Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2017-03-24
Books mentioned on #937 - Justin Wren
Justin Wren is an American MMA fighter. Justin is currently fighting in the Heavyweight division of Bellator to help raise more awareness for helping the Pygmy people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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When Helping Hurts
When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert is a Christian guide examining how to poverty alleviate effectively without causing unintentional harm to developing communities.
Recommended“or how there's a also a great book out called when helping hurts and it talks about hey Charity is awesome in and when it's absolutely needed”
Where to get it
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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha is a popular science book that challenges conventional assumptions about human mating systems, arguing that monogamy is a cultural construct rather than an evolutionary imperative.
Discussed“Christopher Ryan had this whole uh take on it in sex at dawn you know and and McKenna had a take on it as well”
Where to get it
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King Leopold's ghost
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild is a historical nonfiction book documenting the brutal colonization of the Congo by King Leopold II of Belgium and the vast human misery inflicted in the pursuit of rubber wealth.
Discussed“King Leopold's go talks about how that was the African Holocaust and basically that Congo had 20 million in population but 8 to 10 million people were killed throughout the belgians coming and colonizing uh the Congo”
Where to get it
