be a reporter and dont spend or do analysis and be part of them and what it might be covering as true but if youre going to want to put your spin on it. You should be called a journalist and thats what the term should be and its beenized by the media and the term reporter in general means like itus used to and thats why theres philly when running town hall and what do you want your little to be. Rider is more encompassing and thats why i like to do anal cyst and opinions when its appropriate and when im actually knowledgeable. So when i was structuring the book it was set top be heres my experience, the experience of others and basic analysis on the damage and destruction and kind of all the stuff. It wasnt really meant to be, at first, not meant to be argue meanttive in the sense. Heres what happened, which is how i did live coverage. Reporting. My agent at athos who are great people. They said youve got a great book idea and publishers want them to be more than this. Heres what happened. This isnt a traditional history book and therefore we cant really sell it. Lets just end. I didnt want for what i saw and what other people experienced to get lost in the mix of these targets. I wasnt really thinking about it and said, you know what, everybody is talking about being a good agent so far down to jonathan. Went that route because, yeah, the first half of the book is like i said, just kind of heres what happened and what i was experiencing and other people experience and there were a lot of myths and disinformation. Exactly. An information board. I can be very stubborn. I can be very stubborn and set in my ways but deferring to people that are more knowledgeable than w you, whichs something a lot of people dont do these days and take that advice. I really love that it went that well and screw cnn and the Washington Post and New York Times for continuing to in this day for what happened in 2020 but im really glad i was able to not completely lose what i wanted to tell. I really believe that the strongest parts of the book are when im interviewing other people. Ng its really the strongest parts of the book because im just a random guy popping in and out of these places but i done deal life and consequences of this. Youre more than a ron dam guy. You didnt random guy. You didnt want to be part of the story but you were. The become fiery and chronicling all of the ryeons and not just b will recollect m. Theres a few in 2020. By the way, i have an autographed and personalized copy of the book. Im sure for premium youll sell that to our locals members; right, hulick yo . Iv you kind of extorted me to give you one. I really d. Theres a reason why i got sent a bunch of copies and i was happy to do it. I go into the office and julio goes a got an autophotographic book for you. I got it and it just said julio. Just your name. Ag i was like, f you. Personalize it. I want a mesosang. Only 50 copies with a signed signature. I got it eventually. That is absolutely true. Ly thank you for cowel calling me out on that. It was an ugly scene in the office that day. Andrew brightbart said to me every story was a media story and hes right. Times you dont know what the immediate jaire story is and it develops and the think the eye yachts specifically the george floyd rye yours trulies quinning that memorial day coming up on two weeks and the moment it became a media story is what youve memorialized on the cover of your book and the chicago of minneapolis said fiery but mostly peaceful protest. That was kenosha. Oh, sorry, that was kenosha. I thought that was chicago. You cant be spreading false information. Sorry. That sped it up. You were witnessing the whole melee with Kyle Rittenhouse and rich issue mcginness. I shouldnt say witnessing because you didnt witness the actual Kyle Rittenhouse shoot. Yeah, i did. Synergy home o, yeah. Why you read the book . Geez, larry, you need to read the book. Thank you for correcting me because kenosha, get to kenosha in a minute because minneapolis is the original gorge floyd, i remember having you on the show the day after the, first protes; right. Yeah. You were very accurate and deliberate and went out of your way saying listen, theres peoplee protesting the homicide. We knew for a fact it was a hods but didnt know if it was a kalamazoo criminal act and we know they convicted to pick up the protest the homicide of george floyd and during the day, they were marching and chanting and protesting and i so vividly remember this interview saying the sun started going down and a new group of people showed up. Thats right. Lay that out because its such an important part of this story. Yeah, i got to minneapolis and they set fire to some building surrounding the precinct and thats where they were based out of. I get down there and it was, unlike anything ive ever seen and ive been so used to protests not affecting the blocks. This was open. Places were either closed or they were being actively looted. So i get there and across the street from the third precinct, theres ait strip mall with tart and cub foods and like a Grocery Store chain out there. Several Small Businesses in the strip club. By that time, theres no fear. We hold up in the hotel. Were Walking Around nonchalant taking photos and videos and people were outdoor ovthat third precinct. They were upset and very vulgar and they would shout f you and play nwa at the police. The emotions were high and they didnt do anything though. They were peaceful. The reason why it was so distinct with making the different between members of the community and generally theyre older andet hoeing up afterway through the day and theyre pushing people and i republican sitting down and trying to collect my thoughts and coordinate my thoughts and i was on thehe phone for a solid 25 20tafanely 10 minutes and ultimately what the surgical mass and it was a stark difference not paying attention for that short amount of time. That was the night that because they had breeched the areas and the defensive positions were incredible and the mayor hit the pride and ordered for them to evacuate and and we get to American City and they get kicked out. This was still like early. This is like may 30th if web your correct limit scoot right ball on the 29th. Which leads us to julio getting shot. This is where you started seeing this very distinctive prints and if i remember right i dont want to skip over you getting shot because i remember a that. Thats all there is to it. State proper popped me with a rubber bullet and i was like, okay. Were you aware it could have happened in no, they were both in the street, they were in the road, the rioters and the cops and the cops were butting away from the resistance and when they met some, they had to avoid getting stopped with the crowd control munitions and i placed myself off in the sidewalk thinking i had pride prudential and i thought thought i should be good. I get a little frist ratted with that because i was actively talking about it and they were shooting the crowd and i didnt have body armor and ill try to be smart and get off to the side but whatever. I remember you tweeting out the bruise that it made. Did you tweet or text it . I tweet it had and called storm after it happened but eric tweetedd it. Storm is our managing editor at town hall. I remember all of us having, i dont know if you were in on it with a groupwe text like we goto get him out of there. And the store said dude, he will kill me if we pull him out of there. If i was told to leave the city, id have been like whats that . I cant hear you. L we were afraid julio was going to get killed. Almost because as much as it hurt and sucks. It was it wasnt a life threatening moment. I understand. But were here were a family andh communities that love and respect each other like a family and were a company with