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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2018
April 2018 discussions across various podcast episodes centered around historical atrocities, memoirs, personal development, and children's literature. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, the guest and host referenced Jean Hatzfeld's Machete Season and Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking from previous podcast episodes, while the guest also promoted his upcoming children's book, Marc's Mission. On This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, Theo discussed starting Chris Ryan's Greed, sharing his initial impressions of the first chapter and the reading process. The a16z Podcast featured Ray Dalio's Principles: Life and Work, exploring the foundational algorithms for work and life derived from a previous interview. Another a16z Podcast episode included Vijay sharing a favorite children's book featuring an Indian tale about grains of rice to illustrate exponential growth concepts. On The Rubin Report, Thomas Sowell discussed his new book Discrimination and Disparities. During the same interview, Sowell also reflected on his childhood reading habits, specifically recalling the Doctor Dolittle books by Hugh Lofting as some of the first titles he borrowed from his local public library. These shows brought attention to works examining human behavior, historical suffering, systemic disparities, and foundational life principles.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Machete Season
Discussed“podcast number 16 machete season... is that a book? It's a book”
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The Rape of Nanking
Discussed“No actually the first one where I really realized myself was we did another one called The Rape of Nanking”
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Marc's Mission
Discussed“and I got another book and other kids book coming out called Mark's mission It's you can pre-order it right now”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Greed
Discussed“What's your opinion? you know I just started reading this book called sex at dawn and it's by a man named Chris Ryan and I just started and uh and I've literally read through the introduction and I mean just in the first chapter I'm it just started yesterday Anna read slow and I don't wanna [ __ ] I”
a16z Podcast
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Principles
Discussed“Today's episode is based on a conversation we recorded previously with Ray Dalio, author of the book Principles: Life and Work.”
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Kids Books
Discussed“One of my favorite kids' books is that Indian story about the grains of rice, where as a gift or reward, the peasant asks for two grains, then four, doubling every day over a month, and the Raja thinks this is not that big of a deal, right? Two grains, four grains is not a big deal. Of course, in”
The Rubin Report
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Doctor Dolittle
Discussed“One of the books was the Doctor Dolittle books”
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Discrimination and Disparities
Discussed“so first I thought I want do a little bit on your history and I want to focus on your new book”
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Discussed“I think the most hate that I ever got for a Rubin report episode was when I had Alex Epstein author of the moral case for fossil fuels and for a sit down Alex's argument isn't against manmade climate change specifically”
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Discussed“on the flip side of the debate I've also sat down with Michael Mann a climatologist and the author of the famous the hockey stick and the climate Wars who's a thought leader in the climate change debate”
Pod Save America
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Communist Leadership
Discussed“the Republican National Committee has created a website called lion Comey to attack the former FBI director in advance of the release of his new book”
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The Smartest Sh*t Donald Trump Has Ever Said
Discussed“yeah I I wrote an entire chapter my book on this because Fox is one of the most dangerous forces facing the American democracy”
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Adios, America
Discussed“Trump's immigration plans are basically plagiarized from her book which was called adios America the less plan to turn our country into a third-world hellhole catchy title”