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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2019
During October 2019, various literary and discussion podcasts highlighted several prominent works. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, host Jay Shetty recommended Dr. Rangan Chatterjee's The Stress Solution, encouraging listeners to adopt its four-step method for wellness. ChooseFI featured David Hauser, who discussed Matt Ridley's The Evolution of Everything alongside Steven Pinker's work. The Book Review dedicated an episode to John Lithgow, who appeared to discuss his satirical poetry collection Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse, introduced by Gilbert Cruz. The same podcast episode featured additional reading recommendations from hosts and guests, including Elisabeth Egan reading Elizabeth Strout's Olive Again, Lauren Christensen discussing Ann Patchett's The Dutch House, and Pamela Paul highlighting the graphic novels They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott, as well as White Bird by R.J. Palacio. Finally, Edward Snowden appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss his memoir Permanent Record, pointing listeners to the book for detailed historical context surrounding 9/11.
Behind the Bastards
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Ma Barker
Discussed“So my main source for this episode is Ma Barker, America's Most Wanted Mother by Howard Kazangian and Chris Ins. Uh, it's the best write up of this particular story that I found and it's a fun book.”
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Samuel Hahnemann; His Life and Work, Based on Recently Discovered State Papers, Documents, Letters, Etc. Translated from the German by Marie L. Wheele
Discussed“In Samuel Hanman, his life and work, Richard Hail hinted at the depth of Hanman's involvement in the lodge. He advanced beyond vitalism and the naturalism of shelling and Hegel to spiritism”
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Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann
Discussed“In life and letters of Samuel Hanman, Thomas Bradford gave a much less guarded account of the time Hanman spent in the service of Hairbrookenthal. It was in these quiet scholarly days that Hanman acquired that extensive and diverse knowledge”
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Letter
Discussed“In life and letters of Samuel Hanman, Thomas Bradford gave a much less guarded account of the time Hanman spent in the service of Hairbrookenthal. It was in these quiet scholarly days that Hanman acquired that extensive and diverse knowledge”
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Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum: Positivis Sive in Sano Corpore Humano Observatis. Textus;
Discussed“In his first book fragmented deerbus uh he asserted that he had experienced 122 different symptoms from ingesting chinchona bark which suggested uh it must have a wide-ranging medical application. Likewise, Samuel had listed 174 known symptoms with the consumption of green peppers.”
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The March of Medicine
Discussed“I'm going to quote from the 1963 book, The March of Medicine. However we may judge Hanman's theory, one thing must be admitted. It led to a decisive change in medical thought.”
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Organon of the Rational Art of Healing
Discussed“In 1810 he published the organon of rational healing which would be published in five editions during his lifetime. Leipzig University his alma mater hired him to give lectures.”
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Cool It
Discussed“In 2007, Bujornne published a new book, Cool It, in which he explicitly accepted the reality of humancaused climate change. This was seen by many as an abrupt reversal of his previous attitude.”
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Might is Right
Discussed“this is part two uh of our two-part episode on Arthur Desmond, author of Might is Right, the book that inspired the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, and a bunch of other stuff.”
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Rival Caesars
Discussed“In 1903, he published Might is Right, the newest edition of Survival of the Fittish with that title. Um, he wrote another book, Rival Caesars, which flopped. And by 1904, he had been reduced to managing an ice cream and candy company.”
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Murray Bookchin Reader
Recommended“Well, uh, you can find me at I write okay on Twitter. Um, if you want to find a political philosopher who was not a a violent nihilist uh and not anti-woman, maybe read some Marray bookchin.”
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Might Is Right Or Survival of the Fittest
Discussed“During his last months in Australia, Arthur Desmond started to publish a 25-page tract, The Survival of the Fittest, which outlines some of his new ideas. In it, he wrote about man's desire to destroy”
Modern Wisdom
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Fifty Places to Run Before You Die
Discussed“because there's a famous book by a good friend of mine Chris McDougall born to run and he explored the anthropological connection between human evolution and running”
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The Contact Paradox
Discussed“the guide I spoke to you last night his books down there guy called Keith Cooper who wrote the contact paradox so this guy has been writing this book on and off for 10 years”
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The New Silk Roads
Discussed“I am holding a copy of the New Silk Roads. many of the listeners will be familiar with your first book Sunday Times bestseller”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Full Focus Planner Wellness - Gray
Discussed“and I like how I also have another one called the full focus planner in that anyway you can plan out your day your week”
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Motherless Brooklyn
Discussed“that's right around the time as I read this novel motherless Brooklyn but but the novels about the Torretta tech t'v who's trying to solve the murder of his his only friend basically”
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The Hidden History of the Vietnam War
Discussed“well I had the author of hidden war on the podcast his name is John Norris and John Norris he got a job initially as a game warden because you know he grew up in the outdoors and fishing and hunting and things like that”
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Last Words
Discussed“but in his book last words he talks about like he bought a jet... they published it posthumously but he was working on it with Tony Hendra before he died”
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The Brown's Reunion 2001
Discussed“Clark's first law there is about 2001... well Kubrick made the movie made the movie by thank God he write it Clark wrote it”
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Mushrooms, Mankind, DMT, and Hyperspace
Discussed“but Terence Mckenna had a theory called the stoned ape theory he believed that human beings were experimenting with psilocybin mushrooms and it's psilocybin mushrooms accelerated our evolution”
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I've Never Met An Idiot On The River
Discussed“He's a fly fisherman he wrote a book on fly fishing and I think the books called I never met an idiot on the river”
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Permanent Record
Recommended“and I tell this in the book in some detail and I think it's very much worth reading four people don't know this because this forgotten history”
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The Book of Mormon
Discussed“in addition to the Book of Mormon Joseph Smith purported to translate another book called The Book of Abraham which was in a different language some ancient Egyptian language”
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Prisoners of Faith
Discussed“yeah I'm sure you read Lawrence Wright's book go ahead and read it but I mean I know the story the book is fantastic”
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Revelations and Translations: Book of Abraham and related manuscripts
Discussed“in addition to the Book of Mormon Joseph Smith purported to translate another book called The Book of Abraham which was in a different language”
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Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Discussed“Douglas Adams wrote a lovely book called the long dark teatime of the soul which had in which the Norse gods apart a vision”
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Into The Fire
Discussed“one one five into the fire and beyond the call of duty”
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Cupid's poisoned arrow
Recommended“can I recommend a book to you please okay get ready I'm ready it's called Cupid's poisoned arrow and it's about how orgasms are ruining us and our relationships and our happiness”
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Getting to "I do"
Recommended“I was like I read a book and it wasn't that book it was this other book called getting to I do”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Stress Solution
Recommended“So, as I said at the beginning, Rangan's new book is out. It's called The Stress Solution, the four steps to reset your body, mind, relationships, and purpose. Go grab the book right now. If you enjoyed the conversation, this was just the tip of the iceberg of all the wonderful insights, challenges, and takeaways that are inside this book.”
ChooseFI
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Unstoppable
Discussed“David one of the things that comes through when I'm reading your book is that you have this OCD component to your life that just drives you in all these different areas”
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The evolution of everything
Recommended“ah the evolution of everything by Matt Ridley and this is very close with Steve pinkerton's latest book Enlightenment now”
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The House Hacking Strategy
Recommended“so yeah Craig the book is fantastic and people can find it at biggerpockets.com househack and I know Jonathan and I both have said this is the one thing that we wish we had done when we were younger”
The Book Review
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A Warning
Discussed“so this week we learned about another yet another tell all book coming out of the Trump Administration there's obviously been a slew of these from the justice department from former White House officials and that was not a surprise”
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Six of Crows
Discussed“because you wrote the grea trilogy and then the duology six of crows which also takes place in that whole grea verse”
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The men in my life
Discussed“because the reason I started reading this book was I was I was reading a collection called the men in my life by gornick which is just a grab bag of essays”
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The odd women
Discussed“and the book she talks about loving the most and that she goes on at greatest length about is called the odd women a book that she says she rereads every six months or so”
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Dumpty
Recommended“the actor and author and poet will be here to discuss his new collection Dumpty the age of trump inverse”
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Olive Again
Recommended“I am reading Olive Again by Elizabeth Stout”
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The Dutch House
Recommended“I am reading Anne patchett's latest novel The Dutch house I confess I'm certainly not an aacha completist”
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They Called Us Enemy
Recommended“one is I think for all ages they called us Enemy by George takai which was written with Justin eisinger and Steven Scott and illustrated by Harmony Becker”
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White bird
Recommended“and then I I gave it to my 10-year-old who then gave me the graphic Memoir he was reading which is White Bird by RJ palasio who is the bestselling author of Wonder”
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Self-Portrait in Black and White
Discussed“Thomas Chatterton Williams will be here to talk about his new Memoir self-portrait in black and white”
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Poisoner In Chief
Discussed“Steven Kinser will be here to talk about his new book poisoner in Chief Alexander alter will give us an update from the publishing World Plus”
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Losing my cool
Discussed“your first book was straight Memoir losing my cool”
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Racecraft
Discussed“one of the books that made the biggest impression on me is called racecraft the soul of American in equality by Barbara and Karen Fields”
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The Testaments
Discussed“so the U Margaret Atwood won for the Testaments which is never heard of it”
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Girl, Woman, Other
Discussed“the other novel that won is titled girl woman other and it's very experimental”
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Quichotte
Discussed“the other finalists included Salon rushy he was on the short list for his new novel kote”
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Discussed“another author on the short list was elif Shaak for her novel 10 minutes 38 seconds in This Strange World which also sounds somewhat experimental”
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An Orchestra of Minorities
Discussed“another finalist was Choi Obama for an orchestra of minorities which is about a Nigerian poultry farmer who falls in love with a woman after he stops her from jumping to her death”
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Mindf*ck
Discussed“so the two books one I can't say the whole title but it's called mind and then it's F asterisk CK by Christopher Wy and the other is called targeted by Britney Kaiser”
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Targeted
Discussed“so the two books one I can't say the whole title but it's called mind and then it's F asterisk CK by Christopher Wy and the other is called targeted by Britney Kaiser”
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The Man Who Saw Everything
Discussed“so I reviewed the new Deborah Levy book with the terrifically ironic title The Man Who Saw everything”
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Frankissstein
Discussed“Janette winterson has a new novel it's called Frankenstein not Frankenstein but Frank kiss Stein”
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Critiqued“unlike some books that are written in serial my one of my least favorite books the pck papers by Dickens is like the prime example of this”
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Fashionopolis
Discussed“Dana Thomas will join us to talk about her new book fashionopolis the price of fast fashion and the future of clothes”
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Beaten Down, Worked Up
Discussed“Steven Greenhouse will be here to talk about his book beaten down worked up the past present and future of American labor”
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Discussed“well I I am still reading the mayor of casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and enjoying it immensely”
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Because Internet
Discussed“um and the other book that I read was a book by a someone who was a guest earlier on the show Gretchen mulf um she wrote the book because internet”
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Erosion
Recommended“it's called erosion it's by Terry Tempest Williams and the subtitle is essays of undoing”
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The Topeka School
Discussed“Garris calberg will be here to talk about Ben learner's latest novel The Topeka school”
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Leaving the Atocha Station
Discussed“his first novel leaving Thea station which was published by a wonderful independent press out of Minneapolis just kind of came out of nowhere”
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10:04
Discussed“it was called 104 10 col 04 for those who don't know the title like waking up and seeing 104 flashing on an alarm clock”
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Reality Hunger
Discussed“but the brief which was propounded by most notably David Shield in reality hunger is that somehow we're all kind of tired of fiction stories plot character”
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Relish
Discussed“she's written some graphic travelogs too which I'm not including in this but her first one was called relish my life in the kitchen”
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1222
Recommended“so I'm reading a book by the Norwegian Thriller writer Anne Holt called 1222”
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Will and Testament
Recommended“which is a new novel called will and testament by vigdis HTH”
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The Body in Question
Recommended“I've got a book called The Body in question it's a novel almost a Nolla really it's a very short novel by Jill cement”
Freakonomics Radio
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with Children. An Investigation Into Cognitive Skills and Cognitive Content in Clinically Referrred and Non-clinical Young Children
Discussed“Coyne and her colleagues published their findings in a paper called Pretty as a Princess, Longitudinal Effects of Engagement with Disney Princesses on Gender Stereotypes, Body Esteem and Pro-Social Behavior in Children.”
This Week in Startups
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Dictatorships and double standards
Discussed“and there was a whole theory including in you know the 80s in the Reagan administration that we should support dictatorships because eventually they'll become democracies so Jean Kirkpatrick wrote a book dictatorships and double standards which was all about how communist governments don't have a path to Liberty but dictatorships do”
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Applied Cryptography
Discussed“the sky Bruce Schneier who's a very famous security engineer actually wrote basically the text book in 1994 called applied cryptography I think that's when it was published has a blog called Shire on security very influential guy and despite over the course of decades being a voice regarding internet security software security advocates paper ballots”
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Wilderness of Mirrors
Discussed“ours wilderness of mirrors is an expression that refers to counterintelligence it's the name of a book that's a history or biography of this guy who's a famous counterintelligence guy James Jesus Angleton a wilderness of mirrors is just like think every reflection is it real or is it not real right what's the truth behind all these images that”
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Work Rules!
Discussed“but what Mark's tweet was there's a missing chapter to the book work rules it says first create a search monopoly that generates billions of dollars in revenue and then you can do all these things”
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Primed to Perform
Recommended“this is a really great book called prime to perform by Anil Joshi and Lindsay McGregor primed trying to perform and they talk about how you drive adaptive performance”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Future of the Mind
Discussed“you describe brain that in feature of the mind this is an interesting concept”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Art of Possibility
Recommended“I have been revisiting a book called the art of possibility by Benjamin and Rosamoon Xander Z- R which was recommended to me by Seth Goden long ago.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The End of Ice
Critiqued“and the end of ice you know I don't know about you”
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Wilding
Discussed“there's a wonderful story by Isabella tree called Wilding wonderful book about she and her”
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Call of the Reed Warbler
Recommended“there's a great story in the book called the to call the reed Warbler by Charles Massey is absolutely the best book on regenerative agriculture in the world to me”
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Discussed“the best example that I've seen lately of this brené Brown notion is the movie in the book where'd you go Bernadette have you seen this yet”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Combating Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
Discussed“you outline in the book cult mind control that you have many books but the one I'm referring to is called mind control”
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Coercive Persuasion
Discussed“I read a 1961 book all course of persuasion by Edgar Schein who is one of the people with robert jay lifton”
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Beyond the Pill
Discussed“by the way the audio book I loved it and it's funny because the book reflects her personality”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Instrument Flying Handbook
Discussed“I've been going through the the pilot the whatever the the [ __ ] test prep book I outlined all eight chapters”
StarTalk Radio
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Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland
Discussed“- Oh you mean "Mr. Tompkins Wonderland." - Yeah, "Mr. Tompkins Wonderland."”
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Mars
Discussed“And he published his books on this. First book was titled "Mars." Next one "Mars and its Canals." And he has maps of the surface of Mars with canals connecting nodes to the poles.”
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Mars and Its Canals
Discussed“And he published his books on this. First book was titled "Mars." Next one "Mars and its Canals." And he has maps of the surface of Mars with canals connecting nodes to the poles.”
