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There's a book that just came out about three or four months ago. It's fantastic. I think your readers would love this book. It's called stolen focus. And it's written by Johann Hari. He's a journalist, he also wrote an excellent book called chasing the screen about the war against drugs, the war on drugs, and the problems with that. So he seems to have a special interest in brain topics and mental health. So this book, he, he is well researched and he talks about all the harms of screen use, digital use and how it impacts our ability to focus, how it impacts our ability to read literature. Reading is at an all-time low among US adults. People are not reading novels anymore. People's attention spans become very, very short and without a doubt technology has an impact, and he does an excellent deep dive in this book about how this is true.

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Stolen Focus, why you can't pay attention and how to think deeply again.

I read that in the book. I couldn't believe it. Three minutes.

It's like we're putting rocket fuel into a mini, right? It'll go really fast for five minutes, then it will just stop.

We are not machines. We cannot live by the logic of machines.

Flow begins at the edge of your comfort zone.

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Democracy Awakening, Heather Cox Richardson... I was naming books... Stolen Focus.

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So I just did a show on my own podcast with Johan Hari about his new book, Stolen Focus about attention.

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Democracy Awakening, Heather Cox Richardson, I was naming books, Stolen Focus.

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So I just did a show on my own podcast with Johan Hari about his new book, Stolen Focus about attention.

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The other the other big central problem that was written about in the book Stolen Focus is the advertising driven model because that makes the whole incentive how do we not to how do we satisfy you and make you have a good pleasant like edifying experience how do we keep you here keep you clicking keep you agitated right that's that's the whole ecosystem because it is driven by ad dollars the more time you're there the more emotions like good, bad or indifferent that you're having about the content that you're serving the better it is for sort of the you know capitalist advertising system

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His new book that we're going to talk to him about today is about how your attention has been stolen by a variety of actors, not just tech.

I just finished it actually this morning but we wanted to start with the big breaking news with regards to the Supreme Court.

You are looking at a guy who hasn't read a real book in five years but has probably listened to hundreds of books at three and a half speed.

I went to interview one of the leading experts in the world or one of the leading neuroscientists in the world, Professor Earl Miller, he's at MIT and he said to me...

We need to ask if we're living in what he called an attentional pathogenic environment when we're all of us are struggling with this and to deal with that, we've got to change our psychology.

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The advertising driven model because that makes the whole incentive how do we not to how do we satisfy you and make you have a good pleasant like edifying experience how do we keep you here keep you clicking keep you agitated right that's that's the whole ecosystem because it is driven by ad dollars the more time you're there the more emotions like good, bad or indifferent that you're having about the content that you're serving the better it is for sort of the you know capitalist advertising system

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He has a new book out, previous books he's had chasing the scream about drug war. He had another book about depression and what's causing it and the drugs that are typically used to treat it.

His new book that we're going to talk to him about today is about how your attention has been stolen by a variety of actors, not just tech. A variety of sort of modern cultural factors that will dig into all of that really interesting book.

I just finished it actually this morning but we wanted to start with the big breaking news with regards to the Supreme Court.

You're looking at a guy who hasn't read a real book in five years but has probably listened to hundreds of books at three and a half speed so I'm right there with you.

I love your show so I'm so excited to be here. It really means a lot because I'm a long time fan of your work as well.

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If you have suffered from depression, do you now find yourself struggling to pay attention? You are not alone.

That was exactly the question I asked myself because it could be a lot happening to myself.

The name of the latest book is Stolen Focus.

It's called Stolen Focus. Why you can't pay attention and how to think deeply again.

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There's a new book out about how to reclaim your focus from the fascinating and quick charismatic author, Johann Hari.

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Johan Harry has this wonderful book Stolen Focus and I believe he's right when he says if we adults clear it out we can regain our attention.

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So this was all in my head when I saw Johan Hari's new book, Stolen Focus. Hari's work has always been interesting to me.

And I think one of the things that was most surprising to me was the evidence about mind wandering, which I learned about for Stolen Focus.

Johan Hari, your new book is Stolen Focus.

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Johann is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist and speaker known for his book Stolen Focus, Why You Can't Pay Attention.

for my book stolen focus you know I wrote it for a very personal reason I could feel my own attention was getting worse and each year that passed things that require deep focus that are really important to me reading books watching movies having long conversations with my friends were just getting harder and harder.

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Yeah, I found this book, What Happened To You, to be sort of a game changer in terms of how I think about what is wrong with me, which is really not the way one should look at it, as you'll explain.

What I got out of it was so much more because my thesis or at least my approach to my investigation was literally to ask the question, what is wrong with me and what are the origins of that? And I kept coming up against the shame.

So your book very much helped me to recenter and ask the question differently. And the rest I just found to be incredibly revealing in terms of the impact of trauma on the developing brain and on who we are as adults.

And I think it's very difficult as someone who's had some of both at any given time to not be sure how to validate any one of those things.

If I've been through a big trauma around divorce, my parents' divorce or my personal health or some kind of assault, well, it's not as bad as it is for other people.

So does that really count? And if I'm having more trouble with practices in daily life that should not be so difficult, but that trigger me in a way that those big things did, well, then I would judge myself as dysfunctional for that too.

So what your book did, which most other books that I've read on trauma and the brain and psychology and behavior don't do is actually normalize the experience of trauma in life.

I think you both highlight the very important special circumstances around PTSD and circumstances that nobody argues would be trauma, but also that we have experiences that are traumatic based on things that we don't fully understand.

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I have a better question that Dr. Bruce Perry talks about in his book with Oprah Winfrey is what happened to you?

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Of course, Scott McClellan just written a book called What Happened?

It's a pretty remarkable audiobook.

Being evasive's not the same as lying in bushes!

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What Happened Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception.

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Yeah. So it's Oprah's book called 'What Happened to You?'

And she talked a lot about people pleasing in that book and how she's a massive people pleaser.

And I was like, well, first of all, it's kind of cool to be like Oprah in a way.

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My sister got this book delivered to the house, opened the box and goes, 'here, you can read it first.'

Oprah has this new book she wrote with a research neurologist...and it's called 'What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing.'

And this is the guy, Bruce Perry was the guy who started the trauma conversation back when no one knew what that was.

And it's basically his studies talking about when stuff happens to kids, everyone loves to talk about kids being so resilient and blah blah blah, but actually if you're traumatized in specific ways and in certain ways, it actually affects your brain chemistry. It affects your brain makeup.

And it's just a fast...and it's written like a conversation. You'd love, you would love it. I know you'd love it.

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We talk about how they are redefining childhood trauma, why experiences at a young age mold our adult life, and finding rhythm and balance to start healing yourself.

Why is it so important to make this switch from us thinking what is wrong with you to what happened to you?

So I want to ask you both this first question to start with is, why is it so important to make this switch from us thinking what is wrong with you to what happened to you?

And so I will just say this. One of the things that Bruce says in the book, each of us comes into the world with our own worldview.

And that worldview is actually shaped from the crib.

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And it's the piece called what happened to you by Andrew Sullivan. It's dated July 9th. It's on his sub stack. And it's, it's the subheading is the radicalization of the American elite against liberalism.

We are going through the greatest radicalization of the elites since the 1960s. This isn't coming from the ground up. It's being imposed ruthlessly from above marshaled with a fusillade of constant MSM propaganda.

And its victims are often the poor and the black and the Brown. It nearly lost the Democrats, the last election.

It is an ongoing moral panic against the specter of white supremacy, which is now bizarrely regarded as an accurate description of the largest freest, most successful multiracial democracy in human history.

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And I'm I really encourage everyone listening to this to get this book, what happened to you? It is a necessary piece of reading and it applies to so many different topics. I've used it for parenting. They talk about regulating your kids. You can get through to them. I was enraptured by the implicit bias versus your beliefs and your cortex and how they can fight. I mean, there are so many topics in here, but it's totally easy to digest. Put it in your earphones as you drive to work or grab the book as you drive to work or grab the book if you like to sit outside and read.

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This comes on the heels of a whole series of huge hit books, including The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe and Freedom.

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One chapter of that book that I imagine became The Perfect Storm. It was a chapter that was going to be on commercial fishing.

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Number two, The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.

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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has the ability to fucking Override your brain going I need some air

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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality

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it was the most uncomfortable book since I read I read the book The Perfect Storm

and if you don't want to buy the book just fucking open it up and just there's a chapter maybe like a three-page thing maybe where the guy describes what happens when you drown and it's just like I don't know you fucking blood goes cold man it's fucking freaky as hell

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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has the ability to fucking Override your brain going I need some air

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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has the ability to fucking Override your brain going I need some air

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That movie, the book is unbelievable. The movie sucks.

The whole movie, you're just waiting for the fucking wave and that's it.

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it was the most uncomfortable book since I read I read the book The Perfect Storm

and if you don't want to buy the book just fucking open it up and just there's a chapter maybe like a three-page thing maybe where the guy describes what happens when you drown and it's just like I don't know you fucking blood goes cold man it's fucking freaky as hell

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That movie, the book is unbelievable. The movie sucks.

The whole movie, you're just waiting for the fucking wave and that's it.

Other than that, they didn't develop the characters and I didn't give a fuck about anybody I liked George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg and the guy who played the creepy fisherman. I liked him too.

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That movie, the book is unbelievable. The movie sucks. The whole movie, you're just waiting for the fucking wave and that's it.

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There's a book that I read, Perfect Storm.

One of the very few books I read, The Perfect Storm, about those sword fishermen.

About the fishermen? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And a couple of guys, they got sucked down there with some of the bait and they drowned. They thought they were dying, but then they pulled them up eventually and they said, when you're drowning, you just see your whole life from childhood to having your first baby. All of these big major events just start flashing.

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I've read the perfect storm, which is they made a movie about that like Mark Wahlberg, you know,

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It almost feels like I was a little kid when I first saw The Perfect Storm.

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but I highly commend the film. The most recent it's been made into a movie four times but the best of it I think is the relatively recent one simply called Bounty and it's absolutely terrific couple of riveting performances and it really explores the character of William Bligh which was one of the most complicated to say the least.

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I got this from a reference to a passage from the book the perfect storm okay

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I got this from a reference to a passage from the book the perfect storm okay

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It's based on the Sebastian Younger book and I think it's worth noting that for as much ...

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This comes on the heels of a whole series of huge hit books, including The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, Tribe and Freedom.

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If we just sit in our inner tube with our hands behind our head and crack open a six-pack of beer, the river of dark nature takes us towards that waterfall of the shadow.

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The 33 Strategies of War is probably the one that's influenced me the most.

You can grab all those at the Painted Porch.

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When she made her stand in 92, it wasn't about ripping up the Pope's picture. It was about singing Bob Marley's war, um, acapella essentially, and, and making it about child abuse and saying that and naming that on the biggest TV show of the day.

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And I read very deeply about Gandhi, and I wrote about him in my third book, The Strategies of War.

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so it's what it's a strategy from my book I wrote a book on strategy my version of the art of war called 33 strategies of war but it's really about strategy the strategic thinking it's inspired from Sun Su the great Chinese strategist but it has vast philosophical implications the idea is you can almost think of it like barometric pressure

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Thank you to whoever brought me the Ken Burns 'The War' on DVD that was ridiculously generous of you.

I will be watching that once again the second I get through all of Ken Burns' the rest of them.

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If you haven't seen it, if you're like me and you're late to the party, dude, like that's my recommendation for the week.

It's a seven-parter on World War II. Each one's about an hour and 50 minutes long.

It's effortless to watch this thing other than the amount of times you have to hit pause and go, Jesus Christ, I haven't done shit with my life.

It really ties the whole war together where for me, I've always seen like, they'll always do stuff on it on the History Channel that they'll be talking about the war in the Pacific or they'll talk about the Blitzkrieg or they'll talk about D-Day and occasionally they'll talk about Northern Africa.

It's un-fucking-real what, ah Jesus, I'm too stupid to fucking just go watch the goddamn thing.

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If you haven't seen it, if you're like me and you're late to the party, dude, like that's my recommendation for the week.

It's a seven-parter on World War II. Each one's about an hour and 50 minutes long.

It really ties the whole war together where for me, I've always seen like, they'll always do stuff on it on the History Channel that they'll be talking about the war in the Pacific or they'll talk about the Blitzkrieg or they'll talk about D-Day and occasionally they'll talk about Northern Africa.

It would be like, what the fuck was that movie that they showed and they showed it backwards and the guy tattooed shit on his arm?

It's just, it's un-fucking-real what, ah Jesus, I'm too stupid to fucking just go watch the goddamn thing.

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I don't I I never think about World War two until I come over here. I watched that Ken Burns the war Which is like a 90 Fucking part one out each each one was like one hour long About the war and every time I fly over here.

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I got into...started watchingKen Burns The War.

it's a seven part on World War two.

just it's effortless to watch this thing other than the amount of times you have to hit pause and go Jesus Christ I haven't done shit with my life that's what it makes me feel like.

it really ties the whole war together where for me I've always seen like they'll always do stuff on it on the history channel that they'll be talking about the war in the Pacific or they'll talk about the blitzkrieg or they'll talk about D-Day and occasionally they'll talk about northern Africa but this thing kinda goes in chronological order of the whole damn thing.

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I got into...went on Netflix and I started watching...Ken Burns The War...if you haven't seen it if you like me and you're late to the party dude like that's my recommendation for the week it's a seven pot on World War two.

it's effortless to watch this thing other than the amount of times you have to hit pause and go Jesus Christ I haven't done shit with my life that's what it makes me feel like I can't even begin to...you just gotta watch it.

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author who sold millions of copies, 48 laws of power, 33 strategies of war, mastery, the laws of human nature.

I remember another mentor I had pointed me to a page in the 33 Strategies of War where Robert Green talks about acting before you're ready.

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At about 19, I apprenticed under a great writer named Robert Green who wrote the 40 laws of power and the 33 strategy of war.

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He bought me hardcover of Robert Green's 33 Strategies of War which I still have to this day and book changed my life.

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I think Robert's book, The 33 Strategies of War is one of the great books on strategy and politics and power ever written.

My analysis of it through the lens of my book The 33 Strategies of War.

In the in the loss of human nature I have a chapter that I describe I go into depth on Stalin called complete control where Stalin's main objective in life his main goal, his main ambition was to gain complete control of every aspect of the Soviet Union

in 33 strategies of war on number 15 is called control the dynamic forcing strategies and what it is is it's the ultimate of an offensive warfare

when I asked him his rank Lieutenant Captain Major he said he didn't have one when I asked him his unit's designation a platoon a company or even about Italian he said they simply called themselves a squad rank and formal military terms weren't something they worried about

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or you can be the kindest person you could have the best intentions and evolve and your decisions create havoc and create the worst kind of evil unintended consequences right we see that play out over and over and over again history so you know it's this is an example where it's not just about doing the moral thing in the simplistic way it was about what are the consequences what's the long-term picture here well and that goes back to this idea of courage and i talked about this in the new book a little bit which is um you have to have the courage just to decide and then to own your decision um and the consequences of that decision and i think that's one of the reasons that people don't do things they hesitate because they know if they break it they buy it if they sign uh they they leaders want to have it both ways when really courageous leaders uh know they have to make the decision and then then stick to executing the decision with competence as we said but then you're gonna have to own the fallout the criticism you know the consequences you can you could have made the right decision with the information you had at the time and it can still go horribly wrong uh you can be morally correct and still be look like an immoral person i mean i think we're looking at this in Afghanistan right now uh extricating oneself uh extricating a country from a country uh from a war that's gone on for 20 years it's gonna be messy and unpleasant and it's not gonna look good and it's gonna reveal a lot of things that have you know predated your decision um and i could very much see why a leader would waver or change their mind under the public pressure uh that that comes from that but you got to the job of being president or leader or CEO or board of directors is making hard decisions and then you know shepherding them to completion okay

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We wrote the 48 laws of power he wrote 33 strategies of war which I think anyone in your profession should read.

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I think Susan Cain, who wrote the book on being an introvert, gave a brilliant TED Talk.

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I found one of the most wonderful books ever written about this was Susan Cain's book Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

Which is a massive bestseller, yes?

Yes, it was the number one New York Times bestseller.

It was a while ago.

2012, I believe.

But she talks about, and this is what I loved about it so much. She talks about the rise of the extrovert ideal and how it's permeated our culture in a way that in her words may be dramatically under values, introverts and what introverts have to offer the world.

And she gave an incredible TED talk on this.

She herself is a lawyer. And this is one of the things I love that she said. She said, I became a Wall Street lawyer of all things instead of the writer that I had always longed to be partly because I needed to prove to myself that I could be bold and assertive too.

I should say that I didn't know Susan when she wrote that book, but I know her now. And she's not kidding when she says she's an introvert.

But the thing that I think my acquaintance with Susan has taught me is that introverts like Susan Cain are not not relationship oriented. It's just that when they relate to other people, they don't necessarily want to do it in quantities and at scales that extroverts are happy with.

So they also want best friends and to share intimacies, but they don't necessarily have this orientation towards what psychologists call sociability, which is just like many people, many conversations going out to the bar after the dinner and then maybe another bar after that.

So Susan Cain is a very relationship oriented person.

But I think that's maybe one of the things that she wanted to correct as a misunderstanding.

Right?

It's not that introverts are misanthropes.

Right.

In fact, she this is one thing that I had not understood before. She talked about the difference between being shy and being an introvert.

And she says that shyness is about fear of social judgment.

But introversion is about how you respond to stimulation, including social stimulation.

And to your point, it's not that introverts don't want social stimulation. It's that they value relationships in a more maybe intimate way rather than this massive group setting.

But it's not the same as being shy.

I wonder again, just going back to what Susan Cain has written on introverts, that if the world is so geared toward extroverts, like in school.

My oldest brother, Peter, said when he read Quiet, Susan Cain's book, these are his exact words. He said, it was the first time I understood myself.

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That was in and around the same time that I was reading Susan Cain's book Quiet because Becky Sauerbrunn was also on the team and she's like this raging introvert.

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Susan Cain, I have invited you here to connect our bittersweet pod squatters to the storied tradition of bittersweetness to tell them that they are not alone and that perhaps they were in fact made for just such a time as this.

Is the author of the bestsellers quiet, quiet journal, quiet power, the secret strengths of introverts and quiet the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking.

A lot of people listening discovered Susan from the book Quiet, which was about introverts, which really helped me understand myself deeply.

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There's a woman named Susan Cain who wrote a book called Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

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There's a woman named Susan Cain who wrote a book called Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking.

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Today, our guest is none other than Susan Cain, the author of Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which spent seven years on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into over 40 languages.

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There's new research, new-ish, from Susan Cain who wrote the book Quiet, that explains why introverts connect better.

Introversion really here what this means is you need me time to recover.

This is Susan Kane's research from her book as well by the way, where introverts aren't people who are socially inept, they're people who need me time to recover, but they actually perceive others better than on the whole, better than extroverts do, because they're paying closer attention.

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There's new research, new-ish from Susan Cain who wrote the book Quiet that explains why introverts connect better.

This is Susan Kane's research from her book as well by the way, where introverts aren't people who are socially inept, they're people who need me-time to recover.

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there's new research new ish from Susan Kane who wrote the book quiet that explains why introverts connect better and I love this because you no longer we no longer as a fellow introvert have a medical excuse to be quiet or not socialize or knocking of talks or not network things like that that introverts supposedly can't do turns out that's just not the case

this is Susan Kane's research from her book as well by the way where introverts aren't people who are socially inept they're people who need me time to recover but they actually perceive others better than on the whole better than extroverts do because they're paying closer attention

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I referred to Susan Kane earlier, her book Quiet.

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I love her book Quiet about introverts as an introvert myself

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um but I think for me that Olympic moment was really really challenging but it was also an opportunity and I think writing that piece um I did for me I wrote it as a way to process that experience and to understand um what had led up to that moment and also you know you know how I could respond to it um and in some cases there isn't really some triumphant response you kind of just acknowledge process um take the learnings and move forward and that was kind of the first step for me in doing so it was you know writing about the experience sharing it and it was honestly amazing to see the response to that and I think um for me as an athlete of course I love the moments where I have this breakthrough performance and it's an inspiration and it you know shows some people that they could do something they never thought they could do or encourages them to get on the bike um and of course that's like more fun to be in that moment but in this moment I actually got um a much deeper response and a response from a lot of people who I think throughout the pandemic had been dealing with similar uh big challenges and moments of working really hard for something and maybe just not having it come through or work out um and to be honest you know even in the course of my career which is so far I would say like I've had big success in races I've lost farmer races and I won um and I think that's kind of how it goes in life a little bit is you're um trying to learn from and deal with and grow through those challenges to allow you to have your next big win um and so for me that was definitely a pivotal one of those moments and I'm still figuring out kind of the learnings towards the next big win hopefully.

you are obviously one of my favorite authors and I have come back to your books again and again throughout my racing career um and I guess to the overall stope philosophy that they impart in a very relatable way

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking was a monster bestseller; it's in its eighth year on the New York Times bestseller list.

Her viral TED Talk, "The power of introverts," has been seen like 30 million times; it's one of the most popular of all time.

And that book was super influential to me. I love it. I identify as an introvert; it answered a lot of questions for me; it explained some issues I had as a child as well. It's just one of the great sort of classic nonfiction books.

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we were like we're not going to write a better book than quiet by Susan Kane about introversion she nailed it but we can write a book about emotions at work and so we started digging into that.

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Susan is perhaps best known for her first book, Quiet, a Monster Best Seller about introverts.

There's actually quite a bit of overlap between her first book and this one.

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And I read Susan Kane's really amazing book I don't know if you've read quite yeah I have read it it's a it's really a terrific book and it gave me actually a lot of teachers say that it's really helped them understand their students because their students which is don't ever speaking class but they're truly listening

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There are a wonderful book by Susan Cain called Quiet.

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I love the outsiders. I think with the last book was that I read not a reader. I am very weird things. I love like Stephen King books and I love history books. So like the most fiction and the most true.

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I love the outsiders. I think with the last book was that I read not a reader.

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The Outsiders came out in the 90's

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there's three great books by Camus which I highly recommend

one the outsider or the stranger a lot of high school students read this book

and the main character starts off his mom's just dies and he doesn't care and then he goes to the beach and just shoots some random guy he doesn't care and then he's put on death row and he dies and he still doesn't care and you're reading it as the reader like what's wrong with this guy but he's mirroring the world in difference he doesn't like that's what it is to accept the meaninglessness of the world

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You mean the book that was adapted to a movie.

Well, yeah, but the movie.

Sure, yes, the book that everyone had a bunch of people in California had to read in high school.

I had to read that shit too.

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I read the outsiders. I read the outsiders to pony boy. So did shei. She read the outsiders too.

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When my sister and I were obsessed with the outsiders, when we read it, when we were 12, he took it and read it after us and then called me pony boy and my sister soda pop.

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Outsiders maybe? Probably not. No, they made me read that one. Outsiders was sick.

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It's a famous sort of move by media companies and other outsider CEOs where the core business has growth, but not insane growth.

And you grow the company by acquiring high growth assets.

And again, we can debate whether Slack is a high growth asset relative to some of these other SaaS companies these days, but they're a large enough enterprise company where if what Salesforce wants to do is meaningfully grow their enterprise revenue quarter over quarter, they gotta acquire their way into new revenue streams to do that.

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The most recent episode in the feed is the recording of our book club Zoom with Will Thorndike, author of The Outsiders.

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there was a movie, a great movie called The Outsiders. Do you know that movie? Heard of it.

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That might be a musical I would see because I love the movie, The Outsider so much in the book. S.E. Hinton, 16 years old writing Outsiders.

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That might be a musical I would see because I love the movie, The Outsider so much in the book. S.E. Hinton, 16 years old writing Outsiders.

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You read that book? The Outsiders? Of course. Do I remember much of it? No. You know, we didn't really get through that point. Like, I really don't remember much of my childhood.

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We did the Outsiders together.

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Risky Business is like that too. Cruise is young in that movie, he's like 19. ... or like The Outsiders, like Rob Lowe is like a 15yearold, but this is definitely one of them.

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The Outsiders? Rumble Fish? Come on. Rumble Fish sucks.

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Best musical went to The Outsiders based on the young adult novel.

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Or will it be The Outsiders, the musical based on the popular book and movie with 12?

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Or will it be The Outsiders, the musical based on the popular book and movie with 12?

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the new Broadway musical adaptation of the SE hint novel the Outsiders came in with nine nominations in the new play

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Since the Outsiders and probably before that.

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I call it the Duel for Johnny theory from the movie The Outsiders. You know, they were rumbling. They were ready to win.

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And you have like a rumble like in The Outsiders.

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In the movie The Outsiders, do it for Johnny. Do it for Johnny. Dallas, right? Matt Dillon's character. It's been a while. Isn't he also in the hospital and they don't think he's going to show up to the rumble? But he's like, it's not a rumble without me. Do it for Johnny. And he comes there in the rumble when they need him most.

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It focuses on Eventbrite's removal of event pages for events related to Matt Walsh's What Is A Woman documentary, as well as an event where Riley Gaines was scheduled to speak.

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Eventbrite canceled pages for events hosted by college Republican clubs concerning Matt Walsh's What Is A Woman film.

Now, critically, no one involved in the decision, this is what they told the committee, watched the movie What Is A Woman.

So they never saw it. And they couldn't identify anything objectionable in the trailer. So they just didn't like the topic. So they decided to take it down.

They relied instead on Matt Walsh's statements about, quote, gender affirming surgeries, pronouns, and his Johnny the Walrus children's book to reach the conclusion.

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Concerning Matt Walsh's what is a woman film and it also canceled pages for an event featuring swimmer riley gains for violating its terms of service now critically. No one involved in the decision. This is what they told the committee. Watched the movie. What is a what is a woman? So they never saw it. And and they couldn't identify anything objectionable in the trailer. So they just didn't like the topic. So they decided to take it down.

They relied instead on matt walsh's statements about quote gender affirming surgeries pronouns and is johnny the walrus children's book to reach the conclusion likewise.

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The biggest success they've had with this is what was in twenty twenty two with What Is A Woman, which rocketed The Daily Wire Plus into the online spotlight and proved there was great success to be had with this style of aggressive anti-trans advocacy.

The film also put the previously niche figure of Matt Walsh on the map and established Walsh as an authority in queer exterminationist campaigning.

The goal of documentaries such as What Is A Woman, beyond growing The Daily Wire's subscriber count, is also to encourage real world action.

After the release of What Is A Woman, the Governor of Tennessee announced an investigation into a transgender health clinic in Nashville.

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Might I recommend you actually just order After the Revolution from AK Press, Robert Evans' book. Before I get canceled for it. For telling the truth about fiction.

Yeah, the Daily Wire, you got to check it out. Matt Walsh's documentary, What is a Woman?

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Might I recommend you actually just order After the Revolution from AK Press, Robert Evans' book. Before I get canceled for it. For telling the truth about fiction.

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Somebody in the audience says that you need to make the next movie 'What Is a Baby?' as a sequel to 'What Is a Woman?' because they certainly don't think the the baby in the womb is a baby.

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Was research director and story editor for the plot against the president and daily wires What is a woman and I'm the news editor for wrong speak public publishing right on well?

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Matt Walsh really brought in that money for them to be to be honest.

So let's just look at their their memberships. They got a seven dollar, a ten dollar and a thirteen dollar or something like that.

So let's just go for the middle and say it's like ten dollars per person. They're doing what nine million dollars in membership revenue per month.

They've also got what seven big personalities.

I mean, these are things they've stated publicly.

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What is a woman?

The reason that you gave is a very good one the fact that they're mutilating kids like you really don't need there are so many reasons why this issue matters and we ought to be engaged on it but you don't actually need to go past the simple fact that they're mutilating and butchering and abusing kids.

I originally thought of this as a as a fully satirical almost in a certain way playing a character almost as someone who's bought into this stuff and I'm getting these people to keep talking and we kind of as we as we began to film that we started to see it differently where we needed and so if you watch the movie you can tell it's like almost exactly halfway through there's this kind of tonal shift as we get into the more to the more serious conversations and we had to have that there because some of this stuff that's happening is so horrifically evil that there's no way that I can see to make it funny or anything and we have to we have to be willing to to stare right into that darkness.

I think that we've played a role a significant role in the political changes as well as well as the cultural changes I mentioned earlier just the fact that it from my vantage point people seem more willing to speak out and respond appropriately to some of these things.

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I have been on a tear lately, David, about women and what we are and what we are not and rejecting some of the crazy gender nonsense that's being shoved down our throats and saying things like, you know, Kelly J. Keane's What Is a Woman?, an adult human female, female period. That's the end of it.

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They've got Matt Walsh with his documentary, What is a Woman?, which was amazing, by the way, and featured many voices from the left trying to make the case that all this stuff is OK. It's just, you know, in my view, Matt wins the arguments.

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the Daily Wire's Matt Walsh, who is going to be on my radio show next week, has a movie out called What Is A Woman where he asks a very simple question. What is a woman?

So they have a movie coming out called What Is A Woman.

Daily Wire comes under sustained DDoS attack intended to disrupt the premiere of What Is A Woman.

Now there's two reasons they don't want you to see this movie. What is a woman? And there's two reasons they don't want you to ask this question. What is a woman?

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Matt Walsh, he's a co-contributor to the Daily Wire. Very conservative speaker, author.

So they signed a petition for, to get him to not speak on the campus.

Matt Walsh, he's the same guy that raised one hundred thousand dollars to get a Tesla for AOC's grandmother.

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Thanks to our launch of Daily Wire Plus and films like Matt Walsh's What Is A Woman?, the most important documentary of 2022. It's been massively successful.

We are talking about hundreds of thousands of people who have watched and done and subscribed in order to watch What Is A Woman?

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The documentary and book that asked one simple question, what is a woman? Has rocketed to the top of the charts fueling a debate that has raged across the country from living rooms to the halls of the Supreme Court.

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We celebrated our biggest wins of the year like What Is A Woman, the biggest documentary of 2022 and the book which took the world by storm

You get things like debunked, you get what is a woman, you get all of that.

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The documentary and book that asked one simple question, what is a woman? has rocketed to the top of the charts, fueling a debate that has raged across the country from living rooms to the halls of the Supreme Court.

Wait, isn't that guy the guy from that documentary, like the biggest documentary of 2022, What Is a Woman?

On June 1st, The Daily Wire released what would become the most watched documentary of the year. A documentary starring Matt Walsh that asked the pressing question of the time, what is a woman?

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The book, What is a Woman? is already a national bestseller.

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Watch Matt Walsh's new Daily Wire original documentary "What Is A Woman?" at whatisawoman.com, and pick up your copy of the "What Is A Woman?" book here: https://utm.io/ueFMe

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Watch Matt Walsh's new Daily Wire original documentary "What Is A Woman?" at whatisawoman.com, and pick up your copy of the "What Is A Woman?" book here: https://utm.io/ueFMe

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Watch Matt Walsh's new Daily Wire original documentary "What Is A Woman?" at whatisawoman.com, and pick up your copy of the "What Is A Woman?" book here:

What is a Woman is also a soon to be bestselling book you can pick up now on Amazon or wherever books are sold.

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and pick up your copy of the "What Is A Woman?" book here: https://utm.io/ueFMe

Have you seen the movie? Now's your chance to read the book. It came out last week. It's available on Amazon, wherever you buy books.

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Watch Matt Walsh's new Daily Wire original documentary "What Is A Woman?" at whatisawoman.com, and pick up your copy of the "What Is A Woman?" book here: https://utm.io/ueFMe

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I was writing this book, Money Master of the Game, where I interviewed the greatest investors in the world, Ray Dalio, Carl Icahn, Warren Buffett type thing.

I asked Warren Buffett this question when I was writing, you know, Money Master the Game.

And I said, what's been the most important investment of your life?

And I thought he was gonna say Coca-Cola or Geico, you know, I know all his investments.

And he paused for a moment and he goes, the best investment I ever made is what you do.

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In Tony Robbins' new book, it was like two years ago, he cited this as one of the cures to all of his long-term injuries, his shoulder injury or his back injuries.

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He had written a book without me originally called "Money Master the Game". I had a lot of clients come in with that book and ask questions.

And he did not understand the very first point you brought up was he had told his followers in his first book, hey, I used to be at this broker. I found out I was paying these really high 401k fees, high fees on my personal account. I talked to my friends in the business.

He's got clients that are billionaire hedge fund managers and he wound up talking to John Bogle and Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffett and all these people.

And one of his takeaways is people should ask for a fiduciary. And later he found out from me and him talking that people can be registered as both a fiduciary and a broker. And he was very upset about that.

He said like, Peter, look, I spent hundreds of hours on this. I wrote a whole book about this. I talked to more great minds in finance than anybody in the last century, which was true in that book.

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I've done everyone from like Abraham Hicks to Eckhart Tolle to whatever that, uh, that Tony Robbins guy. I've done all that stuff.

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My first one was Money Master the Game. It's most, most read, most successful financial book of the last 23 years. I'm really proud of it.

And it shows you how to go from nothing to where you want to be.

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I did one book Money Master the Game was kind of like this only and what I did in that case is I interviewed you know 50 of the smartest financial people the world Ray Dalio, Carl Icahn, Warren Buffett and out of 50 of them and again, it's in my judgment I could be completely wrong and I've spent a lot of time with them.

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There's Tony Robbins book.

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He's like, oh, Tony Robbins, you know, this is CEO, life coach, muscle man. Talk, talk. I'm Tony Robbins.

And Jessica is like, oh, wow. Like Tony Robbins. Oh yeah. Cause I'm like, really? I'm really like into energy and stuff.

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There's another famous book called 1619, you know, a black history of America and the sort of implied subtitle is and the lies they're telling you.

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She wrote a book and it was on the New York Times bestseller list, but it knocked down the number one book, which is like a CRT book, a BLM book and they took her off the New York Times said she did shady practices. She's the only person to ever be taken off the New York Times bestseller list and it destroyed her life.

But it was so much easier for people to jump on that trend.

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or efforts to vilify and block Nicole Hannah Jones's book, the 1619 Project that tells American history through slavery

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I'm sorry you're putting the 1619 project in the schools. I don't want my kid reading that.

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The recent attacks on her leadership are nothing more than political theatrics advancing a white supremacist agenda, white supremacist agenda.

She is being singled out as someone who is only surviving because of her race.

Well, it's racist.

The fact that of those presidents who all came under intense scrutiny, that only one has been called out as a so-called diversity or affirmative action hire just speaks to what black women in this country have gone through historically and continue to go through every day.

No one has produced a shred of evidence that shows that the sole qualification that President Gay had was that she is a black woman.

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It's trying to push the 1619 project and the teachings of Ibram X. Kendi.

McConnell came out and said, voters didn't ask for this. There is no mandate to teach our children that America is inherently evil.

Yes, they give her a Pulitzer Prize, which a bunch of scholars, black and white, have demanded be pulled back, be revoked, because the 1619 Project is so nonfactual.

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the year 1619, the year the first enslaved Africans arrived in what's now the US as a crucial point in American history.

I've really yet to hear anyone say with their chest why the original sins of this country aren't important to learn about.

It's just a bunch of adults whining at board of education meetings about how Mikailee shouldn't have to learn about how this country came to be.

So critical race theory is the idea that we should teach history from a perspective that is holistic and considers the experiences of people from different races.

There are a lot of exotic notions about what are the most important points in American history. I simply disagree with the notion that the New York Times laid out there that the year 1619 was one of those years.

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The truth is nicole hannah jones has been propagating lies and misinformation for years i mean nicole hannah jones last year was suggesting that violence in the streets is a good thing.

you lied in the 1619 project repeatedly, you treat people who disagree with you academically like garbage, you're extraordinarily radical and yet somehow you have not only been celebrated by our culture you have been handed basically the editorship of the new york times now as well as a tenure track not tenure track a tenured position at the university of north carolina

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One thing that I think we can't finish this book recommendation conversation without mentioning is Nicole Hannah Jones 1619 project.

And he said, and I had in stock a bunch of copies of the 1619 project that Nicole Hannah Jones has signed.

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Nicole Hannah-Jones, she's the race hustling hack 1619 project and all that.

She said the students at Howard are quite lucky to have her as a professor and in their family. But I think there's no question that there continues to be systemic racism in our country.

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the 1619 project new york times journalist doxes a conservative journalist and france tells america to stop exporting wokeness

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Have you ever read Project 25?

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I hear that's buried deep in Project 2025, page 900. The vibes are not good for the libraries.

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He is now a senior advisor to Project 2025.

He was so influential in the White House. People began calling him deputy president.

He flexed this influence and lead up to January 6th.

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You know the morning after pill is what they call the week after pill and is actually an abortion.

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It's more terrifying than anything that Edgar Allan Poe or Stephen King ever wrote.

Oh, you mean Project 2025, which has literally nothing to do with the Trump campaign, and he has repeatedly said that and actually does have some good ideas in there.

But are you talking about that?

The thing that the Heritage Foundation wrote, they're just a think tank that writes papers.

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Project 2025 is 900 pages of policy ideas. It exists. Paul Danz can go away and that book still exists.

The news this week is that the man who was the director of Project 2025, Paul Danz, is stepping down, leaving his job.

The question is, is Donald Trump going to use that book? And we'll call it something else.

The first one was like, what is this thing? What's in it? Conservative blueprint, a lot of ideas for bringing the country into a different place.

Gilead. But but like a lot of just conservative policy ideas.

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There was a big, thick book called Project 2025. And at every turn, anybody that could stop this man didn't do it. Nobody stopped him. The electorate didn't stop him. Mitch McConnell didn't stop him. The Democratic Party didn't stop him. The Department of Justice didn't stop him. No one will stop him.

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J.D. Vance wrote the foreword for the book for the author of Project 2025.

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The story also traces the origins of the group to wealthy Texas conservatives bent on planning a second Trump term as early as 2020.

You know, it sounds as if this group, the American First Policy Institute, has maybe a better connection to the Trump organization, has a lot of the same ideas.

I would probably agree with people who say that Project 2025 in some areas has an even more ambitious agenda. It's probably on a couple points more sweeping and more aggressive.

There is a huge amount of overlap in terms of their policy goals, and that's not a surprise because they're both sort of modeled after what was seen as Trump's agenda in his first administration.

Project 2025 thought that it wanted the whole world to sort of know what its agenda was and draw as much attention to it as possible and hold all kinds of high profile events to promote that.

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They've got a book, Project 2025. They've been working on that with think tanks and everything else.

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their concept of a plan is in a 900-page book called Project 2025. But Trump has repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 and claimed not to know the creators of that project.