You Are A Badass

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Peter and Michael dissect Jen Sincero's "You are a Badass," a book that answers the question: What if "The Secret" was written in the painful, try-hard style of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"? Featuring a surprise digression about Sincero's other, even worse books.Where to find us: Peter's other podcast, 5-4Mike's other podcast, Maintenance PhaseSources:Savy Writes BooksThanks to Mindseye for our theme song!

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0:00.0	Can you believe we're approaching like two years since The Secret?
0:02.7	I can't even believe we're approaching two years of doing this show.
0:05.7	We're past two years of doing this show.
0:07.2	We've almost produced like 15 episodes.
0:09.6	It's like a British sitcom.
0:11.0	We'll see you in four years and we'll produce a Christmas special for some reason.
0:14.6	No, if I keep doing books like this, my output's going to be crazy.
0:19.4	You just read this yesterday, didn't you?
0:21.2	We're just talking about it.
0:23.2	I woke up early this morning and did it.
0:27.0	All right.
0:27.6	Let's do this.
0:28.3	Let's do this.
0:29.0	Do you have a zinger?
0:30.0	I literally don't even know the book.
0:31.4	I don't even know what book we're doing.
0:33.2	How could I zing?
0:34.0	You are a badass by Jen Censcherro. I've literally never heard of this book and you
0:38.3	have not told me anything. You're like all I, all you've said is that we're doing a dumb book.
0:41.8	This is like the, the biggest sort of one book thing we've done so far. You could literally
0:47.1	say, I know nothing about this book. I know nothing except that's stupid. That it was going to be the dumbest book we've done so far. Okay, let's do it. Okay.
0:54.4	Michael.
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