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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2023
July 2023 saw podcasters and their guests exploring a wide-ranging selection of literature covering automotive design, philosophy, historical fiction, esoteric beliefs, and social commentary. On The Rich Roll Podcast, Kai Lenny discussed Adrian Newey's How to Build a Car, highlighting its unique insights into elite Formula One vehicle engineering. Philosophical and psychological inquiries were prominent on Modern Wisdom, where Sam Harris referenced works associated with Bill Irvin regarding stoicism and Will Storr's explorations of social status. On Timcast IRL, the host revisited Jules Verne's classic adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth while touching upon subterranean conspiracy theories. Megyn Kelly utilized her platform on The Megyn Kelly Show to recommend multiple distinct titles, including Gad Saad's The Saad Truth about Happiness and Oli London's Gender Madness, aiming to engage audiences with discussions on personal joy and contemporary cultural struggles. Supernatural and esoteric topics also surfaced, as Ryan Bethea joined Stuff They Don't Want You To Know to recommend Dr. Richard Gallagher's Demonic Foes for readers fascinated by possession. Lastly, Ben Bowlin highlighted James Prince and Jas Waters's The Art and Science of Respect on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, celebrating its compelling storytelling and communication principles. Together, these books offered listeners an eclectic mix of technical craftsmanship, philosophical depth, and cultural debate.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Crime classification manual
Discussed“and that comes from the 1992 crime classification manual and um that's where it outlines all that stuff”
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Murder in the Bayou
Discussed“an author named Ethan Brown investigated this for a number of years he wrote a book about it called Murder in the bayou”
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Foucault's Pendulum
Discussed“have you guys read foucao's pendulum I have not it's by Umberto Echo and it is a um it is so it's so weird it's about if I remember correctly I haven't read in quite some time it's kind of like what you're describing it's like where people invent a kind of intellectual game or conspiracy and it gets out”
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Demonic Foes
Recommended“I encourage everyone to read his book demonic foes if you're fascinated with this topic and you want a really good beach read for people to walk by and see you reading”
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The Art and Science of Respect
Recommended“I also want to shout out the uh book that he wrote The Art and Science of respect uh Drake wrote the forward”
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One-Armed Jack
Discussed“We want to hear your thoughts on the Jack the Ripper investigation. We also want to point out that Miss Bax Horton does have a book coming out on this. If you are interested in learning more it is called one arm Jack uncovering the real Jack the Ripper. uh it will be coming out this summer in full disclosure.”
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The Country School of To-morrow
Discussed“in a book called The Country School of Tomorrow a Rockefeller advisor named Frederick Taylor Gates who was a Grand Puba in the Geb he in this book from 1916 says the follow”
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Dreaming of How it Was Going to Be
Recommended“It's titled caught in the net colon slavery on Southeast Asian Seas It's by JJ Rose It's an excellent read”
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The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon
Discussed“shout out to Oxford University a seriologist Stephanie Dolly daily uh the author of a book called Lost Gardens of Babylon this professor is legitimate she argues that the Hanging Gardens were not built by Nebuchadnezzar at in Babylon at all Nebuchadnezzar II but in Nineveh by an Assyrian ruler named here we go uh sinachirib sinach Europe”
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Crowd Psychology
Recommended“please forgive me if you've already covered this I would love for you to do an episode or two on Gustav labon's the crowd a study of the popular mind from 1895. this book is like patient zero of 20th century propaganda Teddy Roosevelt Edward Bernays and Joseph gerbils all read and quoted it”
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In Search of Lost Time
Discussed“you know it could take you right back to a day a thing happened in a way more so even than maybe a photograph could like proust uh in a taste of Things Remembered or remembrance of things past when he eats the Madeleine and uh writes a really long novel as a result which is true”
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Perfume
Recommended“Have you guys heard of a novel and then a film called perfume? uh story of murder”
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Perfume. Film Tie-In. The Story of a Murderer
Recommended“have you guys heard of a novel and then a film called perfume uh story of murder yes Nat riddle recommended it to me and it was one of my favorite books I read that year it's real cool”
EconTalk
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Discussed“I would just I would think about schumpeter and I think about capitalism socialism and democracy”
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The Sensory Order
Discussed“And actually, I think possibly the first person in history, as far as I can tell, to make this argument was uh Friedrich Hayek, um who wrote a a little sort of a little-known book in 1952 called The Sensory Order.”
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Sheppey
Discussed“Uh but the most eloquent version of it is told by Somerset Maugham in a play uh that he wrote in 1933 called uh Sheppey.”
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The Lost Art of Dying
Discussed“her latest book which is the subject of today's episode is the Lost Art of dying Reviving forgotten wisdom”
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The Shepherd's Life
Discussed“our topic for today is the life of the sheep farmer depicted in his first book The Shepherd's life which was published in 2015”
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English Pastoral
Discussed“but we may also get to his 2020 book English pastoral”
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Wild Souls
Recommended“um and then there's an American lady called Emma Maris sort of a really good book called wild Souls about the ethics of reintroducing animals”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Warfighting
Discussed“you know I love to read which was great because all of these older guys who are getting out were like here's you know this mcdp one on like War fighting and like all these Marine Corps doctrines like that they you know that they have and all these guys were getting out in retune like just handing out books”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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How to Build a Car
Recommended“and then another book that I recently read um you know I like to read a lot of fiction too but like on the non-fiction it's like how to build a car which is Adrian newey from Red Bull Racing um that was really interesting he's the most prolific car designer and it's just really cool to hear his journey”
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Travel Light
Discussed“teaching meditation, as well as writing a book about what this experience has taught him, called, quite cheekily, Travel Light,”
Modern Wisdom
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The Fast
Discussed“certainly I notice young people now who are who appear almost neurologically incapable of watching a great movie from beginning to end without interruption you know what's cool if you Google the number of cuts in the first fast and furious movie compared to the number of cuts in the 10th Fast and Furious movie”
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Marriage Is
Recommended“I mean there's you know Bill Irvin this philosophy Professor um who wrote a great book the guide to the good life um has attract has a series on waking up that is really great”
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Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame
Recommended“you know will store who wrote that great great book for status game you know does this tribe somewhere that grows yams”
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Alone Together
Discussed“you know that cherry turkle says you know robots may be better than nothing but they're not enough and I would say in response to that um they're better than nothing”
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The Man Behind the Smile, Or, Who is the Tooth Fairy
Discussed“no no Nora Vincent was a gay woman uh and a journalist who um really sad story she thought her book I think the book's called Inside Man she basically lived as a man for I think 18 months just to sort of understand what the male experience is like”
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Factfulness
Recommended“really good book you should read Chris it's called factfulness by Hans rosaling”
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Black Box Thinking
Recommended“I think I there's a book called Black Box thinking which I recommend which studies the aviation industry where they compare well why are Airline deaths going down so much”
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The Expectation Effect
Discussed“which led David Robson the guy that wrote the book the expectation effect to coin the term your expectations are even more powerful than your genes”
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The Precipice
Discussed“and the precipice by Toby old you've probably gone through that no I haven't”
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An Immense World
Recommended“and I think this is a there's a wonderful book by by Ed young called an immense World which which really highlights that it seems as though we're sharing the same world”
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Quantum Love
Critiqued“You had a quote in the book from Quantum Love and you said, 'When you use the power of the quantum field, honing your emotions and intentions to create the frequency or vibration of that desire, you will draw the things you want to you.'”
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Quantum Healing (Deepak Chopra)
Discussed“He had a book called quantum healing going back ages, but that's”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The King's Speech
Discussed“Did you ever see the movie The King's Speech? Yes, of course. Well, the gentleman who had that had a copy of The King's Speech, he did it sent me a copy.”
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A Course in Miracles
Discussed“But it was the Course in Miracles that really unveiled what was happening in my effort towards marriage. I enjoyed a 20-year marriage with my wife and two amazing kids, and then she found a new path, and there was a decision—whether to see that as a failure or to practice the unconditional love for the first time in 20”
No Stupid Questions
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Studying with Miss Bishop
Discussed“His memoir, which Angela is currently reading, is titled 'Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer's Life.'”
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Life Is in the Transitions
Discussed“So what's, I think, really fascinating about this, there's a guy named Bruce Feiler and he wrote a book called Life is in the Transitions, Mastering Change at Any Age, and he basically crisscrossed the United States for a year or two and just collected hundreds of stories from people who had been through a major life change, whether that”
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Beginners
Discussed“Let me just tell you that I read a short story by Raymond Carver, and it was called A Small Good Thing. He’s way cooler than The Butthole Surfers! By the way, do you know who I'm talking about?”
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Born a Crime
Discussed“Who you might think is just comedic and funny, but he wrote a book called Born a Crime, and it's a very thoughtful, serious look at his life. And in there, he says this: I don't regret anything I've ever done in my life, any choice that I've made, but I'm consumed with regret for the things I didn't do,”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Up From Slavery
Discussed“I mean going way back to Booker T on Booker Washington when he wrote up from slavery that was his theme”
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Sperm Wars
Discussed“Robin Baker who's who has since retired wrote a book I think it was in the mid 90s called sperm Wars where he talked about what's called the sperm competition hypothesis”
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The Saad Truth about Happiness
Recommended“It's called the sad like double A like God's last name sad truth about happiness You want to buy it because you want to be happier You want to buy because it's a fun read”
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Gender Madness
Recommended“the book is called gender Madness one man's devastating struggle with woke ideology and his battle to protect children”
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Trans
Recommended“and she is the journalist and author of the book trans when ideology meets reality”
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Filthy Rich Politicians
Recommended“he took a hard look at this and what he found was so shocking he wrote a whole book about it he's a senior columnist at The Daily Beast and the author of the brand new book Filthy Rich politicians the swamp creatures latte liberals and ruling class Elites cashing in on America which is out today”
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The Joy of Well-Being
Recommended“Colleen and Jason thank you so much for writing this book I want everybody to go out there and buy it's called The Joy of well-being well well worth your time”
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Pride Comes Before the Fall
Discussed“and now he's out with a new children's book called pride comes before the fall which he's promoting while battling with the American Library Association ... So you've got this new book out pride comes before the fall great book Right great timing in particular it it's designed to coincide with pride month”
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Red-Handed
Discussed“they call this Elite capture and Peter Schweizer has detailed this beautifully in his book”
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Clinton Cash
Recommended“and Peter Schweizer has detailed this beautifully in his book where they will purchase they will invest in the American ruling class”
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The choice
Recommended“obviously there is a woman named Edith Edgar who wrote this book The Choice which is amazing and it's she was”
The Rubin Report
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The Tragedy of American Compassion
Discussed“There's an interesting book called "The Tragedy of American Compassion" by a guy named Marvin Olasky and he looks at people during the Great Depression who were eligible for benefits, for the New Deal benefits, but for whatever reason, reasons of pride, self-sufficiency, did not take them and looked at those families 20 years down to find out which ones”
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Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings
Discussed“Alexis de Tocqueville, excuse me, wrote about it in a book called "Memoirs on Pauperism".”
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Melissa
Critiqued“This book called Melissa is supposedly for fifth and sixth grade literacy classes. If you look at the actual text in there, you'll see that it's probably written for somebody who can read at the level of third and fourth grade. Melissa is a book about a boy that has transitioned into being a girl and you know, it basically”
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I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist
Discussed“So I would just wanna return to the title for a moment. "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist."”
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Evidence That Demands a Verdict
Recommended“He said, "Frank, you just need to get Josh McDowell books, evidenced demands a verdict more than a carpenter."”
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More Than a Carpenter
Recommended“He said, "Frank, you just need to get Josh McDowell books, evidenced demands a verdict more than a carpenter."”
The Book Review
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Fire Weather
Discussed“we've reviewed several of those books at the book review in firew weather a true story from a hotter World John Valiant tells the tale of the massive 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire”
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The Parrot and the Igloo
Discussed“this summer there's the parrot and the igloo climate and the signs of denial in which David lipsky sketches a soup to nut Saga of how he got here”
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The Heat Will Kill You First
Discussed“and then there is the heat will kill you first life and death on a scorched Planet by Jeff gell”
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The Water Will Come
Discussed“gell who previously wrote the book The Water will come Rising Seas sinking cities and the remake thinking of the Civilized World lays out the many ways in which Rising temperatures will affect us”
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Blight
Discussed“you wrote in your review of the book blight fungi and the coming pandemic by Emily monison some fungi may be evolving to tolerate higher temperatures”
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What an Owl Knows
Discussed“Jen the third book that you have written about recently is called what an owl knows the new science of the world's most enigmatic Birds”
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Harlem Shuffle
Discussed“he's a divided nature and over the course of first book Harlem Shuffle and then this book crook Manifesto”
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The hot rock
Discussed“have you ever seen the movie The Hot Rock I saw it as a kid and then last summer finally saw it as a grown-up and I started the book but couldn't get through the book so it's a movie starring Robert Redford it's directed by Peter Yates who directed bullet bullet and George seagull is in it I was”
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Serpico
Discussed“so going to the non-fiction book that Sero was based on by Peter Moss going to The Nap commission report which is basically a map to corruption”
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Crook Manifesto
Recommended“he's back with crooked Manifesto a sequel to his novel Harlem Shuffle”
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You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Discussed“you could make this place beautiful yes that is Maggie Smith's Memoir”
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I Have Some Questions for You
Recommended“I think the first one I would mention on the fiction side is Rebecca makai's new book it's called I have some questions for you”
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Romantic Comedy
Recommended“which kind of leads me to another book I wanted to talk about which is romantic comedy by Curtis sittenfeld”
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Master Slave Husband Wife
Recommended“the one I want to talk about is Master Slave husband wife by Ilan wo who's an independent scholar”
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Y/N
Recommended“my book recommendation is y/n by Esther E and this book is so good that it is hard to believe it's a debut novel”
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The Sullivanians
Recommended“this book is by Alexandra Stila and it is called the sullivanians subtitle sex Psychotherapy and the wildlife of an American commune”
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My search for Warren Harding
Recommended“I recommend my search for Warren Harding by Robert plunket first published in the 80s cult classic”
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Don't look at me like that
Recommended“I would recommend Diana aills don't look at me like that which has just been re-released by New York Review of Books”
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Never Did the Fire
Discussed“she wrote a novel called never did the fire about an aging revolutionary couple whose son has died and they're wondering where their life is going in the absence of their political cause now in the absence of their dead son”
Timcast IRL
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The Book of Kells
Discussed“I was thinking of the the movie The Book of Kells which was like an Irish production and it was just new and different and sort of based on uh from what I know about it from uh Irish mythology”
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Recommended“dude Journey to the Center of the Earth it's an old Jules Verne book which is a great book”
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Madame de Villeneuve’s The Story of the Beauty and the Beast
Discussed“you know what women really did like though that movie where the uh the dude kidnaps the woman's dad and then she gets Stockholm syndrome and marries him uh Beauty and the Beast”
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The Negro Family. The Case for National Action. [By Daniel Patrick Moynihan.].
Discussed“now 25 of white kids entered the world without a father in the home married to the mother and 65 is important because that's when a guy named Daniel Patrick Moynihan he was then the assistant Secretary of Labor wrote A booklet for his boss called The Negro family a case for National Action at the time 25 as I”
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genderqueer
Discussed“and so genderqueer is one example of this, the other example we've brought up because we actually have the book here is this book is gay”
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Chesterton's stories, essays and poems, by g.k. chesterton
Discussed“you know I like the idea of chesterton's fence when you find a fence figure out what it was for before you tear it down”
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Berserk Volume 31
Discussed“We're gonna have another berserk one coming out soon as well It's very inside baseball guys Basically Carl pays us to talk about Comics once a month like a job”
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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female
Discussed“Kinsey wrote in his book sexual behavior in the human female that the reason a girl is traumatized when she's abused when she's underage is because the parents made a big deal out of it and not because of what actually happened”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Memoirs and Misinformation
Discussed“I actually I have so many books that I started and then my ADD kicks in I got this book that Jim Carrey wrote that is [ __ ] amazing Jim Carrey and Dana Vashon Memoirs and misinformation I'm halfway through it”
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Billionaire Boogeymen
Discussed“I've actually started reading again oh yeah yeah which is hilarious that is fun it's not like deep reading what are you reading right now I'm I'm finishing this book uh called billionaire Boogeyman that a friend of mine a comedian Todd Parker wrote and I'm actually reading it going like this could actually be a really good [ __”
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Selfish
Critiqued“the one thing I can't stomach what's that the Kim Kardashian selfie book”
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Giants
Discussed“Giants in the USA Giants in the USA this looks interesting as hell Hey Bill have you seen this the book begins with this quote from Abraham Lincoln in 1848. Giants were clearly a real thing to him now this is his quote The eyes of that species of extinct Giants whose bones fill the Mounds of America have gazed”
Stuff You Should Know
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Seduction of the Innocent
Discussed“he wrote a book called seduction of the innocent and then he specifically called out some of the EC Comics and described you know the um what was going on in them”
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Speech and Brain Mechanisms
Discussed“uh the first is called critical period hypothesis long-standing debate about this uh it was proposed by a dude named a neurologist named Wilder Penfield along with Lamar Roberts in a 1959 book called speech and brain mechanisms”
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Speech and Brain-Mechanisms. By W. Penfield and Lamar Roberts. [With a Bibliography.].
Discussed“uh it was proposed by a dude named a neurologist named Wilder Penfield along with Lamar Roberts in a 1959 book called speech and brain mechanisms”
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Magic Eye
Discussed“started publishing books based on the magic guy what would come to be no Magic Eye as Magic Eye”
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Do you see what I see?
Discussed“I think the the cream of the crop of like additional stuff that came out of this was a book that beshe put together a Magic Eye Book for Christmas called do you see what I see that's just precious”
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Discussed“but they wrote letters to one another I feel like we've talked about them before we they wrote letters to one another that were preserved and these love letters were just so amazing that people still read them today”
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English men of science: their nature and nurture
Discussed“so he uh was the half cousin of Charles Darwin and he had a book called English men of science um kind of sounds like Real Men of Genius”
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Birth Order
Discussed“and we're going to write our own book called birth order Colon it's poo poo Yeah uh actually his birth order its influence on personality and they went back and looked at all these studies like 1500 studies from the mid 40s to 1980”
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Born to Rebel
Discussed“and he ended up writing a book in 1996 called Born to Rebel colon birth order family Dynamics and creative lives and he did his own meta-analysis of all of these studies that are out there”
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Creative Personality: A Companion-Book for the Study and Growth of the Self
Discussed“and he ended up writing a book in 1996 called Born to Rebel colon birth order family Dynamics and creative lives and he did his own meta-analysis of all of these studies that are out there”
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The Man Who Ate Too Much
Discussed“a bunch of interviews and magazine articles on this guy John Birdsall who wrote a book called the man who ate too much about James Beard”
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Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés
Discussed“in his 1940 cookbook can hors d'oeuvres and canopies there's no mention of them”
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James Beard's & Hors D'oeuvre And Canapes
Discussed“in his 1940 cookbook can hors d'oeuvres and canopies there's no mention of them”
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The James Beard Cookbook
Discussed“including in 1959 sort of his seminal work the James Beard cookbook”
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The Fireside Cookbook
Discussed“and one good example is in his cookbook from 1949 the Fireside cookbook”
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Discovering Griffith Park
Discussed“um and there's a book that uh was written by an author named Casey Schreiner uh called discovering Griffith Park colon a Local's guide”
Behind the Bastards
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Julius Streicher
Discussed“and Randall bitework who is um Striker's biographer he kind of provides what I think is a much more realistic Theory”
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Maori Sovereignty
Discussed“One of the most important works in the Mari actress movement at the time was Donna Aater's Mari so serverity published in 1984 and that book was really less of a critique of right-wing racist politics and more of a critique of left social movements”
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Discussed“Also, like and I say this in exasperation frequently, but has no one seen Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer? You just got to follow somebody home.”
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Degrowth
Discussed“Lastly, um I did want to touch on because I did say I would um the significant role that conviviiality has played in the deg particularly highlighted in texts like degrowth of vocabulary for a new era. Um, inspired by Ivan's ideas, conviviality and degrowth has referred me to a society that values joyful sobriety, responsible consumption, and the use”
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The Dilbert Principle
Discussed“in 1996 Justice Dilbert was blowing up he decided to put his own spin on the Peter Principle in his first text-based book so this is not like a book of cartoons this is like a non-fiction book The Dilbert principle the delivery that was the book”
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The Dilbert future
Discussed“the next year he publishes the Dilbert future which of course I also read as a small child the subtitle of the book was thriving on stupidity in the 21st century”
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The trouble with Dilbert
Discussed“in 1997 a guy named Norman Solomon who's a journalist and a media critic wrote a book called The Trouble with Dilbert”
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The Joy of Work
Discussed“eventually he publishes a whole book the next year called The Joy of work that has this super long member as a kid I read this book is like a 10 year old and you know it's a bunch of like funny jokes about like offices and then there's this long diatribe about Norman Solomon”
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Homo Sacer
Discussed“I've been reading a lot of um I've been reading Homoa by Giorgio Gambin for a little while now. Uh, about the like the the the class of pe like whichever in whatever society you're talking about like class of people who are treated as the exception from the model of the state”
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Red Hot City
Recommended“And I I should plug here there's a fantastic book called Red Hot City by a GSU professor named Dan Ergluck if you you know want to learn more about gentrification in Atlanta.”
Freakonomics Radio
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Discussed“In 1851, he published a novel called The Whale, later retitled Moby Dick or The Whale. At some point, you may have read Moby Dick or pretended to.”
Acquired
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Just Do it
Discussed“the second is a book called just do it that was written by the journalist Donald Katz”
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Swoosh
Discussed“and then the third book is a book called swoosh which I bet most people have not read but kind of like Taste of luxury”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Rifqa
Discussed“in rivka you wrote my father told me anger is a luxury we cannot afford be composed calm still laugh when they ask you smile when they talk answer them educate them”
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Homo Deus
Discussed“You wrote in 'Homo Deus' about Hitler, suggesting that he was not a particularly impressive person; is that an accurate characterization? Did I say that?”
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The Myth of Sisyphus
Discussed“Camus said in 'The Myth of Sisyphus' that 'the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.'”
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Critique of psychoanalysis
Discussed“And at that time, I picked up a book by Carl Jung called 'Synchronicity.'”
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Synchronicity
Discussed“And at that time I picked up a book by Carl Jung, called "Synchronicity."”
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JFK and the Unspeakable
Recommended“The best book to me for people to read, is James Douglass's book, which is called "The Unspeakable."”
Huberman Lab
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The Language Instinct
Discussed“So I started looking at their bookshelf and came across a pop science book called 'The Language Instinct' by Stephen Pinker. That was a turning point for me.”
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The Black Poets
Discussed“So one day he gets a book called The Black Poets. And in the book, he read a poem by Etheridge Knight, who had also spent time in prison and had written this incredibly stirring poem about the criminal justice system.”
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An Instinct to Acquire an Art
Discussed“So I started perusing the bookshelf, and then I came across this pop-science book called "The Language Instinct," by Stephen Pinker.”
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Mindset
Discussed“The study I'd like to briefly discuss exemplifies the groundwork that led to the discovery of growth mindset, authored by Dr. Carol Dweck and her colleague Claudia Mueller. The title of this important paper is 'Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation and Performance.' This finding should be surprising: praise for intelligence can indeed undermine motivation and performance.”
SmartLess
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Creativity, Inc.
Discussed“There's that, you know, perfect explanation of how to solve things from the Ed Catmull book about Pixar, Creativity, Inc., where the motto is, 'Be wrong as fast as you can.'”
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The Jaws Log
Discussed“So it turns out, you know, in any store that you walked into, there was a paperback called The Jaws Log that Carl Gottlieb wrote, and it answered both of those questions.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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The Authenticity Principle
Discussed“like my first book The authenticity principle I wrote in it the term inauthentic or inauthenticity in my view has a lot of negative connotations to it”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Animal Liberation
Discussed“I personally know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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David Copperfield
Discussed“and this is a novel that is following Loosely in the structure of David Copperfield by Dickens”
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Shiloh
Discussed“someone actually gave me Bobby Ann Mason's short Story collection Shiloh and Other Stories which was a very big book that year in the world she's from Kentucky”
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Raising Lazarus
Recommended“I recommend Beth Macy's follow-up to Dope Sick which is called raising Lazarus it's a great piece of Journalism on where we are now with this epidemic”
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Pod
Recommended“it's called pod by lalene Paul and it's set entirely in the ocean it's not Science Fiction”
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Travels with Charley
Discussed“I've read John Steinbeck's Travels With Charlie”
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Uncommon Type
Discussed“so I wanted to start in your earlier book of short stories uncommon type and in that book you have a typewriter appearing in every single story”
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the Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Discussed“so the new book is called the making of another major Motion Picture Masterpiece and it is about a movie called The the Masterpiece in question Nightshade the LA the Firefall”
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The Metatheory of Physics Theories, and the Theory of Everything as a Quantum Computer Language
Discussed“I actually read this book must have been a high school called dreams of a final Theory by Stephen Weinberg”
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The ends of the world
Recommended“the first book is called the ends of the World by Peter Brannan at a book that's a history of mass extinctions the Earth's five mass extinctions”
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Shorting the Grid
Recommended“the third book a little controversial is called shorting the grid by Meredith anguin who's a engineer in Vermont”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Last of Us and Theology
Discussed“it's uh it's the premise behind that zombie show on HBO The Last of Us the premise is that this infects people because this fungus it's you know that when it when it pops it blows all these spores in the air”
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Little Red Riding Hood
Discussed“wolves used to be terrifying that's what Little Red Riding Hood was all about”
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Orwell's Revenge
Discussed“there's this guy who wrote a different rewrote 1984 in a book called Orwell's revenge”
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The CISG
Discussed“and in that book what he did is he said okay we're going to use that same setup but the telescreen instead of being a one-way system is going to be a two-way system”
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Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
Recommended“it's the book called weird scenes in the canyon”
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The Resurrection of the Son of God
Discussed“one is William Lane Craig one is NT Wright with his maerial Tome the resurrection of the Son of God and the other is Gary habas”
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The Book of Kings
Discussed“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”
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Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire
Discussed“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”
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Exodus
Discussed“The Exodus Miracle it says and the Lord caused an East Wind to blow It represents God as an actor within the Matrix of natural law which he otherwise sustains and upholds”
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Search in the Desert
Discussed“And John Mar Marco algro wrote this book called The Sacred Mushroom in the cross it's a very interesting book book”
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Paul and the Faithfulness of God
Discussed“one is William Lane Craig one is NT Wright with his maerial Tome the resurrection of the Son of God and the other is Gary habas”
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You Are Not Your Brain
Recommended“I'm a big fan of the work of uh Jeffrey Schwarz the uh uh UCLA psychiatrist has written the book um you are not your brain and um he shows that those those um um psychotherapeutic drugs can be helpful in stabilizing uh people”
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Dopesick
Discussed“was that was it doped up Dope Sick Dope Sick yeah yeah I didn't say it but I know the whole story about the Sackler family”
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The Talmud
Discussed“you know went to Israel was studying the talmud for like 12 hours a day”
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Malcolm Gladwell: Collected
Discussed“this is from I think it was Malcolm gladwell's book uh where they describe how they to get over this problem they started making them speak English”
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American History X
Discussed“ever seen American History X oh okay so like it's like the standard you look like a white supremacist”
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The Chiropractor
Discussed“Palmer held seances to contact a dead physician named JY Atkinson he said that those seances helped him develop Chiropractic as he wrote in his 1914 book The Chiropractor”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Blank Slate
Discussed“That's one of the things Pinker is right about in 'The Blank Slate'—violent deaths in tribal societies in pre-modernity were way higher than the average violent deaths of a European male in the 20th century. So, to some extent, this is a natural state.”
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Don Juan
Discussed“She said, 'I'm translating Don Juan of Lord Byron's in my head.' Now the poem is 17,000 lines. He said, 'Okay, I'll give you a piece of paper and a pen, and I'll come back in the morning.'”
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The Gates of the Forest
Discussed“and there's a version of it he replays in another of his books I think the gates of the forests called”
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The Trial of God
Recommended“I've always been struck by um one of Elie wiesel's Works uh who is of course in Auschwitz I don't even know the trial of God did you ever read that one no it's it's worth reading”
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Question of Power
Discussed“I'm speaking with author, podcaster, and film producer Robert Bryce. We discussed topics from his latest book, A Question of Power: Electricity and The Wealth of Nations.”
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The Ultimate Sales Machine
Discussed“He wrote a book called The Ultimate Sales Machine, which is a phenomenal bestseller, and it turned out he and I met at one point and he said, when did you do my program?”
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Megafauna
Discussed“So when he finally kind of left the law, that's when I gave you a copy of this book. book. This book, I forgot about that. That's a very good book.”
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This Side of Paradise
Recommended“But underneath it all, what he really wanted to do was sciences, and so when he finally kind of left the law, that's when I gave you a copy of this—I wrote this book. Yeah, book; I forgot about it—very good book.”
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Eyewitness
Recommended“Your father writes about that; very good book, by the way. Yeah, I enjoyed reading it.”
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Animal Farm
Discussed“It's precisely the reason why when he wrote Animal Farm, he couldn't get it published for so long, because people were horrified by the possibility that left-wing people could be authoritarian.”
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Ordinary Men
Discussed“The book does a remarkable job of detailing how your movement from normalcy to absolute perversity is a consequence of ten thousand micro violations of your conscience.”
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Paradise Lost
Discussed“In Milton's 'Paradise Lost', there have been two readings forever, and one is that Milton's Satan is an anti-hero of the most profound sort— really, the embodiment of evil.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Mr. China
Recommended“and a wonderful book called Mr China about this guy that lost his shirt”
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The 80/20 Daily
Recommended“the new books are 80 20 beliefs and 80 20 daily”
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80/20 Beliefs
Recommended“the new books are 80 20 beliefs and 80 20 daily”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Man Bites Dog 3-4
Recommended“by the way there is a uh a movie called man bites dog which is great”
ChooseFI
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Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor
Discussed“he's just absolutely brilliant and he has the right ethos and I think that comes through loud and clear in his brand new book that's actually coming out this week called the small and mighty real estate investor how to reach Financial Freedom with fewer rental properties”
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Building wealth one house at a time
Discussed“I have a mentor named John Schaub who wrote a book Building Wealth one house at a time and he just after 50 years investing in real estate he just buys houses”
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Bono: Stories of Surrender
Discussed“So, right, it's called Stories of Surrender was the the book that he came out with. And Carl, they did tape it and it's going to be on one of the streaming shows.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Cell Biology by the Numbers
Discussed“For instance, a thing that I and some people I know have done is, we’ve gone through a book called Cell Biology by the Numbers, which says all of these things like,”
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Experience And Education
Recommended“One of the heroes of the reform school movement is this philosopher named John Dewey, and he has a lovely book called Experience and Education, sort of written near the end of his time, looking back on all of his efforts to reform schooling in a kind of unschooling-ish direction.”
StarTalk Radio
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Life on Other Planets
Discussed“and she's got a new book life on other planets A Memoir of finding my place in the universe”
My First Million
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Lean Thinking
Discussed“I was reading this book on my honeymoon in um Tulum in Mexico. And it's it's called uh Lean Thinking. And apparently it's like Jeff Bezos's favorite book, which is why I was reading it.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Exercised
Discussed“you know, there's this book Born to Run that that describes their their running and calls them a hidden tribe of super super athletes.”
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Professional idiot
Discussed“I read in your book um in Professional Idiot, page 194, the overwhelming emotion I felt afterward was was relief.”
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Anatomy of a Breakthrough
Discussed“I'm incredibly interested and curious about all of your books specifically this book here anatomy of a breakthrough and also your your first book drunk tank pink because this book helps people to get unstuck”
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Drunk Tank Pink
Discussed“I'm incredibly interested and curious about all of your books specifically this book here anatomy of a breakthrough and also your your first book drunk tank pink because this book helps people to get unstuck”
This Week in Startups
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Losing The Signal
Discussed“that book presumably was very carefully researched but now we're kind of riffing on the ideas in the book and it's taken on an element of fictionalization for sure”
Big Technology Podcast
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The Cult of We
Discussed“You actually do have an example in your book that talks about basically grilled cheese companies becoming tech company evaluations.”
The Daily Stoic
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Trust Me, I'm Lying
Discussed“I was telling a friend last night I was coming here and I said my staff brought in this book, 'Trust Me, I'm Lying.'”
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Lanterns On The Levee
Discussed“And he ended up being adopted by this guy, his uncle, who wrote this book, 'Lanterns on the Levee', which is like one of the beautiful sort of Southern memoirs about, you know, that era.”
