Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-07-03
Books mentioned on #1320 - Eric Weinstein
Eric Weinstein is a mathematician and economist, and he is also the managing director at Thiel Capital. He is the host of the podcast "The Portal" available on Spotify.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks is a classic collection of neurological case studies that vividly illustrates the strange and complex ways the human brain processes reality.
Discussed“well you remember Oliver Sacks had this chapter and the man who mistook his wife for a hat about a drummer with Tourette's syndrome”
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The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a classic children's adventure novel featuring illustrations by Jules Feiffer, following a bored boy named Milo who receives a magical tollbooth and drives his toy car into a whimsical kingdom.
Discussed“if you remember the Phantom Tollbooth Milo gets this present of a car in a toll booth and he goes through the toll booth any what is that from mm Norton Juster was the author and Jules Feiffer was did illustrations”
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The Bell Curve
Richard J.
Discussed“so Charles Murray it is it's hard to say he wrote the bell curve right”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Blazing Saddles
“you remember the old I was Blazing Saddles”
Passing Mein Kampf
“you know somebody has submitted parts of mine comp to it you know as with Jews rewritten as men people right”