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My first guest on the Tami Jackson Show* tonight will be Matthew Betley.\nA former USMC\xa0officer of ten years, Matthew was deployed to Djibouti after 9/11 and Iraq, prior to the Surge, and very much understands the military life, having lived it himself.\n\nHe appreciates the intricacies of an officer's mind and that personal experience shines through in the authenticity of his writing.\n\nA New Jersey native who considers Cincinnati home, he graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a B.A. in psychology and minors in political science and sociology.\n\nMatt's debut novel, Overwatch, hit the market in March 2016 with a big bang, a high-octane thriller that we talked about on the show two years ago.\n\nIt was announced in February of this year that Thunder Road acquired the movie rights to Overwatch!\n\nThunder Road Pictures has acquired film rights to Matthew Betley\u2019s novel \u201cOverwatch.\u201d\n\nJ.P. Davis is set to adapt the thriller. Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, and Braden Aftergood are attached to produce the upcoming movie.\n\nThe novel was published by Emily Bestler Books, a division of Simon&Schuster, and was nominated for a Barry Award.\n\nBetley, a former marine, writes intense, high-action thrillers that center on the adventures of former Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer Logan West.\n\nIn this novel, West impulsively answers a dead man\u2019s ringing phone, triggering a global race against the clock to track down an unknown organization searching for an Iraqi artifact that is central to a planned attack in the Middle East \u2014 one that will draw the United States into a major conflict with Iran.\n\nLast year I had Matt on to talk about the release of book number two in his Logan West series, Oath of Honor.\n\nToday marks the release of the third installment in the Logan West series, Field of Valor:\n\nSet in the aftermath of Betley\u2019s \u201cmachine-gun pace\u201d (Booklist) Oath of Honor and the discovery of a deadly global conspiracy, the president requests Logan West to form a covert task force with the mission to dismantle a nameless enemy.\n\nWith the full resources of the Justice Department, Intelligence Community, and the military (not to mention presidential pardons pre-signed), Logan must battle a secret organization with the connections and funding to rival many first-world nations. The goal of this organization is both singular and sinister\u2014to pit the United States against China in a bid to dismantle the world\u2019s security and economy.\n\nBack on US soil, Logan and his task force pursue the elusive foe from the woods of northern Virginia to the banks of the Chesapeake Bay, from suburban Maryland across the urban sprawl of Washington DC. The stakes have never been higher for Logan or America.\n\nCheck out Matthew Betley's website with interview and book signing dates: MatthewBetley.com/events\n\nDon't miss a minute as Matt and I discuss his newest book and the Overwatch movie -- it's great to watch a truly good guy find his niche in writing and see the rewards of his hard work!\n\n**************************\n\nMy guest in the second half hour will be Joe Dan Gorman.\nJoe Dan's bio at Intellectual Froglegs:\n\nBorn in Dallas Texas, and raised in the hills of eastern Kentucky, Joe Dan Gorman spent most of his adult life in the southern Arizona real estate investment market where he served as broker, investor and private consultant. He was vice-president of the largest (at the time) real estate investment company in southern Arizona.\n\nWhen the real estate market collapsed in 2007, in combination with a multi-year custody battle for his son\u2014 Joe Dan lost everything. Within a 3 month period, Joe Dan\u2019s dad died, his son was taken, and his livelihood collapsed.\n\nSuddenly Joe Dan went from a beautiful home in the Catalina foothills to living and working in an unfinished basement for the next six years.\n\nIn May of 2008, Joe Dan, almost 50 years of age at the time, moved to his Aunt Jean\u2019s Kansas City basement. He could not find a job anywhere, doing anything -- not even working in fast food restaurants.\n\nIn 2009, Joe Dan produced his very first video on a laptop and the free Windows Movie Maker software that came with the computer. \u201cI will follow him\u201d was the title and it accrued over 200K views. Soon thereafter, he became a semi-regular on KMBZ AM-Radio in Kansas City until he was banned after the station took a liberal slant.\n\nIn 2011, Joe Dan who was about to be baptized\u2014 was \u2018dis-invited\u2019 from his baptism at the KC church for asking too many questions. He wrote about that here. It was shortly after that when Joe Dan said God came into his life via the basement, and just a few months later, in 2012, Joe Dan created Intellectual Froglegs.\n\nIn 2013, he was nominated for Video Blogger of the Year at CPAC in Washington DC. And now his job is Intellectual Froglegs, where he makes just enough to produce the next episode.\n\nJoe Dan has rejected corporate affiliations that require him to compromise his core Christian beliefs.\n\n\nIntellectual Froglegs\nIf you've not see an Intellectual Froglegs episode you are missing out on maybe the most entertaining 30 minutes you've ever seen: Joe Dan narrates each fast-paced, irreverent, hysterical minute!\n\nGorman adds fantastic music -- lots of rock -- to punctuate the segments.\n\nMaking fun of liberals and their wholesale lunacy has never been so much fun!\n\nBookmark IF and listen as Joe Dan brings his humor to the political discourse on my show!\n\nFollow Matthew\xa0on Twitter at @MatthewBetley, Joe Dan Gorman at @JoeDanMedia, and me at @tamij AND tweet your questions/comments during the show.\n*Sponsored by Camera Security Now, your premier\xa0source for surveillance and access control systems for business nationwide; by ROBAR\xae Companies, a True Custom firearms and firearms finishing shop\xa0located in Phoenix, AZ, and found online at RobarGuns.com; and by Dispatches, your site for the BEST conservative resources to fight and win the information war.