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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2018
April 2018 featured diverse literary recommendations across several prominent programs, touching on weight loss, artificial intelligence, fiction, and personal memoirs. On The Rich Roll Podcast, Rich Roll promoted Chef AJ's new book, The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss, and later in the month recommended Frank Shamrock's memoir Uncaged, co-authored with Charles Fleming. Literary discussions were also prominent on The Book Review, where John Williams reviewed Yōko Tawada's short story The Bridegroom Was a Dog and Tina Jordan brought up Roxana Robinson's novel Cost as part of an observed reading trend. Jordan also mentioned starting Åsne Seierstad's Two Sisters and Gerard Reve's 1947 novel The Evens. Additionally, technology and the future of humanity were focal points when Lex Fridman appeared on his own podcast, the Lex Fridman Podcast, to discuss Max Tegmark's works Our Mathematical Universe and Life 3.0. Together, these conversations connected practical self-improvement, complex fictional narratives, and forward-looking scientific inquiry for listeners.
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss
Recommended“the most important thing though is check out her new book secrets to ultimate weight loss”
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Uncaged
Recommended“and pick up his book on cage ah yeah I saw to read I haven't read it yet”
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”
The Book Review
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The only story
Discussed“Julian Barnes will be here to talk about his new novel The only story”
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God Save Texas
Discussed“Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his new book God save Texas a journey into the soul of the Lone Star State”
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The Sense of an Ending
Discussed“this if it ties to any other book perhaps ties to the sense of an ending which was the book two novels ago”
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Levels of Life
Discussed“but it's interesting too in that with levels of life it was sort of three parts”
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England, England
Discussed“well funny enough I predicted it in a novel called England England which I wrote in 1998”
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This could hurt
Discussed“and then I'm reading something much lighter which is Jillian Med off's novel this could hurt which came out this last January”
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
Recommended“it's a 60 page essentially long short story by a Japanese writer named Yoko toada called the bridegroom was a dog”
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Cost
Recommended“It's an older novel called cost by rexanna Robinson”
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Macbeth
Discussed“James Shapiro shakerian scholar joins us now to talk about his cover review of Joe nebo's version of MC Beth”
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In the Garden of the Ogre
Discussed“The first novel was in the garden of the ogre”
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In the distance
Discussed“and the third book this the other finalist for fiction was hernand Diaz's in the distance which was also kind of a not just a dark horse but of an unknown horse in the race”
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Locking up our own
Discussed“it was James Foreman Jr's locking up our own which was listed as one of our 10 best in the book review”
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The Gulf
Discussed“yeah golf by Jack E Davis it's a big and and quite well wrought book of history”
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The emissary
Discussed“and she's a new book called The Emissary which is not funny and it is not light but it's very good in certain ways”
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Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Discussed“the one before this was the M mems polar bear which is about three generations of a polar bear family that are ALS”
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Life on Mars
Discussed“I don't think it's quite on par with her last one life on Mars which won the P prize”
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The Art of Screen Time
Discussed“Pamela duerman will be here to talk about two new books The Art of screen time and be the parent please”
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Be the Parent, Please : Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat
Discussed“Pamela duerman will be here to talk about two new books The Art of screen time and be the parent please”
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There are no children here
Discussed“and I know this is about a different Chicago housing project that Henry her projects but there was that Alex CT's book There Are No Children Here about sort of what this what did this do to the community life in Cabrini Green”
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Two Sisters
Recommended“I have something brand new I'm actually reading Two Sisters by osne syad which was recently reviewed by parl for us”
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The evenings
Recommended“well anyway well speaking of that General region the world I'm I'm reading a book that I'll be brief about because I only just started it uh a couple of days ago and I'm only about 50 pages in but it's a book called the evenings it's a novel by Gerard reev RVE and it was published in 1947”
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Movie Nights with the Reagans
Discussed“president Mark Weinberg will be here to discuss his new book movie Nights with the Reagans plus our critics Dwight Garner”
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The Glass Castle
Discussed“I mean in you know Janette Wall's a Glass Castle for example”
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The recovering
Discussed“you reviewed on Tuesday Leslie Jameson's new book”
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The Empathy Exams Essays
Discussed“I mean she's well known for her book The empathy exams a book of essays that I really really loved”
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Discussed“so one thing I did touch on in an earlier draft over long unnecessarily over long draft was the legal trouble she'd gotten into with a previous book the book seller of Kabul where she'd gone and spent many years living with a family”
ChooseFI
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Contribution to the Biology of Ambystoma Opacum
Book club“There's three books that we offer We have JL Collins book The Simple path to wealth Dominic cortuccio's book design your future and Vincent puglisi's book freelance to Freedom”
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Dying for a Paycheck
Discussed“you know it's just just today I read about a new book called dying for a paycheck”
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Bleak
Discussed“and so sometime around the 1920s according to a book by Benjamin Honeycutt sometimes around the 1920s we hit over production”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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American made
Discussed“what it was American made the movie about Barry seals who's a CIA drug runner”
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American Pravda
Discussed“James O'Keefe has completed the book about the series entitled American privada my fight for the truth new era of fake news”
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Milestones
Discussed“through his book milestones or muharram for three up in in Arabic”
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Traffic
Discussed“I remember eating a book right now called traffic it's about the science of traffic”
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”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Curse of the Bambino
Critiqued“like he wrote that book the curse of the babe and it was just such a cop-out where you just don't even address granted I never read the book but I just looked at the title and I judge the book by its cover and it just was such a cop-out”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Our Mathematical Universe
Recommended“first our Mathematica universe second is life 3.0”
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Life 3.0
Recommended“second is life 3.0”
The Rubin Report
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Doctor Dolittle
Discussed“One of the books was the Doctor Dolittle books”
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Essays in positive economics
Discussed“I was reading of Milton Friedman's he and his wife had a joint autobiography and she's looking at one point she looking back on in the days when she would ride the IND subway in Manhattan”
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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”
Freakonomics Radio
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Dow 36,000
Discussed“He didn't have much of a public profile except for having co-authored a book in 1999 called Dow 36,000.”
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Discussed“Well, it's like there was a book that was Hadrian's memoirs that was a book about Hadrian speaking in his own words and so on, and he had conquered, and he described that, I think, very well.”
