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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2018
During September 2018, several podcasts explored various literary works across different genres, ranging from show business histories to health and literature. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, the host discussed Thomas R. King's biography of David Geffen, noting the background of the reporter. The host also mentioned Ben Fritz's book The Big Picture, praising its insights into the movie business. Meanwhile, The Joe Rogan Experience featured multiple book discussions. Layne Norton talked about his weight loss writing project titled Fat Loss Forever, as well as his published work, The Complete Contest Prep Guide. Dom D'Agostino mentioned providing Joe Rogan with The Complete Book of Ketones by Dr. Mary, and Layne Norton referenced Naomi Whittel's book covering autophagy science. In a different context, on This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, Theo Von attempted to reference a George Orwell novel, struggling with the exact title while comparing his brother's appearance to a dark literary setting. Finally, on the a16z Podcast, Michael Ovitz discussed the development of the film adaptation of Michael Crichton's detailed dinosaur book, Jurassic Park, highlighting expectations for it to become a major best-seller.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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David Geffen
Discussed“He also wrote the David Geffen biography I mean he was at he was he was that kind of reporter”
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The Big Picture
Discussed“I loved his book He wrote a book called the big picture which is great about the movie business”
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The Bell Curve
Discussed“so Charles Murray wrote a book in 1994 I think it was called the bell curve a very controversial book in which he looks at race differences”
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Coming Apart
Discussed“This is the most important thing to understand how America is coming apart by social class His book is called coming apart”
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The Rise of Victimhood Culture
Discussed“there's a great book on victimhood culture by Manning and Campbell are the authors”
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Your Subconscious Brain Can Change Your Life
Discussed“he's done over a hundred thousand brain scans and and he wrote a famous book called change your brain change your life”
Speaker How To Optimize Memorization & Learn 10x Faster | Jim Kwik Ep. 85 2018-09-02 Listen at 17:38
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Fat Loss Forever
Discussed“If you look at the weight loss problem in our society and I'm writing a book called fat loss forever”
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Complete Books of Enoch: All Three: New Translation with Extensive Commentary
Discussed“I mean it's that that book I gave you the complete book of ketones by dr. Mary”
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Glow15
Discussed“Naomi would tell wrote a book about this and it just it's like a New York Times and that really covers a science”
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The Complete Contest Prep Guide (Male Cover)
Discussed“I've got a book out I've got another book coming out”
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Feminist Baby Finds Her Voice!
Discussed“I was at a bookstore and there is a feminist baby book... it says feminist baby finds her voice”
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The Technology of Orgasm
Discussed“okay so there was a book back in 99 called I think the technology of orgasm that made the claim that vibrators were first invented in the Victorian era the late 1800s to help doctors bring their female patients to orgasm to cure quote hysteria”
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The Ethical Slut, Third Edition
Discussed“I mean the ethical slot is a good kind of... it is the ethical [ __ ]... dossie Easton and Janet Hardy”
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Mate
Discussed“I did a podcast with Tucker max a couple years ago the mating grounds where it was sort of related to our mate book that was dating advice for young single guys”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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George Orwell: The Complete Novels (The Greatest Novelists of All Time – Book 7)
Discussed“it was very everything was dark and very you know um like that George Orwell book or whatever into the jungle or whatever it's called”
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The Bridges of Madison County
Discussed“and that was the Bridges of Madison County ... and that's a Clint Eastwood's and what else is her name Marilyn the street and Marilyn's Streep is probably one of the top 70 or 80 actresses you know a man it's amazing because she has she has a family and it's just regular life and then this man comes through”
a16z Podcast
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Jurassic Park
Discussed“The good news is we’ve got Cathy Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Crichton with a detailed book that’s going to be a best-seller about dinosaurs, and we've got a screenplay and it’s going to cost this much money. Well, we own it, and you don’t. Now take those six to eight other studios that don’t get that phone call—they're not”
Modern Wisdom
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Death by Mistress
Discussed“It's another book recommendation and it is happy by Darren brown”
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YES, But... .
Discussed“You said best Martin Burke on depression He's like some people say I've got so much washing to do tomorrow it's like no you don't There is a large pile of washing”
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The Urban Monk
Discussed“The optimize mind My books I've read in the last month”
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Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Discussed“I recently did a podcast with Adam Frank who wrote a book and recently did published a paper on exactly that what the likelihood is of us being alone in the universe”
The Rubin Report
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Tears of Rage
Discussed“I was sitting reading John Walsh's book tears of rage I believe a familiar I don't remember the title exactly but I was a big fan”
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The Diversity Myth
Discussed“and I think there's a direct connection to the diversity myth which we'll also talk about what you wrote you know twenty years there”
Pod Save America
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Every Day Is Extra
Discussed“secretary Kerry a new book out called every day is extra we talked to him about the book”
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Wasted: Tales of a Young Drunk
Discussed“but he has said twice now I have no recollection which is not a denial especially when we know that Mark judge wrote a book about being blacked out and drunk for much of his youth”
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Crazy from the Heat
Discussed“but really and David Lee Roth talked about this in his book but really they would put that in the rider in order to make sure that the entire rider was read because they were on a tour with airplane a lot of tertiary markets and they were doing rooms where they want to assure that all of their stage”
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On the Other Side of Freedom
Discussed“the host of positive the people DeRay McKesson now officially has a book out on the shelves ... It's called on the other side of freedom the case for hope ... The publisher describes it as a meaty sorry a meditation on resistance justice and freedom and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines ... to Ray's”
Speaker “Kava-not-cool, guys.” | Pod Save America recording stream 9/04/18 2018-09-04 Listen at 1:44 -
Fear
Discussed“bob woodward is that with the new book all fear and it's about the Trump administration ... you know they had a story this morning about the book with all kinds of excerpts ... the book is very bad for Donald Trump”