Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-01-10
Joe Rogan & Michael Shermer: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #1222
#1222 - Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Learn more about your ad choices.
Joe Rogan recommended The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and others, and discussed Unlimited Power by Tony Robbins and Best evidence by David S. Lifton. Michael Shermer discussed Sham by Steve Salerno, Scale by Geoffrey West, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers by Michele Gelfand, Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard, Going Clear by Lawrence Wright, The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift, Case Closed by Gerald Posner, Final Charade by David Lifton, and A Savage Order by Rachel Kleinfeld.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Unlimited Power
Discussed“when i was uh 21 years old i used to listen to his i think it was called unlimited power i think that was the name of the book”
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Sham
Discussed“and um there was a guy wrote a book called sham s-h-a-m self-help actualization movement and he was the head book guy for rodale press that publishes these self-help books um and so his takeaway on in this book was that the number one predictor of people who will buy self-help books are people who already bought self-help books and”
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Scale
Discussed“there's that book that physicist west jeff g-e-o-f-f west i think is his name wrote that book”
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Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
Discussed“i just started this book called rule makers and rule breakers uh it's a by a woman who is a cultural psychologist”
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Dianetics
Discussed“and then he went out and wrote dianetics and that became the founding document of scientology”
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Going Clear
Discussed“lawrence wright wrote the book all these things are happening and now leah is coming in”
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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels
Discussed“i mean i'm reading jonathan hates book the the two books that uh i've been reading recently but the other one is the cobbling of the american mind”
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Recommended“the two books that uh i've been reading recently uh one of them we discussed on the podcast we did on monday but the other one is the cobbling of the american mine i'm into that now and it's it's fantastic”
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Case Closed
Discussed“and all of the evidence against particularly him the gerald posner's book case closed”
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Final Charade
Discussed“that's funny man did you ever read david lifton's novel or a book about it rather yeah best evidence best evidence”
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Best evidence
Discussed“yeah best evidence best evidence i i didn't read the whole book”
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A Savage Order
Discussed“she has this a new book called a savage order and it's about failed states and what happens to them”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“look what you got there yeah the moral arc uh heavens on earth”
“uh heavens on earth look at you skeptic magazine”
“the moral arc uh heavens on earth look at you skeptic magazine”
“look at you skeptic magazine that's the latest issue why is there something rather than nothing”
“he wrote a series of essays for vanity fair his column uh which you can get as a book now i think it's called mortality or something like that anyway”