Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2018-06-12
Joe Rogan & Adam Frank: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1130
#1130 - Adam Frank
Adam Frank is a physicist, astronomer, and writer. His scientific research has focused on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution.
Joe Rogan recommended Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and others and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, and discussed Light of the Stars by Adam Frank. Adam Frank recommended Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, and discussed Foundation by Isaac Asimov.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Light of the Stars
Discussed“can't be trusted your book alien worlds, yeah, and a fate of the earth”
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Foundation
Discussed“because that's it gives me the turtle because it's from like Shakespeare like from Caesar or something I was thought it wasn't good but it's the idea that like you know in the foundation trilogy the Isaac gazzman off you know classic science fiction thing there's the city of the Planet of Trant”
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Merchants of Doubt
Recommended“what is the name of that merchants of doubt' merchants of doubt', yeah that's a great smoke man, that's a really good book”
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Aurora
Recommended“you know there's this great novel by Kim Stanley Robinson who's like dis life for me one of the great science fiction writers and it's called Aurora and they you know they it's the usual world ship they go so they build the colony ship it takes you know three generations to cross space and they get to the planet”
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Ready Player One
Recommended“I I've read the book I didn't see the what was it the movie that just Ready Set ready player one, I didn't see I didn't see it, have you read the book the book, I'm like good because the book is like full immersion”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Light of the Stars
“so the whole point of my doing this book was to start looking at ourselves as just one of you know we're not alone”
Plugged Light of the Stars
“like because you know one of the things that I'm talking about my book is like how long does any civilization last”
Plugged Light of the Stars
“cuz you talked to climate denialists, and it's the same freaking set of things that like you know man dude we've been here before we've questioned is that answered”