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You could go to Amazon buy David Allen Greer's book Barak Like Me and some of that money would go to your son's pocket instead of sitting around.

Barack Like Me, name of the, it's funny. It is funny. I read at least three quarters of it.

Book soup Sunset Boulevard seven o'clock and then tomorrow night Romans in Pasadena right there in the Old Town Pasadena Barack Like Me.

And I'm now especially angry at Where the Wild Things Are.

It's for them. They're looking at the pictures.

And now they're going to make a movie. The movie is going to come out this week and it's going to make a billion dollars and the A-hole that wrote this book is going to get rich or richer often.

He's already gotten rich off this pile of crap.

It's a horrible message.

My father left, he wrote a book, Black Raids, which became a huge best seller.

And he was on like television. You know, he had a water bed and a dashiki.

He told me, Black psychiatrist tell it like it is.

It was in the 60s too. I think it was like 1968 maybe?

I read the book and I gave it a bad review. I was like, you know, yeah, yeah.

Didn't remember that book?

I didn't even know it.

I remember there was a Neil Diamond album based on the book.

Jonathan Livingston's Seagull yeah.

Hugely popular bestselling book from like 1973 called Jonathan Livingston's Seagull.

There's a line from a Shane Black movie called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang that I've stolen so many times it's like somebody took the united states from the east coast and shook it and all the normal people were able to hold on and everybody just landed in LA.

I've got three on the country charts right now and by the way one of them is a stupid tattoo that you were just talking about a few minutes ago and it's becoming a hit on country radio.

in my last book called If I Didn't Believe in God, I quote some pretty good scientists named Stephen Hawking and Einstein and Charles Darwin who all admit publicly that is in print that the cosmos and the existence of the universe defies existence.

I think said there is a a spirit abroad in the universe and the cosmos which we can't kind of comprehend so we'll concentrate just on what we can comprehend which is the science of it and then then the other Hawking said something about there is a design of things and it's you know indicating there must somehow be a designer but we just deal with the facts that we can as scientists cope with what they can't pronounce they're educated people but they can't pronounce a three letter word G-O-D.

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

There's a really good book called The User Method by Jeff Schwarting.

When you, have you ever read the book Wisdom of Crowds?

James Sawicki.

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.

I'm from his first album Sadamantium, huge nerd, hilarious dude, beat Ralphie mate, roast battle.

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Lenny Clark's gonna hang out and he's written a children's book he's got to tell us about that it's called duck duck now.

The novel I wrote a novel came out in November called Obvious in Hindsight like you said and it's about a campaign to legalize flying cars in New York LA in Austin on one side of a fight is the flying car start up and their vicious political consultants and the other side is Uber and Taxi United against it the socialist the trans-eatings the Autobot Society and the Russian bout.

'Obvious in Hindsight' is available wherever you find books

'Obvious in Hindsight' is available wherever you find books

There's a book called Endurance, um, and it's about Shackleton, who was the first explorer in Antarctica, but the only reason why he's famous is he's the only one that made it out of the Drake Passage.

because everybody that went back in the day just never came back because it was just violent waters, and it still is.

Patton has a book "Zombie Spaceship Wasteland" and uh, I think I love about Patton he's just good at everything he does.

He said he'd be glad to do it and and like the chapter really and what was really cool was when he read the lyrics at our hotel.

I went to the I went to lyric sites where people had you know he has hard lyrics to decipher sure and he read the lyrics.

I did I asked a friend who asked him and it wasn't that I got him to do it it was that Michael Stipe was so ridiculously nice to go yeah I'll read this my lyrics.

Her new book, *No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in the Age of Outrage - Lessons for the Silenced Majority*, is available now

I mean I thought by the time because I started writing this book about two and a half years ago and I was thinking you know is it going to still be timely by the time I'm done and it's out and I thought well if it's not timely that's probably a good thing but it's still timely.

I was noticing these trends of not being able to speak about things that we want to speak about and having open discourse I was noticing that for a long time and I was myself pretty self-sensoring I would say and then you know and then it happened to me and in my case you know I had a group that I ran and it was for women and female writers and it's just just a job board and one day somebody made the you know the awful mistake of posting a job opening at Fox News and people just sort of piled on to that person and then I chimed in saying hey let's stay away from personal attacks and politics and that was apparently enough to be called a white supremacist and Nazi I'd assume as soon let the KKK recruit and a lot of madness ensued and not only did I feel of myself I got a lot of letters from people telling me you know this is the experience that they've been having a lot of them have succumbed to the silencing a lot of them have lost their livelihoods and and their friend groups all of that and I felt a certain responsibility to speak up and and make that known and and have a bit of a I'm hoping have a bit of a calm voice when it comes to that not not not go into hysterics over it but but show people the the problem and and show people how we can perhaps fix that.

It's not just a matter of being good because there are people who are good but for example say you want to make movies and within the you know and you want to make movies of a certain budget if you are canceled from that industry no Matt you know even if you're good sometimes there's no coming back there's certain people oh no where that's an example oh for sure yeah if you're in a you know if you make a commercial airliner there's just something it's going to you have a hard time hanging your own shingle out there you know you're gonna have to break away in like right movies there's something and then turn them in under someone else's name or something sad which is very blacklist like right very McCarthyism everything they do is McCarthyism and that's what it feels like because a lot of people think about McCarthyism nonstop and then they act on McCarthyism well there isn't lot of that going on where I think I think people don't quite realize the extent of it and how much it affects everybody but then when you start talking to people about it on an individual basis like I don't have a lot of people who yell at me or disagree with me or have a problem left or right on this particular issue when I actually individually talk to them but you know it's very difficult to talk about certain topics and as a result we're not able I mean there's certain really controversial you know they shouldn't be controversial topics they should just be topics that we talk about and listen it could be wrong you could be right but if we discuss it maybe we arrive at some same point yeah that doesn't happen because people are so scared to speak about these things but once somebody starts like I've noticed with myself and I worked in the entertainment industry and media as well but even on sets like I worked on a movie this was after my whole experience and I became very outspoken and I decided I'm gonna be exactly the same way on set and I was and I had great conversations with people all sorts of people and very open and they brought up things to me and we had you know group conversations so people are I think they have that ache to be able to discuss things freely and they are not I don't think they're really even as polarized on the issues as we're led to believe.

My remedy is for individuals who are interested in using their own voice is to build a certain level of protection for themselves and that involves the you know build a community that supports you have a plan B that's one of the chapters in the book where you know have a plan B in terms of employment opportunities because that's the biggest hurdle for a lot of people there they can deal with losing you know friends and upgrading to maybe better ones but losing you know your career your passion that's what's really difficult for people and I think also you know you can you you can do things in small ways so you can begin by having open conversations with people around you which is which is generally safer then you can you know build up to that and and do it about things that you really care about you know it doesn't have to be every everything but if you're going to take a risk and it is a risk right because there are consequences absolutely and some people end up you know doing well and and building new futures and new careers and and and you know you tend to hear about this more and you also have a lot that don't and I think also supporting other people whether they're you're supporting a friend that is your you know that's your friend when they are going through something like that where people the mob is going against them or or basically just just I lost my track of thought.

No Apologies how to find and free your voice in an age of outrage lessons for the silence majority.

A recent one I watched which I don't know maybe some people have heard of the killing of a Chinese bookie do you know that movie?

I find it on the criterion channel which is just such a gift that's a subscription channel but it pretty much has every great film in the history of cinema on it.

but yeah it's Cassavetti's movie oh there we go with Ben Gazzara.

and it's a simple story it's a guy who runs a strip club but he's a gambler.

Citizen Bill. Name of his latest book.

How to take the Town Square Digital and reinvent government

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this is exactly why I wrote this book.