InfamousBrad

Matt, after reading Griftopia, it became even more obvious to me that right after the bubble burst, you somehow got the money (I'm assuming from Rolling Stone) to travel as much as you needed to, and spend as much time as you needed to, to interview hundreds of people about it. That you were doing first-hand reporting, at a time when everybody else was just quoting press releases or (if they were really ambitious) quoting what they heard on CSPAN. It's why yours is the #1 book I recommend on the subject.

But lately you haven't been doing as much of that; the sources you cite lately are (like the hacks back in 2008) what your sources call you and tell you on the phone and what you see on TV. What would it take to shake loose some more travel expense money so you could do so more first-hand reporting? And if we did, who do you want to interview now that you can't afford the money or time to track down and spend time with?

You and the other actors have all given a ton of interviews in the last couple of weeks about how dark season 2 of Defiance is. How dark are we talking? Is anybody still hopeful, still trying to make things better? Especially your character?