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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2022
During October 2022, several podcast hosts and their guests highlighted various influential nonfiction and political titles across different shows. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Newt Gingrich recommended Claire Berlinski's There Is No Alternative and Thomas W. Evans's The Education of Ronald Reagan as foundational works on political history, while also bringing up Charles Murray's Coming Apart to discuss elite demographic sorting by zip code. On the same show, other discussions touched on broader cultural and economic concerns. Elsewhere, Dr. Robynne Chutkan appeared on The Rich Roll Podcast to recommend Melody Petersen's Our Daily Meds to illustrate marketing practices surrounding pharmaceuticals. On ChooseFI, Brad Barrett introduced Nick Maggiulli as the author of Just Keep Buying, while Dave Rubin used an episode of The Rubin Report to highlight Andrew Klavan's A Strange Habit of Mind. Bridget Phetasy spoke on The Joe Rogan Experience about Carol Roth's The War on Small Business to emphasize the adverse effects of pandemic policies on local establishments. Finally, Dr. Phil discussed The Little Red Hen on the same platform to emphasize themes of contribution and meritocracy, showcasing a month where podcasts frequently turned to books for historical context and commentary on contemporary society.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Apocalypse Never
Discussed“he wrote the book apocalypse never on the environment”
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Only the Strong
Discussed“you have a fascinating story in Only the Strong it's in chapter four and you write about a story about Donald Trump that I had never heard before”
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A Letter to Liberals : Censorship and COVID
Discussed“and he's also written a new book recently called letter to liberals we'll discuss both”
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Washington
Discussed“I read jernov's biography of Washington years ago which I love but it's you know he writes like poetry and he brings this guy to life”
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Heavens on Earth
Discussed“and I wondered if it was on point Heavens on Earth 2018. right so that was my book about um the afterlife”
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Conspiracy
Discussed“the book is called conspiracy why the rational believe the irrational and it's out this week its author is Michael Shermer”
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Justice Corrupted
Discussed“his brand new book Justice corrupted how the left weaponized our legal system is out tomorrow”
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Delete That
Recommended“John is back now and on fire with a very funny and candid book called delete that and other failed attempts to look good online”
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Finding freedom
Critiqued“remember how she swore she had absolutely no contact with the writers of that fawning book Finding Freedom about mexit compare those statements with her statements to the British courts where she was forced to admit to the judge that whoops she forgot she 100 was in contact with the authors of finding Freedom a fact obvious to anyone who”
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The Sprout Book
Recommended“here's a really easy so my great friend Doug Evans wrote a great book called this I think it gets the Sprout book I think that's literally the title”
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Discussed“I'm thinking now like Elijah Anderson's uh 1992 book I want to say um code of the street where he embedded himself in North Philadelphia and and sort of identified the prevailing social mores”
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Organic Chemistry
Discussed“and as she said he wrote the book The book's called organic chemistry it's in its fifth edition so it's not as if he wrote it and then the entire industry said this is full of nonsense he wrote it and then he wrote another one another one another another one kept updating it”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Losing Ground
Discussed“and had been uh dramatically accelerated by a book that Charles Murray wrote called losing ground which proved pretty conclusively that government inspired dependency is very destructive and particularly destructive for people who are poor”
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There Is No Alternative
Recommended“in the two books I always recommend to people are Claire berlinski's there is no alternative why Margaret Thatcher matters and Tom Evans book the education of Ronald Reagan his years of General Electric”
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The Education of Ronald Reagan
Recommended“in the two books I always recommend to people are Claire berlinski's there is no alternative why Margaret Thatcher matters and Tom Evans book the education of Ronald Reagan his years of General Electric”
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coming apart the state of white america 1960-2010
Recommended“and there is a terrific book by Charlie Murray called coming apart in which he goes through and analyzes by ZIP code and says that people from Elite universities marry people from Elite universities and live in ZIP codes with people from Elite universities”
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Exodus
Discussed“I mean you see that for example in the book of Exodus with the insistence that there's something intrinsically wrong with the slavery of people who should be free even if they don't want to be free because the Israelites aren't necessarily that happy about being freed”
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Ayahuasca Visions
Discussed“it's the book that uh you're familiar with the artist Pablo amaringo the the Visionary Peruvian artist he and Luis Eduardo Luna wrote a uh a book he painted his Visions right he remembered all his Visions in perfect detail painted these visions and Eduardo and he collaborated on a book called Ayahuasca Visions the religious iconography of a Peruvian”
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Jordan B. Peterson's Best Selling 2-Book Set (12 Rules for Life: an Antidote to Chaos & Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life)
Recommended“because like for example when I was reading your book your newest book actually this time yeah it's 12 more rules they're very good books by the way I mean I recommend them honestly and buy them”
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My Struggle
Discussed“and if you if you read my income for instance what happens is that Adolf is very very clear about his views”
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Fabianism and the empire
Discussed“one of them is fabianism um and the Empire and in there the the the the pamphlet States very quick uh very uh clearly we start with national socialism we will then go to International socialism”
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The descent of man
Discussed“the one of the the last um sentence of uh descent his last book is essentially I would rather be a um a descendant from a monkey than a Savage”
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Cypherpunks, Freedom, and the Future of the Internet
Discussed“she did a an interview with Julian about a book he had written called Cypher punks freedom and the future of the internet and it's a very interesting book because it was written a year before Snowden published his Publications and it anticipates a lot of what snowden's Publications then revealed”
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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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.”
EconTalk
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The Problem of Social Cost
Discussed“Ronald Coast just mischaracterizes pagu's thought in the 1960 paper uh the problem of social cost”
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Wealth and Welfare, by A. C. Pigou,...
Discussed“in fact if you look at bagu's writings and so wealth and welfare this is 1912. it is not sufficient to contrast the imperfect adjustments of unfettered private Enterprise with the best adjustments that economists in their studies can imagine”
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The Economics of Welfare
Discussed“in fact if you look at bagu's writings and so wealth and welfare this is 1912. it is not sufficient to contrast the imperfect adjustments of unfettered private Enterprise with the best adjustments that economists in their studies can imagine”
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The Forgotten Man
Discussed“those are the sort of things that Amity schles talked about in The Forgotten man as being one of the reasons why the uh Great Depression the the lasted for so long because we were never sure what the industrial policy was going to be”
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Victory Over Myself
Discussed“it's called victory over myself which if when you're writing a book about self-discipline and you see that title you're like oh wow”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Our Daily Meds
Recommended“I remember reading this terrific book a long time ago, before I ever wrote a book, called "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Petersen.”
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Personality and hypnosis
Discussed“but um there's also evidence um Josephine Hilgard published a book called personality hypnosis where she looked at the early life histories of former Stanford students of Stanford students and found that higher hypnotizability was associated with one positive and one negative thing imaginative involvements”
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Trance And Treatment
Recommended“there are things to read as well about hypnosis there's our book trance and treatment but there are others too”
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Redemption
Recommended“everybody should pick up his book Redemption you can get it on amazon.com in the US too”
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
Recommended“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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Beyond Stretching
Recommended“Also, the way that the tendons and ligaments are innervated by nerves. The converse is also true. And here, again, this is a principle that Pavel has put forth, I believe he calls it irradiation, meaning irradiating out or emanating out from a source, which is that while exhaling and relaxing the torso, the midsection, some people call it the”
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Breaking Open the Head
Recommended“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.”
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Cognition
Discussed“And this study, the one I just referred to, which I should say was published in the journal, Consciousness and Cognition, and again, we'll provide a link to it, did a wonderful job of teasing out this impact of cannabis on personality, which then impacts creativity.”
SmartLess
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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 Mysterious Benedict Society
Discussed“it's a based on the series by a guy named Trent Stewart who wrote the books and it's just a beautiful beautiful story I get to play twins”
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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”
ChooseFI
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Just Keep Buying
Recommended“and actually he is the author of the new book just keep buying proven ways to save money and build your wealth”
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Goodbye, things
Recommended“some other great ones are goodbye things the story story of stuff millionaire teacher and digital minimalism”
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The story of stuff
Recommended“some other great ones are goodbye things the story story of stuff millionaire teacher and digital minimalism”
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Millionaire teacher
Recommended“some other great ones are goodbye things the story story of stuff millionaire teacher and digital minimalism”
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Discussed“I just finished a great book called uh the extraordinary life of Sam hell like it's just a fiction book and it was really enjoyable”
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Ready Player One
Recommended“So those are the ones that stood out for pure entertainment value; I've read the book 'Ready Player One' many, many times, and it's narrated very well.”
The Rubin Report
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When Christmas Comes
Discussed“So what I wanted to do, the character of Cameron Winter, who first made his appearance in "When Christmas Comes," which we did talk about, that was the original, his original story.”
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A Strange Habit of Mind
Recommended“And a "Strange Habit of Mind" is on sale right now. We will link to it down below, and I hope to see you soon, my friend.”
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Breaking Christian Curses
Discussed“- I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is the founder of PragerU, as well as the author of the brand new book, "The Rational Bible: Deuteronomy, God, Blessings and Curses"”
No Stupid Questions
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Think Like a Freak
Discussed“You know, it reminds me a little bit of the argument that we made in the first Freakonomics book about names. So there's a lot of literature, including some done by Steve Levitt and Roland Fryer, about how influential a person's first name is on their life.”
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An A to Z of food and drink
Discussed“this is obviously incorrect according to Oxford University presses and A to Z of food and drink”
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An A-Z of food and drink
Discussed“this is obviously incorrect according to Oxford University presses and A to Z of food and drink”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The War on Small Business
Recommended“my friend Carol Roth is brilliant on this and wrote a book the war on small business all about this”
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The Little Red Hen
Recommended“well go read The Little Red Hen I mean did I not go over that in grade school I don't remember that one you don't remember that one that's a good book I'll get you I'll send you a copy”
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Discussed“Richard hofstetter's you know the paranoid style and American politics kind of put that on the map”
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Case Closed
Discussed“and then i read gerald posner's book the case closed about the life of lee harvey oswald and why all the evidence points to him”
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Reclaiming History
Discussed“and then uh vincent billiosi's book uh reclaiming history which is like 1500 pages long and it dissects every one of the hundreds of conspiracy theories”
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UFOs : Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
Discussed“so i take leslie keane's a book on ufo's and you know pilots in generals go on the record and so on”
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Area 51
Discussed“did you watch that uh Jeremy Corbell documentary Bob Lazar Area 51 and flying saucers”
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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age
Discussed“did you watch that uh Jeremy Corbell documentary Bob Lazar Area 51 and flying saucers”
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The Day After Roswell
Discussed“I read Corso's book um you know so I've got that perspective”
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Diet for a New America
Discussed“and then a friend of mine gave me a book called diet for a new America and he said if you read this book you're not going to want to eat chicken anymore”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The cell
Discussed“I like textbooks I like the cell I think the cell was pretty cool”
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Timescape
Discussed“benford's law of controversy is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape stating passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available”
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Reputation and Power
Discussed“so if you read reputation and power okay I'm going to just quote this because it's amazing amazing book right it's written by a guy you know Daniel Carpenter smart guy but he's an FDA sympathizer he fundamentally thinks it's like a good thing or what have you nevertheless I respect Carpenter's intellectual honesty because he quotes the CEOs in”
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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“you are the author of 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
Recommended“George Musser wrote a great book spooky action at a distance um and he talks about he's he's a great science writer and he talks about ways to kind of absorb what this would mean”
Behind the Bastards
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The Great Cat Massacre
Discussed“No, The Great Cat Mask is a book by Robert Dant. It's like a uh it it's a very like if you're doing a history graduate degree and you're reading like these sort of histories of everyday life or like uh histories of popular laughter, you will read the great cat massacre”
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Sabotage
Discussed“Here's Piggo from his pamphlet sabotage. That's um like his explanation of like what's going on here. The first part of it is him quoting a a British pamphlet.”
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Threatened Children
Discussed“The world's leading researcher on Halloween candy tampering, Joel Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, has found little evidence to substantiate Halloween candy fears. Joel Best has published multiple studies analyzing the legitimacy of Halloween Candy Tampering, including his research paper, The Razor Blade in the Apple, the Social Construction of Urban Legends,”
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Good Medicine
Discussed“In the preface to Good Medicine, a 2003 account of intrigue behind the creation of the four-year medical school he created a medical school at the University of North Dakota.”
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The Green Book
Discussed“In 1975, Gaddafi writes and publishes the Greek book, which was a short book setting out the political philosophy of, you guessed it, Libyan leader Muhammad Gaddafi. It is said to have been inspired in part by the Little Red Book”
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The Culture of Critique
Discussed“That is a much deeper Nazi reference than you might guess. There's a book called The Culture of Critique. There was a a deep understanding among the OG Nazis back in the 20s and 30s that literary criticism that like the idea of sort of cultural criticism that these were all Jewish plots”
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The Book of Acts
Discussed“And then I'm I'm getting I'm getting deep cuts here. It's like you and then you get into the book of Acts where supposed to be the Bible like where the gospel spreads. And the first time it leave the first time they leave Israel is Stephen meeting an Ethiopian.”
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If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe
Recommended“Jason, before we move on, I want to let the listeners know you are the author of a whole bunch of books. Uh, but you have one that is just now coming out. If this book exists, you're in the wrong universe.”
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John Dies at the End
Discussed“There there's a somewhat famous book and movie called John Dies at the End. the movie you can find on streaming, but uh it is a New York Times bestselling book series”
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Planet of Slums
Discussed“I don't know if any of you have read Planet of the Slums by Mike Davis. I don't think I have, but he discusses this phenomenon”
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1312 : among the Ultras
Recommended“there's a really good book called 1312 which people should read if they're interested in like the political potential of football ultras”
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Brain-washing in Red China
Discussed“Um, and longer article for a newspaper called The New Leader, which is also funded by the CIA. The CIA is funding a shitload of newspapers at this time, including a lot of left-wing ones. Um, and then he winds up writing a book because the panic he ignites is so such a big deal called Brainwashing in Red China.”
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Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba
Critiqued“And eventually I find out that it's it dates back to this book called Rainbow Solidarity in Defense of Cuba by Leslie Fineberg was written um mid to late uh 2000s. Um really it's not a book.”
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Britannia Unchained
Discussed“And they wrote this book called Britannia Unchained which I don't know if people are probably not familiar with. Right. I've heard of it, but I know very little about it.”
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Discussed“Patricia Turner, author of I Heard It Through the Grapevine, the definitive study on how information travels through black America, suggests that this marked the quote first time the internet has electrified African-Ameans in this way.”
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Landslide
Recommended“there's a really wonderful book uh called Landslide by my probably favorite journalist who writes books Jane Mayor um about the Reagan administration in this period”
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Medical Apartheid
Discussed“As a medical writer, Harriet Washington wrote of this period in her book Medical Aparttheid. Dr. Chasnoff's provisional research was swallowed whole, then regurgitated in a racialized form by newspaper, magazine, and even medical accounts.”
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Killing the Black Body
Discussed“The legal scholar Dorothy Roberts argues in her reproductive history, killing the black body, that by for focusing on maternal use of a drug associated with black people, the press promoted the notion that the monstrous crack smoking mother was typical of black women.”
This Week in Startups
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A Dance with Dragons
Discussed“and in the books which I know no one remembers and will never have to remember because they will never get finished but by the end of the fifth book she has lost control of the dragons”
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Red Mars
Discussed“there's actually there's a really cool there's these books called the red Mars of course obviously the Mars Trilogy by um Kim Stanley Robinson they were written and they're so detailed that they almost feel like a history of colonizing Mars the way they're written”
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Green Mars
Discussed“it's like red Mars green Mars blue Mars is the three books the foundation series”
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Blue Mars
Discussed“it's like red Mars green Mars blue Mars is the three books the foundation series”
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Sir Richard Branson
Discussed“I started reading Richard Branson books and I loved virgin's approach of like find a stale category like air travel where there's not one sexy cool thing about it make this cool fun brand”
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The Peaceful Pill Handbook
Discussed“the recommendation was that the purchaser of SN also by Tagamet which is uh to avoid vomiting up the poison so chemical to keep down the chemical a personal use scale to measure the proper quantity and the Amazon edition of the Peaceful Pill handbook a suicide manual with an entire chapter on how to die by SN”
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The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
Recommended“if you want a really really really great explainer about section 230 the book is called the 26 words that created the internet by a guy named Jessica Jeff kossop who isn't fantastic speaker on this topic”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Sandy Hook
Discussed“but I'm reading this book called Sandy Hook by Elizabeth Elizabeth Williamson and like some of the dudes that Alex was like platforming on his [ __ ]”
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The Joshua tree
Discussed“I remember there was like a two or three year period in my life where I could not get the Joshua tree out of my cassette deck in my Datsun B210 mustard yellow with honeycomb rims”
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Beatles - Abbey Road
Discussed“I found a cassette tape I was working in Arizona I found a cassette tape it was the Beatles Abbey Road right and I'd never heard the Beatles”
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Pyromania
Discussed“when I uh would sneak down to my friend's house and listen to Def Leppard Pyromania which was another huge inspiration on me”
My First Million
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The Story of Little Black Sambo
Recommended“probably the the my investment philosophies informed mostly by John bogle's little black book on investing where he's like look you know keep your fees low keep your costs low and just go with the market”
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Conspiracy
Discussed“one of my favorite books is conspiracy which is uh Nick Deton I believe is that his name Nick Denton yeah yeah Nick Denton the founder of Gawker and Peter Thiel”
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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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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Scattered
Recommended“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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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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Autobiography
Discussed“I used to be a huge Rock fan, too. I I reading his autobiography. Yeah, still is. I mean like when I was 15, 16, I remember reading his autobiography and just being blown away.”
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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.”
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The Silva 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.”
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The Six Phase Meditation Method
Recommended“Everyone, Vishen Lakhiani, the six-phase meditation method. Make sure you go and order your copy right now.”
Timcast IRL
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The Hanging Stranger
Recommended“it's from a book The Hanging stranger it's good stuff man”
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What Is a Woman
Discussed“many people talk about defending women's rights but they can't even Define what a woman is now I mean it's insane yeah Matt Walsh is doing I think he's doing a screening tour I know he's got a big rally in Tennessee um but you've seen Matt Walsh's documentary what is a woman yep I mean that's that's it right”
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Fallout
Discussed“you have you ever heard of the video game series Fallout I don't it doesn't seem like it'd be up your alley I haven't in the first Fallout I think might be one it might be two you might know this yeah the Super Mutant queen or king or whatever first one the first one says we'll allow you to”
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A Clash of Kings
Discussed“when you tear out a Man's Tongue you are not proving him a liar you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say George R.R Martin”
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The Intelligence Trap
Recommended“and there's a great book called the intelligence trap about exactly this that the cleverer the person is the better able they are to convince themselves of Mads conspiracies because they're smart”
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From the Company of Shadows
Discussed“He wrote a book called From the Company of Shadows talking about CIA operations abuse of secrecy”
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Enemies
Discussed“Tim Weiner wrote a book called Enemies which was about the FBI”
The Book Review
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The Gene
Discussed“in May 2016 sidartha spoke with this podcast about his book The Gene and intimate history”
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Liberation Day
Discussed“he has a new collection titled Liberation day of that book our reviewer Colin Barrett writes that it's a spiky at times difficult collection”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Don't be a Feminist
Discussed“Uh, so let's talk about your book, Don't Be a Feminist.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Six Faces of Globalization
Discussed“she is also the co-author with Nicholas lamp of a book called six faces of globalization who wins who loses and why it matters”
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Personal Finance For Dummies®
Discussed“what was the book you settled on popular Finance for dummies it's actually a surprisingly good book despite the title the title is actually personal finance for dummies by Eric Tyson but let's not read too much into the fact that the one popular Finance book that an economist deigned to teach he gets the title wrong anyway”
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Women & Money
Discussed“it's called Popular personal financial advice versus the professors in it he examines the advice given in books like Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko and women and money by Susie Orman these are books that sell millions and millions of copies”
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The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
Discussed“it's called Popular personal financial advice versus the professors in it he examines the advice given in books like Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas Stanley and William Danko and women and money by Susie Orman these are books that sell millions and millions of copies”
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Economics
Discussed“I see that in 2014, you co-authored an economics principles textbook.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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A Banker's Journey
Discussed“I'm reading a book now called A Banker's Journey about Edmond Safra's journey, a banker from Brazil. It just came out.”
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The House of Rothschild
Discussed“I like all the Niall Ferguson books. I read The House of Rothschild, the J.P. Morgan books.”
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Leadership
Recommended“So I would say the timeless books are, one we'll call Leadership and Self-Deception. It's really a book about self-awareness that we really handed out to the firm, and it's a book about really just owning your own decisions.”
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Self-deception
Recommended“So I would say the timeless books are, one we'll call Leadership and Self-Deception. It's really a book about self-awareness that we really handed out to the firm, and it's a book about really just owning your own decisions.”
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The Last Tycoons
Recommended“I actually read Bill Cohan's book on the Lazard, Last Tycoons. Really good book.”
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Guerilla financing
Recommended“There's a book. It's out of date, it is out of print, probably, called Guerilla Financing, that may also give you some ideas for how to bootstrap in different capacities.”
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On Grief and Grieving
Recommended“And secondly, I would recommend a book that has been recommended to me several times, including my friends who have lost parents unexpectedly, and that is, On Grief and Grieving.”
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Small Giants
Recommended“There is a book that I haven't read in a very long time, but I really enjoyed it when I did called Small Giants. The subtitle is, Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big. And it is a book by Bo Burlingham, B-U-R-L-I-N-G-H-A-M.”
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Selling to the Affluent
Recommended“So the first, which I've not read in a very, very long time, but may be helpful, is a book called Selling to the Affluent. That's by Thomas Stanley.”
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Deluxe
Recommended“but it is called Deluxe, subtitle, How Luxury Lost Its Luster.”
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Become the arrow
Recommended“I believe Byron has a book called Become the Arrow. Let me see, Yeah, Become the Arrow, second edition by Byron Ferguson.”
Conversations with Tyler
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An American Martyr in Persia
Discussed“it is called an American martyr in Persia the Epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville”
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No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam
Discussed“Raza has many other books I very much like no God but God on Islam”
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Zealot - the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth
Discussed“Zealot on the life of Jesus”
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The Arc of a Covenant
Discussed“Now, some questions relevant to your book, which again is called The Arc of a Covenant, The United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people.”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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The Resistance Training Revolution
Discussed“So, I want to talk about your new book. I been out for a year, The Resistance Training Revolution.”
Pod Save America
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The Great Successor
Discussed“I'm currently reading a book called The Great successor the rise and Rule of Kim Jong-un it's by a reporter named Anna Fifield who covered the administration for us it's like I I'm shocked at how good it is and how much she figured out about Kim Jong-un that I'd never seen reported before”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Mr Nice
Discussed“The worst contact ever met my life was the famous Howard marks that wrote the book Mr Nice”
Modern Wisdom
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The Power of Moments
Discussed“every car has a sports mode but only Tesla has ludicrous mode you I mean it's just uh there's a in the book I write it's actually from Chip and Dan Heath's um they've found it for for the power of moments”
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The War Against Boys
Discussed“and you get books like the war against boys the war on men Etc which is that there is intentional discrimination against boys”
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Think Again
Recommended“so I bought three books um I've got Adam Grant think again you read that”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Maybe I Don't Belong Here
Discussed“and she didn't back down she was very very sharp and fearless sounds like my mother Fearless your father um you write a lot about how hard working he was um the the lack of affection you've described there the lack of openness um as you look back now was there”
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Getting the love you want
Recommended“so there's a book called getting the love you want it was like huge I think in the 90s and then maybe the early 2000s”
The Daily Stoic
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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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It's Better to Be Feared
Discussed“yeah although uh I read this book about Tom Brady uh called uh better to be love better to be feared”
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The Artist's Journey
Discussed“as always this is my copy of war of art her new Pro the artist Journey Gates of Fire”
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Journal of a Novel
Recommended“There you recommended this John Steinbeck book to me, Journal of a Novel.”
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Discipline Is Destiny
Recommended“Ah, yeah, yeah, that was in your book about discipline.”
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Lives of the Stoics
Recommended“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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Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be
Recommended“likewise the new book put your ass where your heart wants to be is incredible”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Red Roulette
Discussed“in some instances as described in the book red roulette two airplanes uh private airplanes for wine tasting in France”
