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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2022
March 2022 podcast episodes featured discussions on a diverse array of historical, political, and personal development titles across several shows. On The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Josh Barnett recommended several influential texts, including René Guénon's The Crisis of the Modern World for understanding modern societal issues, Edward L. Bernays's Propaganda and Public Relations in the context of media manipulation, and Robert Michels's Political Parties to explain how organizations tend toward oligarchy. Political and biographical leadership also drew attention on The Daily Stoic, where Ryan Holiday discussed William Lee Miller's Lincoln's Virtues to draw a moral parallel between Abraham Lincoln and Angela Merkel, while also strongly recommending Kati Marton's biographical work The Chancellor. Personal development and storytelling were highlighted in other corners of the podcast landscape as well. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, guest Big Sean expressed his admiration for host Jay Shetty's Think Like A Monk, noting his appreciation for the work and sharing his excitement about having Shetty write the forward for his own upcoming book. Additionally, The Book Review featured Dave Kim discussing and recommending the short story collection Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets. Across these various programs, the featured titles offered listeners deep dives into political structures, historical leadership, societal critique, and personal reflection.
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists
Discussed“it was like art is the highest form of hope”
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Rainbows End
Discussed“I think Rainbows End is one that is maybe not as commonly cited, but I think is is maybe the augmented reality sort of equivalent of some of the the seminal works that talk about virtual reality.”
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Invest Like Warren Buffett
Critiqued“and that's why there are hundreds of books titled you know some version of how to invest like Warren Buffett and they all it's all so overly simplified when actually what they do is is really complex”
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The Man Who Solved the Market
Discussed“there's a book about him I think the title is the man who solved the market which covers Renaissance Technologies and also tiptoes around a number of other similar I would say firms that are very very secretive for the most part but fascinating exploration also completely different”
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Only Yesterday
Discussed“the big change since yesterday what is the third the big change since yesterday and Only Yesterday”
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The Big Change
Discussed“some of those books are the big change since yesterday what is the third the big change since yesterday and Only Yesterday his crowning book is called the big change and it's just how American Life evolved from 1900 to 1950”
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Fortune's Children
Recommended“it's called Fortune's children and it's about how the Vanderbilt heirs spent their money and blew their fortune”
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The Science of Fear
Recommended“is a book by a guy named Dan gner who wrote a book called the science of fear the title's basically self-explanatory and it's not a deep science book I would say it's more of a pop science book but that book really changed how I think about fear”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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When the Lights Go Out
Discussed“you wrote a book on anti-bullying um kind of about your life”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Free Agent Nation
Discussed“and okay let's start then with the some of the things that you've written going back to 2001 sure free agent nation”
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Oliver Burkeman's 2-Book Set (Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals & the Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking)
Discussed“you said you know one of the books you wrote was called the antidote happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking”
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The Happiness Planner (June-July)
Discussed“i sat here with moe gowda who wrote a book about happiness um the happiness equation”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Rocky Balboa - The World Ain't All Sunshine and Rainbows Movie Quotes Notebook, Exercise Book & Journal
Discussed“And then movies like Rocky Balboa and Vinnie Barbarino and and Welcome Back Kotter and Casino they just enhanced that whole image.”
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Casino
Discussed“And then movies like Rocky Balboa and Vinnie Barbarino and and Welcome Back Kotter and Casino they just enhanced that whole image.”
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Black Eye for America
Discussed“her recent book is black eye for america how critical race theory is burning down the house”
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Abduction
Discussed“i know you wrote a book a couple years ago called abduction such a good title for what you were writing about the its abduction how liberalism steals our children's hearts and minds 2016.”
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12 Seconds in the Dark
Discussed“He tells his story in his new book out tomorrow, 12 Seconds in the Dark, a police officer's first hand account of the Breonna Taylor raid.”
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I Need a New Butt!
Discussed“mississippi elementary school assistant principal is fired for reading a children's book called i need a new butt”
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Bythe western sea, a summer idyll, by james baker
Recommended“i think the actual central actor in that time james baker go read his memoir it's crystal clear”
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Insurgency
Discussed“national political reporter for the new york times and author of the new book insurgency how republicans lost their party and got everything they ever wanted it's a clever title”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Scout Mindset
Discussed“i just started reading this book called the scout mindset which sort of summarizes cognitive errors that we make”
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The Crisis of the Modern World
Recommended“get on start with crisis of the modern world”
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Propaganda
Recommended“go read edward bernays's propaganda”
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Public Relations
Recommended“and public relations”
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Political Parties
Recommended“go read political parties by robert mckells”
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Work Pray Code
Discussed“i interviewed a berkeley professor sociologist named carolyn chen wrote a book called work pray code that's kind of a sociological take on this”
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Living buddhas
Discussed“as described in ken jeremiah's book living buddhas”
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Dr. Strangelove
Discussed“There's an article I read yesterday about Oliver Stone sitting down with Putin and watching Dr. Strangelove and it's it's all about I mean I don't think Putin had ever seen the film.”
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Inner Engineering
Discussed“i'm in the middle of uh inner engineering”
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Into the Fire
Discussed“because because i feel like these books like you talk about into the fire you you know i'll talk about my book i feel like it made us like not human like larger than life”
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The Beatles, or the 'White Album'
Discussed“I do love a remix like you know what I love you ever heard when they put biggie in with the White Album yeah right it's amazing”
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Doctor Strangelove
Discussed“Oliver Stone was explaining this to me do he's like they the the guy was the inspiration for the Doctor Strange Love movie you know the doctor strange love you ever see that”
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Falling in Love on Willow Creek
Recommended“Bobcat made a um a Bigfoot movie mhm what is it called again Willow Creek it's about uh these guys who go up there to film this area”
EconTalk
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The Elements of Euclid
Discussed“for example the very first mathematics tutorial that freshmen take they read euclid that's how you start you start studying geometry by actually going back and reading euclid”
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Climate Future
Discussed“his latest book is climate future averting and adapting to climate change”
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Economic Risks of Climate Change
Discussed“his latest book is climate future averting and adapting to climate change”
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Good Habits, Bad Habits
Recommended“she has a book and um it's called good habits bad habits and i recommend it”
ChooseFI
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Stacked
Discussed“and as I was reading your book I loved the book I basically imagine if Dave Berry could do compound interest you'd probably have a competitor but since he can't or doesn't like this book filled that void absolutely perfectly”
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Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Discussed“and so part of what's going to spark this conversation today is actually a book that I read very recently by Brian Tracy the name of the book goals how to get everything you want faster than you ever thought possible”
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A Complaint Free World
Discussed“if you actually look around and listen and I think uh the book I read I think is called a no complaint World by uh will Bowen I read it years ago and it just it was one of those kind of like seismic shifts in my thinking”
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The art of frugal hedonism
Recommended“she said the art of frugal Hedonism comes to mind the Bible of permaculture is called retro Suburbia”
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RetroSuburbia
Recommended“the Bible of permaculture is called retro Suburbia and it's about retrofitting the suburbs for resilient Community sufficient life”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Four Agreements
Discussed“I read a book called 'The Four Agreements,' and one of the agreements is about not having expectations.”
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Think Like A Monk
Recommended“Like I tune into so many interviews, I loved your book, um, I can’t wait to have you write the forward on my book.”
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Discussed“i remember reading the seven spiritual laws of success and tearing up you know”
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Ask And It Is Given
Discussed“and i remember reading asking and it's given by stranger hicks and like feeling my whole vibration change”
The Daily Stoic
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Lincoln's Virtues
Recommended“I thought the book was so important that I I read a few books a book a few years ago uh called Lincoln's virtues by William Lee Miller and and he was saying that you know we forget”
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The Chancellor
Recommended“well I I absolutely loved the book Thank you so much for writing it and and for coming on and uh I can't recommend it highly enough”
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Management of the Absurd
Discussed“there's an old book called management of the absurd that i just happened to have very very fond of and it's from 1996”
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The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership
Discussed“there was a guy named sample who wrote a book in 2002 he was the president of usc called the contrarian's guide to leadership”
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How to Be a Leader
Recommended“yeah there's a great book it's a new translation of plutarch called how to be a leader and he has a good line”
Behind the Bastards
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Marriage Under Fire
Discussed“The other other big thing I want to mention before I get into Family Research Council is the 2004 book Marriage Under Fire uh by by by Dr. James Dobson”
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Two Boys Kissing
Discussed“The picture book I am jazz, uh, Kate Bournestein's My Gender Workbook, and the YA novel Two Boys Kissing. Also included is Margaret Atwoods, The Hand The Handmaidaiden's Tale. No left turn indiscriminately targets all these titles”
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Gay Berlin
Discussed“the scholarly work that I'm kind of basing my research on this on largely right now and we're going to do an episode of behind the bastards that gets in to more of this I think in the near future but it's a book called Gay Berlin by Robert Beichy”
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The Cloister
Discussed“For whatever reason, Mshite Hulenheim took a fairly benevolent attitude towards Berlin's same-sex bars and dance halls, at least in the better healed parts of the city. He was on cordial terms with many regulars, and none other than Augustus Strindberg testified to in his autobiographical novel, The Closter”
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Fossil Capital
Discussed“We'll probably have heard mom's name because he's been wrote a very good book called Fossil Capital.”
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Climate Leviathan
Recommended“If you're interested in that, I would recommend reading the book Climate Leviathan.”
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Burmese Days
Discussed“Orwell reflected on this in his novel Burmese days saying in the 18th century the Indians cast guns that were at any rate up to the European standard. Now after we've been in India 150 years you can't make so much as a brass cartridge case in the whole continent.”
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In the Shadow of the Moons
Discussed“But in in 1999, Nansuk Hong publishes a book called In the Shadow of the Moons, My Life in the Reverend Sunyong Moon's family.”
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As a peace-loving global citizen
Discussed“I'm just going to read how he describes himself in his book as a peaceloving global citizen.”
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The Divine Principle
Discussed“He begins to write divine principle there is another book called the divine principle which is a separate thing they are not the same thing uh this is a source of enormous confusion now divine principle is it's called the bible of the unification church”
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Satan's Bushel
Discussed“One of his books is called Satan's Bushell. And here's how the Micus Institute describes Satan's Bushell.”
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Standoff
Discussed“I'm going to quote from Jacqueline Keeler's book Standoff, which is about the Bundy occupation of the Malhair Wildlife Refuge. Quote,”
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The Medieval Machine : The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages : Written by Jean Gimpel, 1977 Edition, Publisher
Discussed“So many new types of machines were invented and put to use by 1300 that historian Jean Gimple wrote a book in 1976 called the industrial revolution of the middle ages.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Quest for the tree kangaroo
Discussed“I had committed to do two books; one was Quest for the Tree Kangaroo, and the other was my memoir, The Good Pig, that I wrote to honor Christopher Hogwood.”
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The Good Good Pig
Discussed“before the death of Christopher and Tess I had committed to do two books one was quest for the tree kangaroo and the other was my Memoir the good pig that I wrote to honor Christopher hogwood”
The Book Review
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The Swimmers
Discussed“Julie otsuka will tell us about her new novel the swimmers which starts with a large group at a pool and then turns into the powerful story of a particular mother and daughter”
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The power of the dog
Discussed“the power of the dog a 1967 novel by Thomas Savage which was directed by Jane Campion and is this anti-western Western about two brothers who live on a ranch in Montana”
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Nightmare Alley
Discussed“Nightmare alley guo Del Toro directed it and it's based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay gram it was adapted into a movie shortly after it was published”
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Lucky Breaks
Recommended“I am reading a short story collection from Ukraine actually called lucky Breaks by yenia beruset”
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Recommended“I just finished recently a short novel called Mrs palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor and we ran a wonderful review of this book by Jeff Dyer in the book review”
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The Wok
Discussed“Kenji Lopez alt will be here to talk about his new book The Walk recipes and Techniques”
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The Food Lab
Discussed“since you brought up the food lab that's probably what people who are familiar with you and your work associate with you most”
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The Shame Machine
Discussed“the book is Kathy O'Neal's the shame machine which is sort of an ominous title”
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Origin
Discussed“she is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas and her new book is called origin a genetic history of the Americas”
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Empire of the Scalpel
Discussed“he is the author of numerous books including the history of surgery in the United States 1775 to 1900 seeking The Cure James A Garfield and bleeding blue and gray his latest book is Empire of the scalpel the history of surgery”
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Living on Paper
Discussed“it's called living on paper letters from Iris Murdoch 1934 to 1995 and I'm really going back and also reading like contemporaneous reviews of her work”
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The Days of Afrekete
Recommended“it's called the days of afri and it's by assali Solomon who teaches writing at haford”
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The True American
Recommended“so the first one is the true American murder and mercy in Texas by Anand jardes”
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The Beauty of Dusk
Discussed“Frank bruny joins us to talk about his new Memoir the beauty of dusk”
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The Invisible Kingdom
Discussed“Megan overwork will be here to talk about her book The Invisible Kingdom”
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Born Round
Discussed“second time you've done so in book form your first Memoir was a big bestseller born round”
My First Million
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Jobs Book
Discussed“so there's this book that i've been meaning to read it's on my uh uh to read list and it's called jobs and so it's this premise that like i i think was a professor some guy from school of economics of london or something like that”
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Alexander the Great
Discussed“I was just reading this book about Alexander the Great and it talked about a contract that he negotiated with one of his contractors, one of his suppliers to move their baggage train from one area to another and I was just like, "Oh, this is like not that different."”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Foundation Trilogy
Discussed“What were your favorite sci-fi authors when you were growing up? Probably Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.”
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Seveneves
Discussed“These little robots would crawl, just like in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves; they crawl along the outside of the spacecraft looking for micrometeorite punctures or gas leaks or other faults and defects.”
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2001
Discussed“The future of space habitats is one of intelligent structures—maybe not all the way to HAL from the 2001: A Space Odyssey reference that scares people about a habitat having a mind of its own—but certainly, we're building systems now where the habitat has sensing technology that allows it to communicate its basic functions.”
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Ringworld
Discussed“my third one is the ring world just because every science fiction book ever that's worth anything has a ring world in it and uh it's just a donut”
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God Is Not Great
Discussed“So, for example, the idea that you would call a book 'Religion Poisons Everything'—I think he did that deliberately and provocatively so that he could defend a proposition that obviously is indefensible: that it poisons everything.”
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The Talmud of Babylonia
Discussed“Yeah, well, the Torah is the five books of Moses written in Hebrew. Most modern rabbis, non-orthodox or non-literalist rabbis, will tell you that it's a product of human beings, and I believe that they are inspired by God.”
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Letters from the Earth
Discussed“One is that every image of what it's like is foolish; like Mark Twain has in 'Letters from the Earth' says, 'We're going to lie on green fields and listen to harp music,' which you wouldn't want to do for five minutes while you're alive, but you think you'll be happy for the rest of eternity doing it after you”
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If--
Discussed“Like the poem If by Roger Kipling says, "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but none too much."”
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Why Faith Matters
Discussed“You wrote in your book Why Faith Matters quote Walt Wittman wrote that in order for there to be a great books there must be great readers.”
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The Exodus
Discussed“I think Richard Elliot Freriedman may have gotten this right in his book Exodus.”
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Hitch-22
Recommended“His autobiography, 'Hitch 22,' is a great read and I just want to say what you discover there. I don't know if I'm giving too much away by telling the story—spoiler alert—what you discover there is that his mother ran away with a minister or a priest, and they died in what seemed like a suicide pact.”
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Herzog
Recommended“I also love Saul Bellow, especially 'Herzog.' But that's a very different kind of thinking—person's novel. I read a lot of mysteries, and a lot of other kinds of fiction and literature.”
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Solaris
Discussed“They allow you to record those memories, or at least on Earth, you could imagine, you know, a Stanislaw Lem-type world where you might have life emerging or intelligence emerging before life; that may be something to unwind, like Solaris or something.”
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The Blind Watchmaker
Discussed“This relates to the blind watchmaker argument, which questions how something complex, like a watch, could spontaneously emerge. Well, it doesn't; it's a lineage of lesser watches and devices that couple and bootstrap onto one another.”
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The Nazi war on cancer
Discussed“you uh also wrote the book titled the nazi war on cancer right what is the main storyline and thesis of this book”
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Agnotology
Discussed“you are edited a book titled agnetology this is an interesting term so you mentioned it earlier the making and unmaking of ignorance where you explore the topic of ignorance”
Conversations with Tyler
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Essays One
Discussed“there is also essays one which is excellent as well”
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The Gray Notebook
Discussed“there's a there's a book by a catalan writer called joseph pla that's called the gray notebook i think or the other gray notebooks or the gray notebook”
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a sorrow beyond dreams
Discussed“and i think um i think also a sorrow beyond dreams by hank which i'm about to revisit by peter hanke also gives that impression of fragmentation”
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The Left-handed Woman
Discussed“one was the um the left-handed woman and that he he wrote in such a straightforward style and the material repeated so much that i was able to read it without a problem”
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The afternoon of a writer
Discussed“so then i tried reading whatever it is the day in the in afternoon of a writer i think it's called afternoon of a writer and that was terribly complicated with difficult constructions and huge vocabulary”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Loneliness
Recommended“c-a-c-c-i-p-p-o cassiapo is that how you say it wrote the he wrote the book called loneliness and i read that book as a scientist”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Downfall
Discussed“people of my platoon yesterday or day before yesterday watched in the night after the shift on the um on the streets we watched the movie downfall”
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Dirty Daddy
Discussed“according to the book which we'll link in the show notes dirty daddy according to the book you started at 17.”
Huberman Lab
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The 4-Hour Body
Discussed“Tim Ferris, the great Tim Ferris, deserves recognition for being about ten years ahead of many trends in nutrition and skill learning; many of the things he predicted in his books, 'The Four Hour Body' and 'The Four Hour Chef,' have been supported by scientific data, some of which comes from studies on animal models, and some of which have”
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The 4-hour Chef
Discussed“Tim Ferris, the great Tim Ferris, deserves recognition for being about ten years ahead of many trends in nutrition and skill learning; many of the things he predicted in his books, 'The Four Hour Body' and 'The Four Hour Chef,' have been supported by scientific data, some of which comes from studies on animal models, and some of which have”
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Dopamine Nation
Recommended“There, I'm paraphrasing what Dr. Anna Lembke has said and has written about in her beautiful book, 'Dopamine Nation.' If you haven't read that book, I highly recommend it.”
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The Salt Fix
Discussed“The resource is a book authored by Dr. James DiNicolantonio, who is a scientist in cardiovascular physiology and a doctor of pharmacy. The title of the book is "The Salt Fix."”
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The Good Gut
Discussed“Sonnenburg co-runs his laboratory with his spouse, Dr. Erica Sonnenburg, and together they've also authored a highly informative book titled "The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health."”
Speaker How to Build, Maintain & Repair Gut Health | Dr. Justin Sonnenburg 2022-03-07 Listen at 1:40
Modern Wisdom
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The Twelve Monotasks
Discussed“or i've got a summary of thatcherwines the twelve monotasks book or something”
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Ignore the Guy, Get the Guy: The Art of No Contact
Critiqued“because as you know pretty much every popular dating book that's been written over the past 30 years from the rules to ignore the guy get the guy to why men love [ __ ] that they all revolve around a very complicated version of playing hard to get”
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Why Men Love Bitches
Critiqued“because as you know pretty much every popular dating book that's been written over the past 30 years from the rules to ignore the guy get the guy to why men love [ __ ] that they all revolve around a very complicated version of playing hard to get”
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The End of Men
Discussed“and if you read hannah rosen's book the end of men she has a whole section all about rising criminality rates among women”
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Make Your Move
Discussed“okay so getting on to make your move what are the mistakes that men make that you're trying to get women to avoid making”
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The 6 Minute Diary
Discussed“i read this in uh johann hari's most recent book where he said that so many of the things that we ascribe to our own personal development are simply byproducts of us getting older”
The Realignment
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The Churchill Complex
Discussed“ian has written a book it's called the churchill complex and it's basically about how winston churchill and his model of leadership and how his response to the post-munich period really shaped the way we in the west but especially the us and great britain think about conflicts”
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Year Zero
Discussed“we're going to hit this with a couple of different ways everything from germany and japan post world war ii to year zero which is your book about the word after 1945 to your most recent book the churchill complex”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Mexico City Blues
Discussed“That's kind of where I cribbed it from, one of his, I believe that came from Mexico City Blues, one of his poems. And that's probably his best poetry compilation.”
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The Dharma Bums
Recommended“I love that one, I also love Dharma Bums.”
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Subterraneans
Recommended“I love all that whole entire four-part book series On the Road, Subterranean, Dharma Bums, and Big Sur, which is the saddest one, but it's still great.”
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Big Sur
Recommended“I love all that whole entire four-part book series On the Road, Subterranean, Dharma Bums, and Big Sur, which is the saddest one, but it's still great.”
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The Addiction Inoculation
Recommended“Like, don't do this alone. You don't have to do this alone. There are communities of people ready, willing, and able to help you, who can help instill in you these tools and help you learn how to practice these tools that will alleviate some of that discomfort over time and provide you with the ability to kind of manage”
Timcast IRL
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Troubled Water
Discussed“Troubled Water activist Seth Siegel writes that birth control pills add more than 10 million doses of synthetic estrogen to U.S Wastewater every day”
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Stakeholder Capitalism
Discussed“I have it is called stakeholder capitalism”
This Week in Startups
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The Business of Venture Capital
Discussed“i have been reading the textbook the business of venture capital and one of the things that talks about”
SmartLess
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Discussed“i i think i have to credit my mother for this as i had uh the script for holy grail oh wow um monty python mine in python monty python it was published as a little book and and i loved that movie so much”
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The Atomic Cafe
Discussed“and in 1983 I drove down there and I saw a documentary didn't know much about it it was supposed to be about you know Atomic weapons or nuclear power and the whole film was maybe you've seen this film it's called Atomic Cafe”
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Discussed“uh don't go for the mediocre there a great Kurt vonet line uh in his only play that he wrote happy birthday Wanda June and he says uh one of the characters says you know in America they love the mediocre”
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Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother
Discussed“so barry i want to get into your book that you've written uh called barry sonnenfeld call your mother um which is a great title”
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Showtime
Recommended“So if you're a great player, you have to go there, so we're in this rare— they're going to eventually create other leagues, but anyway, Lakers came from, there's a great book by Jeff Perlman called Showtime, and I'm, as Will just said, I'm a crazy hoops junkie.”
Acquired
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Sony
Discussed“i think they even say either in the sony book by john nathan or in akio morita's book that his younger brothers were actively sort of training to be kamikaze pilots like that would have been his future”
No Stupid Questions
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Don't Choke
Discussed“so mentally one thing I'm really focused on is not choking to do so I've been reading a book by Gary Player who's one of the best golfers in history he's in his mid 80s now and this book he wrote some years ago is called quite directly don't choke a Champions guide to winning Under Pressure”
