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The Football 100 is available wherever you find books

They said let's do a hundred greatest players list.

Well, then they decided to do a book

We thought that was pretty important to have you know, won it right away outside of a Belichick type of context.

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Get his new book, 'Coach Prime: Deion Sanders and the Making of Men'

Adam's guest today, Ian Bagg and the author of Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, and the Making of Men, Jean-Jacques Taylor.

Jean-Jacques Taylor is an expert on sports and wrote a book on Deion Sanders, and we'll talk to him right after this.

Jean-Jacques Taylor, he's an author. He's a veteran sports journalist. He's written a book on Deion Sanders. It's called Coach Prime, Deion Sanders and the Making of Men. And he's with us now.

Coach Prime, Deion Sanders and the Making of Men. Jean-Jacques Taylor is the author, and it's available wherever you find better books.

So someone that we all know and love has a book out this week. It's called A Shore Thing.

And I just wanted to read a couple choice quotes from A Shore Thing.

It was we were in high school. We were like freshman in high school and he was reading Orson Welles' biography in the lunchroom.

And that is called 'Chomp Chomp Chomp The Snapfast Challenge' and you can get that at uh BraveBooks.com.

Actually I think it's .us, oh .us it's even more patriotic, yeah, yeah, very patriotic, com is an abbreviation for communism, can't do that, no us, yeah America.

And this is it's about all the TikTok challenges and like the yeah that it's it's framed in the landscape of social media make it relatable to kids and the the deeper message is about peer pressure and it's kind of like I've got a three-year-old little boy and if I could only instill one message in him for the rest of my life it would be be in touch with your own critical thinking your own heart and have the courage to follow it.

Plus the author of Football Done Right Michael Lombardi and we'll talk current events with Ami Horowitz Plus the news with Chris Lachsemana and now Ready to launch a verbal attack about Hamas launching a physical attack

Book: 'Football Done Right'

I wrote this book about players that go back to the 40s and those guys. I mean johnny unitas I don't think he threw a pass where he didn't get off the ground and spit blood out So we've made a lot of changes to the game for the better

I wrote about him in the book and I described him this way You know, there's so much conversation about could he play today? You know back in this day when he played line middle linebacker was the key to the defense, right? It was the heart and soul of the defense

I wrote about him in the book You talked to people from when he was in wichita growing up and how he went to kansas and How kansas got him to go to school there when kansas was a a huge football program Uh is really remarkable and he was very likable

Don't you know though that there are and they're roughly if you read The Sociopath Next Door if you go by that There are roughly 4% of people. So 96 percent is good 4% of people are sociopaths. I have no conscience

Well, we could talk about my fine book, Tom's Blue in the Face, or we could hear another song from you before we brought out David Alan Grier.

And it's a book called the witch labrador in Spanish and it's about this lady who was kind of a behind-the-scenes advisor to every Colombian president ever and she was basically just doing all sorts of weird witchcraft and they were pure making decisions on her

And every administration for about 30 years in Colombia hired her and I read the book when I was down there It was hard to get my hands on and someone's asked me about it the other day and I was like I'm sure you can just buy it online and you couldn't

it was the first time I wanted to Santas bandit Yeah, could be one of your fellas. Someone took it off Amazon But it's fine

If it was not for my next two guests, I swear the youth of America would be even more clueless about sex than they are now. Please welcome the host of MTV's Love Line and the co-authors of this year new book, Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew.

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We listen to the bleedings of the gun enthusiasts that well if those teachers had guns then this wouldn't have been as bad 17 dead.

If a pistol strapping chemistry teacher had grabbed her 45 and unloaded on today's gunman after he killed what one student three five that would be good news.

And I was like, this book is amazing.

john smith would be like yeah our standard isn't that the guy that made the book of mormon to me yeah that's the guy that's a wrestler you know to me