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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2023
During January 2023, podcast hosts and guests highlighted several influential nonfiction and business titles. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, the host directed listeners to Josh Clark's podcast-based series The End of the World for existential threats. Huberman Lab featured Andrew Huberman highlighting Women, Food, And Hormones and The Hormone Cure by Sara Gottfried for hormone health. On The Diary Of A CEO, Steven Bartlett praised Jay Shetty's 8 Rules of Love for its unique insights into relationships. The Joe Rogan Experience saw Jordan Peterson mention Alex Epstein's Fossil Future during discussions on climate beliefs, while Mike Glover referenced Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable in the context of survival psychology. Additionally, Megyn Kelly pointed to Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson's End of Discussion on The Megyn Kelly Show, and on The Tim Ferriss Show, Bill Gurley recommended Geoffrey A. Moore's Crossing the Chasm as an essential startup guide.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Machine
Discussed“Did you guys ever uh read the comic that's available online I think through existential Comics it was called the machine and it was all a thought experiment about this very thing with a teleportation machine with every time you teleport you die and another copy is created”
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The Ends of the Earth
Recommended“check out the end of the world by Josh Clark if you want to find out more about existential threats definitely definitely check that out”
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The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe
Discussed“it's re it's by a guy named Frank a Capell it's a pamphlet self-published it's a Zine basically it's called The Strange death of Marilyn Monroe 1964.”
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Marilyn
Discussed“it takes the alternative narratives take more of a public stage when famous writer and famously not great human being Norman mailer publishes Marilyn a biography in 1973”
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The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe
Discussed“a guy named Robert F slatzer comes along in 1975 he publishes a book called The Life and curious death of Marilyn Monroe”
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The Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe
Discussed“a guy named Robert F slatzer comes along in 1975 he publishes a book called The Life and curious death of Marilyn Monroe”
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Marilyn Monroe, Murder Cover-up
Discussed“this is a private investigator his name Milo spiriglio he publishes a book called Marilyn Monroe murder cover-up”
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Double Cross
Discussed“as a matter of fact in 1992 that uh Mob boss's brother and his godson collaboratively publish a book called double cross and in that book they say that the CIA put out a contract on Marilyn Monroe's life”
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Marilyn Monroe
Discussed“then there's folks like Donald Spoto who wrote Marilyn Monroe the biography not a biography you see how the Publishers enjoy fighting on that one uh this comes out in 1993”
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The International Jew
Discussed“you literally owned the Dearborn independent and personally published anti-semitic articles You bound the Articles into volumes called the international Jew”
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Elysium
Discussed“or a world like uh Bloom camps uh Elysium oh yeah you know where uh um the masses of humanity are living in a Dying World”
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Anathem
Discussed“sort of like uh like I'm full of weird references today sort of like in Neil Stevenson's anathema there's this conspiracy”
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Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Vol. 1
Recommended“shout out to this amazing comic I've been reading uh eight billion Genies no spoilers check it out”
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Coma
Recommended“prose poetry non-fiction uh interpretive stuff like comma said the shotgun to the head that's an excellent book of poetry”
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The Langoliers
Discussed“Have you guys ever read The Langoliers by Stephen King? Yeah, there's That's a cool plane time travel-y, timey-wimey kind of story.”
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The Ghost of Flight 401
Discussed“Um a researcher by the name of John Fuller actually wrote a book about this. Came out in 1976 called The Ghost of Flight 401, and he said that the crash was only the beginning of of this tragedy.”
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From the Captain to the Colonel
Discussed“We found a We found a book called From the Captain to the Colonel, an informal history of Eastern Airlines, written by a guy named Robert J. Serling. And in this book the the CEO of Eastern Airlines at the time, a former astronaut by the way, named Frank Borman, says these ghost stories are garbage.”
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Castaways
Discussed“This has the most detailed account or detailed anecdote. And there's similar stories similar enough that we we pretty much know they're retellings of the same thing from a work called Diaries and Stories of Castaways in 1835 and Dust of the Apricot in 1844.”
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An Essay on the Principle of Population
Discussed“we fast forward a few centuries we got to introduce uh one of the most infamous guys in this conversation Thomas Malthus in 1798 he writes this thing he calls an essay on the principle of population”
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Almosts; a Study of the Feeble-Minded
Discussed“there was a uh a Canadian physician and eugenicist named Helen mcmurchie or mcmurkey who issue these reports on feeble-mindedness between 1907 and 1918 and published a study in 1920 called the almost a study of feeble-minded a study of the feeble-minded”
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Missing 411
Discussed“and David Pilates is an expert in this he wrote a book called missing 4-1-1 that was made into a documentary”
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Missing 411-North America and Beyond
Discussed“a profile points here and in missing America 411 North America and Beyond”
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A History of the Franks
Discussed“um this uh this was in a book called history of the Franks by Gregory of Tours”
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The Book of John Mandeville
Discussed“and then it got popularized by a book called The Book of John Mandeville”
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The great pyramid
Discussed“in 1859 a British publisher named John Taylor uh wrote a book called the Great Pyramid why it was built and who built it”
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The great pyramid; why was it built? & who built it?.
Discussed“in 1859 a British publisher named John Taylor uh wrote a book called the Great Pyramid why it was built and who built it”
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Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid
Discussed“there's a book called our inheritance of the Great Pyramid also published in the 1800s”
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Prescription Games
Discussed“and I would just I want to give this quote Ben that you found from what is this Jeffrey Robinson's book uh book title if you want to look it up is prescription games money ego and power inside the global pharmaceutical industry”
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The Billionaire Murders
Discussed“and and we've got something along those lines here from the author of the billionaire murderers a guy named Kevin Donovan uh the body seemed to have been purposefully arranged”
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The Pharmaceutical Industry in the Twentieth-century
Discussed“uh book title if you want to look it up is prescription games money ego and power inside the global pharmaceutical industry and Robinson the author of this book actually talked with Barry”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Training day
Discussed“that was the Scandal that provoked the movie called training day that Denzel Washington starred in”
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End of Discussion
Recommended“snuck some books back there about end of discussion about how the left is shutting down it's a great book available on Amazon Guy Benson 2015 memory serves That's correct”
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Spare
Discussed“and you know Harry in his book he referred he he talks very briefly about bullying”
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Finding Freedom
Discussed“including saying oh yeah sorry um yeah I forgot about that you know I forgot one of the tabloids in Britain um did a fantastic front page uh inspired by some children's books that were popular here a few years a few years back and it was called Little Miss forgetful that's a kindness to suggest it actually was forgetfulness”
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Courtiers
Discussed“Valentine Lowe is the author of the book courtiers Intrigue ambition and the Power Players behind the house of Windsor”
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Toplumsal Cinsiyetin Sonu
Recommended“Don't forget the name of her book is the end of gender well worth your time”
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The Lord's invitation to his table, by the author of 'Your place in church is empty'.
Discussed“you have an interesting chapter on one of the books talking about how there may be a gender gap when it comes to pay in America”
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Brew Your Own Big Book of Homebrewing, Updated Edition
Discussed“and you talk about some of this in your book”
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Why Gender Matters
Recommended“you can't write a book called why gender matters”
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Body Image
Discussed“this reminds me of the thing that that happened in American Girl doll which I did not realize is now owned by Mattel I mean we're all moms we all own toys by Mattel that's like where you go for toys and they're the ones who are obviously okay with this trans book being pushed on girls at American Girl”
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Things That Matter
Recommended“um you can still get his book things that matter uh which is a collection of his best columns and it's so well worth your your time and the read”
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Justice for All
Recommended“please buy it support Greg and his important voice it's called Justice for All how the left is wrong about law enforcement great to see you Greg”
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Audition
Discussed“and I learned all those lessons from her book her Memoir called audition which came out in 2008 was a very eye-opening for me as a young mother”
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Courage under Fire
Discussed“For example the former capital police chief um now has a book a new book out called courage Under Fire he was the chief during the riot and it's got a lengthy minute-by-minute recounting of the chaos on Gen 6”
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Fat Loss Forever
Discussed“if people want to read more of your thoughts there's fat loss forever”
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The Complete Contest Prep Guide (Male Cover)
Discussed“there's the complete contest prep guide”
Huberman Lab
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Women, Food, And Hormones
Recommended“The two books I'd like to highlight, for which we have provided links in the show notes, are 'Women, Food, and Hormones' and 'The Hormone Cure.'”
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The Hormone Cure
Recommended“The two books I'd like to highlight, for which we have provided links in the show notes, are 'Women, Food, and Hormones' and 'The Hormone Cure.'”
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The Creative Act
Recommended“This is a book that I've now read three times from cover to cover, and I'm now reading it a fourth time. Because it is so rich with wisdom and information that I'm applying in multiple domains of my life, not just my work but my everyday life.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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8 Rules of Love
Recommended“thank you for writing a great Book on a topic Your book is so good that I've decided not to write one on this topic I think we talked about this in La when we went for lunch like it's such a great book and it's so hard to write interesting unique things on a topic like love which has”
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Discussed“what motivated me was this issue of acting on behalf of the underdog my inspiration for being lawyer is we read To Kill a Mockingbird”
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Path Through the Jungle
Discussed“I've heard you in a path through the jungle talk talk about what you just said there which is you actually talk to yourself”
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Women Who Love Too Much
Recommended“and there was a book out at the time which I used to recommend I just think Saxon written by a woman and it was to entitle women who loved too much I read through this book and I thought she'd written it in my opinion it was excellent”
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Rio
Discussed“so somewhere like they said that Manchester United had banned chips on a Friday Rio had said in his book that had banned chips”
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The Optimism Bias
Discussed“on the back of your book here the optimism biased it says”
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The influential mind
Discussed“that's somewhat confirm some of the things that I read in your second book The influential mind where I remember I was watching a YouTube video”
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Menopausing
Discussed“you wrote a book it's here in front of me called menopausing why why did you why did you want to write a book on it”
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Food for Life
Discussed“dark chocolate I know you like doctor was it well I'm not sure is it milk chocolate you have it”
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Spoon-Fed
Recommended“So when I was reading about your view on calorie counting in your book spoon fed it was I screenshotted it this morning and sent it to him”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The prince
Discussed“He did something very clever; he went into the books of Nicolo Machiavelli, who was an advisor to politicians way back when, and he took the statements, administered them to undergraduate students, and simply asked them how much they agreed with these statements.”
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The Art of War
Discussed“Apart from Machiavelli, we've also referenced Sun Tzu, the renowned author of 'The Art of War' from China, who discussed the importance of building alliances.”
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Wicked Thoughts
Discussed“I read a book titled 'Wicked Thoughts,' a fascinating read by Google engineers who analyzed pornography use between men and women with billions of searches.”
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Wind in My Hair
Discussed“In 2018, she released a book, 'The Wind in My Hair,' which criticized the Iranian government's depiction and oppressive treatment of women.”
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Johann Gutenberg and his Bible
Discussed“Here we have a Gutenberg Bible printed on the press of Johan Gutenberg.”
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Computational physics
Discussed“he's the author of The Classic 1985 textbook computational physics and has published 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics astrophysics scientific Community computation energy technology and policy and climate science”
No Stupid Questions
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How the Mind Works
Discussed“Pinker wrote a book about it; I think he did a really good job summarizing it.”
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Discussed“Well, the Theory of Moral Sentiments...”
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Hot Seat
Discussed“and Jeff emmel has written a book about this moment where he was getting ready to take over the CEO job from Jack Welch and they're in London where there's this legendary British executive they're having dinner with”
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The Prince
Discussed“Nicolo Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat who was infamous for his 1513 book, The Prince, a treatise on how to acquire power and keep it.”
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Discourses on Livy
Discussed“Some scholars have asserted that Machiavelli himself was not very Machiavellian; his later works, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, seem to run counter to the advice given in The Prince.”
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Art of War
Discussed“Some scholars have asserted that Machiavelli himself was not very Machiavellian; his later works, Discourses on Livy and The Art of War, seem to run counter to the advice given in The Prince.”
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Julia Child's menu cookbook
Discussed“you could read Julia Child's cookbook and next trust the chicken or you could watch Julia Child trust a chicken and it's so much easier to imitate Julia Child than to read what she says and then do it”
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Chuck Berry
Discussed“according to Barry's 1987 Memoir Chuck Berry the autobiography he felt taken advantage of early on in his music career”
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Robin Hood
Discussed“this is in a journal of Behavioral and experimental economics just last year the title is Robin Hood meets Pinocchio justifications increase cheating Behavior but decreased physiological tension and the co-authors are guy hochman Dan pellig and shayar ayal”
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DSM-5® Guidebook
Discussed“But I think a very good starting place would be the DSM. You've heard of this, right?”
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First Things First
Discussed“the words were popularized by motivational author Stephen R Covey who wrote In His 1994 book first things first quote”
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Diligis Attached: the New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--And Keep--Love
Discussed“so I am reading here about a popular book a commercial book called attached the new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love this came out in 2010 by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller”
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The Merry Wives of Windsor
Discussed“it sounds like Steven's father may have been referencing William Shakespeare's 1602 play the merry wives of Windsor at the end of act 2 scene 2 the character Ford has a monologue where he plots revenge against the Nightfall staff Ford concludes by saying better three hours too soon than a minute too late”
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Hard to Break
Recommended“But one that I read again last week was by Russ Poldrack, he said Stanford, and he's a neuroscientist, and his book is called Hard to Break, Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick. I'm going to read for you his definition of addiction.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
Discussed“of course this is very famous from Star Wars Tatooine in Star Wars there's a binary star system and you have Luke Skywalker looking at the sunset and seeing two stars come down”
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Civil War by Other Means
Discussed“the the main case that you make in your new book Civil War by other means America's long and unfinished fight for democracy”
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Wonderful Life the Burgess
Recommended“One of my favorite books of all time is by Stephen J. Gould. If you've never read that book, it kind of blows your mind. It's about the Cambrian explosion of life.”
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Autobiografía Malcolm X
Recommended“I think reading his autobiography is extremely important for anyone that wants to understand him. You should read his own words.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil
Discussed“one on the Sermon on the Mount so that was really fun one on it'll be a two-part one but I did the first half of nich's be on Good and Evil”
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Fossil Future
Recommended“but Alex Epstein who wrote fossil fuel future recently comments about this a bit”
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The Secret Lives of Bats
Discussed“The Secret Lives of bats is one of your books and the other one is the bat house guide that's the most recent one”
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The Bat House Guide
Discussed“The Secret Lives of bats is one of your books and the other one is the bat house guide that's the most recent one”
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Survival Psychology
Discussed“one of the first things that I did was I read a book uh called survival Psychology by John leech which talked about the reason people live and the reason people die”
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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)
Recommended“she wrote the book Unthinkable and it's a real good uh book on why people live why people die”
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Quitters Never Win
Discussed“I know you have to get eye test every single time beforehand uh and they check it all like that way so yeah I was I was sitting there reading the bising book and it's like man am I ever going to have to do that we figuring out a ways to lie and everything”
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The Carnivore Code
Discussed“after we hung out and you were doing that I read Paul saladino's book the carnivore code I think it's called a carnivore diet the one where he eats meat fruit and honey and bases it been on your show before right”
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The Man from the Train
Discussed“right before doing research on this this location we saw this this author that just came out with a book about a serial killer and she thinks she solved the Villisca ax murders because that same exact style of murder was actually this um the serial killer that went from Midwest Town Midwest town on a train and it's called”
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Futility, Or The Wreck of the Titan
Discussed“a short novel called the futility the wreck of the Titan published in the US writer Morgan Robertson a novel that tells the story of the world's largest passenger ship the Titan and how it sank after hitting an iceberg”
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Titanic: A Survivor's Story
Discussed“have you seen the the Titanic book the the the book that was written about the Titanic before the Titanic”
Timcast IRL
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Invention of Lying, The
Discussed“it's called The Invention of Lying”
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A Brief History of the Future
Discussed“I mean the Kissinger France Jacques out to Lee I brought his book”
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The Scientist; a Metaphysical Autobiography
Discussed“So this one is you may have heard of John C Lilly right He's the dolphin dude”
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Between Two Ages
Discussed“between two ages yeah and then the book the subtitle is the best part because it's America's role in technocratic Era”
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Wall Street and the Wilds
Discussed“even Brzezinski in between two ages cites Anthony Sutton who's Anthony Sutton's famous Professor wrote the book uh Wall Street in the bolshik revolution and Hitler”
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Hitler’s Winter
Discussed“even Brzezinski in between two ages cites Anthony Sutton who's Anthony Sutton's famous Professor wrote the book uh Wall Street in the bolshik revolution and Hitler”
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Tragedy and hope
Discussed“but there's also an element like in Dr Quigley's traging hope where he's chronicling the history of the elite in the 20th century he's one of them by the way he's writing an apologetic and traging hope there's a chapter where he talks about how the elite raised their children”
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Behind the Angel of History
Recommended“there's a history of DARPA attacks that Annie Jacobson wrote uh it's a really good book”
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One Second After
Recommended“hey Tim if you're into end of the world scenarios you should read or listen to the book one second after it's about an EMP Global attack talking about building a toaster reminded me of the book”
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First Platoon
Recommended“can you get Annie Jacobson on to talk about her book first platoon chilling stuff”
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Not My Idea
Discussed“what was that book it was called your mother you want to look that one up yeah again Oscar nomani brings this book to us and it shows a whiteness contract with a devil tail and a hand reaching out and it says sign the contract”
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping
Recommended“I just want to recommend for people um there's a great book uh the easy way to quit smoking I tried everything to quit smoking Nothing worked But I read that book and it actually helped me”
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An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male and Female. Edited by D.P. Geddes. [Essays by Various Authors.].
Discussed“I just learned about this Kinsey guy this uh learned about a little while ago this sex doctor from the 1930s 40s 50s and Hugh Hefner was his student yeah and they were overtly attempting to sexualize college kids like they would go to college campus we are going to sexualize society So I guess we're still seeing this yeah”
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Occupy
Discussed“the general Union which you're not going to read about in the Occupy books because they will lie and claim it never happened were regular people sleeping intense living in the park”
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Bibliography [of Works By] John Money, Ph. D. and Members the Psychohormonal Research Unit, Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Dept. of Pediatrics, The John Hopkins University School of Medicine
Recommended“Ian you have so much more to unfold with Kinsey and look into John money they're Heroes to them and out sex ed is uh and our sex that is based off of it yeah John money's crazy yeah you're gonna love that yeah for real I worked with a guy named John money in La it's so funny really”
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The Power of Kabbalah
Recommended“this is the book that really did it for me power of Kabbalah by yehudiburg This Edition specifically will change your life answered all the questions I had in life in the most satisfying way why are we here where do we come from Incredible Book”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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From Russia With Love
Discussed“And it was either From Russia with Love or from Dr. No.”
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Dr No
Discussed“And it was either From Russia with Love or from Dr. No.”
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The Yage Letters
Discussed“And certainly the popularization of ayahuasca began with The Yagé Letters between William Burroughs —”
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The Palm and the Pleiades
Discussed“While Stephen was looking at the Yurupary cult in ayahuasca, and his book was published as The Palm and the Pleiades, Christine was hanging for all those years with the women.”
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From the Milk River
Discussed“And her book, From the Milk River, shows that the preparation of bitter manioc is in wrapped in as much cosmology, as much significance as ayahuasca.”
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Valuation
Discussed“McKinsey had a book called Valuation, they still do, that uses this type of analysis.”
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Think twice
Discussed“Did he write a book called Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, or is that a different Michael?”
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Crossing the Chasm
Recommended“And Crossing the Chasm, which does a really good job of explaining how a startup should kind of sequence their customer base as they grow.”
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Startup
Recommended“There's a book I love called Startup by Kaplan.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Mike Donovan's History of the Civil War
Discussed“So great to see you, the stand-up comedy book, Mike Donovan, he also has, uh, what is it, uh, World War II, who's who in World War II, who's who in the Civil War, and who's who in Russian history.”
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This is Orson Welles
Discussed“Peter bogdanovich wrote this book about conversations he had with them is it called the bearded [ __ ] or some Well story”
Stuff You Should Know
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Child Care and the Growth of Love
Discussed“and he came out with a book called child care and the growth of love It was basically I know it's a great title They'll love it but it was based on the work and the research that he did for the World Health Organization but he he very wisely I get the impression wrote it for a popular audience”
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The Book of Household Management
Discussed“so there was another cookbook in Victorian England called The Book of household management by Isabella Beaton yeah I think everyone referred to her as Mrs Beaton Probably and she um came up with a couple good ones a good couple good contributions One is the toast sandwich”
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A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence to the present year
Discussed“one very notable one uh the long title is a general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates with a y uh and or that is generally known a general history of the Pirates”
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History and Genealogy of One Line of Descent from Captain Edward Johnson, Together with His English Ancestry, 1500-1914
Discussed“and and Bonnie though she became more obscure according to the history Captain Johnson's history um she was let go at some point and we don't know where she went”
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A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates
Discussed“one very notable one uh the long title is a general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates with a y uh and or that is generally known a general history of the Pirates And these books back then were hot sellers so they were fun but you couldn't count on them to be historically accurate”
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A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
Discussed“one very notable one uh the long title is a general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pirates with a y uh and or that is generally known a general history of the Pirates And these books back then were hot sellers so they were fun but you couldn't count on them to be historically accurate”
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The Scent of Desire
Discussed“um there's a lady named Rachel hurts uh from Brown University she wrote a book called the scent of Desire Colin discovering our enigmatic sense of smell and she postulates that uh depending on how old you are and what gender you are you have your different reasons”
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Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward
Discussed“Rachel Hertz wrote a chapter for the book neurobiology of sensation and reward which is a gas in general”
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Rewards
Discussed“Rachel Hertz wrote a chapter for the book neurobiology of sensation and reward which is a gas in general”
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Sensation and Perception
Recommended“and by the way I want to give a shout out Rachel Hertz wrote a chapter for the book neurobiology of sensation and reward which is a gas in general”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts
Discussed“Josh learner at the Harvard business school is one of several authors of a wide ranging research paper called the economic effects of private Equity buyouts”
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Letters to a Young Poet
Discussed“it's modeled on some of my favorite books like letters to a young poet and letters to a young jazz musician”
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To a Young Jazz Musician
Discussed“you'll notice this book is called letters to a young athlete it's modeled on some of my favorite books like letters to a young poet and letters to a young jazz musician”
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A Wrinkle in Time
Discussed“my first novel that I read was a wrinkle in time I love that book”
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Letters to a Young Athlete
Discussed“I didn't know whether I would connect with this new book Letters to a young athlete”
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The Power of Bad
Discussed“the social psychologist Roy bowmeister calls it the power of bad”
Speaker Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? | Freakonomics Radio | Episode 477 2023-01-18 Listen at 14:09 -
Dark Money
Discussed“so again taking a page out of a conservatives Playbook I read Jane Mayer's book dark money on the Koch brothers who have invested heavily for years in building for-profit companies and non-profit organizations and infrastructure on the right”
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Gang Leader for a Day
Discussed“yes I was very surprised to find out that Mark Zuckerberg put gang leader for a day the book that I wrote on his monthly reading list in 2015.”
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Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty
Discussed“That's Phoebe Hoban who wrote a biography of Alice Neal. It's called The Art of not sitting pretty”
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How to Become a Successful Artist
Discussed“Resh has been studying and writing about the Art Market for years. his latest book is called how to become a successful artist”
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Heat Wave
Discussed“He ultimately wrote a book about the tragedy called Heatwave”
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Going Solo
Discussed“so kleinenberg wrote another book this one called going solo the extraordinary rise and surprising appeal of living alone”
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Palaces for the People
Discussed“this is the idea kleinenberg plays with in his latest book called palaces for the people but also the real investment in public housing and subsidized housing”
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Together
Discussed“Morty is also the author of a recent book about loneliness it's called together”
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How Music Works
Discussed“but also it reminds me of something you wrote in how Music Works about how music evolved with the spaces it's played in”
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A Brief History of Motion
Discussed“his latest is called a brief history of motion from the wheel to the car to what comes next”
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The Original Bambi
Discussed“zypes recently published a new translation of a 1922 novel by the Austrian author Felix Sultan the novel is called the original Bambi the story of a life in the forest”
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The Manager's Communication Toolbox
Discussed“Putting Putin is also the author of The Landmark book bowling alone which was published in 2000”
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Discussed“if you know anything at all about Adam Smith it probably comes from his second and most famous book The Wealth of Nations full title an inquiry into the nature and causes of The Wealth of Nations”
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The Infidel and the Professor
Discussed“Dennis Rasmussen has published a book called The Infidel and the professor the subtitle is David Hume Adam Smith and the friendship that shaped modern thought I asked him if that claim isn't a bit bold”
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China's Gilded Age
Discussed“you and you and aung is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan she recently published a book called China's Gilded Age the Paradox of economic boom and vast corruption”
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How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
Discussed“she has been studying China for quite some time her first book was called how China escaped the poverty trap”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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The Culture Transplant
Discussed“I'm sure you saw the book that was released in 2020 titled Wretched Refuse? where they showed a slight positive relationship between immigration and free-market laws.”
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10% Less Democracy
Discussed“I thought this was also one of your really interesting books. Even controlling for how much democratic oversight there is of institutions in the government there seems to be a wide discrepancy of how well they work.”
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Land Is a Big Deal
Discussed“um and one of them has to do with um there's a there's an image in the book that um this guy um put together for me I'll show it to you later um but what it does is that it shows uh the rate of return”
Behind the Bastards
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Raw Dog
Recommended“I wanna plug uh two two books that are available for pre-order right now uh the first of which is Jamie loftus's book about hot dogs called raw dog uh and it's available for pre-order go to her or go to her social meds for all that info”
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Life
Discussed“a chess historian wrote a book about him which gives us some idea as to where Andrew Tate got his sense of style and personal branding the title was Triple X Glam with three exclamation points the life and games of Emery Tate chess Warrior”
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The Game
Discussed“a chess historian wrote a book about him which gives us some idea as to where Andrew Tate got his sense of style and personal branding the title was Triple X Glam with three exclamation points the life and games of Emery Tate chess Warrior”
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Iron John, a Book About Men
Discussed“in 1990 he writes a book that is kind of illustrating the things that he's he started to feel here and he calls it iron John a book about men”
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King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
Discussed“a number of other masculinity grifters followed by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette wrote the bestseller king warrior magician magic magician lover which reported”
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A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, July 1858
Discussed“He produced this really early text which is just fantastic. It's called a plan for the abolition of slavery uh published in 1858. So this is a couple years before the civil war.”
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When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921
Discussed“The 1877 strike actually resulted in uh what I show in a lot of detail in my first book, When Workers Shot Back, how the state and capital reorganized themselves in order to um be able to respond a lot quicker to self-organized workers and and strikes and especially general strikes.”
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Fifty Shades of Grey
Discussed“and it's basically surprise surprise 50 Shades of Gray and so the Google Engineers identified five categories of men that were often the feature”
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The Boy Crisis
Discussed“I think Warren Farrell wrote a book called The Boy crisis told me yesterday when I was talking to them every single high school shooter was fatherless”
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts
Discussed“so there's a book called a billion Wicked thoughts that was written by Google Engineers who are quite reliable social scientists when they put their minds to it”
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50 Shades of Gray
Discussed“and they analyze the canonical female pornographic fantasy and it's basically surprise surprise 50 Shades of Gray”
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Solitary Sex
Discussed“according to Thomas lacquer's 2003 book solitary sex a cultural history of masturbation masturbation as we know it was invented in 1713.”
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The Legend of Candy Claws
Discussed“This is why Voltaire in [ __ ] candy I brought up Pang loss like he is mocking this idea that like the the pangos is this like philosopher guy who's saying like this is the best of all possible worlds”
Pod Save America
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They Called Us "Lucky"
Discussed“I've been reading his book um guygo's book because I'm a do you read I'm a DC Insider I didn't say I finished this book I've been reading his book because I'm uh embarrassed incredibly well-sourced DC Insider who knew this announcement was coming uh like everybody else in the country He's an incredible Story I mean he grew up”
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Mass Incarceration Nation
Discussed“Let's start here with NBC News not normally an offender in our take pieces here uh this is a piece from Jeffrey Bellen who wrote a book about mass incarceration the headline is the road to end mass incarceration could begin with Mercy for some January 6 rioters This piece argues that Biden should pardon thousands of prisoners including some”
EconTalk
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Sophie's World
Discussed“he wouldn't introduced me to this book called um called um Sophie's World and it was like this 1500 word um book it was a young girl who who ended up meeting like all the great philosophers right and it was an intro to philosophy book”
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Keeping Their Marbles
Discussed“Our topic for today is her most recent book, Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There.”
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The season
Discussed“I happen to stumble on another book he wrote called the season where he attended I think every Broadway play a musical that opened for in a particular a single year of Hollywood excuse me a Broadway”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Darkest Hour
Discussed“Pete blabber's book he describes a military action his decision and stuff and then he talks about how that applies to corporate america right”
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The Triple Agent
Recommended“The Triple agent awesome read uh to know how uh bowy did what he did that day and he was good”
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In My Darkest Hour
Recommended“our analyst uh wrote a book like the darkest hour or something like that is the name of it I can't I I'll send you that one it's it's it's a good reading”
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Day of the Ranger
Discussed“uh why do you say that why do you say it could have been a better story well in the book day of the Ranger right it's more of a perspective on the unit guys that were out there there's more feedback from them right”
SmartLess
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Surrender
Discussed“How is the experience of writing this book and kind of bearing it at all in a way; it's called surrender, so did it feel like that?”
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Learning from Las Vegas
Recommended“there's a great architectural manual called learning from las vegas about how don't knock it or laugh at it”
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Discussed“Growing up, I was amazed by moving cameras, especially in Lewis Milestone's work, like in All Quiet on the Western Front or Pork Chop Hill. Those amazing shots with the camera moving to climb a hill with Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, and Robert Blake stuck with me!”
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Gone with the Wind
Discussed“But Indiana Jones—that was around the block too for The Greatest Show on Earth by Cecil B. DeMille and also Gone with the Wind. Yes, everybody thinks Jaws was the first blockbuster, but it wasn't!”
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Empire of the Sun
Discussed“that was in the script that was Tom stopper's contribution who wrote the script based on the J.G. Ballard book”
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Discussed“No, Will was in my directorial debut, which was an adaptation of a David Foster Wallace book called Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Will was probably starring, one of the idiots probably headlining, name above title.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Scarcity
Discussed“One of the things I found so unbelievable about that book was its title, Scarcity.”
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Finding the Mother Tree
Recommended“If you want to learn more about how Suzanne Simard took on the flawed conventional wisdom of forestry, check out her fascinating book entitled Finding the Mother Tree.”
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The Difference
Discussed“There's an old book called 'The Difference,' which explores what makes the best teams for judgment. It shows that teams comprised of people with different views outperform teams of experts.”
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The Index Card
Discussed“so you published a book called the index card why personal finance doesn't have to be complicated and you co-authored that with Helene Olin and it was really a big hit like you said I think it's affected so many people's lives”
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Remembrance of Things Past
Discussed“and it reminds me of I'm not gonna ask if you read it but have you at least pretended to read Marcel pru's remembrance of things past”
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The strategy of conflict
Recommended“this book is called conflict and strategy and it is a book of Game Theory with no math”
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The economics of discrimination
Discussed“On the one hand is what Gary Becker wrote about in his dissertation in 1957, which is people just get satisfaction out of hurting another person in a different group—that's one kind of theory.”
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The Nation City
Discussed“But I was eager to talk with Rahm because I just finished reading his fascinating book, 'The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World.' It's full of deep insights, and that's no surprise since he has a reputation for being one of the smartest people in politics.”
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The Great Bridge
Discussed“but I was bullheaded and persevering, and after being turned down hundreds, literally hundreds of times, was able to make this film with the help of, as always, lots of really important and talented people, including David McCullough, who written a book that I'd read about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge called The Great Bridge, and I've just devoured”
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Measure what matters
Discussed“in addition his New York Times number one bestseller called measure what matters popularize the management approach known as objectives and key results for okrs”
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Speed and Scale
Discussed“real reason I want to talk to John door is that in his new book entitled speed and scale he's put together a plan that lays out exactly what needs to be done if the world is to read zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”
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The Joy of X
Discussed“You tell a story in one of your books, called The Joy of X, about a time when your second grader asked you for help on a multiplication problem.”
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Infinite Powers
Discussed“I've been reading infinite Powers which is your book about calculus and I was thinking about it absent-mindedly as I got in the car”
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Dead aid
Discussed“Bill Gates vehemently disagreed when her book Dead Aid came out laying out her arguments on the topic. Gates described the book as promoting evil”
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How Boards Work
Discussed“so your most recent book just out is called how boards work and it's about corporate boards and it's very different from dead Aid in at least two ways”
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Jump
Discussed“On this podcast, I put a huge emphasis on data analysis; in your book, you do not talk much about using data as a source of your insights. It seems to me your success has been more instinctual, that you just have a knack for seeing where the future is going and taking your companies in the right direction; is”
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Plant Hunter
Recommended“Professor Cassandra Quave, an ethnobotanist at Emory University, tells her story in an amazing new memoir entitled The Plant Hunter. Her right leg was amputated when she was three years old, and a subsequent staph infection nearly killed her.”
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The Soul of an Octopus
Discussed“Yeah, among many other books, she wrote one called The Soul of the Octopus. Yeah, and it describes a deep bond, a love affair really, that she shared with a particular octopus.”
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The Book of Hope
Discussed“So your latest book is entitled The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. And if I'm counting correctly, it's your fifth book that has the word 'hope' in the title, and you've got a podcast called Jane Goodall Hope Cast.”
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Famine, affluence, and morality
Discussed“and my illustration of this comes from an early article that I published in 1972 called famine affluence and morality”
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Marriage and morals
Discussed“people objected to his appointment because of what he'd written in an essay called marriage and morals”
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Practical ethics
Discussed“and I can trace that because my book practical ethics in which one chapter talks about these issues had been translated into German”
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Collapse
Discussed“I think I've read all your books, and my single favorite passage is when you write about the Norse Greenland settlement, and I found that part of your book in "Collapse" so remarkable because the mistakes that the settlers in North Greenland made were so preposterous, but somehow they were incredibly familiar as well.”
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The evolution of cooperation
Discussed“years since I first read a book called The Evolution of cooperation by Robert Axelrod the only reason I even read the book was that it was a signed reading for an economics course I was taking and I was a diligent student”
Modern Wisdom
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Humankind
Discussed“There was a Rutger bregman wrote a book called humankind and in that he talked about the puppification of humans and that was the same thing that evoking of some sort of uh sense of of care”
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Goodnight Moon
Discussed“and I've read her the book Goodnight Moon seven times and she says mommy read it to me one more time one more time and and I'm exhausted right I've had or I'm I'm just so exhausted I'm falling asleep reading this book am I having fun reading Goodnight Moon for the eighth time”
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The Ape that Understood the Universe
Recommended“uh moral Animal by Robert Wright the ape who understood the universe by Steve Stuart Williams is the number one primer the in fact just the ape who understood the universe by Steve Stuart Williams all you need is that book”
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Back Mechanic
Recommended“um and if you want to go deeper into that his book back mechanic is fantastic he's got three exercises this the McGill big three”
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The Ultimate Guide to Red Light Therapy
Recommended“but there's a book by Ari Whitton who goes deep with it”
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Is There Anything Good About Men?
Recommended“so you know Roy's book I love is there anything good about men it's just a terrific book”
This Week in Startups
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The Witcher
Discussed“it was books and short stories and then they made the game out of it and then the Netflix is kind of going back to the writing”
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The Color Out of Space
Discussed“like if you if it actually gets uh it's color out of space that's the Nicholas Cage horror movie I was thinking of color out of space which is based on a Lovecraft uh story”
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Startup Life
Discussed“And I've written about it in the book she and I wrote called startup life. But I'm I'm I'm really happy that we navigated through that”
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Discussed“I'm reading Bob Dylan's book about songwriting right now and it's the same thing where every once in a while Dylan will say something be like people aren't upset at Bob Dylan for saying that”
StarTalk Radio
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Kids Travel Journal
Discussed“So I have books from that period, the late 1700s to early 1800s, where the enumeration of planets is very clear. We know Earth is also a planet, right?”
Conversations with Tyler
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Biathanatos
Discussed“and he wrote the first full-length treaties in the English language by Thanatos on suicide which argues that in very specific limited circumstances suicide is not a sin that Christ himself was the one great suicide”
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Rooftoppers
Discussed“now you have two books rooftoppers and skysteppers”
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Skysteppers
Discussed“now you have two books rooftoppers and skysteppers”
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John Donne, life, mind, and art
Recommended“and John Kerry is completely spectacular book”
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Fire and Hemlock
Recommended“the obvious one being maybe something like fire and Hemlock or house Moving Castle”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Decision
Discussed“Kevin is a New York Times best-selling author twice over, and his first Audible Original, The Decision, was nominated for an Audio Award for best original audiobook.”
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Food Fix
Discussed“I talked about this in my last book, Food Fix; in prisons, if they give prisoners healthy food, violent crime goes down by 56%.”
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Young Forever
Recommended“I know this is what you want, so make sure you go and order a copy of the book.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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I Am Spock
Discussed“but you know what it reminds me of is uh when Leonard Nimoy wrote a book I think he wrote a book called I am Spock and then he wrote a book called I am not Spock”
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I Am Not Spock
Discussed“but you know what it reminds me of is uh when Leonard Nimoy wrote a book I think he wrote a book called I am Spock and then he wrote a book called I am not Spock”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Never Be Lied to Again
Discussed“well it still is a superpower but it was kind of like a superpower at that time because I was 18 19 years old and I get this book where it's like never be lied to again or something along those lines”
The Daily Stoic
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Chuck Klosterman IV
Discussed“You and I talked about Chuck Klosterman, and I never—and I interviewed him—but he never talked about this in the book, I don't think.”
ChooseFI
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Fire the Haters
Recommended“obviously it's always wonderful to have Jillian on the podcast and her book is fantastic”
