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I come from the vantage point of having authored actually a letter to Disney's board of directors and to Bob Chappick earlier this year, questioning certain of their business decisions from a shareholder perspective.

I've written about this extensively in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.

I wrote a book about it a little over a year ago. I did not expect to have to write a sequel. SBF actually provides the telltale story of a sequel.

But this pattern repeats itself where the problem with virtue signaling is that at some point signaling your virtue becomes more important than the act of actually being virtuous.

It's something to be alarmed about. It's not just hypocritical. Exactly. It is how the game works. You pretend like you care about something other than profit and power precisely to gain more profit and power.

Victimhood has become America's new national identity.

It is the reason why most immigrants come to this country. It is the reason why my parents came to this country. But the path from one to the other is a complicated one and it runs through some uncomfortable places.

The path from victimhood to excellence runs through forgiveness.

When somebody gets a competitive advantage from seeing themselves or describing themselves and holding themselves out as a victim through an affirmative action program to get into college, whatever the case may be, everyone loses out.

The path from victimhood to excellence runs through forgiveness.

Vivek has another book coming out. It's called Nation of Victims. It comes out later this year. You can preorder it right now. And you should the subtitle is identity politics, the death of merit, and the path back to excellence.

She thought so much of herself she called her own memoir Becoming, Becoming double entendre, get it? That she's hopeless?

And she said it wasn't until her husband was nominated for president that she'd ever felt proud of her country.

Secretary Robert Gates wrote about it. First Lady Michelle Obama wrote about it twice in her book, Becoming Michelle sent me a handwritten note on how much it moved her.

I didn't know it was a documentary. That was just a book she twice donated to Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.

You wrote a book called *Becoming* about yourself, how Becoming you are.

the Michelle Obama era ... I'm Becoming number one New York Times worldwide bestseller.

I'm from Kentucky and like we live life different than New York. And you know, so when I first met Gunny Kennefic and he was the old man at the team, I think he was like 30 at the time, which is crazy. But you know, he's an old man on the team. He was a Gunny. He, he had this, like, I called it the New York chip on his shoulder, you know, like just, he had that, just that attitude. Right.

I mean, obviously even Rob O'Neill says, you know, I kind of talk slow and you know, I'm from Kentucky and like we live life different than New York.

Chris was the lead sniper and the point man for Charlie platoon.

He had done the pushup, he had fought in Fallujah.

And so it was just, it was just a perfect fit, perfect fit for him.

Straight Shooter, a memoir of second chances and first takes.

It's been a long time, Megan. How are you? How you doing? How's everything? I hope you and your family are well. Thank you very much. All is well with me. It's such it's been such a crazy month.

He is the host of The Stephen A. Smith Show and author of the deeply personal book out last year, Straight Shooter, a memoir of second chances and first takes.

Straight Shooter, a memoir of second chances and first takes.

Steven A. Smith is what Bill O'Reilly was to Fox News, whatever, 10, 15 years ago.

He's written a memoir called Straight Shooter.

it was like, man, this is kind of like Barack Obama's dreams of my father, that he's planning these little false fake narratives and making these points that are trying to set him up for a political career.

I was like, oh my God, I mean, there's a lot of fiction in this guy's memoir.

he writes and talks about himself and his former athletic career as a high school player and college player in such a farcical way that you're sitting there like he doesn't even know sports at all.

And at some point he was going to come after me.

it was like, man, this is kind of like Barack Obama's dreams of my father, that he's planning these little false fake narratives and making these points that are trying to set him up for a political career.

I was like, oh my God, I mean, there's a lot of fiction in this guy's memoir.

he writes and talks about himself and his former athletic career as a high school player and college player in such a farcical way that you're sitting there like he doesn't even know sports at all.

And so I just started raising questions about the facts and the truth of his memoir.

I know Woodward and Costa well enough to know that you should take everything they write with an enormous grain of salt.

And it was more of a defense saying I was ordered to do all that. I was totally fine within the chain of command because the then secretary of defense told me I should.

General Lee, this is Millie on October 30 2020. General Lee, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you. You and I have known each other for now five years, I could I could be with you on it. So far, I could say, okay, you know, he's, he's got some intel. He's trying to say we're not we're not planning an attack, contrary to what you may be here.

If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise.

And this is a quote now in the same context. He's crazy. You know, he's crazy. He's crazy. And what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness.

General Lee, this is Millie on October 30 2020. General Lee, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.

If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise.

He's crazy. You know, he's crazy. He's crazy. And what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness.

I agree with you on everything

General Milley in the final days of Donald Trump's presidency, two days after the January 6 attack, and then thereafter, was doing a couple of things.

He worried that Trump could go rogue.

He called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8th to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons, speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's war room.

General Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was personally involved.

He was afraid based on, quote, Trump's erratic behavior.

And you see this from people such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, who essentially said in his book, and many of his other writings, that the United States had an original sin, which I think is true, but that there was no redemption for it.

Not what Martin Luther King said, which is this original sin exists, but that it can be forgiven or overcome.

But that nothing has changed and nothing can change. And in the case of Ta-Nehisi Coates, he wrote this in a book that was nominally addressed to his son.

He downplayed the influence of people like Ta-Nehisi Coates back then as a thought leader who's really driving people's beliefs on this.

And I guess that's not fair. They also get it from what you learn from most classes on race in most institutions of education.

And I do not agree on much, but I would never say that his writing doesn't make any sense.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote this extraordinarily bestselling memoir, Between the World and Me, that kind of changed the American conversation around race and in many ways led us to where we are now.

She's got a book coming out. Everybody's like, she's not doing interviews. How is she ever going to sell this book? I'm like, she's smarter than the rest of us. That's how she's going to sell the book.

The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience.

Now the silence around it feels heavy.

I can't help but wonder why didn't law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech?

There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.

She's got a book coming out. Everybody's like, she's not doing interviews. How is she ever going to sell this book? I'm like, she's smarter than the rest of us. That's how she's going to sell the book.

The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience. Now the silence around it feels heavy. I can't help but wonder why didn't law enforcement officials arrest the shooter before the speech? There is definitely more to this story, and we need to uncover the truth.

I was concerned while I watched each new generation coming of age, including my own kids, that there were a number of experiences that those of us who grew up pre-smartphone, pre-internet had had that were disappearing.

Basic things like learning how to write by hand, but also broader skills like how to wait, how to be bored, how to daydream, the kinds of things that now because we have these powerful new technologies, which are wonderful in many ways, they don't allow us to experience some of these things that actually do help us become better human beings.

So I spent some time in meme world. I'm a Gen Xer and I'm old, so I still use emojis and badly according to my children, but I found those really creative because they're quite evocative.

They tend to be extremely sarcastic and some of them are just downright funny, but the emotional impact is what I think that generation in particular is trying to express through a medium that isn't as expressive as their human body is.

The more pictures you take, the less you remember about the actual experience you're having. And second, you don't usually go back and look at those pictures in the same way that again to go old school people used to sit down together and look at an old family photo album and turn the pages and see the pictures and talk about who was doing what when.

I was concerned while I watched each new generation coming of age, including my own kids, that there were a number of experiences that those of us who grew up pre-smartphone, pre-internet had had that were disappearing.

Friends get together online, but less so in face-to-face ways. Our public spaces, which used to be places you could bump into people, meet new people, have become just Wi-Fi hotspots where we can all be in our own little universe on our phones.

And I feel like our real world, because of the power of our technologies, some of our real world experiences are disappearing because we outsource them to technology.

The title actually comes from a naturalist who was worried that kids growing up in a world where they didn't play outside and they didn't experience the natural world wouldn't understand what they'd lost if that world disappeared.

So I spent some time in meme world. I'm a Gen Xer and I'm old, so I still use emojis and badly according to my children, but I found those really creative because they're quite evocative.

I was concerned while I watched each new generation coming of age, including my own kids, that there were a number of experiences that those of us who grew up pre-smartphone, pre-internet had had that were disappearing.

The title actually comes from a naturalist who was worried that kids growing up in a world where they didn't play outside and they didn't experience the natural world wouldn't understand what they'd lost if that world disappeared.

And I feel like our real world, because of the power of our technologies, some of our real world experiences are disappearing because we outsource them to technology.

Friends get together online, but less so in face-to-face ways. Our public spaces, which used to be places you could bump into people, meet new people, have become just Wi-Fi hotspots where we can all be in our own little universe on our phones.

The book is called The Extinction of Experience by Christine Rosen.

I was concerned while I watched each new generation coming of age, including my own kids, that there were a number of experiences that those of us who grew up pre-smartphone, pre-internet had had that were disappearing.

The title actually comes from a naturalist who was worried that kids growing up in a world where they didn't play outside and they didn't experience the natural world wouldn't understand what they'd lost if that world disappeared.

And I feel like our real world, because of the power of our technologies, some of our real world experiences are disappearing because we outsource them to technology.

Friends get together online, but less so in face-to-face ways. Our public spaces, which used to be places you could bump into people, meet new people, have become just Wi-Fi hotspots where we can all be in our own little universe on our phones.

And the way we treat each other is affected by that. We are less patient if you look at rates of road rage and air rage, and we are less likely to be able to get along.

It's an absolutely beautiful novel about this one man struggling to save his soul in the midst of the financial crisis and the financial world down on Wall Street.

Nick Farmer is a bond trader with Bear Stearns in 2005 before the financial meltdown brought paints a picture of the excesses of a bond traders life as seen through Nick's eyes.

He has spent too many years getting drunk by 5. P.m. spending expense money on strippers and drinks. His marriage is in trouble. His life is a mess, but how can he fix it?

Brunt does a masterful job of involving the reader into Nick's life.

He takes you on a roller coaster of emotions as you feel disgust, fear, hope, and finally learn to like this broken and deeply flawed character.

I didn't like Nick in the beginning, but came to care very much about him by the conclusion. This is a very strong first novel.

My husband wrote a book about Wall Street called Ghosts of Manhattan, and he did it. It was very well researched. This is one of the points he makes about the guys who, whether it's hookers or what they call, forgive me, a rub and tug from a massage therapist kind of thing. They don't consider it cheating.

My husband actually wrote a book called Ghosts of Manhattan and it's all about Wall Street greed and the culture that drives it.

He's comparing the woke left leftists to the Puritans, you know, who are scolds about everything we did. No joy of any kind can be allowed.

It's well worth buying. I love, love, love Noah's book. And it's fun and it's a funny read. It's also disturbing, but it's got solutions.

how sort of these wolfsters are trying to police everybody's speech are just like the old Puritans.

The best book I've read on the absurdity and futility of the woke movement.

Rothman brilliantly and methodically exposes the vapidity of these new Puritans with too-nuts-to-be-true examples of those they target from poets, knitters and bird watchers to chefs and home decorators.

No one is safe in these modern day witch trials until we realize the secret to dismantling them. Mockery.

Absolutely brilliant. Utterly engrossing. You will laugh out loud and shout these stories from the rooftops as Rothman reminds us that sanctimonious cults of misery have historically short shelf lives.

It is an optimistic read about the nonsense that we've been dealing with for far too long now.

Noah Rothman has a good book coming out. I reviewed it in advance and it's about this from a different vantage point. One of the points he makes is they take delight in extinguishing joy. I think the book is called The New Puritans.

he maintains that gender does matter and that it's a real thing even to this day shocking controversial

he said some young girls see nothing but sexualized images of girls all over the internet and also women complaining about childbirth or menstruation or you know sexual harassment how difficult it is to be a woman but in particular the sexualization of women with the with the big bodies and the plastic surgeries and that there are young girls out there thinking that's not me and I don't want that to become me and this can be a trigger for some to start thinking about transitioning

Dr. Leonard Sachs came out. He has written Why Gender Matters and all sorts of books on gender and like you, believes there are two genders and they're not easily exchanged, forgotten, dismissed and so on.

And this was an accepted book positively reviewed by The New York Times and talked about the importance of all boy education and all girl education if that's where you want to go and what you'd get.

Bethany Mandel is a mom of five and editor of the children's book series Heroes of Liberty which i highly recommend their may edition will be about rush limbaugh we read them to our kids and they love them

It's called Heroes of Liberty and you can get our books at heroesofliberty.com.

We're a literary startup and we're producing a book series about great people who embody life values that we want our kids to sort of carry with them through their childhoods and into their adulthoods.

Liberty, freedom, family, standing on your own. Kids follow these amazing people, Amy Coney Barrett, Thomas Sowell and Ronald Reagan from childhood through adulthood.

And so, you know, instead of sort of teaching our children about victimhood, for example, as we were talked about, we're sort of teaching them about sort of standing on your own.

It's not preachy, it's not political, it's just telling great stories with really incredible and engaging art.

She did write that book called The Tell. In this book, The Tell, she claimed that she underwent MDMA therapy. That's an illegal psychedelic drug.

And she said using the drug unlocked years of memories, including of being sexually assaulted by a middle school teacher more than 30 years ago where she grew up in Amarillo, Texas.

She went on the Drew Barrymore show. ... This is an Oprah book of the month. It was her book club. She featured it. She lavished praise on the book and on Amy Griffin.

She began, when she had Amy on her show, by telling a story about Amy's daughter that Amy purports to recount in the book.

I was just floored when I read Amy's story. What she discovered about herself, about her past, made me recognize how powerful the desire to forget is, and also how powerful the desire to remember is, and how your life can change when you reconcile the two.

She has a piece on MDMA and got a bestselling book, The Tell, out of it, which we now believe were lies.

You've been on all of these stories right from the get-go. ... Who did Amy Griffin's The Tell and then did Belle Burden's Strangers, the same publisher.

author Amy Griffin now suing "Jane Doe" over allegations she "stole" her memories for her bestselling book, The Tell.

It became a bestseller. And then she made the Time 100 as this terribly put upon Me Too victim.

and just had Eric Larson on, author of Devil in the White City.

That was big. And Dead Wake and Splendid in the Vial.

And it put the lie to that expression, don't ever meet your heroes, because he was that cool and that great.

And he chose the Manhattan, which happens to be my favorite drink.

Dr. Dale Bredesen is the senior director of precision brain health at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute and the author of the book, "The End of Alzheimer's", which is actually an amazing read with so much information.

This is actually part of a much bigger problem. So we are all witnessing the titanic, that is mainstream medicine, going down because it has rammed into the iceberg of chronic illnesses.

And I'm talking about Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body disease, on and on, CBD, PSP, all these other ones, and including late stage cancers, including chronic renal failure.

We are all in an era in which mainstream medicine is treating things the way we treated them in the 20th century, simple illnesses, viral illnesses, bacterial illnesses, things like that.

So what our research over the last 30 years has suggested is that this is fundamentally a different type of disease. It's not a simple, it's amyloid or it's tau or something like that. This is a network insufficiency.

So the idea here is you have this beautiful plasticity in your brain. You're learning all sorts of wonderful things. You're remembering all sorts of wonderful things. You can make new synapses, you can support them and so forth and so on. And in fact, the big issue with Alzheimer's, as you know, is the loss of those synapses.

And it has all the details in there so that you can look to see how to do this.

So for example, my last book, American Predator, was published by Viking. That book did gangbusters for them. It made them a ton of money.

They said, we're going to make you a strong offer.

So for example, my last book, American Predator, was published by Viking.

Her investigation led her to write the bestselling book, American Predator, the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century.

the book came out in 2019.

The book is called Get Honest or Die Lying, is because it's so easy to be real with other people. But it's so hard to be real with yourself.

I wrote this book for people to stop lying to themselves and stop volunteering those lies to other people.

That's a theme of your book in some ways. Powerful words.

It's something you've worked at, you've cultivated. You talk in the book about the therapy you've been through all the way down to, I don't know if this didn't exactly come from your therapist, but you have a spiritual guru in your life as well.

The only chapter I was like, wow, well, this is not positive. This is, this is some stark stuff. And it's about race. It's called Defamation.

And that's literally what I wrote this book for. I wrote this book for people to stop lying to themselves and stop volunteering those lies to other people.

I just I think that we lack self-awareness, man. And I think that one of the main reasons that, you know, a lot of people just aren't being honest with their self, which is why the book is called Get Honest or Die Lying, is because it's so easy to be real with other people. But it's so hard to be real with yourself.

My whole life, that's what I've challenged myself to be just honest because, you know, my dad used to always tell me something when I was young. He was like, 'man, when you lie to me, you're not lying to me. You lie to yourself.'

That's why the book is called Get Honest or Die Lying, is because it's so easy to be real with other people, but it's so hard to be real with yourself.

I wrote this book for people to stop lying to themselves and stop volunteering those lies to other people.

I think what makes you special is your extreme ability to be introspective, reflective about your life, to keep challenging yourself, to keep change, keep changing, keep growing.

And you're very, very honest about what you perceive as your own shortcomings, whether it was early on in your marriage, something you addressed, whether it was the life lessons you took from your dad and your uncle, and you're sort of growing up, which you realized as an adult weren't so great.

Don't forget, buy the book today. It's called Get Honest or Die Lying by Charlemagne Tha God. It's fascinating, as you can tell, is he?

This is the tease we used on Fox News for about two decades. Without the words comedian, what you hear next will shock you. Right. Exactly. I thought I would bring it to the book world.

I mean, I worked like I could never have done this without the strike, the strike that we had last year game at the time to do this.

I think people should treat like the Bible. I think they should put it by their nightstand and read passages each night. And I think it'll help you through your life.

I think it's, I think I know, I think they thought he was the strongest candidate, the one who could sort of be the strongest leader and take Biden down. But I look at Biden, and I feel like the Democrats really could have made a switcheroo.

I mean, my first show back after the strike ended, which was last September, the first editorial I did was called Ruth Bader Biden. I was the one who coined that phrase. I was saying, if he continues on, if he doesn't get out of the race, he's going to be Ruth Bader Biden. He's going to be the person who's hung around too long, destroyed his legacy, and probably the country with it.

I feel like this one I'm more proud of than any book I ever did.

I think they should put it by their nightstand and read passages each night. And I think it'll help you through your life.

I really think it's not mostly me. I mean, the left was very different. Now, of course, the right got way worse.

I say I have lost some people and I don't miss them. Those are the more woke people who think I'm somehow betrayed them.

It's actually very, the funniest book ever, I think. And lots of people have said the same thing.

Joining me now is someone I've been wanting to interview on this program. For years, he is one of the sharpest political commentators around. ... He's author of the brand new book that's just out today, What This Comedian Said Will Shock.

And watching real time. And buying this book. It's called... It's actually very, it's the funniest book ever.

Don't forget, it's called What This Comedian Said. Good Father's Day present. Shock you.

I recently watched the Three Body Problem, a science fiction, an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel, a novel of which I kind of enjoyed.

And it was really interesting because the heroes were hard driving physicists, all of whom were women. And the men were all these kind of slightly neurotic, passive support staff.

And I was watching this and going, I guess this is why they call it fantasy in science fiction, because that's not really what the world looks like.

I recently watched the three body problem, a science fiction, an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel, a novel of which I kind of enjoyed.

I recently watched the three body problem, a science fiction, an adaptation on Netflix of a science fiction novel, a novel of which I kind of enjoyed.

And it was really interesting because the heroes were hard driving physicists, all of whom were women.

And the men were all these kind of slightly neurotic, passive, you know, support staff.

And I was watching this and going, I guess this is why they call it fantasy in science fiction, because that's not really what the world looks like.

I first became aware of Vivek Ramaswamy at an event in 2021. Like Jane Austin's Mr. Wickham from Pride and Prejudice, he said you did the following, which was a line from Mr. Bennett, Elizabeth Bennett's dad as portrayed here in the 1995 version of the movie Pride and Prejudice.

Polls sound sexual. Pride and Prejudice. Prejudice is fine, but pride is a term that has been co-opted by the game. It's disgusting.

Like, you know, a factory worker in Idaho may not have the time to sit down and read a book like, you know, sapiens or, you know, so, or Pride and Prejudice with Thomas.