Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2026-10-14
Books mentioned on #2565 - Michael Douglas
Michael Douglas is an actor, producer, writer, and philanthropist whose film and television credits include "Wall Street," "Fatal Attraction," "Basic Instinct," "Behind the Candelabra," and "The Kominsky Method.
Michael Douglas discussed Memo from David O. Selznick by David O. Selznick, RAGMAN'S SON by Kirk Douglas, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R. Buckminster Fuller, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Memo from David O. Selznick
Memo from David O.
Discussed“I read a book when I was beginning as a producer called Memo and it was written by David O. cells and it could be big producer had gone with the wind and all of that. And it was a book that told you what a producer does”
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RAGMAN'S SON
Discussed“and also I had my my my my dad Kirk you know he had wrote written nine books already including a a good biography the ragman's son”
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R.
Discussed“Well, I um I had a guy came and lectured me when I was in college, guy named Buckminister Fuller, and he was the guy responsible for the GDC dome and all of that. But the other thing he did, he had a book called Spaceship Earth.”
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is a classic novel set in a psychiatric hospital that explores themes of institutional control, rebellion, and individual freedom through the conflict between Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratchet.
Discussed“in 1962 he acquired the galls of this book called When Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kissi and he had it adapted into a play and his idea was he was going to go back to Broadway do the play”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“What is it like to write a memoir? That's got to be a weird feeling to like relive your life and try to be as honest as you can and put it all down.”
“I'm proud of the fact, Joe, and I realized um it wasn't as obvious until I was until when when I was working on one hell of a ride and how many pictures um I had where the women um had the best role.”