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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2020
April 2020 brought discussions centered around history, meditation, and intelligence agencies across multiple shows. Jack Dorsey appeared on the Lex Fridman Podcast to review Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, highlighting its chapters on meditation and self-awareness. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan talked about Steve Rinella's book on American Buffalo, while another episode featured Tom O'Neill discussing his book Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. O'Neill's appearance also touched on historical intelligence texts, referencing Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate and John Marks's The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate". On This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von, the host recounted an event involving Kenneth Lamar Noid demanding a copy of Bruce Steinberg's The Widow's Son. The Lex Fridman Podcast also featured Richard Dawkins discussing childhood indoctrination in relation to his book Outgrowing God, as well as Simon Singh's account of Andrew Wiles's work on Fermat's Last Theorem.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Discussed“I think you've all and his in this book 21 boilin lessons for the 21st century yeah his last chapters around meditation”
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Fermat's last theorem
Discussed“So if you look at the story of Andrew Wiles for example with from last Last Theorem he as far as I understand he pretty much isolated himself from the world of academics in terms of the big with the bulk of the work he did and it from my perspective is dramatic and fun to read about”
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Outgrowing God
Discussed“and you've articulate that in your new book and and I'll grow God and in God Delusion is the early indoctrination”
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The Time Sculptor
Discussed“but another of his novels called Dark Universe which is not terribly well known but it's a very very nice science fiction story”
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Unweaving the Rainbow
Discussed“and now let me leave you with some words of wisdom from Richard dokins We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because they're never going to be born”
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An Appetite For Wonder: The Making of a Scientist
Discussed“and now let me leave you with some words of wisdom from Richard dokins We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because they're never going to be born”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Buffalo Bill
Discussed“I started off with this book that my friend Steve Rinella wrote on American Buffalo and I read that and a lot of it had to do with like Native Americans hunting the Buffalo”
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Why the Center Can't Hold
Discussed“I've been deep into your book for the last two weeks and will tell everybody what it's called right off the bat it's called chaos Charles Manson the CIA and the secret history of the 60s”
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The Manchurian Candidate
Discussed“so their main objective was to commit or to create what they called hypno program assassins people who would kill on command popularly known as Manchurian candidates after a book that was written 1962 and later became a movie and then a movie again”
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The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"
Discussed“the guy that found that ended up testifying to Congress and working with Seymour Hersh to expose it was named John marks he wrote the first book about MKULTRA that came out in the mid to late 70s called the search for The Manchurian Candidate”
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Giving the Devil his Due
Discussed“who I was when I was working on giving the devil is do I had this was kind of a challenge to me because I feel like there's so much fake news”
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Evil
Discussed“I mean my my friend and colleague Roy Baumeister wrote that great book on evil in which he actually went and interviewed serial killers and rapists in prison and said you know why'd you do it”
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Culture Of Honor
Discussed“Now you mentioned the south there's interesting research Richard Nisbett and his colleagues on the culture of Honor that's more common in the south than in the north”
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Blue Marble Health
Discussed“so one of the books that I wrote is called Blue Marble health and it finds this unusual and we spoke a little bit about this last time the unusual number of illnesses from emerging infections like this one and poverty related neglected disease is actually in the g20 countries”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Widow's Son
Discussed“after offering to exchange one hostage for a copy of the widow's son which I get a son book the noid reneged on his offer after a police brought him the book”
