Episode · Huberman Lab · 2025-05-05
Books mentioned on Contracts of Love & Money That Make or Break Relationships | James Sexton
My guest is James Sexton, Esq., a renowned attorney specializing in contracts related to love and money—prenuptial agreements, divorce and custody.
Andrew Huberman discussed Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman and True Romance - Love and Laughter. James Sexton discussed A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Discussed“The great Richard Fineman, Nobel Prize winning physicist of surely you're joking, Mr. Fineman fame, said that understanding things at a reductionist level added to his sense of beauty with the with the physical world.”
Where to get it
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True Romance - Love and Laughter
True Romance - Love and Laughter is a cultural artifact and romantic crime film depicting intense affection, eccentricity, and high-stakes chaos.
Discussed“a couple years ago I saw you on a podcast and you were talking about the movie True Romance Oh sure uh love that movie”
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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is a celebrated novel that chronicles a tragic wartime romance and the brutal realities of combat, known for its spare prose and poignant explorations of human resilience.
Discussed“There's a line from U. Hemingway from uh a farewell to arms where he says the world breaks everyone and and some are stronger in the broken places.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Inherit the Wind
“look like you're coming out of the set of Inherit the Wind, like look like you are what you because you got a conservative old man as your judge.”
Passing Eat Pray Love
“when the woman cheats it's like oh this poor woman like she she needed to find herself she needed like her eat prey love moment”
Passing Star Wars
“if you say to me, (Jim,) I love Star Wars. Like the struggle of the Jedi against the Empire, like it inspires me to want to be a disciplined person”
Passing The Deer Hunter
“Relationships are more like the deer hunter or something. really they're long and they're complicated”
Passing Titanic: A Survivor's Story
“I forget what her charact's character was on Titanic but like if you think he'd lived at the end of Titanic that a few years later she wouldn't be like all right enough painting the French girls”
Passing The Last of the Mohicans
“Like I my heroes growing up were from Last of the Moheakans, right? L Longon Caribbean, you know, the the like they were samurai”
Plugged How to Stay in Love
“the things I wrote in my book, like you know, my book, How to Stay in Love: Practical Wisdom from an Unlikely Source, the idea was not to to to just talk about people in troubled relationships”
Plugged Protocols
“For those of you that haven't heard, I have a new book coming out. It's my very first book. It's entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body. This is a book that I've been working on for more than 5 years, and that's based on more than 30 years of research and experience.”
Plugged Protocols
“It's entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body. This is a book that I's been working on for more than 5 years”