Books Mentioned in This Podcast
The Count of Monte Cristo
Buy on AmazonTurks and Caicos, I can't, literally no, The Count of Monte Cristo, it's all I got.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-20-23
When Giants Walked the Earth
Buy on AmazonI’m dying up here to be the man, you gotta beat the man! The Ric Flair autobiography! When Giants Walk the Earth Rocks!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-2-23
Texas Flood
Buy on AmazonThe Beastie Boy book! Texas Flood, the Stevie Ray Vaughan story! Um, Bill Walsh, Finding The Winning Edge!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-2-23
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Buy on AmazonTexas Flood, the Stevie Ray Vaughan story! Um, Bill Walsh, Finding The Winning Edge! It was a gift; somebody gave me Led Zeppelin 1975!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-2-23
Flyboys
Buy on AmazonI was trying to talk about Nirvana, I'm talking about World War II aviation, which I know nothing about, I read Flyboys, that's it, it told the stories of pilots, it didn't talk about the aircraft.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 2-27-23
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Buy on AmazonWe don't just f*** give them the money; we're getting them in debt to us, and then they have to pay us back, and the corporations get paid and all of that f***. It's that confessions of an economic hitman f***.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 2-27-23
Strangers on a Bridge
Buy on AmazonBut I have a great trilogy I've written called Who's Who in World War II, Who's Who in the Civil War, and Who's Who in Russian history. Right now, I'm on a binge on Russian history.
The American Presidency
Buy on AmazonI wrote a JFK history book. I wrote a history of every presidency, not every president, every presidency.
Mike Donovan's History of the Civil War
Buy on AmazonSo great to see you, the stand-up comedy book, Mike Donovan, he also has, uh, what is it, uh, World War II, who's who in World War II, who's who in the Civil War, and who's who in Russian history.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Buy on AmazonOh, here is an old man moment I had, when I was a kid they had a submarine ride at Disney World— at least it was called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and it was a, I think a successful movie from the 1950s, I believe, the ride was, and they have the same ride!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 1-23-23
I'm Fine...And Other Lies
Buy on AmazonAnd not even in vague locations, vague locations, yeah, vague locations and body parts, that's gonna be my name in my memoir.
Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 1-13-23 w/Steve Byrne
The Western Films of Robert Mitchum
Buy on AmazonI think there were ebbs and flows of it, yeah, but he, Peter Bogdanovich wrote this book about conversations he had with them, is it called the bearded [expletive] or some well story?
Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 1-13-23 w/Steve Byrne
Seabiscuit
Buy on AmazonPaul Verzi is also the guy who told me Seabiscuit was an unbelievable athlete! A damn horse! And you know why he said that?
Life
Buy on AmazonI mean even Keith Richards... all this stuff he did! I mean that guy could write 4,000 books; he waited till his 70s before he wrote one!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 12-5-22
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Buy on AmazonShe came in with all this stuff and was like accusing me of not drinking it, pretending to drink it like I was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 11-14-22
The Book of Basketball
Buy on AmazonYou know, Pat Riley, the disease of more, that I learned through the Bill Simmons book.
Catch Me If You Can
Buy on AmazonIf you're like Leonardo DiCaprio and 'Catch Me If You Can' said in medicine, this concept is called the minimal effective dose.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 11-7-22
My Turn at Bat
Buy on AmazonI do think you read; what do you think I read? I think you read Ted Williams' biography. Guilty guilty, but I occasionally read other things.
Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 11-3-22 with BILL MAHER
SOUL ON ICE
Buy on AmazonAnyway, I read this book Soul on Ice, and it just came because I saw a store out here in Los Angeles called Soul on Ice, and it had all these cool sport jerseys.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 10-31-22
Ric Flair
Buy on AmazonLed Zeppelin, Ric Flair, John, to be the man, you gotta be the man.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 10-10-22
The Comedians
Buy on AmazonUh, The Comedians, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 10-10-22
A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian
Buy on AmazonIt's true, I—there's a—there's a documentary and a book about this woman, Vivian Meyer, who was a nanny in the 40s and 50s, but she's also a street photographer.
Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896
Buy on AmazonUh, it was about, uh, this thing they did in the late 1800s, it's not good for tourism; uh it's called Well Wilmington's Lie: The Insurrection of 1892.
Angela's Ashes
Buy on AmazonUm, Angela's Ashes? Angels in the Outfield? Um, anyway, I missed all the football.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 9-12-22
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Buy on AmazonMy turn, that guy, the guy who told us about the inconvenient truth, as he flew around the private jet, like how did he not see that coming?
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 9-5-22
Dracula
Buy on AmazonUm, is that what Dracula was from by the way? Transylvania is a place, you know what I mean?
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 8-29-22
Dracula
Buy on AmazonHe was— you know, how is—you know, with all these woke douches out there, how has Dracula not gotten canceled?
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 8-29-22
Democracy Betrayed
Buy on AmazonI recommend Wilmington's Lie: The Insurrection of 1892 and the Rise of White Supremacy and Marilyn Rice Cub's Famous! I'm all over the road here, that's how I like to read, you know?
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-25-22
Jaws
Buy on AmazonAnd that is the last branch that I would join, there's no way I would join the Navy because I don't want to be on a ship that sinks and you end up in the water and now you're in Quint's story from Jaws.
The Jordan Rules
Buy on AmazonIt's like the whole thing, like I read this whole, this great magazine out about Jordan, how he just kept working and working and working and working and working and you can literally read the article and not be a Jordan but just apply that, right, and work and work and work.
Roots
Buy on AmazonBut I remember, you know, growing up, you know, when Roots came out and stuff like that and black people saying what it felt like to just not know where you were from, have no history, none of that type of stuff, like how that, like, you know, it's like if you, whenever I move, even if I go to a new city, I want to read up on the history of it so I can somehow feel rooted in it.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-18-22
Silent Spring at 50
Buy on AmazonOh Jesus, there's an environmentalist book that I wanted to read that this female scientist wrote back in the day called 'Silent Spring.'
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-18-22
Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861
Buy on AmazonI don't know, I was reading that Wilmington book, and it was like the cop would come down and tell the black people, 'Alright, you gotta disperse.'
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-11-22
Franklin Barbecue
Buy on AmazonUh, learn to barbecue from Aaron Franklin, skateboarding from Anthony Tony, or learn songwriting and producing from Alicia Keys.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 7-5-22
American Buffalo
Buy on AmazonYou know, as I mentioned, I saw American Buffalo, and I saw, uh, Gerard Carmichael's new special, 'Rathaniel,' which absolutely blew me away!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-20-22
John Bonham
Buy on AmazonUm, it’s a book written by John Bonham’s brother Mick Bonham, and I just see it says Bonham, B-O-N-H-A-M. I was looking like bond, ham, bond is good in French?
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 6-6-22
A Tale of Two Cities
Buy on AmazonI am a tale of two cities, a tale of red titties over here for old freckles.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-16-22
All Quiet on the Western Front
Buy on AmazonThat's not true because I read All Quiet on the Western Front, and that was amazing.
The Jungle Book
Buy on AmazonA reference to the Jungle Book! All you gotta do is look for the bare necessities! The simple bare necessities!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 4-11-22
The Proud Tower
Buy on AmazonAnd, uh, I don't know, I somebody got fun—I was on the road in Canada, somebody got me a book, The Guns of August, and it's about World War I and it's phenomenal.
Murray Walker: Incredible!
Buy on AmazonDid you know these commentators are just using a template made by the legendary F1 commentator named Murray Walker? I have to look this guy up!
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 4-4-22
Howard Cosell: The Man, the Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports
Buy on AmazonJust to give you that little tidbit of information, I learned that the other day reading an actual book about Howard Cosell. Why would I read about other things?
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
Buy on AmazonLawhead gave me the book, uh, some of the last headbangers or something like that. It's basically about when you just played with concussions and that type of thing—the level of cheating that was going on.
Tribe
Buy on AmazonAll right, book recommendation, dear Billy Book Smart. I know you're a busy man, but I really think you should download an audiobook called Tribe by Sebastian Junger, spelled J-U-N-G-E-R.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 11-8-21
Crash and Burn
Buy on AmazonOne of the funniest chapters in one of his many books he talked about how nobody bet hockey, and there was an afternoon game every week.
Waylon
Buy on AmazonOh, they'll write their life story in their 30s? I have an autobiography coming out—you’re 36!
Episode: the Monday Morning Podcast 9-20-21
A Book on Books
Buy on AmazonAnyway, I know, but by the way, whoever that homeless guy is, he needs to write a book on how to pick up women.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 3-22-21