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I'm reading Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate. Gabor. Is that the guy that does the part that he's from another country? Uh, he's, I think, originally Hungarian, but he is Canadian.

He's a, um, he was a GP and he writes about, like, all kinds of things, mental health and addiction and the world. This book is about ADHD. It's blowing my mind. I'm like, I think I have, I mean, I've been diagnosed, but I don't know. Reading the book, I'm like, yeah, I definitely have this.

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

The Vagina Monologue Yes, the show was called She Never Bought Me an Easy Bake Oven

I follow, not perfectly, but I follow a diet called the How Not to Die diet.

Oh my God, I was obsessed with that book. Like Into the Wild.

Is this a guy went Into the Wild? It was also made into a movie.

Where he goes into Alaska. I think Sean Penn directed it. It's like one of the five movies I've ever seen. I was so into the book.

Garden is in the title.

It is the secret garden.

Our guest today is an author, activist and podcast host whose best selling books are Untamed, Love Warrior and Carry On Warrior.

I noticed it earlier. Love Warrior and Abby's. Abby Wombeck. Oh, and Untamed Glennon Doyle.

Their most recent book is titled You Better Be Lightning.

Have I talked about the book The Red Tent before where they all got sent out to a tent?

You go on and on and on about The Red Tent.

We're talking Cider House Rules, Charlize.

We're talking Cider House Rules, Charlize. Yeah. Curly hair. Yeah, right? Gorgeous. Yeah, definitely gorgeous.

the government and CIA and stuff used psychics until like the 70s or 80s ... yeah, like that book The Men Who Stare at Goats like they were conducting psychic experiments until so recently and then they just I think it just got a bad PR and they stopped but yeah

I auditioned for Oliver Twist, the stage musical, and I was 10 or something, and I auditioned to play the Artful Dodger. And it was me and a bunch of little boys, and I made it to like the final four or something, and I was so pumped to be that.

I have a book I wrote for teens called Can Everyone Please Calm Down about sexuality and gender.

And that's just been reprinted. So you can and I wrote a new little forward for it.

and we saw The Wind in the Willows This like Christmas production of it And there were these, I remember I don't know why I'm talking or thinking about this actually But I remember all these It's a podcast We're sitting in suits in my office On a Tuesday night With whiskey Yeah Go on So I just remember, you know, Wind in the Willows is about The mole and the rat and the badger I don't know this It's a misfortune Are you serious? I don't know It's these talking heads

No matter how many times you repeat The Wind in the Willows We don't know it I tried to remind y'all of the movie Willow and y'all thought I was crazy That's true I knew Willow Smith Anyway, not personally It's like these animals and there's kind of a war

She did Fun Home. And then also she wrote the Dykes to Look Out For. Love that.

It would probably be Alison Bechdel. Thanks.

Including the New York Times best-selling fantasy series, The Land of Stories.

He is the author of over 20 books. I don't think a lot of people... these books are very popular, but I don't think a lot of people know them.

That show Normal People made me so sad.

And I accidentally ripped a piece of cat book.

No, seriously. What was a cat book? Textbook? What was this? Pete the cat book. Pete the cat book? I don't know what that is, but I'm going to be looking into it. Maybe the Pete the cat book was accidentally ripped.

It sure is. Sometimes the books get ripped.

Glad you're reading. Keep reading.

I really like this book, 1927, by Bill Bryson, which covers everything that happened in America that year, and I've read it multiple times because it's full of facts.

When I was a kid ... I used to really think that if I grabbed a pack of smokes ... I could really figure out the answer to ... Like Siddhartha, like the Buddhist, he sat under the lotus tree and yeah.