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He's also the author of Supreme Disorder, Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court.

I rarely ever make perfect predictions on the media here. I'm going to make a 100 percent certain conviction. There will be no criminal prosecution of Donald Trump or of Joe Biden.

They cancel each other out unless obviously more information comes out that shows obstruction of justice or Richard Nixon type behavior.

Everything has to be equal and one will cancel out the other.

You cannot prosecute Trump if you didn't prosecute Hillary Clinton, if you only gave a slap on the wrist to Sandy Berger. And now, of course, with Biden, it's impossible.

Let's stop weaponizing the criminal justice system. Let's stop doing tit for tat politics as to right, wrong, to wrongs, make a third wrong.

He is the author of a new book, The Price of Principle, Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences.

That's why I wrote my book, The Price of Principle, to point out the politization, how politics trumps principle today all over the United States...

We all love Alan in his book.

And I learned all those lessons from her book, her memoir called Audition, which came out in 2008 was very eyeopening for me.

Your scorching indictment of Barbara Walters mothering took guts.

I telephoned whenever I could...I told Jackie I missed her and I loved her dearly...Then I hung up the phone, felt even lonelier and went back to work.

I don't think I was very good at marriage...It may be that my career was just too important...I just seemed to be better alone. I'm not lonely, I'm alone.

I look back and I think I wish I had been with her more. I was so busy with a career.

I wish I'd spent more time with my family...I wish I had spent more time with my Jackie.

I don't believe that soundbite...I think she prioritized her career because it was what she truly loved more than anything.

I did a book on the Ottoman fronts of the Middle East called The Ottoman Endgame

did a book on the Ottoman fronts in the Middle East called The Ottoman Endgame

Here's a little bit from Michael Schellenberger, who's an honest journalist. He's I trust him implicitly. He's been he wrote the book Apocalypse Never on the environment. He started out on the left. He's he came to his views very honestly and he wrote the book San Francisco recently about the homeless crisis, homeless crisis out there, as well as the drug crisis linked, of course.

I will take care of my physical health. I will develop myself mentally by doing creative things, reading things that would develop me mentally. I will not waste time. I will not waste money. I will set goals. I will excel in my job. I will be humble. I will control my emotions. I will put others before myself. I will take care of and protect my friends and family.

There's a great book called "Drinking: A Love Story" by Carolyn Knapp who ended up dying but she was a writer I think she was a journalist if you can't maybe she wrote for the Boston Globe or something she wrote this book called "Drinking: A Love Story" and it was about that she was in love with booze she's like the uncork of the wine bottle you know the sultry kind of seductive way that the wine would enter the glass you know she would just sit there and you know drink and then it was this amazing way to understand that it was an amazing way to understand it and she articulated it beautifully as like that this is the great love story of her life was booze and she needs to get away from it sad

There's a great book called Drinking: A Love Story by Carolyn Knapp who ended up dying but she was a writer I think she was a journalist if you can't maybe she wrote for the Boston Globe or something she wrote this book called Drinking: A Love Story and it was about that she was in love with booze she's like the uncorking of the wine bottle you know the sultry kind of seductive way that wine would enter the glass you know she would just sit there and you know drink and then it was this amazing way to understand that it was an amazing way to understand it and she articulated it beautifully as like that this is the great love story of her life was booze and she needs to get away from it sad.

His book is Two Meals a Day, which is like you need to read that.

He's got this one recipe in his book which I've been eating nonstop. You would never think you could eat this and stay thin. It's like it's like a taco casserole and it's two pounds of ground beef on top of cauliflower rice, which I'm like, that's going to be disgusting.

I wrote a book called Two Meals a Day.

I have bought all of their books. I have the audio version. I have the hard copy version. I got rid of the hateful eight vegetable oils. I've been like decreasing the grains and the sugars, which I didn't think I could ever do. And now I have trained my body to eat its own previously toxic fat instead of me running to the pantry for the sugary stuff. I'm telling you, go back and download that pod. It's a game changer.

And then hers is, I think, the fat burner fix.

I understood that it wasn't making sense to them and it wasn't making sense to me either.

They would say, I hardly eat anything and I'm not losing weight. I work out all the time and it used to work, but now it doesn't anymore.

Something is wrong with my metabolism.

Yeah, there is something wrong with your metabolism.

It was not able to efficiently go, as Mark was saying, from burning the calories in the food that you just last ate to snap immediately into releasing your body fat from storage and burning that.

His new book is titled Talent. How to identify energizers, creatives and winners around the world.

People who have the ability to come up with new ideas, run indirect projects and motivate other people. And so many ventures, that is what is truly scarce. It's typically not money.

Your tabs show you are solving problems.

Our guest today is Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the new book, Talent, How to Identify Energizers, Creatives and Winners Around the Globe, which comes out tomorrow. You should place your order today.

I'd much rather have somebody who is medium smart and a gunner, you know, than somebody who's super smart and lazy.

His new book is titled Talent. How to identify energizers, creatives and winners around the world.

Our guest today is Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the new book, Talent, How to Identify Energizers, Creatives and Winners Around the Globe, which comes out tomorrow.

The book is out tomorrow. It's called Talent, How to Identify Energizers, Creatives and Winners Around the World.

It is a book they hope will help you learn to tackle obstacles in your own life and shows a bit of how they got to become these extraordinary human beings.

This is their first interview ahead of the book's release tomorrow.

But this is like, OK, who is Rob O'Neill as a kid? I love the part about, you know, I wasn't really like a mixed martial arts kid and I wasn't the bully and I wasn't on the football team. I was more likely to be the one getting beat up than doing the beating up.

And Dakota, like your stories, too, about like, you know, your your cow Tinkerbell and just kind of like puts a real...

Obviously our first books came out. We were talking more about, you know, about the the war and the black and white side of it, of, you know, who's wrong and right. But there's just a humanization factor to this that we cannot miss.

They're out with a new book next week. It's fascinating. Perfectly timed called 'The Way Forward: Master Life's Toughest Battles'.

So back to the title of the book, It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward. Is it awkward to write about that and talk about that with him sitting right there and sort of say, I needed you and you weren't there?

Yeah, I am. Well, I've been working on a memoir for the past five years. So writing about my life is routine for me at this point. And ultimately, because we have open discourse, I've been very vocal about the fact that his workaholism did impact all three of our childhoods.

We were obviously provided with privileges that are incomparable for a lot of people in this country. And for that, I'm grateful. But ultimately, there was sort of this opening maw hole in which dad wasn't there.

He did show up for ice skating competitions. He did show up for football games. He was there for the big events. But the day to day was a little bit more mom's domain.

And she's doing what every daughter of an unavailable dad does. Thank God I wasn't abandoning. I didn't leave because that would have been then the preoccupation.

It's more about it was written this book was written for sort of well we say 14 to 20 year olds 14 and how helping them navigate relationships it really was originally about consent it's a primer on sex on relationships on crushes on bullying on teenage life

It's not about all this stuff so much although this does get out of the book that will be in the memoir

It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward is it awkward to write about that and talk about that with him sitting right there and sort of say yeah I needed you and you weren't there.

It's been great and listen this then this is forging those adult connections right and and again that's what our book ended up being about we really it's not about all this stuff so much although this does get out of the book that will be in the memoir

Ultimately the foundational idea of this book is that if you trust yourself have compassion for yourself and know your own boundaries then you can trust someone else offer them compassion and respect their boundaries

As I was wrapping up that reporting, I was starting to hear things like we've got a heroin crisis in Martinsville, Virginia.

Her first book, Factory Man, which came out in 2014, is about the aftermath of globalization.

I tell the story of this mom in my new book Raising Lazarus, which comes out next August, who had this critical moment where she knew her son was going to die if he didn't get help.

I love that you have a new book, Raising Lazarus, which comes out next August.

And the book is called Ice Brothers by Sloane Wilson.

The book is called Ice Brothers by Sloan Wilson.

We've got a heartbreaking and infuriating story about the opioid crisis featuring the author of Dope Sick, the book and then the creator of the incredible TV series.

There's a great book called Dope Sick.

And one of the things as you read Dope Sick is the woman who wrote it says, well, this child started with an ADHD diagnosis. This child started with Adderall.

Joining me now, Ali Beth Stuckey, host of Relatable on Blaze TV and author of You're Not Enough and That's Okay.

So we are constantly bombarded, especially as women, as young women on social media with these messages that you're enough as you are, that you're perfect as you are, that it's a privilege for anyone to be in your life.

And all of the problems that you are facing, all the insecurities that you have, all this feeling of anxiety or depression is actually not because of you or anything that's wrong with you. It's actually because of all of these systems outside of you.

So it's because of the patriarchy, it's because of capitalism, it's because of society, whatever that means. It's because of marketing and advertising and unfair expectations for women.

It's because of your kids that are just draining you and have turned you into something that you're not. And so in order to finally be fulfilled and be happy and be free, you have to release yourself of all these societal expectations and standards and realize that you are enough, you're sufficient as you are.

And everyone else just has to recognize that. And once you love yourself as much as possible, once you are confident in every single flaw and quirk that you have, then finally you will be free to pursue your dreams, to start a business, to be successful, to have healthy relationships.

So the book is called The Quick Fix, Why FAD Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills.

It stems from before Katie Herzog dragged me down into culture war hell with her. I worked at New York magazine, I edited a vertical about behavioral science and I sort of carved out a niche as someone who would be skeptical of the press releases you would get from Harvard or the University of Pennsylvania touting some incredible new finding about human behavior.

So I decided to write a book that will basically be a book that will help people cut through the overhyped claims we often get from psychologists on issues like the implicit association test, which can supposedly reveal your hidden racism, but has very little evidence behind it.

I do talk about the decades long self-esteem craze, which claimed that all sorts of societal problems, including crime could be solved by improving people's self-esteem.

There's also a military program that costs about $500 million that supposedly reduces PTSD and suicidality among soldiers, but no evidence to support that. And just sort of a giant waste of money.

Ibram Kendi was speaking at one of these events and they pledged to buy copies of his book stamped and to pollute schools with it all over the country.

I think the title of your book is interesting, too, because as angry as we get with Facebook and social media, it will be nice. I was reading sort of just like a long summary of the book. And I was at first I was like, this is bullshit. This is wrong, too. No, they're terrible. And then when I got to me, I was like, I feel better. I feel better based on what Robbie is telling me.

I have covered a lot of the big tech issues and I share a lot of the concerns that people particularly on the right have about censorship and bias and that kind of thing so I am I am by no means making the claim that it's that doesn't exist or that's not happening it is a problem but I think a lot of people again especially on the right miss the tremendous benefit of social media.

Conservatives use Facebook for sure. It's there it's it's a really it's probably it is arguably the most important to modern communication tool for getting out views that dissent from liberal orthodoxy.

I'm very worried we would shoot ourselves in the foot by doing something to disrupt it. You know I do not want to go back to the era where I mean because the New York Times is never going to run an op-ed by a Republican ever again.

I think that i think that's a pretty direct comparison here so i i don't i i don't think in a constitutional sense you can necessarily bring in the government but i do again i do absolutely think parents should talk to their kids about their social media use

I was reading sort of just like a long summary of the book. And I was at first I was like, this is bullshit. This is wrong, too. No, they're terrible. And then when I got to me, I was like, I feel better. I feel better based on what Robbie is telling me.

I have covered a lot of the big tech issues and I share a lot of the concerns that people particularly on the right have about censorship and bias and that kind of thing so I am I am by no means making the claim that it's that doesn't exist or that's not happening it is a problem but I think a lot of people again especially on the right miss the tremendous benefit of social media.

I'm very worried we would shoot ourselves in the foot by doing something to disrupt it.

I do not want to go back to the era where I mean because the New York Times is never going to run an op-ed by a Republican ever again.

The book is Tech Panic it's out tomorrow I recommend it you'll feel better as I did