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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2023
During May 2023, The Megyn Kelly Show featured discussions on a diverse range of literary works, driven largely by conversations with guests regarding personal resilience, military experiences, and cultural commentary. Michael Knowles appeared on the program to discuss cultural and political topics, referencing Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir It Takes a Village alongside Maya Christina Gonzalez's The Gender Wheel in the context of public school content and political ideology. In another episode, guest Jason Redman joined the show to discuss themes of overcoming hardship and maintaining a resilient mindset. During this conversation, Megyn Kelly and Redman referenced several works, including Redman's own books The Trident and Overcome, reading passages aloud regarding his personal life and recovery after injury. Redman also mentioned that he and his wife Erica were completing a new relationship book titled Invincible Marriage, and he noted that Secretary Robert Gates had written about a sign he posted on his hospital door. Additional military and historical reading came up when Redman discussed reading Hampton Sides's book about a trek to the North Pole, while Kelly referenced Marcus Luttrell's book about Operation Red Wings in connection with the film adaptation Lone Survivor. Together, these titles highlighted themes of military service, physical and mental endurance, and contemporary social debates as discussed across the episodes.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It Takes a Village
Discussed“I love Megan how it's always the leftists who tell us it takes a village That's the title of Hillary Clinton's Memoir”
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The Gender Wheel
Discussed“and we're we're sending our kids that the child not be exposed to gay porn in the form of gender queer by Maya kababi”
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A Treatise Explanatory of a New System of Naval, Military and Political Telegraphic Communication of General Application, in which a Comprehensive Numerical Dictionary ... Es Applied
Discussed“I just finished reading this book called Kingdom of ice by hand from sides and it is about the Trek to the North Pole in I believe 1779”
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Marcus's All-Time Best In 2014!
Discussed“for those that may be familiar with that if you've seen that movie or watched or read Marcus's book we had him on the show last last August with his brother”
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The Trident
Discussed“I remember I read from your book your opening line was um hi I'm Jay How you doing can I buy you a drink I cringed at my lack of wit and charm and the weakest pickup line ever What the hell That's the best I've got”
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Overcome
Discussed“This is from um from your book uh when you when you were talking to gill who was the one who was answering the questions for you uh your wife has been notified I spoke to her myself I try to not I want to thank him but the trach of my wired job preclude that Gil then adds a”
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Report of the Secretary of the Senate from April 1, 2006 to September 30, 2006
Discussed“secretary Robert Gates wrote about it”
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Mission: Invincible Marriage
Discussed“right now we are working on um uh we're almost done with a relationship book called Invincible marriage”
SmartLess
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Among the Thugs
Discussed“I've done that a few times—for me, Twitter—Bill Buford called 'Among the Thugs,' which is about— I don't know if you've read about that!”
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Perry Mason
Discussed“They went back to the origin story in the books, which was 1930s LA, which to me was, you know, with Chinatown and everything else for such was so alluring, and, and, and as a kid growing up watching old movies, I was like, oh my God, I get to wear a fedora and you do an American accent?”
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Through the Shadowlands
Discussed“Um, but you know, like I said, Anthony Hopkins was the chairman of the board at the time, so he'd be in and out and he'd just done, um, Shadowlands.”
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Mr. Show
Discussed“I was so anxious because I was like, he's a legend in the Mr. Show and everything, and I was so terrified!”
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Rebel without a Crew
Discussed“Um, Robert Rodriguez had written a book about making El Mariachi for seven thousand dollars, and again this contributed to that craze that was going on at the time.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Becoming Supernatural
Discussed“Additionally, my latest book, 'Becoming Supernatural,' covers these tools in detail, alongside tutorials available on our website.”
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Moonshots
Discussed“For those listening or watching, grab Naveen's book, 'Moonshots', if you are interested in setting audacious goals and achieving them.”
The Rubin Report
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Front Row at the Trump Show
Discussed“I wrote about this in my first book, and they treated the transition in a very professional way and said, you know what, we disagree with you, but our job is to make sure you're ready to govern and that you guys are successful.”
StarTalk Radio
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Philosophical essays
Discussed“He wrote an essay called ‘Mysticism and Logic’ where he discusses the battle between intuition and intellect, and the point is—we now have these skills; we are intellectually equipped to apply the scientific method and determine if things are real or fake, yet we're not using it as well as we could be!”
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Discussed“In my recent book, Story Messenger, I reflect on what a simulated world would be.”
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Catching stardust
Discussed“She's written two books: Catching Stardust, which I love, and Fire and Ice, of which a paperback edition is coming out very soon.”
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Fire and Ice
Discussed“She's written two books: Catching Stardust, which I love, and Fire and Ice, of which a paperback edition is coming out very soon.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Systemantics
Discussed“I once read an engaging book titled 'Systemantics' by John Gall, containing aphorisms about how systems function. One memorable aphorism was, 'The system does not do what its name suggests.'”
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Colonialism
Discussed“His controversial book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' was recently published and hit the non-fiction bestseller list in the UK.”
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Hitler's Table Talk
Discussed“Now, one of the things I learned, for example, I read a book called 'Hitler's Table Talk,' and it was transcripts of his spontaneous discussions over meal times over about a three-year period. I was very interested in the psychology of contempt and derision, and Hitler never used language that was associated with fear in relationship to the Jews.”
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The Merchant of Venice
Discussed“I'm thinking of a passage in the book of The Prophet Jeremiah where the Prophet is complaining to God. He's saying, 'You give me your word and I speak it, and everyone hates me and insults me.”
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Utilitarianism
Discussed“I wrote a book on what's wrong with rights in 2020, and then this book came out.”
Speaker Good and Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar | EP 359 2023-05-22 Listen at 1:58:14 -
What is Life?
Discussed“The first person who figured this out technically was probably Erwin Schrödinger, who wrote a book called 'What is Life?' He described life essentially as a continual attempt to constrain entropy to a certain set of parameters.”
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The Railway Children
Discussed“Then the problem gets even worse after that because if the default rule of thumb now is that every proclivity has an equal opportunity to be put forward on the educational front, you have to face the problem of, well, what if all the books that your children are reading feature only heterosexual couples?”
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Irreversible Damage
Discussed“Other publishers said they were afraid our transgender chapter wouldn't sell well on Amazon, especially since Abigail Shrier's book was in danger of being pulled down and Ryan Anderson's book had already been taken down.”
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When Harry Became Sally
Discussed“Other publishers said they were afraid our transgender chapter wouldn't sell well on Amazon, especially since Abigail Shrier's book was in danger of being pulled down and Ryan Anderson's book had already been taken down.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Nigger
Discussed“Randall has written a book titled 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'”
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From slavery to freedom
Discussed“One is the continuing story of racism, which is an awful story; but the other story is encapsulated in the title of a great book of history by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom.”
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For Discrimination
Discussed“You wrote a book on the topic titled For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.”
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The Tyranny of Merit
Discussed“Of course, there's, I guess, a colleague of yours, Michael Sandel, with 'Tyranny of Merit.'”
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Searching for the oldest stars
Discussed“And just, you know, this dark sky with the bright stars. And I have described this in my book years ago. If the Milky Way is all bright above you, you don't need a moon or anything, you can walk in the starlight and you will find your way.”
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Discussed“Now let me leave you with some words from Douglas Adams in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy': 'Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Mark Greaney's Gray Man Series: Books 1-3
Discussed“...that's one of the things that a friend of mine told me and it's actually in a book It's one in one of the grey Men books that those T those tasers are like especially the personal ones that people have...”
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Kerik and Valya
Discussed“...and now I know why I read the you know the the stolen Focus book for Yan Harry you know that's a really good book by and he says you know it's because in fighting my mind would be calm because my ADD I'm all over the place...”
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Let's Get It On!
Discussed“...and then you say uh I look at Big John I say do you believe that nose bone into the brain thing he wrote that in his book That's a he goes no...”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Mindset
Discussed“Carol Dweck, you might know her from her book 'Mindset,' decided to replicate these ego depletion studies.”
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Hooked
Discussed“In my line of work, you know, I'm fairly controversial because I wrote 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products' and then I wrote 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.'”
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Indistractable
Discussed“In my line of work, you know, I'm fairly controversial because I wrote 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products' and then I wrote 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.'”
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The Mindbody Prescription
Discussed“I don’t know if you’ve read 'The Mind-Body Prescription.'”
Huberman Lab
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Winter Swimming
Discussed“In fact, she is the author of a recent book entitled 'Winter Swimming,' which I must say is a terrific book because it breaks down chapter by chapter the different aspects of deliberate heat and cold into its various constituent parts, including cold acclimation, the cold shock response, the dangers and safety of cold water, the impact of cold, and”
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Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience
Discussed“Our lab has written over the years a few review chapters, and we were repeatedly writing the olfaction chapter for a very large textbook, the Gazzan Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience, I think it's called.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Discussed“A colleague once told me that I crave clarity. Eric Barker writes a fantastic blog and book of the same name, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree."”
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The Woman in White
Discussed“The advice you wrote about in The Daily Laws was this: always stick to what makes you strange and weird, and that's surprisingly good advice.”
No Stupid Questions
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Hit Refresh
Discussed“One thing that so impressed me: he wrote a book that, I mean, to be honest, wasn't a great book; most books by CEOs aren't great books, but I know this book—which was called Hit Refresh.”
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Abundance
Discussed“He actually wrote a book called 'Abundance,' and they argue that technology, especially, will just keep solving problems and keep making things better.”
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Doughnut Economics
Discussed“And then there are people like—I think of Kate Raworth, who's a British economist who wrote a book called 'Donut Economics.'”
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Power and Progress
Discussed“He's got a forthcoming book called 'Power and Progress: Our 1,000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.'”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Soul Boom
Discussed“He's an actor, he's a creator, and you may know him from his iconic role on The Office. He has a new book out called 'Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.'”
