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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2019
Throughout April 2019, podcast conversations frequently turned toward mindfulness, personal development, and the cultural footprint of popular media and literature. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Dr. Rick Hanson revisited his books Buddha's Brain and Resilient, exploring psychological themes that mirror spiritual and emotional resilience. Pod Save America featured a discussion on mindfulness with Tim Ryan regarding his book A Mindful Nation, highlighting its departure from typical campaign literature. Literary and artistic legacies also drew attention on The Joe Rogan Experience, where Anthony Jeselnik and the host discussed the protective approach to publishing taken by the creators of Calvin and Hobbes through collected books rather than commercial toys, contrasting them with the merchandising of Jim Davis's Garfield, alongside references to Garry Trudeau's political comic strip Doonesbury. Later on The Jordan Harbinger Show, Guy Kawasaki discussed his memoirWise Guy and Think Remarkable, reflecting on personal anecdotes from the beginning of his writing. Across these appearances, the discussions were loosely unified by an exploration of how personal discipline, mindfulness, and creative works influence public life.
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Buddha's Brain
Discussed“yeah Brad I've come back and started rereading pieces of Buddhist brain and it's interesting how much it really is Buddhist now”
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Resilient
Discussed“and then resilient is also I would say just like you're saying or Jordan not explicitly spiritual”
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Wise Guy
Discussed“I thought it was really funny that you started with the book off being more or less pretty humble about the fact that you got mistaken for Jackie Chan by a group of girls in a convertible”
Speaker Life Lessons from a Wise Guy | Guy Kawasaki on TJHS Ep. 190 (FULL) 2019-04-25 Listen at 1:14 -
Think Remarkable
Discussed“I thought it was really funny that you started with the book off being more or less pretty humble about the fact that you got mistaken for Jackie Chan by a group of girls in a convertible”
Speaker Life Lessons from a Wise Guy | Guy Kawasaki on TJHS Ep. 190 (FULL) 2019-04-25 Listen at 1:14 -
The Miracle Morning
Discussed“but there's a lot of people who read the miracle morning or would have read the miracle morning without your four-page chapter and gone I just can't”
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Failing Forward
Discussed“John Maxwell taught that in his book failing forward it's called act your way into feeling”
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Wisdom from Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Discussed“like Robert Kiyosaki's got the cash flow quadrant and Stephen Covey's got the seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
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The Biology of Belief
Discussed“I'm even reading up on like online on the mind-body connection and how our thoughts do affect our biology right Bruce Lipton wrote a great book the biology of me don't get me started”
Pod Save America
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A Mindful Nation
Discussed“you wrote a book long before his presidential campaign it's not it's very different than all these other books and it's about mindfulness which I think would catch a lot of people by surprise who've listened to this interview and toured look at your bio”
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Finding My Voice
Discussed“my conversation with our friend and former senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett about her new book finding my voice”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Jim Davis
Discussed“so i think the calvin and hobbes guy would never let them make toys of calvin and hobbes he saw the books yeah he didn't want that money”
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Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection
Discussed“so i think the calvin and hobbes guy would never let them make toys of calvin and hobbes he saw the books yeah he didn't want that money”
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An Especially Tricky People
Discussed“and then who did dunesbury that's like the political one right that's still is that his name maybe yeah what the [ __ ] who the [ __ ] was it trudeau”
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Magicians of the Gods
Discussed“I have in america before I've not gone over old ground that I went over in magicians of the gods that we covered in the various interviews and podcasts in which it's really a good idea that people take a look at”
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History Begins at Sumer
Discussed“and indeed i have a i have a book in my my library called history begins at sumer and it's by samuel noah cramer a very renowned archaeologist”
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
Discussed“and which is one of the reasons i'm so fascinated by rick strassmann's work you you presented his film dmt the spirit molecule”
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Mentors
Discussed“and that's what that this book here mentors which i talk about you in only for a paragraph you know i mean it's not too”
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Born to Fight
Discussed“yeah we got the the street survival series coming out volume one two and three is gonna drop very soon books dvds everything everything's coming out”
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Stand-Up Comedy
Discussed“it was this chick who wrote all these books... Judy Brown... Judy Carter... she wrote these books and how did you stand up”
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How to be a Stand-up Comic
Discussed“There was a couple books written by comics... like Belzer. Richard Belzer wrote a book on how to do stand-up”
StarTalk Radio
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Mayim's Vegan Table
Discussed“No I mean like whatever. I have this book. It's called Mayim's Vegan Table. I work on the Big Bang Theory, and I have two kids and that's my life.”
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The Sports Gene
Discussed“There's this book the sports gene, that talks about sort of the exceptional athletic ability, that we don't really think about, when we see Olympic athletes. They're at a whole different physiological level, than we even would think about.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Book of Mormon
Discussed“What are they gonna do stop an arrow and a bullet with their [ __ ] Book of Mormon”
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Power Up Your Brain
Discussed“so here today we have a beautiful man and he's the author of the book grain brain”
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A dieta do ácido
Discussed“and so that that's what our do books about is calling it out so you can look suddenly realize these people are taking advantage of me”
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The Erie Book
Discussed“oh yeah I actually read about half of that book on Joe Rogan”
The Rubin Report
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The Virtue of Nationalism
Discussed“joining me today is the president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem the director of the John Templeton Foundation project in Jewish philosophical theology and the author of several books including the virtue of nationalism”
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Complete Catalog of Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
Discussed“and schirmer's book I can see yeah the moral arc”
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Gay Girl, Good God
Discussed“Well I know two different stories there is a really good book by someone who I totally disagree with it's a ways but she wrote a good book Now she probably wouldn't say that Oh God makes people straight but it's called gay girl good God's by Jackie Hill Perri and she did live life as a gay person and”
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Irresistible
Discussed“so I went down all these science holes and now I'm looking at reading this book irresistible which is all about screen addiction and all the studies and it's brilliant”
Modern Wisdom
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Lifespan: The Revolutionary Science of why We Age
Discussed“but I've also poured everything that's in my brain into a book that's coming out later this year in the US that's coming out in September or early September it'll be out in the UK and then globally it's called lifespan the revolutionary science of why we age and why we don't have to”
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Happy Money
Discussed“but I will say take a look at the book happy money which is kind of like a psychological evaluation of ways to spend money to actually increase your happiness”
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Chasing Excellence
Discussed“it was sure it was something that I'd seen in chasing excellence by Ben Bergeron and a couple of other books and hadn't really put it together but it was incredibly succinctly and brutally delivered delivered to remind me just how many mistakes are sometimes make in atomic habits”
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It's Not All about "me"
Discussed“my first book came out years ago called it's not all about me the top ten techniques for quick rapport and Godot on Amazon in any country that's a short read about 20,000 words”
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The Code of Trust
Discussed“my last book that came out it's called to go to trusts in American counter intelligence experts five steps lead to succeed that's also all over the place that was with st. Martin's Press great publisher”
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Sizing People Up
Discussed“actually just remembered it's called sizing people up it's what it's called right now it probably will be too it's probably gonna want to be in sizing people up”
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The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k
Discussed“I'm reading the life-changing art of not giving a [ __ ]”
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Looking For Madeleine
Discussed“There is an updated version of our book looking for Madeleine”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Deep Learning
Discussed“he's the author of the popular textbook on deep learning simply titled deep learning”
