Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker, screenwriter and author whose new novel is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, based on his Oscar-winning film of the same title; Max Brooks is a Senior Resident Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council and a Nonresident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point; Dan Carlin is the host of the podcast Hardcore History and author of the New York Times bestseller, The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses.