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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2022
In December 2022, podcasts explored subjects ranging from cryptozoology and economics to history and human behavior. On Stuff You Should Know, the host detailed how Constance Whyte collected eyewitness reports and sketches in her 1957 book 'More Than a Legend', which helped transform the Loch Ness Monster into a subject of scientific study. Economic history and sociology were central on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, where the host examined Mark Kurlansky's book 'Salt' and Philip Goodchild's 'A Theology of Money' to discuss monetary history and the concept of money functioning as a religion. Freakonomics Radio featured several authors discussing their works; Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull's classic 'The Peter Principle' was noted for its massive commercial success, while guest John List discussed his book 'The Voltage Effect' in relation to failures in scaling ideas. Additionally, Stephen Dubner praised Amanda Levitt's book 'Can I Ask You a Question?' on the same network, and Norman Lebrecht's 'Genius & Anxiety' was cited to explain high levels of Jewish achievement.
Stuff You Should Know
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More Than a Legend
Discussed“she started collecting all these different reports and and published the reports along with sketches from the people who'd had who's made these reports into a book called more than a legend in 1957 and it took the Loch Ness frivolity and turned it back into a potentially scientifically studiable thing”
ChooseFI
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The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published
Discussed“Wow, Brian! I just think your book is fantastic!”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Salt Proof
Discussed“or salt was also used uh Mark kolanski has a great book called salt where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name but it is but it fits It looks at the history of salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in Seoul which is where we get the phrase cough it up to pay”
Speaker CLASSIC: Is Money a Religion? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2022-12-30 Listen at 12:34 -
Theology of Money
Discussed“so we'll return to Philip goodchild here for another quotation where European philosophers have often sought some decisive term that gives shape to the ways we think and act such as being truth difference the sublime the void time or even God it seems to me that money actually plays the decisive role in our society for money is at”
Speaker CLASSIC: Is Money a Religion? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2022-12-30 Listen at 33:06 -
Red Dragon
Discussed“Sort of uh similar to The Red Dragon cases uh mentioned in the Hannibal Lecter series”
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The Foxfire Book
Discussed“It is a secret that can only be passed from man to woman or woman to man the two Cannot Be Blood related check out info into the Foxfire books”
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The Urantia Book Workbooks
Discussed“he was also inspired by a book a very long book it's 2 000 Pages it's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially there's a lot of speculation about who wrote it but it's like one of those um in the world of Prophecy it's something that would be called a direct speech book”
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Handbook on the Book of Acts
Discussed“it goes into some detail on the scriptural basis of their beliefs because the Yellow Deli was established by the leaders of a religious sect called The Twelve Tribes they're very focused on the book of Acts”
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The Snow Killer
Discussed“so on top of his legal career Dad wrote books crime novels when he found out he was dying he started writing the snow killer”
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American Gods
Discussed“so also that's an awesome book before we move on Yeah Yeah But book is great the show is turning out much better than I expected”
Speaker CLASSIC: What is red mercury? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2022-12-22 Listen at 24:12 -
Waiting for Godot
Discussed“Well it's like who's the most important character in Waiting for Godot Oh the guy who doesn't show up”
Speaker CLASSIC: What is red mercury? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2022-12-22 Listen at 53:14 -
Tartuffe
Discussed“I don't know there's a French play called tartuffe and for the which I remember reading years ago and for the first easily two-thirds of it people are talking about this tartooth dude and he doesn't show up until the end”
Speaker CLASSIC: What is red mercury? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW 2022-12-22 Listen at 53:42 -
Unacknowledged
Discussed“um and unacknowledged is also a book that has more information and if it's available at Amazon and everywhere else those the the book and the movie unacknowledged are really about my journey discovering what the unacknowledged special access projects which is the proper name for these a very classified projects are”
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Hogarth: Art and politics, 1750-1764
Discussed“because even Yale professors were circulating this uh particularly Ronald Paulson in 1993 he published a book all about Hogarth and he kind of captions this Infamous painting by saying that it is about the Oxfordshire people rioting to preserve the 11 days the government stole from them by changing the calendar”
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The Black Monday Murders
Discussed“You know Ben this reminds me of the Black Monday murders what's the name of the the position within the Inner Circle that is this sacrifice it's like the chair no what what is it the stone chair the stone chair that dude step bladder was on the stone chair he was on the stone chair just I was thinking”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Peter Principle
Discussed“The book he wrote with Raymond Hall was called the Peter Principle. It wound up selling millions of copies.”
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The Voltage Effect
Discussed“What my book is trying to claim about is that all of our failures to scale—and the world is replete with failure after failure after failure—I want that to be viewed as a failure of common sense.”
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Can I Ask You a Question?
Discussed“She has worked harder, writing her own book and being an entrepreneur and marketing that book and done it with a joy and a kindness to others, that like how could I be anything but incredibly proud of what she's doing?”
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Genius & Anxiety
Discussed“in a book called genius and anxiety how Jews changed the world 1847 to 1947 the author Norman lebrecht puts forth another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement”
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Great Ideas for VBS
Discussed“the experimental economist John list who's been on the show before has just published a book called the voltage effect how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale next week we'll hear from it and him in a special edition of the Freakonomics radio book club”
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The Superstition
Discussed“That's Stewart buys he is a retired psychology professor and author of a book called believing in Magic The psychology of superstition”
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Summary of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Discussed“back in 2008 thaler published a book called nudge improving decisions about health wealth and happiness it was co-authored with the legal scholar Cass sunstein”
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Sludge
Discussed“Cass sunstein thaler's co-author on nudge has in fact just published a book called sludge what stops us from getting things done and what to do about it”
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The New World of Economics
Discussed“there's a quote from Obama it's a three-word quote in the new edition better is good he said”
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Economics
Discussed“I see that in 2014, you co-authored an economics principles textbook.”
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Nasty, Brutish, and Short
Discussed“Instead, he's trying to make philosophy accessible to all. Here's an example: an excerpt from 'Nasty, Brutish, and Short.'”
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Six Faces of Globalization
Discussed“Thanks to Anthea Roberts for today’s conversation; her book is titled 'Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters.'”
The Daily Stoic
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The Brass Check, a Study of American Journalism
Discussed“It's like that expression from Upton Sinclair, who wrote sort of very critically about journalism in one of his great books called The Brass Check, he was saying like it's impossible to get someone to understand something that their salary depends on them not understanding.”
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How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Discussed“Clay Christensen, one of the great business consultants of all time, wrote a book on how to measure your life. His whole career was about measuring success in business, but in the end, he tells Harvard MBAs that none of that matters; you have to measure your life by other things.”
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“It's these kinds of ripples compounded over generations that explain the country we live in right now. Have you read 'Nomadland'? Yeah, I remember as I was reading it, there's a part of me that was sorting through my capitalistic side and trying to understand how it could be this person's fault.”
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The Road
Discussed“Have you read Cormac McCarthy's 'The Road'? As much as I can take, I’m a huge admirer; I think he's incredibly gifted.”
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Lost & Found
Discussed“There's a reason I titled my new book 'Lost and Found' —sometimes we discover what was missing from our lives.”
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The Conspiracy of Catiline as Related by Sallust
Discussed“I've written a translation—a new translation—of the classic account of the conspiracy by the historian Sallust, written about 20 years later.”
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The Second Triumvirate
Discussed“Maybe you can tease it, but I know you have a book coming out on the second conflict, the one between Cato and Caesar. I would love to have a conversation with you about that book when it comes out.”
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Uncommon Wrath
Discussed“In my book, I'm trying to trace the story of Caesar's rivalry with Cato, who was another great leader of that generation.”
Huberman Lab
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Extreme Ownership
Discussed“This took the form of several important books, the first of which was published in 2015 and is entitled 'Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win.'”
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Way of the Warrior Kid
Discussed“I've read both 'Extreme Ownership' and 'The Way of the Warrior Kid,' and I found them to be immensely useful in terms of actionable information and understanding oneself and different kinds of relationships, both in and out of the workplace.”
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On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
Discussed“There's a compelling book called 'The Psychology of Military Incompetence' that I ended up discussing in about four podcasts.”
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Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Discussed“JOCKO WILLINK: Yeah, I wrote a book called Leadership Strategy and Tactics. And one of the things that I wrote about in that book is understanding what's important and what's not.”
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Dry
Discussed“I've read books by alcoholics, like the book 'Dry,' and others.”
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This Is Your Mind On Plants
Discussed“This concept was explored thoroughly in a book by Michael Pollan about caffeine, which I found enjoyable. Nevertheless, when he returned to caffeine after a long break, the effects on his mood, alertness, and overall well-being felt almost remarkable; this reinforced for him how much caffeine contributed to his normal functioning.”
SmartLess
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The Immortality Thief
Discussed“So, like for example, right now I'm checking out 'The Immortality Thief.' It's really, really cool.”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Discussed“Yes, yeah, it's it's and from The Great Gatsby, right?”
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Heat 2
Discussed“For instance, by the way, by the Bee, he too just came out by Michael Mann and Meg Gardner which is the follow-up to Heat, the film they wrote this book!”
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To Give You a Future and a Hope
Discussed“Courtney would have been way better; William Golden's already written a book about it, it's called How Ozark Could Have Been Better.”
Modern Wisdom
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How to Calm Your Mind
Discussed“and it was really kind of an urgency though in my own life that led me to write this this book called how to calm your mind”
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Driven
Discussed“Let me go back to Edward and I want to tell you about this guy Larry Miller who wrote a book that I think everybody should read it's called driven an autobiography by Larry Miller right”
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Michael Jordan
Discussed“but I read this like 700 Page biography which changed my [ __ ] life and it's called uh Michael Jordan uh the life I think by Roland Lazenby”
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Almanac and Weather Forecaster
Discussed“I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot”
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Frames of Reference
Discussed“I give uh Eric jorgensen's the almanac and of all a lot away a lot”
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Endurance
Discussed“That is a cover of Ernest Shackleton this is fantastic book written by Alfred Lansing called endurance right”
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The Outsiders
Discussed“so then you go and you read there's not a lot of material on second thing but I read everything I could find and I didn't uh a podcast on this book called The Outsiders which is one of the very few books that profiles what what made Singleton”
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The Everything Store
Discussed“the code name for what turns into Amazon inside the hedge fund was called the everything store like that is why the biography by Brad Stone is called the everything store”
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Tycoon's War
Discussed“He literally did there's this great book called tycoon's War and it's about this guy I think his name's William Walker”
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Accidental Empires
Discussed“so one of the craziest books I ever read um was this book called hard drive uh Bill Gates in the building of the Microsoft Empire right”
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Against the Odds
Discussed“The number one book recommendation I have is James Dyson has two autobiographies right he just wrote a new another one that was published that's not that's a fact I read that book too it's it's great that's not the book his first autobiography that came out at the time Dyson only had it was still only in the UK”
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The River of Doubt
Discussed“um there's a fantastic book called The River of Doubt which is a biography on Teddy Roosevelt but it it focuses on him his life after he lost the last presidential election”
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Estee
Discussed“Estee Lauder wrote one of the best autobiographies that you can ever find a complete obsessive her I'm using her Playbook a lot in the way I'm building Founders and like she's just obsessed over customers did things that did not scale she writes the book she dies the PO the company is still a private family company and now”
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Becoming Steve Jobs
Discussed“the best one if you only had to read one it's called becoming Steve Jobs the evolution of a reckless upstart to a Visionary leader I think is the turn the title and that's a shorter version”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Twelve and a Half
Discussed“and and recently last couple years I've talked more about Candor when I wrote 12 and a half I'm like this is My Kryptonite”
Speaker Gary Vee’s Emotional Confession About His Success & Family! | E207 2022-12-26 Listen at 5:12 -
Relentless
Discussed“I mean Eddie Hearn comes to mind His book is called Relentless and he's you know I remember I remember him asking him like what's the end game”
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Bounce
Discussed“Now we talk about the you know I've read that book bounce Have you read that book Yeah the ten thousand hours sort of mindset of you know that”
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The Conscience of a Conservative
Discussed“One of them was uh a book in it in its 30th printing or something it was originally written back in the early 60s I think maybe even the 50s a book by Barry Goldwater it's called the conscience of a conservative”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Unlearn
Discussed“His first two releases, Unlearn and Things Nobody Can Teach Us, have become international bestsellers.”
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How to Be Love
Discussed“Today, we're talking about his new book, How to Be Loved: Simple Truths for Going Easier on Yourself, Embracing Imperfection, and Loving Your Way to a Better Life.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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The Ride of a Lifetime
Discussed“Yeah, did you guys read the book he wrote, A Ride of a Lifetime? What is it?”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Discussed“and the great historian on this is Annette Gordon Reed who has a fabulous and important book called The Hemmings family of Monticello”
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Stalin's War
Discussed“the most recent one is Stalin's War a new history of World War II published last year”
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July 1914
Discussed“uh the book that I would recommend is July 1914 countdown to War”
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The Ottoman Endgame
Discussed“I did a book on the ottoman fronts of the Middle East called the ottoman end game”
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The Fall of the FBI
Discussed“he's an international law enforcement consultant who served as a special agent in the FBI for more than 30 years and he is author of the new book The Fall of the FBI and also gives us an inside look on what transpired that day to the impact it had for years to come and right up to the FBI”
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The Love Dare
Discussed“and uh his Dad gives him this book called The Love Dare and it's a 40-day challenge uh to see if he's man enough to love his wife unconditionally regardless of her response for 40 days”
Timcast IRL
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Tales From the Inverted World
Discussed“I am the author of tales from the inverted world you can watch season one on YouTube season two is on Tim cast exclusively we got the tales from the inverted world book at invertedworldbook.com and uh the new book should be out in a bit”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Socialist Manifesto
Discussed“He's a Democratic Socialist, a political writer, the founding editor of Jacobin, the president of The Nation, a former Vice Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality.”
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The light that failed
Discussed“As I often do, please allow me to read a few lines from the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling: 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too, if you can wait and not”
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Bowling Alone
Discussed“Hey, you know, leisure should mean civic activity too, right? I mean, there's that famous book by Robert Putnam, 'Bowling Alone,' or whatever—he describes it for now.”
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Stalin's citizens
Discussed“Perhaps I'll sort of reveal my bias here as I've been reading too much, maybe not enough, but a lot about, you know, books like 'Stalin's War in Ukraine,' and just I've been reading a lot about the 30s and 40s for personal reasons related to my travels in Ukraine and all that kind of stuff.”
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The Spirit Level
Discussed“Plenty of studies point to the adverse psychological effects of inequality, as discussed in the popular book 'The Spirit Level' about how inequality adversely affects the psyches of both the rich and the poor.”
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Solaris
Discussed“Now, let me leave you with some words from Stanislav Lem's Solaris: 'How do you expect to communicate with the ocean when we can't even understand one another?'”
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Other worlds
Discussed“I mean, there is not one day that goes by where I don't hear about or talk about writing a book right now about the search for life in the universe.”
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The journalist and the murderer
Discussed“I think a lot of it can be summarized in this book called 'The Journalist and the Murderer' by Janet Malcolm.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Communicating with Kids
Discussed“She's also the author of communicating with kids book published in 2015 based on her background training teachers and providing parental support so Stephanie I was reading your book today 2015 book communicating with children and I thought maybe I could playfully put you on the spot in my First Book 12 rules for life I my first popular book”
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Bible PerVERSIONS
Discussed“the freudians and the unions were very very good at delineating out the shadow side of the devouring mother The best book on that I think is the great mother by Eric Neumann which is an absolutely terrific book details out the symbolic representations of the devouring mother and the devouring mother interestingly isn't the woman who pushes the baby”
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Real Christianity
Discussed“He went away and studied He wrote a book you can still get a modern translation of it called real Christianity And the subtitle is the difference between what people think it is and what it really is”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Jungle Book
Discussed“Oh yeah, look, I'll tell you this man, The Jungle Book, it ain't a book, it's a damn librarian, son.”
Behind the Bastards
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Nakam
Discussed“the ghetto was basically nothing but ashes and Bones as this quote from the book nakam makes clear the visitors returned stunned intense from the blunt reality but speaking wide-scale Slaughter into gigantic round pits”
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The Child to Come
Discussed“and I'm going to quote again from the book to come when Jews returned in July 1944 to Kiev and hoped to reoccupy their houses they discovered Ukrainian squatters who refused to vacate”
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Escape from Incel Island
Discussed“I have a book coming out yeah called escape from in cell Island which asks the very important question of what if all of the men who felt like they were owed a Woman by the government got tricked into moving to an island where they were stuck”
StarTalk Radio
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Unstoppable Us, Volume 1
Discussed“You may know him as the author of some hugely best-selling books, including Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and just recently, a new book called Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Life
Discussed“I mean even Keith Richards... all this stuff he did! I mean that guy could write 4,000 books; he waited till his 70s before he wrote one!”
