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Part 2 - 2020 Book Author Guests On The Show Roundup

30 Des 202056min

2020 Book Author Guests On The Show Roundup Part 1

30 Des 202050min

Fool's Errand by Jeffrey S. Stephens Years after the death of his gangster father, a young man discovers a letter that sends him reluctantly defying the mob as he races to locate a hidden treasure. It’s been six years since the untimely death of Blackie—a charming rogue who endlessly pursued “The Big Deal”—when his son discovers an enigmatic letter telling of a cache of stolen money. Feeling no choice but to pursue his father’s dream, he embarks on a search that leads from New York, to the Strip in Las Vegas, and ultimately to the south of France. Along this life-altering journey, he is confronted by the dangers of his father’s past as he unravels a decades-old mystery, while revealing other long-buried secrets as well.

29 Des 202032min

Money From Nothing: Or, Why We Should Stop Worrying About Debt and Learn to Love the Federal Reserve by Robert Hockett, Aaron James A major work of financial theory and practice with immediate relevance to the rebuilding of the economy, and restoring the promise of equality When the government decides to spend money, it simply creates the necessary funds for itself--as if out of thin air. That's how we pay for interstate highways, post offices, wars, social services, and economic stimulus packages. If it's that easy to make money . . . can't we all get more of it? Absolutely. And we should. So argue financial regulation expert Robert Hockett and bestselling philosopher Aaron James in this eye-opening, irreverent, and inspiring exploration of what the dollar really is. And better still, they show how we can build an economy that works for everybody without unwanted taxes and added regulations. In the process, we learn how disingenuous the political rhetoric surrounding inflation can be, how the demonized concept of the deficit is really just another way of tallying our collective national wealth, and how a strong central bank could free us from the abuses of private banking. With broad historical background and ambitious yet practical institutional proposals, Hockett and James offer a new vision of public finance--people's banking for a people's economy. Armed with this new outlook, we can even stop worrying debt and learn to love a strong, accountable, and transparent Federal Reserve as a cornerstone of our democracy.

20 Des 20201h 23min

As we approach the Holidays, The Chris Voss Show has now reviewed products over 11 years and nearly 8000 Articles and Videos. These are some of the products we reviewed this year that stand out to us AND MANY TIMES WE USE DAILY! Keep in mind these are the products we ONLY have reviewed and in many cases, they make the best products we love across their whole product lines. If you think a product should be on the list, sorry may have not reviewed it and kicked its tires around for worthiness. As we keep getting in review units, we'll keep updating this list up the Holidays so bookmark it and stay tuned. Be sure to subscribe to our 9 Podcasts at TheCVPN.com iFi Audio NEO iDSD desktop DAC/amp. This years most favorite product has MQA decoding, DAC/amp and rich with audio features. With Tidal music service having Masters MQA files, this is an amazing product to help you re-enjoy and re-discover your audio files. iFi Audio makes great audio products that will take your music to the next level check it out at: https://amzn.to/3oBMPF9 Vanatoo Transparent One Encore Powered Speakers & Vanatoo Transparent Zero Powered Speakers. This year our 7 year old desktop speakers from Vanatoo got an update and WE LOVE THEM! Check out our reviews and both sets of speakers from them. https://amzn.to/39VZ6An Master & Dynamic - M&D through its whole product line makes some of my most favorite products. The attention to detail is immaculate and a great designed spectrum of consumer sounding headphones is incredible. If Steve Jobs made headphones he would make these. This year, M&D launched more favorites: MH40 Wireless &MW65 ANC headphones. Then MW07 wireless earphones in a beautiful variety of models, MW07, Plus and Go. I joke every holiday "If you truly love someone get them something from Master & Dynamic." I personally love my MH40s the most (5 years old and still look new), but the new MW40 Wireless has me in love along with the great for travel MW65 ANC's. And you cant beat the cool personal looks of their new MW07 line. https://amzn.to/2QWN1kG The Astell & Kern KANN ALPHA Portable High Resolution Audio Player has been blowing our audio minds. Makes MQA files sound like magic and such an exceptional build. A must have if you can afford it. https://amzn.to/2W9k9qV OWC - Other World Computing send us some great stuff this year and as always they make a top of the line premium products. From the OWC SSD's that we use for Gaming and running our office computers, to their Thunderblade storage units, the Thunderbolt hubs docs, drive swapping backups, everything they build is super high quality and exceptional standards. The Chris Voss Show office is filled with their products that keep us running strong. Everything you can buy there is top shelf. We love em. https://amzn.to/34w8eWz Loved Ecovacs robots for years and use them daily in my home/office. Their new model that vacuums and mops at the same time is amazing. https://amzn.to/2VYldhq Kensington - We reviewed so many great things for home and office this year from Kensington. Buy anything, great stuff and search the reviews on the show. https://amzn.to/36YXrrO Peak Design - For all the years we've been reviewing Peak Design just everything is always top notch quality. Buy anything there. https://amzn.to/37SPd3y Litra - The Litra Studio and all their products kick butt. Great for photographers or just Zoom calls can make everything you do more professional. https://amzn.to/3h0FnRf Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own - The Book of the Year for me. Introducting me to James Baldwin by the exceptional Eddie S. Glaude Jr. was a life impactor. I wish I'd discovered his writings and appearances earlier. Must read!https://amzn.to/36XYHvb Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat - To me this is a MUST READ for what is going on right now ...

17 Des 202039min

CES SHOW 2021 Preview - Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association & CES Show Sign up at CES.Tech Subscribe to the Podcast for our coverage of the show https://apple.co/3nZ6uib

16 Des 202020min

Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better) by Lindo Bacon Too many of us feel alienated from our bodies. This isn't your personal failing; it means that our culture is failing you. We are in the midst of a cultural moment. #MeToo. #BlackLivesMatter. #TransIsBeautiful. #AbleismExists. #EffYourBeautyStandards. Those of us who don't fit into the "mythical norm" (white, male, cisgender, able-bodied, slender, Christian, etc.)—which is to say, most of us—are demanding our basic right: To know that who we are matters. To belong. Being "othered" and the body shame it spurs is not "just" a feeling. Being erased and devalued impacts our ability to regulate our emotions, our relationships with others, our health and longevity, our finances, our ability to realize dreams, and whether we will be accepted, loved, or even safe. Radical Belonging is not a simple self-love treatise. Focusing only on self-love ignores the important fact that we have negative experiences because our culture has targeted certain bodies and people for abuse or alienation. For marginalized people, a focus on self-love can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down. This groundbreaking book goes further, helping us to manage the challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love and into belonging. With Lindo Bacon's signature blend of science and storytelling, Radical Belonging addresses the political, sociological, psychological, and biological underpinnings of your experiences, helping you understand that the alienation and pain you are experiencing is not personal, but human. The problem is in injustice, not you as an individual. So many of us feel wounded by a culture that has alienated us from our bodies and divided us from each other. Radical Belonging provides strategies to reckon with the trauma of injustice; reclaim yourself, body and soul; and rewire your nervous system to better cope within an unjust world. It also provides strategies to help us provide refuge for one another and create a culture of equity and empathy, one that respects, includes, and benefits from all its diverse peoples. Whether you are transgender, queer, Black, Indigenous or another Person of Color, disabled, old, or fat—or you more closely resemble the "mythical norm"—Radical Belonging is your guidebook for creating a world where all bodies are valued and all of us belong—and for coping with this one, until we make that new world a reality. Dr. Lindo Bacon is a researcher and former professor, and for nearly two decades taught courses in social justice, health, weight, and nutrition. Dr. Bacon holds a Ph.D. in physiology with a specialty in nutrition, and master’s degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Dr. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, their clinical expertise, and their personal experience to write two bestselling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Their newly released book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better), takes their inspiring message beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity, and true belonging.

15 Des 20201h 1min

First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author offers a revelatory new book about the founding fathers, examining their educations and, in particular, their devotion to the ancient Greek and Roman classics—and how that influence would shape their ideals and the new American nation. On the morning after the 2016 presidential election, Thomas Ricks awoke with a few questions on his mind: What kind of nation did we now have? Is it what was designed or intended by the nation’s founders? Trying to get as close to the source as he could, Ricks decided to go back and read the philosophy and literature that shaped the founders’ thinking, and the letters they wrote to each other debating these crucial works—among them the Iliad, Plutarch’s Lives, and the works of Xenophon, Epicurus, Aristotle, Cato, and Cicero. For though much attention has been paid the influence of English political philosophers, like John Locke, closer to their own era, the founders were far more immersed in the literature of the ancient world. The first four American presidents came to their classical knowledge differently. Washington absorbed it mainly from the elite culture of his day; Adams from the laws and rhetoric of Rome; Jefferson immersed himself in classical philosophy, especially Epicureanism; and Madison, both a groundbreaking researcher and a deft politician, spent years studying the ancient world like a political scientist. Each of their experiences, and distinctive learning, played an essential role in the formation of the United States. In examining how and what they studied, looking at them in the unusual light of the classical world, Ricks is able to draw arresting and fresh portraits of men we thought we knew. First Principles follows these four members of the Revolutionary generation from their youths to their adult lives, as they grappled with questions of independence, and forming and keeping a new nation. In doing so, Ricks interprets not only the effect of the ancient world on each man, and how that shaped our constitution and government, but offers startling new insights into these legendary leaders. About the Author Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008 and was on the staff of the Wall Street Journal for seventeen years before that. He reported on American military operations in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams, he is also the author of several books, including The Generals, The Gamble, Churchill & Orwell, and the number-one New York Times bestseller Fiasco, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He wrote First Principles while a visiting fellow in history at Bowdoin College.

12 Des 202056min