Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

So obviously Mr. Kendi became a bestselling author during the BLM protests of 2020. He's the proponent of how to be an anti-racist, massive bestselling books. Really the inventor of kind of anti-racist ideology going back about a decade.

So the first page says anti-racist baby is not, bred, not born. Anti-racist baby is raised to make society transform. Babies are taught to be racist or anti-racist. There's no neutrality.

Take these nine steps to make equity a reality and then step one just give you a sense of these. Open your eyes to all skin colors. Anti-racist baby learns all the colors, not because race is true.

If you claim to be colorblind, you deny what's right in front of you.

So it's probably...It's not as bad as all the political parts.

But I think it's fascinating, Crystal, that this is being canceled in the context also of Netflix's business problems on top of the letter that they just issued all of their staff saying, hey, if you have a problem with the content that we produce here, you can leave if you'd like.

So the first page says anti-racist baby is not, bred, not born. Anti-racist baby is raised to make society transform. Babies are taught to be racist or anti-racist. There's no neutrality.

Take these nine steps to make equity a reality and then step one just give you a sense of these. Open your eyes to all skin colors. Anti-racist baby learns all the colors, not because race is true. If you claim to be colorblind, you deny what's right in front of you.

There was one part that I actually liked, which is point at policies is the problem, not people. Some people get more while others get less because policies don't always grant equal access. Shout, there's nothing wrong with the people even though all races are not treated the same. We are all human anti-racist baby can proclaim.

So it's probably... It's not as bad as all the political parts. Probably the most controversial part of it is the typical mode in white American parenting is, let's be colorblind, polite society approach has been, we're just, every race is the same. We're not going to talk about race.

So obviously Mr. Kendi became a bestselling author during the BLM protests of 2020. He's the proponent of how to be an anti-racist, massive bestselling books. Really the inventor of kind of anti-racist ideology going back about a decade.

So the first page says anti-racist baby is not, bred, not born. Anti-racist baby is raised to make society transform. Babies are taught to be racist or anti-racist. There's no neutrality.

Take these nine steps to make equity a reality and then step one just give you a sense of these. Open your eyes to all skin colors. Anti-racist baby learns all the colors, not because race is true.

If you claim to be colorblind, you deny what's right in front of you.

So it's probably... It's not as bad as all the political parts.

Like a recent episode with author and podcaster, Glennis McNichol, on her new memoir, I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself.

It's all about seeking pleasure in middle age.

Like a recent episode with author and podcaster, Glynis McNichol, on her new memoir, I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself.

It's all about seeking pleasure in middle age.

At some point, I stopped feeling shame around any part of my existence.

There was a point where I thought, who's benefiting from my feeling of shame?

If there's a general sense of like, oh goodness, she's doing what she wants. Who benefits from you feeling bad about that? Because usually not anyone whose opinion you're interested in, I would argue.

At some point, I stopped feeling shame around any part of my existence.

There was a point where I thought, who's benefiting from my feeling of shame?

If there's a general sense of like, oh goodness, she's doing what she wants. Who benefits from you feeling bad about that?

Because usually not anyone whose opinion you're interested in, I would argue.

Jonah Goldberg wrote a book called Liberal Fascism. So we also contributed to this like, you know, existential nature of politics.

interesting ultimately what their red lines are. And just one other thing about Jonah Goldberg, he wrote a book called Liberal Fascism.

So we also contributed to this like, you know, existential nature of politics. And he literally argued in that book that effectively every Democrat ever has been a fascist, including FDR.

In addition he's also author of a great book called Monopolize Chain of Title.

I know Sanders and I know the kind of things that he says about women and to women.

everyone comes up to me and says I would vote for you if you had a penis.

There's a book I read, blanking on the name, [...], called like "Apple after Steve Jobs" and talks [...], because the point is that Apple really stopped innovating at the very highest level with new products, but they quadrupled their stock price and revenue because they started looking at it as a uh platform as a service on which you can continue to upsell customers and lock people into the ecosystem.

I talked previously about that book Super Pumped that I read.

I deployed as a military intelligence officer for the army in 2006 and then to give the short version proceeded to have a pretty fast rise uh in american politics from the state legislature to secretary state of missouri to just barely losing a u.s senate race in a very red state missouri uh and then you know was one of like i don't know there were a few dozen of us in 2018 who are thinking we were going to run for president in 2020 on the democratic side uh was running around doing that but the whole time i was having um you know untreated and diagnosed uh i had untreated and diagnosed ptsd from my time in afghanistan and i was basically trying to outrun it uh and that got harder and harder and right when i was you know really getting to the point where i was going to officially announce for president i was doing that soft running everybody knew i was running but i like legally couldn't say i was running thing uh it just it was getting bad enough where i just i couldn't keep going so i i decided well i'm gonna go back home i'm gonna run for mayor in my hometown kansas city and i'm gonna go get help at the va uh i kept half that promise to myself i started running for mayor it was going really well we were gonna win that race but i didn't go to the va uh like i told myself i would do and i just started getting worse faster and it went from you know the normal stuff that i was having night terrors hyper vigilance that kind of thing to also now including depression and suicidal thoughts and uh so you know about three months into that campaign for mayor despite how well the campaign was going i was not going well and i said you know what this ain't working and uh i dropped out of public life for a while to um go get help at the va

It was rock bottom it was just it's nice that people tend to give me like a lot of credit for making that decision but in my life at that moment it didn't feel like much of a decision i i knew that i didn't want to want to die and it was time to try to do something anything and i was running out of ideas so i actually called the veterans crisis line at the va and you know for all that time over a decade i had been telling myself this fiction that well it can't be ptsd and i had all these different reasons for that uh but when i heard the sound of the woman's voice on the other end of the line at the veterans crisis line it was just very evident to me that i didn't sound any different than anybody else she had talked to in that job and and that was a really important realization for me that helped me say you know what i i got to take this seriously uh and that's when i decided to uh to go get help and i the reason i decided to publicly state why i was dropping out and that i was going to go get help for ptsd is i just figured you know maybe if somebody had done that several years earlier uh on the platform that i was doing it on then maybe that would have encouraged me to take a look at my own symptoms and say maybe this is ptsd and it turns out it did have that effect for a lot of people which is maybe one of the you know definitely one of the most important things i've ever actually done

My job was to go out and to meet with people who uh were pretty unsavory characters in a lot of cases and there was always the uh possibility that my translator and i were being lured into a trap that there was a possibility of being kidnapped and killed and that is really the source of a lot of you know the cumulative trauma that i experienced just that constantly knowing where all the exits are how many people between me and my vehicle always being ready but the thing is i never fired my weapon my whole deployment and so i came home believing that that didn't count and that there's no way that could be traumatic i had friends who had been shot things like that and and so i went all these years saying like well if if i say that this is ptsd instead of just something wrong with me well that to me was like stealing bowler from my friends who had been physically wounded uh and the thing about that is is it's not just the military where that can happen i mean i meet so many people now who who will tell me about what they've been going through and then they'll caveat what they say with well i wasn't in a war or anything and i always say look you know i i spent a lot of years trying to rank my trauma out of existence by saying well it is not as bad as this person and that's a waste of time all it did was it delayed my opportunity to heal and to go get treatment trauma is trauma it doesn't make a car accident a bad divorce surviving cancer losing a loved one stuff that happens in your childhood like or point of war it doesn't matter if it's something that you haven't been able to move past in your brain and it's still affecting you well then it's something you have to deal with and there's no point in trying to compare it to someone else's

I went to the v a i did two types of therapy i did cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure therapy which the short explanation is is that cognitive processing therapy is a lot of it for me was just sort of being educated like going to graduate school about my brain learning about how the how the symptoms manifest and where they come from so that i could spot them and then the second thing prolonged exposure therapy is just you know kind of going straight to the trauma talking about those intrusive thoughts and and those memories and and talking about them enough where they no longer have the grip on you and then doing some other some other things but look whatever it is that people choose to do whatever treatment is their advice to do you know i i tell people like well that's what i did but if that hadn't been effective for me i would have gone on to try the next thing so it's really worth it there are people around us all the time who have achieved post-traumatic growth we don't ever see it depicted on film very rarely in the news but it's extremely common but we can be left with the impression that ptsd is a terminal diagnosis because all we ever see is this voyeuristic ptsd porn depiction where you have like a combat veteran who's been you know beating their spouse and abusing drugs and robbing a bank but that's not common what's common is people go to treatment and they get better and it's important for folks to know that so that they'll go pursue it

In fact all the royalties from Invisible Storm go to my royalties publisher likes to keep their part of the money go to veterans community project um so veterans community project is an organization based in my hometown canza city it was founded by some fellow combat veterans who set out to do a couple of things one to create a walk-in centers we call them outreach centers to where any veteran regardless of what their service was like there's no disqualifiers can come in and call qualify for 100 of our services which is everything from mental health treatment to dental to you know uh like seeing a physician to financial literacy to job training all sorts of stuff what we're much better known for is the residential side of what we do which is we build villages of tiny houses for homeless veterans with wraparound case management services and we have an 85 success rate of then transitioning homeless veterans into permanent housing in the community where they're fully contributing and you know fully uh like reintegrated members of of the community uh and so it's it's pretty miraculous work people can go to vcp like veterans community project dot org to learn more and i appreciate you asking me about it

It's titled Invisible Storm a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD

So I deployed as an army intelligence officer for the army in 2006 and then to give the short version proceeded to have a pretty fast rise in American politics from the state legislature to Secretary of State of Missouri to just barely losing a U.S. Senate race in a very red state Missouri and then you know was one of like I don't know there were a few dozen of us in 2018 who were thinking we were going to run for president in 2020 on the Democratic side was running around doing that but the whole time I was having you know untreated and diagnosed I had untreated and diagnosed PTSD from my time in Afghanistan and I was basically trying to outrun it and that got harder and harder and right when I was you know really getting to the point where I was going to officially announce for president I was doing that soft running everybody knew I was running but I like legally couldn't say I was running thing it just it was getting bad enough where I just I couldn't keep going so I I decided well I'm gonna go back home I'm gonna run for mayor in my hometown Kansas City and I'm gonna go get help at the VA I kept half that promise to myself I started running for mayor it was going really well we were gonna win that race but I didn't go to the VA like I told myself I would do and I just started getting worse faster and it went from you know the normal stuff that I was having night terrors hyper vigilance that kind of thing to also now including depression and suicidal thoughts and so you know about three months into that campaign for mayor despite how well the campaign was going I was not going well and I said you know what this ain't working and I dropped out of public life for a while to go get help at the VA

I describe it in the book as the international capital of zero f's left to give it was rock bottom it was just it's nice that people tend to give me like a lot of credit for making that decision but in my life at that moment it didn't feel like much of a decision I I knew that I didn't want to want to die and it was time to try to do something anything and I was running out of ideas so I actually called the veterans crisis line at the VA and you know for all that time over a decade I had been telling myself this fiction that well it can't be PTSD and I had all these different reasons for that but when I heard the sound of the woman's voice on the other end of the line at the veterans crisis line it was just very evident to me that I didn't sound any different than anybody else she had talked to in that job and and that was a really important realization for me that helped me say you know what I I got to take this seriously and that's when I decided to to go get help and I the reason I decided to publicly state why I was dropping out and that I was going to go get help for PTSD is I just figured you know maybe if somebody had done that several years earlier on the platform that I was doing it on then maybe that would have encouraged me to take a look at my own symptoms and say maybe this is PTSD and it turns out it did have that effect for a lot of people which is maybe one of the you know definitely one of the most important things I've ever actually done

I spent a lot of years trying to rank my trauma out of existence by saying well it is not as bad as this person and that's a waste of time all it did was it delayed my opportunity to heal and to go get treatment trauma is trauma it doesn't make a car accident a bad divorce surviving cancer losing a loved one stuff that happens in your childhood like or point of war it doesn't matter if it's something that you haven't been able to move past in your brain and it's still affecting you well then it's something you have to deal with and there's no point in trying to compare it to someone else's

In my case I was an army intelligence officer who my job was to go out and to meet with people who were pretty unsavory characters in a lot of cases and there was always the possibility that my translator and I were being lured into a trap that there was a possibility of being kidnapped and killed and that is really the source of a lot of you know the cumulative trauma that I experienced just that constantly knowing where all the exits are how many people between me and my vehicle always being ready but the thing is I never fired my weapon my whole deployment and so I came home believing that that didn't count and that there's no way that could be traumatic I had friends who had been shot things like that and and so I went all these years saying like well if if I say that this is PTSD instead of just something wrong with me well that to me was like stealing bowler from my friends who had been physically wounded and the thing about that is is it's not just the military where that can happen I mean I meet so many people now who who will tell me about what they've been going through and then they'll caveat what they say with well I wasn't in a war or anything and I always say look you know I I spent a lot of years trying to rank my trauma out of existence by saying well it is not as bad as this person and that's a waste of time all it did was it delayed my opportunity to heal and to go get treatment trauma is trauma it doesn't make a car accident a bad divorce surviving cancer losing a loved one stuff that happens in your childhood like or point of war it doesn't matter if it's something that you haven't been able to move past in your brain and it's still affecting you well then it's something you have to deal with and there's no point in trying to compare it to someone else's

It was rock bottom. It was just... It's nice that people tend to give me like a lot of credit for making that decision, but in my life at that moment it didn't feel like much of a decision. I knew that I didn't want to want to die, and it was time to try to do something, anything, and I was running out of ideas.

I describe it in the book as the international capital of zero f's left to give.

I spent a lot of years trying to rank my trauma out of existence by saying, well, it is not as bad as this person, and that's a waste of time. All it did was it delayed my opportunity to heal and to go get treatment.

Trauma is trauma. It doesn't make a car accident, a bad divorce, surviving cancer, losing a loved one, stuff that happens in your childhood, like, or point of war. It doesn't matter if it's something that you haven't been able to move past in your brain, and it's still affecting you, well, then it's something you have to deal with, and there's no point in trying to compare it to someone else's.

All the royalties from "Invisible Storm" go to my royalties publisher likes to keep their part of the money go to Veterans Community Project.

I read one of his books called Ghost Wars

I read one of his books called Ghost Wars

I read one of his books called Ghost Wars.

Chris christy has been on a book tour. We even covered it here on the show He's been trying to hawk his book called Republican Rescue.

He's painting himself setting himself up to run against trump Even if trump does run again, he says we cannot be clinging to stop the steal all I completely agree with But what did I tell you here on the show if that's your position? Then you ain't going to be working in the current republican party and we have this hilarious Peace that we can share with all of you.

Eric bowler, uh, look eric bowler is extremely cringe in one of those resistance democrats But the guys got some reporting and we're gonna give credit where do a senior publishing source with access to industry's book scan tells me Republican Rescue sold just two 289 copies during its first week in stores which constitutes a colossal Publishing flop that is a total disaster

On sunday Republican Rescue was ranked 15,545th on the amazon kindle store.

So he's only sold me 100 digital copies About 2,000 copies of his book

Chris christy has been on a book tour. We even covered it here on the show He's been trying to hawk his book called Republican Rescue.

He's painting himself setting himself up to run against trump Even if trump does run again, he says we cannot be clinging to stop the steal all I completely agree with

a senior publishing source with access to industry's book scan tells me Republican Rescue sold just two 289 copies during its first week in stores which constitutes a colossal Publishing flop

On sunday Republican Rescue was ranked 15,545th on the amazon kindle store.

So he's only sold me 100 digital copies About 2,000 copies of his book

Chris christy has been on a book tour. We even covered it here on the show He's been trying to hawk his book called Republican Rescue.

He's painting himself setting himself up to run against trump Even if trump does run again, he says we cannot be clinging to stop the steal all I completely agree with

a senior publishing source with access to industry's book scan tells me Republican Rescue sold just two 289 copies during its first week in stores which constitutes a colossal Publishing flop

On sunday Republican Rescue was ranked 15,545th on the amazon kindle store.

This is a total and complete flop and it just goes to show you the appetite for what chris christy is selling Is not there whatsoever.

So, you know if he was really trying to sell books They point out that jonathan carl's new book Betrayal the final act of the trump show sold 24,000 Hardcover copies which is a lot

They point out that jonathan carl's new book Betrayal the final act of the trump show sold 24,000 Hardcover copies which is a lot

They point out that jonathan carl's new book Betrayal the final act of the trump show sold 24,000 Hardcover copies which is a lot

The term metaverse that actually was coined in a 1992 sci-fi novel called Snow Crash where people found refuge in a digital world because the real world was so hellish.

Said in the early 21st century Snow Crash imagines a bleak future, the global economy has collapsed and federal governments have lost most of their power to a handful of giant corporations.

The term metaverse that actually was coined in a 1992 sci-fi novel called Snow Crash where people found refuge in a digital world because the real world was so hellish.

Said in the early 21st century, Snow Crash imagines a bleak future, the global economy has collapsed and federal governments have lost most of their power to a handful of giant corporations.

The term metaverse that actually was coined in a 1992 sci-fi novel called Snow Crash where people found refuge in a digital world because the real world was so hellish.

Said in the early 21st century Snow Crash imagines a bleak future, the global economy has collapsed and federal governments have lost most of their power to a handful of giant corporations.

Sounds kind of familiar guys I guess the more billionaires ruin the world the more billionaires stand to profit from our desire for escapism.

In a seminal book Capital in the 21st Century Thomas Piketty demonstrated that the return on assets is always going to be more than wage growth.

Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds

Hillary Land is all about what do you need? And let's get this fixed. Hillary Land is how's your mom feeling? And you should talk to my allergist. Hillary Land is happy birthday. An amazing job and get some rest. Hillary Land is all of those things because Hillary Clinton is all of those things.

Though Hillary's proposals were as thought out, considered comprehensive, detailed, precise, and polished as she was, at times it felt as if she was trying to get the kids to focus on their homework while everyone else was setting off dazzling fireworks

In this very moment, it was clear that we as a team had failed her. What had worked so well in the Senate was our lean operation, laser focused on very specific results. In contrast, our presidential campaign had felt like an ocean liner from the start. Expensive, expansive, slow to turn, and now it had sprung a leak. Our bloated campaign was sinking

The economic prosperity that China has achieved is truly amazing, especially in infrastructure. I encourage people to visit and see for themselves

Huma, she was there for all of it. She started as an intern in the first lady's office during the first Clinton term, she was there for the Lewinsky scandal, for Hillary's decision to stay with Bill, for Hillary's Senate run, her terrible Iraq war vote, her lost to Obama, Huma was by HRC's side as she flew around the globe meeting with world leaders as her family foundation raised money from some of the very same global elites whose lives and fortunes could be impacted by state department policy. She was there from Benghazi and the private server and the DNC rigging and WikiLeaks and Pokemon Go to the polls and the devastating loss to Trump.

Hillary Land is all about what do you need? And let's get this fixed. Hillary Land is how's your mom feeling? And you should talk to my allergist. Hillary Land is happy birthday, an amazing job, and get some rest. Hillary Land is all of those things because Hillary Clinton is all of those things.

HRC made the decision not to cede any state, to meet every voter where she could, to raise the millions needed to fund our massive operation. We set aside an extraordinary amount of time for fundraisers. In the first four months of fundraising, we crushed the competition.

Though Hillary's proposals were as thought out, considered comprehensive, detailed, precise and polished as she was, at times it felt as if she was trying to get the kids to focus on their homework while everyone else was setting off dazzling fireworks.

In this very moment, it was clear that we as a team had failed her. What had worked so well in the Senate was our lean operation, laser focused on very specific results. In contrast, our presidential campaign had felt like an ocean liner from the start. Expensive, expansive, slow to turn, and now it had sprung a leak. Our bloated campaign was sinking.

HRC made the decision not to cede any state, to meet every voter where she could, to raise the millions needed to fund our massive operation.

We set aside an extraordinary amount of time for fundraisers.

In the first four months of fundraising, we crushed the competition.

While online fundraising was beginning to gain steam, and Obama in particular was beginning to benefit greatly, with HRC, we found that supporters wanted to see her, touch her, talk to her.

Though Hillary's proposals were as thought out, considered comprehensive, detailed, precise and polished as she was, at times it felt as if she was trying to get the kids to focus on their homework while everyone else was setting off dazzling fireworks.

Afterwards Harry Reid ordered the White House to never send him down Pennsylvania Avenue again. He did such a poor job he got a worse deal out of Mitch McConnell than McConnell had already agreed to give Harry Reid.

The circumstances were similar. I covered this moment in my last book We've Got People and it and and this came at the end of the year 2012.

There's a great book called The Wise Men about the people who built the post-Cold War or the post-war 1945 international order.

I actually encourage people as a book calledThe Wise Men, Six Friends in the World they made it, was written by Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson and points exactly what I'm talking about about the architecture both not only at the elite level but how the public was engaged yes in the post-Cold War order and people believed in and there was a debate and there was act.

I actually encourage people as a book called The Wise Men six friends in the world they made it was written by Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson and points exactly what I'm talking about about the architecture both not only at the elite level but how the public was engaged yes in the post Cold War order and people believed in and there was a debate and there was act

The New Minority

The New Minority

Rana Faroohar is author of Don't Be Evil and Makers and Takers both great books

I read it, it's 2013. I don't know if people know this, the Apple TV series, 'The Morning Show' is based on Stelter's book.

I read it's 2013. I don't know if people know this, the Apple TV series 'The Morning Show' is based on Stelter's book.

I read it's 2013. I don't know if people know this, the Apple TV series 'The Morning Show' is based on Stelter's book.

I trust your judgment that this was a good book and that... I certainly know he was a well-sourced reporter who would get good scoops and do a good job on some of his reporting when he was in that lane.

The second one was actually in 2020 called Opportunity Knocks, How Hard Work, Community and Business Can Improve Lives and Poverty.

The second one was actually in 2020 called Opportunity Knocks, How Hard Work, Community and Business Can Improve Lives and Poverty.

The second one was actually in 2020 called Opportunity Knocks, How Hard Work, Community and Business Can Improve Lives and Poverty.