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I just wrote a book a couple of months ago on exactly this topic. It's called Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System.

I just wrote a book a couple of months ago on exactly this topic. It's called Justice Corrupted, How the Left Has Weaponized the Legal System.

So I read The Golden State when it came out a couple years ago. I loved it. Of course, you read everything.

So I read The Golden State when it came out a couple years ago. I loved it. Of course, you read everything. Yeah. That's the point I'm trying to unsubtly make here. And loved it. It's a great book.

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, who wrote Station Eleven, which is a book about a pandemic that was phenomenal before the pandemics.

Another book called The Devil Takes You Home by a guy named Gabino Iglesias, which is it's a sort of a fantastical crime noir book written that takes place on the Texas Mexico border.

The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher was fantastic about social media. And he did like just years of reporting in these tech companies.

Oh, that's cool. And I used to, yeah. So, and he knew he had to make some changes and they didn't all come to fruition until 2004 when he brought in an operator from Missouri by the name of Rebecca Lamb, who he essentially became tasked with overseeing the Reed machine.

Oh, that's cool. And I used to, yeah. So, and he knew he had to make some changes and they didn't all come to fruition until 2004 when he brought in an operator from Missouri by the name of Rebecca Lamb, who he essentially became tasked with overseeing the Reed machine. And what she did was bring in all these very talented, hardworking, both data driven young operatives and just hard workers who knew that there was a formula.

It's like I am shocked at how good it is and how much she figured out about Kim Jong Un that I'd never seen reported before.

So like tough guy to cover, you know?

Great book.

It's by a reporter named Anna Fifield, who covered the administration for us. It's like I am shocked at how good it is and how much she figured out about Kim Jong Un that I'd never seen reported before.

When Yana Krupnikov studied this for her book, The Other Divide, she was surprised too.

When Yana Krupnikov studied this for her book, The Other Divide, she was surprised too.

You've been in this fight for decades. You wrote Earth in the Balance, what, 30 years ago.

Earth in the Balance had one of the radical proposals that I was attacked on back then was, we need to completely phase out the internal combustion engine within 25 years and replace it with electric vehicles.

We're finally getting to the point where we can do that.

I had my--I organized and chaired the first congressional hearing on the climate crisis 41 years ago.

Earth in the Balance had one of the radical proposals that I was attacked on back then was, we need to completely phase out the internal combustion engine within 25 years and replace it with electric vehicles.

Does it say that, like, climate change don't even go there? Wind energy is fat. That kind of thing.

Or does it hold up well?

I have a book coming out July 5th. It's called Invisible Storm, a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD. It is the best thing I've ever written. I'm very proud of it.

Frankly, it's the book that I wish had been available to me to read, like, 12 years ago.

I have a book coming out July 5th. It's called Invisible Storm, a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD. It is the best thing I've ever written. I'm very proud of it.

Frankly, it's the book that I wish had been available to me to read, like, 12 years ago. I think it would have...

You can get the book early, actually. If you go to jasonkander.com/launch team, you can join the launch team, pre-order the book and you can get it early. So I hope you all do that.

I'm going to say that again, it's jasonkander.com/launch team.

And... Oh, I should also add that all of the royalties for me go to Veterans Community Projects' fight against veteran suicide and veterans homelessness.

Oh, I am halfway through because I just interviewed the journalist Peter Pomerantsev for Offline, who wrote a book called Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible about Russia.

I just read The New Tsar by Stephen Lee Myers. It's about Putin. It's pretty good.

I really like this politics that appears to be based on the book The Wind in the Willows. Badgers and moles, they're down. They stay down. They wear their bow ties.

I really like this politics that appears to be based on the book The Wind in the Willows.

Judd Apatow, whose book Sicker in the Head. More Conversations About Life and Comedy is out March 29th and his new movie, The Bubble comes out April 1st on Netflix.

Judd, thanks for being here. It's good to be here. Thank you for having me. It's good to have you. Before we play the game.

Judd Apatow, whose book Sicker in the Head. More Conversations About Life and Comedy is out March 29th and his new movie, The Bubble comes out April 1st on Netflix.

And then, well, the important call is I play the nice girl. Then you're okay. You know, the bad call is, hey, dad, next season they've decided my character takes a turn. And then that's where you get concerned.

The book is Sicker in the Head by Judd. That's my final project before I leave the business.

I read his book several years ago and it's brutally honest and hilarious and great, and the show is gonna be incredible.

I read his book several years ago and it's brutally honest and hilarious and great, and the show is gonna be incredible.

Two boy rabbits fall in love despite protests and plan to go on a bunny moon after getting married.

Two boy rabbits fall in love despite protests and plan to go on a bunny moon after getting married.

A young Vietnamese boy who loves fairy tales uses one to tell his immigrant parents that he's gay.

A young Vietnamese boy who loves fairy tales uses one to tell his immigrant parents that he's gay.

Mitch McConnell wrote about it in his book. He was so proud of his support for voting rights.