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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2019
In May 2019, podcast discussions frequently centered around societal structures, technological futures, and historical reconstruction. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Greg Fitzsimmons recommended Douglas A. Blackmon's audiobook Slavery By Another Name, which examines the continuation of forced labor through historical loitering laws, while Joe Rogan also discussed a book by presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Technological advancement and automation emerged as a major theme on The Rubin Report, where Martin Ford discussed his New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots, his earlier work The Lights in the Tunnel, and his latest interview collection Architects of Intelligence. Martin Ford's explorations of artificial intelligence and the job market connected broadly with discussions of future societal disruption. Additionally, Modern Wisdom featured comparative discussions on speculative fiction when the host asked about Adrienne Tchaikovsky's Children of Time, and StarTalk Radio highlighted the physical sciences when Neil deGrasse Tyson reviewed Robert L. Jaffe and Washington Taylor's textbook The Physics of Energy as a foundational text for restarting civilization.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Slavery By Another Name
Discussed“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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Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure
Discussed“That's the book by yang It was probably the presidential candidate yeah talking about how they're going to subsidize the uh the the whole population”
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Mindhunter
Discussed“...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
Discussed“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
Discussed“blue mind have you ever seen that book no it's called the blue mind the guy's pretty interesting”
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Genesis Code
Discussed“i started writing articles i was invited to testify before congress and then to try to get that story out i was i started I wrote my my two most recent near-term sci-fi novels genesis code and eternal sonata and when i was on book tours for those and i explained the science to people the way a kind of”
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Eternal Sonata
Discussed“i started writing articles i was invited to testify before congress and then to try to get that story out i was i started I wrote my my two most recent near-term sci-fi novels genesis code and eternal sonata and when i was on book tours for those and i explained the science to people the way a kind of”
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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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Where the wild things are
Discussed“i remember who was the guy who wrote um oh god where the where the where the monsters are where the uh i i wrote a children's book was it called where the monsters are and he was he was in the war he said do you believe in god he said and he just casually said no no the”
The Rubin Report
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Rise of the Robots
Discussed“joining me today is the author of The New York Times bestseller rise of the robots technology and the threat of a jobless future Martin Ford”
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Death of a Marriage
Discussed“joining me today is the author of The New York Times bestseller rise of the robots technology and the threat of a jobless future Martin Ford”
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The Lights in the Tunnel
Discussed“and so about 10 years ago in 20 2009 I wrote my first book called the lights in the tunnel which really argued that artificial intelligence was going to be the next big thing in computing and then it was going to have a dramatic impact in particular on the job market”
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Architects of Intelligence
Discussed“my latest book architects of intelligence wanted a people it's a series of interviews with the top people in AI”
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The Goal
Discussed“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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American Pravda
Discussed“joining me today is a guerrilla journalist the head of Project Veritas and the author of American Pravda James O'Keefe”
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The History of the Future
Discussed“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
Discussed“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
Discussed“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 Forgotten Highlander
Discussed“You told me I think it was around exactly the same time that you recommended I read the last Highlander by Alistair Urquhart”
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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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A Savage Order
Discussed“so we're going to talk about a savage order which is your new book”
StarTalk Radio
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The Physics of Energy
Discussed“some reason why I thought about that recently I was asked to review a book written by some MIT physicists and engineers okay and it's called the physics of energy the physics of energy just came out god oh that looks like a textbook it is kind of a textbook okay yeah it's based on courses they taught I okay”
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Prehistoric Life and Evolution
Discussed“have you seen the book life after man I saw like this special on out like discovery or something maybe they made that after the book They did so I thought you were talking about a lifetime special Christmas enlightenment so if we so who do we keep trying to kill that lives with us like the mice and rats”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Trillion-dollar Coach
Discussed“speaking of destruction and dying and authoritarian regimes a lot of executives at your level especially have strong personalities very strong ideas How do you navigate that I know that the book trillion-dollar coach does touch on that it seems like if everyone is really smart really capable and really determined you might end up with a some heads butting”
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Porcelain
Discussed“and I realized that memoir was called porcelain”
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Then It Fell Apart
Discussed“and this is the second memoir”
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Discussed“so basically I watched the movie The Motorcycle Diaries which is like a romanticized version of Che Guevara traveling around South America relying on kindness”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Bridge to Terabithia
Discussed“Why does somebody have to remember a magical word to get something / is this the bridge to terabithia”
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Darryl
Discussed“I mean just some really nice gifts / Somebody gave me a Darryl Strawberry book really cool”
Pod Save America
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Maid
Discussed“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
Discussed“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”