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Did you buy The Trump Bible? There's a Trump Bible now.

Yeah, he's selling a Bible now. 60 bucks.

Can I just say my favorite part of the whole ad for The Trump Bible is the guy who's selling it with him goes to what's your favorite passage and he's like, I don't want to say. The guy, the guy kept pressing him. He, the guy was like giving him a tough interview on what his favorite biblical passage was.

Interesting that happened to Trump. John Halliman, yeah. Just did it again. He's selling a Bible, and he couldn't come up with a Bible verse.

They're like new testament, old testament. It's like, I don't know, medium testament. They got the guy has absolutely no regard or concern for, he hasn't cracked a Bible in this whole life.

I define a climate shock as a deviation from average, extreme average climate variability that is exacerbated by climate change.

So it is basically adding the climate change component to these natural variability that we see right now with El Nino.

We weren't allowed to save fossil fuel interest in the summary for policymakers. They rewrote it to be vested interests.

I do believe that there is we have the capacity to save ourselves, but I also believe that it is going to come with pain and suffering.

And so I believe it's possible, but it's only when there is this real sense of losing power that the decision-makers will finally take the actions that are needed.

But we also chatted about this partnership with ex at my event for the book which you kindly moderated just a few weeks ago at the 90 second street.

I was like this is the plot of Get Out do not do and do not do it.

I had the encounter with fake carous swissers everywhere in my books.

I was surprised too and I mean almost apologetic is just my zone. You know that's where I live. That's where that's the emotional space I inhabit for most of my day. But you know honestly my faith has been important to me. It always has been and all my close friends and my colleagues everyone knows that.

I'm not any kind of theologian or biblical scholar. It's just reflections from a real person, a real life. More learning, more from disappointments and setbacks than any triumph. That's for sure.

But there was also a lot of guilt and shame and rules and a sense for me of always failing, never measuring up and always kind of wondering what this looming God figure might have thought of me.

Mostly What God Does is love you.

The verse goes, "Watch what God does and you do it too, the way children learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly What God Does is love you."

I just wrote Don't Read This. I said I wrote the same thing in every book. I signed a right life as so rich God and put the date.

She's talked, talked about it in Miss Americana, he attacked people he's a sexual harasser.

It's a British romantic drama television series based on the 2009 novel by the same name, by David Nichols.

It follows the 20-year relationship of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, who met at graduation, but after graduation from the University of Edinburgh.

I've decided I'm going to write a self-help book next. That's my next thing. Not self-help. It's financial literacy. It's like how to get rich.

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Twitter books are here, everybody. Welcome. Two people I have great regard for. Kurt used to work for me a long time ago. And Zoe works for Casey Neut, who's a very good friend of mine. Both amazing reporters.

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The movie that best, is the best lesson around the issue that this call is calling about is Albert Brooks Lost in America great everything he does he basically decides to you know he's a big ad exec.

It's a great movie, Lost in America.

I think that just because you know how to sell sprockets, it doesn't necessarily mean you know how to address issues of inclusion in your organization.

I think we say thing. I mean, what does it mean to be diverse? Diverse from who? Equal to who? Included by who? We still center one group and kind of everybody's scratching and clawing and trying to get to the middle. And I kind of feel like there is no middle.

I think that we have outgrown the language of DEI.

We've done this before. The same people that are quoting Martin Luther King Jr. today would have disapproved of him. So I think it's really easy to think that in these historical moments, we would have been very different.

I think it's important we distinguish between the DEI effectiveness and efforts between what's happened on university campuses and corporations.

I think that it's one metric. I don't think it's the metric. And I'm always careful about better metric, right? Because I think if you if you've read Isabel Wilkerson's incredible book cast or seen the movie Origin, there is a, there's a cast system that we don't talk about, but that is present in our society.

Chris Dixon, founder and managing partner of A16Z Crypto, and the author of "Read Write Own"

He's got a new book about that experience called Collision of Power, Trump, Bezos in The Washington Post.

You can buy Marty's book Collision of Power Trump, Bezos and The Washington Post.

American fiction with Jeffrey Wright by Cord Jefferson directed it and adapted it for the screen it is speaking of you will love it it's set in academia it's about world culture it's about the African American experience in academics it's about if it's really and that's the funny part and it's sort of being put as this funny like white people say stupid things about black people and not meaning to trying to be well meaning but it's really about a family and Leslie Odom Jr. is in it this is an astonishing cast she's fantastic everything about it is amazing it's it's such a beautiful movie and Jeffrey Wright who is possibly one of my favorite actors if I finally gets a turn as a star and he's so good and I know you know when you see movies you know when you see everything coming I didn't see any of it coming you know I I didn't it's certainly okay brown places brother every single person in this movie is fantastic and it's a it's a life-affirming movie but also very tough so anyway loved it American fiction