I’m going to work tirelessly not to have a completely fanboy geek out here, but you are aware how inconceivable it is to my mind (and brain and however they interact), that “Ben Lee, who I spoke with personally about his music, awared me of my favorite character from my favorite meaningful sub-plot in one of my favorite movies.

I’ve always enjoyed “The Patriot” mainly for the acting all around, notwithstanding all the historical innscruacies in the movie.

But my favored sub-plot, far and away, is your character Scott’s evolving relationship with Occam.

It doesn’t take up a lot of screen time, but I think it’s an essential sub-plot, explaining the bigger, underlying issue that was always just beyond the horizon throughout the Revolution, and you all hit your parts perfectly, so much that the scene’s always stayed with me.

The moment when your characater reads that notice about slaves being granted freedom and you ask the slave what he’s going to do with freedom, for me, ranks up there with the scene in Cold Mountain at the Battle of the Crater where the African American Man and Native American man are fighting and pause for a moment to look at each other as if to say “What are we doing here fighting and dying for this, against each other?”

Your subplot in The Patriot is the “pre-quel” to that moment, and the flip side side of the coin, angering the “why are we fighting” question with “freedom.”

So yeah, I guess I did a poor job of not geeking out.

It’s just really great to have you on here.