Lovett or Leave It

I didn't realize Guy Branum's book, My Life as a Goddess, which is available now, wherever books are sold, is also a cookbook.

It's also a cookbook. There's also instructions for prepping a possum.

He's a comedian, writer, all star, love it or leave it panelist and the author of the book My Life as a Goddess.

He's a comedian and the author of My Life as a Goddess.

He's a comedian, actor, and author of the fantastic book My Life as a Goddess and the brother I wished I could have had and very much could have used in high school.

Thanks so much to Elisa and Mukta and everyone else who has made it possible to buy my fucking book My Life as a Goddess available wherever books are sold.

You brought a copy of my book My Life as a Goddess available wherever books are sold so that I can sign up for you personally not so that I could mention it on the show in hopes that listeners of Crooked Media and its affiliates would purchase my book.

And he is a comedian, friend of the pod, hero, author of the new book, My Life as a Goddess, which everybody should pick up.

Next to My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum. Available wherever books are sold.

I had the privilege of reading the book in advance. Guy. John gave me a quote. It's very nice. My quote is on the back. Look at that. But you should pre-order this book right now. I love this book.

Remember, fans of Love It or Leave It, your hero, John Lovett, wants you to buy my book. Please buy my book. Please do it. Buy Guy's fucking book.

And if you're listening at home on the Tuesday that this comes out, you obviously can't be here with us to save democracy in North Carolina, but you can learn how to save it elsewhere by buying Democracy or Else.

The book I wrote with John and Tommy that drops today. So now it's out.

So if you haven't bought it, today's the day to buy it.

How many times do I have to ask? This podcast is free. Buy the book.

We're going to New York for a book event moderated by Alyssa Mastromonaco on June 25th.

Then on the 27th, we're headed to Boston for another book event hosted by none other than Dan Feinfur.

And if you want to help get us on the New York Times bestseller list, because that's what it's all about.

You do the work to get the thing that proves you did well because doing well is the point of the work, not the work itself.

Cricket.com slash books. I've been beseeching you. I know this. Listen to this goddamn show.

Buy the goddamn book.

All right. Please welcome back the man who's going to get you the book. I love the way you came over here and got me.

If you're in New York or Boston, we have jam-packed week of events on June 25th. Alyssa will be moderating a Melissa Master Monaco. I just will be moderating a book launch discussion with me, love and Tommy at Symphony Space in New York City on June 26th.

We're kicking off the pod save America live tour at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater with very special guest host Stacey Abrams.

This is the Dan event. We're going to be pre-gaming the Trump Biden debate with a book chat at First Parish Church.

So that's exciting. Dan's going to have plenty of survivor questions for love it that he'll probably not be able to answer if he's back by then who knows and then on June 28th, Potts, a miracle will be live at the Wilbur Boston for a post debate show with guest host Maddie Hassan followed by a late night love it or leave it with guests Kathleen Turner and Jay Jordan also at the Wilbur.

You can get tickets to all of these events at cricket.com slash events right now. And if you're not in New York or Boston, you can still pre-order your copy of Democracy or Elsewhere ever you get your books.

Anyway, if you still have a boner for buying a book and you love America, then pre-order Democracy or Else written by Crooked's own Jon Lovett, Tommy Vitor, and Jon Favreau due out June 25th.

You've all been so supportive of our upcoming book "Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps", and we think you're gonna really love it. We really do.

We're donating all the proceeds to Vote Save America and 2024 campaigns. Get us on that fucking list. We worked hard on this book, it's actually very good. I'm shocked.

We are only four months away from you having a copy of the book in your hand, but maybe the lure of a reasonable page count loaded with illustrations. Is it your thing? We've got you covered there too.

We hunger down for what was, let's be honest, a tedious eight hours we'll never get back to bring you Democracy or Else as an audio book.

It's perfect for the avid listener who loves the pod, but just wishes it could be 10 hours longer.

Please go to cricket.com slash books and pre-order now.

We got to hit those fucking pre-orders have worked hard on this book.

Democracy or Else, How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps.

Democracy or Else? How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps.

We're really proud of it. It's very funny. They're really funny illustrations. We have a ton of awesome advice from real experts and the people we've interviewed over the years and, and great stories from our time in politics.

Cause we wanted to make sure the book went towards supporting votes, save America because that's what the book's all about. What everybody can do.

John, Tommy and I did something that was truly inconceivable to us, which is that we managed to... to write a book, I think that's how it's pronounced... with a great comedy writer named Josh Holloway who joined us to help do it. It's called Democracy or Else, How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps.

You can pre-order it now, it's we honestly, I'm like, we're really proud of it, the proceeds are gonna go to Vote Save America and 2024 campaigns. Why we wanted to do it, it's really funny, every joke is perfect and you'll like every single one of them. It's illustrated so the pages move fast. Crooked.com/books.

And listen, and we all have our own version of that. Okay? We may not be as hot. All right. But we all have our own version.

As readers of a little book called Catch and Kill.

People need reading material during this crisis, Jonathan.

He wrote the book with Little Brown, Catch and Kill, a book about abusive men and what they'll do to control the story and prevent women from speaking out and smear women who tell the truth.

A book that also talks about what Woody Allen did to his family and the abuse that his sister suffered.

Ronan you are here because there are many new revelations about Trump that have come to light in your podcast Catch and Kill based on the book by the same name.

thank you last episodes just came out thank you guys some Catch and Kill podcast stans thank you but we weren't gonna allow you to come here and promote this podcast I figured we'd do it in the form of a game

we have a lot of new tape across this whole podcast and there's large tranches of David Pecker and his second in command Dylan Howard you kind of get David Pecker's life story like who is the guy that set up the Catch and Kill empire with Trump and agreed he was going to try to swing an election

so we decided to anonymize the family because the story was always about this trail of contracts and this payout which turned out to be a violation of election law and prosecutors deemed it illegal

you know through the book and then the show I get the question a lot like how do you maintain any hope about anything because there's a lot of dark stuff in there but here is one thing that I've learned there are times when the obstacles seem totally insurmountable and the status quo seems totally immovable but there are times when the story seems totally immovable but then all of these stories come out because over and over again someone does something really brave

You know, so many of my stories are about a lot of pretty dark things. They're about crimes and coverups, but also they are about the brave whistleblowers who come forward and the community of people in the general public and especially journalists who say enough and we're not gonna stop digging and we're not gonna stop asking tough questions, including of our bosses.

And it's incredibly moving to see that. And it's why I finished writing a book like Catch and Kill and still full of hope.

You can buy Catch and Kill at catchandkill.com.

And you know that while there is an Amazon link there, I recommend you go to one of the indie bookseller links because we need to support booksellers at this difficult time and we need to support Catch and Kill at this difficult time when it is number one on the indie bookseller list and not number one on the Amazon list where people are buying Elton John's book.

I watched you report the story for a year. I watched you work on this book for the better part of a year. You are the hardest working person I have ever met.

So many of my stories are about a lot of pretty dark things. They're about crimes and coverups, but also they are about the brave whistleblowers who come forward and the community of people in the general public and especially journalists who say enough and we're not gonna stop digging and we're not gonna stop asking tough questions including of our bosses

and it's incredibly moving to see that and it's why I finished writing a book like Catch and Kill and am still full of hope and it's really tough to organize in any context and it's tougher still when you're doing it and using it as a means to call out people who decide whether you get raised or get frozen out and that's what they're doing.

You can buy Catch and Kill at catchandkill.com.

And while there is an Amazon link there, I recommend you go to one of the indie bookseller links because we need to support booksellers at this difficult time and we need to support Catch and Kill at this difficult time when it is number one on the indie bookseller list and not number one on the Amazon list where people are buying Elton John's book.

I watched you report the story for a year. I watched you work on this book for the better part of a year. You are the hardest working person I have ever met.

And then he said, it's due on Wednesday, can you read it tonight? And I said, I can't read it tonight. It's a 600-page book.

He said, okay, well, can you read the next draft? I was like, yes, but you have to promise me I get one week to read the book.

He said, okay, not a week where Love It or Leave It's on the road, because then I'm doing shows.

And so I opened the book, and that is how I discovered that Ronan wanted to get married.

The proposal was in track changes in the draft of the book.

The craziest part is Vance let the couch get on top because JD Vance is a lazy boy.

We cannot say more than that, but that is what we can say.

The headline is no, JD Vance did not have sex with a couch, but much in the same way that the AP might have debunked one aspect of the story. That is a claim the AP cannot make.

The only claim the AP could make is that the claim that JD Vance documented sex with a couch in Hillbilly Elegy, that is false, but this is a sweeping, sweeping claim of the negative.

And I want the American people to know what a Kentuckian is and what they look like because let me just tell you that J.D. Vance ain't from here. This is the left's birtherism and to be clear, I 100% support it.

I think if somebody calls you on that, what you do is at least listen.

Trump also announced his VP candidate, JD Vance famous for writing a book. I've never heard it said. Vance is famous for writing a book about a hillbilly he killed. I haven't read it.

If you look at the full context of what I said it's very clear the Democrats have tried to take this thing out of context and blow it out of proportion which is what they always do Trey because they don't have an agenda to run on themselves.

In September of 2021 Vance posted the cat ladies man they must be stopped.

In a fundraising email he described the serious issue of radical childless leaders in this country fighting back won't be easy our childless our child fighting back won't be easy our childless opponents have a lot of free time.

Just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really, really valuable when you have kids in your life. And the fact that so many people especially in America's leadership class just don't have that in their lives.

You know I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less a less mentally stable. You go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don't have kids at all.

I don't I simply don't know what Hillbilly Elegy is about.

In reality, J.D. Vance wrote about having sex with a sofa in his book,

a couch fucking work of staggering genius.

And it was one of the inspirations for Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which was based on things that had already happened.

It's also I feel when a very kind of like morose still from the new season of Had Mane's Tale pops up and it's like, I don't know, I kind of can I can I watch something where I don't know, like the good guys win like relatively quickly.

I honestly think reading the clue about the abortion detention got me into a Handmaid's Tale mindset, and I went to Janine.

he was going to various members of his staff and saying hey can i put a baby in you via via sex uh because you'll be my surrogate and his statement was remarkable it said i just got so comfortable with the topic of surrogacy that i forgot that it might make some women uncomfortable to basically do handmaid's tale in my congressional office

We have The Handmaid's Tale It's on my mind

Hey, you're in the sixth and final season of Handmaid's Tale. Yes.

I read the novel before the show. The passage that has stuck with me the longest since I read it years ago is about the danger of humanizing terrible people.

Mobility the first novel from Crooked Media Reads is finally out Advanced Praise calls it a beautifully written and stunningly smart novel and a cautionary tale for our times getting rave reviews it's an amazing book please check out Crooked Media Reads we're launching this book in print and it's gotta fucking work and we're launching it with an awesome first book so buy the goddamn book crooked.com slash Mobility or wherever books are sold

Tommy and Lydia Kiesling, the author of Crooked's first novel, Mobility has an event here next week at Dynasty Typewriter on July 27th.

A quick reminder that the first book from our very own Crooked Media Reads, our new book in print, is now available for pre-order.

It's called Mobility by Lydia Kiesling, who also wrote the incredible book The Golden State.

We love Lydia's work. We're so excited for this novel. People are going to love it. It's a gripping, hilarious and a novel you will be asking all your friends to read.

So everybody check it out. Please pre-order it now.

The first book from our Crooked Media Reads is available for pre-order today. The novel is called Mobility by Lydia Keisling, who also wrote the incredible book, The Golden State.

Mobility is gripping, it's hilarious, it's one of those novels you nag your friends to read, and at first they're like, John's getting annoying. But then they read it and they have to admit that John was right.

It's part coming of age story and part indictment of capitalism, moving between Houston, Athens, and Baku. It tracks themes of class, power, politics, and desire, all through the life of one compelling character, Sally Rooney is shaking.

Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks calls it a masterpiece of misdirection and a cautionary tale for our time.

Pre-order Mobility at www.crooked.com slash Mobility, or wherever books are sold, so you can be the first to read when it's released on August 1st.

The first book from our Crooked Media Reads is available for pre-order today. The novel is called Mobility by Lydia Keesling, who also wrote the incredible book The Golden State.

Mobility is gripping, it's hilarious, it's one of those novels you nag your friends to read. And at first they're like, John's getting annoying. But then they read it and they have to admit that John was right.

It's part coming of age story and part indictment of capitalism. Moving between Houston, Athens and Baku. It tracks themes of class, power, politics and desire. All through the life of one compelling character.

But no, we have to hoard abortion pills. Because who can even track what's happening with the rulings between what's the highest thought and now the ruling? It's all so confused. It's changed like five times. Who can even track it? So the only solution, hoard abortion pills. But not Ritalin. Don't hoard the Ritalin. People need the Ritalin. People need the Ritalin. And there's a shortage. My boyfriend is needing the Ritalin. It's very hard to find.

We need to be stockpiling 1984, Mouse, the Lorax.

In the past, war was one of the main instruments by which human societies were kept in touch with physical reality.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers, but they could not afford to encourage any illusion that tended to impair military efficiency.

Physical facts could not be ignored. In philosophy or religion or ethics or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane, they had to make four.

The struggle for efficiency was inimical to illusions. To be efficient, it was necessary to be able to learn from the past, which meant having a fairly accurate idea of what has happened in the past.

War was a sure safeguard of sanity.

I was thinking about that part of 1984 where he describes what it's like to just accept propaganda, and it is a choice.

Like he's doing his own... His vocabulary is dropping on a basically daily basis to the point now where he's been left with between maybe 200 and 300 words. And so he did relearn storm, calm, and those kicked out other words he might have used.

J.K. Rowling, but for her political writing only. Not Harry Potter, absolutely not. No, just the politics.

You have to destroy Harry Potter World, Star Wars Galaxy's Edge or Pandora, the World of Avatar. Which one's got to go?

I am a politician of conviction... I think Harry Potter should be eliminated in all circumstances.

You go to a fucking castle.

When you were cast in Harry Potter, you said, and I quote, I read the first four books in one sitting, you know, didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic.

Well, you've not read the Harry Potter books in great detail because Lucius Malfoy was in fact one of the Knights of Walpurgus, the original group name for the Death Eaters.

And also buy my book, How to Make White People Laugh.

it's the debut novel from yellowjackets writer and culture critic Emily St. James I truly love Woodworking if you haven't read it yet pick it up support Emily support crooked media support this book it is a trans story and it's just an amazing story it's an incredibly entertaining and grossing read highly recommend the audio book

if you haven't read it yet pick it up ... it's fun it's moving and everybody should grab their copy ... it's a great queer story for people that are anywhere on the flag

I love the book. Thank you. I genuinely love the book.

I read it and thought, oh my God, it's so fucking entertaining. Everybody should go to crooked.com/books and buy Woodworking. It's an incredible novel. It is such a fun read.

I knew, like I knew when I went out with the book that it was going to be a book about trans people and people were going to think it would be heartwrenching and boring, so I made it funny and entertaining with plots.

On the front right here, it's this bighearted and hilarious, and they don't lie in those book quotes ever.

Pick up Woodworking. It's also available on an audio book.

Woodworking is an unforgettable and heartwarming debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows, one of her students.

Crooked Media Reads is publishing Woodworking, the fantastic debut novel from Yellow Jackets writer and culture critic, Emily St. James, out March 4th. It's a fantastic novel. You can pre-order Woodworking wherever you like to get books.

I haven't seen the movie, and I tried to read the book, and then there's swords in it. And I was like, you're in space. I got to stop you right there. Can't have both, swords or space.

You're going to have to give me more context. I haven't seen the movie and I tried to read the book and then there's swords in it. And I was like, you're in space. I got to stop you right there. Can't have both swords or space.

President Biden visited the Vatican. He reportedly met with the Pope for 90 minutes. So it's safe to say they did not watch Dune.

Loved Dune by the way.

he makes Jason Momoa in Dune look like Timothee Chalamet in Dune and he's sexier than either.

The film Scrooged is a play on A Christmas Carol about a TV executive who forces the entire network to make a live Christmas show.

No. The Bill Murray version of the Christmas Carol?

He thought Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol was a book of fucking Christmas carols.

Ayn Rand loved trains. That book was about trains.

That's just literally the plot of Atlas Shrugged.

It's too dangerous for inmates to learn how to command Chinese armies in the fifth century or whatever *The Art of War* is about.

Art of War license plate.

I had a 20-page dissertation... I was reading The Art of War. I was reading all these poets.

If you read The Spare, which y'all made me read for this program.

We know that it is Harry and Meghan claim that they lie all the time and they release information as it benefits them.

For example, Prince Harry describes the moment a friend advised him to use Elizabeth Arden cream on his frostbitten penis following a trip to the North Pole.

The same cream his late mother used, which is interesting since I didn't even know she had a penis.

The memoir's title, Spare, is actually short for Spare a Penis, Govna? Mine snapped clean off while I was at the Northie with me lads.

For example, Prince Harry describes the moment a friend advised him to use Elizabeth Arden cream on his frostbitten penis following a trip to the North Pole.

The memoir's title, Spare, is actually short for Spare a Penis, Govna? Mine snapped clean off while I was at the Northie with me lads.

Who is treated not unlike a young stallion by the older woman who took their virginity?

Harry left as a captain. Wesley left as lieutenant junior grade after much less service than Harry.

Who do you think you're bullying? You bumped into me. It was your mistake. You were at fault. Do you want this to become violent?

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.

Coaxing a load is not a phrase I've ever heard before. It's horrible. It's evocative.

Maybe she can't access cooking videos on Instagram. Yeah, absolutely. I think we need something right like next. She's never allowed to reread the Fifty Shades of Grey books.

It's 50 Shades of Grey, 50 Shades Darker and 50 Shades Free.

I have a book, What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker, which was released in 2019, three years ago to this day.

In the first six pages alone, I talk about naked white people. I have slurs. I talk about the connection between masturbation and prayer.

That sucks because if they banned it, it'll just rocket up the bestseller list.

I have book banned FOMO.

Who do I have to pay? Who do I have to kill? Who do I have to fuck to get my books banned?

The Chief's Chief

if such media reports are accurate, Meadows testified under oath that his book contains known falsehoods.

Obviously the book is full of lies. We were just assured that he would continue telling those lies.

The Chief's Chief

if such media reports are accurate, Meadows testified under oath that his book contains known falsehoods.

Obviously the book is full of lies. We were just assured that he would continue telling those lies.

Yes, although it's from the Michael Wolff book, so who knows.

We've all read Fire and Fury