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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2022
During October 2022, podcasts explored various memoirs, psychological works, and historical studies across multiple shows. On the Monday Morning Podcast, Bill Burr discussed Eldridge Cleaver's 'Soul on Ice' after noticing a retail store in Los Angeles bearing the same name. Huberman Lab featured two distinct literary discussions; Andrew Huberman mentioned Jon Kabat-Zinn's 'Wherever You Go, There You Are' while detailing his introduction to meditation in high school, and later referenced Dennis Overbye's 'Einstein in Love' to illustrate historical anecdotes about Albert Einstein experiencing absence seizures. SmartLess hosts made literary references, with Will Arnett invoking Clement Clarke Moore's 'A Visit from St. Nicholas' while discussing sleeping habits and later examining Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' in relation to Canadian culture and guest Elisabeth Moss. Finally, On Purpose with Jay Shetty drew substantial attention to Dr. Gabor Maté by highlighting several of his acclaimed titles, specifically 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts', 'When the Body Says No', and 'Scattered Minds', tying them directly into a broader conversation about trauma, healing, and attention deficit disorder.
Monday Morning Podcast
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SOUL ON ICE
Discussed“Anyway, I read this book Soul on Ice, and it just came because I saw a store out here in Los Angeles called Soul on Ice, and it had all these cool sport jerseys.”
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Ric Flair
Discussed“Led Zeppelin, Ric Flair, John, to be the man, you gotta be the man.”
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The Comedians
Discussed“Uh, The Comedians, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.”
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The Score Takes Care of Itself
Discussed“Um, hmm, Bill Walsh, Finding The Winning Edge.”
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A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian
Discussed“It's true, I—there's a—there's a documentary and a book about this woman, Vivian Meyer, who was a nanny in the 40s and 50s, but she's also a street photographer.”
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Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896
Discussed“Uh, it was about, uh, this thing they did in the late 1800s, it's not good for tourism; uh it's called Well Wilmington's Lie: The Insurrection of 1892.”
Huberman Lab
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Wherever You Go, There You Are
Discussed“I was first introduced to meditation through a book during high school, as I was a bit of a rebel in my early years and, as part of a program, received a book on the subject. The book is titled 'Wherever You Go, There You Are' by Jon Kabat-Zinn. He was one of the first individuals to popularize meditation and”
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Einstein in Love
Discussed“Years ago, I encountered a book called 'Einstein in Love,' which mentions that friends claimed Einstein would zone out for two to five minutes at a time; this led to speculation he had absence seizures.”
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Relax Into Stretch
Discussed“Now, relaxing into the stretch is something that has been talked about in martial arts circles, and Pavel Tsatsouline has an excellent book on stretching. We can provide a link to that, which talks about this and has a lot to do with relaxation of the nervous system and the way that the nerves innervate muscles and allow for stretch,”
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Breaking Open the Head
Discussed“If you're interested, there's a book called 'Breaking Open the Head' by Daniel Pinchbeck that discusses this whole process. Essentially, the Gabonese have been using this for a long time, and it's kind of an atypical psychedelic.”
SmartLess
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A Visit from St. Nicholas
Discussed“Well, you know, like 'Twas the Night Before Christmas', like an old-time sleeping cap.”
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The Handmaid's Tale
Discussed“As a Canadian, I feel a sense of ownership of that book because Margaret Atwood is a great Canadian author. We all read it in school, so I'm quite familiar with it.”
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The Neverending Story
Discussed“It's cozy, it's fun to go out and celebrate, but at home, you know we have Ricky our dog and I like to dress him up as Falcor from the NeverEnding Story, anybody?”
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Iron John
Discussed“Yeah, but at that moment, you know, at that moment, I did that thing that, uh, I think it’s Robert Bly talks about, you know, in Iron John, where you steal the key underneath the queen's bed.”
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Gomorrah
Discussed“I did, I didn't love it either But you know what, I don't want to criticize anything about Gomorrah because I just, I didn't even like the movie, Gomorrah as much, the TV show, I just, I, it's mine Did you, did you and I want to, I'm not here to one-up you Anderson I think you're great, oh boy”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Discussed“Maté has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction', 'When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress', and 'Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder'.”
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When the Body Says No
Discussed“Maté has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction', 'When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress', and 'Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder'.”
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Scattered
Discussed“Maté has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction', 'When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress', and 'Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder'.”
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Hold on to your kids
Discussed“In a book I helped write, 'Hold On to Your Kids', we discuss how parents need to matter more than peers.”
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The Rock says
Discussed“I used to be a huge Rock fan too. I remember reading his autobiography. Yeah, it still is.”
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The Silva mind control method
Discussed“I was a young kid in Malaysia, and I decided to try a form of meditation that I learned from a book called The Silva Method, a really old 1960s-1970s book.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Discussed“I devoured as much information as I could. 1003 00:34:00 00:34:03 I was like, so you were studying chess books? 1002 00:33:59 00:34:00 You were— I was.”
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Warren Buffett and the interpretation of financial statements
Discussed“You're basically running this business, and for me, I've learned a lot about that because one of the books I read some years back, I think it was by Mary Buffett. 3917 02:13:35 02:13:36 It was on Warren Buffett and how when he buys these companies, it's hands-off management; it stays the same, you don't do anything.”
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New Breed
Discussed“She's a research scientist at MIT Media Lab interested in human-robot interaction and robot ethics, which she writes about in her recent book called 'The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals About Our Future with Robots.'”
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Conscious
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Annaka Harris, author of "Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind," who writes and thinks a lot about the nature of consciousness and reality, especially from the perspectives of physics and neuroscience.”
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Spooky Action at a Distance
Discussed“I posted an excerpt of George Musser’s great book 'Spooky Action at a Distance' where he talks about ways to absorb what this ADS CFT duality would mean. He gives an example of music as an analogy where two different notes can exist in three dimensions as if the other doesn’t exist because of the frequency of the sound waves.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Sinner's Creed
Discussed“It's called 'Sinner's Creed.' Now, it’s a little censored because it was with a Christian publisher.”
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The Shining
Discussed“And also a little bit of like The Shining vibe! You know that hotel from The Shining?”
The Daily Stoic
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Courage
Discussed“And then I still had a book that I was writing, this is when I was writing Courage, and I felt like I was so much more locked in on that book.”
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Journal of a Novel
Discussed“There you recommended this John Steinbeck book to me, Journal of a Novel.”
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One Line a Day
Discussed“And well, it's so, it's called the one line a day journal, and each page has five slots on it.”
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Lives of the Stoics
Discussed“Two days later, one year later, I started Lives; like I realized I was sort of almost unconsciously on a schedule of starting a book on this day five years in a row. Wow.”
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The Artist's Journey
Discussed“As always, I love all your work—'The War of Art,' 'The Artist's Journey,' 'Gates of Fire'—I've loved all your stuff.”
