Rich Cohen: ...The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
New York Times bestselling author Rich Cohen joins us to talk about his newest book, The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World’s Greatest Negotiator. Herbie Cohen is Rich’s dad and the book is a completely original guide to life, in a sense, through the eyes of Rich and his father.
His website is https://www.authorrichcohen.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. As two-generational mother-daughter |
| 0:15.8 | podcast hosts, we've often talked about relationships between mothers and daughters on our show. |
| 0:21.0 | On this episode, we'll put the spotlight on fathers and sons. |
| 0:24.5 | And joining us is Rich Cohen, a New York Times bestselling author whose newest book is called |
| 0:29.3 | The Adventures of Herbie Cohen, World's Greatest Negotiator. |
| 0:33.7 | Herbie Cohen is Rich's dad, and the book is a completely original guide to life, in a sense, |
| 0:39.5 | through the eyes of Rich and his father. |
| 0:41.8 | Rich, we thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:44.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:45.4 | You are, as I mentioned, a bestselling author. |
| 0:48.1 | You've been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. |
| 0:51.6 | Why did you decide to write a book about your dad? |
| 0:55.4 | Well, if I'm sitting down having dinner with you, I'm just telling stories about my dad all |
| 0:59.7 | the time without even meaning to because he's unbelievably great material. He's very funny. |
| 1:05.9 | And I would say he's like a mix between Mel Brooks and the Dalai Lama. |
| 1:10.5 | It's kind of a lot of schick, a lot of Brooklyn |
| 1:12.7 | stick, but also he's very wise. And he lives by a kind of, or tries to live by a kind of |
| 1:18.7 | philosophy, which you probably've heard. It was, it animated his book, you can go shoot anything, |
| 1:24.0 | which is a huge hit when I was a kid. And that is the key to a good life is to care, but not that much. So I said he was like a Jewish Buddha preaching detachment. |
| 1:34.6 | It was just the best subject I've ever had. And even stories that I've done, like I wrote a book with Jerry Weintrab, who's a big movie producer and produced Oceans 11, 12, and 13. |
| 1:45.1 | And I felt like I could do that because I met Jerry and I'm like, oh, Jerry's just like |
| 1:48.1 | Herbie. |
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