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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2023
During June 2023, prominent podcasts highlighted literature ranging from practical arts and political media critique to technological futures and foundational philosophy. Bill Burr brought up John Riley's The Art of Bop Drumming on the Monday Morning Podcast, sharing his personal attachment to the guide for practicing bebop percussion on the road. On Timcast IRL, Alex Bruesewitz recommended Kayleigh McEnany's Serenity in the Storm for its perspective on countering media narratives, while other segments on the show delved into biblical analysis with Saint John's Book of Revelation and Taylor Marshall's Antichrist and Apocalypse. Technological advancement and speculative philosophy took center stage on the Lex Fridman Podcast, where George Hotz discussed Roger Williams's science fiction novel The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect and its sequel A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace while pondering artificial intelligence and future safety. Geopolitical and sociological structures were examined on The Ezra Klein Show, as Stephen Kotkin praised Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell's Invisible China for data-rich observations and David E. Bernstein's Classified for unexpected findings on American racial classification. Finally, Russell Brand appeared on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett to discuss Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy, exploring recurring mythic tropes and universal philosophical ideas across diverse cultures. These recommendations collectively provided audiences with deep explorations into human creativity, political structures, spiritual traditions, and technological horizons.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The People's Justice
Discussed“and frankly if any Republican wins he has a perfectly timed book out right now called The People's Justice Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional stories that Define him which I absolutely loved and blurbed because I loved it”
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When Race Trumps Merit
Discussed“Heather is a contributing editor at City Journal and author of the book when race trumps Merit how the pursuit of equity sacrifices Excellence destroys Beauty and threatens lives”
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Maverick
Discussed“and I thought gosh how timely your book and the and the piece done on your book are”
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The Chief's Chief
Discussed“He waved around some meeting involving Mark Meadows book that Trump attended A couple members of the press attended and some Trump aides attended That has now become such an issue for him... like this is a memoir for Mark Meadows”
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Forager
Recommended“maybe if you read forager field notes for surviving a family cult it might be helpful to you even if you weren't in a cult right even if you just had some massive challenges that you don't think you can get past”
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Domestic Extremist
Recommended“and this is part of the prescription offered in domestic extremists the demand what's the subtitle again I love the subtitle hold on a practical guide to winning the culture War”
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The red book =
Critiqued“even in the aep's red book it still says the routine you know on label two or three Doses and as a matter of fact I was really surprised as defined that they even say hey if the interval is too short between any of the doses you should restart which is frankly just crazy”
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Red Book
Discussed“even in the aep's red book it still says the routine you know on label two or three Doses”
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In My Daddy's Belly
Discussed“somebody who is a non-binary drag performer and the person giving birth is writing books like my daddy's belly talking about um how this book is going to be totally accessible to children of all ages and easy to understand”
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Clarence Darrow for the Defense
Recommended“I use 520 Pages by the great writer Irving Stone uh and I as soon as I finished the 520 pages I turned back to the beginning and started all over again”
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Trial of the Century
Recommended“Greg is out with a new book titled the trial of the century and it's not about O.J Simpson it's about something else which we'll get into and which has a lot of lessons for what's happening right now in the United States”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Art of Bop Drumming (with CD)
Recommended“In fact I actually brought the book out on the road with me my favorite one of my favorite drum books of all time yeah unzip in the bag my wife bought me a new [ __ ] bag a new backpack for years she's been telling me I think you need a new backpack and I'm like why this”
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Catch-22
Discussed“I was listening to try to explain the origin and meaning of Catch-22 and had to write in yeah I didn't I had never seen the movie and I was unfamiliar so thank you for writing in to set me straight here in the book the soldiers are required to complete uh all right so anyway there's the expression catch-22”
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You Cannot Be Serious
Discussed“and then I also remembered that [ __ ] hilarious chapter in John Mcenroe's book where he'd won Wimbledon he won the U.S open he won the Australian Open and he needed the career Grand Slam to win the French Open in one year he actually had it won and he ended up [ __ ] up and he blew”
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In Cold Blood
Discussed“I started watching uh Capote with the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman that guy was [ __ ] unbelievable I was enjoying the hell out of the movie first of all because I saw In Cold Blood a long time ago with Robert Blake and somebody else one of the most amazingly shot movies um well I guess Truman Capote”
Big Technology Podcast
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Winner Sells All
Discussed“Well, Jason, Jason, your book is all about competition between Amazon and Walmart. It's not like Amazon is competing against a lightweight here.”
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The Datapreneurs
Discussed“And when I saw your name come through that you had a book in the works, I was like, all right, this is finally the conversation with Bob.”
Timcast IRL
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Trial, Tribulation & Triumph
Discussed“so there's a book that I've been reading called trial tribulation and Triumph and it's a massive text and it sort of discusses how long um a lot of these things take and like how how long the stage is set for the Antichrist”
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Serenity in the Storm
Recommended“mcaney did really really well because she had the book debunking The lives in the media That is a fantastic way to handle it”
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The Revelation of Saint John the Divine
Recommended“I mean I've read Revelation but it's a very difficult read”
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Antichrist and Apocalypse
Recommended“there are a lot of um different breakdowns of it I Taylor Marshall does a really good one uh that I would recommend”
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The Civilization of China
Discussed“They've been writing books about it since the I mean Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marquis came out in like the 60s or something like that These are these Arguments for intergenerational relationships have been made by queer theorists for the better part of 50 years”
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This Book Is Gay
Discussed“parents started seeing books in schools that were teaching children about adult explicit content and now what's happening is it's causing a backlash that's encompassing more than just the core issue right So when a parent sees a book like this book is gay which which Ian purchased and it taught it teaches children how to use adult sex apps”
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The Modern Mercenary
Discussed“there's a great book called The Modern mercenary and there's a phenomenon that they call neo-medievalism because one of the problems during the Middle Ages was that people had an allegiance to their lord their God and their King”
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Democracy
Recommended“so Hans Hermann Hapa has written a brilliant book on this called democracy The God That Failed which I would just encourage everybody to check out it's a really good read very brilliant”
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Democracy - the God That Failed
Recommended“Hans Hermann Hapa has written a brilliant book on this called democracy The God That Failed which I would just encourage everybody to check out it's a really good read very brilliant”
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Heather Has Two Mommies
Discussed“like the book Heather has two mommies came out way before gay marriage like people were already wanting to enable you to have these kind of conversations about kids”
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This Fight Is Our Fight
Discussed“I read it was really good and I'm sure she wrote it herself we were looking at the political books and I was like I'm willing to bet that I can accurately predict with 90 sir I can predict with 90 certainty who actually wrote their book and who didn't and then there's like Elizabeth Warren like no way I”
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The MAGA Doctrine
Discussed“then Charlie Kirk I'm like Charlie Kirk definitely wrote that book so there are certain people where you know they talk too much like Charlie's the kind of guy who talks so much you know he's sitting there he's gonna write a book”
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Always with Honor
Recommended“go read Always With Honor by pyoto Rangel the best book on this subject whatsoever”
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The Last Undercover
Recommended“but if you really want to get into their psyche there's a great book It was written probably in the early to mid 90s by an FBI agent the guy's name this one the bureau actually did some good work and wasn't a political persecution Squad I believe the guy's name was Bob gamer and it's called the last undercover”
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Pageboy
Discussed“June 6 is the release date for page boy the new book what a weird marketing strategy”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Infinite jest
Discussed“So, 'Infinite Jest,' it's introduced in the first 50 pages is about a tape that once you watch it once, you only ever wanna watch that tape.”
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Recommended“There's a great book, and if I recommended 'Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect' last time, there is a sequel called 'A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace.'”
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The Ancient City - Imperium Press
Recommended“the single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here is the Ancient City by Numa Dennis Fustel De Coulanges.”
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The Sun Also Rises
Discussed“And so he wrote very simply, and it wasn't until after I read a bunch of Ernest Hemingway, I was working at Barnes and Noble, and this person said, 'Don't you love his titles?' And I was like, 'Yeah, 'Sun Also Rises'.”
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Life of the party
Discussed“Marc Maron wrote something about your book many, many, many ages ago. 'Life of the Party' I think is, there's an interesting question in there.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Dear Loved One
Discussed“if you look at the work of the historians then you learn that Adam Coons this psychic is made up a author named Susie Smith made up this psychic Adam Coons for a book called prominent American Ghost and she sort of expanded on uh Winchester's alleged obsession with the Paranormal”
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun
Discussed“you have written multiple books beneath a Restless son the Pulitzer Prize winning the devil in the Grove as well as the edge execution of Willie Francis”
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The execution of Willie Francis
Discussed“you have written multiple books beneath a Restless son the Pulitzer Prize winning the devil in the Grove as well as the edge execution of Willie Francis”
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The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton with Introductory Matter and Notes
Discussed“His book new English Kaden was banned by the Puritan government of the area in modern day Massachusetts Quincy Massachusetts because they didn't like his take on Puritan customs and power structures”
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Discussed“There's an example uh the absolutely true Diary of a Part-Time Indian written by an author named Sherman alexie”
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The Global Impact of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Discussed“and one of the things that comes up pretty often is a very successful racist propaganda like mein comp for the protocols of the Elders of Zion”
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The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments
Discussed“that's why the a simple children's chemistry book called The Golden Book of chemistry experiments was banned in I think it was like 1970 1969 and it's it was a children's book for chemical experiments”
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The Anarchist Cookbook
Discussed“I mean I love that we're mentioning the Anarchist Cookbook”
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Rage
Discussed“we talked about that book uh Stephen King removed from publication of his own accord uh the rage rage yes that's the one”
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New English Canaan, or New Canaan
Discussed“his book new English Kaden was banned by the Puritan government of the area in modern day Massachusetts Quincy Massachusetts because they didn't like his take on Puritan customs and power structures”
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Crew Change Guide to the US and Canada
Discussed“an example would be the crew change guide which we've talked about before people who function as you could call them modern day Nomads or hobos or whatever train Hoppers uh folks who ride the rails illegally they have a book and this book is called the crew change guide”
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Devil in the Grove
Discussed“King's work on his book devil in the Grove actually led to the exonerations of the wrongly accused men known as the Groveland for the podcast bone Valley brings that same level of investigative rigor to the story of Leon Schofield”
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Pale Rider
Discussed“well Kristen Rogers who wrote this consulted with Laura spinney who is an author she wrote pale writer the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world and there's this quote here that I just wanted to bring up because I think it just speaks to this whole episode”
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Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology
Recommended“I want to give a shout out to author Theresa Bain in her work Encyclopedia of fairies and World folklore mythology”
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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition
Recommended“I want to give a shout out to author Theresa Bain in her work Encyclopedia of fairies and World folklore mythology definitely definite must read if you're a fan of folklore”
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The Undead in World Mythology and Folklore
Recommended“I want to give a shout out to author Theresa Bain in her work Encyclopedia of fairies and World folklore mythology definitely definite must read if you're a fan of folklore”
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Ted Kennedy
Discussed“and I'll tell you even more we read his autobiography as I think anybody would that was trying to tell the story seriously and he talks a lot about what he was thinking and feeling during these intervening hours as well”
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Ted Kennedy
Discussed“the New York Times just published an opinion piece by a gentleman who's uh writing a new biography about Ted Kennedy who um inexplicably thinks that uh this is not something to be included in the public discussion about Ted Kennedy at the moment”
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Miami
Discussed“there's this brilliant um Joan Didion quote She Wrote This Book Miami about the basically the the cia's attempts to successful attempts to you know ferment the anti-castro invasionary forces in Miami and uh she has this line decisions taken in Washington from time to time leave a certain residue on the board”
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The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
Discussed“That same year 1734 Franklin also published the first Masonic book printed in America that was called the Constitutions of the Freemasons”
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The drinker's dictionary
Discussed“well um maybe because you don't have a copy of the drinkers dictionary published in 1737 with a list of over 200 alternative terms for drunkenness that Ben Franklin had overheard in taverns over the years”
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A Spy in Canaan
Discussed“and you sir have a quite amazing thing going in your new book a spy in Canaan”
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Saint Juniper's Folly
Recommended“yeah the uh it's funny because uh Alex I went and I went ahead and pre-ordered Saint Juniper's folly”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Invisible China
Recommended“so I'll do Scott Roselle invisible China I think that's the China book that your listeners would learn the most from of all the China books”
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Classified
Recommended“so I'll go for David Bernstein classified which is the untold story of racial classification In America”
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How to Be Animal
Discussed“all this was in my head as I started reading Melanie Challenger's book how to be animal a new history of what it means to be human”
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Summertime
Recommended“the second book is by Australian philosopher Danielle seller major and it's called summertime Reflections on a Vanishing future”
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Lighthead
Recommended“so I've been reading light head by Terence Hayes and his poems I guess they kind of spin Together High art and formal technical Innovation”
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The UFO Evidence
Recommended“another book I'd recommend is called the UFO evidence a 30-year report by Richard H Hall h-a-l-l published in 2001”
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When Affirmative Action Was White
Discussed“Ira Katz Nelson has a phenomenal book called when affirmative action was white which really lays this out”
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Racial Conflict and Economic Development
Recommended“the second book which is foundational for me is racial conflict and economic development by Arthur Lewis”
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Some aspects of economic development
Recommended“the second book which is foundational for me is racial conflict and economic development by Arthur Lewis”
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Postcolonial Love Poem
Recommended“and then finally a book that I read more recently by Natalie Diaz who is an indigenous poet the book is called post-colonial love poems”
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How to break up with your phone
Recommended“and so I just finished Catherine Price's how to break up with your phone which has been fantastic and very helpful”
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A Visit from the Goon Squad
Recommended“and I'm finally reading a visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan which is fantastic”
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No One Is Talking About This
Recommended“and um and also I'm reading Patricia Lockwood uh no one is talking about this which is a fantastic little weird book about the internet”
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The Courage to Be Free
Discussed“and so I've been reading Rhonda Santos's book the courage to be free Florida's blueprint for America's Revival”
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Dreams From Our Founding Fathers
Discussed“and he's not only read desantis's most recent book but he won up Me by reading his little-known 2011 book dreams from our founding fathers”
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An hour before daylight
Recommended“the next book I want to recommend is called an hour before daylight and it's a one of several Memoirs that Jimmy Carter wrote”
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All the best, George Bush
Recommended“and the last book is a book of letters it's called all the best by George Bush and it is a massive book”
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Discussed“Aaron bastani wrote a book called fully automated luxury communist the best of the titles”
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Utopia for Realists
Discussed“so I'm thinking of like Rutger bregman's Utopia for realist right where he talks about a 15-hour work week”
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Utopia
Discussed“so if we look at like Thomas Moore's Utopia he talks exactly about how when the utopians shared their resources all people in this Society even though they are in biparental families”
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Saving Time
Discussed“and you know Jenny O'Dell's recent book about saving time and the way that we have come to think of time as this fundamentally sort of fungible asset”
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Pirate Enlightenment
Recommended“the first one is pirate Enlightenment by the late David Graber the subtitle is the real libertalia”
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Gender and the politics of history
Recommended“and then the third book is gender in the politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott Who as a grad student many years ago kind of broke my brain”
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Imagined communities
Recommended“and so the first one is Benedict Anderson's imagined communities which is still I think it was written in the early 80s but it's still this remarkable book that is able to explain why people are so nationalistic”
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Wealth and Power
Recommended“a book that I read about China that I felt really conveyed some of China's past and present very well was a book called wealth and power by Orville shell and John delivery both Great China Scholars Great China Watchers and it's really the story of China from 1850 to the present”
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The idea of India
Recommended“and for India there are so many but there's a wonderful short book called the idea of India by Sunil kelnani a young academic and probably not so young anymore but it's wonderfully written”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The perennial philosophy
Recommended“I suppose if you want some help, perennialism by Aldis Huxley is a good place to look at where he identified in the same way that Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung it could be said, identified respectively that there are mythic tropes that appear to recur in all cultures. He began to write a a famous book which I believe”
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Inverse Cowgirl
Recommended“her book is coming out it's called inverse cowgirl”
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The Reset Factor
Discussed“you talk about in the reset factory your first book from 2016 chapter 10 you said something which I hadn't quite um appreciated”
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Lighter
Discussed“People might say, 'Oh man, I read a review of your book,' and it's funny because the feedback has been largely positive, particularly for the last two chapters.”
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That Little Voice in Your Head
Discussed“when when I write for example, I'm not I'm not saying I'm intelligent, but when I write uh something like uh you know, The Happiness Equation uh in in my first book, this was something that's never been written before, right?”
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Die wise
Recommended“He's you know, he worked 30 years with dying people. He wrote a book called Die Wise and I was I love his work and I asked him about Die Wise and he said it's not just someone dying.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Letter to the American Church
Discussed“We discuss his most recent book, A Letter to the American Church, which argues that it's a betrayal of faith to stay silent in the face of tyranny.”
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The cost of discipleship
Discussed“So I thought to myself that idea, Bonhoeffer wrote a book, The Cost of Discipleship, where he famously talks about cheap grace, because the excuse given by the German theologians and pastors at the time was that, 'Well, it's all about grace; it's less about what we do.'”
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Bonhoeffer
Discussed“Bonhoeffer and so on and so forth it's it's it's exceedingly clear to me that God's hand was in my writing them but never have I felt a burning passion”
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
Discussed“they're sitting in different chairs reading and the books that I saw them reading were Atlas Shrugged the boys who challenged Hitler The Da Vinci Code and unbroken”
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Covid-19: The Great Reset
Critiqued“Did you read Klaus Schwab's 'Great Reset'? I did, and quite the aggregation of clichés.”
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Das Kapital
Discussed“If we focus on his economic analysis in 'Capital', we miss the entire picture.”
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The phenomenology of spirit
Discussed“So these sects that you're referring to in the Middle Ages of kind of bizarre Christianity were actually Gnostic heresies that were developing, and I think that by means of Hegel coming down through Marx, who inverted it, I believe we actually are looking at a Gnostic heresy hidden inside of economics, social — in fact, if we read 'Phenomenology”
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One-Dimensional Man
Discussed“So we go back to our neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse writing in 'One-Dimensional Man'... and what is he saying? What's his argument?”
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The Great Narrative
Discussed“So 'The Great Narrative,' his second book that he wrote… well, it's his fourth, really, but the second book he wrote in that series is much more poignant.”
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An Essay on Liberation
Discussed“What did Marcuse write in '69? He wrote in 'An Essay on Liberation' that it's crucial that the resistance, meaning the radicals, take on the form, he said this, the clownish forms that so irritate the establishment.”
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How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
Recommended“Bjorn wrote a book a while back called 'How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place,' which is an intelligent approach to... I wouldn't say the polycrisis because that isn't how he frames it!”
Modern Wisdom
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Unfollow
Discussed“well she said that she had read my book unfollow which kind of Chronicles my upbringing in the Westboro Baptist Church”
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The Chamber
Discussed“I thought of that John Grisham story about he wrote A Time to Kill first and he couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and we've had a John Grisham novel every year in some years two John Christian novels every year since”
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Plan X
Discussed“I knew a little bit about it but not nearly as much as I did after I read those that book which led me to two other books and then multiple conversations with Brian Mora about it”
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Excellent Advice for Living
Discussed“so this is really the subtitle of my book wisdom I wish I'd known earlier it just took me way way too long to kind of get there”
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Never in Anger
Recommended“interestingly one of you know one of the things that really tuned me into the evolutionary research is a book by Jean Briggs never in anger”
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Start at the End
Discussed“I found a book called start at the end which was essentially a business book that was if you want to create a business decide exactly what you want out of it from the very beginning”
My First Million
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Practical Law of Attraction
Recommended“actually there's a book that I like called practical Law of Attraction and what it's kind of saying to be honest it basically I didn't know about this stuff when I was launching my business but it kind of actually reaffirmed the stuff that I was already doing”
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Discussed“I’m reading this book; it’s called 'Killers of the Flower Moon.' It's basically about the 1920s Osage Indians; there are Native Americans.”
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Gym Launch Secrets
Discussed“So I was just kind of like founder talking to customers to get an idea of what was going on. But he knew me enough from just like I'd written a small book in the gym space called Gym Launch Secrets that he had read that book like loved it applied it to his photography business and she took a”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Hiding the Elephant
Recommended“there's a book I would recommend to anyone a book called hiding the elephant by Jim steinmeyer which is the only magic history book I've ever completely enjoyed”
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Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling
Discussed“The first business book I ever read was called The Little Red Book of Selling. It was this tiny little thing that I got.”
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The Ideal Team Player
Recommended“And it's largely based on a book that Patrick Lencioni wrote called The Ideal Team Player.”
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Confessions of the Pricing Man
Recommended“For some of our other staff, we have Confessions of the Pricing Man. Simon, I think is the last name.”
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The Road Less Stupid
Recommended“And then The Road Less Stupid.”
Conversations with Tyler
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Impromptu
Discussed“Reed needs no introduction but most notably recently he has published a new book impromptu amplifying our Humanity through AI which has made the Wall Street Journal bestseller list”
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Uplift
Discussed“I've been re-reading David brin's uplift series very carefully because the theory of um how should we create other kinds of intelligences”
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The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1
Recommended“another one that I've been rereading recently because I think it's it's it's good fun but also raises good questions in a simple uh fun format is Martha Wells murderbot series”
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Discourse on the origins of inequality (second discourse) ; Polemics ; and, Political economy
Discussed“so if you look at the second discourse on inequality it's highly libertarian deriving from basically Cartesian principles about the uniqueness of and creativity of human thought and language onto a fairly libertarian conception of social organization”
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Animal Liberation Now
Discussed“it is now titled animal Liberation now the definitive classic renewed and by my estimate it's about two-thirds to three-quarters new material”
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A Darwinian Left
Discussed“you once wrote a book entitled a darwinian left do you think you're becoming more or less darwinian over time”
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Hegel
Discussed“not everyone knows you've written a book on Hegel what have you learned from Hegel who is not a utilitarian right not a necessarily not a utilitarian and it's a let me just say firstly that book is written a long time ago I think in the early 1980s secondly it's a very slim book it's a 100 page book”
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Pushing Time Away
Discussed“I'm a big fan of your book pushing time away my grandfather and the tragedy of Jewish Vienna”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Lord of War
Discussed“Lord of War was uh definitely ephraim's uh it was his favorite movie by far he thought it was the coolest movie ever”
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The Mishnah
Discussed“so at a certain point in time they quantify what they believe is the correct interpretation of the Bible into a new holy book which is the mishnah”
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Discussed“so he's a Yale University neurologist he's the author of The Skeptics Guide to the universe and of course he has a podcast by the same name”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Road to Eleusis
Discussed“um Carl Rook wrote the original book do you know that one the road to eluses yeah I've heard of it which is a very good book with um with Albert Hoffman and and um the banker what was his name anyway”
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San Fransicko
Discussed“and so like in San Francisco that's the big criticism that uh there's a guy named Michael schellenberger and he wrote a book called San Francisco describing like what happens when progressives ruin cities”
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How We Live Is How We Die
Recommended“I'm always trying to listen to like some audiobook on spirituality it's Pima children's book newest book about dying something like how we live is how we die it's very good book”
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Discussed“um you ever read the book um the Ice Age inheritance”
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The Ice Age
Discussed“um you ever read the book um the Ice Age inheritance no this is this is what it talks about people”
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Swamp thing
Discussed“I forgot about Swamp Thing I used to read the comic books I really knew it was DC Comics Swamp Thing dude”
Acquired
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Porsche-Excellence Was Expected
Discussed“there is this incredible history of Porsche called Excellence was expected that was written by Carl lewison and we have to owe a big thank you to him”
Behind the Bastards
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An address to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America, upon slave-keeping
Discussed“and as Rush authored one of the first major pieces of abolition writing in the colonies a 1773 pamphlet titled and addressed to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America upon slave keeping now that sounds pretty good”
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The autobiography of Benjamin Rush
Discussed“It appears in the autobiography of Benjamin Rush in it he described Uber as a native African whom I bought and liberated after he had served me for 10 years”
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Blind Man's Bluff
Recommended“there's a book called Blind Man's Bluff if you want to read about kind of the [ __ ] that U.S and Russian Subs got up to in the late Cold War era um it's a really good book”
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Blood Meridian
Discussed“It's kind of—I think that Blood Meridian is challenging in some ways that aren't different, because like so much of reading Blood Meridian is like, 'What the f*** did he mean by that?”
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Literature as exploration
Discussed“in the Book Literature is exploration which is a very influential book on literary Theory by Professor Luis rosenblatt”
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An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck
Discussed“the lifeboat association was was prompted by it's called an appeal to the British nation. It was published in 1825 by this guy called William Hillary.”
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Anarchism and Its Aspirations
Recommended“I mean the other um I mean the other one that I really like is Cindy Milstein's um anarchism and its aspirations and that's short. it's very accessible and she has this discussion of mutual aid”
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All That Remains
Discussed“The area around the village, according to Wid Khaled's book, All That Remains, was quote, "wellendowed with fertile soil and surface and underground water resources, with olives being the villages chief crop.”
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Sex, Lies, and Online Dating
Discussed“The book Sex Lies in headlocks alleges that a source close to the McMahon's tipped them off that this has happened”
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Headlock
Discussed“The book Sex Lies in headlocks alleges that a source close to the McMahon's tipped them off that this has happened”
The Rubin Report
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I'm Not a Girl
Critiqued“Here is one book. And I hope the letters are facing the right way. Mhm. Now, it says I'm not a girl, but what's important is to look at the illustration and the text. All right? This is this is a book which is meant for first and second graders.”
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They, she, he, me
Critiqued“This is called uh let's see here. They, she, he, me. And it's it's it really is a very simple It's quite beautiful, too. The artwork is actually gorgeous. Um I mean, if you I like children's books, so So, but here is Here's some of the artwork that's inside. And on the back, it says, "Pronouns serve as a”
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The Anti-Communist Manifesto
Discussed“So since the book is called "The Anti-Communist Manifesto," and I'm sure many people are familiar with "The Communist Manifesto," first off, do you make a distinction at this point...”
No Stupid Questions
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Managing Expectations
Discussed“Okay, maybe if I read this book, I'll be better at not having these ridiculous expectations, but so far it hasn't worked.”
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Discussed“You're probably familiar with this book, 'The Top Five Regrets of the Dying,' written by a hospice nurse. The number one regret of the dying, she said, is that they say, I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
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Radical Candor
Discussed“So Kim Scott, a friend of both of ours, author of 'Radical Candor' and just work, an amazing human being, Kim has this construct that she calls rock stars and superstars, and the basic gist is that early on at Qualtrics or most startups, right, you want people who can scale with the company, who can grow with it, who”
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Meditation is Not What You Think
Discussed“I don't know; I'm like reading this book on meditation and mindfulness, and I'm like, okay, maybe if I read this book, I'll be better at like not having these ridiculous expectations, but so far it hasn't worked!”
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Yes Man
Discussed“One thing that is interesting, though, and this is a totally tangential aside, there's this book called u2018Yes Man, I think they later made a movie about it, but this guy Danny Wallace who lived in London, he was getting bored; his life was getting boring, his friends were worried about him.”
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Not Born Yesterday
Discussed“And I did mention, so I dip my toe in this research on gullibility, and there's not a lot on it, but I read this review called 'How Gullible Are We?'”
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Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion
Recommended“If I gave Raymond the best advice, I think it would be go read ‘Influence’ by Bob Cialdini.”
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The Great Good Place
Discussed“I knew you were going to either invoke Bob Putnam or Ray Oldenburg, who wrote *The Great Good Place* and talked about the loss of third places, so home being the first place, work being the second place, and we used to have all of these third places to which we would go like bowling leagues or churches, or pubs,”
The Book Review
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All the Pretty Horses
Discussed“All the Pretty Horses was published by afov and there was a big PR push for All the Pretty Horses and before that no one really knew the name cor M McCarthy”
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Suttree
Discussed“but the four before that the orchard keeper outer dark child of God and sutri Suri I always say Sury but I'm not positive Sury”
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Child of God
Discussed“but anyway the first three novels yeah the orchard keeper outer dark and child of God are relentlessly Bleak”
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The Passenger
Discussed“Dwight you wrote a piece late last year following the publication of the passenger and Stella Maris those two Interlink novels about food in the work of Cormac McCarthy”
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King: A Life
Discussed“this week I'm joined by Jonathan a author of several biographies including luckiest man the life and death of Lou garri and Ali alive about Muhammad Ali his latest King alive takes on another American Creek Martin Luther King Jr”
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Bearing the cross
Discussed“well I figured for one thing great books like Taylor Branch's Trilogy and David GS bearing the cross are really books that focus on the movement with King playing a major role”
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Seabiscuit
Recommended“so uh C biscuit is is definitely an all-time favorite”
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My Murder
Discussed“I want to jump ahead to one that sounded particularly interesting which is called my murder”
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The Quiet Tenant
Discussed“so there's one that's been getting a lot of early Buzz called The Quiet tenant by clol michelon”
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Going Zero
Recommended“so a recent book I would recommend is a delightful book called going Zero by Anthony mcarton”
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What Lies in the Woods
Recommended“the next one is called what lies in the woods it's by Kate Alice Marshall”
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Nothing Special
Recommended“so this is Nicole flattery's dayb she is an Irish writer”
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Daughter of the Dragon
Recommended“yeah so this is called daughter of the dragon by Yun hang who's an academic at UC Santa Barbara”
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Silver Nitrate
Recommended“and she has a new one out called silver nitrate that I believe is set in like the Mexican film industry”
Stuff You Should Know
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Blake; or, The Huts of America
Discussed“but uh there was a guy in 1857 uh named Martin Delaney who was a a kind of a jack of all trades he was a doctor and a journalist and an author and abolitionist uh he wrote a book a novel called Blake or the Huts of America uh which was as a lot of these are alternate histories”
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Light Ahead for the Negro
Discussed“but there was a guy named Edward Johnson who wrote um light ahead for the Negro uh in 1901 and he imagined a black man who uh was transported to a socialist version of the United States in 2006 where things were much much better”
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Kindred
Discussed“uh and there's a TV show last year or the year before from her book Kindred yeah from 1979 which I wasn't I didn't see it”
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Black No More
Discussed“and he wrote that the book Black no more where you could visit a machine pay $50 and after three a three-day process be turned from black to white and it completely upends society and civilization both in the white community and the black community”
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The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Elements of chemical philosophy
Discussed“He wrote a book uh of elements Elemental and chemistry I'm sorry chemical philosophy four years after that and at that point it was spelled aluminum”
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The Talmud
Discussed“if you ask me like did you know that in the talmud bad breath is considered a quote major disability and grounds for divorce it's in the talmud”
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The History of Manners
Discussed“...and there's a book um called the history of manners written in 1939 by Norbert Elias uh that said that you know Medieval Era uh through the 19th century there was a big change in that”
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Etiquette
Discussed“...Emily post was raised in that world and she as I think a 40-something divorcee I sat down and and put pen to paper and wrote what became the most successful etiquette book of all time yeah uh 1922 etiquette in society not a colon everybody a comma yeah etiquette in society and business and politics and at home”
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Etiquette in society, in business, in politics and at home
Discussed“yeah uh 1922 etiquette in society not a colon everybody a comma yeah etiquette in society and business and politics and at home”
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Ancient Dragons of the Sky
Discussed“another paleontologist named Harry Seeley even wrote a book called dragons of the sky in which he said birds were the descendants of these”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Why We Meditate
Recommended“I like I'm listening to this great book I think it's called why we meditate it's so good uh”
EconTalk
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The Happy Hypocrite
Recommended“I tell the story The Happy hypocrite which is a story I recommend to people um it's magnificent by Max bierbaum”
Huberman Lab
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Built to Move
Recommended“I also had developed a friendship with Kelly Starrett, so San Francisco CrossFit, who I have tremendous respect for on multiple levels. His new book, 'Built to Move,' is a great book.”
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Don't Shoot the Dog
Recommended“There is a quote also from a book called 'Don't Shoot the Dog,' which is a terrible title but an excellent book written by Karen Pryor, who was an aquatic mammal trainer.”
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Pihkal
Recommended“And by the way, if you're interested in the story of Alexander Shulgin and the drugs he synthesized, as well as the group he built to take these drugs and try them—who had several members using these drugs in therapy with their patients for a long time, both before and after MDMA became illegal—there's a wonderful book called Pihkal, which”
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Discussed“Where the Red Fern Grows I liked um books and stories about it generally was boys for me for whatever reason”
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Emotions, Learning, and the Brain
Recommended“Additionally, Dr. Immordino-Yang authored an excellent book titled 'Emotions, Learning, and the Brain,' which is designed for the general public. It’s highly informative and filled with practical tools; we've provided a link to that book in the show notes too.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Twelfth Night
Discussed“You talk about hard work and work ethic in the book all the time, but how is this different? How do you set yourself up?”
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Emma
Discussed“Because I think people look at you, and even when I read your book, I was just thinking, you're working really hard at basketball, you're really working hard at your family, you're working hard at being a dad; I'm like this guy works hard on every area of his life like there's not… so you try to, you're trying to.”
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Discover the power within you
Discussed“I then read this book by Eric Butterworth called Discover the Power Within You, and it helped me articulate how I felt. And that is if you take Christ’s words as philosophy, right?”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Bold Move
Recommended“but when I read uh Dr Luana marquez's book bold moves when I started to dig into the research around this habit that you and I have of avoiding stuff holy guacamole I gotta I like this was everywhere in my life”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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You Are the One You've Been Waiting For
Discussed“this new book that you have um you you are the one is really all you're the one you've been waiting for is really kind of all about that”
The Daily Stoic
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Y the Last Man
Discussed“um sorry three including a graphic novel um why the last man”
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The Vegetable
Discussed“um one is um a first edition of F Scott Fitzgerald's um play the vegetable”
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor
Discussed“because there's a great bookstore Don's such a great dude he's a very sweet dude um delightful voice I know that's the best part about him listening to the Scottish Brook”
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City of Thieves
Recommended“because one of the best lines that quote McCarthy's I've written um great city of Thieves City if you've never read city of Thieves David benioff it's a wonderful story about his grandfather”
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Zen in the Art of Archery
Discussed“You've read Zen and the Art of Archery, I'm sure, right? I don't know if I've ever read that; I know I've had the book, but I don't know if I've ever read it.”
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On Writing
Discussed“You're not the same person who wrote your first book, so if you're using exactly the same methods that that guy was using, they might not be optimal. No, it's changed a ton.”
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2
Discussed“Shakespeare is stealing from the writings of Plutarch, who existed roughly around the time of Marcus Aurelius. He quotes other fables and stuff, but you can tell that Shakespeare is stealing from ancient stories—just as like the Renaissance was powered by them falling back in love with the Greeks and the Romans.”
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The Odyssey
Discussed“In the Odyssey, he talks about the 'wine-dark sea.' Who thinks the ocean looks like wine?”
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Recovery
Discussed“Um, I, as a person who's found a lot of healing and recovery in the 12-step rooms, I was very surprised to see you write about it in both Stillness Is the Key and Discipline Is Destiny. So, I'm curious as to like how that came about or why you were inspired to do that, cuz the other the only”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Power in Numbers
Discussed“You need to know the history of math; you need to understand that, you know, part of my book, 'Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics,' was really to highlight that women have also contributed.”
StarTalk Radio
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Discussed“The dude wrote a book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, where he had to cut off his arm. Yes! So is that possible?”
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The elegant universe
Discussed“Our buddy Brian, the author of the bestselling book 'The Elegant Universe,' and he followed it up with 'The Fabric of the Cosmos'... Anyhow, here's what he told me...”
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The fabric of the cosmos
Discussed“Our buddy Brian, the author of the bestselling book 'The Elegant Universe,' and he followed it up with 'The Fabric of the Cosmos'... Anyhow, here's what he told me...”
ChooseFI
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Good to Great
Recommended“he is a brilliant series called the stock series I think I'm not sure at last counties probably up to about 30 different blog posts in that particular series and he's actually turned it into a published book called The Simple path to wealth”
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
Recommended“and so then I moved on to a book called the little book of Common Sense investing by John Bogle the founder of Vanguard right I mean it's it's brilliant”
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48 Days to the Work You Love
Recommended“Dan Miller uh has has a book in in a popular podcast series and it's you know it's 48 days to the to the work you love”
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Pathfinders
Recommended“It's incredibly powerful It's one of the first books I recommend as does Brad obviously”
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The Five Love Languages
Recommended“and Don said if you haven't I suggest reading the five love languages”
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The Simple Path to Wealth
Recommended“and then just send us an email at feedback choosefi.com letting us know that you did that we would happily enter you in a drawing to win a copy of J.L Collins book The Simple path to wealth”
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Principles of Healing in Bali
Book club“and for this week and next week we're doing the four hour work week by Tim Ferris”
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How to retire happy, wild, and free
Discussed“Being an avid reader and planner I headed to my favorite place the library and checked out some books on retirement how to retire happy Wild and Free By Ernie zielinski and what color is your parachute for retirement by John Nelson and Richard Bowles”
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What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement
Recommended“how to retire happy Wild and Free By Ernie zielinski and what color is your parachute for retirement by John Nelson and Richard Bowles”
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The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk
Discussed“so I got on Amazon and I started Googling books and I got a copy of William Bernstein's the intelligent investor and you know I came up through storytelling and theater and film and I was not a math guy and I sat there and tried to read the intelligent investor and it was just a total torture for me”
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Can I Retire Yet?
Recommended“and uh I'd have to give a huge shout out to Daryl Kirkpatrick and his website her blog can I retire yet after I found Jim Collins and really started to get in into this idea of um maybe never working and I had to go out and figure out how to make those calculations and somehow I found Daryl”
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The Spider
Recommended“One of those is there's a book which I would encourage anybody interested in this subject, has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but it's so important to read and I believe it's called The Starfish and the Spider.”
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The E-Myth Revisited
Recommended“so anybody who owns a business that's listening to this or think about going into business totally you know listen to people like John wurillo and his uh built to sell podcast and his book his fantastic book read the e-myth”
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The E-myth
Recommended“totally you know listen to people like John wurillo and his uh built to sell podcast and his book his fantastic book read the e-myth I think the e-myth even if you work for the man if you work for somebody else I think the e-myth is a fan fantastic book to read about what's really important in a business”
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Profit First
Recommended“and there's a great book called profit first that is come out fairly recently just a few years ago that is a great primer on instead of growing a business to be bigger to grow a business to be more profitable so that it spins off more money”
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Official Pocket Player's Guide to Star Trek
Recommended“if we zoom out I'd be doing the world of disservice if I didn't say in the past five years the best purchase I've ever made is the fifth edition Dungeons and Dragons players handbook”
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Enemies of Peace
Recommended“so we went ahead and purchased several copies of mk's book enemies of Peace if you would like to win a copy of that book we are going to include it for the next several weeks”
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Anything You Want
Recommended“Derek sivers who I actually learned about through one of Brad's favorites the Tim Ferriss podcast wrote one of my favorite books on entrepreneurship called anything you want which tells the story of his creating growing and selling his business”
Pod Save America
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The Big Break
Discussed“Then later the Washington Post's Ben Terris talks to Tommy about his new book The Big Break, which is a riveting account of DC in the post-Trump era.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Good Will Hunting
Discussed“I always think I love this movie and I always think of it it's you know it's uh Goodwill Hunting he's like you know it's not your fault shut up you know it's not your fault stop bullshitting man you know and then he keeps going he keeps going it's not your fault don't be [ __ ] with me”
The Realignment
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V Is for Victory
Recommended“I really enjoyed the book the book is V for victory Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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From Impossible To Inevitable
Recommended“one I mean there's a really good book that I wouldn't like it might be outdated now it's called impossible to inevitable talking about outbound it's not gonna be direct to LinkedIn”
