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Lovett or Leave It
Former Obama speechwriter, self-described comedian and Pod Save America co-host Jon Lovett takes the stage for a new season of the hit show that dared guests from Danny DeVito to Amy Klobuchar to ask “What is this?” and “Where am I?” Each week, Jon breaks down the biggest and dumbest stories in po...
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Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
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The Snowman
Raymond Briggs
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Henry Winkler
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The Little Mermaid (Disney Princess) (Little Golden Book)
It was described as having a plot where the main character transforms herself and remains silent to win over a man she doesn't know, and was ultimately deemed worse than the Disney adaptation.
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Consuming a potion that makes every step feel like you're walking on knives until the love of your life marries someone else and your whole body dissolves into foam.
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It was described as having a plot where the main character transforms herself and remains silent to win over a man she doesn't know, and was ultimately deemed worse than the Disney adaptation.
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Consuming a potion that makes every step feel like you're walking on knives until the love of your life marries someone else and your whole body dissolves into foam.
Instead, they're like, nah, we'll improve it. It's about a girl who changes herself and says nothing. To win over a man she does not know. We'll show it to little girls forever.
Elon Musk
The book 'Walter Isaacson' was mentioned by Sam Sanders as he discussed Elon Musk's refusal to allow Ukraine to use SpaceX Starlink Internet in Crimea.
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I opened up the Walter Isaacson book. You read it? I chose my words. Carefully.
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Episode: Beetlejuice Cleanse
The book 'Walter Isaacson' was mentioned by Sam Sanders as he discussed Elon Musk's refusal to allow Ukraine to use SpaceX Starlink Internet in Crimea.
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I opened up the Walter Isaacson book. You read it? I chose my words. Carefully.
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The song "Toy" by Israeli artist Netta was mentioned as a great Eurovision song from the past decade.
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Yes, that's I mean, one of the great Eurovision songs of the past decade.
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The song "Toy" by Israeli artist Netta was mentioned as a great Eurovision song from the past decade.
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Yes, that's I mean, one of the great Eurovision songs of the past decade.
The Winds of War
It was mentioned during a trivia game as the book that someone's dad enjoyed about World War II. It was written in 1971, along with the 1951 book 'The Caine Mutiny'.
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Who wrote your dad's favorite book about World War II 1971's The Winds of War? They also wrote 1951's Oh, Herman Woot, Herman Woot
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It was mentioned during a trivia game as the book that someone's dad enjoyed about World War II. It was written in 1971, along with the 1951 book 'The Caine Mutiny'.
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Who wrote your dad's favorite book about World War II 1971's The Winds of War? They also wrote 1951's Oh, Herman Woot, Herman Woot
The Arrival
It was mentioned while discussing Peril, with the speaker suggesting he had perhaps confused details from the two books while discussing the topic of the Chinese general and heptapods.
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Now, I am reading both Arrival and this book. I'm reading two different books at the same time. I may have gotten them confused. I think I fucked it up. It sounds totally plausible though.
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Episode: Balls Swell that Ends Well
It was mentioned while discussing Peril, with the speaker suggesting he had perhaps confused details from the two books while discussing the topic of the Chinese general and heptapods.
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Now, I am reading both Arrival and this book. I'm reading two different books at the same time. I may have gotten them confused. I think I fucked it up. It sounds totally plausible though.
American Prometheus
The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
It was based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project. The book was referenced when Joe Coy made a joke about Barbie and Oppenheimer in his monologue.
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Oppenheimer is based on a 721 page Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Manhattan Project.
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It was based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project. The book was referenced when Joe Coy made a joke about Barbie and Oppenheimer in his monologue.
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Oppenheimer is based on a 721 page Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Manhattan Project.
Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)
LeVar Burton suggested 'Everybody Poops' as a lighthearted and reassuring book for Rex Tillerson after being fired while on the toilet.
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I'm going to recommend Everybody Poops.
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LeVar Burton suggested 'Everybody Poops' as a lighthearted and reassuring book for Rex Tillerson after being fired while on the toilet.
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I'm going to recommend Everybody Poops.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Rise and Shine)
The book was mentioned while discussing the process of garbage containerization in New York City.
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It's like The Very Hungry Caterpillar each time he's taking a little bite and at the end it's the smorgasbord.
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The book was mentioned while discussing the process of garbage containerization in New York City.
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It's like The Very Hungry Caterpillar each time he's taking a little bite and at the end it's the smorgasbord.
Worthy
How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life
Jada Pinkett Smith mentioned that she had been separated from Will Smith since 2016 in her new book, and that she was surprised when he called her his wife at the 2022 Oscars.
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While Will Smith said he was defending his wife's honor when he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022, Jada Pinkett Smith says in her new book that she and Smith had been separated since 2016.
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Jada Pinkett Smith mentioned that she had been separated from Will Smith since 2016 in her new book, and that she was surprised when he called her his wife at the 2022 Oscars.
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While Will Smith said he was defending his wife's honor when he slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars in 2022, Jada Pinkett Smith says in her new book that she and Smith had been separated since 2016.
Pinkett Smith even said she was shocked that he called her his wife in that moment.
The Perfect Storm
A True Story of Men Against the Sea
It was featured as a New York Times Best Seller in 1998, capturing anxieties surrounding weather and overcoming natural disasters.
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Number two, The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.
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It was featured as a New York Times Best Seller in 1998, capturing anxieties surrounding weather and overcoming natural disasters.
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Number two, The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.
Fahrenheit 451
It was used as a metaphor for the dangers of book banning and cancel culture, in relation to the banning of a graphic novel about the Holocaust.
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I've come to deliver a grave warning about cancel culture.
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It was used as a metaphor for the dangers of book banning and cancel culture, in relation to the banning of a graphic novel about the Holocaust.
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I've come to deliver a grave warning about cancel culture.
In your society, efforts to avoid being triggered by critical thinking, you are transforming America into a giant safe space that can result in only one thing. Big flame thrower guys like me burning all the books.
The books are a metaphor.
The tweets are the real books.
Face it, tweets are the new books and books are the new nothing.
The Catcher in the Rye
It was mentioned by George M. Johnson in the context of not caring about the book or the author, as an example of a book he doesn't think queer kids need.
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I do not care about Caulfield I do not care about Catchers and the Rye
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It was mentioned by George M. Johnson in the context of not caring about the book or the author, as an example of a book he doesn't think queer kids need.
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I do not care about Caulfield I do not care about Catchers and the Rye
Big Little Lies
It was discussed as an example of a successful American creative work that was initially intended for a limited run but expanded due to its popularity and demand.
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Big Little Lies is written and filmed and edited and distributed right here in America.
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Episode: Rain on Trump's Parade
It was discussed as an example of a successful American creative work that was initially intended for a limited run but expanded due to its popularity and demand.
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Big Little Lies is written and filmed and edited and distributed right here in America.
Big Little Lies is just so fucking good.
And then they all got around a table and they were like this fucking capitalism monster is giving me a hard time. We gotta figure out a way to get more Big Little Lies out of this fucking content barn.
That's what brought down the Berlin Wall Big Little Fucking Lies.
season one was based on a book it had an ending I write for TV it's hard.
Beloved (Everyman's Library)
It was mentioned as a book that a student read in high school, that caused him to have nightmares, which led his mother to campaign to have the book banned from his school.
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It turns out that what she's upset about is that when her son was in high school years ago, he had to read the book Beloved by Toni Morrison and he had nightmares.
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It was mentioned as a book that a student read in high school, that caused him to have nightmares, which led his mother to campaign to have the book banned from his school.
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It turns out that what she's upset about is that when her son was in high school years ago, he had to read the book Beloved by Toni Morrison and he had nightmares.
And the son is not embarrassed about this at all. He loved it, talks about it a lot, and is now a lawyer for the Republican Party in the District of Columbia.
Just Mercy
A Story of Justice and Redemption
The Legacy Museum, founded by Bryan Stevenson, was discussed, relating the historical context of slavery to modern-day mass incarceration. It was mentioned in the context of the family separation issue.
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I went down to Montgomery for the opening of the Equal Justice Initiative's new memorial and monument.
— Episode: Don’t Wake Fascist Grandpa
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Episode: Don’t Wake Fascist Grandpa
The Legacy Museum, founded by Bryan Stevenson, was discussed, relating the historical context of slavery to modern-day mass incarceration. It was mentioned in the context of the family separation issue.
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I went down to Montgomery for the opening of the Equal Justice Initiative's new memorial and monument.
Really important that everybody go because talk about our need to contextualize and know our own history.
This is what that monument and memorial and museum are all about.
The museum itself, it's called the Legacy Museum.
It draws the link between from mass enslavement to mass incarceration.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Classic Gift Edition
A humorous comparison was made regarding the eyes of a person on TV looking like the child of a mother who burned his Winnie-the-Pooh books because he showed too much nudity.
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His eyes look like the child of a mother who burned his Winnie the Pooh books because he showed too much nudity.
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Episode: Dirty Sexy Hush Money
A humorous comparison was made regarding the eyes of a person on TV looking like the child of a mother who burned his Winnie-the-Pooh books because he showed too much nudity.
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His eyes look like the child of a mother who burned his Winnie the Pooh books because he showed too much nudity.
The Time Traveler's Wife
The hosts compared Trump's approval rating to the Rotten Tomatoes rating of the novel, noting it was lower, and mentioned the protagonist's timetraveling condition.
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He has a genetic disorder that causes him to travel through time. And where does he go to meet his wife when she's a little girl? ... lower than the rating of The Time Traveler's Wife...
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Episode: O Say Can You UFC
The hosts compared Trump's approval rating to the Rotten Tomatoes rating of the novel, noting it was lower, and mentioned the protagonist's timetraveling condition.
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He has a genetic disorder that causes him to travel through time. And where does he go to meet his wife when she's a little girl? ... lower than the rating of The Time Traveler's Wife on rotten tomatoes.
An Enemy of the People
The play follows a doctor who discovers his town's bathhouse is contaminated and must go up against his brother, the town's mayor, when he attempts to let the public know the truth.
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No disrespect to extinction rebellion, but if you're putting on Ebsen's and enemy of the people on Broadway in 2024, it's already a bell climate change and everyone in that crowd believes in climate c...
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The play follows a doctor who discovers his town's bathhouse is contaminated and must go up against his brother, the town's mayor, when he attempts to let the public know the truth.
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No disrespect to extinction rebellion, but if you're putting on Ebsen's and enemy of the people on Broadway in 2024, it's already a bell climate change and everyone in that crowd believes in climate change.
The play follows a doctor played by Strong who discovers his town's bathhouse is contaminated and who must go up against his brother, the town's mayor, played by Imperialie when he attempts to let the public know the truth.
Catch-22
50th Anniversary Edition
It was used as an example of a book that, if only read in summary form, would lead to a poor understanding of the content.
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But you read a four page summary of that novel, you are fucked.
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It was used as an example of a book that, if only read in summary form, would lead to a poor understanding of the content.
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But you read a four page summary of that novel, you are fucked.
You don't know anything about Catch-22.
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