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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2023
August 2023 discussions across multiple shows centered on personal growth, psychology, and specialized studies. On The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Dr. Ellen Langer referenced her book 'Counter Clockwise' during a discussion about her past research. The Jordan Harbinger Show featured multiple literary references, including Kevin Dutton's 'The Wisdom of Psychopaths' to examine early misconceptions about criminal behavior, and Aristotle's 'Poetics' during a discussion about fraud perpetrators and stress. The show also touched upon Vladimir Putin, Vasily Shestakov, and Alexey Levitsky's book 'Judo'. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, the host recalled discussing Lori Gottlieb's 'Maybe You Should Talk to Someone' in a previous episode, highlighting its widespread impact. The Rubin Report featured Carol Roth discussing her book 'You Will Own Nothing', explaining her efforts to remove conspiracy framing from financial discussions. Las Culturistas included Sarah Squirm clarifying that she read the book version of 'Into the Woods' rather than the play, and The Daily Stoic featured a guest discussing the production of Stephen Addiss and John Daido Loori's 'The Zen Art Book' into audio formats.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Counter clockwise
Discussed“So let me tell you something; I think that this was actually, I don't remember the year, but it was a long time ago, so it might have even been before things were bureaucratic. You still had people on these review committees who I disagreed with vehemently. So I want to do this study; I actually talk about this in”
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Elements
Discussed“And you're studying Exodus, but this might be more of a Genesis example.”
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Brave New World
Discussed“You know, in Huxley's 'Brave New World,' that went by the wayside, and it was a sign of immorality to say no to anyone who asked you or who offered a sexual invitation.”
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The Wealth of Nations
Discussed“I think the partial answer to what you're asking might be to think along the lines of Adam Smith, who saw two different spheres, and in 'The Wealth of Nations,' he talked about the invisible hand which governs the market, but then he also talked about the theory of moral sentiments, which was the realms where the market didn't go.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The wisdom of psychopaths
Discussed“When looking into this topic and reading books like The Wisdom of Psychopaths, I used to think that being a psychopath meant being a serial killer, a serial rapist, or a violent criminal, like Tuko Salamanca from Breaking Bad.”
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Poetics
Discussed“Now, the intentional perpetrator—look at the story of Diane Kitani. She's a story that's in chapter one or two, I can't remember which chapter, intentional perpetrators; chapter one.”
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Judo
Discussed“I’ve read several books about Putin; whenever there's an assassination within view of the Kremlin and all the security cameras just happen to be off, it has Chechen marks all over it.”
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And Then There Were None
Discussed“Now here we are having created hundreds of hours of content, and we have a book that just came out.”
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The Shock Doctrine
Discussed“You know, the thing that's interesting about that in terms of this disaster spirituality, which we borrowed from Naomi Klein, who has a book called Disaster Capitalism, can we, um, people that we follow.”
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Women's bodies, women's wisdom
Discussed“Then a doctor like Christian Northrup is going to come along and say, like, I'm an OB GYN, I went to Dartmouth, I wrote this best-selling book, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, and I'm here to tell you that there’s nanotechnology in the vaccines, and they put an ink in there that's called luciferase that's going to give you the mark”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Discussed“Maybe you should talk to someone, which is the book that I interviewed you about a couple of years ago, and it's such a phenomenal book; it's helped so many people.”
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The Alchemist
Discussed“There are parallels within The Alchemist and my actual story, but it's not a complete side-by-side thing. It's just, it was a lighthouse for me, you know?”
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What Your Food Ate
Discussed“There's a great book I would recommend for people who want to dive deep on this; I believe the book is called 'What Your Food Ate,' and it's a wonderful book. It's a bit of a deep dive, a nerdy book; it's not light reading.”
The Rubin Report
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You Will Own Nothing
Discussed“You know, Dave, one of the things I did—and you will own nothing—is I really tried to take the conspiracy element out of this and the politicization out of this because I do think that this starts getting into this camp or this camp when you go to BlackRock's shareholder letter and you see them say these things in their”
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The Saad Truth about Happiness
Discussed“I actually discuss this in quite a bit of detail in the book. You've met her, you know, on numerous occasions.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Into the Woods
Discussed“No, well, Into the Woods—I didn't read the play! I only read the book!”
The Daily Stoic
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The Zen Art Book
Discussed“I've read a couple books that, you know, like Zen books that needed to be put into audio format that hadn't been put in audio format, so I just paid to have that done; like things of that nature.”
Speaker Kevin Rose On Entrepreneurship, Zen Buddhism, And Being Vulnerable 2023-08-23 Listen at 3:41 -
Delivering Happiness
Discussed“Yeah, I mean, I do applaud some of these like, you know, what I really liked is the, you know, sadly the late Tony Hsieh who ran Zappos, he really tried this holocracy approach inside of his company where it was like a level playing field for everyone like really pushing the boundaries, he had a great book called Delivering”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discussed“Have you read that Emerson biography yet? I'm like halfway through it.”
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Emerson
Discussed“But I had the experience of that and with the Emerson book, 'Mind on Fire,' that you recommended where I can only make it like three or four pages, and I have to stop.”
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Freak Kingdom
Discussed“I also just read this book like, um, I read this book 'Freak Kingdom' or 'Kingdom of Freaks' that it's about by this creative writing professor, but it's about the political activism and writings of Hunter S. Thompson. Oh.”
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Reclaim Your Nest Egg
Discussed“But you had recommended that Kamen's book. Oh yeah, that's another one that writing is incredible.”
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Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State
Discussed“Um, yeah, he wrote this book 'Lone Star,' which is a history of Texas, which is incredible.”
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This Kind of War
Discussed“And then he also wrote this book about the Korean War which he fought in called 'This Kind of War.' That's also incredible.”
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Discussed“Well see, so his book 'Empire of the Summer Moon' was the one I was like, oh, I love this book.”
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The Immense Journey
Discussed“Okay, Lauren Eiseley's 'The Immense Journey.' It's a history of nothing less than the entire Earth's evolution.”
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United States Code, 1976 Ed., Supplement 1-
Discussed“So in a lot of ways like this title itself, I wasn't writing toward this title, but when my editor was like this is a quote from the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, she's like what do you think of this as a book?”
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First Principles
Discussed“No, he wrote about the generals in Iraq and then wrote this great book on the founding fathers called 'First Principles', but he also wrote a history of the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a military historian.”
Huberman Lab
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Touch
Discussed“The book 'Unique' is one that we'll provide a link to in the show notes.”
SmartLess
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This Is Where I Leave You
Discussed“But you know, I've worked with Jason too, I've worked out two out of three of you guys which is pretty... This Is Where I Leave You!”
No Stupid Questions
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The Hidden Dimension
Discussed“This was a psychologist named Edward Hall who published this book called The Hidden Dimension on human personal space, and that was in 1966.”
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The Spaces Between Us
Discussed“Like it was annoying, and the more recent research, it's so interesting; there is a Princeton neuroscientist named Michael Graziano and he wrote this book called The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature.”
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Dare to Lead
Discussed“In her 2018 book, Dare to Lead, Brown writes that she first heard the phrase clear is kind, unclear is unkind at a 12-step meeting.”
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I Love You the Purplest
Discussed“There's this children's book that my sister gave my grandmother many years ago called I Love You the Purplest, and basically all the grandkids are like 'Grandma, do you love me the most?','Do you love me the most?','And the grandma responds 'I love you the reddest; I love you the bluest,' whatever, right?”
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Homicide
Discussed“But by David Simon, it's called Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets, and at the same time, he said his favorite TV show was Cops.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Connections
Discussed“Deisseroth, when he was on your podcast, mentioned something—perhaps it was in his book, I don’t recall—that love is one of these things we create narratives around.”
Pod Save America
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The People Vs. Barack Obama
Discussed“By the way, Ben Shapiro is so full of... he writes an entire book in 2014, The People vs. Barack Obama, where he suggests a RICO case against Barack Obama for the...”
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The Oil and the Glory
Discussed“and I was I read a book called the oil and the Glory by the former Wall Street Journal journalist um Steve Levine and uh that was it's an amazing book and it's about basically like the the rush for Caspian oil reserves after the collapse of the Soviet Union and like specifically Chevron and BP kind of like duking”
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Oil!
Discussed“and I started listening to the audiobook of the novel oil um by Upton Sinclair they later made that's what There Will Be Blood is based on although they have like almost nothing in common”
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Enter Ghost
Discussed“so I just read a wonderful novel um called enter ghost by Isabella Hamad and it's about doing uh performance of Hamlet in the um in Palestine and in the West Bank and it's a beautiful novel”
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The Parisian
Discussed“um she also wrote a novel called the Parisian which is a wonderful novel”
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This Changes Everything
Discussed“but um this changes everything uh by Naomi Klein is a is a wonderful book”
Modern Wisdom
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Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame
Discussed“You've read will stores book uh the status game where he talks about that uh group that has yams they they build but grow the biggest yam and then they give it to their enemy”
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Gay Fathers, Twin Sons
Discussed“and I've told you I have a book that's coming out August 8th called gay fathers twin Sons the citizenship case that captured the world”
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Born Together—Reared Apart
Discussed“um uh born together read apart your book uh awesome awesome breakdown of this”
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Deliberately Divided
Discussed“and deliberately divided”
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Entwined Lives
Discussed“if you're really really new to twin studies you might want to check my 1999 book called entwined lies where I cover many many different topics on twins”
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Discussed“Julian James wrote this this classic um back in I mean 1976 called the the origin of Consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind and one of the things that's great about it is that it's a beautifully written book”
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The World Behind the World
Discussed“and in a way a lot of a lot of my book a lot of what the World Behind the world is about is is exploring this alternative View and maybe a slightly more tame and sensible one”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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How to Say Goodbye
Discussed“But the main reason I wanted to talk to her today is that she has produced a stunningly touching book called How to Say Goodbye.”
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Think Like a Freak
Discussed“It's interesting because in the book that Stephen Dubner and I wrote called Think Like a Freak, we talk about the business context. One of the things we say is nobody ever in a business context says, 'I don't know.'”
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Sonnets
Discussed“So what we did at X is we had this image of a monkey on a pedestal, and the story was: imagine you’re trying to train a monkey to recite Shakespeare's sonnets while standing on a pedestal; what do you work on first? The monkey training or the pedestal?”
Timcast IRL
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Eros and Civilization
Discussed“He wrote a bunch of books uh coincidentally he was also influential when it comes to queer theory he wrote this book called Eros and civilization he wrote a book called one dimensional man But all these things that we're seeing in reality here in in society now these things are all at least outlined in in leftist theory books”
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Woke, Inc.
Discussed“when I was first deep diving ESG when I had just started my show woke Inc by Vivek was one of the the first books I read on it that really like set me on this journey of understanding the High Finance like Marxist takeover of our economy”
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Psycho-Cybernetics (Updated and Expanded)
Discussed“Joe Brown says there is a book called psycho cybernetics by Maxwell maltz self-improvement book he strongly suggests therapy before plastic surgery interesting trans people should have to do the same look into it”
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Rising Star
Discussed“Rising Star which touched on Obama reportedly dreaming about homosexuality”
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Mafia Democracy
Discussed“former captain in the Colombo crime family and author of the book Mafia democracy”
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The Mars Project
Discussed“It's called Mars project reference a person named Elon that would bring humans to Mars”
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Hide Your Children
Discussed“I also have a new book coming out called hide your children exposing the marxists behind the attack on America's kids You can find that at hideyourchildrenbook.com”
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The Rights of Man
Discussed“the difference between U.S and French Revolution was the Rights of Man versus the rights of men we're centered on the individual there's entered on class We the people as individuals versus we the collective people that's why you could be an enemy of the people”
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides' Trap?
Discussed“China's growing at this pace they're working together if we do not not have X amount of growth they take over thucydides trap world war three we lose Chinese Communist Party wins”
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Explaining Postmodernism
Discussed“I was listening to uh this book called uh this audiobook called explaining post-modernism by Stephen Hicks and one of the things that he talks about is the way that the way that the left doesn't have the same kind of foundation that the right does”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Discussed“I believe that was actually the name of the biopic starring Oprah Winfrey The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks which was a book written by Rebecca skloot and that was from 2010.”
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Flannery O'Connor
Discussed“What if there's a secret organization of Flannery O'Connor stands you know what I mean and all they want to do is take over Travis Air Force Base so they can cosplay uh good country people and a good man it's hard to find and all all those hits”
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UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse
Discussed“He wrote a book called UFOs operation trojan horse in 1970 and he pointed out something that is fascinating and I would argue true”
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Annihilation
Discussed“I read the story”
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We Need to Talk
Discussed“uh so you've you've written books like we need to talk how to have conversations that matter do nothing uh and of course speaking of race why everybody needs to talk about racism and how to do it”
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Do Nothing
Discussed“uh so you've you've written books like we need to talk how to have conversations that matter do nothing uh and of course speaking of race why everybody needs to talk about racism and how to do it”
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Speaking of Race
Discussed“uh so you've you've written books like we need to talk how to have conversations that matter do nothing uh and of course speaking of race why everybody needs to talk about racism and how to do it”
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The Ghosts of Versailles, Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain and Their Adventure, a Critical Study by Lucille Iremonger
Discussed“this comes from a book in 1957 by a former student named Lucille iremonger who wrote A critique of their book and adventure in her own work called ghost of Versailles Miss Moberly and miss jordain and their Adventure a critical study”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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American Playbook
Discussed“clay Travis co-host of the clay Travis and Buck Sexton show and author of the new book American Playbook”
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Republicans Buy Sneakers Too
Discussed“look this is my last book ironically Republicans buy sneakers too which I think is an amazing quote”
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January 6
Discussed“in fact she wrote a whole book on it um she writes Declassified with Julie Kelly on sub stack and is the author of January 6th Julie great to have you back on the program”
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Do Not Comply
Discussed“and back with us from the Florida standard is Will Witt whose new book do not comply taking power back from America's corrupt Elite comes out on September 19th”
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School of Woke
Discussed“My next guest is at the center of this fight. He is the author of the brand new book School of woke how critical race Theory infiltrated American schools and why we must reclaim them which is out tomorrow Kenny shu is also president of Colorado's United”
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An Inconvenient Minority
Discussed“now one thing I talk about in my new book is how school boards have been captured”
Stuff You Should Know
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Meals to Die For
Discussed“and ended up writing a cookbook called meals to die for”
The Ben & Marc Show
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The Man in the High Castle
Discussed“Also, there's this great book that Ben and I have read called The Man from the Future, the Von Neumann book, and it does a very good job of telling Norman's side of the story.”
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Tempest
Discussed“Whitaker Chambers tells this amazing story in his book about how he tried to out himself to the U.S. government as a Soviet military intelligence recruiter and it took him six years to be taken seriously by the FBI and the Justice Department.”
