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Will Arnett highlighted his father Jim Arnett's pandemic‑written novel, The Fate of Empires, describing it as a fictionalized historical work that he found amazing and "really, really good," and expressed pride in its publication. Jason Bateman chimed in with light‑hearted comments about the book’s setting, but the hosts overall treated it as a noteworthy and commendable read.
Episode: "Kerry Washington"
It was written during the pandemic and was described as a fictionalized novel based on history. It was mentioned by Will Arnett as a book he had just read and was very proud of his father for writing.
One of them is my dad's book, Being Fate, which I finally read, which is amazing. I'm so proud of my dad, uh, Jim Arnett, who wrote a book during the pandemic and he wrote this sort of fictionalized this novel based on history and got it published. And yeah, it's really cool.
And it's really, really good.
Episode: "Kerry Washington"
It was described as a fictionalized novel based on history, which the speaker's father wrote during the pandemic and was proud of.
Well, one of them is my dad's book, Being Fate, which I finally read, which is amazing. I'm so proud of my dad, uh, Jim Arnett, who wrote a book during the pandemic and he wrote this sort of fictionalized this novel based on history and got it published. And yeah, it's really cool.
And it's really, really good.
And this is about the bean farmers of Kalamongas?
No, no, no. It's a remake of the, the bean war or something, right? Kalamongas. The Milagro bean field war.
Yeah. Good for him. Cause I don't think they really got it on the last one. So, okay. No, it's about a booze runners back, you know, prohibition style, you know, back in the day. Up in Saskatchewan in the Brafman family, et cetera.