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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2023
Throughout July 2023, podcasts highlighted investigative journalism, memoirs, and philosophy. Stuff They Don't Want You To Know covered Ethan Brown's 'Murder in the Bayou' during an examination of an author investigating a murder case, and later discussed Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' in a conversation about intellectual conspiracy games. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, President Joe Biden referenced John F. Kennedy's 'Profiles in Courage' to discuss bravery and integrity. Modern Wisdom featured a mention of Bill Irvin's philosophy book 'The Guide to the Good Life'. No Stupid Questions noted that Angela Duckworth was reading Dana Gioia's memoir 'Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer's Life'. The Megyn Kelly Show included Victor Davis Hanson referencing Booker T. Washington's autobiography 'Up From Slavery' while discussing curriculum standards. On the Monday Morning Podcast, Bill Burr shared that he was reading Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon's 'Memoirs and Misinformation'. Finally, Stuff You Should Know featured a tribute to MAD Magazine, with the host mentioning Al Jaffee's 'Mad's All New Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions'.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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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
Discussed“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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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
Discussed“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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Neuromancer
Discussed“money talks but the further a log we get the more plausible the crap sack worlds from Neuromancer or Elysium become”
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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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Finance for the People
Discussed“do we really did we really need another book about personal finance That's what I had to ask myself before I wrote Finance for the people”
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Crowd Psychology
Discussed“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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Perfume
Discussed“Have you guys heard of a novel and then a film called perfume? uh story of murder”
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Remembrance of Things Past
Discussed“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”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Profiles in courage
Discussed“But I think trying to figure out what leeway a person has—I don't expect everybody that I'm dealing with to appear in the second edition of the Profiles in Courage, nor me; I mean, it's hard.”
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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”
Modern Wisdom
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Marriage Is
Discussed“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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Road Dirt
Discussed“and I thought their sexual conflict theory right there and that made a great vehicle for a book that was strangely a little bit more light-hearted and speculative”
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Change Your World
Discussed“so going back to the AI stuff you wrote your book a little while ago like yeah two years ago but that's a lifetime ago in the world of AI what didn't you predict”
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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
Discussed“Really good book you should read Chris it's called factfulness by Hans rosaling I don't know if you read it a million so good”
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How Economics Can Save the World
Discussed“I have a book called How economics can save the world which I recommend to everyone have a look and maybe you'll learn something”
Speaker An Economist’s Guide To Avoiding A Life of Misery - Erik Angner 2023-07-22 Listen at 1:05:20 -
Black Box Thinking
Discussed“I think I there's a book called Black Box thinking which I recommend which studies the aviation industry where they compare”
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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”
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Being You
Discussed“we talk about it 163 04:53 the book is called being you like it's 164 04:58 it's what's that got to do with Consciousness”
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An Immense World
Discussed“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”
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“so uh Robin Baker who's who has since retired wrote a book uh 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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A History of Kentucky... by William B. Allen,...
Discussed“Dr Allen is a former chairman of the U.S Commission on civil rights a professor emeritus at Michigan State University and editor of the book the state of Black America”
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Gender Madness
Discussed“the book is called gender Madness one man's devastating struggle with woke ideology and his battle to protect children”
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The Joy of Well-Being
Discussed“well husband and wife founders of Mind Body green may have the solution for you Colleen and Jason Wacom have cut through the health noise and have written a book that makes getting healthy accessible and genuinely enjoyable ah think of it the book is called the joy of well-being a practical guide to a happy healthy and long life”
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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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Great Expectations
Discussed“Harry and Megan's potential next great idea is a great expectations inspired show... based on Charles dickens's character miss havisham”
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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Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
Discussed“I just nodded and I grabbed the book I read him good night good night construction site or maybe farming strong all year long”
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Billionaire Boogeymen
Discussed“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 [ __ ] movie”
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Kim Kardashian: Selfish
Discussed“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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Mad's All New Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
Discussed“and Jaffe was also uh popular for something that I had the little side books I bought of uh Snappy answers to stupid questions”
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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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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
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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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”
Freakonomics Radio
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Illustrated)
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.”
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In the Heart of the Sea
Discussed“Philbrick has written several well-regarded books of maritime history. The one most relevant to our discussion today is called In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex.”
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Discussed“So I'd like to read you a short passage from the book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric J. Dolan.”
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Random Acts of Medicine
Discussed“One more thing: if you've enjoyed our Freakonomics MD podcast, you might like to know that the host Babu Jenna has a new book out right now that he co-authored with Christopher Worsham; it's called Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health, and you can hear a chapter of it.”
Timcast IRL
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Discussed“dude Journey to the Center of the Earth it's an old Jules Verne book which is a great book”
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Peter Pan
Discussed“yeah this reminds me more of a hook the movie with with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman Yes with a Peter Pan movie”
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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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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”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Valley of the dolls
Discussed“I'm gonna be—I’m gonna see about some dolls in the Valley of the Dolls sense—but not the bad dolls! Right, 100!”
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Picasso
Discussed“Joco Studio made this for us at joke at joco.io! I mean a bound book!”
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The War of the Worlds
Discussed“You do not want your name in an Epstein book! You do not want your name in an Epstein book; that is a recipe for disaster for your PR!”
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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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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The Fellowship of the Ring
Discussed“I've been watching Lord of the Rings. Okay, moving on.”
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Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition)
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.”
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American Psycho
Discussed“Um, uh they said that, uh that that I received this, uh, the Ozarks, uh, uh Ozark star got together, get no gets gets a gets the Hasty Pudding award and then in the body of the thing, um Ozarks Patrick Bateman received the, um, American Psycho.”
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.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Nancy Drew 40
Discussed“What are you–is that Nancy Drew over here?”
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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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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Pipe Dreams
Discussed“I've been a reporter my whole life. I wrote my first book on Enron, which came out in 2002, twenty years ago.”
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This Side of Paradise
Discussed“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
Discussed“Your father writes about that; very good book, by the way. Yeah, I enjoyed reading it.”
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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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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 Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Outlaw Ocean
Discussed“But your book really opened my eyes to some of, frankly, some of the worst of humanity. It's just running roughshod over human rights out there.”
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No escape
Discussed“I'm sorry for keep mentioning my book, but I gave my book a title: 'No Escape.'”
The Daily Stoic
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What to Expect when You're Expecting
Discussed“That's what he said, that was a fact of the industry, which is true, but I think the reason that's true and the reason why parenting books are, with the exception of say 'What to Expect When You're Expecting,' not great sellers is that it's insane to read about some problem you might have 22 years from now, right?”
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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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Painting as a Pastime
Discussed“Churchill wrote this book called 'Painting as a Pastime,' so after World War one where he not only saw combat and was gassed and saw all the terribleness that was trench warfare, but he had before the war been like one of the fastest rising politicians and celebrities in the world.”
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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.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Sapiens
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including 'Sapiens', 'Homo Deus', and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'.”
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ההיסטוריה של המחר
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including 'Sapiens', 'Homo Deus', and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'.”
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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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Ἰλιάς
Discussed“In fact, in my book, which is 250,000 words long, I never tried to dive into his mindset but rather focused on facts and science.”
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Critique of psychoanalysis
Discussed“And at that time, I picked up a book by Carl Jung called 'Synchronicity.'”
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.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Story of the Human Body
Discussed“In your first book, 'The Story of the Human Body,' published in 2013, in chapter 12, you said, 'Use it or lose it.'”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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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 knowledge and philosophy given me by Dr Jim akinson an intelligent spiritual being together with explanations of pneumonia phenomena rather should said phenomena principles resolve from causes effects Powers laws”
