📚 2 Books mentioned in "Monday Morning Podcast 6-12-23 | Bill Burr" of Monday Morning Podcast

I was listening to try to explain the origin and meaning of Catch-22 and had to write in yeah I didn't I had never seen the movie and I was unfamiliar so thank you for writing in to set me straight here in the book the soldiers are required to complete uh all right so anyway there's the expression catch-22 which I thought it meant damned if you do damned if you don't evidently it it it I think it kind of meant regardless of your response you know if you choose a or b c is still happening so it doesn't matter but they give you the illusion of choice I don't know this person will explain it in the book the soldiers are required to complete a certain number of missions in order to be released from their duties from what I remember the missions are World War II bomber missions and are extremely dangerous and the shoulders so soldiers have to complete 40 of them if a soldier agrees to go on a mission the soldier is labeled as clinically insane and they are not allowed to fly because no one in their right mind would agree to go on such a Dangerous Mission if you don't want to fly then the office officers agree that is the right response and they deem the soldiers sane and tell them to fly the mission the soldier agrees to the mission and is immediately called insane again and they ground you from flying thus creating the paradox an inability to complete the required missions these soldiers are never able to reach their goal and even if someone does get close to commanding officers raise the requirement well it kind of seems like they're looking out for you the phrase Catch-22 is mentioned when the characters talk about this one catch to the rules that they have to follow in order to go home The book was originally titled catch 18 but the offer changed it since a different World War II novel came out around the same time with the number 18 in the title 22 was chosen because it has a repeating number numbers similar to repeating events that happen in the book Love the podcast and go [ __ ] yourself Well thank you very much for a very clear and well-written explanation of crutch 22.

A listener writes an email to Bill Burr explaining the origin and meaning of the phrase 'Catch-22', detailing the plot and original title ('Catch 18') of the book it comes from. Bill reads this email.

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She actually read my son a book and I'm thinking like man like school is better than it was when I was a kid because I couldn't read until like first grade it was like Sandy and Bing Bing and Sandy run Sandy run run run run that's where I was at She's reading like the whole Cat in the Hat all right I'm bragging about my kid here all right let me let me uh let me plow ahead

Bill Burr mentions that his daughter is reading 'The Cat in the Hat', contrasting her reading ability with his own as a child.

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