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Joining me now to discuss it all, Adam Carolla, author of the book, Everything Reminds Me of Something. Advice, answers, but no apologies. Available right now at AdamCarolla.com.

I would argue in today's climate, news is more harmful than alcohol, Internet porn or any thing you would give up any other thing you would give up for Lent.

What the fuck, Canucks? I can't think of a worse neighboring country. I'd rather be next to Hungary or Poland or even a country in the Middle East and at least get some kebab going.

Beware of those who are too nice. It's probably a smoke screen.

I don't trust nice. Nice is an attempt to manipulate, attempt to get you to feel a certain way about them.

I don't trust nice. I know every, I know it's everyone's goal is to be around nice people. Your goal is should be around, is to be around high character people.

Many years ago I wrote a book titled Why the Jews? The Reason for Anti-Semitism.

And with each subsequent edition, although it even began in the first, I and my co-author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, we wrote in it that anti-Americanism is in effect another expression of anti-Semitism.

I've written a book among my books is a book on anti-Semitism. It's called Why the Jews.

And I wrote, then, anti-Americanism is a modern version of anti-Semitism.

A book has come out, a journalist, Frank Feuer, and it's called 'The Last Politician'.

For a man vaunted for his empathy, Biden could be detached, even icy when confronted with the prospect of human suffering.

Name me a single objective we've ever set out to accomplish that we've failed on. Name me one in all of our history, not one.

It was on Saturday, the two year mark. And this says this points out that during during the withdrawal, which was chaotic and so poorly managed, that Trump's ambassador to Afghanistan, John Bass, got a call begging him to go back to Afghanistan to take over the lead of the evacuation and to do it immediately because the current ambassador under Joe Biden, someone named Ross Wilson, was, quote, shattered by the experience of the past week and was not able to function at the level that was necessary to complete the job on his own.

Speaking of that genderqueer book, though, and this is why I say it's still a net positive.

Tiffany Justice read from sexually explicit books written for older teens, but found in a few lower schools.

That is not what almost everybody has been saying, Scott.

Almost everybody has been saying that if you complain about a picture of a blowjob in a lower school library, you're a bigot and you're a transphobe and you're all of these things.

Gender Queer

There's a book called Gender Queer, which has an illustration of what appears to be actually children. So one of them is giving the other one a blowjob.

And yet in the media, crickets.

I don't understand really how long the rest of the media can keep covering for the Bidens because I think the avalanche of information coming from whistleblowers is going to become impossible for them to ignore forever.

And it's not just I know they hate the post, but as you point out, the guy's on videotape.

And it's one thing you can cover it skeptically. Maybe you say, I don't know what I question the motives. Fine. Nothing. They're not interested.

It's so disturbing when you lay it out the way you just did.

Joining me now, Miranda Devine, a columnist for the New York Post and author of Laptop Hell, Hunter Biden, Big Tech and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.

It's a great, great title.

Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.

The Biden children are forgetful.

Megan, if your listeners don't know her, I think that they will be extremely interested in what she has to say. She's out of the UK. Yeah, I know her, I've had her on. Yeah, you've had her on. She's flying in from the UK. Her book is called The Case Against the Sexual Revolution and she is joined with certainly not a conservative, Anna Katchian, one of the hosts of the podcast Red Scare.

Bondage, domination or discipline and sadomasochism. Although I kind of prefer to just call it sadomasochism, which is the slightly more old fashioned term, but I think actually tells you what it is in the way that the acronym disguises.

It has become insanely mainstream. I have a chapter on it in my book, the extent to which it has just gone from being a really niche, initially really an element of gay male subculture, and then it moves towards straight sexual culture. And then it with online porn at the turn of the century, it just suddenly becomes incredibly mainstream to the extent now that things like strangulation porn is now on the front page of every porn site in the world in a way that it never used to be.

I dedicated my book to, so this is basically the first line when you open it, to the women who learned it the hard way.

Women fail to recognize too often that being desired is not the same thing as being held in high esteem.

The whole essence of the sexual revolution is about encouraging women to be more like men in every way, including to have sex like men, to try and imitate male sexuality, to be more casual, to be more emotionless in sexual attachments and so on.

Bondage, domination or discipline and sadomasochism. Although I kind of prefer to just call it sadomasochism, which is the slightly more old fashioned term, but I think actually tells you what it is in the way that the acronym disguises. Someone's going to hurt you.

It has become insanely mainstream. I have a chapter on it in my book, the extent to which it has just gone from being a really niche, initially really an element of gay male subculture, and then it moves towards straight sexual culture. And then it with online porn at the turn of the century, it just suddenly becomes incredibly mainstream to the extent now that things like strangulation porn is now on the front page of every porn site in the world in a way that it never used to be.

Women fail to recognize too often that being desired is not the same thing as being held in high esteem.

I dedicated my book to, so this is basically the first line when you open it, to the women who learned it the hard way.

People are not products.

And John Spears, a special forces sniper and sniper trainer for law enforcement and military and author of "Warlord of the Unraveling"

This book right here is called Let's Talk About It.

Why do kids need to hear about how to insert a butt plug?

How is that going to help us on the EOG test score?

It's either this book is gay or Let's Talk About It.

Oral sex is popping another dude's peen into your mouth or indeed popping yours and his.

There's only one hard and fast rule when it comes to blow jobs.

One that was not banned. Let's Talk About It by Erica Moen and Matthew Nolan. Here's an excerpt.

Oral sex is popping another dude's peen into your mouth or indeed popping yours and his.

There's only one hard and fast rule when it comes to blow jobs.

Heather McDonald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of fantastic books like When Race Trumps Merit and The War on Cops.

I think we're at a moment of peak climate hysteria, peak climate nihilism, where basically the concerns around climate change, some of which I hold, by the way, I think climate change is real and we should do something about.

It's just created a kind of derangement syndrome among many people on the left where they think that somehow you just get technologies by banning this or that technology and wishing a new technology to existence place. It doesn't work like that.

It's a kind of mania that we're experiencing right now. I think we're about to have a really abrupt wake up call this winter when we see just how deadly many of these policies have become.

I think the first thing is that, you know, recognizes that we're in an energy crisis. We need to produce significantly more oil and gas in order to power, in order to provide energy to our allies in Europe and Asia.

The United States has enough natural gas to both provide for ourselves and for Europe for a thousand years.

And it's sicko. I should say that's the name of his book.

But now he's out with a brand new book called San Francisco. So good about how progressives are ruining big cities across the U.S. by not only tolerating, but actually enabling homelessness, drug dealing and crime.

Joining me now, Michael Schellenberger, founder and president of Environmental Progress and author of the new book, San Francisco, Why Progressives Ruin Cities Out Tomorrow.

It's called San Francisco. Why progressives ruin cities?

He was raised going to the church of Norman Vincent Peale who wrote the Power of Positive Thinking and uh it's it's a fascinating read if you haven't read it in a while you can go back and read it but it is very much it's actually a lot more biblical and religious than I think Trump actually is but the messaging is very positive and I think that's just how Trump thinks I I know best I'm gonna do the right thing I trust my gut that's that's clearly part of it

He was raised going to the church of Norman Vincent Peale who wrote the Power of Positive Thinking and uh it's it's a fascinating read if you haven't read it in a while you can go back and read it but it is very much it's actually a lot more biblical and religious than I think Trump actually is but the messaging is very positive and I think that's just how Trump thinks I I know best I'm gonna do the right thing I trust my gut

I'm going to forget the name, but the Power of Positive Thinking, who wrote that was a famous author. I'll think of it in a minute. Was his pastor in his church.

Norman Vincent Peale. Thank you. Norman Vincent Peale, when I was a kid, I was influenced as well by his books, etc.

Sheryl Sandberg, who is a COO of Facebook. And Sheryl written that book, Lean In, and it was basically about work hard, you know, get your seat at the table and fight for your seat at the table.

And then Michelle Obama felt the need to take a shot at it, you know, saying that shit doesn't always work.

Better to lean back and claim that you're a victim and that bad things happen to you because bosses are mean.

That's a better place rather than Sheryl's book, which whatever, I'm sure it wasn't perfect, but it was a more empowering message of like, Lean In, get to work, do it.

And my old pal Sheryl Sandberg in her book Lean In included one of these and Jesse is ready to debunk it.

This book here, it's called It's Perfectly Normal. I'll read some of this for you. It says after a bit, a person's becomes moist and slippery, and the clitoris becomes hard.

After a bit, a person's becomes erect, stiff, and larger. Sometimes a bit of clear fluid that may contain sperm comes out of the tip of the and makes it wet.

If you don't want to hear it in a school board meeting, why should children be able to check it out of the school system?

We have perverts that are perverting our kids, and you all sit back smug in your chairs, but you don't want me to read it. Why? Does it bother you?

This book here is called It's Perfectly Normal.

It says after a bit, a person's becomes moist and slippery. And the clitoris becomes hard.

After a bit, a person's becomes erect, stiff and larger.

Sometimes a bit of clear fluid that may contain sperm comes out of the tip of the and makes it wet.

This is two women with a strap on engaging in oral sex.

This book here is called It's Perfectly Normal.

It says after a bit, a person's becomes moist and slippery. And the clitoris becomes hard.

After a bit, a person's becomes erect, stiff and larger.

Screaming through the book, you'll find graphic images of two women performing oral sex while discussing the sexually preferred taste of each other's bodily fluids.

An example of a neurotic fetish. We're each busting a load into this bottle. If you don't come, you have to drink it.

in the introduction i open up by saying that i wrote this book for my son trying to transmit you know the basics of of the western uh christian and classical moral tradition to him why did i write why did i write the book for him it's because i when he was one year old we live in new york city and we got on the subway and we saw a different set of ok cupid ads basically promoting polyamory um and also to be sexually behaviors that um are sexually deviant

...and author of The Unbroken Thread discovering the wisdom of tradition in an age of chaos...

...in the introduction I open up by saying that I wrote this book for my son trying to transmit you know the basics of of the western uh christian and classical moral tradition to him why did I write why did I write the book for him it's because I when he was one year old we live in new york city and we got on the subway and we saw a different set of ok cupid ads basically promoting polyamory um and also to be sexually behaviors that um are sexually deviant and my thought was what if my son were a little older at that point and he asked me you know baba as he calls me you know what's polyamory you know what's what's uh what's sadomasochism what you know why am I as a parent put in a situation in which um the culture is so debased so vulgar...

It's called The Unbroken Thread, Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos.

I wrote this book for my son Max.

And so my fear for my son is as much as I'm an immigrant and I'm a grateful immigrant, I'm worried about the kind of man that our Western civilization will chisel out of my Max.

And I frame it around unasked questions, questions that our age assumes have been answered because we have science or because we have technology. Questions like, is God reasonable? Or how should you serve your parents?

Well, how about the part in question seven? How must you serve your parents? You just referenced it. Answered by Confucius, which is I mean, congrats on getting that interview because that's big.

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

That's the name of his 2017 book as well, which we highly recommend buying and reading.

You've gotta go back and listen to that episode. Trust me when I tell you, trust me. I've said before, if you don't like that episode, 109 between Rob O'Neill and yours truly, I can't please you.

I am honored to bring you Rob O'Neill, better known as the man who shot Osama bin Laden, now retired US Navy SEAL, author of a book called The Operator, which was published in 2017, which I highly recommend to you. And American hero, truly an American hero.

I love this because I read that you had a bad breakup and you were kind of, you know, like the sad dog who can't let go of the bone. You kept following her around. And finally, her dad gently escorted you out of their house.

You mentioned Jocko Willink. You know, he and I were roommates for a while.

And it's been the best thing when I donated the shirt that I wore into bin Laden's bedroom to the nine 11 Memorial museum in lower Manhattan. And when I donated it anonymously, just so people could something tangible that was there, I never wanted it to be about me.

But then there's the other side too, with the, the, you know, we get conspiracy theories from the far right wing because they, they just hate, they hate that, um, the president Obama ordered the mission. And so they want to say it was a fake.

So good to see you. Thank you for being with us, Ayan.

and the book I was referring to is called Pray, P-R-E-Y, Immigration, Islam and the Erosion of Women's Rights.

Ayaan of course has always done her homework and I think you're going to be fascinated and slightly concerned at the end of it.

She's written a bunch of bestselling books and she was on the show once before.

But the reason we're having her is she's just come out with a new book called Pray.

He's got a new book out. And one of the things that he shows you in the book is how to reframe the way you may be thinking about things, whether it's your life, your luck, your attractiveness, the weather.

And the book is Reframe Your Brain.

The book is Reframe Your Brain, the user interface for happiness and success.

So if I read the power of positive thinking, if I take a class on hypnosis and if I potentially take the Dale Carnegie class, am I going to be as persuasive as Trump and as effective at persuasion and language as you are? Well, you know, you're using yourself as an example and you're, you're a perfect talent stack example. That's another reframe. Instead of being really, really good at one thing, it pays to be top 20%, top 10% at several things that work well together. So you learn persuasion in your legal field, you learn persuasion, you know, doing, doing what you do, talking to people and interviewing. So you're, you're about 80% there already.

And also the book Reframe.

Finally, my book, Reframe Your Brain, taught readers how to program their own thoughts to make their personal and professional lives better. I was surprised and delighted at how much positive impact that book is having.

Scott going on to publish several books, including How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Reframe Your Brain, The User Interface for Happiness and Success, and more.

Finally, I'm surprised by an ending. Lately, it seems I predict the outcomes of the books I'm reading and I'm always disappointed that I do so. Not so with The Means.

Not once was I able to foretell a character's endgame and the final sentence blew me away.

I have to take this opportunity to give my husband one of my husband's books a shameless plug. He's he's an author. His name is Doug Brunt. He wrote a book called The Means as in The Means justify the ends. And it's about politics and media and how party people within both of those groups too often have that very mentality. And it's a great novel that sort of takes you in depth on a presidential campaign.

Anyway, it was a bestseller. You'll love it.

The book is called Digital Madness, how social media is driving our mental health crisis and how to restore our sanity.

My most recent book, Digital Madness, we look at what is the price of that addiction? What is it doing to the mental health of an entire generation or entire society?

Our guest now, Dr. Nicholas Cardares, joins us to talk about it. He's one of the country's foremost addiction experts, and he's developed clinical treatment programs all over the country. He's got a new book out called Digital Madness, How Social Media is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis and How to Restore Our Sanity.

I think this is an important book. I want everybody to read this just for the sake of your family and for our society. It's called Digital Madness.