Behind The Bastards podcast did several episodes where they read from his novel “True Allegiance” and boy is it every bit as racist as it is terrible! But I love what a blatant self-insert the whole thing is. That part cracks me up. Ben’s protagonist is a handsome six-foot+ man’s man named Brett who is not only the youngest General in the US Army but he definitely doesn’t have a squeaky voice and people would never dare tease him and he totally got invited to lots of of parties in college too.
I’d highly recommend searching for a Spotify playlist called “Behind the Bastards: True Allegiance” if you want a waste a couple hours with some comedy gold.
That’s Combat General Brett Hawthorne to you.
You have to say the whole thing, every time.
I think they read the sequel on Worst Year Ever
Edit: I’m sure they read at some of Ben’s books on the tail end of that shows run but maybe it wasn’t True Allegiance
