The Shawn Ryan Show

You know, read, read Alexander Hamilton by Chernow and in the later chapters where it talks about a lot of the political infighting and you sit there and say, wow, that sounds so familiar.

You're an eight time bestselling author, including Total Money Makeover, the book that changed my life.

The second one was total money makeover. That was the second one. It was actually the third one technically, but yeah.

And then a guy named Thomas Paine who wrote the book Common Sense, but he was one of the founding fathers. Great, great things. But Thomas Paine wrote a series of pamphlets because he knew that they needed to motivate that percentage of Americans who did not want to go against England to motivate him to do something about it. And so he wrote something called the American crisis.

Brave New World was Plato's an update of Plato's Republic then 1984 was also an update of the allegory of the cave.

the last book, The Perilous Fight, the attack on the American family, combating it.

I left the democratic party in October of 2022 and I got a call from a publisher who saw my announcement. I made a little video announcing that the main reasons why I was leaving the democratic party publisher called and said that announcement read like a book outline and we'd love for you to write a book if you, if you're interested.

So fast forward to book release date was April 30th 2024. So, you know, I was originally supposed to push the book out. I think the original published date was summer of 23 took me long. It took me a lot longer.

Yeah, it all, I mean, honestly, it all worked out. I think for the best because the book came out at kind of a fortuitous time given what's going on in the country and with this election.

Yeah, we made, we made the New York Times bestseller list which I was surprised by congratulations.

I spent a few months since the book came out who either tell me that that their own experiences reflected in my book about why they left the democratic party.

I read thousands of books... The classics, science fiction, the art of the deal.

I mean, books like, you know, Johnny Tremaine, The Iliad, The Odyssey, some Chronicles of Narnia books.

I think there's like 65 people I name by title and name just to show people how expansive the deep state is.

I'm failing on my chance to sell it.

I want the constitution. I simply want the constitution to be applied to everybody singularly in government and outside of government. That's it.

I'll give you one. I want the judges to stop being political jackals on the bench and participate. We didn't even talk about it and participate in the deep state prosecutions that have weaponized justice.

And I want the DOJ and FBI to be run by the Constitution. I want the Intel communities to focus on our overseas threats and our border. I want all of these people that join the ranks of government to respond to the needs of the American people.

Author of the bestselling memoir, Beautiful Things, happily married to Melissa, and you're a father of five children.

I wrote a book about it and then paid my taxes with penalties and interest.

These ideas are from 1959's Starship Troopers novels.

Have you read Atlas Shrugged? ... It's my favorite book. No book's a perfect answer, and there's a lot about the book I don't like. But basically, the root principle is the ability for people to vote away their own agency over time.

No.

I've also read How to Win Friends and Influence People many times.

Read the book Rise and Kill First. It's just a complete dictionary of all of the assassinations that Israel does.

Author of 10 books, plus three audio books on hunting, survival, and nature, including hits like The American Buffalo, In Search of a Lost Icon, and The MeatEater Fishing Game Cookbook.

I read Michael Crichton books. So Jurassic Park, um, Sphere, uh, what else was there? You know, all, all those types of books from a very, very early age.

If you've never read Mere Christianity, you would absolutely love Mere Christianity.

Bestselling author of Chasing My Cure that chronicles your journey and is now being turned into a film.