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As Goes California: My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation Cover

Larry Elder

As Goes California

My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation

Larry Elder's upcoming book, 'As Goes California', was mentioned as being set to be released in November, with a focus on his mission to rescue the Golden State and save the nation.

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He's also author of the upcoming book set to be released in November. It's called As Goes California. And you know the rest. My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation.

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Larry Elder's upcoming book, 'As Goes California', was mentioned as being set to be released in November, with a focus on his mission to rescue the Golden State and save the nation.

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He's also author of the upcoming book set to be released in November. It's called As Goes California. And you know the rest. My Mission to Rescue the Golden State and Save the Nation.

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Cover

Vincent Bugliosi

Helter Skelter

The True Story of the Manson Murders

The book 'Helter Skelter' was mentioned in the context of building a case using circumstantial evidence, similar to the Scott Peterson case.

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if you remember Vincent Bugliosi's book, Helter Skelter, he described the circumstantial case as a series of strands or cables or strands of wires on a cable that become increasingly...

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The book 'Helter Skelter' was mentioned in the context of building a case using circumstantial evidence, similar to the Scott Peterson case.

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if you remember Vincent Bugliosi's book, Helter Skelter, he described the circumstantial case as a series of strands or cables or strands of wires on a cable that become increasingly big and strong

The Witches Cover

Roald Dahl

The Witches

The book's content was altered to remove potentially offensive language. A passage about witches being bald was altered to include a statement about it not being wrong for women to wear wigs.

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In The Witches, there's a paragraph explaining The Witches are bald beneath their wigs. And the new line is, it adds on at the end of the line, there are plenty of ot...

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The book's content was altered to remove potentially offensive language. A passage about witches being bald was altered to include a statement about it not being wrong for women to wear wigs.

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In The Witches, there's a paragraph explaining The Witches are bald beneath their wigs. And the new line is, it adds on at the end of the line, there are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs. And there is certainly nothing wrong with that.

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It Cover

Kashmir Hill

Your Face Belongs to Us

A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

It was discussed as a riveting story of a company using facial recognition technology, potentially ending privacy as we know it. The author was interviewed about her research and the ethical questions surrounding it.

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Your Face Belongs to Us: a secret startup's quest to end privacy as we know it.

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It was discussed as a riveting story of a company using facial recognition technology, potentially ending privacy as we know it. The author was interviewed about her research and the ethical questions surrounding it.

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Your Face Belongs to Us: a secret startup's quest to end privacy as we know it.

It is the riveting story of a small AI company that advanced facial recognition technology. And in the process may have ended privacy yours in mind as we know it.

The book is Your Face Belongs to Us. You'll learn a lot. You'll be fascinated. It's a quick, easy read.

Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance Cover

Nicholas Kardaras

Glow Kids

How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance

The book was discussed regarding its content, which detailed the negative effects of virtual learning and mask-wearing on children, including mental health implications.

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He's got three clinics in the United States. He's world renowned. Everybody's always having him come in. He's on every single last media place you can imagine. Fox News 2020, you name it, has a book c...

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The book was discussed regarding its content, which detailed the negative effects of virtual learning and mask-wearing on children, including mental health implications.

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He's got three clinics in the United States. He's world renowned. Everybody's always having him come in. He's on every single last media place you can imagine. Fox News 2020, you name it, has a book called Glow Kids.

Tells me all the different things that's bad about virtual learning and then on top of that making the kids go back to mask, talking about depression and suicide and how all these numbers are going up and the damage it's doing on the on the on the frontal cortex.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition Cover

Siegfried Engelmann

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Revised and Updated Second Edition

It was recommended by John McWhorter as an effective method for teaching phonics, a skill that's particularly vital for children who aren't exposed to books at home or in underfunded schools.

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelman.

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It was recommended by John McWhorter as an effective method for teaching phonics, a skill that's particularly vital for children who aren't exposed to books at home or in underfunded schools.

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelman.

I've done it with both of my daughters. Watch the magic both times.

I actually have Dahlia, my first daughter, doing this after having been taught from that book.

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN Cover

Bob Woodward

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

Monica Crowley alluded to this book, which focused on the Watergate scandal, suggesting that journalists continue to seek their 'All the President's Men' moment, particularly when a Republican is in office.

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These reporters today are still trying to get their ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN moment as long as it's a Republican in there. Never when it's a Democrat in there.

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Monica Crowley alluded to this book, which focused on the Watergate scandal, suggesting that journalists continue to seek their 'All the President's Men' moment, particularly when a Republican is in office.

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These reporters today are still trying to get their ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN moment as long as it's a Republican in there. Never when it's a Democrat in there.

The End of History and the Last Man Cover

Francis Fukuyama

The End of History and the Last Man

It was discussed as a best-selling book written around the fall of the Soviet Union, where many people believed that totalitarian regimes were a thing of the past.

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It's not surprising that Francis Fukuyama book, The End of History, was a bestseller.

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It was discussed as a best-selling book written around the fall of the Soviet Union, where many people believed that totalitarian regimes were a thing of the past.

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It's not surprising that Francis Fukuyama book, The End of History, was a bestseller.

The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival Cover

Ron DeSantis

The Courage to Be Free

Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

Ron DeSantis's book, released recently, was described as potentially laying out his blueprint for a presidential run, though he has not yet formally announced his candidacy.

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Ron DeSantis hasn't made any announcements yet, but he did just release a book called The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for American Revival.

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Ron DeSantis's book, released recently, was described as potentially laying out his blueprint for a presidential run, though he has not yet formally announced his candidacy.

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Ron DeSantis hasn't made any announcements yet, but he did just release a book called The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for American Revival.

Book is published by HarperCollins, owned by Fox and so on.

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Homer

The Odyssey

It was mentioned as a book that was successfully removed from a Massachusetts high school curriculum, although the speaker did not entirely agree with that decision.

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One high school teacher in Massachusetts bragged last year that she got Homer's The Odyssey ban from her school.

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It was mentioned as a book that was successfully removed from a Massachusetts high school curriculum, although the speaker did not entirely agree with that decision.

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One high school teacher in Massachusetts bragged last year that she got Homer's The Odyssey ban from her school.

Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles Cover

Marianne Williamson

Return to Love

Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles

It was discussed as a smash hit book, particularly after an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show, where Oprah herself claimed to have experienced 157 miracles after reading it.

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Marianne first became a household name long before she ran for office. She was invited on the Oprah Winfrey Show back in 1992 to discuss her smash book...called A Return to Love. Opra...

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It was discussed as a smash hit book, particularly after an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show, where Oprah herself claimed to have experienced 157 miracles after reading it.

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Marianne first became a household name long before she ran for office. She was invited on the Oprah Winfrey Show back in 1992 to discuss her smash book...called A Return to Love. Oprah said that she experienced 157 miracles herself after reading it.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition Cover

Paulo Freire

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

50th Anniversary Edition

It was discussed that the book 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' by Paulo Freire underpins teacher education programs, which are seen to be rooted in the notion of levelling privilege and indoctrination, rather than education.

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And all those teacher ed programs, they're all predicated on this book, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which is you teach to liberate, oppress, not to educate, not to, in f...

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It was discussed that the book 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' by Paulo Freire underpins teacher education programs, which are seen to be rooted in the notion of levelling privilege and indoctrination, rather than education.

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And all those teacher ed programs, they're all predicated on this book, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which is you teach to liberate, oppress, not to educate, not to, in fact, he calls it a banking factory, not to put things in your butt, but to, in modern terms, level privilege.

Game Change Cover

Joseph Monninger

Game Change

The earlier book was mentioned as the predecessor to DoubleDown.

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the sequel to Game Change

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The earlier book was mentioned as the predecessor to DoubleDown.

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the sequel to Game Change

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy Cover

Tom Schaller

White Rural Rage

The Threat to American Democracy

It was described as a book that promotes the idea that white, rural voters are a threat to the country due to their supposed racism, xenophobia, and anti-democratic beliefs.

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A few weeks ago, they had on the authors of a new book they really want you to read called White Rural Rage.

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It was described as a book that promotes the idea that white, rural voters are a threat to the country due to their supposed racism, xenophobia, and anti-democratic beliefs.

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A few weeks ago, they had on the authors of a new book they really want you to read called White Rural Rage.

They're the most racist xenophobic anti-immigrant anti gay geographic group in the country. Second, they're the most conspiracist group. Q and on support and subscribers, election denialism, COVID denialism, scientific skepticism, Obama, Berthorism.

The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus Cover

Lee Strobel

The Case for Christ

A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus

Megyn said it was the best and a game changer, noting it had sold about 15 million copies.

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The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. By far the best. It was great.

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Megyn said it was the best and a game changer, noting it had sold about 15 million copies.

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The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. By far the best. It was great.

Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series) Cover

Ryan Holiday

Courage Is Calling

Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)

It was discussed as the first in a series about cardinal values, focusing on courage and how to overcome fear, with examples and stories of historical figures.

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Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave, is a New York Times bestseller too.

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It was discussed as the first in a series about cardinal values, focusing on courage and how to overcome fear, with examples and stories of historical figures.

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Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave, is a New York Times bestseller too.

This is from the book, Courageous Calling with Ryan Holiday. Tell yourself, it's just money. It's just a bad article. It's just a meeting with people yelling at one another. Is that something you need to be afraid of? Break it down. Really look at the facts, investigate.

If courage is never required in your life, you are living a boring life.

Our fear points us like a self-indicating arrow in the direction of the right thing to do. One part of us knows what we ought to do, but the other part reminds us of the inevitable consequences. Fear alerts us to danger, but also to opportunity.

They heal, they grow for themselves and for others.

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Ryan Holiday

Stillness Is the Key

It was mentioned as one of the guest's previous works and was discussed in the context of how slowing down and prioritizing can lead to better work and a more balanced life.

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Stillness is key. What's that about?

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It was mentioned as one of the guest's previous works and was discussed in the context of how slowing down and prioritizing can lead to better work and a more balanced life.

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Stillness is key. What's that about?

Stillness is key. So it's not you don't necessarily have to meditate, but I know you wrote about how you you backpack through the woods.

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