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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2017
Throughout August 2017, podcast conversations frequently turned toward survival, health science, and popular science literature. On The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Mike Baker recommended Timothy Egan's The Big Burn, a book detailing a massive historical forest fire in Idaho and Teddy Roosevelt's conservation efforts. Dom D'Agostino appeared on the same podcast to recommend specialized health and scientific texts, specifically highlighting Jeff Volek's The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance for athletes and Thomas Seyfried's Cancer as a Metabolic Disease for its detailed documentation of metabolic cancer theories with hard data. On This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, the host discussed his plans to read Robert Firestone and Joyce Catlett's Fear of Intimacy after reflecting on personal struggles with relationships. Science communication also featured prominently when Joe Rogan discussed the complexity of Lawrence Krauss's A Universe from Nothing, noting the rigorous effort required to get through certain chapters of the popular science book. Additionally, StarTalk Radio featured Neil deGrasse Tyson interviewing Joe Rao, where they mentioned Rao's children's book Looking Up! about the science of stargazing. These literary mentions shared a cohesive underlying interest in human endurance, scientific inquiry, and the complexities of both the natural world and human health.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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A Universe from Nothing
Discussed“like I getting through Lawrence Krauss his last book man there's chapters that I had to like go ok let's go through this one more time”
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Bad as I Wanna be
Discussed“bad as I want to be was that a book he had out or something”
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The Big Burn
Recommended“I've read a really good book called the big burn if anybody's looking for a book to pick up and read it's about in this massive forest fire that took place mostly in Idaho”
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The Black Witch
Discussed“I just read a story this morning in Vulture about the young adult world where this book came out called um I think what's called like the let me see if I can find it um called The Black Witch”
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Remote Viewers
Discussed“This guy called Jim Schnable had written this book called Remote Viewers which kind of, you know, uncovered all of that stuff.”
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Tripping over the Truth
Discussed“and Travis Kristofferson and I wrote a book called tripping over the truth and I wrote the forward to the book which discusses why we view cancer as a genetic disease and kind of lays out the data and you know all the evidence to support cancer as a metabolic disease”
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The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance
Recommended“if you there's a book that has ice cream there's a recipe Jeff Bullock has a book it's called the art and science of low carbohydrate performance and this will appeal to your crowd because a lot of MMA guys I refer the book and they say this book was incredibly helpful to me”
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Cancer as a Metabolic Disease
Recommended“and then [ __ ] doctor professor Thomas hayford from Boston College he wrote the book cancer as a metabolic disease and it's a fantastic book that you know elegantly documents the the theory of cancer as a metabolic disease with a lot of hard data”
StarTalk Radio
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Looking Up!
Discussed“your broadcast meteorologists and you wrote the children's book looking up the science of stargazing”
The Rubin Report
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Future of the Middle Class
Discussed“and you know one of the lines of research that I have been following is someone in Peter Turman and MIT economists just came out with this book where he talks about the dual economy and the dying middle class of America”
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The Dual Economy
Discussed“and so one of the lines of research that I have been following is someone in Peter Turman and MIT economists just came out with this book where he talks about the dual economy and the dying middle class of America”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Fear of Intimacy
Recommended“I know there's a book out there called the fear of intimacy which I heard is really good that I'm about to read”
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Fear of Intimacy and the Tango Cure
Recommended“I know there's a book out there called the fear of intimacy which I heard is really good that I'm about to read”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Joe's garage 1,11,111
Discussed“and I always people always said Joe's Garage every time I read a [__] drummer magazine for [__] 15 years every drummer was trying to get Vinnie cuda's high hat sound in Joe Joe's Garage”
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Discussed“and it just gets annoying after a while that you take a movie like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner when it's when it's the white girl bringing home the black guy the original movie then it's this drama”
