Episode · Monday Morning Podcast · 2025-03-17
Books mentioned on Laundry Rooms, Electronic Stores, F1 | Monday Morning Podcast 3-17-25 | Bill Burr
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Bill Burr discussed Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, and criticized Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Chicken Soup for the Soul
Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Amy Newmark is an immensely popular collection of uplifting, inspirational short stories and real-life parables designed to comfort and motivate readers.
Critiqued“And then somehow in the 80s, I think the chicken soup for the soul Came out and it was a huge hit and then they wrote like 40 other ones I mean made them more like specific It was really bad watching that person sell out”
Where to get it
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Beowulf
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney is a modern poetic translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon epic detailing the hero Beowulf's battles against monsters like Grendel and a treasure-guarding dragon.
Discussed“Oh my god, I'm reading Beowulf and everything and Beowulf was just like this poem or some shit like that And I remember I read it. I just kept reading it. I was like I have no fucking idea what this is about And they go to clay anybody said you guys already Beowulf Yeah, and then people like raising”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“There was one book It was like how to win friends and influence people like that was the only self-help or that was it”
Passing Chicken Soup for the Soul
“Maybe I need to read chicken soup for the fucking guy who didn't tell that guy to go fuck himself But but should have but it's probably better that he didn't because he still has all his natural teeth For the soul”