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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2022
July 2022 podcast conversations highlighted authorial reflection, financial systems, and personal growth guides. The Rubin Report featured Ari Fleischer discussing his motivations for writing a book to expose operations within the press corps. The Lex Fridman Podcast included two literary highlights: Lex Fridman recommended Michael Lewis's 'Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt' to examine high-frequency trading and arbitrage within cryptocurrency markets, and later interviewed Martin Rees about his upcoming September release, 'If Science Is to Save Us'. On Purpose with Jay Shetty, the host promoted his own bestselling guide, 'Think Like a Monk'. The Daily Stoic welcomed former NFL player Tony Gonzalez, who discussed Ryan Holiday's books, contrasting the commercial success of 'Growth Hacker Marketing' with the personal significance of 'Conspiracy' and noting the profound impact that Bob Roth's 'Strength in Stillness' had on his early career. On the Monday Morning Podcast, Bill Burr shared his eclectic reading preferences, explicitly recommending David S. Cecelski and Timothy B. Tyson's 'Wilmington's Lie' alongside Marilyn Rice Cub's book 'Famous'.
The Rubin Report
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The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018)
Discussed“And that's why I wrote the book, David, this is why I blew the whistle on the press. I try to be fair.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Discussed“So there's a lot of people like traders who get super into this, like high-frequency traders, and arbitrage, and all kinds of interesting topics. Flash Boys was like an interesting book on this whole thing.”
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If Science Is to Save Us
Discussed“For now, what is the new book that you mentioned? It's called 'If Science is to Save Us.' It's coming out in September.”
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The neuroscience of intelligence
Discussed“You give, first of all, you have a great book on the neuroscience of intelligence.”
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Discussed“One of the things I've recently re-read for the second time is 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich', which I think is the best telling of the rise and fall of Hitler.”
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Anne of Green Gables
Discussed“You've looked back at the predecessors and the history in writing your book; is there some way in which the KGB is grounded in the culture, the spirit, the soul of its predecessors? Oh, absolutely.”
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La père Goriot
Discussed“You know, I wanted to see Paris because I had fallen in love with Honore Balzac, who wrote- Balzac, yeah. A phenomenal set of novels that I just ate up.”
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Stalin's Master Narrative
Discussed“Interestingly enough, the first book I was given to read was the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Oh, so understand, yeah, that's interesting.”
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Winnie-the-Pooh
Discussed“And she gave me a book, 'Winnie the Pooh,' because we went to see the movie. And then she wrote the dedication, she says, 'To the nicest German I've ever met.'”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Think Like A Monk
Discussed“I'm also excited to let you know that you can now get my book, 'Think Like a Monk,' from thinklikeamonkbook.com. Check below in the description to make sure you order today.”
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Life Without Ed
Discussed“One of the most helpful books I ever read for my anorexia was a book called Life Without Ed, and it's where this woman personified her eating disorder, and she talked to it.”
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Radical Love
Discussed“I'm so excited to talk to my dear friend, an awesome human being, about his new book, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others, something we all need to do.”
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Radical Confidence
Discussed“Lisa spends her days having real, uncensored conversations with the most inspiring women, and as an incredibly inspiring woman herself, she has written her first book called Radical Confidence: 10 No-BS Lessons on Becoming the Hero of Your Own Life.”
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Worth of Water
Discussed“Matt and Gary, thank you so much for being here, and I know today we're talking about your book, The Worth of Water: Our Story of Chasing Solutions to the World's Greatest Challenge.”
The Daily Stoic
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Conspiracy
Discussed“Sure, I mean, so conspiracy, I think is my best book; it's probably sold the least of all my books.”
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Growth Hacker Marketing
Discussed“Conversely, I did this book Growth Hacking several years ago that my publisher suggested, and I was into it and I liked it; I'm glad I did it, but it sold like very well and was lucrative.”
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Strength in Stillness
Discussed“Yes, yes; of all the books, I’ve read a majority of your books, stillness is the one that touched me the most, because I think that was part of my problem in those first two years in the league.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Democracy Betrayed
Discussed“I recommend Wilmington's Lie: The Insurrection of 1892 and the Rise of White Supremacy and Marilyn Rice Cub's Famous! I'm all over the road here, that's how I like to read, you know?”
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Jaws
Discussed“And that is the last branch that I would join, there's no way I would join the Navy because I don't want to be on a ship that sinks and you end up in the water and now you're in Quint's story from Jaws.”
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Silent Spring at 50
Discussed“Oh Jesus, there's an environmentalist book that I wanted to read that this female scientist wrote back in the day called 'Silent Spring.'”
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Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861
Discussed“I don't know, I was reading that Wilmington book, and it was like the cop would come down and tell the black people, 'Alright, you gotta disperse.'”
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Franklin Barbecue
Discussed“Uh, learn to barbecue from Aaron Franklin, skateboarding from Anthony Tony, or learn songwriting and producing from Alicia Keys.”
StarTalk Radio
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Meghadūta
Discussed“And a big part of Ayurveda, which really intrigued me was when I was traveling around the world after I retired, someone gave me a book on Ayurveda, and I opened the book, and the first chapter was about living in accordance with the seasons. Okay?”
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Discussed“On that same note, Nicholas Lenson says, in Scott Kelly's book, Endurance, he mentions that an astronaut who has to wear glasses during a spacewalk—contact lenses weren't an option—had to glue his glasses to his head during his spacewalk to prevent them from falling.”
SmartLess
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Directed by James Burrows
Discussed“You have this new gigantic book that's out now called Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and tons more!”
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Gone with the Wind
Discussed“He would come out, I saw him once come out, sit down in a chair, and start reading Gone with the Wind until you left! He didn't care, it was three minutes, very well... it's very well...”
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All About Me!
Discussed“So I got a—I called my agency and they put me in touch with a literary guy who had just written the Mel Brooks book, a guy named Eddie Freefeld, who's a big fan of comedy.”
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The Catcher in the Rye
Discussed“We were working on some, you know, Holden Caulfield, you know what, uh, Catcher in the Rye scenes, you know, other scenes that he worked at because we were trying to get me an agent and so forth, right?”
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Discussed“And so now I just say, "[ __ ] it," I just yeah, it'll come back to me in five or ten minutes. Who wrote Tom Sawyer?”
Huberman Lab
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High-Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way
Discussed“I just read his book; I didn't get a chance to meet him, so I'm jealous, right?”
