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do you have been reading this book about the Wild West holy [ __ ] but it's an audiobook I say I'm reading but I'm really lying I'm listening I'm listening I always do Empire the summer moon holy [ __ ] holy [ __ ] is it good it's terrifying Empire the wet empire of the summer moon it's about the wars between the settlers and Native Americans and I'm in like it's track for whatever that means I guess that's chapter four and holy [ __ ] is it horrific Some of the things that happened to these people mads you like gory like no it's not that it's the history of the United States I'm fascinated by what what happened with these tribes and when these these white settlers showed up and I'm fascinated by what the tribes were doing before the settlers showed up too and there's they detail a lot of that too it talks about the Comanche about what happened when the Comanche got horses and they they just really started getting really good at raising horses and they had way more horses than anybody and they slowly dominated it's fascinating stuff man I mean this isn't that long ago that these folks were riding horses dominating landscape with bows and arrows and Spears and hunting Buffalo and cooking them over fire and now it's [ __ ] amazing their life was I'm it is like like sort of a fairy tale movie type [ __ ] of like Avatar people but this is how these a lot of these folks lift me and it's savage to like that the murders when it talks about the murders and murdering murdering settlers and babies all kinds of crazy [ __ ] like if you can't handle that don't read it but few not really listening to it son you're right you listen so I listen to it yeah is that better than reading it it says I can do it in my car I'm always driving around I mean I try to read but I don't read as much as I do listen I listen way more than ever you gotta go on the beach or something where you flip the page I might have to check that out I will check that out

Joe Rogan mentions he is listening to the audiobook "Empire of the Summer Moon" and describes its content about the brutal history of the wars between settlers and Native Americans, focusing on the Comanche tribe. He notes how horrific some of the events described are and how fascinating the Comanche way of life was.

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