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Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way: A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers Cover

Jeff Blodgett

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way

A Comprehensive Guide for Candidates and Campaign Workers

The book contained a section on Tim Walz falsely describing him as a national guardsman who served in Afghanistan. Walz endorsed the book.

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Flash forward to 2008 and Waltz also endorsed a book that book was titled Winning Your Election, the Wellstone Way.

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The book contained a section on Tim Walz falsely describing him as a national guardsman who served in Afghanistan. Walz endorsed the book.

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Flash forward to 2008 and Waltz also endorsed a book that book was titled Winning Your Election, the Wellstone Way.

The book had a section on Tim Waltz falsely describing Waltz as a national guardsman who served in Afghanistan.

Now he pushed this book. He endorsed this book.

Are we supposed to believe he didn't look at the one piece of the book that was about him and say, Hey, I did not serve in Afghanistan.

Add a respect for the men who did. That needs to be changed.

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Glenn Beck

Chasing Embers (1) (The Oarsmen)

The author of "Chasing Embers", Glenn Beck, joined the show to talk about what's really going on in women's sports, the media gaslighting over men fighting women in the Olympics, the global selloff affecting the stock market, what this economic hit means for America's future, how this could lead to more catastrophe in the U.S. and abroad, corporate media fawning over Harris, and more.

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BlazeTV's Glenn Beck, author of "Chasing Embers," joins to discuss what's really going on in women's sports, the media gaslighting over men fighting women in the Olympics, the global selloff affecting...

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The author of "Chasing Embers", Glenn Beck, joined the show to talk about what's really going on in women's sports, the media gaslighting over men fighting women in the Olympics, the global selloff affecting the stock market, what this economic hit means for America's future, how this could lead to more catastrophe in the U.S. and abroad, corporate media fawning over Harris, and more.

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BlazeTV's Glenn Beck, author of "Chasing Embers," joins to discuss what's really going on in women's sports, the media gaslighting over men fighting women in the Olympics, the global selloff affecting the stock market, what this economic hit means for America's future, how this could lead to more catastrophe in the U.S. and abroad, corporate media fawning over Harris, and more.

Glenn, you remember that movie, right? That's basically the lesson that the IOC needs to hear. You know everybody needs to hear this.

Glenn Beck, author of The New York Times bestselling children's book out now, Chasing Embers. It's YA and it's really good. It's about pushing back on an overly controlling tyrannical society that tells you to do something you know is wrong so very timely. Glenn, you remember that movie, right? That's basically the lesson that the IOC needs to hear. You know everybody needs to hear this.

It's called chasing embers. It made the New York Times young adult hardcover bestseller list. It is quote an epic story of two teenagers faced with a life altering decision do you comply with a tyrannical regime or do you choose freedom and liberty sounds like a good thing to have your kid leaf through. No Chasing Embers by Glenn.

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power Cover

Daniel Yergin

The Prize

The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power

Yergin's acclaimed history traced the global oil industry from its beginnings to modern geopolitics, providing context for the Nobel oil saga discussed in the episode.

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Our learned audience may know the name Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, and The New Map, Energy Climate, and the Cla...

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Yergin's acclaimed history traced the global oil industry from its beginnings to modern geopolitics, providing context for the Nobel oil saga discussed in the episode.

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Our learned audience may know the name Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize, The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, and The New Map, Energy Climate, and the Clash of Nations.

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Edith Hamilton

The Greek Way (The Modern Library, 320.1)

It was recommended as a good starting point for understanding the classics, specifically focusing on ancient Greece, and its enduring impact.

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I would, to be frank, I would not read anything after 2000 because it's ideological...There's a good book, a classic book by Edith Hamilton called The Greek Way. It was classic in the 1940s.

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It was recommended as a good starting point for understanding the classics, specifically focusing on ancient Greece, and its enduring impact.

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I would, to be frank, I would not read anything after 2000 because it's ideological...There's a good book, a classic book by Edith Hamilton called The Greek Way. It was classic in the 1940s.

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Cover

Sheryl Sandberg

Option B

Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy

The book, written by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, was mentioned as a source of comfort for the Barclay family following the loss of their son.

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For Tom and Allison Option B the book Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the wake of losing her husband has been a comfort.

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The book, written by Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, was mentioned as a source of comfort for the Barclay family following the loss of their son.

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For Tom and Allison Option B the book Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg wrote in the wake of losing her husband has been a comfort.

It really helped um a lot I mean it talks a lot about loss and devastating loss and um um so just that you're not alone and different things she went through that we could certainly relate to but there's the one part of it where um she had her daughter was going to I think a father-daughter dance and her friend was over and she was like I want my husband here and he was like well we don't have that as option you know that is an option so we have to kick the shit out of Option B and that really resonated with me because we have Alexis who we love more than anything I mean and we're grateful for the 17 and a half years that we had with Blake but Alexis is super super amazing and we can't get stuck I mean we can't we have to get out of bed every morning we have to you know and we have so much joy with her still so much laughter and we all three of us miss Blake terribly um but he's with us and we need to continue on.

The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson Cover

Jeffrey Toobin

The Run of His Life

The People v. O.J. Simpson

The book 'The People vs. O.J. Simpson' was mentioned, upon which the miniseries was based and was written by Jeffrey Toobin.

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Toobin wrote he wrote the book, 'The People versus OJ Simpson', on which the miniseries was based.

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The book 'The People vs. O.J. Simpson' was mentioned, upon which the miniseries was based and was written by Jeffrey Toobin.

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Toobin wrote he wrote the book, 'The People versus OJ Simpson', on which the miniseries was based.

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Kevin P. Winn

Voting Rights (21st Century Skills Library

Racial Justice in America

Chaney Mason, a co-counsel on the Casey Anthony defense team, authored this book, where he details how prosecutors and the media can sometimes conspire against the accused.

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Chaney is an attorney who served as co-counsel on the Casey Anthony defense team and who wrote the book Justice in America, how the prosecutors and the media conspire against the accused.

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Chaney Mason, a co-counsel on the Casey Anthony defense team, authored this book, where he details how prosecutors and the media can sometimes conspire against the accused.

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Chaney is an attorney who served as co-counsel on the Casey Anthony defense team and who wrote the book Justice in America, how the prosecutors and the media conspire against the accused.

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Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

It was mentioned that the book's mention was removed due to the author's past, despite being a commonly read book.

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And you're also not allowed to use Joseph Conrad because even though we're all forced to read Heart of Darkness in high school, you're not allowed to mention Joseph Conrad anymore.

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It was mentioned that the book's mention was removed due to the author's past, despite being a commonly read book.

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And you're also not allowed to use Joseph Conrad because even though we're all forced to read Heart of Darkness in high school, you're not allowed to mention Joseph Conrad anymore.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition Cover

Patrick M. Lencioni

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition

It was mentioned as an ironic example of Cuomo's media portrayal during the nursing home scandal, as if he was a leader despite his actions.

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When you have people treating Andrew Cuomo like he knew what the hell he was doing, writing books on leadership, overtly lying like this...

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It was mentioned as an ironic example of Cuomo's media portrayal during the nursing home scandal, as if he was a leader despite his actions.

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When you have people treating Andrew Cuomo like he knew what the hell he was doing, writing books on leadership, overtly lying like this...

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Thomas Paine

The American Crisis Illustrated Edition

It was mentioned that Andrew Cuomo had a $5 million book deal for a book he published after being lauded as the future of the Democratic party, just one year prior to the many scandals that led to his downfall.

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He's done after three terms in office and Emmy, a $5 million book deal with a reported 18 million in the bank.

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It was mentioned that Andrew Cuomo had a $5 million book deal for a book he published after being lauded as the future of the Democratic party, just one year prior to the many scandals that led to his downfall.

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He's done after three terms in office and Emmy, a $5 million book deal with a reported 18 million in the bank.

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Ezra Jack Keats

The Snowy Day

It was used as an analogy for the broad strokes and simplistic nature of Ibram X. Kendi's work, and the way it doesn't fully capture the complexity and nuances of Black people or experiences.

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There's a book called The Sunny Day. It's a wonderful children's, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.

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It was used as an analogy for the broad strokes and simplistic nature of Ibram X. Kendi's work, and the way it doesn't fully capture the complexity and nuances of Black people or experiences.

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There's a book called The Sunny Day. It's a wonderful children's, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.

Broad strokes, only a few colors. You can't quite see the personhood in a lot of the drawings.

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Ralph Nader

Unsafe At Any Speed

The book is about the dangers of automobiles, and how regulations can be implemented to make them safer. It is seen as a good example of how public regulation can be used to improve safety and protect the public from powerful corporations.

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For instance, automobiles. Automobiles used to be much more dangerous. We used to have far more people dying in car crashes every year, you know, before Ralph Nader came around and wrote Unsaf...

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The book is about the dangers of automobiles, and how regulations can be implemented to make them safer. It is seen as a good example of how public regulation can be used to improve safety and protect the public from powerful corporations.

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For instance, automobiles. Automobiles used to be much more dangerous. We used to have far more people dying in car crashes every year, you know, before Ralph Nader came around and wrote Unsafe At Any Speed and started actually getting regulations put into these things.

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Natasha Dow Schüll

Addiction by Design

Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

It was described as a 700-page book about how casinos are designed to be addictive, and the techniques used to keep gamblers engaged.

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We had Natasha Dow Scholl who studied casino design. She wrote a 700 page book on how casinos are designed.

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It was described as a 700-page book about how casinos are designed to be addictive, and the techniques used to keep gamblers engaged.

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We had Natasha Dow Scholl who studied casino design. She wrote a 700 page book on how casinos are designed.

I think her book is called Addiction by Design, is when you start losing, like if you start losing money or you're about to leave, you're about to walk away from the machine, I think someone will come up to you and give you a coupon that's like, get the free buffet at the...

Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden Cover

Lunden Roberts

Out of the Shadows

My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden

Lunden Roberts' book detailed her experiences with Hunter Biden, including their relationship, his drug addiction, and the challenges she faced in getting him to acknowledge and support their child, Navy.

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What's what's what was happening at the Swedish embassy? And talk about how the first word you heard out of his mouth and how you crossed the door and what you saw.

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Lunden Roberts' book detailed her experiences with Hunter Biden, including their relationship, his drug addiction, and the challenges she faced in getting him to acknowledge and support their child, Navy.

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What's what's what was happening at the Swedish embassy? And talk about how the first word you heard out of his mouth and how you crossed the door and what you saw.

Instead, he's sitting there in brightly colored boxer briefs with parrots all over them. I'm intrigued. He turns in his chair and catches me in his stare, his gaze intense with furrowed brows and the most beautiful blue gray eyes I've ever seen.

I'm trying to keep shampoo suds from my eyes when there's a little pause. And I hear him say, you know, honey, you've got a real problem. What I managed to ask with that vague feeling he's about to say something he'd rather not, but he knows he has to anyway. You're in love with me. Love? I hadn't even considered it.

I'm going to hurt you. I hurt everyone who loves me.

The dedication page where, you know, Jill wrote this book about Joe and she dedicated it to, you know, her grandchildren as she should. And then she listed them by name, excluding one.

Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less Cover

Alex Epstein

Fossil Future

Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

Alex Epstein's book, "Fossil Future," was discussed in depth, and he argued that fossil fuels are beneficial to the environment and human flourishing, as well as being crucial for the future.

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I'm going to try to persuade you that if you want to make the world a better place, one of the best things you can do is fight for more fossil fuel use, more burning of oil, coal and natural gas.

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Alex Epstein's book, "Fossil Future," was discussed in depth, and he argued that fossil fuels are beneficial to the environment and human flourishing, as well as being crucial for the future.

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I'm going to try to persuade you that if you want to make the world a better place, one of the best things you can do is fight for more fossil fuel use, more burning of oil, coal and natural gas.

And then you go on to say this is going to seem craziest of all, that you think that we will experience higher environmental quality and less danger from climate if we do so.

You don't have to teach me how to think very few of you would be alive without cheap, plentiful, reliable energy. Everything you're wearing, whatever made it possible for you to get here is made possible by energy.

And it's not just energy in general. You have to produce it cheaply, reliably, scalably, efficiently.

But as long as your life is being made possible by the people of the fossil fuel industry, I think you should be grateful. And I think it is a crime, a moral crime that you are damning anyone by association.

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Peter Schweizer

Red-Handed

How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

It was discussed as providing details of how American elites, including the Bidens, have helped China to gain an advantage.

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Peter firmly believes that criminal charges are heading Hunter's way.

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It was discussed as providing details of how American elites, including the Bidens, have helped China to gain an advantage.

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Peter firmly believes that criminal charges are heading Hunter's way.

Peter's president of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Red Handed, How American Elites Get Right, Helping China Win.

I really enjoy your podcast and listening to you, and you are very good at explaining such a dense subject matter.

I heard you joking recently that the good news is four years after you got onto this, the mainstream media has finally come along.

Hope springs eternal.

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Ray Dalio

Principles

Life and Work

It was mentioned as a book by Ray Dalio, a billionaire hedge fund manager, which was ironically mentioned as it was discussed how he was aware of the atrocities of the Chinese government but ignored them.

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He's a guy who's written a book called Principles, which is hilarious when you're watching that clip.

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It was mentioned as a book by Ray Dalio, a billionaire hedge fund manager, which was ironically mentioned as it was discussed how he was aware of the atrocities of the Chinese government but ignored them.

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He's a guy who's written a book called Principles, which is hilarious when you're watching that clip.

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Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

A passage was read from this book aloud during the podcast, and the guest made it clear that he found the content inappropriate for children.

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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, currently in Storm Grove Middle School and Freshman Learning Center. Page 265. As if letting him finger me was going to cure all my problems.

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A passage was read from this book aloud during the podcast, and the guest made it clear that he found the content inappropriate for children.

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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, currently in Storm Grove Middle School and Freshman Learning Center. Page 265. As if letting him finger me was going to cure all my problems.

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Michael Lewis

The Blind Side

Evolution of a Game

The book and movie, based on the life of Michael Oher, were discussed in the context of a legal battle between him and the Tuohy family, who were his legal guardians, with Oher alleging that he was misled and not fairly compensated for the rights to his story.

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The hit book and movie Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her portrayal of Leanne Tui.

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The book and movie, based on the life of Michael Oher, were discussed in the context of a legal battle between him and the Tuohy family, who were his legal guardians, with Oher alleging that he was misled and not fairly compensated for the rights to his story.

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The hit book and movie Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her portrayal of Leanne Tui.

The family that took in Michael Orr and he went on to become a big football star in the NFL.

They're basically in a divorce. They're in a very ugly fight.

He wants something like hundreds of thousands of dollars from them in maybe more, actually, that he says that they receive millions of dollars and he received nothing for the rights to his story.

The Tueys are denying it, Jason saying really none of this is true.

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