Office Ladies

Well, I was intrigued. Is this a real book or is this a made-up book?

Now we know that Toby likes mysteries. That's been established.

Awakening Loving Kindness by Pema Chodron.

Awakening Loving Kindness by Pema Chodron.

Also a ticket stub to a movie they went to together, Love Happens.

I looked up Love Happens. It was a movie that was out in 2009 starring Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart.

I recently started following Jessica Seinfeld on Instagram...she does all these vegan recipes.

Every day she posts herself making a vegan recipe from her cookbook, which is called Vegan at Times.

Everything she's making looks so delicious.

I want to get the cookbook and try some of these vegan dishes. It's making me want to eat vegan.

In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers.

People don't quit their companies, they quit their bosses.

One of the signs of a great manager is the ability to describe in detail the unique talent of each employee, what drives them, how they think and how each one builds relationships.

A great manager knows the difference between skills, knowledge, and weakness.

Incidentally, I am currently reading a book about Akron, Ohio. Okay. It's by this amazing writer, this guy, David Giffels.

He lives in Ohio and he and his wife decided to put a low ball offer on this like broken down house, mansion.

Like literally when he describes it, there's like sunshine coming through.

It's like the money pit. A hundred percent the money pit.

And the book is just a memoir of them fixing it up absolutely by themselves while they lived in it.

And there's this book called Turn the Beat Around by author Peter Shapiro, and he called disco quote, the embodiment of the vision of peace that the 60s yearned for.

It is, you know, gosh, now a couple of years, um, I have been working on constructing, um, a full oral history of the office and, and, and what happened.

And specifically for me, it was about a question, right? And the, the question was very simply, we were, we were a big show when we were on, right.

But what has happened since, as you all know, the success, the huge success of your podcast, that, that the show is so much bigger now than it ever was.

And my question was why now seven, eight years since we've filmed a Why is this show now the undisputed champion of, of viewers in, in, in, in the world?

So it's, it's really sort of a, a macro version of, of what happened. So I'm super excited and proud of the book and, and, and can't wait.

In the mid 1930s, this kind of like pun mania morphed into what is now the traditional knock knock joke. Cartoonist Bob Dunn is credited with inventing this joke in its current form. He wrote a book called Knock Knock Who's There?

Jenna, I actually read The Last Picture Show a few years after I had left Archer City and I was in college. I was like, you know what? This is a book about my hometown. I want to read it.

It's a great book and a great movie is what you're saying.

So I'm saying don't skip the book on this one, guys.

They are currently reading A Room with a View, which is a novel by E.M. Forster.

Phyllis comes back from the mall. She is sobbing. She is so gutted. She got kicked out of the mall in front of her friends. All of her friends, I guess, love Sue Grafton. They were all there for autographs. And Phyllis just wouldn't take no for an answer because Michael told her, don't take no for an answer. Get Sue Grafton here. And she kept bugging her and they kicked her out.

She is a real author. She is a New York Times bestselling author, actually. She is best known for writing a series of mystery novels starring a character named Kinsey. Kinsey? Millhoney. Millhoney! Kinsey!

If you read her tremendous book, An Actor's Life, which is both an instructional manual and a riveting autobiography, you will learn that Jenna Fisher spent seven years trying to break into the business of acting.

You can also get a book called The SEASONS OF A MAN'S LIFE by Dr. Daniel Levinson.

But all of their work was combined into a wonderful book by Gail Sheehy. She's a feminist journalist and she wrote PASSAGES, predictable crises of adult life.

He has a book coming out. It is called But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct Lessons from a Life Behind the Camera.

Oh, please, guys, if you're an aspiring director, if you want to know more about just the experience of what it's really like to direct, please pick up Ken's book.

But also, I mean, there's so much about your philosophy in this book that could really just be applied to life in general.

Action is what most directors bark out to begin a scene. But Ken Kwapis starts by gently intoning the words 'go ahead'. That simple suggestion assures everyone they're in smart, capable, humble hands. And that's how you'll feel reading his book.

And so if you're anxious to discover how a top director always brings humor, honesty and humanity to his work, all I can tell you is go ahead.

I have this book, the Kama Sutra.