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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2023
During April 2023, podcast hosts and guests directed listeners toward various resources covering social issues, history, and investigative narratives. On The Ezra Klein Show, Scott Wiener recommended Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street for its exploration of inadequate housing and personal aspirations, alongside Daniel Okrent's Last Call for its examination of the history and constitutional amendment of Prohibition. Behind the Bastards featured recommendations for legal and activist guides, with the host highlighting the Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant and Representing Radicals by the Tilted Scales Collective as practical resources for defendants and attorneys. True crime and investigative themes emerged when James Fox discussed Jacques Vallee and Paula Harris's Trinity on The Joe Rogan Experience regarding an alleged 1945 UFO case, and Megyn Kelly recommended Vivek Ramaswamy's Capitalist Punishment on The Megyn Kelly Show for its clear presentation of economic plans. Josh Clark also mentioned the film Zero Dark Thirty on Stuff You Should Know while examining international manhunts.
Stuff You Should Know
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Zero Dark Thirty
Recommended“or obviously if it's something like ubl then everyone's seen Zero Dark 30 or if you haven't you should you've got like thousands of people over a decade all over the world working together”
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The Bizarre Careers of John R Brinkley
Recommended“and also Olivia wanted to shout out the book the bizarre career of John R Brinkley uh by R Alton Lee from 2002 a great book and seems to be the book on John R Brinkley but xenotransplantation is sort of what he was dabbling in and that's how we're going to start this thing out”
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Freaks of the storm
Discussed“um there's a guy named Randall cervini who it looks like Mark might have actually interviewed for this article um in this uh Randall wrote a book as a professor at Arizona State University called freaks of the storm right which is about kind of wacky weather”
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The Sign of the Four
Discussed“and that was Spock and that movie and the source of that was Sherlock Holmes himself from the sign of four from an 1890 uh book”
Behind the Bastards
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Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs
Discussed“This is from the book Inventing the Pinkertons. Quote, "By the end of June, he had built around the mills a protective 12-oot fence that included rifle holes, water manes capable of blasting strikers with boiling water, and wires attached to a generator which could be electrified."”
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A Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
Recommended“there's a really great book called The Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant. And if you Google that, you can find a free PDF of it.”
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Representing Radicals
Recommended“there is a book put out by the same people who wrote the tilted guide to being a defendant for attorneys and it's called representing radicals. Um and that is I I think available through AK Press.”
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Discussed“And, uh, Vishnu Ghosh is the younger brother of a famous guru and author named, uh, Paramahansa Yogananda, who wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi that was published in 1946.”
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Muscle Control
Discussed“Um, and in fact, as much of an influence as his brother's book was, Ghosh was also influenced by the book Muscle Control by a German bodybuilder named Maxick.”
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The great oom
Recommended“now the best book on Bernard card is called the great om by Robert love”
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The Death Company
Discussed“So the next book that's recommended if you're interested in Miles's book is The Death Company, which is a firsthand account of the Italian Arditi in World War I that was very influential among early fascists.”
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Let Them Look West
Discussed“And then there's Let Them Look by Marty Phillips. I found a review of this book on a website called the White Art Collective, and I'm going to read a quote from that now.”
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Auschwitz. a Doctor's Eye-Witness Account.
Recommended“but when you actually dig into like I I recommend if you want to get an actual degree of personal physical context for what it was like there uh miklos sneezly's um Memoir Auschwitz a doctor's eyewitness account is short”
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A Quiet Flame
Discussed“There's a series of detective books that I read from time to time, the Bernie Gunther books, which are about a detective who is not a Nazi but is first in the Weimar State and then in the Nazi State.”
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Mengele
Discussed“Yeah, I'm gonna quote now from Mengele: Unmasking the Angel of Death.”
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Mengele
Discussed“as Gerald Posner writes the man who gave Mengele his first real leg up on the academic ladder was Professor T mullinson of Munich University”
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The Myth of the Noble Savage
Discussed“Rouso didn't come up with the phrase and in fact he never used in his writings. What tear Alingsen uh historian discovered or rather explored in his book the myth of noble savage is that the term was coined over a century before Russo's birth”
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Black Hearts
Discussed“And you read about stories like My Lie or there's a really good example for this book called Black Hearts, this American in Iraq. Yeah. Um, and it's really clear where basically institutional culture has completely failed or has created a culture”
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Sick of It
Recommended“I'd also like to recommend a book to anyone who wants to find out more about the history of the NHS and the current situation it some comrades of mine like from a group called the angry workers and also uh revolution I always forget the other group they did it with name”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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La Disparition
Discussed“but the most famous One probably is George pereck who wrote a whole novel called la disparicion which doesn't contain a single letter e”
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A Void
Discussed“whereas for X book called ladies on The Disappearance and in English it's called avoid which is both clever titles”
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Once upon a Prime
Discussed“your book once upon a prime is so joyful”
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Looking for Alaska
Discussed“Can you take me back to your first book? It's called Looking for Alaska.”
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The Fault in Our Stars
Discussed“So you said it wasn't your dream to write bestsellers, but then you made the mistake of writing The Fault in Our Stars, which turned out to be one of the biggest books of all time: Time Magazine's fiction book of 2012.”
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Turtles All the Way Down
Discussed“You've been cranking out books every year, every other year, and then after The Fault in Our Stars, there was a five-year gap before your next book, Turtles All the Way Down.”
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Paper Towns
Discussed“I had to do it once I wrote a screenplay adaptation of my book Paper Towns and so I had to reread Paper Towns once in 2010 and it was excruciating once you can't change it”
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
Recommended“I've secretly been a fan of John Green for a while, but when I stumbled onto his latest book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, I was shocked to discover that it was non-fiction, actually meant for adults.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The singing wilderness
Discussed“Olson's 1956 book the singing Wilderness is the oldest written source of this claim in the book inspired by Lake superior's Beauty Olsen has an entire chapter dedicated to red squirrels”
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Ufos
Discussed“I just finished a documentary called UFOs 50 years of denial”
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I Know What I Saw
Discussed“speaking at a conference about a film I did called I know what I saw”
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The Area 51 & S-4 Handbook
Discussed“He wrote a book called like uh UFO Area 51 uh handbook and guide or something”
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UFOs
Discussed“I contacted this guy named Robert Hastings who's the the guy who wrote the book on the connection between UFOs and nukes what is the book uh his name is Robert Hastings um um UFOs in nukes I think”
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Trinity
Recommended“1945 Trinity jacqu valet just wrote a book with a woman named Paula Harris uh fascinating case”
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“The” Wolves of North America
Discussed“and I talk about it in Wild new world the whole wolf campaign in America but the two guys who put together this classic volume on wolves the Wolves of North America Stanley young and EA Goldman published this work in 19 44”
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A.D. After Disclosure
Discussed“but there's a cool book uh called A.D after disclosure where which kind of does a thought experiment about what would happen... I didn't read it but I love Richard Dolan who wrote it and I've watched like uh hundreds of hours of his of his podcast he's he's a great researcher”
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Unicorn Mom
Discussed“actually Annika Harris Sam Harris's wife wrote a cool book which I also haven't read but I know about it... it's uh it's called conscious and it's all about pants psychism which is cool coming from her because she obviously is like rigorous”
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Running the Light
Discussed“Oh you mean he [ __ ] made my book happen dude it was all him he did tell me about it too he was the first person to tell me and he gave me a copy of it he said dude you got to read this he gave it to Bert he gave it to everybody”
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Fun Parties for Fun Kids
Discussed“so but then I started doing some internet research on on Robin Graham and turns out he wrote like a second book um called um the Sailor returns from the sea or something like that so what what had happened um and he did go through kind of a dark period after the circum navigation...”
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Dove
Recommended“before I left a good friend of mine suggested this book called Dove written by a man named Robin Lee Graham and so he's like he's like hey I just read this book you should read it I think you'd really dig it and uh I didn't even know what it was about so um I found a used copy”
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Tell Your Children
Discussed“you know Alex Baron wrote a book called tell your children and it's all about instances of uh psychotic breaks and schizophrenic breaks from people that are heavy marijuana users”
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Understanding Media
Discussed“Marshall mcluhan had a [ __ ] amazing quote from the 1960s said human beings are sex organs of the Machine World... It's from understanding media 1964. Jesus mcluhan was brilliant brilliant”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Angel Heart
Discussed“and then there's also uh oh Angel Heart Robert De Niro right”
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The snowman
Discussed“guys I watched a movie called The Snowman the other day isn't it hilariously bad”
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Unusual Footnotes to the Korean War
Discussed“and according to one book unusual footnotes to the Korean War there were um allegedly 42 other sightings of similar weird stuff in the sky”
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A dictionary of folklore
Discussed“I mean it is super thick and it was just the dictionary of folklore”
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The Sting Man
Recommended“and you can read about all of this in a book called The Sting man that was written by Robert W green uh this whole story like this book is nuts it is um really worth your time if you if you like reading books check it out”
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History of Marfa and Presidio County, Texas, 1535-1946
Discussed“according to Cecilia Thompson's book history of Marfa and Presidio County Texas the earliest alleged report comes from Cowboy Robert Reed Ellison”
StarTalk Radio
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The Physics of Nascar
Discussed“so and and that was in the Genesis of your book”
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Into the Anthropocosmos
Discussed“You're the founder and director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and author of 'Into the Anthropocosmos.' One word there, whoa!”
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The High Frontier
Recommended“High Frontier, like his vision for life in space I think was really compelling.”
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The jazz of physics
Discussed“Among your books, the one I remember most is from now six or seven years ago: The Jazz of Physics. Let me get the right subtitle here: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe.”
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Fear of a Black Universe
Discussed“Then you followed that up with Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider's Guide to the Future of Physics. So you're still at it, but you're also a jazz saxophonist, so you're out of control here, it seems.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The House on Mango Street
Recommended“another is a book called The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros it's an amazing book of vignettes about this teenage girl her upbringing and it ties in a lot about what it means to live in inadequate housing and people's dreams and aspirations about housing”
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Last Call
Recommended“and then a book called um last call I can't remember the author's name it's about the history of Hell prohibition happened and uh sometimes people wonder how on Earth did Prohibition not only happen but get amended into the United States Constitution and this is a absolutely brilliant recitation of the history of how it happened and how it”
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Prohibition
Recommended“and then a book called um last call I can't remember the author's name it's about the history of Hell prohibition happened and uh sometimes people wonder how on Earth did Prohibition not only happen but get amended into the United States Constitution and this is a absolutely brilliant recitation of the history of how it happened and how it”
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Asymmetric Politics
Discussed“you see it for instance in this book asymmetric politics by Matt Grossman and David Hopkins”
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Dreamland
Recommended“um it's called Dreamland America's immigration lottery in an age of restriction by Carly Goodman and it's about this thing called the Diversity Lottery”
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Freedom's Dominion
Recommended“and then the third one that I want to recommend is Jefferson cowie's freedoms Dominion asaga of white resistance to Federal power”
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Recommended“so this is a great book homelessness is a housing problem”
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What then must we do?
Recommended“I recommend what then must we do by Leo Tolstoy”
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The Hare
Recommended“and then the third book is lighter reading but still very wonderful and very fun which is a novel called The Hair by Melanie Finn a Vermont writer”
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The Darkened Light of Faith
Discussed“so I think that book is called the darkened light of Faith race democracy and freedom in African American political thought and comes out in September and does look great”
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Open Democracy
Recommended“and I'm sure you probably know Max tegmarks life 3.0 and third one Helene landamer open democracy”
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The Master Switch
Recommended“and then two classic books Tim Wu's master switch my former White House colleague master switch the rise and fall of information Empires”
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Chip War
Recommended“whoever controls semiconductors controls the future and it turns out for reasons I didn't really understand until I read Chris Miller's book chipor and semiconductors really can be controlled... I really do recommend reading this one”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Discussed“You’ll be aware of the famous book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which explains how you change your paradigms regarding what you know.”
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Meditations on First Philosophy
Discussed“and persuaded me to read Descartes meditations and discourse um which is a really important thing for me as you you probably know they're about um skepticism and what you can know for certain”
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The Beauty Myth
Discussed“Her first book, 'The Beauty Myth,' challenged notions of attraction, arguing that they are societally fabricated.”
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Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
Discussed“I keep going back to 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions' and 'The Madness of Crowds.'”
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Racial hygiene
Recommended“There's a fantastic book called 'Racial Hygiene,' and of course, the classic 'The Nazi Doctors' makes this point.”
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The Nazi Doctors
Recommended“There's a fantastic book called 'Racial Hygiene,' and of course, the classic 'The Nazi Doctors' makes this point.”
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The Body Keeps the Score
Recommended“One really wonderful book is The Body Keeps Score about trauma, right?”
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The Bell Curve
Discussed“One of the things that the authors of The Bell Curve pointed out—Richard Hernstein, one of the authors—was that in the typical Ivy League environment, the typical Ivy League inhabitant never meets anybody in the lower half of the cognitive ability distribution.”
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The Unheavenly City
Discussed“the types of of issues that that Edward Banfield wrote about in the unheavenly City that that would be the most important thing to focus on”
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The Firm
Discussed“So what happened with the twins is that after decades, in fact, John Money wrote a book in 1997 in which he claimed that his twin study confirmed and supported the results of his experiment.”
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The mind has mountains
Discussed“He wrote about this in a great book, Dr. Paul McHugh's book called 'The Mind Has Mountains.'”
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You're Teaching My Child What?
Discussed“she wrote you're teaching my child what back in 2009 which is pretty damn early all things considered and she has a new book coming out later this year”
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My Gender Workbook
Discussed“it's called My My gender workbook um it has on the cover um if you the picture here is half half a Barbie and half a Ken uhhuh okay”
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As Nature Made Him
Recommended“Unfortunately, when it did become public knowledge–and a book was written by John Colapinto called 'As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl'–it told the entire story from A to Z.”
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A Discourse on the Method
Recommended“Keep an eye out for Bjorn's book 'Best Things First' coming mid-April; you'll have the arguments at hand in book form, which is always helpful.”
My First Million
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The Obstacle Is the Way
Discussed“Your friend Ryan Holiday has an intriguing post where he shared his top 25 biography recommendations; the introduction emphasizes how successful individuals all have biographies on their shelves.”
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Am I Being Too Subtle?
Discussed“he's got a great book called am I being loud enough or am I being subtle all right am I being set off yeah am I being subtle enough”
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Customers for Life
Discussed“Another one is called customers for life this is by a guy who ran an auto dealership just like really nitty-gritty business I just love that.”
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HTML for Dummies
Discussed“And then I bought HTML for Dummies cuz I'm like, well, I don't have money for a web designer, so I need to also, you know, build our website.”
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Bringing Down the House
Discussed“we had read the the card counting book this was before the movie came out 21 but oh my God the book Bringing Down the House was out”
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Corporate Turnaround Artistry
Recommended“turn around corporate Artistry and you have like a quote from the book”
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The messy middle
Recommended“there's this really cool book um called messy Middle have you guys read messy middle it's by uh what's the uh Scott”
Acquired
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The Genius of the System
Discussed“so I was very much inspired by a book that I think you you know as well right the genius of the system by Thomas schaff”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Devil You Know
Discussed“and his new book is a Manifesto it says so right there in the subtitle it's called the devil you know a black power Manifesto”
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Discussed“Blue's first book is a memoir called fire shut up in my bones it was published in 2014.”
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Why We Curse
Discussed“If I ask you to give the answer to the title of this one book of yours, "Why We Curse," why do we? How answerable is that question?”
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Holy Sh*t
Discussed“Moore is the author of a book called Holy [ __ ]. A Brief History of Swearing.”
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The Stuff of Thought
Discussed“Question: you've got this kind of euphemism treadmill that Stephen Pinker talks about where it starts off as a bad word, but then people use it more and more, and then you get used to it, and then it falls away, and then you need to come up with another bad word.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Pride and Prejudice
Discussed“but I I I've heard people raise this criticism and I know you have thick skin he says Vivek um he's not really running for president he hasn't really given up his job he's transitioned into another one he's not really thinking about what it means to be an American he's building a ginormous mailing list he's not really selling”
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Capitalist Punishment
Recommended“some of these plans are outlined in capitalist punishment the way what I love about the wave of egg writes is it's very easy to understand he he makes it like clear for people like me who don't have a lot of time to pour over the book at night”
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Get Trump
Recommended“but we begin the show with Alan dershowitz professor emeritus at Harvard Law School and author of the new book which we featured not long ago get Trump the threat to civil liberties due process and our constitutional rule of law”
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The Dying Citizen
Discussed“Victor Davis Hansen is a senior fellow at the Hoover institution and author of the book The dying citizen”
This Week in Startups
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Jobs to Be Done
Recommended“jobs to be done is a fantastic book resource for looking at anything around the customer Journey knowing your customer tribe”
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The Psychology of Persuasion
Recommended“that book is fantastic for anything around the community side of things the psychology of persuasion is a fantastic understanding of user behavior and psychology and contagious biology and everyone writes are great resources”
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Contagious
Recommended“the psychology of persuasion is a fantastic understanding of user behavior and psychology and contagious biology and everyone writes are great resources for looking at making your products catchy understanding your copy”
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Everybody Writes
Recommended“and contagious biology and everyone writes are great resources for looking at making your products catchy understanding your copy and all of that good stuff”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
Recommended“it's called the wisdom of insecurity”
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Stay off My Operating Table
Discussed“There's a book in front of me that says stay off my operating table by Philip Ovadia. Why did you decide to write this book?”
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The case against sugar
Recommended“He had just written a book at that time called 'The Case Against Sugar.'”
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Good calories, bad calories
Recommended“Prior to that, he had written 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' and 'Why We Get Fat.'”
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Why we get fat
Recommended“Prior to that, he had written 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' and 'Why We Get Fat.'”
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Happy People Are Annoying
Recommended“your book is one of the most vulnerable revealing but wisdom-laced books I've had the privilege of of reading in my research for a podcast wait I recommend everybody to go grab a copy I love the title happy people are annoying um it's a truly important book Thank you Josh”
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The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child
Discussed“My wife, and she wrote a book about this called The Relentless Courage of a Scared Child, has eight out of 10.”
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YOU, HAPPIER.
Discussed“Um it's called You, Happier, the seven neuroscience secrets of a feeling good based on your brain type.”
The Rubin Report
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Spartacus
Discussed“you're talking about some book that was he wrote Spartacus that's a that's a pro-communist book what are you nuts”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The society of mind
Discussed“In Marvin Minsky's 'The Society of Mind,' he truly thinks of the human brain as a society of different kinds of capabilities.”
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Making Americans
Discussed“We had a school teacher present on teaching immigrants a book called "Making Americans".”
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A short history of nearly everything
Recommended“And now let me leave you some words from Bill Bryson in his book, "A Short History of Nearly Everything."”
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Ego Is the Enemy
Recommended“One of the books that I reprogrammed my brain with at night was called 'Ego Is the Enemy.' 'Ego Is the Enemy.'”
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Ars magna or The rules of algebra
Discussed“So, so he wrote a book which is called "Ars Magna", which is like the great art of algebra.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
Recommended“I recently read a book I can recommend for anybody called What Everyone [Needs to] Know About Islam.”
Conversations with Tyler
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The Collector
Discussed“he wrote some pretty creepy other novels one called The Collector which I wouldn't particularly recommend”
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The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Recommended“she is director of landmark trust and Architectural historian historian of the crown jewels an expert in 17th century history a TV personality and I'm a big fan of her latest book called The Restless Republic Britain Without a Crown”
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
Recommended“I think it is the French lieutenants woman I think it is just an amazing novel and it really really Bears really reading that's less fashionable now than it was maybe 20 30 years ago but it is tremendous”
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Scotland
Recommended“well there's a very good new book that that your listeners might be interested in called Scotland global history written by someone called Murray pisek that came out earlier this year and it is a a wonderful account of how from the sort of mid 17th century Scotland is to say a tiny little country with a minuscule population came”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Basketball diaries
Discussed“It's like Basketball Diaries level”
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Amistad: The Story of a Slave Ship
Discussed“you think Amistad was like just kind of uh it was like fictional or it was like a potential reimagining no I just think it was like oh look I love Amistad”
EconTalk
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Meet Me at the Lighthouse
Discussed“I will just mention Dana that I have the copy I have your book on on Kindle on my Kindle”
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Impossible Takes Longer
Discussed“his latest book and the subject of today's conversation is impossible takes longer 75 years after its creation has Israel fulfilled its Founders dreams”
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Normative Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Value Alignment
Discussed“uh back in 2014 I interviewed Nicholas Bostrom but his book super intelligence where he argued AI could get so smart it could trick us into doing its bidding because it would understand us so well”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
Discussed“he wrote this book called uh sometimes it's called narrow path to the interior narrow path to the north”
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The social dilemma
Discussed“a superstructure owned and controlled by a very small grouping of corporate behemoths that prioritize growth prioritize scale and most of all engagement for the purpose of data mining behavior and in turn selling all that data for the purpose of perfect targeted advertising as was so astutely stated in the social dilemma documentary”
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Discussed“the best story of my life which I think about all the time is this white guy on a couch in in March almost to the day that we're recording this in in 1965 March 7th watching TV starting a law firm busy as hell watching a movie called Judgment at Nuremberg”
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Fist Stick Knife Gun
Recommended“wrote about the Harlem children's Zone wrote a book called fist stick knife gun a little thin book that's really amazing”
Modern Wisdom
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The Align Method : 5 Movement Principles for a Stronger Body, Sharper Mind, and Stress-Proof Life
Recommended“the Align method by Aaron Alexander Kelly starrett's new built to move Peter attia's new outlive business”
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$100M Offers
Recommended“you know homozy's books bloody hell read those and read 100 million dollar offers 100 million dollar deals which is going to be out soon”
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The Social Brain
Discussed“I recently read a book by Robin Dunbar uh friends uh sorry uh the social brain his new one and then it he says one of the biggest discoveries that we've seen over the last decade has been the unbelievable power on Health and Longevity outcomes to having a social group has with us”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind
Discussed“Her book is How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind, and this goes way beyond your house.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Paris
Recommended“Her new book is out now; it's called Paris: The Memoir.”
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Power of One More
Recommended“Go and grab this book if you haven't already. It's going to be a life changer.”
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How to Change Your Mind
Discussed“I read Michael Pollan's book, 'How to Change Your Mind.' I went through it like a bag of peanuts, and I told my wife, Renee—who is the love of my life—that I had never done psychedelics before in my life.”
Big Technology Podcast
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The Innovation Stack
Recommended“this is sort of the thing i go into in the book which is you know if you if you read the innovation stack you're going to hear me harp on this again and again again but like i think if you're inventing something a recession is a great time to start just the best time in the world”
The Book Review
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Discussed“are you there God it's me Margaret is out at the end of the month”
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Freckle Juice
Discussed“I loved her books for younger readers like Freckle Juice and super fudge”
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Superfudge
Discussed“I loved her books for younger readers like Freckle Juice and super fudge”
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Forever
Discussed“I did pass around forever which was another one of Judy Bloom's books that had some fairly graphic sex scenes that were very educational”
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Discussed“and the first book that actually got to me was Chronicle of a Death for told when I was around 12 or 13 years old”
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Of Love and Other Demons
Discussed“one of the lines from this his Nolla of love other demons has stuck with me”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Heat 2
Discussed“is there a sequel coming 289 5490.1 they're gonna do 290 5489.6 heater two 291 5490.4 and the novel's already come out 292 5491.6 Adam Driver 293 5492.7 so I saw the novel”
Timcast IRL
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Behold a Pale Horse
Discussed“William Cooper was also documenting that uh many many years ago in his book Behold The Pale Horse describing objects that he saw as the naval intelligence officer”
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Anatomy of the State
Discussed“otherwise Murray rothberg wrote an anatomy of the state that it in the absence of his books right now good you're on your way”
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The White Pill
Discussed“but then it also kind of makes you think like look there are also like little signs of things kind of like this that we're doing now so hey let's really make sure we don't go down that path because you know even when they were encouraging people during covid remember there were ports where it's like oh there was”
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Letters to Trump
Discussed“winning team and the new book that comes out I believe it's the last week of April it's called letters to Trump and Richard Nixon there's an awesome letter in there from Richard Nixon”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018)
Discussed“I found it interesting in your book that you wrote, when animals eat these plastics, especially sea life, the plastic pellets make the poop attached to them sink more slowly. This means they get eaten by other animals in the middle of the ocean that feed on the fecal matter of other animals.”
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One River
Discussed“But what I find interesting is, like ethnobotanists have talked about it—like Wade Davis wrote about it in 'One River.' Mark Plotkin's really into it.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Men on Strike
Recommended“a great book bill I am reading this book um called men on strike why are why men are boycotting marriage fatherhood in the American dream and why it matters oh Jesus dude why would you abandon all of that”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Superpower in Peril
Discussed“but um then your new book superpower in Peril battle plan to renew America let's dive then all right”
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Riding the Iron Rooster
Discussed“and uh I had read this book which was called riding the iron rooster uh through China which is this guy Paul Thoreau”
Huberman Lab
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Microneedling
Discussed“The title of the review is M icro-needling and its Use in Hair Loss Disorders: A Systematic Review. We will provide a link to this in the show note captions and this review did a very good job of highlighting both the strengths and drawbacks of the various studies looking at micro-needling.”
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The Telomere Effect
Recommended“To learn more about the work from Dr. Epel's laboratory, as well as her books entitled 'The Telomere Effect' and, now more recently, 'The Stress Prescription,' you can find links to those in the show note captions.”
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The Stress Prescription
Recommended“To learn more about the work from Dr. Epel's laboratory, as well as her books entitled 'The Telomere Effect' and, now more recently, 'The Stress Prescription,' you can find links to those in the show note captions.”
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Altered Traits
Recommended“I find this intriguing, as it parallels meditation; while a single meditation session may lead to brain adjustments, as detailed in the book *Altered Traits,* engaging in repeated daily short meditations or longer TM retreats can indeed induce significant brain plasticity.”
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Trauma : the Invisible Epidemic
Recommended“This concept was discussed by a guest on this podcast, a psychiatrist named Dr. Paul Kti, who authored a remarkable book on trauma.”
SmartLess
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The Outsiders
Discussed“You started in and I mentioned sort of the brat pack, but you started in, was The Outsiders your first big film? It was my first movie, period!”
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The Hotel New Hampshire
Discussed“Wow, wasn't that a John Irving book? I remember when that came out.”
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Discussed“the stories I only tell my friends is that right”
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Love Life
Discussed“and the SEC and the follow-up love life”
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Maestro
Discussed“So, it really got movies; I heard, I read the script, and I remember saying to him, 'Like this, you know this is the book talking about maestros, dude.'”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Adaptation and Natural Selection
Discussed“And the Williams Revolution as is sometimes called, is when George Williams wrote Adaptation and Natural Selection, a very influential book. Saying like that is not what this optimization criterion gives you.”
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Natural Selection
Discussed“And the Williams Revolution as is sometimes called, is when George Williams wrote Adaptation and Natural Selection, a very influential book. Saying like that is not what this optimization criterion gives you.”
No Stupid Questions
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Egalitarian Envy
Discussed“I'm looking here from a book called egalitarian Envy by Gonzalo Fernandez de limora that says contemporary people are subject to a massive supply of information through the mass media consequently people can have opinions about the happiness of those that they have never met or groups of people to whom they do not belong and as a result of”
