Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-03-15
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 173
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. How the State Created Elon Musk Candace Owens' Hollywood Tabloid Pivot feat.
Mia Wong discussed The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. Robert Evans discussed Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, and criticized On the Edge by Nate Silver.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom by F.
Discussed“if you read more Hayek than just like the road to surfom right that's like the stuff for public consumption”
Where to get it
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson is a comprehensive biography that chronicles the tumultuous life, intense work ethic, and complex personality of the high-profile entrepreneur behind companies like SpaceX, Tesla, and X.
Discussed“Some of these were longshot bets and Walter Isacson's biography of Musk documents he thought he'd be ruined if there had been one more failed SpaceX launch.”
Where to get it
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On the Edge
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver is a non-fiction book exploring the habits and mindsets of successful risk-takers across high-stakes fields like poker, venture capital, and artificial intelligence.
Critiqued“Nate has to give it a name so that he can sell his book. So he gives it the name. It's like an intellectual. No, it's my idea.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“at the beginning of the Communist Manifesto, Markx famously wrote that the bourgeois produce their own gravediggers.”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni were in a movie adaptation of the very popular novel by Colleen Hoover called It Starts With Us. In December, Lively filed a legal complaint against Baldon”
“Now that you bring up Rorchack, all I can think of is how cool it would be if Rorchack from the Watchmen showed up in Nate Silver's house and did his thing.”
“You know, Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know, Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”