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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2018
May 2018 podcast conversations explored health, history, and personal journeys through several notable books. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Kevin Smith enthusiastically recommended Penn Jillette's Presto! following discussions about his own dramatic weight loss and recovery from a heart episode. Personal challenges and historical exploration also surfaced on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, where Jamie Kennedy referenced Marlon Brando's book to illustrate the massive scale of past Hollywood movie premieres, while callers and hosts discussed recovery resources, including the Big Book for alcoholism. On Modern Wisdom, Stu Morton referenced John Fairfax's solo rowing writings to describe his preparation for an Atlantic crossing. Technical history and fringe theories also made appearances in the month's media landscape. Marc Andreessen mentioned Andrew Blum's Tubes on the a16z Podcast while discussing television's prehistory and technological origins, and Eddie Bravo suggested reading Samuel Rowbotham's Earth Not a Globe on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von during a broader conversation about historical debates concerning the shape of the earth.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Erotic Mind
Discussed“so there's there's this book called the erotic mind by Jack Morin that probably came out in the 70s or 80s I remember there's a is that recommended reading by you”
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Marlon Brando
Recommended“I understood what Hollywood you gotta read Marlon Brando's book and he would say that there would be a premiere of Mann's Chinese and it would go from Mann's Chinese down past the Gower”
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Marlon Brando
Recommended“I understood what Hollywood you gotta read Marlon Brando's book and he would say that there would be a premiere of Mann's Chinese and it would go from Mann's Chinese down past the Gower”
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Plain Language Big Book
Recommended“Have them get a sponsor, have them get the big book having do 90 meetings in 90 days and get serious”
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The Big Book of Western Action Stories
Recommended“have them get a sponsor have them get the big book having do 90 meetings in 90 days and get serious”
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Earth Not a Globe
Recommended“I'm like Samuel Rowbotham read his but there's a lot of books”
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Sex at Dawn
Discussed“you know I'm reading this listening to this book still called sex at dawn and when I first heard it man they were talking like a lot of anti-christian stuff and things like this”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Serpent in the Sky
Discussed“john anthony west published serpent in the sky his probably most famous book first edition 1979.”
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The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt
Discussed“he wrote the traveler's key to ancient egypt in 1985 also mentions in appendix i think it was just the quote older sphinx theory”
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Presto!
Recommended“Penn Jillette's book pressed Oh God lost 200 pounds after his heart episode it's fantastic book”
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Papillon
Discussed“I love books that are written after the fact by people who were in crime you know like Papillon was one of my favorite books growing up”
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Mind Gym
Discussed“there was a there was a book called mind gym you're out of it no mind gym”
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How Champions Think
Discussed“and then there was just a bunch of and there was another book to remind to remind me it's called how champions think”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Solaris
Discussed“this is friend you know Stanislav LEM this polish science fiction writer he wrote Solaris I was turned into a Hollywood movie”
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Mortal Engines
Discussed“his best novel it was in the 60s if there is a very ingenious and engineering background his most interesting novel is called the victorious where human civilization they they they they they have this mission to this planet and everything is destroyed”
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The Invincible
Discussed“yes his best novel it was in the 60s if there is a very ingenious and engineering background his most interesting novel is called the victorious where human civilization they they they they they have this mission to this planet and everything is destroyed”
Modern Wisdom
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Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic
Discussed“There's a book I've read recently by a guy called John Fairfax who wrote solo in 1969”
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The Sea
Recommended“there's a book I've read recently by a guy called John Fairfax who wrote solo in 1969”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
Critiqued“strong father's strong daughters 10 secrets every father should know alright let's read a little bit of this see how much disagree protect her defend her”
The Book Review
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Calypso
Discussed“David sederis will explore this and other pressing issues when he joins us to talk about his latest book Calypso”
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Insane
Discussed“Alisa Roth will be here to talk about her book insane America's criminal treatment of mental illness”
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Discussed“there was that great one I think from uh let's explore diabetes with owls”
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The soul of America
Discussed“we still have books like a higher loyalty by James Comey is is still number three John mechums the soul of America jumped on there”
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Shade
Discussed“the title is shade a tale of two presidents not two subtle”
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Discussed“Rachel Slade will tell us about her new book into the Raging Sea 33 Mariners one megga storm and the sinking of alaro”
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The new journalism
Discussed“of course he wants to be an old journalist when you're young but um in thanks to Tom Wolf's Anthology the new journalism in which he packaged a lot of writers who weren't really”
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Why does the world exist?
Discussed“he wrote a beautiful book a few years ago called why does the world exist”
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The restless wave
Discussed“yes so John McCain's newest book which is called the Restless wave”
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Chasing Hillary
Discussed“Amy chosak discusses her new Memoir chasing Hillary”
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A Higher Loyalty
Discussed“at number one Higher loyalty by James Comey and I'm just going to do the the sort of very overtly political books”
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The perfect mother
Discussed“Amy Malloy the perfect mother and Tina I think both you and I read that book we did and it's a debut novel from a woman who's I think ghost written a fair amount of non-fiction and it's about a kidnapped baby in a mommy group in Brooklyn and she lives in Brooklyn and got the idea when she had”
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All who go do not return
Discussed“one was a memoir by um the writer schulam Dean he's a journalist and a former hidic kind of ultra conservative Orthodox Jew who was expelled from the the htic sect that he belonged to in in New York state for heresy and the name of his Memoir which was published by Greywolf a few years ago was all who”
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Love and ruin
Discussed“the other book that I read recently was Paula McLean's new novel love and ruin”
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The Paris wife
Discussed“Paula mlan of course wrote The Paris wife about Ernest Hemingway's marriage to Hadley Richardson and and second marriage to Pauline feifer”
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Country dark
Discussed“so I'm reading this book country dark by Chris offet and Greg”
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Prostitute Laundry
Discussed“I'm reading prostitute laundry by Charlotte Shane who is I mean I guess a Brooklyn Bas writer”
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Bluets
Discussed“where she's talking about Maggie NE Nelson's bluettes and she says at one point Maggie says clearly I'm not a private person”
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Odyssey : a Father, a Son and an Epic
Discussed“he's a Classics professor at Bard College and this book is called an odyssey a father a son and an epic”
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Barracoon
Discussed“there is a book coming out next week by zoral Hurston it was the first book she ever wrote and when she finished it in 1931 it was rejected ac across the board by all the publishers”
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Motherhood
Discussed“Sheila hetti her new one is called motherhood the one on our Vanguard list was how should a person be”
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The moralist
Discussed“you reviewed a new biography of Wilson yes the moralist by patrio tul”
Behind the Bastards
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Winnetou
Discussed“He starts writing travel books and articles for magazines and eventually starts writing novels. In 1893, he published the first novel in what would become known as the Winnetou series. Uh these books would become the 19th century German equivalent of Harry Potter. I read the first of these books.”
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Old Surehand
Discussed“So, obviously, Karl May's novels, by Hitler's own admission, were the first time he really read anything about America. They opened his eyes to geography. And in May's novels, America is a land dominated by German immigrants. Almost every white person in the story with a speaking role in these novels is a German transplant. In the first book, Old”
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Winnetou und Old Shatterhand.
Discussed“So the last question of this podcast is what did happen to Karl May in the end and that's a story worth telling too. As I said, he got rich and wealthy and started to claim that he himself was Old Shatterhand. He bought a big fancy mansion which he nicknamed Villa Shatterhand.”
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Osama Bin Laden
Discussed“Another book I read for this just titled Osama bin Laden by Michael Sherer um assures us that that's diminish the culpability of their native son. Bin Laden would have wound up swinging hard for Uncle Sam without Zawahhiri's help.”
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Prophets and Princes
Discussed“For a while it was a pretty cool time in prophets and princes. Mark Weston describes it. The machine guns his followers used were mostly Russian and Chinese AK-47s but also included Israeli Uzi and American M16s.”
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Zabiba and the King
Discussed“So, uh, Saddam Hussein publishes his first novel, Zabiba and the King, in 2000. It's an instant bestseller in Iraq and sells millions upon millions of copies under his regular name. Uh, no. Under the name that it was published under is basically he who wrote the book.”
ChooseFI
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Financially stupid people are everywhere
Discussed“I think it was financially stupid people are everywhere and how not to be one of them and then after I read that he he turned around and handed me The Millionaire Next Door”
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Warren Buffett Invests Like a Girl
Discussed“fast forward over time and I read a book by The Motley Fool called the Fool's investment guide That book really resonated with me and opened my eyes to the advantages of buying individual stocks and I got involved with their community over time and just became very very passionate about thinking about investing and investing with the long-term in”
a16z Podcast
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The Nature of Technology
Discussed“I mean more around the nature of technology and how it evolves which coincidentally is the name of the book you published in 2009 I have a copy from you on my shelf”
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Tubes
Recommended“the other my other favorite example is MIT published a great book called tube years ago”
Pod Save America
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War on Peace
Discussed“when we come back you'll hear tommy's a portion of Tommy's conversation with Ronan on Sunday about about Ronan's new book”
Freakonomics Radio
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A Crack in Creation
Discussed“She wrestles with all this in a book she co-wrote with another CRISPR researcher, Samuel Sternberg. It's called A Crack in Creation.”
