J. D. Salinger
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Nov 8, 2026
William RamseyGUEST
And the assassins are Chapman and Hinckley.
William RamseyGUEST
And my research, and some people have seen this as well, but it shows that these guys had a fixation on this book, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951.
William RamseyGUEST
And the real question is why? Why were they so...
William RamseyGUEST
close to it, and how they identified with the lead character.
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William RamseyGUEST
So he thinks about that.
William RamseyGUEST
But this is another copy of that.
William RamseyGUEST
And then this is J.D. Salinger.
William RamseyGUEST
He was in the war.
Ted SablayGUEST
They had the controlling idea, those ideas.
Ted SablayGUEST
And then, well, then after not reading it for like over 20 years, I was reading earlier this week, I was reading J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories.
Ben OpipariHOST
And, you know, in some ways it's kind of like, that's almost
Ted SablayGUEST
like something you read when you're younger, but I was reading through, uh, for Esme with love and squalor.
Mayim BialikHOST
In terms of grappling, you know, with these these bigger parts of life, you know, I have an 18 and almost 20, 21 year old.
Mayim BialikHOST
And, you know, when I was their age, like if I could have just read books all day long and I was not a natural reader, you know, I didn't like reading really until like J.D. Salinger, you know, like when I discovered Salinger as a teenager, like that was it.
Mayim BialikHOST
Right.
Mayim BialikHOST
But all I wanted to do was to learn reading.
KatieHOST
Bardot went to a diner to get something to eat.
KatieHOST
In the folder were the gun, a new letter for Rebecca, a demo tape of his, and a copy of J.D. Salinger's book, The Catcher in the Rye.
KatieHOST
He still didn't understand why the book was important, but Chapman had it, Hinckley had had it, so he was going to have it too.
KatieHOST
It just
WhitneyHOST
And then the rest of them were just copying.
WhitneyHOST
You know, it's so pitiful.
KatieHOST
They were like, it's so cool that he sat and read this book by J.D. Salinger.
KatieHOST
Like, I don't know.
Wendy WelchGUEST
There's definitely a theme this week here.
Wendy WelchGUEST
We've got J.D. Salinger.
Wendy WelchGUEST
We've got Maya Angelou.
Wendy WelchGUEST
We've got Stephen King.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
There, it was more about pacifying the population with pleasure and comfort, but here it's more about straightforward oppression.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
Now, this one hits better if you read it at a particular stage in life, maybe between 10 and 13, but it's still worth reading as an adult.
Duncan ClarkeHOST
The misanthropy of the protagonist might be less immediately relatable, but the writing is still top notch.
Frater BTHOST
And so in the moment that it breaks, to already have a little bit of a smirk of, oh, it's that thing where when something breaks and I have to, you know, obviously there's more extreme versions of that same phenomenon that I won't get into here and I'll let people process that on their own, in their own time, on their own level.
Frater BTHOST
Teddy is a good short story from J.D. Salinger.
Frater BTHOST
But anyway, what are we talking about? Yeah, I don't know.
Frater BTHOST
I was just tying this into what I was talking about, even though I'm sure he's not talking about it.
BTHOST
And so in the moment that it breaks, to already have a little bit of a smirk of, oh, it's that thing where when something breaks and I have to, you know, obviously there's more extreme versions of that same phenomenon that I won't get into here and I'll let people process that on their own, in their own time, on their own level.
BTHOST
Teddy is a good short story from J.D. Salinger.
BTHOST
But anyway, what are we talking about? Yeah, I don't know.
BTHOST
I was just tying this into what I was talking about, even though I'm sure he's not talking about it.
Austin LeeHOST
But I was also thinking of more authors.
Austin LeeHOST
J.D. Salinger is still kind of one of my favorite authors, which just hold on, please.
Austin LeeHOST
I mean, he was super gross, very manipulative towards younger women, some of them teenagers too, and he would groom some of them with letters Reprehensible, disgusting.
Austin LeeHOST
He lived as a hermit too after a while, which you wonder why.
Joon Sung ParkGUEST
So I think everyone should find their own journey.
Joon Sung ParkGUEST
The one that had actually the most impact on me actually when I was younger was The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Joon Sung ParkGUEST
without quite realizing, you know, it was very visceral representation of a young mind in the form of Holden Caulfield.
Joon Sung ParkGUEST
And that always stuck with me.
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