The Catcher in the Rye

We were working on some Holden Caulfield, you know, Catcher in the Rye scenes, you know, and other scenes that he worked at because we were trying to get me an agent and so forth.

the murder of the what was the book that John Lennon this killer was allegedly holding a Catcher in the rye, I think was the book that he was holding and if you look into the truth There's the CIA was there that day that he got shot.

And he also had a copy of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Ah. In a plastic bag.

So this guy is literally just taking pieces from other people. He's like BTK. Yeah he's the fucking BTK of celebrity murderers.

Catcher in the Rye? Come on. Yeah literally go fuck yourself.

...and then just fucking re-catch her in the rye if you haven't already because you're a phony if you haven't and but don't bring it anywhere with you to do any bad things because I bet J.D. Salinger is so sick of that.

J.D. Salinger is sick of that shit. I'm sick of that shit. He's had enough of your shit.

What's the serial killer one that they all read before? The Catcher in the Rye. Yes, there you go. I love that book.

And uh and uh uh the salinger book the catcher the ride because that's responsible for killing Lenin shooting Reagan like taught nice like okay well so these fucking dummies use it as their thing right so now I can't enjoy it like to fuck yourself yeah there's too many interpretations there's too many perspectives there's too many people you just have to be a reasonable person be nice do your shit do your best and you know look we work together all the time man people are laughing yeah yeah people are having a good time yeah like and and it's not it's also like what's your intention yeah it's not my our intention is to create right our intention is to come up with funny thing and like me as a person who enjoys standup I like sitting in the back of the O.R. and watching someone kill I fucking love it's the best I told somebody like I'm a Jim Rat but for comedy clothes yeah yeah I've been seeing you for 27 years yeah just hanging out I mean to be able to wear in Vegas and some kid was like what do you he was a chef at uh this place yellow tail and and he was just saying like being a chef you just fucking have to cook for 12 10 years 10 12 years just like it's hard and shooting I was like I've known him for 28 years yeah he's been going to clubs for 33 years yeah like that's the only thing that Matt it just makes sense yeah it's fair it's like it's an economy that you understand if the idea is good enough you will get this response and there's not there's not really politics there's not there's preferences but there's not like you know like oh uh have him although you got the fact that you got banned from the stores hilarious um that is like from a movie like we'll ban we have to ban one of them uh but uh but and you want in the end as it were but um but it is a fair thing and it is like the only people as rock says we're like X-Men where it's like they they're always mad at the X-Men they're always mad at the X-Men but like you fucking he's until like the X-Men yeah you're mad you're you're mad at Louis but fucking he went on stage on the line fuckers hilarious yes if he walked on stage they would stand up and and give him standing motivation yes and there's also it's also that it's almost that corporate thing where it's like if if um you know Chinese slaves are making phones did they make this one right like that this one like whereas with Louis it's like this one guy is responsible for all institutional sexism it's like no he's not he's a fucking he just was a dumb he just was dumb and he handled he was dumb from beginning to end and about it yes he was fucked he just fucked up and it was stupid um but he doesn't have to take the fall you know for whatever like yeah he is valuable yeah he's valuable he's valuable to our culture he creates a lot of I don't think of stand up this way where it's like you create joy for people like I never think of that way but he did create a lot of thought and joy like yeah he's responsible for a lot of positive shit I mean that is what the art form is yeah you're literally changing a person's state and then I mean and as an audience member I still love it and that was uh that was a struggle for me early on because I was jealous like I'd see people doing well and I wasn't doing well like god I wish I was doing that I wish I wrote that joke yeah I wish I was doing that show I wish I was and then I realized like oh this is like totally unproductive like yeah the opposite of productive it's negative yeah they can be activating in terms of like if you turn it into willy then work harder right well but the problem is like I wish I did that like that part of his no good or god why is he have to get this that part of his just no positive to that but what is positive you watch someone kill go god damn he's funny I gotta go to work yeah that's good but the hate part yeah like it's taking it out on him is like spanish yeah it's not it's counterproductive it's really common I think it's then 11 year old it's that's your first that's the easy reaction like no yeah yeah yeah the 11 year old and then and then it's like okay but what am I what's underneath it what's underneath it is like respect I don't and then there's certain people that it's like I've never hated Brian Riegan right right right name like nice and also like there's so yeah and he's fucking hilarious in a way that's just like I don't know this fucking dude this dude's funny he's so funny and so clean you could take your grandma to see him and never worry for a second I go where's he going with this yeah grandma get sensitive oh fuck I gotta get a drink yeah he's just he's one of those rare cats like gaffigan that figured out a way to make clean justice Sebastian too though yeah like Sebastian so I always forget he's clean and Nate Bargazze is now like getting into that area where he's like clean southern accent like it's a big it's like it's a good place to be but he's fucking so funny if you're naturally inclined to do that yeah yeah like if yeah if you're forcing yourself to it um but uh yeah I think that there's a ton of value in in standup I mean it's it seems so obvious but it's like and I think Netflix must there must be some metric in Netflix where they at a certain point they're losing a ton of programming meaning all of their shit's licensed Disney's taken all their shit back in like a year or two a lot of like parent like all of these places are starting their own apps so they're gonna lose and I think they realize like a lot of Netflix is standup and documentaries and I think they must be in terms of like they can never monetize it in terms of like if the alley Wong special begat this much money but if it costs them 500 grand to get alley Wong's first special including product everything they made a lot of money you know what I mean like they and it's millions of people watched it and like as well as you know it's fucking great so like they it's just a cool it's just the coolest thing I can imagine I agree like I agree that's why you're good at it though man I mean that's that's to have that appreciation respect for something that you enjoyed doing that is actually your your your your your surracuitation means beautiful thing we're really really forged yeah and the gifts that we get like a lot you know the main like and it's all for it's all from comedy yeah glasses shoes car yeah everything you're doing yeah basically like every single thing is from just a personality part yeah yeah and like creativity we're grinding too I like grinding I really do it when I'm doing three four shows a nine I get a kick out of it I'm like here we go this is how things get good work a joke out yeah the best that's how they come alive yeah I gotta wrap this up yeah yeah tell people your podcast how you feel find it's on the on cuz I'm fucking I'm excited to do it with her yeah very cool yeah it's great we get chemistry and um and it's iTunes everywhere so go check it out it's just me it's like this except it's like this yeah it's like this yes except there's a higher pitch voice just a good yeah exactly not much higher and you know you got a pretty she's yeah it's kind of high right all right bye everybody

It came out in either the late 50s or the early 60s.

In 1960, a teacher who assigned it to his class for reading got fired.

It's one of my favorite books.

And it's one that I've reread several times over the years and it always takes on a little different meaning depending on my age, which is interesting.

It came out in either the late 50s or the early 60s.

Because in 1960, a teacher who assigned it to his class for reading got fired.

It's one of my favorite books.

And it's one that I've reread several times over the years and it always takes on a little different meaning depending on my age, which is interesting.

It came out in either the late 50s or the early 60s.

Because in 1960, a teacher who assigned it to his class for reading got fired.

It's one of my favorite books.

And it's one that I've reread several times over the years and it always takes on a little different meaning depending on my age, which is interesting.

He published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951.

It dropped like a neutron bomb on America and essentially created the current popular image of a teenager.

Especially disaffected, disillusioned teenagers who are starting to realize, like, the world is not what they've been told it is their entire lives up to that point.

Phony, perhaps? He started that. Yeah, phony.

And that's pretty much all you need to know. We can end the episode here, really.

More than 11,000 books have been challenged since 1982, Josh. That's just since 82. I was reading about The Catcher in the Rye.

It came out in, wow, man, I wish I knew. It came out in either the late 50s or the early 60s. Because in 1960, a teacher who assigned it to his class for reading got fired.

It's one of my favorite books. It's one that I've reread several times over the years and it always takes on a little different meaning depending on my age.

Same with the Salinger. Yeah. Catcher on the Rye, that was it. Except he wrote short stories too but I mean like he never published another novel.

Same with the Salinger. Yeah. Catcher on the Rye, that was it.

Same with the Salinger. Yeah. Catcher on the Rye, that was it. Except he wrote short stories too but I mean like he never published another novel.

If you're in high school, that was Mark David Chapman.

Yes, because he's the one that shot John Lennon.

Right. And he had John Lennon sign Catcher in the Rye.

Which is just like, all right, calm down. I mean, Jesus, like, come on.

If you're in high school, that was Mark David Chapman.

Yes, because he's the one that shot John Lennon.

Right. And he had John Lennon sign Catcher in the Rye.

I don't know if J.D. Salinger had that with Ketra and the Rye.

Remember that podcast we did with J.D. Salinger? The only time he'd ever been interviewed. And I did a whole podcast with him and I asked him all the stuff everyone's ever wanted to ask him, like who is Holden Caulfield? What's the inspiration?

He had a copy of the Catcher in the Rye.

When Jordan Love threw an interception, he went back to read Catcher in the Rye.

I think about JD Salinger one of my favorite books is Catcher in the Rye Jay he only wrote one book and then he checked out into a subterranean passage in New Hampshire and he probably wrote I think was 30 other books but he never published one of them so how do you develop this kind of philosophy well you stop plugging in to the cultural majority and doing whatever everyone is doing and you do you take a radical act and you start thinking for yourself and I think that's the power of the eight forms of wealth the book is based around it's a framework it's a Mount Everest for the eight most important elements of a life well lived doesn't mean you're going to do them all in a day but every day you advance on growth on wellness on family on craft on money on community on adventure and on service and you start to think for yourself and I guess what I'm trying to say is you start to live your own life versus your neighbor's life and I think that's a powerful way to live no one wants to get to our last day and say we lived like the tribe we lived like our neighbors.

A pretty famous example is Catcher in the Rye. In that case, parents weren't keen on the profanity and the references to drinking and suicide, and it was seen by some people as kind of anti-family.

They point to books like Catcher in the Rye and say that books that address the gritty realities of life are engaging for young learners and inspire a love of reading.

In Catcher in the Rye, Holden says that his loaded grandmother has been losing her marbles a little bit and has been sending him money for his birthday multiple times a year.

It's just a happy coincidence.

Unfortunately, ACAB includes the person who tried to get me to read Catcher in the Rye.

Catcher in the Rye was a good book.

Unfortunately. ACAB includes the person who tried to get me to read Catcher in the Rye.

And here she is not 10 years later. Well, I think it's inspiring. I think the government on a regular basis takes incredibly young, incredibly talented people and throws them in the deep end. And I think we've been better off as a nation when we...

And her piece on Amazon's antitrust paradox was literally her catcher in the rye, whatever you want to call it.

Catcher in the Rye maybe? Is that one of the ones people hate?

Molly said Catcher in the Rye was the one she couldn't stand.

His delusional killer, inspired by the novel The Catcher in the Rye and enraged by John's atheism and earlier claim about the band being bigger than Jesus, remains in prison to this day.

It's the whole basis for Catcher in the Rye, the idea of these phonies.

You ever recapture on the rye Nia? Oh my god.

That's that that fucking thing when he sees that great piano player.

But the guy knows he's great and he's making that face that g.e. Smith thing and it's just like yeah, dude.

You're up your own ass right now. You don't need me and I'm not gonna sit there.

I want you fucking jerk yourself off after you just did something that a bunch of other people have already fucking done it drives me It drives me fucking nuts.

You ever read *Catcher in the Rye*?

That's that that fucking thing when he sees that great piano player, but the guy knows he's great He's making that face that g.e smith thing and it's just like yeah, dude, you're up your own ass right now

You ever recapture on the rye Nia? Oh my god. Fucking cashier in the rye analogy you always make. I'll tell you why because always with the catcher in the rye. That's that that fucking thing when he sees that great piano player. But the guy knows he's great and he's making that face that g.e. Smith thing and it's just like yeah, dude. You're up your own ass right now. You don't need me and I'm not gonna sit there.

Oh my god, fucking cashier in the rye analogy you always make.

Always with the catcher in the rye.

That's that that fucking thing when he sees that great piano player, but the guy knows he's great and he's making that face that g.e. Smith thing and it's just like yeah, dude, you're up your own ass right now. You don't need me and I'm not gonna sit there I want you fucking jerk yourself off after you just did something that a bunch of other people have already fucking done it drives me It drives me fucking nuts.

You ever recapture on the rye Nia? Oh my god.

Always with the catcher in the rye.

That's that that fucking thing when he sees that great piano player.

The coach has on his reading glasses. He's already in the off season. He's going to read catcher in the rye or some shit.

Those guys are fantastic. Yeah, I like them. So you can find that at Stitchin' Adams on YouTube.