Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2023-05-16
Books mentioned on Joe Rogan Experience #1986 - Jack Carr
Jack Carr recommended The Accidental Superpower by Mr. Peter Zeihan and The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock, and discussed On War by Carl von Clausewitz and Brian Moore Fonds by Brian Moore. Joe Rogan discussed Red Notice by Bill Browder and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Accidental Superpower
The Accidental Superpower by Mr.
Recommended“but on their flight over there I read uh his book accidental superpower and that one very clearly predicts a Russian invasion of Ukraine by the year 20 22”
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On War
On War by Carl von Clausewitz is a foundational treatise on military strategy, political theory, and the nature of armed conflict, written by the Prussian general following the Napoleonic Wars.
Discussed“and uh it's Carl and klauschwitz who wrote on war said the most important attribute of a battlefield leader is common sense”
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The Afghanistan Papers
The Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock is a critical non-fiction investigation that exposes classified military histories and internal institutional failures during the twenty-year war in Afghanistan.
Recommended“and there's a great book it's called the Afghanistan papers by Craig Whitlock and after two Freedom of Information Act lawsuits by The Washington Post they got access to these classified histories of the war”
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Red Notice
Red Notice by Bill Browder is a gripping memoir detailing the author's financial career in Russia, his subsequent battle against state corruption, and his campaign to pass the Magnitsky Act following the tragic murder of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky.
Discussed“did you ever read the Robert Kennedy book no one's on my list but I have not holy [__] pretty good I need to read that”
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Brian Moore Fonds
Discussed“but some of those conversations that I've had in the books I've read have made it into the pages of the novel so there's all this this overlap to include this one uh Brian Moore has a book called The able archers and it talks about a nuclear exchange that almost happened between the United States and the Soviet Union”
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The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie is a controversial postmodern novel that explores themes of migration, identity, and religious faith, famously resulting in a fatwa calling for the author's death upon its publication.
Discussed“someone rushed in the 80s with the Satanic Verses and just gets attacked recently yeah last summer stabbed in the neck and face”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and I put them in the show in the terminal list so on Chris Pratt's uh they're drinking with Boozer in that first episode”
“I wrote about it in the second novel in uh in um in True Believer”
“I'm writing about it I wrote about it in the second novel in uh in um in True Believer”
“John Grisham he wrote his first book A Time to Kill and couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and that one takes off”
“John Grisham he wrote his first book A Time to Kill and couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and that one takes off Tom Cruise is in the movie”
“so I'd like to look at things through the enemy's eyes which I did in the devil's hand my fourth book”
“like I did in the devil's hand my fourth book”
“thank you very much for all you do you and thank you for your awesome books thank you [ __ ] the dead it's out right now you can get it like I said I'm in the middle of it and I love it”