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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2021
In August 2021, podcast discussions prominently featured literature and biographies exploring human stories, food, and historical conflicts. On The Book Review, A.O. Scott celebrated the works of William Maxwell, recommending novels such as Time Will Darken It and the humorous Americans-abroad story The Chateau. Also on The Book Review, Gilbert Cruz welcomed Helen Scales to discuss her deep-sea exploration book, The Brilliant Abyss. Biographical and travel works received significant attention when Laurie Woolever appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience alongside Joe Rogan to discuss Anthony Bourdain's World Travel: An Irreverent Guide, as well as the definitive oral biography titled Bourdain. Health and wellness recommendations also emerged when Jay Shetty hosted On Purpose with Jay Shetty, where he recommended Dr. Steven R. Gundry's books The Energy Paradox and The Plant Paradox to help listeners improve their gut health. In the realm of contemporary history and military experiences, Tommy Vietor used an episode of Pod Save America to recommend C.J. Chivers's book The Fighters, praising its human-centered narrative of individuals who fought in post-9/11 wars. These diverse recommendations connected through a shared exploration of human experiences, spanning travel, health, personal memoirs, and the profound impacts of global conflict.
Behind the Bastards
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Silent Shock
Discussed“And I'm going to quote from the book Silent Shock by Michael Magazinik. Quote, Dr. Hines Balcottter was a notorious SS doctor at the Saxon House and concentration camp outside Berlin.”
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Hitler
Discussed“In published a book titled Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet. It was an attempt to actually answer the to actually answer the question, what the in like a medical way with as much scientific rigor. Yeah. WHAT WAS GOING ON WITH THAT GUY?”
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The Way of the Shadow Wolves
Critiqued“Joe Araio wrote the intro to Steven Seagal's terrible book. Mhm. They're like his fiction novel, The Way of the Shadow Wolves. Horrible. Don't read it.”
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Driving While Brown
Discussed“Uh, but Terry Green Sterling and Jude Joffy Block, uh, who wrote a book about Arpaio titled Driving While Brown, paint a less pleasant picture of his time in school. Quote, Joe Arpaio had a difficult time in school.”
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A Love That Multiplies
Discussed“In her book, A Love That Multiplies, Michelle Duggar gives a story that her husband tells to their kids to explain the importance of purity.”
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Growing Up Duggar
Discussed“The four older Duggar sisters cashed in on their family fame by publishing the book Growing Up Duggar: It's All about relationships. Josh and his wife Anna were invited to discuss their marriage.”
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Created to Be His Help Meet
Discussed“Immodest dress, indecent exposure, being out from protection of our parents are all reasons that God let it happen. It reads, "One marriage guide for women even includes a portion on what to do if your husband ever sexually handles your children." Author Debbie Pearl, a minister whose books were sold by IBLP, wrote in, "Created to be his help”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Choice
Discussed“He is the author of choice cooperation enterprise and human action which is a modern distillation of ludwig von mises important treatise on the austrian school of economics”
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Study Guide to Human Action, a Treatise on Economics
Discussed“He is the author of choice cooperation enterprise and human action which is a modern distillation of ludwig von mises important treatise on the austrian school of economics”
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Lessons for the Young Economist
Discussed“he's the author of several other economics books for the layperson as well including lessons for the young economist and the politically incorrect guide to capitalism”
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
Discussed“he's the author of several other economics books for the layperson as well including lessons for the young economist and the politically incorrect guide to capitalism”
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Discussed“the first course will be tony daniels aka theodore dalrymple who's i know some of whose books are on your your reading list on johnson's racilis which is gonna be a wonderful course”
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Titus Andronicus
Discussed“andrew doyle is doing a course on shakespeare's titus andronicus and so on”
EconTalk
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Homer: Iliad Book XVIII
Discussed“and here i think the big advantage is that the greek and latin literary culture comes to unite elites the very wealthy the educated across society over the whole mediterranean so all those folks are reading homer they're all reading virgil the same as their roman overlords are”
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The Works of Virgil
Discussed“and here i think the big advantage is that the greek and latin literary culture comes to unite elites the very wealthy the educated across society over the whole mediterranean so all those folks are reading homer they're all reading virgil the same as their roman overlords are”
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Mine!
Discussed“together they have written mine that's with an explanation exclamation point mine how the hidden rules of ownership control our lives”
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Economics
Discussed“no doubt from his writing of the key text book which all of a sudden graduates read simply called economics by paul samuelson one of the best-selling textbooks of all time”
SmartLess
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Flim-Flam Man
Discussed“Oh, that's great to hear, I, um, yeah, it was a script that came to me many years ago based on Jennifer Vogel's memoir Flim Flam Man.”
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Discussed“my sense reading his book which i read the book before the a lot of people don't know that was a book before it was a screenplay and i read that character and i felt that that was what he wrote rhythmically and so on”
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The Help
Discussed“You know you did all of this work before the thing that really catapulted you, which was The Help. You were amazing, just incredible.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Honest Life
Discussed“and a New York Times bestselling author of The Honest Life, a practical guide for parents to create a safe and healthy life for their families.”
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The Energy Paradox
Recommended“and I'm hoping that after this podcast many people are going to go and order your books, The Energy Paradox and The Plant Paradox.”
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The Blue Zones of Happiness
Discussed“I also wrote a book called Blue Zones of Happiness and a cover story for National Geographic that took the same approach of finding statistically happiest places and then reverse engineering what they did as to offer lessons for people.”
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The Blue Zones Kitchen
Recommended“And the result Blue Zones Kitchen, which comes out in December, is a hybrid of a National Geographic article and a cookbook. 100 recipes to live to 100. I'm super excited about it.”
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The Plantpower Way
Discussed“It's funny, she's written three plant-based cookbooks, Plant Power Way, Plant Power Way Italia.”
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This Cheese is Nuts!
Discussed“She wrote a a book on how to make plant-based cheese called this this cheese is nuts.”
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Aiming High
Recommended“Everyone who's been listening, I hope that you're going to go and grab a copy of Aiming High by Darren Prince, a prominent sports and celebrity agent hit bottom at the top.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Micrographia
Discussed“and he had written a book in fact called the micrographia which by the way he used a microscope to make the first depictions of things like a fly's eye the structure of you know it had a big influence”
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Newton: Philosophical Writings
Discussed“there's two of them one's called the philosophical questions and the other is called the waste book”
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The Principia
Discussed“there's two of them one's called the philosophical questions and the other is called the waste book”
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Discussed“a scholar uh who's a professor at indiana now uh named domenico melli got his hands on a leibnitz manuscript called the ten tammon which was leibniz's attempt to produce an alternative to newton's mechanics”
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Opticks
Discussed“in fact the second volume of newton's of the notes really on the great book that he published the optics which he published in 1704”
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Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Discussed“but i think what i get from him is basic um it's like uh victor franco has a man search for meaning”
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The Dead
Discussed“and i kept reading like i think so his short stories the dead I think it's called was very good”
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Ulysses
Discussed“but then ulysses was I I I got through ulysses with the help of some cliff notes and so on”
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Finnegans Wake
Discussed“and then finnegan's wake the moment i started finning his wake i said this this is stupid”
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The Universal Christ
Discussed“richard rohr the franciscan friar i mentioned in the universal christ he writes a lot about how the divine for you is is often encountered in in the other”
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Ancient brews
Discussed“and he's the author of a bunch of books one of which is ancient bruise”
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The Cosmic Serpent
Recommended“it started with jeremy narby the cosmic serpent dna in the origins of knowledge it was a total impulse buy at the barnes noble on 6th avenue in new york and wound up introducing me to supernatural by graham hancock”
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The Dionysian Gospel
Recommended“and in my book i rely a lot on the scholarship of dennis mcdonald who writes a fabulous book called the dionysian gospel”
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In the Dark Places of Wisdom
Recommended“uh one is in the dark places of wisdom and the other is reality”
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Reality
Recommended“uh one is in the dark places of wisdom and the other is reality”
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The mind of a mnemonist
Discussed“and the theres a wonderful neurologist laurea who wrote a book called the mind of the mnemonicist and it was a brilliant book both because it was written exquisitely”
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Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears?
Recommended“the following is a conversation with matt walker sleep scientist professor of neuroscience and psychology at berkeley author of why we sleep and the host of a new podcast called the matt walker podcast”
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Mathematics is the Poetry of Science
Discussed“i also read a book by cedric villani uh these cedric velani is this mathematician the fields medalist and in his book he tries to explain how he got from like a phd student to the fields metal”
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Galileo's for the Social and Cognitive Legitimation of Science
Discussed“um there's a a really interesting book on this topic called gaming the metrics It's a book by a researcher called mario biagioli it goes a lot into like how these the impact factor and metrics affect science negatively”
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Euclid's elements
Discussed“what i mean by that is that if you look at like euclid's elements it's as valid today as it was when it was created like 2 000 years ago”
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A Thousand Brains
Discussed“and recently a new book called a thousand brains which presents a new theory of intelligence that richard dawkins for example has been raving about calling the book quote brilliant and exhilarating”
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A Study of the Effects of Ego Dejection and Elation in an Academic Life Situation by the Psychogalvanic Technique
Recommended“he has lived one hell of a life of hardship and triumph as he writes about in his book called the ego and the dragon”
The Book Review
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The Folded Leaf
Discussed“and a lot of the earlier books starting with time will darken it and also the folded Leaf his third and fourth novels I said them in the wrong order”
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Ancestors
Discussed“and he also wrote around that time A Memoir called ancestors”
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Beautiful Souls
Discussed“the previous book was called beautiful souls the courage and conscience of ordinary people in extraordinary times”
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I Alone Can Fix It
Discussed“and some of those have actually sold almost as well as you would expect when he was in office for example I alone can fix it which is an account by the washingt post reporters Caroline egg and Philip Rucker has sold better than their book that came out when he was in office which was surprising”
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Here, Right Matters
Discussed“so he has a book out now called C right matters and that's selling very well”
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The Trump Realignment
Discussed“so I reviewed a book recently it's called reign of terror and the author is Spencer akman who is a longtime National Security reporter for various Publications including the new Republic wire the guardian”
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Playlist for the Apocalypse
Discussed“I reviewed Rita Do's new book of poems and it's called playlist for the apocalypse”
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Time will darken it
Recommended“and a lot of the earlier books starting with time will darken it and also the folded Leaf his third and fourth novels I said them in the wrong order”
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The Chateau
Recommended“he wrote a wonderful very funny novel called The Chateau about a trip to France and a a kind of classic variation on the Americans abroad theme”
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Blackout
Discussed“also there's a book called blackout how black Americans can make its second escape from the Democrat Plantation which is by the right-wing media personality Candace Owens and that has sold 480,000 copies since it was published in the fall by a conservative impr printed Simon and Schuster”
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American Marxism
Discussed“and the book American Marxism by the best-selling author Mark Levan has a chapter on critical race Theory and that book so 400,000 copies in just its first week on the market last month”
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Ghettoside
Discussed“and the one that I've been I'm I'm almost at the end of now is Jill Leo's ghetto side it's a non-fiction book came out in 2015”
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Last Best Hope
Discussed“so I recently read a book the most recent book by George Packer last best hope America in crisis and renewal and he was here on the podcast talking about that book”
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The Brilliant Abyss
Recommended“Helen scales will be here to talk about her new book the brilliant Abyss had”
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Recommended“Rebecca Donner will be here to talk about all the frequent Troubles of our days the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler”
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Stone Arabia
Discussed“architecture is a focus of the book you mentioned earlier and your novels often kind of Center on the Arts music and stone Arabia and film and innocence and others”
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Memory Wall
Discussed“yes you know there's that quote in memory wall by Anthony door where he says you bury your childhood here and there”
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Run, Rose, Run
Discussed“it is also called run Rose run which is the title of the novel and according to the press release Parton said that all the songs are based on the characters and situations in the book”
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Double fault
Discussed“I read double fault the one about tennis which I love”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Recommended“it has been a while I'm reading a biography of Emerson by um Robert Richardson”
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The Post-Birthday World LP
Recommended“but the book that I was told to read by several people who I think are real authorities including one of the Publishers of the big five told me the book to read of Lionel Shrivers is the post birthday world”
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Putting It Together
Discussed“James leine joins us now his new book is called putting it together how Steven Sim and I created Sunday in the park with George James thanks so much for being here”
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Sunday in the park with George
Discussed“James leine joins us now his new book is called putting it together how Steven Sim and I created Sunday in the park with George James thanks so much for being here”
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Finishing the hat
Discussed“there is also a parallel in your two books putting it together and finishing the Hat both with titles referencing this particular show and both of which are kind of memoirs but also not quite was the original idea to write a memoir”
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Until Proven Safe
Discussed“so I reviewed a book called until proven safe the history and future of quarantine by Jeff Maya and Nicola twilly”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook
Discussed“The It's called Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook.”
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Appetites
Discussed“He did a book tour for the cookbook Appetites that we wrote together in 2016”
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Bourdain
Recommended“Bourdain the definitive oral biography.”
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World Travel
Recommended“Yes, this is uh uh world travel and irreverent guide and this is available now.”
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Blindsight
Discussed“what is this book called that called it's called blindside that book but but the book isn't about that”
StarTalk Radio
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Fire and ice
Discussed“now the two books one of them when i first knew of your collaborations it was fire and ice a history of comets in art uh and that's still on my shelf and i loved that book”
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The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle
Discussed“so one of the first things that i did with roberta was when we noticed that in a book called the nuremberg chronicle from 1492 there were a number of pictures of comets”
My First Million
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Searching for Sugar Man II
Recommended“Searching for Sugar Man on Netflix is the best documentary I've ever seen.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Addiction and Virtue
Discussed“And I first came across a book he wrote called, "Addiction and Virtue." Which is this philosophical lens through to consider whether or not addiction really is a disease and whether or not people have a choice and what that choice looks like, and he uses Aristotle.”
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Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory
Discussed“And I first came across a book he wrote called, "Addiction and Virtue." Which is this philosophical lens through to consider whether or not addiction really is a disease and whether or not people have a choice and what that choice looks like, and he uses Aristotle.”
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Healthy At Last
Recommended“I suspect you will find this conversation inspiring, wanting to know more about Eric, in which case you should certainly check out his book, "Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses."”
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Grace
Discussed“I love Jeff Buckley. I think his album Grace is one that finds its way on the under my recurring playlist.”
Pod Save America
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The Fighters
Recommended“he wrote an incredible book called the fighters that follows a lot of human stories of of men and women who fought in post-9 11 wars that i can't recommend enough”
Timcast IRL
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Why You Should Be a Socialist
Discussed“said they had been effectively fired by the founder nathan j robinson who was also authored a book why you should be a socialist”
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The wall
Discussed“kind of like the that old video the wall from pink floyd you know you're just creating like this factory of faceless”
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Reveille for Radicals
Discussed“you could read it in saul alinsky you know revelly for radicals or whatever”
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Alien Information Theory
Recommended“read alien information Theory psychedelic drug Technologies and the cosmic game by Dr Andrew Gallimore”
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The Critical Race Theory Fight Isn't "culture War"
Discussed“the critical race theory is notably Kimberly Crenshaw wrote in her book critical race theory that they called it critical race Theory so that people would understand that it came from critical theory”
This Week in Startups
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Dumplings y Noodles
Discussed“she published her first cookbook on dumplings and noodles back in august of 2020.”
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Simple Noodles
Discussed“she published her first cookbook on dumplings and noodles back in august of 2020.”
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Gateway to the Social Contract
Discussed“and we've lost that and it's it's something that we yeah i mean this is hobbs right obviously a philosophy guy and you know life in his state of nature is nasty shortish and brutal right yeah british and short i mean and you know you have a social contract”
Big Technology Podcast
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The Facebook Effect
Discussed“Like David Kirkpatrick's book talks about how people in Columbia were organizing against the government. I'm kind of curious if you ever anticipated that technology would be used in sort of this, you know, tear apart political context.”
Huberman Lab
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
Discussed“And wrote a book some years ago, really ahead of its time, called "So Good They Can't Ignore You", which is about not meditating or doing much work to try and figure out what one's passion is by thinking, but rather go out and acquire skills, - Right. and develop a sense of passion for something by your experience of”
Modern Wisdom
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Operation Trojan Horse
Recommended“Stephen Davis, ladies and gentlemen, Operation Trojan Horse, the most shocking government cover-up of the last 30 years will be linked in the show notes below.”
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Guardians Of The Galaxy
Discussed“yes it is kind of like a guardian of the galaxy so i i recognize that is a great comic book that's been around for decades and now movies and it is”
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The Science of Sin
Discussed“and uh he uh he wrote a book about the science of sin and they they put uh people of varying sexual preferences into fmris with arousal sensors”
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Stealing Fire
Discussed“in fact uh his his previous book stealing fire is uh that if you read that first chapter is about me um he and I wrote no [ __ ] way yeah we wrote that chapter together”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Happy Sexy Millionaire
Recommended“If anyone's listening to this who hasn't read the book, would recommend. Or the audiobook in particular, which is narrated by you.”
No Stupid Questions
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The Reading Mind
Discussed“I know there's this book called the reading Mind by Daniel Willingham who's a professor of psychology I love Dan Willingham he writes about the difference between a quote good reader and a less good reader”
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The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
Discussed“I'm reading here from a piece called 'Breaking Out of the Drama Triangle' by Sherry Steins. So I'm thinking, okay, this is going to be really helpful.”
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Economic Empowerment Of Women In The Islamic World: Theory And Practice
Discussed“So there's a book by Janet Gallus and Bruno Frey; it's called Honors versus Money: The Economics of Awards. Obviously, there are awards in all these different parts of society: the state, arts and media, sports, religion—you get awards for volunteering and so on.”
The Daily Stoic
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Recommended“have you read the inner game of tennis no i haven't okay so one you have to read it if you like tennis but i believe it's tom brady's favorite book so really yes um and it's it's exactly what we're talking about he says you basically can't think and play tennis at the same time you have to get”
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Debrief to Win
Recommended“what have been some of the books that have hit you the most? Ah, there's one I really love right now, and I don't know if you've read it; it's called Debrief to Win. No, I'm writing this down.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Future Imperfect
Discussed“now uh you talk in your book future imperfect about how contracts will be enforced in the future”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Discussed“i'm impressed with the wording with his first novel the old man who read love novels so very well known and i would definitely recommend one of his titles which i will translate directly from the spanish”
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Fantastic Fungi
Recommended“i suggest a film and then a book so watch fantastic fungi and then read entangled life”
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The Triumph of the Fungi
Recommended“and another maybe another fun really fun way is to read the triumph of the fungi by nicholas p money now nick money has several books about fungi”
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The Rise of Yeast
Recommended“there's a book called the rise of the yeast as well and it's about the story of how yeast has shaped humanity”
