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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2019
During May 2019, podcasts featured a diverse selection of literature spanning history, memoir, science, and business. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan and guest Greg Fitzsimmons discussed Douglas A. Blackmon's Slavery By Another Name, focusing on historical loitering laws and forced labor during the reconstruction era. Brendan Schaub also appeared on the show to discuss John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker's Mindhunter, noting his fascination after meeting the author. Meanwhile, the host of Modern Wisdom spoke with a guest and referenced Adrienne Tchaikovsky's Children of Time while comparing suspended animation concepts to Adrienne Sharp's The True Memoirs of Little K. Science and nature also drew attention when Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared on StarTalk Radio to discuss reviewing Robert L. Jaffe and Washington Taylor's The Physics of Energy, playfully suggesting it as an apocalypse survival guide. The Book Review featured Tina Jordan recommending Jennifer Ackerman's Birds by the Shore, alongside Gilbert Cruz, who highlighted Betty MacDonald's memoirs The Plague and I and The Egg and I. Finally, Michael Malice visited The Rubin Report to recommend Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox's business title The Goal to illustrate concepts regarding bottlenecks and generating revenue.
The Book Review
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Beyond All Reasonable Doubt
Discussed“the first is beyond all Reasonable Doubt by melin person geito and then a nearly normal family by Mt ederson”
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A Nearly Normal Family
Discussed“the first is beyond all Reasonable Doubt by melin person geito and then a nearly normal family by Mt ederson”
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Into the Jungle
Discussed“into the jungle by Erica fenic if I'm pronouncing that correctly because the line on the cover says it will swallow you whole”
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All the Lost Things
Discussed“what about all the lost things with Michelle Sachs that looks a little bit more domestic”
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The Paper Wasp
Discussed“the other two books are also set in the US Paper was by Lauren aora tell us about that book”
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Temper
Discussed“and then the last one is Temper by lean Fargo this takes place in Chicago”
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Pagan Light
Discussed“I think you don't have Pagan light there which was one of my favorites Pagan light by Jamie James”
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Ottoman Odyssey
Discussed“ottoman Odyssey travels through a Lost Empire by alive Scott she's an amazing young woman”
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Volcanoes, Palm Trees & Privilege
Discussed“and there's one other book I think you haven't mentioned volcanoes palm trees and privilege essays on Hawaii by Liz PR”
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The Salt Path
Discussed“so we're going from Hawaii to Capri to another place on the sea although very different the Southwest coast of England with the salt path by Rainer wi”
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In Putin's Footsteps
Discussed“Nina crushova a granddaughter of Nikita je and Jeffrey Taylor and their book is called in Putin's footsteps searching for the soul of an Empire across Russia's 11 time zones”
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A far cry from Kensington
Discussed“but everybody I love loves that book and I can't wait to read it right now I'm sort of Dipping my toe in with a far cry from Kensington”
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The Dreamers
Discussed“one I'm really excited about it's the dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker and I think I've only gotten through maybe 20 pages of it but it's essentially about an epidemic in this small I guess college town um in which the women start to kind of fall asleep and never wake up”
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The Good Immigrant
Discussed“and then im also really excited about this book of essays called the good immigrant that came out I think a couple of months ago and it's just 26 different writers that are from different immigrant backgrounds from all over the world writing about their experience of of immigrating to America”
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Discussed“and then the last one is the collected schizophrenia by esm Wun Wang and that one I'm just really interested in mental illness and I hear I haven't I haven't started this one at all but I hear that she writes about it very beautifully and very intelligently”
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Ecstatic nation
Discussed“your book before that was ecstatic Nation confidence crisis and compromise 1848 to 1877 so you were in this period and and in the 19th century”
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The genius of birds
Discussed“You may remember the book she had a few years ago called the Genius of birds which I loved I think most people in the desk know that I'm a bird watcher”
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Birds by the Shore
Recommended“I'm reading something different for me I'm reading Birds by the Shore by Jennifer acrian”
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The plague and I.
Recommended“this book is Betty McDonald's the plague and I longtime listeners may remember a while back I read the Egg and I if people are familiar with her name it's probably because of the Mrs pigle wiggle books her children's books which are still in circulation”
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The egg and I
Recommended“this book is Betty McDonald's the plague and I longtime listeners may remember a while back I read the Egg and I if people are familiar with her name it's probably because of the Mrs pigle wiggle books her children's books which are still in circulation”
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Furious Hours
Discussed“Casey sap will join us to talk about her book Furious hours murder fraud and the last trial of Harper Lee”
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All God's Dangers
Discussed“and it's around the time if folks know Theodore rosengart all God's dangers the story of Nate Chaw the sharecropper that that's what's happening in this part of Alabama”
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Orange World and Other Stories
Discussed“the book is called orange World and Other Stories”
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Swamplandia!
Discussed“she's also written a novel called swamp landia which which got a lot of attention”
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A case of exploding mangoes
Discussed“in his books a case of exploding mangoes and Our Lady of Alice putti he has these incredibly sad Savage sa ties of life in Pakistan”
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Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Discussed“in his books a case of exploding mangoes and Our Lady of Alice putti he has these incredibly sad Savage sa ties of life in Pakistan”
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Red Birds
Discussed“and he has a new book a new novel called red birds”
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The Impeachers
Discussed“it's by Brenda wineapple and it's called the impeachers”
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The assassins' gate
Discussed“I mean the unwinding is a book about essentially America at a certain moment in time the Assassins gate about Iraq”
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Black Death at the Golden Gate
Recommended“so I'm reading a book called Black Death At The Golden Gate the race to save America from the Bubonic plague by David K Randall”
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The Sixth Extinction
Recommended“I am for some reason reason I decided this week at bedtime given given the unremitting news Etc to pick up Elizabeth Colbert's the sixth Extinction as my bedtime rating”
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So long, see you tomorrow
Recommended“I read the novel or it's maybe it's more of a Nolla by William Maxwell called so long see you tomorrow one of my absolute favorites”
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The Other Americans
Discussed“Leela Lamy will join us to talk about her new book the other Americans”
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The Moor's account
Discussed“so let's begin with the Moors account what was that book about”
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Tell Me How It Ends
Discussed“recently for example I taught Valaria Louis Elli's short book tell me how it ends an essay in 40 questions in one of my non-fiction classes”
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Blood Heir
Discussed“there was one in particular that got a lot of attention earlier this year which was Amal wo's Blood air”
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A Place for Wolves
Discussed“and since her book came out it happened again with kosako Jackson's young adult novel a place for wolves which he also cancelled”
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Mind Fixers
Discussed“so last week I reviewed this book called Mind fixers by a historian of science at Harvard named an Harrington and it's the history of Psychiatry search for the biological origins of mental illness”
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Spring
Discussed“and she's embarked on this on this seasonal cycle of four novels and her new one is called Spring”
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Those who knew
Discussed“so many different books are being described as me too novels trust exercise by Susan Choy Those Who Knew by idra Novi just goes on and on westerns dystopia in reviews people were calling them me to novels”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Slavery By Another Name
Recommended“it's called uh and i gotta find it by slavery by another name by douglas douglas blackman and it's about how they would they had they'd put loitering laws in all around the country and they would find black people and if they were standing around they would arrest them”
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Mindhunter
Recommended“I was doing a show on Sirius with Jim Norton and he brought in this the guy who basically created mine hunter he was this like he's interviewed all the serial killers and speaks to him and they brought him in I think his name's John Douglas they brought him in he's just talking it was fascinating let's go [__]”
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The Oxygen Advantage
Recommended“There's a great book called the oxygen advantage by patrick mcdougall that he actually is on our board of xpt but he he you know kind of realized that our issues really stem from mouth breathing”
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Blue Mind
Recommended“no it's called the blue mind the guy's pretty interesting and he does a study of why we gravitate towards being on the beach”
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Fire in the belly
Discussed“i just read this book um by this woman cynthia carr called fire in the belly it's it's the life story of this artist david one nero which i didn't know anything about”
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Programming the Human Biocomputer
Discussed“human bio-computer yeah I didn't read that one”
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Inside Job
Recommended“it is a fantastic documentary on that uh called inside job”
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Moonwalking with Einstein
Discussed“the guy who wrote moonwalking with einstein uh what the hell is he it's about a book about memory and stuff really smart guy he lived with the pygmies in the congo for a long time”
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Relentless Enemies
Discussed“oh you know what i'm thinking i'm thinking of relentless enemies that's what i'm thinking of there's actually a um uh a documentary about this one particular strain of lion that there was a apparently the river split sides or the river changed its path and it turned this area into an island and the lions had to adapt because”
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Baseball
Discussed“i mean like you know um in baseball do you see the debate the famous documentary baseball the um ken burns yeah the ken burns one”
The Rubin Report
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Rise of the Robots
Discussed“and then as you talked about in the book it's gonna put a lot of people out of work as well”
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Adios, America
Discussed“and I discussed her ID as a length because her book audios America was probably the most influential book of the 2016 election cycle”
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The Goal
Recommended“there's a great book called the goal and the point of this book is what's a goal there was to go the business and he says to make money”
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The History of the Future
Recommended“There's a book by Blake Harris out in the last couple weeks about Palmer Luckey and face book and I encourage you to read it”
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The Order of the Librarians
Recommended“There's a book by Blake Harris out in the last couple weeks about Palmer Luckey and face book and I encourage you to read it”
Modern Wisdom
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The True Memoirs of Little K
Recommended“sounds an awful lot like a book that I've just about finished Have you read children of time by Adrienne Tchaikovsky”
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Team
Discussed“but I I read the actually the updated edition of GTD which which was in 2015 it came out”
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Mental Fitness
Discussed“he did a talk at the City Hall back he got me tickets for Christmas yep called mind of a muscle”
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The Art of Persuasion
Discussed“just off topics briefly so his book persuasion I believe it's true that Charlie and Warren love that book so much”
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Resilient
Recommended“So I spoke to professor Rick Hanson New York Times bestseller writer of hardwiring happiness and his most recent book resilience”
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The Forgotten Highlander
Recommended“You told me I think it was around exactly the same time that you recommended I read the last Highlander by Alistair Urquhart”
StarTalk Radio
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The Physics of Energy
Recommended“for some reason why I thought about that recently I was asked to review a book written by some MIT physicists and engineers and it's called the physics of energy”
Behind the Bastards
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The New Lion of Damascus
Discussed“I found a good Financial Times article that discusses a book called the new lion of Damascus which uh was a vaguely pro-Assad book written before the civil war by an academic named David Le”
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D. Gary Young
Discussed“Now, the book DGary Young, the world leader in essential oils, was written by his wife and published by the company he founded.”
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The Greatest Lie on Earth
Discussed“Now, about about a month ago, y'all y'all and I we uh we we went through a little book called The Greatest Lie on Earth about the flat earth conspiracy theory that turned out to just be straight Nazi propaganda.”
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QAnon
Discussed“Now, the book I've picked for this particular day is KQAnon, an invitation to the great awakening. Beautiful by where we go one, we go all. That's the author.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Trillion-dollar Coach
Discussed“certainly the greatest executive coach that has ever lived he also created more value than anyone else That's why we call him the trillion dollar coach Apple and Google together are almost two trillion dollars of value”
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Everything Is F*cked
Discussed“and that's why everything is far is it because the more we have the more we have the more we have to lose”
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Porcelain
Discussed“and I realized that memoir was called porcelain was this very discreet 10-year chunk”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Too Fat to Fish
Discussed“i remember reading artie lang's book too fat to fish and he had a caption underneath when he was on the plane with a bunch of soldiers he said here's a picture of a bunch of guys who are better than me”
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The Center Cannot Hold
Recommended“if you read ellen sax's the center cannot hold you understand more about schizophrenia”
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To the Limit
Recommended“if you want to be an incredible book on Formula One racing read a book it's called to the limit it was about the first American to win the f1 championship and just the level of death that happened spectators and line”
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Miles
Discussed“I used to like him and one time I read Miles Davis autobiography and he trashed Cab Calloway saying that when he see vatted somebody else for having drugs on him”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Shameless
Recommended“uh yes yes so you're having I'm holding up Nadia's Nadia Bowles Weber's new book shameless she's going up on the podcast tonight”
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This Naked Mind
Recommended“I read a book called this naked mind and I recommend it on audiobook it's almost hypnotic and how repetition at a repetitious it is huh”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (for VTU)
Discussed“there is a seminal book on compiler design called the dragon book and so this is a really old now book on compilers”
Freakonomics Radio
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Keeping the Republic
Discussed“in your book Keeping the Republic Saving America by Trusting Americans you wrote the following large majorities of Americans are clueless about their own history and the history of past fallen empires encouraged on every side to think of themselves as victims of an unfair system and their countries nothing special they react to economic adversity not with a bootstraps”
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Raising America
Discussed“There's a 2003 book by Ann Hulbert called Raising America, Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice About Children. It does a great job showing how many flip-flops there have been over time.”
Pod Save America
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The Mueller Report
Discussed“I'm still very much of the belief that we should begin Watergate committee style hearings and not call them impeachment in an effort to bring to life and bring on TV all the things that were in that 448 page report that no one's read and and just continue to hammer this on Trump”
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Maid
Recommended“or with friends like these last week where Anna Marie Cox talked with author Stephanie land about her experiences as a maid and how those myths affect policy and perceptions of low-income people”
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The Idealist.org Handbook to Building a Better World
Recommended“or with friends like these last week where Anna Marie Cox talked with author Stephanie land about her experiences as a maid and how those myths affect policy and perceptions of low-income people”
