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The president responded by tweeting, "It never ends. Now they're trying to say that your favorite president, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center having suffered a series of mini strokes."

Never happened to this candidate. Fake news.

Trump then repeated the same denial unprompted multiple times throughout the day until the White House physician put out a statement also denying that Trump suffered a series of mini strokes, an assertion that wasn't made in Schmidt's book or reported by any reputable news outlets.

and the novel Less. I think it won the Pulitzer Prize last year is very well worth a read.

And yeah, it's such a silly thing. But like, you know, it really reminds you of 1984 in the slippery slope. No slippery slope in 1984. You're right there in it. Books like that. Books like that. But you're 1984. You're never there's no before you're in it. You're just in it. You actually never get the slope. You're at the bottom of it.

She's written a new memoir called Enough.

Joining us here in studio, the star witness of the January 6th hearings, who served as the top aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. She's written a new memoir called Enough.

I have written two books, one called United, one called Stan. So together, Stan's United.

He just finished War and Peace the last time I was over at his house. Oh, did he? Did he? He said he read it in a day.

Why are two old, unpopular men the only candidates for the world's most demanding job? The answer lies in the peculiar politics of the generation born in the era of the bomb.

It's a generation that has enjoyed extraordinary wealth and progress, yet their last act in politics sees the two main parties accusing each other of wrecking American democracy.

Actually when you're 25, everything's amazing when you're 40 You're gonna think that everything was amazing when you were 25

There's this disconnect that I find bizarre and disheartening which is that on the one hand Objectively, there are lots of things that actually are really great about being a part of humanity at this moment in time

It is way better to be a human today than it was a hundred years ago than it was 200 years ago Um, even than it was 30 years ago

I don't that does not mean watching hours of cable news each week. That's not what I mean, but um, I it is no longer just the province of like the kids on the debate team Um that it is the thing that like the most popular influencers um are talking about when something big happens

And I think that is a explains a lot of things. I think it explains a lot of why Gen z's are driving their boomer bosses crazy by wanting their companies to take stands on political issues that that for an older generation There was a little bit more of a siloing of your political views are over here.

It was interesting that he wrote this like sort of long look back about his life and time in politics and came away with his concerns about how unethical it all is. I think of him as like one of the more upstanding people we actually got to work with.

He couldn't comment, but I came away thinking that he's reprising his role as Donald Trump in the 2024 debate prep sessions.

And I say this with all love for Bob, but I can't think of a better person to do that.

You're not going to get a scathing review.

I was reading The Big Lie and it was largely about them. So mission accomplished on my part.

the famous book by Upton Sinclair, The Jungle.

Our good friend Adi Barkan is out with an excellent new video series called Uncovered where he interviews the Democratic presidential candidates about health care.

He'll be on this pod talking about the series and his new book on Thursday.

I am a guy that's driven by my faith and in my faith, the miracle of the fishes and the loaves is in every book of the gospel, which means it's pretty darn important.

Remember that guy, the pickup artist Mysterio, who had the hat and the big earrings and he was all about negging women and making them feel bad and that's how you got a date? This entire analysis is derived from reading that guy's book.

Well, in The Road you'd want to be with Klobuchar

Michael Lewis, the culture changing author of Moneyball, The Big Short and countless other great books about his new book on the people that make the government work

how much the ability to report on powerful figures has changed since you wrote say liars poker.

I'm wondering if that's true. I'm wondering if you have questions about the way artificial intelligence companies are kind of recklessly putting this technology into the world while behind the scenes lamenting that it may lead to the destruction of humanity. And what, whether it's Flash Boys or going infinite, leads you to wonder about what these companies are doing.

So my copy of Mein Kampf fall out of my bag.

Did you finish that book? Yeah. Do you understand that?

Did you finish that book? Yeah. Do you understand that?

The president threw a Great Gatsbythemed Halloween party.

You think Tom and Daisy were the heroes?

The narrative around our cabinet was Team of Rivals.

It was because there was a book on Abraham Lincoln out with that same name.