Lovett or Leave It

Reporter Jesse Isinger documents this meeting in his book on the decline of white collar prosecutions.

A new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York gathered his team and asked his prosecutors a question, 'who here has never had an acquittal or a hung jury?'

The new U.S. attorney then mocked everyone who raised their hands for not taking enough risks or going after tough prosecutions.

you are members of what we like to call the chicken shit club for not pursuing riskier prosecutions.

She is the senior senator from Minnesota and the author of the new book Antitrust.

In the book, you spend a fair amount of time diving into the history of progressive populism and taking on corporate mergers, taking on the big trusts.

It's what Adam Smith said we should go after.

It was almost like, hey, look at us. We're adopting the Bork theory.

Those are his words, not mine. That is not exactly the definition of capitalism.

Proclaimed author of wilderness adventure novels, Gary Paulson died this week at the age of 82.

You were in the 1996 horror film Thinner.

Based on a book written by Richard Bachman, which of course was Stephen King's pseudonym.

And so I kind of already knew what was going to happen when I got the part. But it didn't have a happy ending, which I thought was weird because I thought they were going to change the movie because it's pretty dark.

It's Hollywood. It is dark. Yeah, I mean, you know, they have that ending where the kid dies, the mother dies, the wife dies, everybody dies in that movie.

It's a fun romp through, you know, whatever.

For a small man, Jack carried some weight in the haunch and his smile disclosed buck teeth. That's character one. Character two, Ennis, high arch nose and narrow face with scruffy and a little cave chested, balanced a small torso on long caliper legs.

It's a Brokeback Mountain. Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.

That seems like a book reference, Lazarus. You know that. Well, one is a reference to the book Heart of Darkness. The other is a reference to Apocalypse Now. I can't remember where he's a colonel. I think it's Mr. Kurtz in the novel, so Colonel Kurtz would be a reference to Apocalypse Now.

My decision to quote both Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude with which folks apparently weren't familiar was a little on the nose, but I think it worked really well.

Recline talked about this a little bit in his book about polarization that like, what have you worked in an office where half the colleagues were trying to destroy the career of the other half all the time?

He was racist. He was, wrote some really racist stuff. You know? And the original text of The Jungle Book is not so sweet.

So, you wrote a book called I'll Show Myself Out. Yes. About becoming a mother.

Buy her book, I'll Show Myself Out.

Beloved since his titular book was published in 1957, The Grinch has a much-needed taste of sour in the saccharine gingerbread tablescape that is American Christmas.

Oh, I wouldn't let a child within 100 yards of that mutant, John.

The Grinch only does something sort of naughty. The cops do not actually need to get involved at any point.

The whole point of the Grinch is that he steals Christmas, the town rallies together in the spirit of the holidays, and the Grinch realizes the error of his ways on his own.

The Grinch is going away, and if I had anything to say about it, he's gonna die in there, John.

Normal People is the story of two young people in Ireland who struggle to communicate their desires, and I dislike it because I only like to watch very easy-to-digest basic shows like, I don't know, Schitt's Creek and The Politician or whatever trash I'm always talking about.

In certain photographs, she appears not only plain, but garishly ugly, bearing her crooked teeth for the camera like a piece of vermin.

The entire premise of the show is that a hot jock falls in love with a person who doesn't fit traditional standards of beauty, and he's embarrassed because of it, so if she's cast to be an incredibly beautiful, rich person, it doesn't make any sense.

No, Liz, I still haven't seen Silkwood, Tales of Life with a Nosy Aunt.

A character in it that has a John Irving book while going to see The Virgin Suicides when they're 20.

I read about it in a book. It's called Termination Shock. Oh good. Okay. And people were so mad about messing with the climate in it.

They said it's called Termination Shock. Oh good. Okay.

Calvin has a new book out. It's called You Can't Be Serious?

So I wanted, before we get to the rant wheel, I did want to ask you, because thank you for, I'm so glad you could make it.

I thought that I was sharing a very fun story about how Josh and I met over NASCAR, which I remember talking to you about 11 years ago after we had that first date, and you were like, run. I don't trust it, still don't.

Of course, and it's hilarious and everybody should check it out.

I had this book come out last week and we launched it on CBS Sunday morning, which was very nice. You Can't Be Serious. It's a very funny book, a memoir.

Bob Woodward is not Omarosa, all right? He's not Michael Wolff. He's Bob fucking Woodward. And he came out swinging.

None of you has ever leaked everybody leaks.

They took your diaper off right there. You're like a little baby that needs to be changed. When are you going to be a man?

When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without any walls, things start to get nasty and bloody.

Agreed. He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazy town.

I knew that sooner or later the president would want me to tell the public something that was not true or that would make me sound like a lunatic.

with all the talk of sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 election and for various human rights abuses, Trump told Putin, OK, I'm going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it's for the cameras. And after they leave, we'll talk. You understand.

He didn't like them telling him that things he wanted to do were unethical or illegal, so he'd scream at them. But then he'd usually listen and then yell at them again later.

Trump's penis is like Toadstool.

If he started to fly off the handle.

Everybody should pre-order Ben's book, it's called 'After the Fall', it has a subtitle but you don't need that to Google it, just Google 'After the Fall' Ben Rhodes.