Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

I've been reading about the... I'm almost done that Joseph Campbell book.

He's like, fuck the audience, do your thing.

And that book, like I read it after we worked together and like hearing him talk and like, I mean, he's a big, he practices what he preaches you know.

Because he does try like the way I've explained it is. And he's like, he's like ambassador of music for the human population.

His book, he read it and you're like damn, this is, it's a cool approach to just like sitting, brainstorming, letting like ideas flow, letting him take shape and like creating things.

I think that might have ever lived.

read what's his name Upton Sinclair what shit was going on in Chicago in the slaughterhouses

it's about the meatpacking shit right?

I've been laughing so hard. There's a big spoiler, but go watch the anarchist.

Nathan Freeman dying of cirrhosis turning into a fucking Penske dude.

I Didn't think the hand was real Like 20 minutes before that it's like I hate the word aloud It's like dude, you shouldn't be allowed to drink cuz now yellow dying for you

He's later like looking into the eyes of his children. They're like I'd say goodbye to dad. He's like Dude that lived in America could have had a sweet life grew out a devious goatee took his whole family to Al Capone

He dies on cam kind of just about yeah, yeah, yeah, Jesus Christ never seen someone turn yellow

I read in Siddhartha and I just couldn't help but chuckle thinking about you as just a negative Buddha.

He sits under the fucking, the, the whatever that mango tree or whatever that kind of tree is. Uh, I forget what it's called.

The Bodhi tree. And he just reaches enlightenment. I was just imagining you just driving under like a gas station awning and just being like,

What would be the opposite of sublime?

Dude, that book rules by the way. What is it called? Siddhartha. Siddhartha. Yeah. Written by a German.

They don't refer to drugs. They go. It's a very interesting molecule sodium carbonate. No Jesus Christ, that's a stuff man. What you listening at all? What are you listening rapamycin rapamycin oh yeah

Pretty sick stuff. That's what I need to look into the well. It's not approved yet. Don't worry this molecule this guy takes it Peter I have a my son doing so they discovered it in the Easter Islands in a dormant volcano. I'm out

It's cool dude, I'm telling you lying no, I'm telling you did you know there's so much people when they have Transplants they give them that drug that supposedly does it lowers their immune system? That's rapamycin

And it was the way it was discovered is pretty sick in the Easter some guy went to study the soil in the Easter Islands Because in this one volcano that was dormant the locals were like if you go lay in like that little whatever it is

You can read the Bible. This hotel has probably got the Bible.

We're going to have LaMer read the Bible like a pig. On the Patreon.

There's a documentary about Huckleberry Finn and it's about how it gets banned and then re-bought, re-found and banned throughout history.

Huckleberry Finn has been banned by liberals who don't like the N word and then conservatives who don't like whatever they have.

Yeah, it just keeps going back and forth. And Mark Twain is some quote where Mark Twain said, 'I knew when I created Huck he'd get in trouble his whole damn life.' Like he knew that this was going to happen.

He goes and who could forget the wonderful stories of Huckleberry Finn and his friend Jim and you can see him look off and you know that there's guys going, 'do we talk about this?' Like there's don't say that's it.

But that's he I mean, I read the books. That's his name fellas. You can't say it.

I interviewed this guy on my podcast, Bill Perkins, who wrote this incredible book. It's one of my favorite books. It's called Die With Zero.

You just wrote the book Late Confessions.

Late Admissions.

Late Admissions. And then the subtitle is Confessions of a Black Conservative.

I read the book, dude. It was I knew it was going to be good. I because I've been watching you for a while. So I read the book and it really was, you know, like books just kind of like grab you and you can't put them down.

I'm not buttering you up. I swear to God, I read it and it was pretty great.

I'm reading a book right now called The Hidden Persuaders from the Adam Curtis documentary.

from Moneyball like the dad's just like listen son you're the greatest

Yeah dude I was listening to the book on the way up and they were talking about how they were like fully no not my fault. That's next. Don't read that audio.

Yeah I wonder It's just driving. Is there a good podcast I could listen to on this? Yeah I'll just listen to it. I have an 8 hour drive. I'll listen to Mein Kampf for 8 hours.

Well it's funny because they probably do like Welcome to Audible.

Narrated by. This is audible. This is audible. Mein Kampf. I bet they break on that one and they're like alright now before we get started Yeah true. This is bad. I wonder who wrote that. Forward. Mein Kampf 12th edition. Mel Gibson.

We were illegal. Why did I not? Why wasn't I more attracted to that youngest handsome brother as a man? I don't know. My tastes have changed.

I gave you that book about Lincoln that's a great it's a weird kind of stream of consciousness telling of Lincoln's story in four volumes

it's crazy just the war years just from when he took office and when he was coming here hell was breaking loose

What's his name Churchill's so I read this book Churchill and and it's called Franklin and Winston about their relationship.

I don't watch that shit. Handmaid's Tale rock the waves. You think I watch girl TV? Handmaid's Tale? They... There's nothing they love more than watching them being like completely suppressed and being like, this better not happen. So you guys will be happier. I just tell my wife, she's watching Handmaid's Tale. I'm like, you'd actually love this. You'd love that.

I was listening to the Thomas Jefferson. No, there's not Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton book.

Dude if you listen to that Malcolm Gladwell book Talking to Strangers, they talk about this and he literally, the family was like I'll call my doctor friend, he's a mandated reporter, and the doctor was like I'm not reporting this.

I saw a kid I saw a beach tag kid reading Gladwell's book Blink and I almost stopped and was like throw that shit on the beach now

But they were just as a girl just reading Blink And I almost like went up to her like yo she kicks in and her face that dude that guy that guy

Totally lost the bear. I don't know if you saw the monk debates a mat to be being fucking It Douglas Murray, but he fucking lost look like an asshole throw that book in the trash