The Grapes of Wrath

read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - it's better than the economics textbooks that say banks are just financial intermediaries.

There has never been a more obvious line read of a word you've never said or heard before than that. I was once, I remember going, when I was in high school, we did the Grapes of Wrath. And like weeks into the book, one of my classmates was like, so this guy, Tom Joad.

I knew about Grapes of Wrath as I lay dying mainly because that metal band.

I didn't know that was a Steinbeck book. I knew about Grapes of Wrath as I lay dying mainly because that metal band. Travels with Charlie.

I was in, like, a regional production of The Grapes of Wrath. I made $50.

I read grapes of wrath and and At the certain point things get so bad. They're breastfeeding each other, but I can't imagine and even in Livingston Parish, Louisiana They Put it in pastries it says here and energy drinks damn

Yeah. Um, I mean, there are a couple of scenes in, uh, Grapes of Wrath that kind of like. Really?

Well, there is a very, like, there's a scene where the mom at the end or a woman who's breastfeeding at the end has to breastfeed a person because, like an adult.

the grapes of wrath or some book like that and what happened was I had dreamed I read the book the night prior I dreamed I read it and that's what I thought the book was all of my dream thoughts.

the school board in my town actually banned the book The Grapes of Wrath because it took the name of the Lord in vain.

They banned the book The Grapes of Wrath because it took the name of the Lord in vain.

She said some neighborhoods out there are straight out of Steinbeck.

It's a little Steinbeck-y.

She said, "Some neighborhoods out there are straight out of Steinbeck." She's like, "It's just a fucking disaster basically."

She's calling literary references. That's unbelievable. That's fucking awesome. Unbelievable.

This isn't from the 1800s. This is now they're talking about. Now it's a good place to hide from an ex-wife that wants fucking alimony. Or the law or civilization. And we'll get to in our story, that's the reason why they're here. Really? Oh, this is great. That's why we're making a point of this now. What a quote.

I think that Steinbeck might have a point. I'm just saying that now. That looks nice. Steinbeck's onto something. Now he moves in, in Three Points.

I think that Steinbeck might have a point. I'm just saying that now. That looks nice. Steinbeck's onto something.

my first professional acting job was in a production of Grapes of Wrath. I played Winfield Jode.

It's just a sad fucking Grapes of Wrath kind of shit.

It's just a sad fucking Grapes of Wrath kind of shit.

It's just a sad fucking Grapes of Wrath kind of shit.

It's just a sad, "Grapes of Wrath" kind of shit.

We got it! They could have gone with Dicks of Wrath. That would have been fun. Dicks of Wrath.

They could have gone with Dicks of Wrath. That would have been fun. Dicks of Wrath. I do like that. That does sound like a good name.

asked to buy a $7,500 first edition of The Grapes of Wrath.

It's kind of like a Grapes of Wrath thing.

Just like in the movie on the grapes of wrath. They put a canvas over my dad's truck and this younger kids in the back and the baby in the front which either me or my sister and They load up and we take off to Colorado in a truck [00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:55.360]

But don't let John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, make you think that all of Oklahoma is forced to abandon their homes for the green fields of California.

Between widespread newspaper coverage and later books, like Steinbeck's much-celebrated The Grapes of Wrath, the Okies and Arkies, as these dust bowl-fleeing migrant workers are derogatorily called, become a greatly exaggerated presence, an imagined nuisance in the minds of many Californians.

On the next episode, John Steinbeck immerses himself in the lives of migrant workers in California, elevating their stories in books like The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

I just finished the grapes of rasp for the fourth time. It's a fucking comfort book.