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The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

Mentioned 6 months ago

Flightless Birds, New Music, Breath Work | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 1-15-26

The speaker mentioned that the coach, who appeared to be reading while waiting for a field goal attempt, might have been reading this book.

The coach has on his reading glasses. He's already in the off season. He's going to read catcher in the rye or some shit.

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Flags of Our Fathers

James Bradley

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 9-26-24

The podcast host briefly mentioned the book "Flags of Our Fathers", recommending it to his listeners.

You got you got what the fuck was the flags of our fathers. You got to read that book now that book I read

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Moby Dick (Chartwell Classics)

Herman Melville

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 9-26-24

The podcast host mentioned reading "Moby Dick" but being unable to finish it due to the frequent descriptions of whale hunting. He attributed this to having ADD and compared the book's pacing to the lack of distractions in earlier eras.

Moby Dick I couldn't get through the fucking thing because they kept breaking down wailing Like I had nothing better to do right like there was no TV and internet and all that shit in my life like Back the books from back then if you get like the original like copy of it like how it was actually written you understand The astounding level of fucking boredom

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The Man Who Wasn't There

Anil Ananthaswamy

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 9-26-24

The podcast host recounted watching the Coen brothers' film "The Man Who Wasn't There," relating to Billy Bob Thornton's character and feeling unseen or unheard, comparing it to his own experiences as a child and husband. He highlighted the movie's humor and the relatability of Thornton's character to married men.

I watched this Coen brother one that I somehow missed the man who wasn't there when it came out this gorgeous black-and-white movie that they shot and it has Billy Bob Thornton Franz McDermott and James Gandolfini, and it's just it's The dude from monk. I'm not good with the names

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Glengarry Glen Ross (Student Editions)

David Mamet

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 9-19-24

The book was mentioned in passing, as the speaker was looking at his sides for it while sitting on a plane.

As I sit down the barefoot cowboy looks at me and he goes when does the play open?

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Dear Billy

Gary McNair

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 9-19-24

It is a new George Carlin album that was recorded before 9/11 and not released at the time due to its content. It was expected to be released soon, and the speaker was looking forward to purchasing it on vinyl.

Are you excited for this new Carlin album? I haven't even heard about it Oh, yeah, wait a minute I did hear it. They thought it was too harsh He recorded it before 9-11 and they didn't release it because it had material that was definitely not appropriate for what was going on at The time I've heard great things, but who knows? Thanks for the laughs.

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WBCN and the American Revolution

Bill Lichtenstein

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 8-29-24

The book mentioned was a book about WBCN radio. Bill was reading through it and he thought it was great.

I'm reading that WBCN book which is fucking great

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Radio Free Boston

Carter Alan

Mentioned 1 year ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 8-29-24

Bill mentions reading a book about WBCN. He says it's great.

I'm reading that WBCN book which is fucking great

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Sapiens [Tenth Anniversary Edition]

Yuval Noah Harari

Mentioned 1 year ago

Monday Morning Podcast 8-20-24

It was mentioned in relation to the idea of living off the land and how the agricultural revolution might have domesticated humans rather than plants, such as wheat.

It reminded me of this book called Sapiens by oh my god, Yuval Noah Harari.

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Make Way for Ducklings

Robert McCloskey

Mentioned 1 year ago

Monday Morning Podcast 8-5-24

It was mentioned as a book that was read numerous times to his children in the past and was referenced while clam digging on Martha's Vineyard.

And we're pulling these things up and They're just going around. This is just like in Seattle when we took that little boat rider They were going like that's the guy I see that house. That's the guy that that started Zillow

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I Am Not Spock

Leonard Nimoy

Mentioned 2 years ago

Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 7-4-24

Burr mentioned that Leonard Nimoy wrote a book called 'I Am Not Spock' after he starred in 'Star Trek'.

Then he had to write a book saying, I am not Spock.

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Anatomy of a Fall

Billie Davis

Mentioned 2 years ago

Monday Morning Podcast 5-27-24

The book was used as an example of a well-written argument scene to contrast against the Amazon commercial Bill Burr was discussing.

Oh anatomy of a fall that right there that fucking argument that they had in that movie when they were in trial and they flashed back to the argument the level of writing um is at the highest level and this thing you're watching a commercial on amazon what do you think you know? Do they even pay writers at amazon?

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Nicholas Pileggi

Casino

Love and Honor in Las Vegas

Bill referenced the movie 'Casino' and how director Martin Scorsese changed names of places in the film to avoid trouble with the mob in a certain city.

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Because he didn't want to get in trouble with the mob in a certain major city.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 10-25-21

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Bill referenced the movie 'Casino' and how director Martin Scorsese changed names of places in the film to avoid trouble with the mob in a certain city.

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Because he didn't want to get in trouble with the mob in a certain major city.

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Matt Haig

The Life Impossible

A Novel

It was mentioned as an example of a well-written autobiography, with a specific story about a Chevy Impala and hidden drugs being particularly memorable.

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Keith Richards waited until he was well into his fucking 60s, until he was well into his fucking 70s and just wrote a book called Life.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 9-20-21

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It was mentioned as an example of a well-written autobiography, with a specific story about a Chevy Impala and hidden drugs being particularly memorable.

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Keith Richards waited until he was well into his fucking 60s, until he was well into his fucking 70s and just wrote a book called Life.

And it was like I know it's like 600 fucking pages and the one story that I remember the most was that they in like the mid 60s?

They went out and they bought a Chevy Impala, which is one of the best-looking cars of all time.

And they took off like the door panel and they hid their drugs behind it because what cop would ever look there right and I don't know.

They drove this thing all around they got all high and all fucked up or whatever and somehow they lost the car or they turned it in or they sold it. I don't know what happened.

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To Be The Man You Have To Beat The Man Shirt.

Bill Burr mentioned having read Ric Flair's book 'To Be The Man, You Gotta Beat The Man' and noted that it was stored in his memory bank.

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Um, maybe rick flair to be the man you gotta beat the man I mean, what am I supposed to I have read him? I got it. It's in the fucking memory bank

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Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 5-6-21

Bill Burr mentioned having read Ric Flair's book 'To Be The Man, You Gotta Beat The Man' and noted that it was stored in his memory bank.

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Um, maybe rick flair to be the man you gotta beat the man I mean, what am I supposed to I have read him? I got it. It's in the fucking memory bank

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Daniel J. Boorstin

The Image

A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

It was described as a great album with incredible arrangements and time signatures, with Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. It was recorded straight to disc and had to be recorded in one take.

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I just downloaded this fucking album that he played on, which is really incredible because I know that I heard this music before some sort of sports highlights or Or possibly the Olympics, I don't kno...

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 4-19-21

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Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 4-19-21

It was described as a great album with incredible arrangements and time signatures, with Vinnie Colaiuta on drums. It was recorded straight to disc and had to be recorded in one take.

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I just downloaded this fucking album that he played on, which is really incredible because I know that I heard this music before some sort of sports highlights or Or possibly the Olympics, I don't know if anybody recognizes this music here It's not something I would normally listen to but I was listening to

It's called images. You can get it on iTunes and what's cool about this thing is they had these things back then these recordings. It was straight-to-disc and What you had to do you had to record I don't know if I talked about this last podcast

So this album if you listen to it And you listen to the arrangements the different time signatures and sometimes when the whole band drops out and the the keyboards are just playing the hits to they're always like off beats and just really crazy shit and Vinny is just the whole band is just fucking on it.

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Stephen King

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

The book was referenced indirectly when discussing Andy Dufresne's character from the movie adaptation of the book. It was said the woman was chipping away at the man's sense of self.

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I didn't realize to her that nothing, I didn't realize to her that was nothing but her way in. I didn't realize that to her I don't know what that she went to that that that was her way into your life...

— Episode: TAMMP 4-1-21

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The book was referenced indirectly when discussing Andy Dufresne's character from the movie adaptation of the book. It was said the woman was chipping away at the man's sense of self.

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I didn't realize to her that nothing, I didn't realize to her that was nothing but her way in. I didn't realize that to her I don't know what that she went to that that that was her way into your life in my grief.

She went full Andy Dufresne just chipping away at my sense of self so she would fuck around.

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James F. Lincoln

Incentive Management

It was discussed that the book suggests people have hidden talents that can be revealed with the right opportunities, using World War II women and Babe Ruth as examples.

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I have a book suggestion you might struggle a bit with the verbiage at first because the guy writes like a bit of a douche but it's fascinating nonetheless. It's called Incentive Management

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 8-21-23

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Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 8-21-23

It was discussed that the book suggests people have hidden talents that can be revealed with the right opportunities, using World War II women and Babe Ruth as examples.

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I have a book suggestion you might struggle a bit with the verbiage at first because the guy writes like a bit of a douche but it's fascinating nonetheless. It's called Incentive Management by John F Lincoln.

the gist as far as I've gotten is that people have latent abilities that can be revealed through opportunity.

women entered the workforce when their men went to war in World War II. They kept the country and war machine afloat when near none of them had worked a job, let alone a production job.

Babe Ruth has his reputation because no one with the ability to be better was given the opportunity to do so.

Lincoln gave this example in 1951, don't shoot the messenger. I'm not shooting the messenger, I agree with that.

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Lawrence J. Hogan

The Osage Indian Murders

The True Story of a 21-Murder Plot to Inherit the Headrights of Wealthy Osage Tribe Members

It was mentioned as a book about the murder of Native Americans on land that was later found to have oil, which was described as a good summer read.

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I'm going to be like a 35 year old woman who just got out of a relationship. I'm going to stick my toes in the sand. I'm going to read a book about, you know, the murder of Indians that we stuck on la...

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Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 8-17-23

It was mentioned as a book about the murder of Native Americans on land that was later found to have oil, which was described as a good summer read.

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I'm going to be like a 35 year old woman who just got out of a relationship. I'm going to stick my toes in the sand. I'm going to read a book about, you know, the murder of Indians that we stuck on land that we didn't think was worth anything that is now worth oil.

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Richard Chizmar

Chasing the Boogeyman

A Novel

Bill Burr mentioned working with Todd Parker, the author of 'Billionaire Boogieman', on a road gig in Halifax, Canada.

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So we landed and, you know, with the idea that we were going to fly right back. So I was working with Tony V and Todd Parker, the author of Billionaire Boogieman.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 8-14-23

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Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 8-14-23

Bill Burr mentioned working with Todd Parker, the author of 'Billionaire Boogieman', on a road gig in Halifax, Canada.

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So we landed and, you know, with the idea that we were going to fly right back. So I was working with Tony V and Todd Parker, the author of Billionaire Boogieman.

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Charles Sid Heal

Field Command

Bill Burr mentioned it while discussing the movie 'Once Upon a Time in the West', implying that the movie's structure disregarded traditional screenwriting advice found in the book.

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If you write scripts, you should definitely fucking watch it because all that Sid Field book, you know, you can the first ten pages you do this and by page 22 all of that is out the fucking window

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 1-4-21

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Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 1-4-21

Bill Burr mentioned it while discussing the movie 'Once Upon a Time in the West', implying that the movie's structure disregarded traditional screenwriting advice found in the book.

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If you write scripts, you should definitely fucking watch it because all that Sid Field book, you know, you can the first ten pages you do this and by page 22 all of that is out the fucking window

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Ole Edvart Rölvaag

Giants in the Earth (Classic Reprint)

It was discussed and a quote from Abraham Lincoln from 1848 was mentioned as the book's introduction, about giant bones that have been discovered across the USA over the last 400 years.

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The eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones filled the mounds of America have gazed on Niagara as ours do now.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-10-23

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Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-10-23

It was discussed and a quote from Abraham Lincoln from 1848 was mentioned as the book's introduction, about giant bones that have been discovered across the USA over the last 400 years.

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The eyes of that species of extinct giants whose bones filled the mounds of America have gazed on Niagara as ours do now.

There have been hundreds of sites with giant bones buried in them, discovered across the USA in the last 400 years.

Why wouldn't we talk about that? That's fascinating.

Why do people have a problem with the fact that we're not the only thing in the universe?

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David Baker

How to Play Bebop, Vol 1

Bill mentioned committing to a Bebop book to learn jazz drumming, specifically focusing on ride cymbal independence, and finding the style more creative than rock drumming.

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I'm finally just committing to, um, this Bebop book that I've always wanted to have that jazz ride independence.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-19-23

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Bill mentioned committing to a Bebop book to learn jazz drumming, specifically focusing on ride cymbal independence, and finding the style more creative than rock drumming.

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I'm finally just committing to, um, this Bebop book that I've always wanted to have that jazz ride independence.

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Allison Winn Scotch

The Song Remains the Same

The book was mentioned during a discussion about the song "The Song Remains the Same", and Bill Burr spoke fondly of the song's history.

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I remember the first time I heard that I was watching Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same, and somebody at Madison Square Garden was selling bootleg Zeppelin shit.

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Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 6-8-23

The book was mentioned during a discussion about the song "The Song Remains the Same", and Bill Burr spoke fondly of the song's history.

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I remember the first time I heard that I was watching Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same, and somebody at Madison Square Garden was selling bootleg Zeppelin shit.

And he goes, 'Well, you're in charge of security, you silly cunt.'

It's just so fucking perfect.

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George V. Higgins

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Bill Burr finally watched it after years of recommendations, enjoying it and Robert Mitchum's performance. It was set in Boston and featured Bruins footage.

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I Confused it with another movie that I believe Peter Boyle stars in that took place in Cleveland.

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Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 10-29-20

Bill Burr finally watched it after years of recommendations, enjoying it and Robert Mitchum's performance. It was set in Boston and featured Bruins footage.

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I Confused it with another movie that I believe Peter Boyle stars in that took place in Cleveland.

But I finally saw The Friends of Eddie Coyle and I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed that movie

Robert Mitchum is one of my new favorite actors of all time.

It's shot in Boston and at one point They go to a Bruins vs. Blackhawks game and they're literally in the garden, you know

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