The Tucker Carlson Show

the much maligned book of revelation. It says that only about a thousand times. Yeah. In every book of the New Testament.

It's all over the Psalms, I was reading it yesterday. So we shouldn't be enthusiastic about killing people.

He quoted, "1Samuel... 'kill the men, kill the women, kill the children, kill the infants,'" describing the biblical directive he felt was being invoked.

I went through the entire book of judges and then, well, let's do Ruth. And then first Samuel and second Samuel.

read The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - it's better than the economics textbooks that say banks are just financial intermediaries.

the Grand Inquisitor by Ivan Karamazov, it's a paradox. Because in a way, the Grand Inquisitor is suggesting ... it's a paradox. Because in a way, the Grand Inquisitor is suggesting ...

Or the electrical cord to his neck. Or the electrical cord or whatever was there, but it doesn't look like the fabric from a bed sheet. So if it seems clear just from the photographs of his autopsy that he was strangled with, say, a cord, wouldn't you test that cord for his DNA?

So the autopsy photographs show that the ligature mark on Jeff's neck is in the middle of his neck and goes straight back, as if someone put a rope around his neck and strangled him like Carlo in The Godfather in the car.

When you see how much he seems to love jail, he's reading Fahrenheit 451.

Have you ever read Shelby Foote's trilogy?

In 2002, she published a book on that exact question. The book was called A Problem From Hell. It won the Pulitzer Prize and all kinds of other prizes.

Smith Power became famous for writing a book on genocide, how we can never allow it again, and then she allowed it again.

One thing we know about human civilizations is they're inherently religious even or maybe especially the ones that claim to be secular. Everybody worships something.

So as the United States becomes progressively and now aggressively less Christian, that doesn't mean that religion has disappeared.

In a word yes because in the end there is only one alternative to Christianity and that is paganism and we should be clear about our terms right?

What I mean is a return of the pagan ethos and the pagan ethos is and always has been a rejection of transcendent or objective truth right? Pagans were free to divinize and assign divine status to the here and now, to things, to natural phenomena even to people and we are returning to that as the world becomes re-enchanted from its sort of secular hiatus that we've been on for the past century or so.

So as Christianity recedes should it surprise us that abortion, euthanasia killing, war, human sacrifice has come to the center of our culture? Not at all.

I kind of buried Kramer in the book. I guess I'm not going on CNBC anytime soon for any reason.

So the solution I put in this book, which is ironic of where I came from, because I committed fraud 30 years ago, right? So as you said, I've seen both sides, right? So the solution in the book is really very simple to build a world-class portfolio and secure your future

So I wrote about a hundred pages when I was in jail and then I ripped them up. I didn't think they were good enough. I got out of jail with no pages, but I had a skill now.

I wrote about 12 pages and I'm like, wow, I think those are really good. Like I thought they were pretty good. And I hate my own writing always. Right? It's like, when you're right, you're very lucky. I always hate what you write.

And then when the book was finished, about a year later went through seven edits because I overwrote it got from 1000 pages down to 500 pages.

And she wanted me to read Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington. Great book. The whole ideal of self-sufficiency.

Movies like The Big Parade, Wings, All Quiet on the Western Front.

He's become a friend of mine. In fact, I had him on my podcast not long ago. And they do really, really important research that has to do primarily with Collective Illusions. In fact, he has a book called Collective Illusions.

There's an interesting play by Arthur Miller, his first play, All My Sons.

Read about this and more in Bob's new bestselling book, Blessed.

He was probably reading the law and reading The Prince.

I was having dinner with a friend of mine and I was working on my next book, which was called Audacity. How to go from nobody to somebody.

And it was a discussion of, again, influencing before people knew them as influencers. And it was about brand building, getting your message out, rhetoric.

By the time you finish this book, you're not going to publish it and you're going to call it how to become a nobody.

I never released the book.

Just felt it was too vainglorious. Felt it was too self-celebratory.

She started reading the Bible, The Case for Christ and a devotional from the intervarsity, which I don't know where she got those.