Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-27
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Robert Evans recommended Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus, and discussed The Influence of Soros by Emily Tamkin, The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper, and More money than God by Sebastian Mallaby.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Influence of Soros
Discussed“There's a great book called The Influence of Soros, Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society by Emily Tempin, who did a lot of really great work like interviewed Soros, interviewed an enormous number of the people who were around him.”
Where to get it
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper is a renowned philosophical defense of liberal democracy and critical rationalism against totalitarian ideologies.
Discussed“And I want to read a passage of this about like how he figured out how to sort of beat the market. Um he's talking about uh this guy named Carl Pauper who's like a philosopher of science who also wrote this book called the open society that we'll talk about next episode more.”
Where to get it
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More money than God
More Money than God by Sebastian Mallaby is an expansive nonfiction account exploring the history of hedge funds and the prominent investors who shaped modern finance.
Discussed“Instead of looking at the money being made, or as Sebastian Malib put it in more money than God, his book on the history of hedge funds, the psychology that drove investors appetites, Soros looked at how one impacted the other, predicting that each would drive the other forward until the trusts were so completely overvalued that a crash was”
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Raw Dog
Raw Dog is a humorous and deeply researched cultural history of the hot dog in America written by author and comedian Jamie Loftus.
Recommended“So, it's fun. Well, you you too can become a better person by purchasing the book Raw Talk wherever books are sold.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and today it's about hot dogs and in order to talk about [laughter] hot dogs we're joined by Jamie Loftess whose new book Raw Dog the naked truth about hot dogs boldly asked the question what if a book was good.”
“Jamie, where can people find the hot dog book? Oh, you can find it uh all over the place. Uh but I would recommend getting it from bookshop.org if you're ordering online. It's a really cool website that will uh automatically purchase from your nearest independent bookstore and send it to you.”