The Dan Le Batard Show

She's got a book, Defectors, The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America.

And so part of what actually drove me to write this book is precisely what you just laid out.

The name of the book is Defectors, the rise of the Latino far right and what it means for America.

Do you know the name of Tom Selleck's autobiography? It's out in bookstores now.

Tom Selleck's book is called You Never Know though.

I just think it's, this book, the new book, The Barn, is the best thing I've read you write.

Because Wright Thompson's new book, which is also unsparingly personal, was the first thing that ever really made me think about The Barn.

Wright Thompson, author of The Barn, The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi and one of our country's foremost Avery Bradley scholars.

You were actually played by Billy Bob Thornton in an unauthorized biography of Bill Clinton called Primary Colors.

The famous line from the book Primary Colors described me as though he was tired out of a love scene from the film Deliverance.

based on James Clovall's best-selling novel, Search FX's Shogun, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Well, breaking news. Actually, I just got an email about writing something for Stu Gats' book.

Stu Gats book.com, everyone. Still unwritten.

I have people now. That is accurate. That's how it happened to me too. It wasn't an email from Stuat. It was someone I've never heard of going here's a 400 word barfed up essay about statistics. Now can you write 500 words in response?

And all I'm laughing about is I can't speak is that Stu Gods has a grift of a book where I'm thinking his 400 words could be AI generated.

So Stanza gave you the Kevin Durant chapter, huh?

I wrote a book on it.

StugatzBook.com.

Your book was supposed to come out in July when people pre-ordered it the first time.

Now it says November 20-something.

A.J. Brown, as I was mentioning before, was reading a book on the sidelines during the game and has posted on Twitter because the name of the book is Inner Excellence.

He is showing on Twitter that he's got a lot of passages highlighted and underlined. And he says, this game is 90% mental and 10% physical for me.

I saw someone posted a picture of one of the pages of the book and it is the opposite of Shakespeare. Just like word salad about the pursuit of excellence and blah, blah.

I feel like at the end of Hunt for Red October, when the guy goes, Andre, you've lost another submarine.

I'm proud to tell you he's got a new book coming out in September called American Kings, a biography of the quarterback. It's available for preorder now.

The title of the book is Firestorm, The Great Los Angeles Fires and America's New Age of Disaster. It is a book about people, an exploration of what it's like to live amongst some of the worst natural disasters this planet has ever seen, and a story of hope.

The book is called Firestorm, the Great L.A. Fires. And as we said, America's New Age of Disaster, which that last part seems foreboding and also accurate, because what are you tackling here beyond the idea that your childhood home was burned down and then you decide to immerse yourself for however long in the painstaking and painful process of book writing?

When I pick up this book and I read it, there's almost like an allegory in the book about how, I think on the third morning of the fires, I was back in the Palisades and I heard a very, very familiar screech of a parakeet. The book is a love letter to Los Angeles as much as it is anything else.

What this book is is a realworld example of what it's like to witness the destructive nature of climate change being exacerbated by misinformation and disinformation in what I call America's new age of disaster because it's here.

The name of the book again, Firestorm, the Great Los Angeles Fires in America's New Age of Disaster. Forgive me for reading that instead of memorizing it. No, please. Just the new age of disaster thing was so ominous and scary that I - I wouldn't want to memorize it either. Just stick with Firestorm.

there is this F. Scott Fitzgerald series of essays called The Crack Up? Have you ever heard of The Crack Up? I have not. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this collection. It's now a collection.

And he talks about being what is, I think, just a... Just clinical depression. Sleeping all day. And he's writing lists to occupy his mind. And he... And one of the lists is times in which he was snubbed by those who are not his better in character or ability, which I always think about.

But isn't that a great line, right?

Think Mr. Magorium's wonderful Emporium. Think Percy Jackson, lightning thief. Like, you get to watch that and it happens in the snow.

Think Percy Jackson, lightning thief. Like, you get to watch that and it happens in the snow.

His new special, Neighborly, is out now. What are you proud of or what do you like? How would you sell that to our audience as something they need to be watching?

And Neighborly, it's all about, we talk about, you know, being from a big family. I go gambling with my grandma. We got stories about that. And, you know, it's about life through a Midwest guy's perspective.

I know 90s baseball players make us smile, but I've been reading this Aaron Rodgers book and there are so many great names that get me to smile.

I tried to get his Warren Sharp pre-season book. He puts all this work into it or whatever.

I want a hard copy.

I want to go like this and I want to put my fingers through all the different pages. I want to leaf the pages. You know what I mean? I want to annotate things.

But it's just a PDF from what I could find.

There's a lot of information in those Warren Sharp NFL previews. There's like 6,000 pages.

Does the Phil Steele tell you who the other three running backs were who won the Doak Walker award two years in a row?

I tried to get his Warren Sharp pre-season book.

I want a hard copy.

Beach Boys song, Help Me Rita. That's right. Help me Rita.