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was it um Stephen Covey who had said begin with the end in mind as a way to live wisely because I know what's coming or I have an idea of what I where I want to end up therefore I'm going to live in a way that's intentional trying to get towards that place

When I hear your story about, it reminds me of Stephen Covey. Was this book written like 30 years ago? Seven Habits? I don't even remember.

And so how productive I was going to be later on, or I can put in P&L statements and listen to Tony Robbins and listen to Jay Abraham and Think and Grow Rich and Seven Highly Effective Habits of whatever people.

I'm gonna be me. I'm gonna be me. I'm a dance over this foundation that God gave me and I'm gonna work on it And I'm gonna read the seven habits of highly effective people and Proverbs and Philippians, and I'm gonna do it

It's by Stephen Covey who wrote the book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, one of my favorite ones.

I'm a big fan of the book, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.

Now Stephen Covey famously talked about the circle of influence versus a circle of concern in his incredible book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

It was the old Stephen Covey, 'Do first things first, and second things not at all'.

Finally Mike attributes the quotation 'Do first things first, and second things not at all' to Stephen Covey, author of the 1989 book 'The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'. The line actually comes from the 1966 book 'The Effective Executive' by Peter Drucker whose work was a significant influence on Covey.

Then I felt silly about being surprised actually came from an extraordinarily popular book called the seven habits of highly effective people By Steven Covey who was an interesting guy who I didn't really know.

Covey says that a scarcity mentality refers to people who see life as a finite pie in other words, it becomes a zero-sum game, right? If you have something I can't have it.

He writes that people with a scarcity mentality have a very difficult time sharing recognition and credit power or profit whereas someone with an abundance mentality has the idea that there's plenty out there for everyone.

So I think these are really two different things we're talking about and I think what Matthew is writing is to ask what psychology has to say about this sort of Getting ahead framework that's posed by Steven Covey of setting off scarcity versus abundance.

This is a book that Steven Covey first published in 1989. It was kind of a self-helpy business book.

I actually know about this matrix because I have read Stephen Covey's book more times than anyone would believe. This is the seven habits of highly effective people.

Angela appropriately enough confuses the work with another best-selling self-help book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which was written by author and businessman Stephen Covey.

when he decided he would write seven habits one of the reasons he did that what sort of push them over the edge was that he had a friend who was very successful at the time as a speaker and had ideas and had people that were interested in so on and then he died prematurely and that was it was gone his ideas were gone there was nothing else left and that was when he said okay well I've got to create something that is independent of me but I don't show up for the event you know when I can't show up for the event anymore this thing carries on.

so for me my goal when writing essentialism and now writing effortless isn't just hey have a New York Times best seller I'm glad they both have been but the key is to write something that can exist in perpetuity.

Steven Covey's marketer said he spent three years day and night making that book an overnight success

I've read the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey and I know that I should be spending time focusing on activities in the first and second quadrant but I just seem to be perpetually trapped in the fourth quadrant.

one of my favorite books growing up was by mentor mine Dr. Stephen Covey wrote seven habits highly effective people and one of the habits of most effective people that he's his research found is they seek first to understand then to be understood they seek first to understand someone and then to be understood by them

I've read the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey and I know that I should be spending time focusing on activities in the first and second quadrant but I just seem to be perpetually trapped in the fourth quadrant

one of my favorite books growing up was by mentor mine Dr. Stephen Covey wrote seven habits highly effective people and one of the habits of most effective people that he's his research found is they seek first to understand then to be understood they seek first to understand someone and then to be understood by them

One of the reasons he did that what sort of push them over the edge was that he had a friend who was very successful at the time as a speaker and had ideas and had people that were interested in so on and then he died prematurely and that was it was gone his ideas were gone there was nothing else left.

He spent three years day and night making that book an overnight success.

They built two systems they built the ideas into books and they built an institute so to speak it's a business that would continue.

I've read the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey and I know that I should be spending time focusing on activities in the first and second quadrant but I just seem to be perpetually trapped in the fourth quadrant.

One of my favorite books growing up was by mentor mine Dr. Stephen Covey wrote seven habits highly effective people and one of the habits of most effective people that he's his research found is they seek first to understand then to be understood.

I remember something that Stephen Covey did once with a group of young adults or teenagers

he had people take a piece of paper, fold it in half. And on one side of the page, that was just to make it into columns. And then in column one, right at the top, how I see myself, right? How others see me.

he was a little surprised at how negative kids could be about themselves. I'm this, I'm that, I'm weird, I'm strange. I'm not attractive. I'm whatever.

And then he said on the other side, I want you to write down how God sees me and started to go through scriptural references. What is the worth of a soul? What has he done for you? What has he said about you in your patriarchal blessing, which is amazing, your talents, your gifts, your capacities.

Stephen Covey talked about it once, is that an airplane is off course about 90% of the time.

You know about the seven habits. Well, the six events of the restoration, Brother Covey suggested the, the order of the events of the restoration are kind of a formula for solving life's problems.

I think I heard Brother Covey once at an education week also kind of say, if you look at the order of the Articles of Faith, you kind of see the order in which things fell apart as the apostasy began that started with the nature of God and then with the original sin and things like that.

I want to Steven and Kovies books he talks about Albert Einstein being asked if you could ask out anything what would you ask him and Albert Einstein said well I ask him how he made the universe and then he changed his mind it said no wait I would ask him why he created the universe because then I would know the meaning of my life and recently I found that Steven Hawking in our day said that you know science may one day be able to tell us how the universe was created but it won't be able to tell us why does the universe bother to exist and we have beautiful answers here in the gospel

And as it happens the second habit in the seven habits of highly effective people is begin with an end in mind having an end in mind is no guarantee that you'll reach it no stoic would tolerate that assumption but not having an end in mind is a guarantee that you won't

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The publication of Charles Darwin's *The Origin of Species* in 1859 and so there was there was a great sort of crisis of belief in mid-Victorian England amongst philosophers and intellectuals and and religious people and people decided to look more closely into claims of the supernatural what we today call typically the paranormal

When Darwin writes *The Origin of Species*, Sir Francis over there gets inspired and thinks, oh, well, intelligence must be something that people are born with.

The islands are of course known for their unique and wondrous creatures like giant tortoises that are used as an inspiration for Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

That's what everyone knows it for, you know? The island, so motherfucking, there was like all these like Europeans and pirates and people who would take over this little island of Floriana.

The islands are of course known for their unique and wondrous creatures like giant tortoises that are used as an inspiration for Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

That's what everyone knows it for, you know? The island, so motherfucking, there was like all these like Europeans and pirates and people who would take over this little island of Floriana.

God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist we've been deceived if God existed he'd have made the world more just

Darwin's Origin of the Species was released in 1859. You add up one eight five and nine and you get 23.

And if you actually read The Origin of Species, this is why he spends the first 70 plus pages on pigeons.

I think the real answer to your question is nobody's actually read The Origin of Species.

If you just happen to have Charles Darwin at your university and he happens to write The Origin of Species and sell a zillion copies, why wouldn't the university try to capitalize on it?

Darwin's Origin of Species was released in 1859. You add up one eight five and nine and you get 23.

And I'll add, if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments. He's a really impressive guy.

By the way, Darwin and Russell discovered evolution without any knowledge of DNA.

Don't forget if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments.

If you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments.

And don't forget if you ever read Origin of Species, Darwin did all kinds of very diligent naturalist experiments.

I'm sure that people here, kids here are influenced by reading Darwin and his Darwin's account of the history of life on Earth. Just as they are on the UK.

He collected beetles or thousands of beetles.

And that led people to think, why? And some people would say, because the good Lord decided he wanted three thousand. Good Lord likes beetles.

He came up with quite an important theory. What was that? According to evolution by natural selection.

Darwin collected stuff.

there is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one, and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.

we behold the face of nature bright with gladness. We do not see or we forget that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds and are thus constantly destroying life.

What overwhelmed me about On the Origin of Species is that Darwin's note, he has this fantastically revolutionary idea to offer, to put forward. He has profound evidence for it. But his note is one of a suitor. His note is not one of a dogmatist trying to club you into submission about a new idea.

It's a wonderful thing that the whole beginning of On the Origin of Species, this great epoch-making, consciousness-changing book, is not about the theory of evolution. It's about dog breeding and pigeon breeding. He says, you know how they breed dogs and pigeons? They get all those amazing varieties. So let me tell you how they do it.

They make selections and they do it consciously. And then he says if you could do all that with dogs and pigeons in 50 years, imagine what nature could do with all of biology if you gave it essentially limitless time.

There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.

Darwin disenchanted believers in heaven, but he re-enchanted lovers of earth. He thought he had found the secret of life, but he knew that nothing could solve the problems of living.

when I wrote the origin of species, my faith in God was as strong as that of a bishop

If you are a creationist or you inclined to be sympathetic with what we now today, called creationism, read the origin of species.

Darwin wants to convince you in this book that God has established laws of nature on earth as in the heavens and these laws produce the forms of life that we observe.

At the beginning of the origin of species, he has a quote from Francis Bacon.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one. And that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple to beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful, have been, and are being evolved.

my faith in God was as strong as that of a bishop

When Darwin confessed to murder, he was saying that nature is self-developing.

In the origin of species, my faith in God was as strong as that of a bishop.

So Darwin's many references to creation. There are over 100 references to creation in the origin of species.

If you are a creationist or you inclined to be sympathetic with what we now today, called creationism, read the origin of species.

I think the roots of this...they go back to 1859 with Darwin's Origin of Species.

the publication of The Origin of Species.

He published The Origin of Species at age 50 and that was a peak of his career.

And it struck me that many, many literary ghost stories that you read begin... I'm going to tell you something that's quite unbelievable, but I really want you to know this really, really happened to me.

He was a man of unfathomable faith and persistent passion. I couldn't help but fall in love with him.

He hoped, or rather was convinced, that his faith would free him from this world.

He was unshaken with the belief that if he baptized himself in Grotheth's sacred lake, Lok-Saisnes, then he would be rewarded with a world beyond this one.

He took the plunge and we never found his body. Not only did my love die that day, but so did my faith and hope for this world.

Abraham Stoker Van Helsing.

Countes von breath I would, I think would pull you in Elga and whisper to you. I can delay them. Perhaps you should take your friends to the third level, Fangpick, and go see Count Dracula directly.

You are not on the list to see Dracula. Not unless your name is Van Helsing.

Well, lucky for you. My purple friend here is Van Helsing.

Oh, they move aside. That is me. And we are his pussies!

I am Van Helsing.

in 2003 a 26 year old is adventuring through the wilds of transylvania a land of myth and legend ghost stories and bram stoker's dracula

And that's what Bram Stoker did.

The book is great though.

He was a theater manager and a novelist and also a really great researcher.

So Bram Stoker goes and he starts to do some research and pokes around and he finds a great place to set this vampire tale is in Transylvania, which is the heart of the Strigoi vampire.

And it was also, I think, the first time where all of a sudden they didn't have any reflection because most of the previous legends, they loved their reflection.

The book is great though.

He was a theater manager and a novelist and also a really great researcher.

And he thought, well, this is just perfect. I'm going to set it there and let's see if I can find somebody of that area who I can base this vampire character on.

He was into some horrible stuff. He killed a lot of people.

And it was also, I think, the first time where all of a sudden they didn't have any reflection because most of the previous legends, they loved their reflection.

That from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Shitty vampire book.

The first Twilight we could say the pre the yeah, the the prelude to Twilight before we really figured out what we wanted from our vampires.

She wrote a 12-page paper on the origins of witchcraft and the study of Bram Stoker's demonic writings

Vladimir the impaler so they who they based like Dracula on

That word had its major breakthrough when Bram Stoker's most famous novel Dracula was published.

the original Dracula novel

I have a copy that was when it was launched in America. They sent 13 copies of it over in 1899 and they were on display in bookstores for people to flip through. The sea of the novel was going to be a success. I have one of those 1899 copies.

Dracula, the ancient vampire who terrorizes Victorian London.

One of the incredible things about Dracula is that not only is it this wonderful snapshot of the 19th century, but it also has so much resonance today.

The vampire doesn't cast a reflection in the mirror, so when we look in the mirror, the only thing we see is our own monstrous abilities.

We'll reveal how author Bram Stoker raided ancient folklore, exploited Victorian fears around sex, science, and religion, and how even today we remain enthralled to his strange creatures of the night.

Even if you haven't read the book, you think you know the story.

One of the incredible things about Dracula is that not only is it this wonderful snapshot of the 19th century, but it also has so much resonance today.

We'll reveal how author Bram Stoker raided ancient folklore, exploited Victorian fears around sex, science, and religion, and how even today we remain enthralled to his strange creatures of the night.

One of the incredible things about Dracula is that not only is it this wonderful snapshot of the 19th century, but it also has so much resonance today.

On May 26, 1897, the British publishing house Archibald Constable & Company released a new book. Bound in cheap yellow cloth, it was written by a little-known Irish theater manager living in London.

But Bram Stoker's Dracula would change the world of fiction forever.

Stoker's novel was an elaborate synthesis of folklore, social commentary, and psychological thrills that melded legend with history and modern science with age-old nightmares.

So I picked up Dracula and thought, you know, this could be a really fun book to teach.

It's just an amazing gothic thriller.

While the movie isn't a scene-for-scene lift from author Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, it's close enough that Bram Stoker's widow, Florence, sued the filmmakers for copyright infringement.

Bram Stoker's Dracula tells the tale of an ancient vampire who leaves his homeland to terrorize Victorian Britain.

On May 26, 1897, the British publishing house Archibald Constable & Company released a new book. Bound in cheap yellow cloth, it was written by a little-known Irish theater manager living in London.

But Bram Stoker's Dracula would change the world of fiction forever. Stoker's novel was an elaborate synthesis of folklore, social commentary, and psychological thrills that melded legend with history and modern science with age-old nightmares.

And I was stunned at what a treasure chest of themes and tropes were in there. And the book just kept unpacking and exploding and exploding. It's just an amazing gothic thriller.

See, while the movie isn't a scene-for-scene lift from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, it's close enough that Bram Stoker's widow, Florence, sued the German film company, Prana, for copyright infringement.

Bram Stoker's Dracula. If you've never read it, it totally holds up.

Based on collected legends, folklore, and some history, Irish author Bram Stoker tells the ultimate vampire tale.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Where Do We Go From Here by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis, The Man Not by Dr. Tommy J. Curry.

And then the one about the convicted guy jury.

Just Mercy.

Scott made the three Hangover movies, but then also made Just Mercy.

He's also the author of Just Mercy, a New York Times best-selling memoir.

I want to congratulate you also on the continued success of your book Just Mercy which is now out for four years.

and in I think more recent news is going to be made into a motion picture right

The wisdom Stevenson offers on the history of racial injustice in America is tragically evergreen.

The threshold question in the American criminal justice system is do we deserve to kill?

When you execute someone wrongly, you have no ability to recover from that. And we don't have a perfect system.

We just don't care as much structurally, systemically about the victimization of black and brown people.

If we got to that point, we wouldn't want the death penalty. We'd understand something about ourselves.

I want to congratulate you also on the continued success of your book Just Mercy, which is now out for four years?

Well, the whole point for me in writing the book was to get more people to understand these issues.

He's also the author of Just Mercy, a New York Times best-selling memoir.

Stevenson is also the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Just Mercy, which has been adapted into a movie released in theaters yesterday.

He's also the author of Just Mercy, a New York Times best-selling memoir.

I want to congratulate you also on the continued success of your book Just Mercy which is now out for four years.

yeah four years and it continues to be extremely popular and extremely meaningful for a lot of people and in I think more recent news is going to be made into a motion picture right.

In my neighborhood the whole criminal justice system lost legitimacy when people see folks having a system as Bryan Stevenson says it treats you better if you're rich and guilty than poor and innocent.

He went to the bookstore and got a whole bunch of books from The New Jim Crow to Bryan Stevenson's Just Mercy.

I went down to Montgomery for the opening of the Equal Justice Initiative's new memorial and monument.

Really important that everybody go because talk about our need to contextualize and know our own history.

This is what that monument and memorial and museum are all about.

The museum itself, it's called the Legacy Museum.

It draws the link between from mass enslavement to mass incarceration.

And if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

And I feel like I learned so much. We can actually, we can link to it in our show notes. But just to rewatch this episode right now and hear that line, I mean, it just, yeah, it had a lot, it had a lot of added poignancy for me.

And it's just, it's a really powerful book.

It's a memoir. It's about, it's the story of this lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, and how he helps to overturn the sentence of a man who's on death row for a crime he didn't commit. But it also goes into ways that our criminal justice system is in need of reform.

He's the author of Just Mercy.

The Equal Justice Initiative was founded by attorney Bryan Stevenson. He's the author of Just Mercy.

We've now, I just won the release of a man a year ago who was the 156th person exonerated, released from death row after being proven innocent.

That means that for every nine people we've executed in this country, we've now identified one innocent person on death row.

It is a shameful rate of error.

Your grandfather was murdered. That's right.

When my grandfather, when I was 16, my grandfather was stabbed to death in Philadelphia by several young men who broke into his apartment to try to steal a TV.

love is the motive, but justice is the instrument

we are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair until we all suffer from the absence of mercy. And we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.

we all need justice. ...we all need mercy. We all need justice. And perhaps we all need some measure of unmerited grace.

I was very intrigued when I went back to the room. When I went back to Just Mercy, getting ready to speak with you that I had forgotten that you have, you quote Reinhold Niebuhr at the beginning of the book, the public theologian of the last century saying, love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

And I'm pretty sure this is from Just Mercy, which gets at this, the life-giving possibility in us picking this up.

You said, we are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair until we all suffer from the absence of mercy. And we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.

Oh, yeah. You all made me read that.

I like that book.

Closest thing to the comments section in Brian Stevenson's book, Just Mercy.

Bryan Stevenson's powerful groundbreaking book Just Mercy is perhaps the most well known chronicle of wrongful conviction.

The heart of that book is about a case in Alabama.

donating a hundred percent of my proceeds to equal justice initiative which we learned about last year when we watched just mercy as a community

And we will be discussing Just Mercy, the Toast Movie of the Week, on Monday. It gives you a little more time to watch.

Laura Travis, by the way, has weighed in. She says Brad Pitt's best movie by far is Fight Club.

I was going to go number two on that one. But that's fair. She's wrong. I mean, it's seven. But but I wanted to make sure that is that is that leak. It's a very dark movie.

Yeah, but there's a message to it.

Fight Club's not exactly a super lighthearted movie either.

The things we own, as the writer Chuck Palahniuk put it in Fight Club, end up owning us because now we have to use it. We have to get our money's worth out of that. We have to figure out where to put it, how to take care of it, how to insure it.

I got that in the mail and I can't fucking wait to read.

The book is so much better than the movie.

Like the book is real fun. The movie's so whiny.

It's so fucking whiny though, the movie.

The ending in the book actually makes sense.

The ending in the movie you're like, what happened there?

The book is so much better than the movie.

Like the book is real fun. The movie's so whiny.

It's so fucking whiny though, the movie.

The ending in the book actually makes sense.

The ending in the movie, you're like, what happened there?

The book is so much better than the movie.

The book is real... The movie's so whiny.

It's so fucking whiny though, the movie. That's the thing.

The ending in the book actually makes sense.

The ending in the movie you're like, what happened there?

mixed in with shallow anti-corporate, anti-consumerist themes like in the film Fight Club propaganda by the overwhelmingly but propaganda by the group overwhelmingly contains the usual fascistic themes of emasculated young men needing to reclaim their identities through learning to fight and engaging in puring a purifying violence.

What you run from only stays with you longer, writes the author of the novel Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, in his book Invisible Monsters Remix.

His favorite author, he seems to quote and bring his book up a lot about his trips, you know, is Chuck Palahniuk, who is very famous for the book Fight Club.

Now, a lot of his books are really good. They're a little bit different. They're a little bit dark.

And he is a really, really good author.

Her top quote at the top of her Tumblr page was 'you're always haunted by the idea that you're wasting your life.' And this is a Chuck Palahniuk quote.

I think that even you're saying that cuz that's exactly what Fight Club is about is about what it's about that guy and Edward Norton's character being like kind of like searching for his identity and feeling like he has to find his Identity through consumption through looking a certain way remember that scene on the bus when him and Brad Pitt are like looking at the ads like sort of like the Calvin Klein male underwear Ads and they're like is that what a man is supposed to look like?

Gabby was reading Fight Club at some point.

And I guess that in Fight Club there, like it might, there might be some symbolism to the project monarch victims.

Read the book.

While the book version to Ben's point, I think makes the satire of it all a little clearer.

The book, of course, by Chuck Palinick, who's got a lot of really fun reads if you're into kind of mind bending, you know, fiction.

And it's, you know, it's not unheard of for China to reverse these kinds of choices.

And it's, you know, it's not unheard of for China to reverse these kinds of choices. But we're talking off air and there are a lot of questions like, was there some real, you know, motivation for them to do this outside of just like the public backlash?

Read the book.

While the book version to Ben's point, I think makes the satire of it all a little clearer.

The book, of course, by Chuck Palinick, who's got a lot of really fun reads if you're into kind of mind bending, you know, fiction.

And it's arguably kind of the point is to show those things.

It is arguably kind of the point, but you could also argue that the film version goes pretty far to glorify some of those things.

Read the book.

And it's arguably kind of the point is to show those things.

While the book version to Ben's point, I think makes the satire of it all a little clearer.

The book, of course, by Chuck Palinick, who's got a lot of really fun reads if you're into kind of mind bending, you know, fiction.

And it's, you know, it's not unheard of for China to reverse these kinds of choices. But we're talking off air and there are a lot of questions like, was there some real, you know, motivation for them to do this outside of just like the public backlash?

Actually speaking of Fight Club.

Have you heard the theory that not only is Tyler Darden not real, but the girlfriend character is not real either?

The great book Fight Club is great and that's one of my favorites too.

First rule of Fight Club, don't talk about Fight Club. Don't talk about Fight Club.

It's not based on Fight Club, but it is a fight club for women.

Um, well in the movie she just fucking breaks his ankles and in the book she cuts off his fucking feet.

I love when they do shit like that. It's just like okay. So you've severed a major artery and this guy somehow doesn't bleed out in the bed.

Stephen King has written some of my all-time favorite books. The Stand, It, Misery.

My first book report was on Stephen King's misery when I was in kindergarten.

Haven't you seen Misery Fucko? Yeah, yeah. They figure it out. You crush legs with typewriters. They figure it out. He leaves, he comes back, the whole deal. It's absolutely insane.

So horrifying. She's the scariest fucking thing in the world.

She, she won an Emmy Oscar. Whatever. She should have won both, man. She should have swept. She should have gotten it.

It's so good. We need to watch it.

You like that fucking Dolores Claiborne, whatever the fucking name is misery, whatever the hell her name was

It reminded me of that movie Misery, you know, with that lady's like, you can't whatever the function says.

Was there anything more satisfying in a fucking movie when he finally got to the bed and started slamming that bitch's head against the floor? Ah.

Just laying there that powerless. Do you know in the book she actually cuts his feet off rather than breaking his goddamn ankles.

Well, in the movie she just fucking breaks his ankles. In the book she cuts off his fucking feet.

You like that fucking Dolores Claiborne, whatever the fucking name is misery, whatever the hell her name was

It reminded me of that movie Misery, you know with that lady's like you can't...Whatever the function says...Was there anything more satisfying in a fucking movie when he finally got to the bed and started slamming that bitch's head against the floor...

In the book she actually cuts his feet off rather than breaking his goddamn ankles.

Imagine if that movie was rated G, right? Like she wasn't fucking like sawing your feet off like she did in the book or just broke your ankles in the movie

Well, in the movie she just fucking breaks his ankles. In the book she cuts off his fucking feet.

Imagine if that movie was rated G, right? Like she wasn't fucking like sawing your feet off like she did in the book or just broke your ankles in the movie.

It reminded me of that movie misery, you know with that lady's like you can't Whatever the function says Was there anything more satisfying in a fucking movie when he finally got to the bed and started slamming that bitch's head against the floor Ah Just laying there that powerless do you know in the book she actually cuts his feet off rather than breaking his goddamn ankles

You like that fucking Dolores Claiborne, whatever the fucking name is, misery, whatever the hell her name was.

It reminded me of that movie Misery, you know with that lady's like you can't whatever the function says Was there anything more satisfying in a fucking movie when he finally got to the bed and started slamming that bitch's head against the floor Ah

Just laying there that powerless do you know in the book she actually cuts his feet off rather than breaking his goddamn ankles

Well, in the movie she just fucking breaks his ankles. In the book she cuts off his fucking feet.

Well, in the movie she just fucking breaks his ankles. In the book she cuts off his fucking feet.

Imagine if that movie was rated G, right? Like she wasn't fucking like sawing your feet off like she did in the book or just broke your ankles in the movie.

I remember how scary that movie was, just because it's not shocking scary, but terrifying.

That scene where they broke James Caan's ankles, oh my God.

Y'all ever seen that fucking shit?

I believe it's based on a book.

Stevie King.

Who also hates cursing Stephen King's Misery.

Who also hates cursing Stephen King's Misery.

Stephen King published Misery in 1987.

I finished Misery and I was like, you know what? After reading this, Miss Kathy Bates...

I'm reading Stephen King's Misery right now.

Oh, yeah. Love it. Great. Terrifying. Terrifying.

It's scary. It's scary. It's horrible. It's also not supernatural. You know, the bad guy in Misery is an unhinged insane woman, which is not far-fetched fantasy. It's all of us.

oh my god misery is the feel-good movie of the year what i would love to feel something again by having a sledgehammer against my ankles

but also that's kind of maybe how I started reading Misery, the Stephen King book.

From the novel by Stephen King.

When he had Misery, it was such a personal book to him because it's really about his addiction.

I think the movie people who watch this, if they don't know the backstory, they think it's just about a crazed fan, but it's really about the crazed fan in this case is the painkillers and that's in all the shit that he was doing at the time.

I hadn't read the book. Yeah, I had read the book. I can't tell you how horrified the theater was.

I would put Misery there too though. I think those three.

Mary, that book, Misery Got My Pussy in a Knot. It's amazing. And she kicked it down the stairs. Spoiler, big time spoiler alert. People who have seen the movie. The movie's amazing. Movie's great.

So in the movie. She takes an, yeah. In the movie she breaks the ankle. She takes a sledgehammer. Yeah. She puts a block of wood between his ankles and then she whacks it with a sledgehammer to break his ankles.

So in the book, Mama, she takes an axe to the fucking foot. And it doesn't happen once. It goes wham. And then wham. Yeah. And then she gets that last little piece of gristle. Wham. And then a blow, torch to Carter, rise to the wound. Baby. In the book, she takes the foot off. He only takes one foot off. One foot.

Also the ending. Oh, he kind of is like seeing her forever. And then in the end you're like, is it her? Is it her? Is he just seeing her? But also when that, when, okay. So fast forward, fast forward, fast forward, you know, the, the fight scene in the end with that, you know, stuff in the charred, um, uh, manuscript into her mouth in the book. Oh, it's much longer and much cuntier.

Gobbled it up. And honestly, similar to The Shining, what you miss in the book, the feeling of isolation, the feeling of you are fucked.

He was in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Of the Dave. This is great. Follow up for his record breaking 13 marriages to 11 women.

Reading that 2006, they were a year ahead, the Guinness Book of World Records for 2006.

Those fingernail people, they're a little bit like quicksand in that they loom so large in the minds of children. Those fingernail people, remember? You'd see them be like, that is important. That's something I'm going to think about and see pretty often for a long time when I'm growing up. That's important. Those records, the Guinness Book of World Records, what goes on in there is important.

Those records and what they mean and how much they mean to all of us. The fingernail thing.

Big things, little things, long things, short things, tall, short, important. Heaviest, lightest, important. That's what being an adult is about. Knowing that, thinking about that, caring about that.

Oh, there it is! We're looking at the longest burning, longest continuously burning light bulb in the world. It's in the Guinness Book of World Records and it was installed in 1901.

I was listening to the latest episode called why pigeons and you every time I hear those titles and y'all were saying how big the Guinness book of world records was in the eighties and I knew I needed to write in.

Leonard T. Frisco lived a full and successful life under the radar and managed to secure himself a long standing spot in the Guinness book of world records as the longest escaped and recaptured prisoner.

So Claude Willis slash Leonard T. Frisco is the longest running escaped and recaptured prisoner that there is.

You did things like sit in your aunt's living room and read the Guinness Book of World Records.

Robert Wadlow was in the Guinness Book of World Records.

I feel like when I was a kid, it was called the Guinness Book of World Records in the United States.

I imagine that we are similar and that you probably had a copy of this in your house.

So I remember very distinctly though pouring through this thing as a kid and just like, oh, it was such a big book. It was so thick and the type was so small and the pictures weren't great.

But like I just like I poured over every page of this thing like it was my Bible or something. I was so into it. I thought it was so cool.

And it's been translated into 40 different languages.

When I was a kid growing up one of my favorite books was the Guinness Book of Worlds records.

And there was a picture in there of Arnold Schwarzenegger and you know what his record was it said perfectly developed man.

In 1971 before they decided it's probably not good to encourage world records for faster testing. Yeah, they He was the last one to be I guess awarded You know by the Guinness Book for that kind of notoriety and then after that they said due to its specialist nature

In 1971 before they decided it's probably not good to encourage world records for faster testing. Yeah, they He was the last one to be I guess awarded You know by the Guinness Book for that kind of notoriety and then after that they said due to its specialist nature Right and not due to the sheer danger We're not gonna open this up for any other people.

American grandmother Linda Wolfe has become the most married woman in the world.

She must be the first time you're like, 'hey, could you not put your shoes here? Linda'.

As we noted in our recent episode on Temptation, the three-toed sloth is actually the slowest mammal according to the Guinness Book of World Records, PBS and National Geographic.

What's the thing you were opening... from the Guinness Book of World Records? Oh, certificates. Yeah, my certificate came in.

It's got to be a Guinness Book a You know record right there

I was actually listening to the audiobook version of Ready Player One, because the movie had just come out in theaters, and I wanted to hear the book before I went to go see the movie.

I haven't read the book. I would love to, but I've read it. It's way, way better.

I don't know, fiction is priming us for to remember rate ready player one.

One book that I just became obsessed with is called Ready Player One.

So I read the book, I'm obsessed with it. I buy 50 copies. I give them to all my friends.

I don't know how I befriend the fucking author, Ernest Cline.

The fucking next book, Ready Player Two, comes out. I'm in the Thank You's next to Spielberg.

cough cough ready player one yeah

Ironically wrote the movie Ready Player One.

Which talks about adventure and Easter eggs and all that fun stuff.

Ironically wrote the movie Ready Player One.

Ironically wrote the movie Ready Player One.

Guys, did you see Ready Player One? Some of you maybe read the book Ready Player One or did you see the movie, the Spielberg movie from a couple of years ago? I mean, it is happening, right?

And I think probably the three of us have the same answer to that one.

man, just watch Ready Player One or read the book and then decide, do you want to follow Mark Zuckerberg into that world?

You absolutely should see it if you have not seen it.

if you don't know what this meta universe is i would recommend that you watch um ready player one or you could read the book ready player one

the last time this happened to me was with the player one book and like it that's very like I don't know if that's a cool book or not. The movie was questionable, but the book I think is really good.

I read that book in one night. I picked it up and I was like, I'll just read this before bed a little bit and then at like 6 in the morning. I finished the book.

So I liked the Ready Player One. Loved it.

I watched the last one, the Ready Player One on the plane. Oh yeah, you couldn't move. You couldn't do anything about it. You had to watch it.

But I'm really glad you liked Ready Player One.

Loved it.

There's the promise and the reality. And man, the reality really is still far away and cartoony.

There's the promise and the reality. And man, the reality really is still far away and cartoony.

Was it Ready Player One? Yeah. The Accountant? That's kind of cool.

I had this one encounter that reminded me so much of kind of the original coining of the Metaverse and books like Ready Player One.

yeah, it had to be the inspiration behind the living quarters and ready player one. If you've ever seen that movie or read the book, I was like, oh, looks like ready player one.

Watchmen

Oh, yeah. Have you guys seen there's a Watchmen series that's coming to HBO?

This one, like, what's his name? Rorschach's Mask is literally just like a sack with kind of like, you know.

I don't know that it is. I think it might even be either a deeper exploration of the series with more of the, because, come on, you need more than a movie to really like go deep into that book, right? There's so much stuff in there that they couldn't put in.

Dude, I just rewatched it.

I don't know. I loved it.

I don't know. And maybe it is just nostalgia.

I think the reason for me was that that was such a formative graphic. That was the first graphic novel I ever read where I was like, oh, I see what graphic novels can accomplish.

So I felt like it was very sacred to me and to see someone try to do, I felt like it was a valiant effort, but I also didn't really care for Zack Snyder's style anyway.

Alan Moore hated it.

Yeah. Alan Moore is like-

I don't think he watched. He probably didn't even watch it.

No, he does write excellent comics for fun. But I think it's to support his main hobby, his main passion, which is just hating stuff.

Oh, geez.

If you go to hbo.com slash Watchmen, the first thing you see is nothing ever ends.

Yeah, and the little blurb, oh, and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross doing the music. That's pretty dope. And it's a show run by Damon Lindelof, who I believe did Lost.

That's correct, along with J.J. Abrams.

And unlike Dr. Manhattan's quote, unlike his observation in the fictional world of Watchmen, this, love it or hate it, is the reality in which we have collectively lived for the span of this episode.

Right now I'm reading because I'm obsessed with Alan Moore who wrote The Watchman. Mm-hmm. I'm reading V for Vendetta I've never watched the movie or anything. So I don't know anything look at the art inside just crack it open I don't know what you call this style Look how it's like a all shadowy and like 60s. Isn't that amazing?

Seriously, I don't know how they make comic books. I know that someone has never picked up a comic book No, I never okay. Okay, so I think someone draws it and someone colors it right two different jobs Coloring in this one, it's gorgeous pale yellows and the teals. It's great. So cool. Basically, I'm only a few chapters in but it's about like a version of London in 1997 where it's run by fascists Fishes them fishes them That's what I've been up to

Oh yeah. By Alan Moore. Cause it's a graphic novel. I read graphic novels now.

Oh, I don't know that one.

In this one, they, um, the world is about to end again. And so as Amanda is like, well, Dr. Manhattan has been missing for 20 years, but I think I know where he is.

And then I read before Watchmen, which is a prequel to watch women grow where the watch, I think I read all the Watchmen now, but girl Watchmen worked me out.

I think I'm gonna read it again. Do it. Watch the series again. Um, so lit.

If you've read Alan Moore's Watchmen, you may remember that detail about how some of the superheroes are wary of capes because one time their caped crusader colleague dollar bill Got his cape caught in a revolving door and was thus immobilized as a bank robber Approached him and shot him in the head point-blank

I read Watchmen and I didn't know what was going on. Yeah, we tried to watch the movie and it was terrible.

Is that like a 70s disco group?

No, it's the Watchmen. It's a character from the Watchmen.

He had like a glowing thing underneath his skin, right?

No, he had - it was on his forehead. He had a circle. But it was glowing.

No, no. It didn't glow. I mean he could glow sometimes.

There's a character in there called the Comedian.

Zack Snyder, I think his name is. He made the Watchmen, which is like super dark superhero movie based on this graphic novel, which is awesome. You should check it out. You'd love it.

He made the Watchmen, which is like super dark superhero movie based on this graphic novel, which is awesome. You should check it out. You'd love it.

There's a character in there called the Comedian.

I just got back from the midnight showing of The Watchman. I Really don't know how to review it.

I'm told it sticks pretty close to the graphic novel It had cool special effects great story and good acting but I kind of felt yeah after it After leaving the dark night.

I think it was the overall message of the movie was serious told in a totally ridiculous way

Have you ever seen Watchmen? Remember that one? That's the same director.

So maybe they're pulling an Ozymandias from Watchmen.

He simulates an alien invasion killing tens of millions of people to end the Cold War.

So he intentionally then he plays the villain. But for the purpose of forcing, you know, so they're it's something good they're doing for us there.

He simulates an alien invasion because the U.S. and Soviet Union are on the verge of nuclear annihilation.

And so by having an alien attack the world, it forces the U.S. and Soviet Union to unite against a common enemy.

It's that scene in Watchmen where you guys have ever seen Watchmen? Yeah. Yeah.

It's when the comedian punches that woman in the face and tries to rape her. Like take away the physical strength. And that's like Joe Biden behind closed doors.

Ozymandias is the villain in the Watchmen graphic novel who stages an alien invasion to force the Cold War nations to unite against a common enemy.

Oh I recently watched Watchmen for the first time this series and it's like that too where it's like inflated situations but they play it like real

That was like the first moment for you where I was like where Gene Smart was making this comeback and I was like fuck I've missed Gene Smart so much she is so damn good in that show and Regina King obviously.

The Old Man and the Skiis something Ernest Hemingway never wrote.

What about Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea? A quintessential tale of man versus nature.

Some people say that the Bible is the good book. I think Old Man and the CU is better.

What kind of book introduces the main character two-thirds of the way into the story and then kills him off four times in a row?

Was it called The K? What was Aaron you read right do you remember that book did they have you read that out in the midwest there with Anheuser-Busch and all of that shit?

I can't remember the name of the old man in the sea. Okay. Old man in the sea.

Oh I'm reading his short stories now.

That's right.

In Ernest Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea, what fish does Santiago battle with before losing it to sharks?

In Ernest Hemingway's, The Old Man and the Sea, what fish does Santiago battle with before losing it to sharks?

Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it the following year.

My dad read that book aloud to me as a kid. And I really liked it read aloud to me as a kid.

And like with fishing books, like you look at Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, right? It's about fishing, but it's not. It's about growing old and tenacity and perseverance and how... and the futility of it all.

I'm very cognizant of Ernest Hemingway's book The Old Man and the Sea which is a brilliant book and it's not long, okay?

man is not made for defeat a man could be destroyed but not defeated

if you ask anybody what's your favorite book um and it's a novel they're going to tell you the name of a novel because a character sure captured them and um the book in this regard that i always use as an example it's a book about a a book about a stoic okay the old man in the sea of course it's Timingway Santiago is you can drop a plumb line from the stoics to Santiago and and his resilience and his his efforts in what he knows is a doomed cause at the end of the day um it's a gorgeous book and it i read it at least once a year and you can you know you can read it in a sitting in fact the true first edition of the old man in the sea is not a book the true first edition is life magazine it was published in its entirety in life magazine

a man can be destroyed but not defeated i think that's the essence of stoicism and Stockdale certainly that's the that line comes from uh the old man in the sea Santiago has that line and uh it's just a beautiful book and when Santiago finally stumbles back in after his his his tragic but beautiful adventure on the sea that next generation comes along and helps him there's another piece of this which is what we owe to the generation that came before us back to those millennials

For most of the letter, he rants about someone who has written a book about his crimes, but he's pissed that they left out three of his murders. ... His favorite book, The Old Man and the Sea.

I'm going to go with the book, The Truth About Fauci by Kennedy.

And then there's also, and this is real, The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also printed by All Seasons Press.

The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

And good news, you can get the RFK Jr. anti-vax book and a complimentary Naomi Wolf anti-vax book as part of a box set.

That's the 2021 book, which is titled The Real Anthony Fauci.

His Fauci book is incredible. It's a horror book. It's horrifying, but it's a really good book.

But that's the thing. Like Rogan was the staunch advocate for exposing what was happening during those times.

I read the real Anthony Fauci and like what is how much of this is real these health organizations sane amounts of money and then also the government is in on it and also number is that these guys made off of these products.

I don't think people realize his book, I think it was the Real Anthony Fauci, was one of the best selling books in the country for almost a year.

He sold at very least hundreds of thousands of copies, lots of copies.

So look, we don't have a way to know the exact number, but I would guess probably a million books that he was able to sell throughout the pandemic.

I don't think people realize his book, I think it was the Real Anthony Fauci, was one of the best selling books in the country for almost a year.

He sold at very least hundreds of thousands of copies, lots of copies.

So look, we don't have a way to know the exact number, but I would guess probably a million books that he was able to sell throughout the pandemic.

He also wrote a crazy book on Fauci.

That book is a really hard read every few pages I'm like, I gotta put this down cuz I fucking enraged with yo

and recently i um read the real anthony fouchie by by robert f kennedy and it was mind blowing to see like when you when you learn about everything in that book from the whole like aids pandemic and how like the chemo drug that they were prescribing was basically causing aids are making it way worse azt azt and him experimenting on orphan on orphans like killing hundreds of orphan children and debilitating many more when you realize that that guy can go on tv and like smooth talk the entire world um smooth talk like it's kind of what tim is saying and it's like jesus like that's a level of like psychopath that i can't even imagine

I think maybe I've erected hydrochloroquine. I talk about that in the book as well.

The very organization that was caught doing gain of function research in that Wuhan lab on our dime the last time that lied about it, they like Peter Daszak, who runs it, lied about it. Anthony Fauci lied about it to Rand Paul.

EcoHealth Alliance is getting two million dollars more of taxpayer money.

the one that first got me started on the RFK Lane, Jay, was the real Anthony Fauci.

he admitted to what's it, The New York Times, The New York Times magazine that masks are only 10 percent effective against Covid.

It is based off of his New York Times bestseller of the same name, which they also tried to suppress, but the people found it and loved it anyway.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s book, The Real Anthony Fauci breaks that down in technicolor.

His book, by the way, which I gave a blurb for and I've read now twice, is called The Real Anthony Fauci.

It was the number one bestseller in America for 12 weeks. It was the number two bestseller in America for 16 weeks.

And not a single review, as you said, and not a single reference in any potent media other than yours.

It's really a history book. It's not an opinion book. It's a history book on the history of vaccines and how they've developed.

The citations in that book, The Real Anthony Fauci. I'm an author talking about somebody else's book, by the way, as a humorous note. But anyway, the citation giving up the citations are to The New York Times, to CNN, to ABC, to Newsweek, to Time, to some.

The book essentially blackballed by the media is nonetheless an enormous hit with the American people, making the best sellers lists of The New York Times, Amazon, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

Let's start with the Fauci book, because one of the most interesting things about it is how it's been totally blackballed by basically everyone.

I would characterize Anthony Fauci as kind of the preeminent architect of agency capture of the transfer of NIAID and also its parent agency NIH from a public health agency to an agency that is primarily concerned with drug promotion, with drug development and drug promotion and partnering with the pharmaceutical industry on profit making enterprises.

What I do, my job is to document their conduct. And if you look at his conduct time after time after time, he does things that are consistent with making profits for his partners, which are, you know, these pharmaceutical companies and that even at the direct and clear expense of public health.

I would urge you to read this chapter in my book.

Dr. Fauci is out there doing interviews. We're going to be paging Dr. Fauci in hour two. He's got a book out. He got five million as the advance for the book. He's going to explain why Clay Travis is wrong when he says Fauci is horrible,

The only one that knew a pandemic was coming was a guy named Bill Gates.

If you've read Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s book on Fauci, I think I have it sitting right here behind me. We've got it here. It's called The Real Anthony Fauci, right here. I'm not being paid to pitch this, but every journalist in America should be digging through that and doing stories on this man.

Fauci the book oh my God

they Fauci Fauci you got your chocolate you got your popcorn you got your gummy bears and your sour patch kids

this crappy book we'll send it to you

it is also worth reading the book he wrote before that, The Real Anthony Fauci

The book that he wrote on Fauci, listen, I don't know if you read it. That book was read by, it's an unbooked. You read that book, you will never look at Fauci the same way ever again, ever again.

There's a book on it by Robert Kennedy that goes back and explains all of it. And they're trying to ban that book.

The real Anthony Fauci. I was surprised. Fuck, dude. Walmart.

Matthew McConaughey and his book Greenlights talks about how he just lived in an Airstream in Malibu Beach RV Park.

It was Matthew McConaughey's Green Light.

And now you've written this kid's book, which I, as I mentioned, the thing that I read, uh, and I thought I really think it, and I read a lot of kids' books because, uh, I have basically, you know, I have three kids and a stepson.

So you wrote Greenlights, huge success.

I got her story in the book of green lights where she told me to say, sign my name under this Ann Ashford poem.

Vince just loved Matthew McConaughey's autobiography.

Yeah. And you can find a bit of science to that satisfaction. It can be who you're hanging out with, where you were going, how late you were staying up, what you were eating.

And it can help nudge you back. It's never the same, but it can help get you back in your lane.

I love how much of the book is like literally looks like scribbles of your writing in your journals and your annotation, which which I get fascinated by.

But that was you when you when you talk about the concept of knowing who you are is hard and eliminating who you're not first.

Make sure you grab the book. We're putting the link in the comments. I highly recommend it. If you want to be entertained and lightened and have an experience at the same time, it's a, it's a perfect journey in that.

Microsoft is taking a page right from Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lights, because it is straight cruising right now, catching green lights left and right.

I'm reading Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lads and I've been thinking how great it would be to hear old Billy's memoir.

I'm reading Matthew McConaughey's book, Green Lads, and I've been thinking how great it would be to hear old Billy's memoir.

I go write a book. It's the most permanent extension of me I've ever put out.

It was 30% longer than it needs to be.

I grabbed the audiobook as I always do and it's like you really do need the audio version of this even if you're not an audiobook person because the way you tell the story is totally different.

The book is called green lights and it's kind of about this and having a bunch of green lights in front of you could actually be a big problem.

big thank you to Matthew McConaughey the book title is green lights

I go write a book. It's the most permanent extension of me I've ever put out. I don't know how much it's going to translate to people. I hope it does. It's very personal.

Thankfully, the books doing well. The ideas are obviously scaling out because individuals and everybody I'm talking about is a completely different conversation about similar topics.

I read an excerpt from the book in Newsweek or something. I would say, oh my god, I had no idea he was so abused by his parents and their relationship was so dysfunctional.

And then later in the book, you know, you know, from the audiobook that it wasn't like that or at least from the sound of it, it wasn't like that.

It was 30% longer than it needs to be. You don't get my end you endow, you don't get a you hair raised eyebrow or whatever that may be.

I go write a book. It's the most permanent extension of me I've ever put out.

It was 30% longer than it needs to be.

So you got to find the right word, you got to find the right sentence.

And as I talk about the book, you know you can engineer green lights for your future by the choices and responsibilities you take today.

The book is called green lights and it's kind of about this and having a bunch of green lights in front of you could actually be a big problem.

But I gotta tell you, I have not been entertained and inspired by a book in a long time.

You guys read Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey?

Oh my gosh, dude.

He is a Frisella. He is a Frisella.

But he is such a good storyteller.

The last thing I did read was Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. That was four years ago.

And in this book, it just tells the start of how he grew up, how he made it into Hollywood, the ups and downs in Hollywood, and then just these crazy trips he would go on.

Was this book proven to be a little bit hyperbolic? I think there were certain stories that were probably exaggerated. Embellished, made up a little bit. Yes, but he says they're all true. But you know, who knows?

So the last thing I did read was Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey. That was four years ago.

And in this book, it just tells the start of how he grew up, how he made it into Hollywood, the ups and downs in Hollywood, and then just these crazy like trips he would go on.

I think there were certain stories that were probably exaggerated. Yeah, embellished, made up a little bit. Yes, but he says they're all true. But, you know, who knows? Because some of them are like wild, right? Dude, wild.

I won't tell you exactly what happens but he goes into a village in Africa and he gets invited by these villagers and they're like to prove your stay, you got to fight the strongest man in the village. What? And he fights the strongest dude.

And I'm like come on man. I guess I want it to be true because it's a memoir. Yeah, but I never read it because I had people saying it's not all the way true. So I was like eh.

And then I read Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights

Yeah, I read his book. It's actually pretty good. That motivated me!

He goes to some village and they offer him to spend the night or whatever, but his ticket to spend the night with the villagers is to fight their strongest guy ever. And it's this big villager who fights McConaughey.

Green lights.

This is a green light Matthew McConaughey book that Eddie Redd and signed. My mother read a Matthew McConaughey book and signed it. My mother-in-law gave it to me for Christmas and then I passed it around. I think lunchbox, Reddit and signed it. Eddie did the diet. Oh, and Mike D signed it too. Mike D also read it and signed it.

And this is a pro from the studio it is Eddie's Matthew McConaughey, Greenlight book that Eddie assigned for you.

Maybe you read his book, Green Lights which is great, there's also Green Lights Journal.

You can grab his book Green Lights here in the painted porch as well.

And that one's got Neil McDonough in it and they just upped the score each time and this is like a sci-fi version of the book of Job.

If you read the Bible, the book of Job and um, things like that talk about, you know, how he lost everything, but he still trusted in God.

Well, that's why they included the script in that jobs book. It was yep, the last the last of the appendix of the job book is just the script for demolition man.

so in such an interesting manner because Job has absolutely every reason to lift his middle finger towards the sky and to curse God I mean God literally bets Satan that Satan can't take Job out you know and that's that's a pretty rough situation right and but I think the moral of the story is something like no matter what happens to you in your life and this is a this is a bitch of the thing to say no no matter what happens to you in your life no matter how deep the degradation and the suffering you are called upon to maintain faith in the essential goodness of being and to orient yourself upward you know and that's that's a hell of a thing to ask of people but the alternative seems to be degeneration into a kind of hopeless and bitter misery

God is the glory of Vegas Okay, hey, hey Bill listen to the podcast and religious the religious douche giving his Douchey impression of the story of Joe pissed me off.

The Bible story is that Job was so devastated to Devoted to God sorry that there was no way He would ever curse God's name the devil went to heaven and said to God No shit he won't curse you he's rich as fuck. He's got a hot wife seven no non-gay sons and Three great-looking daughters who won't who don't date give me five minutes with that piece of shit And I'll get him to curse you upside down till next Tuesday

God said yeah, you want to make a fucking wager? See God knew Job God made Job God knew 100% for certain that he would win this This bet Bingo God is now the first casino boss because God has an inside knowledge of the game

But Job never caved so God won the bet of course God won it's God God did give Job all his stuff back, but now but how stupid was the devil that he bet against God?

The same as all of us when we go to Vegas and come out saying I got jobbed Jesus Christ That was so fucking clever. It made my fucking head burst. I think you're absolutely right

God approves jobes rebellion rather than the three friends comfort at the end of the book of job god says an amazing thing he says to the three friends i burn with anger against you because you have not spoken rightly about me as my servant job has but what they said was so much more. Simply orthodox it's in the rest of the bible god is great and god is good let us thank him for our food amen and job who admitted his words were wild because the sufferings are so great is accusing god and wishing that he could take him to court. And yet god approves that honest rebellion on jobes part rather than the comfortable acceptance on the part of the three friends does he ask you must have loved that.

We'll be coming up on Job and we'll see that same thing. Everybody's, well, maybe you did this, maybe you did this.

And in this case, this is the Lord giving him something puzzling that they wrestle with. But Job is amazing through the whole thing.

And he basically goes back to remember Job, remember our friend Job from the very first days of this Bible in a year podcast.

And Job's friends, they had the illusion of saying that no, if you're good, then good things happen to you. If you're bad, bad things happen to you.

you have you know the book of Job and he's wavering in his faith because all the bad stuff that happened to him

It's almost like being in the Bible, like the Book of Job.

It's actually technically the oldest story in recorded history. It's the book of Job where Job is a rich man and Satan comes along and says to God yeah Job only worships you because you made him rich.

And God's like nah, go make him suffer and you'll see that you're wrong. And so he takes, he basically devil attacks Job, takes everything away from him and Job's attitude is well came into the world naked and I'm going to leave naked so the Lord gave and the Lord take away.

Blessed be the name of the Lord.

You asked your cast to read the book of Job.

We were talking earlier about the book of Job.

You asked your cast to read the book of Job.

It was modeled more after a Renaissance-era interpretation of Machiavelli's The Prince and Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes.

In a way, he sounds almost like he's reading from Machiavelli's *The Prince*, about how to seize and maintain power.

As Machiavelli taught us in the prints, if they don't love you any longer, make them fear you

I've been reading The Prince by McNovelly again and it he has an entire chapter dedicated to that and how that is how a Nate one of the main reasons a nation will fall in a print will lose his power by outsourcing his military

It's a timeless book. I remember reading that in like maybe freshman year of college

Yeah, and being like it's kind of tough read but there is a wisdom to this that I should probably pay attention to like that 148 laws of power and How to win friends

There's a line and I'm going to paraphrase it from Machiavelli's The Prince, 500 years old but everybody remembers it where he says that if a prince must commit atrocities he should commit them early.

I've been messing it up, but paraphrasing it, the actual quote is this. Cruelties are well used if it is permitted to speak well of evil that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself and then are not continued, but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefit for the subjects.

Nicolo Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat who was infamous for his 1513 book, The Prince, a treatise on how to acquire power and keep it.

I would like to in theory rewrite Machiavelli the prince for modern-day Silicon Valley

Machiavelli the prince was one of the ones that kind of occurred to me because you've got these builders of these new companies and how do you build these new social systems as part of what the Machiavelli was doing was giving advice to rulers within competitive circumstances competitive city states within the Renaissance competitive companies within Silicon Valley

Machiavelli's in the top 20. Right, his the book, The Prince, and people know what Machiavelli and is even if they haven't read the book, they know what it is.

Power is in Machiavelli's view, force, manipulation, deception, strategic ruthlessness and a lot of people think that that's what power is.

and a pollion and you know on how pt barn and built his business

I would like to in theory rewrite Machiavelli the prince for modern-day Silicon Valley

Machiavelli the prince was one of the ones that kind of occurred to me because you've got these builders of these new companies and how do you build these new social systems as part of what the Machiavelli was doing was giving advice to rulers within competitive circumstances competitive city states within the Renaissance competitive companies within Silicon Valley

I still need to get to that project

He went into the books of Nicolo Machiavelli who's an advisor to politicians way back when and he took the statements and ministered them to undergraduate students and simply asked them how much do you agree with these statements like you have to get to know important people.

And always be prepared for the worst in people and the amazing thing was the huge variance in the responses.

You ain't never read the Prince by Machiavelli. Get your books up.

Have you guys read the book, The Prince by Nico McAvalli?

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders and those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

Is it better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from the wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness. A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident. For with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine. For these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual.

You must know then that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force. The first method is that of men, the second of beasts. But as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary to know well how to use both the beast and the man.

Machiavelli, who supposedly admired Seneca says in The Prince that fortune is a woman and it is necessary in order to keep her down, to beat her and struggle with her.

Now compare Machiavelli's view with Seneca's. Not only is he saying that the more you struggle with fortune the more vulnerable you are to it, but he's also saying that the better path to security is in the impregnable wall of philosophy.

I think what we're talking about here is something that Seem to Leb talks about which is how dependent is your life, your lifestyle, your business, how dependent is it on luck?

He was probably reading the law and reading The Prince.

Mobutu's favourite book when apparently the book that he was able to recite was Machiavellis the prince wow he could recite it he'd learned it ... it's quite a short book I think

I finished The Prince last night. Oh I haven't finished it, but I've watched a lot of it. I loved every minute of it. Like the writing is so fucking brilliant.

And, you know, his other book is about this like canoe trip that he takes.

I don't know if you've heard about it, but it's a profound book. It was basically a guy who Walden Walden, W a l d e n and it's a classic book about this man in the 1800s who went lived on a lake outside of Boston, Walden pond and lived there by himself in a cabin with nothing almost and wrote about it. And he had this beautiful way of writing and describing nature and life and philosophy and it really also included a lot of Eastern philosophy embedded in it, which I didn't realize at the time. And so that book really impacted my childhood profoundly.

I wanted meaning and I wanted to live deeply. I was very influenced by Thoreau, who wrote about it quite beautifully. I was looking for transcendence.

He went to Walden to live deliberately. Went to the woods to live deliberately, as he said, in 1845 and built a cottage on Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

He was only half a mile from the main road and he went into town all the time. And he was less than two miles from his main house.

And he ate dinner at Emerson's all the time. And his mother and his sister would bring him baked goods and donuts every weekend.

And that is not true. And I don't think he ever purported that to be true.

He spent his time writing, reading everything from the Greek philosophers to religious texts, whatever he could get his hands on. And then more than anything, walking in the woods, like spending his time out in nature.

He went to Walden to live deliberately. Went to the woods to live deliberately, as he said, in 1845 and built a cottage on Walden Pond near Concord, Mass.

He wrote about the interesting aspects of being out there alone in his thoughts, in his books.

He spent his time writing, reading everything from the Greek philosophers to religious texts, whatever he could get his hands on.

And then more than anything, walking in the woods, like spending his time out in nature. And just enjoying it on its face, like finding the beauty in nature and seeing absolutely everywhere and letting it like increase his spirit and lift his spirits.

You live very simply, as Thoreau told us to. Thoreau told us that we should live very simple lives.

Star Wars, the novelization of Rise of Skywalker? Yes. It was written by Henry David Thoreau in 1855.

Star Wars, the novelization of Rise of Skywalker? Yes. It was written by Henry David Thoreau in 1855.

I started reading the raw on Walden Pond, I started reading which I had never read.

And it's like a thorough book with Oh my god, they make you read and I can't believe I don't think I'd ever read I didn't remember it anyway.

What is it called? It's called a Walden Pond.

Well, the pond on wall. Yeah, that was in Massachusetts, wasn't it? Yeah, I think or ham New Hampshire, New Hampshire should I should know this. I read a quarter.

And he was like the transcendentalist, you know, he was part of that movement that was like they were huge abolitionists. And so they were very for their time. They were like the woke guy, the transcendentalists were like, like, they were the woke guys for their time and, and girls.

I started reading the raw on Walden Pond. I started reading which I had never read.

What is it called? It's called a Walden Pond.

he was like the transcendentalist, you know, he was part of that movement that was like they were huge abolitionists.

And then he goes, but uh, but then he started talking about Irish people. And he was like, he said, he started talking shit about Irish people.

I never heard of that, that Nina, which meant no Irish need apply.

I started reading Walden which I had never read. And it's like a thorough book with Oh my god, they make you read and I can't believe I don't think I'd ever read I didn't remember it anyway.

It's called a Walden Pond. Well, the pond on wall.

he was like the transcendentalist, you know, he was part of that movement that was like they were huge abolitionists. And so they were very for their time. They were like the woke guy, the transcendentalists were like, like, they were the woke guys for their time and, and girls.

And then he goes, but uh, but then he started talking about Irish people. And he was like, he said, he started talking shit about Irish people.

except everyone should be allowed to have these freedoms, except of course the Irish.

How Henry David Thoreau's analog lessons from Walden can be applied to your 21st century digital lifestyle.

How Henry David Thoreau's analog lessons from Walden can be applied to your 21st century digital lifestyle.

Sometimes after staying in a village parlor till the family had all retired I have returned to the woods and partly with a view to the next day's dinner spent the hours of midnight fishing from a boat by moonlight. Communicating by a long, flaccant line with mysterious, not-turnal fishes which had their dwelling 40 feet below. It was very queer especially in dark nights when your thoughts had wandered to vast and cause marginal themes and other spheres to feel this faint jerk which came to interrupt your dreams and link you to nature again. It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air as well as downward into this element which was scarcely more dense. Thus, I caught two fishes as it were with one hook.

I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I'm reading this biography of thorough right now that's really interesting and I marked this passage i was going to talk to you about it so he's walking in the woods and conquered and he says how often have they stood on this very spot at this very hour here he here he's uh here he went on stood uh ta ta wahan or what is it ta ta ta one uh he said and there there is his arrowhead he said it was a mere rhetorical flourish the the gesture of a boy playing Indians but when he impulsively stooped to complete the scene and picked up the nearest bit of rock it turned out to be uh quote a most perfect arrowhead as sharp as if it just came from the hands of the Indian fabricator and he goes on to say that that his whole life uh thorough has this almost magical luck of always being able to find the best arrowheads which you know in his time obviously he's a he's a tad closer to uh you know people actually using them in those very spots but I just you know we think of thorough as this philosopher which he was and then there is this other part of him that's just like a boy who likes to play in the woods and that's what comes through in the philosophy so much

Thorough was very famous for saying in Walden I went to the woods because I wish to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I hadn't lived

and if you read Walden I mean it's like a rhapsody of mindfulness he would stand you know in the pond up in Walden pond up to his nose and just watch the life of the skimmers and you know the plants and the birds and stuff

He says England is worried about potato rot, but quote, will not any endeavor to cure the brain rot which prevails so much more widely and fatally.

Henry David Thoreau used brain rot in 1854 in his classic Walden.

He's broken through, he's open to cleft, C.S. Lewis says. He's broken through.

C.S. Lewis says sometimes we don't get the answer that we're so desperate for. We get more of a no answer.

He said, but it's not uncompassionate as if God is saying peace child. You don't understand this because we see through the lens, you know, kind of blurry. And so it's your fault.

It stated that pride was a great sin. The essential vice, the utmost evil. It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every other vice. It is the complete anti-God state of mind.

After Monaghan read this, it dawned on him the only way to make a difference was to let go of his pride and do something big.

Time from flanders you know the mere boss book

Christians have often disputed as to whether what leads the Christian home is good actions or faith in Christ. Kind of a works grace thing. I have no right really to speak on such a difficult question, but it does seem to me like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most necessary.

You know what C.S. Lewis said about that? Well, you can't have it that way. That's right. He either was the Son of God or he was crazy or something.

You know what C.S. Lewis said about that? Well, you can't have it that way. That's right. He either was the Son of God or he was crazy or something.

I read mere Christianity after Spencer Claven came on and was singing its praises. It's amazing.

It was, it was life-changing. I learned so much. And of course, his writing is just spectacular anyway.

Oh, it is so good. Um, he's so clear and that's one of the things I love to, he takes complex ideas and he, he can make them completely accessible to a normal human being like us.

I think humility is the very center of morality and pride is the very center of immorality

I was won over to this way of thinking there's a book called mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis ultimately you will conflate through the moral it's moral architecture it's ultimately morality is something that's authored by a moral law giver if you don't have a moral law giver then you don't have a real moral law other than something we just make up that means whether it's the individual that says this is what's moral or whether society that makes some type of social contract still morality in this case would be something that we just make up because it's helpful but it's not transcendently real

I think we've said this before C.S. Lewis has noted I have a mercenary heart willing to give myself to the highest bidder willing to give my heart to the highest bidder and the question is gosh Lord help me how do I become the kind of person who can love you for your own sake?

The Psychology of Money, has sold almost 4 million copies since its release in 2020.

And I was delighted to see or interested to see that you specifically refer to two people who the Southern District of New York prosecuted, former member of the board of directors of Goldman Sachs, Rajat Gupta and the greatest Ponzi schemer of all time, Bernie Madoff.

Madoff is a really interesting character because a very overlooked part of the Madoff story is that back in the early 1980s, Madoff was an extremely successful businessman from the legitimate part of his business.

I'm working on a book right now. It's called The Art of Spending Money. Hopefully a self-explanatory title.

Just like my first book, Psychology of Money, does not tell you how to invest. It just tells you what happens in your head.

Every single person who listens to Acquired should read it

He's unbelievably pithy.

I suspect it's a really good one to read now Post 2020 and 2021 bubble when like everything was crazy. It would have been great to read it during 2020 But it includes I think I've I've made it a carve out before the morgan's essay how all this happened and every chapter of psychology of money is one of his essays And so if you liked if you read how all this happened, which is this amazing path of World war two through today through the american economy and a lot of politics and why different things happened and how everything led to the next thing The psychology of money is awesome because it incorporates all of that sort of like factual history with just really good perspectives and some Citations of research on what actually makes people happy and what investment strategies work when your goal is happiness

Morgan makes a very strong argument in the book to basically Put as much into s and p 500 index funds when you're as young as you Possibly can and just never sell anything.

I am the author of the book, The Psychology of Money, and I'm a partner at The Collaborative Fund.

He published The Psychology of Money in 2020, too late, as it turns out, to be included in the top 50 personal finance books that James Choi analyzed. Otherwise, it would have been included.

We've spent the last two years struggling to keep it in stock. We just can't print enough.

My general response to the paper was it's based off of this idea that economists can have the quote-unquote right answer to these problems, that they know the right thing to do with their money, and then they can therefore compare right versus what's actually out there. And that is an idea that I fundamentally disagree with.

There's not the equivalent of two plus two equals four in personal finance. You cannot read a paper or look at a spreadsheet and change the amount of dopamine and cortisol in your brain. You can't do it.

You think that everyone's looking at you, but even when people are noticing you, they're imagining themselves being noticed by other people.

Nobody cares about your stuff as much as you do.

Psychology of money was about how you, the individual behaves. Same as ever is about how we, the collective behave and what we keep doing over and over.

I think all investing is is the study of how people behave with money.

The first chapter of psychology of money is called the greatest show on earth because I thought that finance is one of the starkest windows into how people behave in life because it's like the stakes are so high, the emotions are so raw. There's so much quick feedback in the stock market that you can learn so much about behavior and investing that you can therefore apply to other fields.

His book, The Psychology of Money, has sold over 2 million copies and has been translated into 52 languages.

Your first book Psychology of Money was a beast and this next one is absolutely phenomenal.

I think about a lot and that was one of the points of talking to that author who I was speaking with because I know this is going to be my situation how do you prepare mentally when I hope to write many books in my career and I would bet very good money that the first book I wrote will by an order of magnitude be the biggest seller.

it's kind of a hard thing like when I'm 66 how am I going to feel knowing that I peaked at age 36 when psychology money came out it's probably not going to feel that great to be honest of all the problems to have it's not a bad one

I wrote about this in the Psychology of Money

There was another story that I wrote about in the Psychology of Money that I thought was just so ridiculous when I read it.

There's a Morgan House will quote where he says the best way to win the game is to stop moving the goalposts.

And he's wrote this great book called The Psychology of Money.

And it's true that most people treat their goals. Their relationship to their goals is like the horizon that for every step toward it they get. Right. It then moves one step further away.

Ladies and gentlemen you're about to meet the man whose book changed my entire life as it relates to money and finance

My brother who's an investment banker said Steve there's one book I need you to read about wealth, investing and money and finance and he passed me a book called 'The Psychology of Money'. That book changed my fortunes. It is the reason I've been a successful investor and it's the reason I've been able to hold on to my wealth and build it.

What I would consider to be the greatest book on money and finance ever written. I say that because I remember when I came into money when I was 25, 27, 28 years old and my brother turned to me and said there's one thing I ask of you. He said you have to read this book or 'The Psychology of Money'. It will stop you losing all of the money you've just earned from your career and it changed my life.

Let's start with the psychology of money. What is the benefit to my life if I understand the things that are written in the psychology of money?

His book, The Psychology of Money, is so popular in the Painted Porch.

It sold millions of copies all over the world.

did you read the um did you read the psychology of money yes yes okay I had him on the park as Oregon's great yeah yeah he's awesome and there's that story in there that he tells that I just think is so significant of most of those people that I I met in it's about Joseph Heller remember the story in the book yeah enough yeah it's in stillness too right it's in my book stillness yeah it's never enough

the financial writer Morgan Howell who's wonderful book the psychology of money we recommend and who was on the podcast recently once described history as one damned thing after another and what is history made up of life.

I was just reading Morgan Howell's the psychology of money and he has this line in there unexpected things happen all the time or things that have never happened before happen all the time that's the wisdom of what Sennaqa is trying to say there that's what we prepare for

his new book The Psychology of Money Timeless Lessons on Wealth Green in Happiness is a deep dive into the psychology of money the difference between being rich and being wealthy how we measure our success problem with comparison as I was just saying and much more it's sold nearly two million copies and been translated into 46 languages

it is really genuinely good I loved reading it I took a bunch of notes I wish more writers would write in this style as we talk about in today's interview I loved the stories I loved that it was both general and specific and you I took a lot out of it and I think it's a very apt for this crazy moment in economic history that we are in and I recommend it highly

I recommend reading the psychology of money anywhere you get your books but if you want to pick it up at the pain in porch go for it and you can go to Morgan's website in morganhousel.com and follow him on twitter at morganhouselinjoy

I think people primarily learn via stories right they learn by stories not by facts not by charts not by even these sort of long form like arguments they learn by stories and not stories about the author but about like sort of bite-sized anecdotes the Greek word for this is a crayah it's like a short story that has kind of a moral point to it that teaches a larger lesson and like most finance books are like let me tell you how the markets work they're not like here's a bunch of memorable stories that will sort of triangulate for you an understanding of the market

financial success is not a hard science. It's a soft skill or how you behave is more important than what you know.

saving like a pessimist and investing like an optimist

leave your kids enough money so that they can do anything but not so much that they can do nothing

financial success is not a hard science. It's a soft skill or how you behave is more important than what you know.

saving like a pessimist and investing like an optimist

leave your kids enough money so that they can do anything but not so much that they can do nothing

nothing too good or too bad lasts indefinitely

financial success is not a hard science. It's a soft skill or how you behave is more important than what you know.

saving like a pessimist and investing like an optimist

We reached that point in the conversation when Donald Trump looked frankly at General Milley and said, Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.

I am still finishing promise a promised land, which is Barack Obama's memoir.

I would also recommend you read Barack Obama's take on this in his not particularly well-known book, Promised Land, which has only sold seven gazillion copies.

President Barack Obama the author of the new Book A Promised Land.

More importantly The guy who launched Podcast the world, let's face it I get no royalties But I am proud of you guys Sir the check is in the mail So Vclav Havel Is a surprise star in this book And for those who don't know Havel is a playwright, he's a dissident He became the first president of the Czech Republic and in the book We first encounter him during this stop in Prague On one of your foreign trips You guys have a brief meeting and I remember I was on that Trip and I remember that meeting So well because I had read Summer Meditations in college And I brought along my copy of the book Right here with me on the trip Because I naively thought that Spokespeople on foreign trips with the President have time to read books That is not how it works but Havel is prescient In the way he warns you about the double-edged Sword of high expectations and then How autocrats had evolved and how the economic Crisis was strengthening the forces of nationalism And then you mentioned him again In the context of the Cairo speech and then again After your conversation with Prime Minister Singh about Hindu nationalism And anti-Muslim sentiment in India So I guess my question to you is just What drew you to Havel And did you find it depressing Talking with him About the rise of nationalism and how Easy it was to predict and yet So difficult to prevent

Well look what drew me to him Was what had drawn You to him. I had Read his works in college And as I write about He was The Example of someone who had Grown out of a Mass movement A social movement from the bottom up Had then entered politics and His soul had remained intact Right so You know there were A handful of political leaders That I Look to as an example Because as I described my Inspiration wasn't JFK Or Some other Elected official My inspiration Was Gandhi And Lekh Malessa And you know the Civil rights workers In SNCC And it took me a while To feel comfortable with the idea That you could bring about change In electoral politics Because I had this sort of skepticism That I think a lot of young people At least growing up in America had towards Politicians and So when I see Havel and Mandela really those were the two Where I thought Oh you can make that transition Retain some sense Of connection to the mass movement That produced you And still enter into government So that was why I was keen on meeting him

But specifically Ben and I are gonna focus on all the foreign policy parts of the book, his record.

Our old boss, Barack Obama said in his Atlantic interview when he was talking about his new book that he had talked to an organizer who was canvassing in a majority black Philadelphia neighborhood.

And when he was talking to voters, they were talking about QAnon conspiracies about Joe Biden.

Our old boss, Barack Obama said in his Atlantic interview when he was talking about his new book that he had talked to an organizer who was canvassing in a majority black Philadelphia neighborhood. And when he was talking to voters, they were talking about QAnon conspiracies about Joe Biden.

I am still finishing promise a promised land, which is Barack Obama's memoir.

I would also recommend you read Barack Obama's take on this in his not particularly well-known book, Promised Land, which has only sold seven gazillion copies.

In his book, Barack Obama referred to a girl he had a crush on in college as an ethereal bisexual.

I'll read the first chapter of promise.

And when I finished this book and I've also read your husband's book, I'm always nervous about the correct phrasing.

It was a delight to talk to him about so many things. We cover a lot of ground, including his new book, A Promised Land, which is available now.

But I wanted to start by saying it occurred to me that we do have things in common. We are similar ages, both on the campus and in Cambridge at Harvard around the same time. Things have gone so well for you. And I've taken such a different path.

I read your book and I read it like someone looking at a roadmap, trying to wonder, this guy did everything right. Everything right.

I'm very much in debt right now financially. I have a podcast that I'm running out of a hotel. You are the leader of the free world and icon.

But it really did make me realize that I always go back and I channel my grandfather and I think I'm not even really supposed to be here.

What, you know, it's Barack Obama actually said about the campaign process whenever I was reading his book that one of the good things about it is that it strips you down and exposes you to the American people.

Obama signed a book deal.

he's gonna go around and he's good dude he had 70 million dollars worth the fucking tour dates he also had that you selectively unreading douchebag don't tell me he fucking you he had a fucking 900 million dollar book deal Obama 65 million dollars book deal

65 million dollars you don't turn around and you're only gonna get 30 million dollars of that okay and then you're gonna go out and buy an 80 million dollar fucking house you're gonna pay at the 30-year note on that paying interest on that because you just basically got 30 million dollars after taxes that makes no fucking sense

65 million is the gross he's gonna get about 30 million bucks that's it cuz he's got a kick in for this never-ending war too

you got 65 million for a book

Obama's money hi bill I'm gonna get this shit kicked out of me on this one he signed a book deal you unread douche

he had 70 million dollars worth the fucking tour dates he also had that you selectively unreading douchebag don't tell me he fucking you he had a fucking 900 million dollar book deal Obama 65 million dollars book deal

Obama secures 800 grand for two speaking engage who you think he's talking to huh you think he's going to a homeless shelter the reason many of us have been critical Barack Obama's outrageous for those TV is it robs us of a fantasy that sooner or later the first black president was going to use his considerate powers in or out of office to help the economic ravages of the poor who are just really black but you know a white person probably wrote this I want to know who he's talking to huh who the fuck has 400 grand to throw at this fucking guy

65 million dollar book deal okay after taxes sir after taxes and all the bullshit that'll probably be about 30 million bucks and I guarantee you he is gonna be worth when it's all said and done about 200 million bucks okay and it's not gonna be because he wrote a fucking book all right he's also gonna go out and they do these speaking engagements to all these corporations that and they'll pay them for it and fucking grand and these are the same people that got him into office and he went in there and did what the fuck they wanted and this is just them washing their bribe money

65 million dollars you don't turn around and you're only gonna get 30 million dollars of that okay and then you're gonna go out and buy an 80 million dollar fucking house you're gonna pay at the 30-year note on that paying interest on that because you just basically got 30 million dollars after taxes that makes no fucking sense

Obama's money hi bill I'm gonna get this shit kicked out of me on this one he signed a book deal you unread douche

he's gonna go around and he's good dude he had 70 million dollars worth the fucking tour dates he also had that you selectively unreading douchebag don't tell me he fucking you he had a fucking 900 million dollar book deal Obama 65 million dollars book deal

65 million dollars you don't turn around and you're only gonna get 30 million dollars of that okay and then you're gonna go out and buy an 80 million dollar fucking house you're gonna pay at the 30-year note on that paying interest on that because you just basically got 30 million dollars after taxes that makes no fucking sense

it's not gonna be because he wrote a fucking book all right he's also gonna go out and they do these speaking engagements to all these corporations that and they'll pay them for it and fucking grand and these are the same people that got him into office and he went in there and did what the fuck they wanted and this is just them washing their bribe money

I mean honestly dude what changed when he was in office that everybody is so enamored with did we stop torturing people down in Guantanamo did we fucking end the war over there are we finally going like hey wait a minute Isis doesn't have a plane or a boat why are we acting like Germany got back together no it's the same fucking thing it's the same goddamn shit it's the same guy with a different colored tie

There's a book out there now about Obama.

It mentions his he's writing some love letters about wanting to have relationships with men, if you know what I mean.

Keep in mind, this book's been out there. It's just getting picked up now because people are like, wait, what?

It's not me saying it's apparently his letters.

I have not read the book, so I don't have any critique of it because I haven't read it.

So the Obama book, I'm a huge Obama fan. But his book was so, I was in the car every chance I got and I could not stop listening to it. I did both.

And I think I started reading it on the previous Tuesday. So I put the Audible on one and a half. Bless you. And I read the book as I was listening.

Barack Obama Releases a 768 Page Memoir and that's only the first volume let's jump into it.

for anybody who believes that Donald Trump has narcissistic personality disorder let me introduce you to a man named Barack Obama nobody has ever loved Barack Obama more than Barack Obama loves Barack Obama.

this is a 768 page memoir that's volume one okay he didn't accomplish anything when he was he did Obamacare and then he had a bunch of executive orders and he undermined the fundamental unity of the country.

Barack Obama is the he is the pathway for the Democratic Party moving forward right that that's what they think this is what the Democratic Party thinks and this is why the future of the Democratic Party looks a lot more like the squad and a lot less like Joe Manchin.

The theme of Barack Obama's presidency and his life is that he is disappointed in you he's disappointed in American democracy because what he wants from you and from American democracy is a radical remaking he wants a radical reshifting.

meanwhile president obama is on book tour and he's doing his usual routine

this guy he's gonna be trotting this out and the media are just going to be massaging him

Your books, give and take and originals. I mean, they are so innovative and so interesting. And that requires a lot of thinking.

But, you know, it's we receive these books, give and take or originals or whatever. You know, think again. And they're elegant and they're very useful and very interesting and full of innovative ideas.

That book says true entrepreneurs hedge their bets.

As I was doing my research ahead of this conversation, I was watching your TED Talk.

And one of the things that really stood out to me in your TED Talk was when you start talking about internet browsers.

And so what I started doing was I started rewriting paragraphs in the voices of my favorite fiction authors, which was such a fun experiment.

So how would Stephen King write this paragraph? How would Maggie Smith, an amazing poet, how would she write these sentences?

And that made it a creative exercise again.

As Adam Grant describes in his book Originals, test audiences didn't know what to do with a show about nothing, as it was described by writers Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld.

As Adam Grant describes in originals, one study showed that scientists who cultivated artistic hobbies, such as playing an instrument, painting, woodworking, writing, or acting were up to 22 more times likely to win a Nobel prize compared to scientists who did not cultivate such interests.

He's a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and he's the author of the new book, Originals, How Nonconformists Move the World.

I would say that I was totally wrong about what it takes to be original.

I think of original people as the nonconformists who drive creativity and change in the world.

They often procrastinate and that's how they incubate ideas.

They feel the same fears and doubts that the rest of us do. They just manage them differently. They hate taking risks and they have lots of bad ideas and that's how they get to the good ones.

He's the author of the new book, Originals, How Nonconformists Move the World.

In your book, you find that the writer and poet TS Eliot, Google's co-founder Larry Page, and the filmmaker all have something in common.

I think that's one of the hallmarks of being original, is being flexible enough in your thinking to admit, you know, this was wrong or this was a bad idea.

In the book you talk about the idea that birth order whether you have older siblings or younger siblings might play a role in your willingness to take chances.

If you study some of the America's most original architects and compare them with technically skilled but less creative peers. One of the things that happened in the families of the creative architects was their parents focused more on values than rules.

That was exactly the question asked to me by Adam Grant on my I'm admiring a who wrote this originals book and when he was interviewing me we were talking about this and I think he was disappointed with the answer and the answer was that we learned it through experience and we get it to the point where something works and then the real sobering moment was when Zimbabwejans and Belrashans came to Serbs in 2003 and say oh we need your advice.

His forthcoming book, Originals, will be out in February 2016.

His forthcoming book, "Originals," will be published in February, 2016.

He's written a whole string of best-selling books including Give and Take, Think Again and Originals.

His books include Think Again, Originals, Give and Take, Option B.