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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2022
During June 2022, podcasts explored various facets of personal growth, history, and human biology. On SmartLess, Jenny Slate mentioned Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun while humorously reflecting on her past desire to buy an old house as a single person. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Gabrielle Bernstein discussed her book Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, which led to a conversation about Rosemarie Manes's The Deafening Silence and Dr. John E. Sarno's Healing Back Pain. Meanwhile, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured several author interviews and discussions, including Jonathan Reisman presenting The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy, Douglas Murray talking about his book The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason, and a reference to Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. Additionally, Build with Leila Hormozi featured Alex Hormozi's Gym Launch Secrets when Leila recounted discovering the book at her partner's apartment.
SmartLess
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Discussed“At the time, I was like, I was single and I was like, 'It's like Under the Tuscan Sun; I'm just going to buy an old house and just live in here and have all my shirts, and this will be very romantic for me.'”
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White Fang
Discussed“what's that? I don't know, White Fang; it's like, I think it's based on a Jack London book. And I've got you, I think he may have Ethan Hawke when he was younger!”
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The Terminal List
Discussed“Oh, so it's based on a New York Times best-selling novel by an author named Jack Carr. Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL and my buddy Jared. When I did a film called Zero Dark Thirty...”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Happy Days
Discussed“We hadn't seen each other for three years, but you wrote this incredible book called Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace.”
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The Deafening Silence
Discussed“I was going to talk about that; I love this section on 'Hiding Behind the Body.'”
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Healing Back Pain
Discussed“In that chapter, I reference the work of Dr. John Sarno, who wrote Healing Back Pain and The Mind-Body Prescription.”
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The Stress Solution
Discussed“It really is beautiful, and I remember in my second book, 'The Stress Solution,' I wrote about it–this idea that Ikigai is these four things.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Unseen Body
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Jonathan Reisman, a physician and the writer of "The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey Through the Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy."”
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War on the West
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Douglas Murray, author of The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, and his most recent book, The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason.”
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The Life And Fate Of Vasily Grossman
Discussed“Also partly because of having seen bits of it in the Middle East and elsewhere. I mention this because Grossman in the middle of Life and Fate takes time out and provides a three-page explanation, a three-page description of anti-Semitism.”
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Il gattopardo
Discussed“Oh, The Leopard, obviously—the Leopard of Giuseppe di Lampedusa.”
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The doors of perception
Discussed“I remember I got far too young in age; I read the Doors of Perception of Aldous Huxley.”
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Stefan Zweig
Discussed“Um, I mean that's one of my favorite books, Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday, including the descriptions of what it was like trying to have sex in pre-First World War Vienna.”
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Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
Discussed“One of Lenin's great works is titled 'The Economic History of Russia,' where he examines centuries of history. It's a massive book, about three or four inches thick, and I am one of the few people who have read it.”
Speaker Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295 2022-06-17 Listen at 2:15:20 -
Economics, an introductory analysis
Discussed“Yeah, he came up only as an object of dismissal; for example, the major textbook in economics that I was taught with and that was for many years the canonical book, it isn't quite anymore, was a book authored by a professor of economics at MIT named Paul Samuelson, and people kind of—you know, a whole generation or two were”
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Contending economic theories
Discussed“By the way, the textbook I wrote in economics, in case you’re ever interested, was also published by MIT Press, and the title is 'Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian.'”
Speaker Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #295 2022-06-17 Listen at 2:30:05 -
Build
Discussed“He's also the author of the new book titled 'Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making'",”
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Story
Discussed“I'm a huge fan of stories. Have you ever read the book 'Story' by Robert McKee?”
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The Case Against Reality
Discussed“He's the author of over 120 scientific papers on these topics, and his most recent book, titled "The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid The Truth From Our Eyes."”
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The elephant in the brain
Discussed“He is the co-author of a book titled "The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life," "The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth," and a fascinating recent paper I recommend on "Grabby Aliens," titled "If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare.”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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Gym Launch Secrets
Discussed“We kind of just kept dating, and then a few weeks in I went back to his apartment, and there was literally a huge book on his glass table. I opened it up, and it was called 'Gym Launch Secrets.' I was like, 'Oh, you're serious; you're starting a company?'”
Monday Morning Podcast
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American Buffalo
Discussed“You know, as I mentioned, I saw American Buffalo, and I saw, uh, Gerard Carmichael's new special, 'Rathaniel,' which absolutely blew me away!”
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John Bonham
Discussed“Um, it’s a book written by John Bonham’s brother Mick Bonham, and I just see it says Bonham, B-O-N-H-A-M. I was looking like bond, ham, bond is good in French?”
Huberman Lab
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Yoga Body
Discussed“For example, there's a good book called 'Yoga Body' that will challenge people's notions of yoga.”
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Stretching: Pocket Book Edition
Discussed“Some of you may know the Anderson method, which has existed for a long time; I regret that I don't know whether Anderson is still alive. One significant aspect of the Anderson method, relevant to the peer-reviewed research we’ll discuss shortly, is the idea of stretching through pain and the balance between active and passive static stretching.”
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The Black Swan: Second Edition
Discussed“Other books I've previously read and own, but listen to the Blinkist version of occasionally, include Tim Ferris's 'The 4-Hour Body,' Tim Ferris's 'The 4-Hour Chef,' Nassim Taleb's 'The Black Swan,' and many other titles.”
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Listening to Prozac
Discussed“I remember the book 'Listening to Prozac' from when Prozac and similar drugs first emerged, and the excitement that surrounded them. Nowadays, I hear more about the problems associated with these drugs, and perhaps it's because I engage in both scientific and wellness communities where the focus is on behavioral change.”
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Dry
Discussed“It's analogous to what Augusten Burroughs wrote in 'Dry': his initial drink felt like a magic elixir that melded seamlessly with his physiology. As I read that, I thought, first of all, that may be the most alien experience to me regarding alcohol, and secondly, what a challenging situation for those individuals.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Polar Express Gift Set
Discussed“You'd walk into the general store, and man, when you opened the door to that store, it was frosty in there. You could see the polar express go by in the distance.”
The Rubin Report
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This Book
Discussed“But now I see the tangible book is alive, and people are reading it, expressing how inspired and encouraged they feel.”
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Why I Stand
Discussed“The 'Why I Stand' book is being discussed for a movie adaptation.”
