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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2019
March 2019 podcast episodes explored history, human cognition, and cultural commentary. On Pod Save America, Dan Pfeiffer sarcastically referenced Greg Gutfeld's newest book, The Gutfeld Monologues, during a discussion of media reactions to political events. Historical and medical literature came into focus on The Joe Rogan Experience, where Lindsey Fitzharris discussed her book The Butchering Art and its focus on Joseph Lister, and Joe Rogan talked about Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian series alongside Frank Frazetta's fantasy book cover artwork. Conversations about cognitive science and human behavior appeared on The Jordan Harbinger Show, where Beau Lotto discussed his book Deviate and the ways human brains evolved to process reality, while Modern Wisdom featured Chris Williamson quoting rules from Rollo Tomassi's The Rational Male. Comedy history and preservation also emerged when Lenny Clarke mentioned Phil Berger's book The Last Laugh on The Joe Rogan Experience. Finally, themes of resilience and historical preservation extended to Jocko Willink discussing his children's book Mikey and the Dragons on The Rubin Report, and a mention of Thomas Cahill's How the Irish Saved Civilization regarding the preservation of knowledge.
Pod Save America
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The Gutfeld Monologues
Discussed“a third Forrester my hero which is a firm on the latest copy of Greg Gutfeld two newest book”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Conan the Barbarian
Discussed“he was uh this guy that do he would do all the covers for Conan the Barbarian books. Just incredible artwork. Like wild crazy fantasy [ __ ] and this is your type of art. Oh just I loved it when I was a kid man. When I was a kid you know when I was like this seems like”
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The Butchering Art
Discussed“so my book uh the butchering art really focuses on this one guy named joseph lister who applies germ theory and develops antisepsis”
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The Last Laugh
Discussed“well you know when when I first started there was one book the last laugh that was all of us about money”
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
Discussed“and there's a book called how the Irish saved civilization and it's about how the scribes how the the Irish priests wrote down all the knowledge”
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Hyper
Discussed“so my first book was called hyper um a personal history of adhd so it was about being medicated as a child”
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There and Then
Discussed“He wrote a memoir at 76 about being a fighter pilot among other things in the korean war lyric literary”
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Sticky Fingers
Discussed“and sticky fingers was a great the document of the new book on um the new book on yon winner has great moments of thompson in the 70s just being kind of lost”
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Playing Off the Rail
Discussed“who's the author of playing off the rail google uh playing off the rail there's a guy who was a journalist what year do you think it was david mccumber”
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Cooking with Grease
Discussed“i i yeah i saw a lot of this when donna brazile released uh her book detailing how the dnc sort of rigged the primaries against bernie sanders and and for clinton there were so many people who were clinton supporters that just didn't want to believe it”
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Discussed“in fact there's a whole there's a book written by dickens when he visited the united states called martin chuzzlewitt when he describes all these sickly people in illinois and cairo illinois on the confluence of the mississippi and the ohio river he's clearly describing malaria”
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Malaria
Discussed“so that's a great question um we so there's actually a very nice book written by a medical historian at duke university named margaret humphries called malaria race and poverty and she has a hypothesis but i think she's onto something that um it the decrease the malaria dropped in associated with aggressive economic development”
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Perhaps They'll Listen Now
Discussed“so that's a great question um we so there's actually a very nice book written by a medical historian at duke university named margaret humphries called malaria race and poverty and she has a hypothesis but i think she's onto something that um it the decrease the malaria dropped in associated with aggressive economic development”
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The Other America
Discussed“when i was in high school or junior high school i was forced to read a book and at the time i didn't care about it was called the other america it was written by a fantastic social activist named michael harrington who is a i think someone told me he's very devout catholic actually so and he wrote this”
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Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism
Discussed“but certainly the vaccines not cause racial as autism i wrote it with the idea of parents vaccine hesitant parents and also the pediatricians... um definitely the vaccines do not cause rachel's autism as audio books”
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Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases
Discussed“then i have a third book that i wrote a few years ago called forgotten people forgotten diseases that describes the neglected tropical diseases”
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Melanie's Marvelous Measles
Discussed“and that's one of the phony books they put out yeah called melanie's marvelous measles i mean it's it's awful”
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Hyperobjects
Discussed“there's this he's actually an english professor named timothy Morton who wrote a book about climate he calls it a hyper object which is like it's a it's a phenomenon that's so big that we can't actually hold it in our heads at once”
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Dark Ecology
Discussed“there's this he's actually an english professor named timothy Morton who wrote a book about climate he calls it a hyper object which is like it's a it's a phenomenon that's so big that we can't actually hold it in our heads at once”
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The Uninhabitable Earth
Discussed“Tell people with the name of your book one more time please it's called the uninhabitable earth the subtitle is life after warm”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Deviate
Discussed“in the meantime here's Bolano your your book deviate in your work in large part is about the idea or the fact that we don't experience the world as it is because our brains didn't really evolve to do that”
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Shook One
Discussed“Cuz like this new book shook one is about anxiety”
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Reata
Discussed“in fact Mike Micallef sort of book about this and it used to drive me crazy I used to get FOMO and I think a lot of people listening and watching also get FOMO because they go oh man look at this person's multi They're making a million dollars a month and it's like okay they took a cash injection”
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How to Be a Capitalist Without Any Capital
Discussed“I mean that my publisher by the way hates the book because it's not timely it's not timeless like you've had some other people on essentialism gary with the one thing the books will sell for decades this won't cuz there's so many screenshots like I put in here look it was in the show notes but like these are”
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The ONE Thing
Discussed“like you've had some other people on essentialism gary with the one thing the books will sell for decades this won't”
Modern Wisdom
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The Rational Male
Discussed“like Rollo Tomassi book the rational male one of the rules that he has in there is never let the woman be in charge of the childbirth”
The Rubin Report
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Mikey and the Dragons
Discussed“and so that's that one Mikey and the Dragons is about facing your dragons”
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John Grisham
Discussed“I always say if anybody wants to learn legal education just read all john grisham's you'll get a good sense about the legal practice”