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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2023
Throughout March 2023, several podcasts highlighted works spanning true crime, evolutionary biology, and military history. On The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly recommended Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision as a fascinating narrative regarding the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. The Lex Fridman Podcast featured Eliezer Yudkowsky recommending Michael R. Rose and George V. Lauder's Adaptation and Natural Selection as a foundational text in evolutionary biology useful for understanding complex optimization processes. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan referenced W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa while reflecting on sports as a meritocracy. Acquired featured David Senra discussing Claude Hopkins's Scientific Advertising while exploring the history of advertising pioneers. On The Ezra Klein Show, David French recommended Robert Tracy McKenzie's We the Fallen People to explore the theological view of human nature in American democracy, and Alexander Mikaberidze's The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History for readers interested in military history.
The Book Review
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The Black Guy Dies First
Discussed“I saw you did a buy the book for us and you said on your nightstand I don't know if you've started it yet is a book called the black guy dies first”
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Academy and the Award
Discussed“the second the academy and the award is by Bruce Davis a former president of the academy”
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Five Came Back
Discussed“he also wrote a book called five came back which is about a bunch of famous Hollywood directors who went essentially to to film World War II deep cut on Mark Harris”
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Biographical Dictionary of World War II
Discussed“he also wrote a book called five came back which is about a bunch of famous Hollywood directors who went essentially to to film World War II deep cut on Mark Harris”
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Easy Riders Raging Bulls
Discussed“I like that's quite good easy writers Raging Bulls of course by Peter biscan which documents with a lot of Gossip sort of the period between the late' 60s and and early 80s when new Hollywood the movie brats sort of took over”
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The season; a candid look at Broadway.
Discussed“he wrote a book called the season oh I read the season yeah that was that was a tough read you're sort of constitutionally I feel like obligated to read the season if you cover theater or Broadway in any way”
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Hitchcock/Truffaut
Discussed“the most famous one of course is Hitchcock truo uh which conversation between the French new wave upstart and the master suspense”
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The Conversations
Discussed“and then one finally one more obscure one which is called the conversations so this is the author Michael andachi interviewing Walter merch”
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The Art and Craft of Motion Picture Editing
Discussed“and then one finally one more obscure one which is called the conversations so this is the author Michael andachi interviewing Walter merch”
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All About All About Eve
Recommended“it's funny I was going to mention another book about the movies that I really like which is a book by a guy named Sam Stags called all about All About Eve”
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The devil's candy
Recommended“another great book is Devil's candy the bonfire of the vanities goes to Hollywood by Julie Solomon who I think recently did a podcast on it”
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Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
Recommended“it's called leave the gun take the canoli by Mark seal which is about the making of The Godfather”
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Conversations with Wilder
Recommended“but then there is one called conversations with wilder and this is Cameron Crow wow full book length conversation with Billy Wilder”
The Rubin Report
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The Green New Deal
Critiqued“I've read The Green New Deal, because it's only 14 pages. And when I got done with it, I realized why it's only 14 pages. There's only 64 crayons in that big box.”
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While Time Remains
Discussed“- I'm Dave Rubin, and joining me today is the author of the brand new book, "While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in North America", my friend, Yeonmi Park.”
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The Dictator's Handbook
Discussed“And I see the same pattern and tactics, and there is something called "The Dictator's Handbook", right? And I feel like that's what America's doing right now.”
Timcast IRL
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Milk and Honey
Discussed“books by rupee core such as homebody milk and honey and the Sun and her flowers”
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House on Fire
Recommended“he has a new book out a comic book house on fire it's a dystopian story about this unbelievable world where the government tells you that you can't leave your neighborhood”
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The infinity gauntlet
Discussed“This is The Infinity Gauntlet where the entire movie was derived from this is the book”
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The moon is a harsh mistress
Discussed“uh heinlein's the Moon is a Harsh Mistress the book was written in the 60s”
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Lord of the World
Recommended“got membership to say this y'all should read the prologue of Hugh Benson's lord of the World book greatly describes the 1900s and Marxist social progression has a lot to say about the modern crisis”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Sacred and Secular
Discussed“and again with Ron engelhardt I wrote a book on that sacred and secular”
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We the Fallen People
Recommended“so here's a good one that I read not long ago called we the Fallen people the founders and the future of American democracy by a professor named Robert Tracy McKenzie it really looks at the role of sort of the view of the fallenness of human nature in the design of the country”
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American Democracy
Recommended“so here's a good one that I read not long ago called we the Fallen people the founders and the future of American democracy by a professor named Robert Tracy McKenzie it really looks at the role of sort of the view of the fallenness of human nature in the design of the country”
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The Napoleonic Wars
Recommended“and the next two are just if you'd like to absolutely nerd out on military history uh which I basically do on a daily basis and I'm two-thirds of the way through a book called Napoleonic Wars a global history and I'm going to really I apologize to the author Alexander Mika brids wonderful book”
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Ring of Steel
Recommended“and uh the other one which is fascinating and it's a 2017 book by Alexander Watson called Ring Of Steel Germany and Austria Hungary in World War one and is written from sort of the Central Powers view of world war one”
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The Art of the Idea
Recommended“second John gertner's the idea Factory which is about Bell labs and what I always find fascinating about Bell Labs is arguably the most important engine of innovation”
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Fed Unbound
Recommended“and the third would would be lebmanans fed Unbound which is a historical treatment of a lot of the private money issues that we've been talking about”
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The making of the atomic bomb
Discussed“and that is how I finally got some time to read the making of the atomic bomb”
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Asterisk
Recommended“the other thing I caught up on was asterisk which is a new magazine from some of the weird people that you like to talk about”
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The Weirdness of the World
Discussed“in his book High weirdness Eric Davis the historian of California and counterculture he describes weird things as”
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The Invisible Bridge
Recommended“and the third book that I would recommend is called The Invisible bridge by Rick pearlstein it is about the 1970s and about the cultural and political Evolution that we went through in the 1970s which I believe is similar to the one we're going through in the 2020s so the invisible bridge is my third one”
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Disturbing the universe
Recommended“the third book I'll recommend is a set of essays by Freeman Dyson called disturbing the universe which talks about you know his experiences in trying to do space travel”
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Can the Monster Speak?
Recommended“and then third I'm going to recommend a little book called can the monster speak by Paul prasado he's a transgender man”
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Shadow Work
Discussed“um the wonderful thinker Yvonne Ilitch wrote a book called Shadow work some decades ago where he talked about all of the unacknowledged laborers that sustain communities and what actually happens in the world”
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Nine Gates
Recommended“and if you're intimidated by poetry I really recommend these nine Gates entering the mind of poetry and ten Windows how great poems transform the world”
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Ten Windows
Recommended“and if you're intimidated by poetry I really recommend these nine Gates entering the mind of poetry and ten Windows how great poems transform the world”
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Less than one
Recommended“so the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has a book of essays less than one and one long chapter in that essay is a close reading of the poem September 1st 1939 by Auden”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Fatal vision
Recommended“I this turned into the book fatal vision which I really recommend I listen to it via audio who's done so well by Joe McGinnis fascinating story with the book too”
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The hunting ground
Discussed“because if you have there was a um a documentary I think CNN films I shouldn't say don't quote me because I'm on the radio now but I think it was CNN films that came with a film called The Hunting Ground do you remember this and it was about a campus it was about rapes on campus”
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The Purpose of Power
Discussed“they were doing this program where the school the president's office purchased hundreds of Alicia Garza's book um the purpose of power”
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Discussed“uh we've been covering how they revised um Roald Dahl right and they took out words they found offensive of books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory you can no longer call Augusta Augustus Loop fat”
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Summary and Analysis of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story
Discussed“you've got the Grisham novel that it's in the low country of South Carolina it's a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil feel to the whole thing”
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Evil
Discussed“you've got the Grisham novel that it's in the low country of South Carolina it's a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil feel to the whole thing”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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The transhuman condition
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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Mind children
Discussed“I grew up reading books like great Mambo chicken in the transhuman condition and later on engines of creation and mine children um you know like age age 12 or thereabouts”
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Adaptation
Recommended“in particular like a a nice book if you've got the time to read it is adaptation and natural selection which is one of the founding books”
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Natural selection.
Recommended“in particular like a a nice book if you've got the time to read it is adaptation and natural selection which is one of the founding books”
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Being there
Discussed“I don't know if you remember the book or the film "Being There" with Peter Sellers”
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Breaking the habit of being yourself
Discussed“Like what is it, one of Joe Dispenza's book is "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself."”
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The Godfather
Discussed“Well, there's this quote from The Godfather that I wrote down; I recently re-watched it. From Don Corleone, Vito Corleone: "The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other."”
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Good Power
Discussed“Your book is called 'Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work and World.'”
Behind the Bastards
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Aristocrats
Discussed“The Duke of Westminster and his friends admired the Nazi movement most particularly for its strong stance against the Jews Lawrence James author of a book called Aristocrats claims what lay behind their support of appeasement was a fear of Communism”
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Sleeping With the Enemy
Discussed“no public acknowledgment of her work for the Advair was made until 2011 when Sleeping with the Enemy was published the pr campaign around that book and the well-deserved buzz it generated created problems for the Chanel brand as Forbes summarizes”
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The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
Discussed“tansy Hoskins author of stitched up the anti-capitalist book of fashion disagree is that we can separate Coco from her clothing quote it's clear that Chanel's far right ideologies influenced her designs”
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Coco Chanel
Discussed“so the two books that are going to be the bulk of my sources for these episodes are Coco Chanel The Life and Legend by Justine Picardy”
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The Limits of the City
Critiqued“And then of course you have the mustached man himself um Marie Buchchin stepping in in the limit of the city to eviscerate the idea of the garden city. He talks about howard's scheme uh was basically a system of benevolent capitalism”
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Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Discussed“Um, and his book Garden Cities of Tomorrow, are you all familiar with either?”
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To-morrow
Discussed“So, Ebeneza Howard, um, side note, by the way, I don't know who looks at a child and names them Ebeneza Howard, but he presented this idea of the Garden City concept in 1898 in a book called Tomorrow, a peaceful path to real reform.”
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Solidarity Unionism
Discussed“You're reading uh are you h have you finished up your copy of uh solidarity unionism yet? Uh Raina. Oh, you mean the rank and file? I am on chapter 3. It's been on It's been interesting.”
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Labor Law for the Rank-and-filer, Or, Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law
Recommended“I picked up a copy of uh Stolen Linds the rank and file uh labor law for the rank and filer. Uh there's an audio book of it. It's just this great like short little book about everything you need to know to kind of like exercise your rights”
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Wobblies and Zapatistas
Recommended“And of I think the last book I read by him was wobblies and uh Zapatistas. You know, he was talking about the it's a great book. Um and not many people know about him.”
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Paraguay Under Stroessner
Discussed“one book that I read Paraguay under stressner by Paul Lewis describes it as an unbroken sequence of dictatorships”
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Friendly Fire
Discussed“Former intelligence officer Chief Ami Ayalan in his biography friendly fire said of Israel, "Because of its occupation, Israel's democracy will devolve into tyranny."”
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As Black as Resistance
Discussed“this is an argument that William C. Anderson and Zoe Samudi make in the book as Blackish resistance, which is that like Yeah. Like black people like [ __ ] are not part of this constituent of like part of the people TM, right?”
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Recommended“Read the Never Was the West. Read Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. Um, [ __ ] Jobs is a good start if you read.”
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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
Recommended“If you if if you if if you want to be the real grave head and read something that [ __ ] no one has read, go read uh towards an anthropological theory of value. I read into one of my colleagues at supermarket the other day when we were talking about that.”
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Cosmic Trigger
Discussed“Bob Wilson wrote a bit about this in the late 70s in a book he put out called Cosmic trigger it's actually a series of books”
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Drawing down the Moon
Discussed“this is a claim made by Margot Adler who is a Wiccan Priestess and an NPR correspondent uh in her book drawing down the moon she claims that Kerry's writings helped spark the actual beginning of the neo-pagan movement”
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The prankster & the conspiracy
Recommended“the book came out 2003 when Grace when um Adam go rightly who's written the book the prankster in the conspiracy which is the best book about Carrie”
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Principia Discordia
Recommended“everybody steal the principia discordia yeah steal the principia be a discordia”
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Discourse on Colonialism
Discussed“I mean as a MS who I referenced earlier wrote in discourse on colonialism colonization works to desivilize the colonizer to brutalize him in the sense of the in the true sense of the word to degrade him and to awaken him to buried instincts”
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Effective Cycling
Discussed“So, vehicular cyclists um it was a philosophy expounded by uh John Forester. Might have his book right here. Yeah. Uh in the book and it's not in the book effective cycling. um where it was the idea was that cyclists should be riding like cars, right?”
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Principia Discordia
Discussed“once he comes back to the city the two start work on their long-shelf plans to create a satiric religion based on the Greek goddess of chaos heiress now Gary wrote most of the first draft of a tract that would later become if this is a little bit before zines were a thing but it also is kind of”
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Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own
Discussed“Sterner is a guy who wrote a book called the ego end its own and I am not the person to summarize uh that egoism is kind of is one of the things that like that kind of anarchism is called”
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The Ego and Its Own
Discussed“Sterner is a guy who wrote a book called the ego end its own and I am not the person to summarize uh that egoism is kind of is one of the things that like that kind of anarchism is called”
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Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
Discussed“and these books were Nesta Webster's secret societies and subversive movements from 1924”
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Adam Weishaupt, a human devil
Discussed“an American evangelist Gerald winrod's uh book Adam vicechopt a human devil from 1935.”
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World of the John Birch Society
Discussed“and I'm going to quote now from the book The World of the John Birch Society Welch's first public mention of the Illuminati but not yet the Insiders came in his more stately Mansion speech delivered before a crowd of 1700 at the Conrad Hilton in Chicago on June 5th 1964.”
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On the trail of the assassins
Discussed“he would go on to write the first major Kennedy assassination conspiracy book titled on the trail of Assassins which is what Joe Stone's JFK was based on”
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The KLF
Discussed“and to kind of go through this process I'm going to quote now from the book klf by an author named jmr Higgs”
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Oswald
Discussed“so the fact that and a year after he he testified uh he also released a book just titled Oswald”
Stuff You Should Know
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De Re Metallica
Discussed“there was somebody a mining expert named uh jorg aracola who talked about dowsing and divining rods in a way that he wasn't like hey this is what this is like as if people understood what it was right in his book day Ray Metallica was that really what it was called”
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Horatio's drive
Discussed“yeah Ken Burns is a great documentary about this topic which is the first cross-country automobile road trip it's called the Horatio's Drive”
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Psycho
Discussed“but Norman Bates was into Taxidermy for a reason in Psycho right it was unsettling”
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Wisconsin Death Trip
Discussed“Source um by Michael leasi Ley and he actually was the guy who wrote uh or compiled Wisconsin death trip a few years before he wrote that article”
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The expendables
Discussed“well you know what's funny is they are I read an article there's a article in the December 2012 Vanity Fair called The Expendables it's pretty interesting it's about the French Foreign Legion”
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Generation X
Recommended“and speaking of uh the Mall of America Douglas Copeland I don't know if any of you have read Generation X it's a really great book but he basically coined the name apparently no one's read it Douglas Copeland”
Modern Wisdom
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Memento
Discussed“or or these cases like these famous case where people can't form new memories is in the excellent movie Memento Christopher Nolan's film this guy can't form new memories”
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The Invisible Gorilla
Discussed“in fact they came to a book called Invisible Gorilla summarized by by Dan Simons and Chris chabri”
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Life At The Speed Of Light From The Double Helix To The Dawn Of Digital Life
Recommended“and in fact one book about the future of this is by Craig Venter who was the first to sequence the human genome in the year 2000 and he does a lot of what's called synthetic biology now but his book is called life at the speed of light”
Freakonomics Radio
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Mastermind
Discussed“the others are called Mastermind how to think like Sherlock holes and the confidence game which is about con artists”
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The confidence game
Discussed“the others are called Mastermind how to think like Sherlock holes and the confidence game which is about con artists”
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Critique of Pure Reason
Discussed“in his critique of pure reason the German philosopher Emmanuel Kant proposes betting as an antidote to one of the great ills of society”
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Discussed“I was originally introduced to Poker through Game Theory through the work of John Von noyman As I was reading about luck and kind of immersing myself in the world of chance and how to think about chance I read John Von neyman's theory of games which is the foundational text of Game Theory”
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Risky Business
Discussed“She is the co-author of a new book called 'Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It.'”
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The Market for "lemons"
Discussed“Finkelstein cites a famous paper by The Economist George akerloff called the market for lemons quality uncertainty and the market mechanism”
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The Peter Principle
Discussed“so the Peter Principle is a very funny and popular management book written by Lawrence J Peter and his book offers an explanation for why we might see incompetent bosses everywhere”
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The Economics of Airlines
Discussed“Economist Vladimir Blotkatch, author of The Economics of Airlines, says that by some estimates, each new generation of jet engines has been about 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the previous one.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Shoeless Joe
Discussed“like the books like Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Jackson”
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Discontent in the Field of Dreams
Discussed“like the books like Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Jackson”
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
Recommended“like the books like Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Jackson they kind of present the case that like sports is the last or only meritocracy where like There are rules and boundaries and like truth shake out you Shake the Dice enough the truth”
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Fight Club
Discussed“I mean I I remember reading one of the biographies of Ali I think it was might have been Thomas Hauser's biography where he goes into pretty good detail on the state of his medical care at the end of his career”
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Freedom
Discussed“and he talks about how I'm sure you've read Freedom which is a book that he wrote uh uh kind of his last book”
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The Storm Before the Calm
Discussed“he's an author and he wrote this book called The Storm Before the calm super interesting”
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The Murderer Next Door
Discussed“you wrote a whole book on murder I wrote a whole book on murder yeah uh you know uh yeah the murderer next door”
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On the Origin of Species
Discussed“you know and of course that's really what Darwin's first book On the Origin of Species was all about survival adaptations to survival”
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This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
Recommended“some of it done by Sarah hill by the way a professor at uh Texas Christian University the former student of mine and she's superb she's written a book called your brain on birth control which I recommended she would be cool to have on your podcast”
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The Tommyknockers
Recommended“read Tommy knockers no Tommy knockers is a good one What's happen Tommy knockers is about they they uncover like a a spaceship that uh crashed into the Earth like a long time ago and it starts affecting people in the in the town”
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Conquerors
Discussed“like the what's the one about uh the the what's the book about the people from Portugal coming down the coast of Africa it's like the Conquistadors or the conquerors It's a book”
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War Is a Racket
Recommended“literally Smedley Butler's 1933 uh story that he wrote article he wrote War is a racket Have you ever read that Joe war is a racket”
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Living with a SEAL
Recommended“Do you know Jesse's I must mispronounced his name Jesse seitzer Caesar he lived with the campaigns... he lived with David Goggins my bad... he did something so [ __ ] for a runner so powerful is that he's talking about getting back into running”
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A Politics of Love
Discussed“she the presidential candidate yeah she I read her book the politics of love because I did an article about it I I kind of think she's just great”
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
Discussed“it came from a 2009 book called weapons and mass instruction”
Acquired
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Scientific Advertising
Recommended“also a good Founders episode yes he's excellent that that that um that book scientific advertising sold like eight or ten million copies”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Authentic Happiness
Discussed“You noted in 'Authentic Happiness' in one of your many books that childhood events rarely influence adult levels of happiness. Did I get that right?”
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Afraid
Discussed“Naked and Afraid which is exactly what it sounds like for people who don't know what Naked and Afraid is it is where they strip you down naked and they put put you in the middle of a really harsh environment like a jungle or a marsh land or a desert”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Maps of Meaning
Discussed“I was literally just reading through all the beginnings of the chapters of 'Maps of Meaning' yesterday, especially the chapter on 'The Hostile Brothers.' The chapter discusses two transpersonal archetypes we can embody at the individual level.”
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Exuberant Animal
Discussed“and so when I I first came across the play research through a man named Frank Francis in his book The exuberant animal and I started digging into it behind that”
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The Discovery Of The Unconscious
Discussed“The master document on that front is a book by Henri Ellenberger titled 'The Discovery of the Unconscious,' which is an outstanding analysis of clinical endeavor over the past 350 years.”
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Otherhood
Discussed“I received an email this morning from Melanie Notkin, who has written a book called 'Otherhood,' and she summarized this issue succinctly, stating that women are pursuing education and career paths, ultimately hoping to find love and have families.”
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The Population Bomb
Discussed“And just by the way, I should call this out: Ehrlich set up an organization, uh, author of the Population Bomb, of course, called ZPG, which evolved into your population growth.”
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The Tower of Babel
Discussed“So what happens immediately after the flood in the Genesis narrative is the emergence of the Tower of Babel. You could think about it as an antidote to the flood: too much chaos—what will we do? Well, we'll build a tower of technological artifacts that stretches to the sky so that we won’t need God.”
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The pilgrim's progress
Discussed“It's Pilgrim's Progress; it's the hero going out looking for the Grail, fighting dragons and monsters, and then you realize when you get to the end it wasn't about the Grail at all.”
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The Book of Dragons
Discussed“They're telling very small lies, just like in the Dragon book. You can catch them, because otherwise the system will correct itself.”
EconTalk
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The Heart Aroused
Discussed“yeah i mentioned uh recently uh the book The Heart aroused by David White and what that book is it's w-h-y-t it's a lovely book”
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The Inevitable
Discussed“the book you wrote in 2016 the inevitable that we talked about on the program and that was a very optimistic book about technology and the future”
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In Defense of Troublemakers
Discussed“I'm reminded of episode in 2018 with Charlan Nemeth. Her book was called In Defense of Troublemakers and we had a conversation along these lines.”
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Bea Wolf
Discussed“so let's hear the opening of uh be a wolf all right let's do it”
SmartLess
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The Crucible
Discussed“One of the first plays I ever did was The Crucible, and one of the lines is, 'Because it is my name, I can have no other.' And I just thought that was running through my head.”
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The Lord of the Rings
Discussed“Yeah, like from Darby O'Gill and the Little People. I mean, the Lord of the Rings used it too.”
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Big History
Discussed“Yeah, you were watching a series of videotapes at the time; I think it was the DVDs, a box set of it was called Big History!”
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Spirits of the Dead
Discussed“are you familiar with this uh felini short film spirits of the um Spirits so it's part of a Trilogy called spirits of the Dead”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Recommended“The Open Society and Its Enemies, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, etc. etc.”
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The Healing Journey
Recommended“If you want to know how some psychotherapists have worked with these things, I think an oldie but a goodie, The Healing Journey by Claudio Naranjo, I think is excellent.”
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More Than You Know
Discussed“and more than you know finding financial wisdom in unconventional places more than you know was named one of the 100 best business books of all time”
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Bionomics
Discussed“They had a bunch of books and I just scrolled over there and I picked up a book called Bionomics by a guy named Michael Rothschild.”
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More Heat Than Light
Discussed“And in fact, there's a wonderful book called more heat than light by a professor named Phil Morowski which documents how econ economists literally and I mean literally mapped over equations from Newtonian physics”
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Expert Political Judgment
Discussed“you know, Phil Tetlock's the first book I read of his was in the mid I think 2006 2007 called expert political judgment”
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The Diversity Bonus
Recommended“And he wrote a smaller book called The Diversity Bonus, which is, you know, shorter treatment of the same topic.”
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Capital Ideas
Recommended“He also wrote a book called capital ideas which basically does the same thing for the history of finance.”
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Complexity
Recommended“There's a book by Melanie Mitchell who is now resident faculty at the Santa Fe Institute called Complexity a guided tour”
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
Recommended“There's a really interesting book called The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis. Do you know that? You probably do know that book by Richard's Huer.”
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Who
Recommended“And he simply says, 'You do what's called the topgrading interview,' where you go job by job that they've had since college, and you ask them, 'Who'd you work for?'”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Tribes
Discussed“I think I have um I think that another Godin thing I got from you was the I read the tribes, and talking about like find your your people and speak to them.”
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Selves
Discussed“my PhD Mentor Galen strawson has a book selves where he defends the idea that there are unified selves but they just last a couple of seconds”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Fall of Public Man
Discussed“I read a book that had a big impact on me many years ago called the fall of public Man by Richard Senate in which he described like Cafe life in London in the 18th century or France”
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Yearbook
Discussed“your work ethic which I've read about over and over again throughout your book and throughout various interviews you've done seems to be pretty spectacular”
Conversations with Tyler
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Galatians
Discussed“it would probably be um it would probably be Paul's letter to the Galatians”
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Cain
Discussed“and Byron wrote a play called Kane”
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Capitalism with Chinese characteristics
Discussed“he has written the famous book capitalism with Chinese characteristics on the history of Chinese economic reforms”
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Rise and Fall of the EAST
Discussed“it is called the rise and fall of the East examination autocracy stability and Technology due out this summer”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Leviticus
Discussed“It turned out to be an early part of the book of Leviticus, something of the Old Testament or the Torah. And that was like a landmark achievement.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism and other writings
Discussed“in 1905 very important author named Max feber published the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism and in this he said specifically that Protestants have a different approach to labor”
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Sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Discussed“one of the bangers of this one of Jehovah's breakout singles is a piece called sinners in the hand of an Angry God”
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The laws of prosperity
Discussed“in his book Laws of Prosperity uh Ken Copeland writes do you want a hundred-fold return on your money”
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Blessed
Recommended“I do also while we're mentioning books want to highlight blessed a history of the American Prosperity Gospel by Kate bowler”
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Savage Harvest
Discussed“so Carl Hoffman in 2014 he writes a book called Savage Harvest a tale of cannibals colonialism and Michael rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art”
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Dead birds
Recommended“you can see and hear his Expeditions work in a documentary called Dead Birds sounds like a bummer”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Intuitive Fasting
Recommended“Make sure you check it out, and he is the New York Times best-selling author of Intuitive Fasting, The Inflammation Spectrum, and the brand new book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel.”
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The Inflammation Spectrum
Recommended“Make sure you check it out, and he is the New York Times best-selling author of Intuitive Fasting, The Inflammation Spectrum, and the brand new book, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel.”
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Gut Feelings
Recommended“and the brand new book gut feelings healing the shame-fueled relationship between what you eat and how you feel if you don't have that book yeah I want you to go in order right now gut feelings we are going to put the link in the show notes make sure you grab a copy as you're listening right now or”
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The School of Greatness
Discussed“You wrote your first book, The School of Greatness.”
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Mask of Masculinity
Discussed“Your second book, Mask of Masculinity.”
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Greatness Mindset
Recommended“Lewis was recognized by the White House and President Obama as one of the top 100 entrepreneurs in the country under 30, and his new book is right here.”
No Stupid Questions
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SuperFreakonomics LP
Discussed“We wrote about this a little bit in Super Freakonomics; we're writing about prostitution actually as a sort of industry that we studied from economic and social perspectives.”
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The grasshopper : games, life, and Utopia
Discussed“That was Bernard suits who said in his book The Grasshopper games life and Utopia that gameplay in particular is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The Discoverie of Witchcraft
Discussed“and in the west we sort of put that at the year 1584 with the publication of a book called the discovery of Witchcraft by Reginald Scott”
Pod Save America
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Food, Inc
Discussed“you know that we a lot of people know how bad it is a lot of people will see food Inc and they will go to McDonald's on the way home”
Huberman Lab
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The Circadian Diabetes Code
Discussed“As some of you may already know, Dr. Panda has authored several important books on the topic of intermittent fasting and how it can benefit various aspects of health. Those books include The Circadian Code and a more recent book, The Circadian Diabetes Code, both of which we've provided links to in the show note captions.”
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The Circadian Code
Recommended“Those books include 'The Circadian Code' and a more recent book, 'The Circadian Diabetes Code,' both of which we've provided links to in the show note captions.”
ChooseFI
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Dollars and Sense
Book club“yes the book is dollars and Cents by Dan ariely and he goes through some of the different illogical ways that we think about money”
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New New Thing, The
Discussed“okay I to Michael Lewis book s if you oh my gosh he's an incredible incredible writer his most recent one was called the premonition about the pandemic and it's incredible it's very good but the one I just finished was the one about Silicon Valley called the new new thing”
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The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Recommended“His most recent one was called The Premonition about the pandemic, and it's incredible, it's very good, but the one I just finished was the one about Silicon Valley called The New New Thing.”
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A Deadly Education
Recommended“what I'm reading is actually I am like a huge fan of fantasy novels we'll say in in general terms and I just got referred to one by an author named Naomi novik and it's called a deadly education this is the first part of a Trilogy”
This Week in Startups
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The Death of Uncertainty
Discussed“my friend Michael tan he is an author which is really cool I've never had an author on my segment four and his book is called the death of uncertainty”