Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

He wrote Dubliners, short stories, classic.

I've been listening to this book on tape that I thought was the book on the Civil War. It's a bit. It's called killer angels.

It's the movie Gettysburg is based off of it and since I was a McCusker about that movie when I grew up fully McCusker to watch this man, I watched it every fucking day.

So now I know I know the dialogue they took it from the book So I'm listening to this book and I just know I can see every scene you're watching the movie.

It's supposed to be like the definitive Civil War novel.

Well, I mean it's not but yeah, it's a fucking fiction It's like first person from every character from every like historical figure. It's just made up.

He literally cowrote Brokeback Mountain, but I tell myself the lady handled the game. He did all the good cowboy stuff.

Ta-Nehisi Coates shit's funny because he was his whole thing was like, yeah, sorry it'll always suck to be black in America just forever and ever and ever and that's just what it is meanwhile dudes a millionaire.

To be fair. I read The Secret Life of Plants. I liked it.

Oh, it's a phenomenal book, right? I told I there's it's been on it's insane. I was I did the audio book.

I was like, it doesn't it was like, you know, writer stuff to the pros. So I was unbelievable. So good. I was like, bro, I got to I have to my eyes have to see this.

Yeah, I got to do it. I was I was like, it was the audio form was flying by me and I was like, I got to see that my eyes have to see that on the page.

Dude, I'm telling you, pause the audio book and say, I'm an audio. I'm like, I can listen anything. I was like my eyes have to grace. He's on the paper, dude. I was like, this is good.

I got that from Tom Wolfe, the writer, you know, his book Bonfire of the Vanities, you know, his character Sherman McCoy, who was a bond trader.

He's like one of the last true scientists, but he, uh, he's just a scientist. Did he fucking rules?

He thinks the sun's conscious.

So he has some good proof. So he's wrong.

The sun is alive. The sun could be, he just wants to open the discussion.

So he was saying a lot of it got hung up on dogma now where he was like a lot of their, um, a lot of the stuff they just kind of assume is based on just like old religious stuff of like the universe is infinite.

He spent like 20 years of his life, a third of his life on Finnegan's wake and no one can, it just, he just makes up words. It's nonsense. ... He wrote Ulysses and everyone's like, okay, we're fucking with you. This is kind of a hard read.

there was a night where like all the elites i believe it was france had cats maybe it was england maybe that's why i can't find it but they had cats and so all the like peasants just massacred cats

oh so yeah dude this would have been okay so this was doing that paris in the late 1730s so yeah this this was this was when uh so yeah russo's dad had just exiled in 1922 all right so he was eight when they were just hearing the cats coming he knew the cats were coming he knew there was gonna be a big cat fucking massacre he was just in a print shop and he was like what's going on master and like they're fucking murdering all the cats i'm out of here this place sucks

I booked Zanoni talks about it fair fucking the fair lady has a Forget her name, but she hasn't like tons of suitors and rivals

I started reading this book on Debt I think he was just very islamophobic so shout out to him

the guy who wrote it David Graber he's an anarchist but he's like this guy was about to get tenure at fucking Yale he's smart as fuck he's like a dunce but he wrote this book about Debt and how the idea of Debt

the question he was at a little cocktail party thing with this priest which is really this guy has the funniest group of friends he's like I was with this priest hanging out it was really annoying because this guy would introduce me as an anarchist which would like I'm in polite society and everyone's already judging me a little

he's like I was in Madagascar for two years trying to negotiate with the IMF to be like stop fucking just forgive these guys loans

his whole idea the book's looking into like where does the moral obligation from like Debt come from and how far does it go back and he goes all the way you know all the way back to like the Sanskrit word for Debt is also the same for sin and the Aramaic word for Debt is also the same as sin

I listened to almost the entire Will Smith biography this weekend.

It's more revolutions right now. I'm falling asleep listening to the fucking Boston Tea Party.

It's funny to to watch a mega celebrity slide into almost being like ironic. He became a joke kind of, you know, not for sure.

But like he went from like the best, like crushing. He talks about it. Blockbuster record breaking shit where like he could not miss and it caused problems in his family.

It's when you listen to the book, he he just lets it all out, dude. And it's like it's like you didn't know any of this stuff about him.

It's called 'Light Through an Eastern Window'. It's a very good book.

There's a book called the I think called The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby.

Oh, they talk all about this, dude. Really? It's pretty tight, dude. It's nice. I don't have to read any of this shit. I just know it.

It's pretty tight.

That's your DNA talking to you. It's me. This is what life really is. Just floating helixes flying around, constructing realities.

Would you watch? It was like a biblical prophecy. So this guy named dude is called Watch What Happens Next by Leo Dunson.

It's so fucking funny, dude. But he was basically saying how he bought out. He took out this like really. He was just talking about what's coming after. Like, is Biden going for a second term? And the whole thing ends with him being like and then second Corinthians.

It's pretty tight.

I've been listening to this book It's fucking Carlin's book... this one's called The End Is Always Near or something

He's been talking about how if you really think about it Nearly every single generation in every society has been victims of child abuse...

I just bought a dumb book. I finished my Lafayette book. I didn't know what it was. I started reading that that was Douglas Murray was the gay guy.

Oh, I forgot about it. I used a credit on my amateur Douglas Murray the gay guy who Douglas Murray the guy who no Douglas Mary the gay guy who go the gay conservative dude who's like oh well, there's a chalet.

Yeah, I got Douglas Murray's book. So I didn't got the wrong guy. But this guy this books called The War on the West. I was learning about the Wild West.

It's like why the fuck's everyone mad about the West dude. No one cares about China. That's kind of racist. Like it's just it's literally just that Douglas.

So the dude's name is, I think it's Joseph McMoneagle.

He had the worst fucking life. This childhood he grew up in the projects of Miami. Trick Daddy, Mom and Dad.

He was so tortured as a young child that he would hallucinate a young rabbit coming into his bed to comfort him at night.

He's like my backhand was a metallic blur of blue steel of just fucking just so fast.

So he would go out to all the military women. It's got fat as hell drunk and start partying with girls.

And I think the book was called Psychic Warrior