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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2022
In August 2022, podcast guests and hosts discussed travel memoirs, natural history, and forthcoming literary releases. Ewan McGregor shared his admiration for Ted Simon's Jupiter's Travels on SmartLess, describing how the author's motorcycle journey around the world inspired his own adventures. Biography and historical narratives also featured when Al Doan recommended Victor Herman's Coming Out of the Ice on My First Million as a transformative read from his self-education period, and Ryan Holiday highlighted Silvio A. Bedini's The Pope's Elephant on The Daily Stoic to illustrate a historical anecdote about the Vatican. Nature writing and animal intelligence emerged as common themes when Roelof Botha mentioned the America's Best Science and Nature Writing annual series on The Tim Ferriss Show, and Holiday also endorsed Justin Gregg's If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal. On the publishing front, Alex Kantrowitz promoted Mark Bergen's forthcoming book Like, Comment, Subscribe on Big Technology Podcast, encouraging listeners to explore the chaotic rise of YouTube.
Big Technology Podcast
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Like, Comment, Subscribe
Recommended“He is a reporter at Bloomberg, a good friend of mine and the author of Like, Comment, Subscribe, Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination coming out next Tuesday, September 6th. So I encourage you to pre-order it.”
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Pronoia
Discussed“There's a book written by a guy who popularized the term, it's not my term, called pro-noia, which is kind of about, you know, it's sort of woo-woo, new age-ish, but he kind of touts out all the ways in which the universe is trying to help you.”
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Die Broke
Discussed“There are a couple of books where I kind of made, uh, was given those realizations. One was called, um, die broke. The other one was called, um, die with zero, I think. And they both really changed my mind, um, about this, this, this aspect of, um, trying to be generous while you're alive.”
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Time off
Discussed“So rest ethic is a term I picked up from a book called, I think, time off that was making some of these same arguments. There's another, I don't know if it's included in this batch or not, but there's another piece, which is that taking a break is not a sign of weakness.”
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Peopleware
Discussed“There was, there was exactly, but there was a great book. I think it was called people where I think, but they were making, they were making this case in terms of teams in the corporate world that in fact, someone done the study of the most effective teams.”
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No Filter
Discussed“And we talked about a little bit how, how Instagram, uh, didn't, and I think this is from Sarah Fryer's book, no filter, never wanted that hamburger menu, you know, those three bars on top because it became too, too, uh, crowded.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Nature Writing
Recommended“the other one is an annual series called america's best science and nature writing”
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Tobacco and Shamanism in South America
Discussed“after spending more time in south america and reading books i'm going to get the title wrong but it's something like tobacco and shamanism in south america i think it's johannes wilbur or johannes”
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The Fellowship of the River
Discussed“there's a book called the fellowship of the river i think i'm getting that right about a western trained physician who ends up engaging very heavily with ayahuasca specifically”
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The Fatal Conceit
Discussed“and it's from the fatal conceit”
The Daily Stoic
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To Risk It All
Discussed“I was just reading Admiral Stavridis's book about Navy heroes, and I had no idea about Commander Ernest Evans, who was the first Native American to win the Medal of Honor. It's weird that there is this history, and it’s one of the few bright spots in American history that should be celebrated.”
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The Devil's Dictionary
Discussed“he wrote the devil's dictionary so he's sort of seen as this like cynical nasty negative guy”
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Lincoln's Melancholy
Discussed“have you read lincoln's melancholy oh yes i'm familiar with that book”
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Discussed“i know why a caged bird sings um another woman reads it thinking oh i was exactly this little girl too”
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This Book
Discussed“That strikes me as essentially the exploration of this book, where animals are smart and humans are dumb, or where humans are smart and animals are dumb. That's a beautiful anecdote; that's exactly it.”
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Frederick
Discussed“Did you read the children's book 'Frederick' about the mouse? That sounds familiar.”
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The Pope's Elephant
Recommended“Pope Leo the 10th the Medici Pope was given an elephant named Hannah that lived behind the Vatican and there's a great book about it called the Pope's elephant”
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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
Recommended“all right man well I love the book and everyone should read it thanks and I agree”
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Stoic Warriors
Discussed“Nancy Sherman, who was an instructor here for many years, a wonderful writer and thinker about stoicism in her book Stoic Warriors, she talks about how we get the concept of stoicism wrong.”
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You Are Worth It : Building a Life Worth Fighting For
Recommended“his name's kyle carpenter his book you are worth it is worth everybody's time”
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The Confident Mind
Recommended“i loved the book the confident mind and everyone should check it out”
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Marcus Aurelius
Discussed“but uh and then I've been I've been reading um uh Henry Sedgwick wrote this little biography of Mark Cerrillos that I'm reading right now a sort of lost uh or forgotten biography”
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The Manuscript Tradition of the Historia Augusta
Discussed“we're told that there's this weird phrase that kind of bugs me up in the history Augusta that says Marcus was brought up the Therma uses in in Latin literally means in the bosom of Hadrian”
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Baby on the Fire Escape
Discussed“well you know I was thinking about you because I just read this book uh baby on the fire escape”
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Fear of Flying
Discussed“like when my mom wrote Fear flying in 1973 you know your book got discovered if it got good reviews in the following places and if it didn't no one would ever see it”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Four Loves
Discussed“and Lewis actually writes about this in the four loves that experience of oh you too I thought I was the only one right”
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Julius Caesar
Recommended“like pick up your copy of of Julius Caesar I beg you uh your your life will be improved”
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The People V. O.J. Simpson
Discussed“He wrote the book The People versus OJ Simpson on which the mini-series was based. My god. My god.”
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Rick
Critiqued“This is out of Montgomery County Maryland not just outside of DC where they selected the book Rick by Alex G I Gino G I N O as their anchor text making it required reading for all incoming sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students.”
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America, a Redemption Story
Recommended“We're going to do a quick commercial break, and there is so much more, so many wonderful stories to mine out of this beautiful book, which you should absolutely get out and buy right now. It's called America: A Redemption Story.”
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The Price of Principle
Recommended“I think the price of principle because that TELLS THE WHOLE STORY. You got more time to price of principle. We all love Alan and his book.”
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Free for Life
Discussed“So, Christopher, he you kind of he wrote a book about his own experiences, Christopher Maher, and he calls it free for life.”
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Transcend Fear
Recommended“Um by the way, I just I do want people to know, it's it's not out yet. It's available everywhere on August 23rd, but you can pre-order it right now on Amazon, which helps out the good doctor.”
Behind the Bastards
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Isis Unveiled
Discussed“And she does eventually come out with her book. Uh it takes her a couple of years, but Isis Unveiled comes out in September of 1877.”
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The Corpus Hermeticum
Discussed“Its basic premises are contained in Corpus Hermeticum, a text of unclear origin translated into Italian and popularized in the 15th century by a Renaissance philosopher Marcilio Ficino.”
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The Principles of Nature
Discussed“Seeing what her sisters were doing made her think about the work of a guy named Andrew Jackson Davis who was a best-selling author at the time and Andrew Jackson Davis wrote the divine principles of nature.”
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The Princess of Babylon
Discussed“In Candid gives kind of the final word in the book to a Turkish dervish. Uh in the princess of Babylon he depicts a golden age civilization on the banks of the Ganes.”
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An Essay on Universal History, the Manners, and Spirit of Nations
Discussed“Um so one of the things that he wrote during his very long life was an essay on the spirit of nations. Um which listed China and India he's kind of going through in a list what he views as like the oldest civilizations”
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The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
Discussed“In 1612 in the German city of Castle, an anonymous brochure was published. It was a manifesto of the Rosacrusian Order, an organization nobody had ever heard of before. The manifesto claimed that medieval occultist Christian Rosen Croy had founded an order”
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Zanoni
Discussed“Um, and one of the books that Helina would have grown up loving from this guy is Zenoni, which is about a secret order of Rosaian who had psychic powers and lived forever. This is probably why Helina later claimed that her great-grandfather had been a Rosacruian”
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The Soldier's Story
Discussed“The Quebec Collective Solidarity issued a collected works of Valon's trial statements, essays, poetry, and acknowledgements from comrades titled A Soldier's Story, which you can find at the Anarchist Library.”
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Discussed“So, in The Enigma of Clarence Thomas, Cory Robin makes the case that over the course of his time in power, Thomas has arrived at a fairly consistent set of beliefs about the Constitution. his constitution, the one that he believes in, is not the constitution as it presently like exists uh or even the one that he really rules”
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Strange Justice
Recommended“Now, if you want a tremendously detailed look at how the confirmation process went or precisely why Thomas was picked, all of that stuff, I really do recommend the book Strange Justice by Meer and Abramson.”
Acquired
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The Most Important Thing Illuminated
Discussed“i went back through my notes from business school from howard your book the most important thing illuminated and every other page on there is like risk equals permanent capital loss”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Our Common Future
Discussed“well it's starting from the theoretical perspective of say sustainability our common future that that notorious book we started from that foundation”
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Soviet Marxism
Discussed“for example herbert marcuzza in his book on soviet marxism they admitted this”
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Sledgehammer
Discussed“on February 8 20 22nd Harper Collins published Ambassador Friedman's memoir sledgehammer how breaking with the past brought peace to the Middle East”
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On Beauty and Being Just
Discussed“scary wrote a really beautiful book called beauty and how it prepares us for truth and justice”
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The Eternal Law
Discussed“read john spencer's book the eternal law you look at what's happening around einstein”
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Plato's Critique of Impure Reason
Recommended“dc schindler's plato's critique of imperial reason the best book hands down my whole life um dc schindler's astonishing”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Dracula
Discussed“He was— you know, how is—you know, with all these woke douches out there, how has Dracula not gotten canceled?”
EconTalk
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The Method
Discussed“there's a new book out called the method which is about stanislowski and modern acting uh which very Russian”
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The Cairo Trilogy
Discussed“and one of those was the works of uh reading nagoo maf's Cairo Trilogy you know where none of us had read MAFO he's the first Nobel Prize winner to write in write in Arabic”
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A Complicated Jew
Discussed“but Hillel Hawkins collection is called a complicated shoe”
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One Long River of Song
Recommended“and by the way if you're going to read Brian Doyle one long river of song that's the book to read”
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Errata
Recommended“and for George Steiner read Errata e-r-r-a-t-a which is his number one book”
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How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Discussed“his newest book is our topic for today how to stay smart in a smart world why human intelligence still beats algorithms”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Discussed“my mom had all the meat he wanted and the dated older woman played with as many women as he wanted according to his private doctor's book the private life of chair my mouth”
SmartLess
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Trainspotting
Discussed“And, but John, I think of Ryan said John didn't think I was right for it because in the novel in Irvine Welsh's novel, you and Bremner who played Spud had played Renton on the stage version before we made it. It was a play! Trainspotting was a play; it was a novel first, and then they made a play”
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Jupiter's Travels
Recommended“Then I read this book written by Ted Simon, who wrote a beautiful book called Jupiter's Travels in the 70s. He was a journalist, I think, for The Sunday Times, and he decided he wanted to travel the world.”
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On the Road
Discussed“But that was like stuff you're saying here, like I read On the Road when I was 17 and I was like, I gotta leave where I'm at! But that wasn’t stuff I did in high school; that was stuff I did on my own.”
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The Splendid and the Vile
Discussed“When you're on the beach, reading in the sun makes me want to—what I do is write, and I'm sorry, then I just started—I’m now reading this Splendid and the Vile, which a lot of people have read.”
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The Sympathizer
Recommended“It's written by a Vietnamese American author, it's about the Vietnam War. And he's of Vietnamese descent.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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One Day at Disney
Discussed“it almost reminds me of um bob iger i read disney yeah bob iger's book about four-year-old that was playing at disney and a crocodile comes out of the disney pond and eats him”
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Grow
Discussed“you were i read in the book in chapter one of grow that you were quite self-deprecating at that point in secondary school”
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Selfie
Discussed“trying to figure out how how that happens in your in your book selfie you you talk a lot about self-esteem and the role that plays”
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Microserfs
Discussed“it was interesting that given the fact that the whole promise of the internet really I mean I think this is in a Douglas Copeland book called microserfs where one of the Geeks features in this Douglas Copeland book it was written in the '90s I think but he makes a very interesting comment which is the whole purpose of”
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Branding That Means Business
Recommended“I think it's Matt Johnson who's just written a book called um uh brands that mean business and his wonderful line is having a great brand means you get to play the game of capital m in Easy Mode”
My First Million
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Coming Out of the Ice
Recommended“but for me like the most impact was this one called coming out of the Ice by Victor Herman, which is this uh this dude that like uh went over to Russia and like ended up being an amazing Olympian athlete”
The Book Review
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Drama
Discussed“Sam tanhouse who was then the editor of the book review and host of this podcast spoke with the actor John Lithgow about his Memoir drama and actor's education”
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The Marriage Portrait
Discussed“of Farrell's new novel The Marriage portrait is set in Renaissance Italy and it's out on Tuesday”
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Shakespeare's wife
Discussed“In her book Shakespeare's wife Jermaine Grier says that we've been asking the wrong question all along that we should have been asking why did she marry him”
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Colony
Discussed“so I have also just tracked down a book that came out 20 years ago this week actually called Colony by Anne River sens who is one of the Great Southern novelists I think”
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The Prince of Tides
Discussed“and I was wondering I'm thinking I'm going to bring the prince of tithes”
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The Emperor's Tomb
Discussed“and I'm reading his last novel which is called the emperor's tomb”
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Cowboys Are My Weakness
Recommended“also it sounds like you need to reread Cowboys are my weakness by Pam Houston and that book by Elizabeth Hyde where they go canoeing in the Grand Canyon”
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The Displacements
Discussed“it's called the displacements and it's by Bruce holinger”
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The Tin Woodman of Oz
Discussed“and all I can say is that the book called the tin Woodman of Oz which I think is the 12th in the series there were 14 or 15 is basically tells the backstory of the Tin Man and it is disturbing”
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Lyman Frank Annotated
Discussed“and so I have this really big beautiful book called The annotated Wizard of Oz obviously by Frank Bal edited with an introduction and annotations by Michael Patrick Hearn and it's just full of these gorgeous illustrations and posters and photos art from the books over the years”
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Golden Age
Recommended“and in the meantime very much appreciate you coming by to talk about the Golden Age by Wong shaoa recently translated and available now”
Timcast IRL
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Death Mask
Recommended“Excited to see your amazing art in death mask the second book in the Night Vale series by Hugo nominated Excellence of elocution”
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Repressive Tolerance
Discussed“so that what we're actually living through is kind of the the logic of this essay from 1965 called repressive tolerance”
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Better Call Saul
Recommended“i think i don't know if you guys watch better call saul if you don't you should excellent show”
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Dear Father, Dear Son
Recommended“my books are the one i'm recommending the dear father dear son that's the hardback and a lot like me is the paperback”
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A Lot Like Me
Recommended“my books are the one i'm recommending the dear father dear son that's the hardback and a lot like me is the paperback”
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People of the Lie
Discussed“and the psychological elements of it in a book called um it's by m scott peck the great the people of the lie”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Unsavory Truth
Discussed“when i read this book uh unsavory truth this isn't even specifically about soda but it definitely exposes some of the”
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Jerks at Work
Discussed“i love how utilitarian the book is there are seven types of jerks we see at work which you know”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Acid for the Children
Discussed“Flea is the guy I want in the seat. You want, you just gonna get both men. His, his memoir is incredible. I have it right over there. Flea? Actually, I'm reading it right now. Yeah. It's, it's amazing. I love it.”
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Longpath
Recommended“The book is "Longpath". I really dug the book, I think everybody should check it out.”
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The Cancer Prevention Diet
Discussed“And at the time I had, by that time received a book from my son in California, that I'll see probably tomorrow, (chuckles) who had sent me a book called "The Cancer Prevention Diet" by Michio Kushi,”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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Managing Oneself
Recommended“The third book I found incredibly helpful in my 20s was 'Managing Oneself' by Peter Drucker.”
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Recommended“The fourth book that changed my mindset was one I read in the break room when I was a personal trainer at a large gym: 'Rich Dad Poor Dad.'”
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Crush It!
Recommended“The last book I read in my early 20s was 'Crushing It.'”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Split Decision
Discussed“i'm reading his book split decision right now and it's crazy”
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A tale of two countries
Recommended“and if anybody is interested in the report it's called the aclu aclu research report a tale of two countries racially targeted arrests in the era of marijuana reform it will blow your it”
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Discussed“it's called the three stigmata of palmer eldritch and it's about the competition between uh between you know two psychedelic drugs”
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Joseph Levy Escapes Death
Recommended“and this is the novel that you wrote joseph levy escapes death that is uh available as well”
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The Psychedelic Handbook
Recommended“uh the psychedelic handbook is available right now there it is”
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Murder by Injection
Discussed“um i i just like when you study like there's this book called murder by injection and it was talking about uh how the um uh rockefellers and what they did to them uh the medical the healthcare industry and what the rockefellers did yeah what they do well they basically pumped all this money into the american medical association”
Pod Save America
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We've Got to Try
Discussed“somehow in the middle of this campaign you managed to write a book about voting rights called we've got to try”
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Earth in the Balance
Discussed“you wrote earth in the balance what 30 years ago”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Baby Steps Millionaires
Recommended“and today we're talking about his new book baby steps millionaires which I highly recommend you go and grab a copy of”
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Swimming Lessons
Discussed“As an author, Lili wrote Swimming Lessons, which is a collection of poems. I'm a huge fan of poetry, so can't wait to dive into that.”
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Our chemical hearts
Recommended“Lili recently starred in and executive produced the coming-of-age drama, Chemical Hearts, based on the best-selling novel, Our Chemical Hearts.”
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Flow
Discussed“I connected to a beautiful book called Flow, and Flow talks about how to experience a state of flow, which musicians experience, which artists experience, which singers experience; it's when your challenge meets your skills.”
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Gathering in Community
Discussed“And I read Malcolm X. I read Martin Luther King. I also read David Beckham and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson because I was a big wrestling and soccer fan growing up.”
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David Beckham
Discussed“And I read Malcolm X. I read Martin Luther King. I also read David Beckham and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson because I was a big wrestling and soccer fan growing up.”
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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
Discussed“And I read Malcolm X. I read Martin Luther King. I also read David Beckham and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson because I was a big wrestling and soccer fan growing up.”
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How Are You, Really?
Recommended“She has a new book out that I can't wait for you to hear about, and she has something exciting for you to discover when you pre-order the book, so I wanted you to hang around for that as well. I'm excited, and remember I always talk about how pre-orders really help authors.”
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Mind Over Medicine
Recommended“a great book is Mind Over Medicine Dr Alyssa Rank and so many studies in there”
The Rubin Report
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Everything Reminds Me of Something
Discussed“Tell me about the book here. Because when I saw the cover here, and I saw the title, "Everything Reminds Me of Something", I thought, this is Carolla, because that's you, right?”
No Stupid Questions
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Unhappy Cities
Discussed“it caught my eye this academic paper by Ed Glaser I know the paper of which you speak being a fan of vet Glazer myself orenzieve and Joshua Gottlieb are the other authors on this paper unhappy cities”
Modern Wisdom
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A river runs through it
Discussed“I got the audio tape of of a book called the river runs through it which is a very beautiful book”
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Primate Behavior and the Emergence of Human Culture
Discussed“and I'd been reading a book by Jane Lancaster called primate Behavior and the emergence of human culture We thought well let's start to apply this to humans”
This Week in Startups
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The Wires of War
Recommended“a great book that actually talks about um the impacts of like outside countries and our social media presence and digital presence in general is the wires of War by Jacob Helberg he was actually on the podcast to talk about it highly recommend if anybody else is interested”
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Arbitrary Lines
Discussed“i bought this book just based on a thing i saw on twitter called arbitrary lines how zoning broke the american city and how to fix it by this guy named nolan gray who's a city planner who basically argues that zoning itself is a flawed policy”
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Ten Birds in a Bird Box
Discussed“The the author of Bird Box claimed that Netflix had underpaid him significantly on his residuals and he disagreed with the entire way that Netflix has calculated how much it pays out to writers in residuals.”
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The Missing Cryptoqueen
Discussed“there's a bbc reporter named jamie bartlett who's really done the the best work i think or the most thorough work on this story he wrote a book called the missing crypto queen that i have read”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Idiot
Discussed“Dostoevsky wrote in 'The Idiot,' spoken through the character of Prince Myshkin, that beauty will save the world.”
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The Master and Margarita
Recommended“The Master and Margarita, that's a deadly book.”
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Superintelligence
Recommended“But you know, if you read Nick Bostrom—I’m sure you have—Nick Bostrom, you know, Superintelligence—it’s that incredible book on the ways this thing is going to happen.”
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Wilson's Tales of the Borders, Etc
Recommended“there's a great book called tales of the cacophony society for people listening um you know one of the uh”
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Snow Crash
Discussed“The term 'Metaverse' originates from Neal Stephenson’s book 'Snow Crash,' a formative title for those of us from the '90s. Back in the Doom and Quake era, we contemplated how to create interconnected realms that users could traverse, akin to emerging web technologies.”
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Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Discussed“So, Stephen Levy's book "Hackers" was a really formative book for me as a teenager. I mean I read it several times and there was all of the great lore of the early MIT era of hackers”
StarTalk Radio
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Hot Mess
Discussed“And you've written a book on this subject? Yep, it's a comedy book titled 'Hot Mess.'”
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A Fresh View on the Outer Space Treaty
Recommended“the output of that was a lunar governance charter building upon the outer space treaty so we're not trying to recreate the wheel we're trying to build into something implementable the outer space treaty if you haven't read it it's an interesting document from 1967 somewhere around yeah this is it i can't pick it up and know what to”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Cryonics
Discussed“And at that time they had the magazine we still produce today, Cryonics Magazine. And they kind of shoved that magazine "What do you think of this?" I said "Yeah, it makes sense to me."”
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Count Down
Discussed“There's a book called Countdown. By a woman, her name is Dr. Shanna Swan, and she came on the podcast and explained that there's certain chemicals that are in plastics and in some fertilizers that are disrupting the human body's endocrine system.”
ChooseFI
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Taking Stock
Recommended“it's called taking stock a hospice doctor's advice on financial Independence Building Wealth and living a regret-free life”
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The Warren Buffett Way
Recommended“And as Warren Buffett has said, so actually, there's this book, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, which was referred to me by none other than Brian Feroldi.”
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The interpretation of financial statements
Recommended“And as Warren Buffett has said, so actually, there's this book, Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements, which was referred to me by none other than Brian Feroldi.”
Conversations with Tyler
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What We Owe the Future
Recommended“exactly last question to close this out what is it you will do next but just to remind our readers what we owe the future will's new book”
Huberman Lab
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Breath
Recommended“James Nestor's book, 'Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art,' touches on this, alongside various podcasts, including those discussed here.”
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The Secret
Critiqued“So that was a pretty monumental finding for motivation scientists, to understand that creating these dream boards, these vision boards, or to-do lists, might actually backfire, because it in and of itself is the creation of a goal and the satisfaction of the goal, and then people understandably give themselves some time to just enjoy that positive experience. So much”
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Clearer, Closer, Better
Recommended“In 2020, I learned of Dr. Balcetis's book, which was written for the general public and is entitled 'Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World.'”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“Here's another question that was absolutely easy for me, but that I'm guessing might have been hard for you: which French economist, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, claims that increasing wealth inequality is a feature of capitalism and suggests steeply progressive capital taxes and a cap on the possible total wealth of a person in order to get”
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De ansatte
Discussed“Oh okay, there was a group of people, mostly people who finished in the top 10 to 20, who did a little crowdsourced spreadsheet to see who got which of all the questions on the test, and for that sample I think a majority of the questions had 10 or 11 of us getting it correct, but the two that”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Angels in America
Recommended“I I love the Play Angels in America um I think it's just I think it's a epic and amazing um and you know that's not quite a book but um you know you can read it”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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The Trouble with Peace
Discussed“we're writing a fantasy book called the trouble with peace joe amercrombie it's very like game of thrones”
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Discussed“my i just finished um the seven husbands of evelyn hugo which is kind of a complete and total beach read”
