Blog Category: Book Recommendation

Tim’s doing a new experiment. (I’m not surprised.) He’s looking at people and asking himself one question… “What happened to this person?” He said, “Normal people are just folks you don’t know well enough yet, right? Nobody’s normal. We’re so full of stuff and trauma and nonsense and silly beliefs. Everyone’s a work in progress […]

Episode 280: From Yesterday to Today I can’t just call Chuck a writer. He’s arguably one of the most successful pop culture critics. “Oh sure,” he said. “And I have a big advantage. Most critics want to be the first to write about something, I get to be the last person. And that puts me […]

I was really nervous for this podcast. Elizabeth Smart has been through so much trauma. And I’m sure everyone says that to her. Was she sick of hearing that after all these years? I wanted to learn how she survived. The kidnapper came through her window, held a knife to her throat and threatened to […]

Episode 277: Never Doubt, Just Do I wish they’d send Joan to space. She’s a real writer… who wrote about true things. I want her to describe the feeling and the wonderment of what life would be like. But they don’t send writers to space. Only scientists (for now). Joan Didion pioneered a new genre […]

It’s Scott’s 3rd time on the podcast. In the first interview, he was “the creator of Dilbert.” A famous cartoonist. The second time he was still “the creator of Dilbert” and a hypnosis/persuasion student. Now (appearance #3), Scott Adams is something new. He’s reinvented. And no longer standing on the footbridge between old self and […]

Episode 272: The Masks of Masculinity: Why Men Wear Masks and How to Remove them To Live Your Best Life I don’t speak “guy”. I even own part of a bar. And when I hang out at my own bar I sit around and everyone is speaking “guy”. I want to make friends but I […]

Episode 270: Obama’s Former Speechwriter “[President Obama] knew who I was, but he knew who a lot of people were,” David Litt, a former speechwriter for the president, told me in this podcast. He wrote speeches for the president. Now he writes for “Funny or Die”. And before the White House, David wrote for “The Onion”. […]