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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2023
In August 2023, podcast discussions featured a diverse array of book recommendations focusing on symbolic history, behavioral psychology, personal development, parenting, and pandemic investigations. On Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans pointed listeners toward Steven Heller's The Swastika for historical context surrounding the controversial symbol. Body language expert Amy Cuddy appeared on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett to recommend Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins's What Every BODY is Saying as a premier guide for reading nonverbal cues. Personal growth and family dynamics were central topics on other shows, as Dr. John Delony mentioned Bob Buford's Halftime on The Ramsey Show, while Megyn Kelly discussed Steven Rinella's Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars and Jennifer Breheny Wallace's Never Enough on The Megyn Kelly Show to address outdoor activities for children and the pressures of toxic achievement culture, respectively. On The Ezra Klein Show, Caitlin Jetelina recommended the collaborative investigative report Lessons from the Covid War alongside Bonnie Garmus's lighthearted novel Lessons in Chemistry as a form of escape. Additionally, Dave Rubin promoted Carol Roth's You Will Own Nothing on The Rubin Report, encouraging his audience to engage with its economic arguments. These varied titles provided listeners with deep dives into contemporary social anxieties, historical analysis, and practical life advice.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Gods of Eden
Discussed“there's a what's it called the god of Eden a guy named William brambley an attorney sets out to write a book about the causes of war and everywhere he goes in throughout human history he finds evidence of some kind of a exterior manipulation of human Affairs”
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Johannes Gutenberg
Discussed“until they had say the Gutenberg Bible was published so in the in the 1400s and 1500s the first movable fixed type we had a calibrated standard where you knew how big the type font was”
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Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger
Discussed“I wonder if um if Jamie if you could find trying to find something wasn't great if you look up um Star Messenger Star Messenger Galileo sketch Jupiter”
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And Tango Makes Three
Discussed“and Tango makes three Recs recounts the true story of two male Penguins who are devoted to each other at the Central Park Zoo in New York a zookeeper saw them building a nest and trying to incubate an egg shape Rock gave them an egg from a different penguin pair with two eggs after they were having difficulty hatching”
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Is This Anything?
Discussed“you know like and and he said this is all going to be my new book book Soulful materialism but it's just funny to me because it's like there are people you meet that when you talk to them you go oh yeah like this does mean a lot to you”
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The Tools
Recommended“there's a book called the tools you ever see that the stunts that that oh Jonah Hill had his therapist”
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Discussed“Have you ever read that no by Tennessee Williams Oh there's this paragraph at the end he talks about how success just made him like you got to sorry”
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 14: Order From Chaos
Discussed“it's documented by this Guy Tom O'Neil in this book called chaos It's an amazing book that talks about the cia's LSD program”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Counterclockwise
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.”
Behind the Bastards
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The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross
Discussed“the Reverend TK nakagaki wrote a book in 2018 called the Buddhist swastika and Hitler's cross rescuing a symbol of peace from the forces of hate”
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The Swastika
Recommended“if you want a really good book on the subject the swastika symbol Beyond Redemption question mark by Stephen Heller very readable whenever this comes up whenever there's an issue of like somebody displays a swastika for a religious reason and it causes like a conflict”
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The science of hitting
Discussed“the earliest influential book that Ron read as a kid was the science of hitting by baseball Legend Ted Williams uh one of Ted's pieces of advice in that tome is to be very careful about the swings that you choose to take”
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Nostromo
Discussed“So, it was Joseph Conrad's novel, Nostromo, that that this Atlantic writer and uh Bronze Age Pervet both loved. Yeah. Yeah. Here, I'll read you another [ __ ] paragraph. For many years, we corresponded.”
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The Death of Democracy
Discussed“there are some unconfirmed reports that Miley and a number of other like US military highranking officers basically had like a book club and one of the books they went through in 2020 was a book about the Nazis rise to power in Germany. I I kind of suspect it might have been Death of a Democracy because that was”
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The dictator's seduction
Recommended“and I'm going to quote again from Lauren Derby's book The dictator's seduction which I really do recommend its a great book about Trujillo”
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Trujillo: Little Caesar of the Caribbean
Discussed“um and one of trujillo's better biographies Trujillo Little Caesar of the Caribbean German ornes writes quote but if the children did not learn much as school at school the dusty streets would separated in those days the monotonous rows of San Cristobal Shacks provided them with an excellent schooling”
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Flying the line.
Discussed“a book series called Flying the line by George Hopkins uh George is a former Navy pilot and an air travel industry historian and these he right he's got like this series of books called Flying the lion”
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Minion
Discussed“I run a want to read a quote from a summary of the book corporate Raiders and their minions by John Ware”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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What Every BODY is Saying
Recommended“I just think there's some really great books like I I love Joe Navarro's work he's a former FBI agent he has a lot of images he really he's not a researcher but grounds in the research and has a lot of personal experience the book that I love is is what everybody is saying um by Joe Navarro”
The Ramsey Show
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Halftime
Recommended“need a second clear goal second Mountain by David Brooks”
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Love Your Life Not Theirs
Discussed“and her her book love your love your life not theirs comparison is the thief of Joy”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars
Recommended“and his latest which is called cat a crayfish count the Stars fun projects skills and Adventures for outdoor kids”
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Never Enough
Recommended“she's an award-winning journalist and she details all of this in her new book Never Enough when achievement culture becomes toxic and what we can do about it”
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I Beat the Odds
Discussed“I beat the odds I re-read The Blind Side I've rewatched the movie The Blind Side I've watched the interviews he's done”
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Digital Madness
Recommended“I hope everybody buys digital Madness there's so much goodness in the madness uh that you write about”
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March to the Majority
Recommended“he's the author of the great new book March to the majority the real story of the Republican Revolution and what a revolution it was”
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Liberty and Sexuality
Discussed“in 1994 he wrote Liberty and sexuality it is considered the definitive account of the fight for abortion rights in America”
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The last dance
Recommended“that's called The Last Dance by the way I think it's up on Netflix it's fantastic”
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American Playbook
Recommended“and you can marinate in it too if you buy and support clay Travis by buying his book clay so great to see you the new book is out tomorrow it's called American Playbook a guide to winning back the country from the Democrats”
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Transhumanism
Discussed“I just finished this interesting book called from transgenderism to transhumanism by a transgender person and it's really it's a stupid book but it's a really interesting book because the thesis of the book is that each person is so completely unique that you can't identify them at all all and therefore we actually don't even have any kind of”
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad-Gita
Discussed“but I not only the Bible but I read the Donald Potter I read the bhagavad-gita I read the Quran and I was a what you call a Seeker I guess you know looking for something”
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School of Woke
Recommended“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”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Evil Eye
Discussed“also thanks to Antonio Pega Rulo who is the author of a book on the evil eye the evil ey colon the history mystery and magic of The Quiet curse who Dave talked to a lot about this because not only did uh Antonio write that book his grandmother was an evil eye Doer away with practitioner”
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Fordlandia
Discussed“And Livia actually said we should thank a couple of people in particular that um sort of wrote the book uh well literally and figuratively on Ford Landia. Um Greg Grandon wrote a book called Ford Landia colon the rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city.”
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The Anomalies
Discussed“there were a couple of doctors who published a legitimate book called The Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine and said it was, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature”
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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Discussed“there were a couple of doctors who published a legitimate book called The Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine and said it was, derived from an exhaustive research of medical literature”
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The Canterbury Tales
Discussed“so this is like if you've ever read uh Chaucer which I did in college like the Canterbury Tales this is I thought like we read Old English summon college”
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The Tale of Genji
Discussed“and from that tradition of kind of veering into fiction a little bit what's considered the first novel The Tale of the Genji uh came out in the 11th century”
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The pillow book
Discussed“so they wrote These pillow books there's also one called the pillow book and that was a specific book written by uh how would you pronounce s-e-i as a first name say say say uh Shona gun and that was made into a movie in 1986”
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Discussed“there's a very funny uh line and The Importance of Being Earnest when a character won't let another read their diary and she says it is simply a very young girls record of her own thoughts and Impressions and consequently meant for publication when it appears in volume form”
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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La Poetica
Discussed“Um, I think you mentioned that in the book; was it Dan Ariely who did a study on that? And we eventually adapt!”
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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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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”
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Treasury's War
Discussed“so basically we can alter I think you wrote it this way in the book we can alter the enemy's strategic Behavior by altering its bottom line”
This Week in Startups
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The Bedwetter
Discussed“because both platforms uh had their data sets trained on her 2010 Memoir which is called the bed wetter um from the AP story here's a quote Silverman's lawsuit says she never gave permission”
Freakonomics Radio
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Compassionomics
Discussed“here's one data point that trisiac and mazzarelli cite in compassionomics when patients are asked what they consider extremely important traits in a doctor”
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30 Things Your Family Can Do to Save the Earth
Critiqued“to give an example there was a little book that was popular a few years ago called 50 simple things you can do to save the world”
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Road to Survival
Discussed“and he put this all together in a book it's now forgotten but was hugely influential called road to survival it was published in 1948 and it's the first modern we're all going to hell book”
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Discussed“so there's this famous book about Japan from the American perspective I'm guessing you've read it it's called The chrysanthemum and the sword it was published in I think 1946 by the cultural Anthropologist Ruth Benedict and she had been commissioned by the U.S government during World War II to write the book to help the U.S understand the Japanese”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Lessons from the Covid War
Recommended“if I were to recommend it to anyone it's called lessons from the covid war an investigative report I thought this book was absolutely spot on on the lessons we learned throughout the pandemic it was written by the 911 Commission director and it has a lot of input from a lot of scientists around the United States and I”
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Lessons in Chemistry
Recommended“and the other one that I just started is lessons in chemistry which is pretty hilarious and light and so I've appreciated just being able to escape in those two worlds”
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Silent Spring
Discussed“there was a lot of work on this there was the famous book Silent Spring and then it kind of all in the late 60s 1970 in the first Earth Day came to a head where one in 10 Americans came out in the into the streets in the first Earth Day in 1970 and said we just can't live”
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The Prize
Recommended“the prize is a really classic work about the central role energy particularly oil has played in global power and geopolitics for more than a century”
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Silent Spring Revolution
Recommended“earlier this year I had kovid I was in isolation for a week and I got a huge 800 page history of the modern American Environmental Movement by the American historian Douglas Brinkley called Silent Spring Revolution”
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The Avoidable War
Recommended“so one of the books I wanted to mention was Kevin Rudd's book called The avoidable War the dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the U.S and XI jinping's China”
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Recommended“I think that many of your listeners might enjoy reading Bill Gates how to avoid a climate disaster unlike Kevin Redd's book which is a lot about policy and geopolitics Gates's book is a lot about technology”
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Wise blood
Recommended“my favorite maybe my favorite book of all time is wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor it's just like the right amount creepy and Christian and like the Christ haunted South”
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Rules of Civility
Recommended“so I just read The Rules of Civility by Amar toles just a beautiful writer I had also read a gentleman in Moscow he's one of those writers that I don't really even care what you're writing Michael Siobhan is similar the prose is just so good”
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The Road
Recommended“lots of people are familiar with the road but people are not generally familiar I think with some of his other works and it's great to go back and read them after the author's passing”
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Discussed“currently the chief economics commentator at the financial times as well as the author of numerous books including most recently the excellent book the crisis of democratic capitalism”
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The Narrow Corridor
Recommended“this is achimolu and Robinson um called the narrow Corridor and it's about the fragility of democracy and the finding that sweet spot between Leviathan excessively authoritarian State and Anarchy on the other and that's organized freedom and I think it's an absolutely brilliant discussion of that”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Rambo : First Blood Part II
Discussed“partly for a watch you know I can trace it back to the fact that he let me watch Rambo first Blood when I was like nine you know running around the mountains freaking running from these mean old police guys who were mean to Veterans”
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Letters from Iwo Jima
Recommended“there is one I highly recommend Letters From Evil”
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
Recommended“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 Daily Stoic
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Discipline and Punish
Discussed“I was thinking of fuko's discipline and punish”
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Delivering Happiness
Recommended“He had a great book called Delivering Happiness. Do you remember that book?”
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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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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.”
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Lone Star 03
Discussed“um um yeah he wrote uh this book Lone Star which is a history of Texas which is incredible”
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live
Discussed“so like the the first book to sabur I'm at ESPN yeah my kids are the boys were like maybe a year old maybe 18 months when I got that when I got that deal great book by the way one of my favorites”
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The Captain Class
Discussed“did you read that book's the the captain's class by Sam uh no what's his name”
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The Forty Years War
Discussed“did you read um Tom Rick's book w a good war was that the one on the generals”
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The Freaks
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 it's about the political activism slw writings of hunteress Thompson”
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Reclaim Your Nest Egg
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“Okay, Lauren Eiseley's 'The Immense Journey.' It's a history of nothing less than the entire Earth's evolution.”
Modern Wisdom
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Anabolics
Discussed“do you own an anabolics 2000 book do you own these different ebooks that tell you the good the bad the ugly with it”
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Born Together—Reared Apart
Discussed“um born together read apart your book uh awesome awesome breakdown of this”
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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”
The Rubin Report
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You Will Own Nothing
Recommended“and I proudly own a copy of the book you will own nothing so if I have one thing it is the book the link is right down below”
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Dark Future
Discussed“So, I want to catch up on a bunch of stuff, but you as if the title of the book, Dark Future, isn't terminatory enough, scary enough, et cetera.”
No Stupid Questions
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Decoded
Discussed“this is several years years ago Terry Gross is interviewing Jay-Z about his book decoded on her radio show fresh air”
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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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Human Nature in Its Fourfold State
Discussed“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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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.”
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I Love You the Purplest
Recommended“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?”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Why We Love Serial Killers
Recommended“and there's a book we found from 2014 called why we love serial killers in which criminologist Dr Scott Bond explores the nature of this and he notes the same things we've seen in previous arguments about this Fascination he says there's a difference between perceptions of killers and reality uh and he does a lot of myth busting in”
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Nothing Is Real
Discussed“I remember years ago I read this great book um it's called nothing is real and everything is possible”
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Everything is Possible
Discussed“I remember years ago I read this great book um it's called nothing is real and everything is possible”
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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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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: How to Have Conversations That Matter
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 these are deep dives into the nature of communication and connection”
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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 these are deep dives into the nature of communication and connection”
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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 these are deep dives into the nature of communication and connection”
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The Ghosts of Versailles, Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain and Their Adventure, a Critical Study by Lucille Iremonger
Critiqued“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”
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An adventure
Discussed“August 10 1901 they had published an account of this in a book called an adventure”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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The Breathing Cure
Recommended“but today today I am so jacked up because I just read this book called the breathing cure it is by this dude named Patrick McCune”
Conversations with Tyler
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Ending Aging
Discussed“the other one was I read aubry's book on ending aging when I was around 13 and that's uh definitely stuck with me is pretty much forever”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
Recommended“it's called animal joy and it's it's about laughter and it's so”
How I Write
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The PayPal wars
Discussed“I bought Zero to One, I bought the PayPal Wars, I bought other books about these people, I bought Ashley Vance's book about Elon Musk.”
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Unbroken
Discussed“Laura Hillenbrand, the author of Seabiscuit and Unbroken. I I just I marvel at her. I marvel at her actually as a person. She has chronic fatigue syndrome and she still manages to write these incredibly insanely detailed books.”
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On Writing Well
Discussed“So, writes about something like how how the word soft has a feel to it. Like soft, right? Is is different than smooth, right? Like like Yeah. Yeah, a lot of reading happens in the ear, right? And so, we I I I'm often thinking about warmth as like the quality of Like what does it mean when somebody sees”
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A Treatise on Painting
Recommended“Well, in his private notebooks, he wrote a load of advice for young painters. And then his heir, Franchesca Meltzy, who collected Da Vinci's notes, takes it and publishes this scattered advice in a treaties called on painting. Wonderful. Everyone should read it.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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International Management Handbook
Recommended“it's called incentive management by John F Lincoln is that a real name”
Acquired
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Sam Walton, Made in America
Discussed“of course Sam Walton actually wrote in made in America that he stole more ideas from Saul than anyone else in his business career”
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The High Cost of Low Wages
Discussed“so in 2006 Harvard Business Review published a really great piece called the high cost of low wages where they very directly compare Costco and Walmart employee salaries and benefits”
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Saul
Recommended“we mentioned that there's basically one book about Costco and Price Club and it is self-published by Saul Price's son Robert price as you can imagine it's out of print we managed to get our hands on three of them”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Harry Potter
Discussed“so I'm going to maybe embarrass myself but I love the Harry Potter series”
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The Latehomecomer
Discussed“we brought somebody in to perform the late homecomers”
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The Harry Potter Series
Discussed“so I'm going to maybe embarrass myself but I love the Harry Potter series”
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Insurrections
Discussed“but you also have somebody like Rion Scott who's an amazing short story writer and we had this collection of his called insurrections in the catalog”
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Discussed“we broke somebody in to perform a brief wondrous life of Oscar Wilde”
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Discussed“and so the next day we literally got a letter from this woman saying I picked up that secret history of Wonder Woman and it is such an amazing book”
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How to Say Goodbye
Recommended“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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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?”
The Book Review
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Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023
Discussed“so your recent piece in the book reviews Thriller issue is adapted from your introduction to the mysterious Bookshop presents the best mystery stories of the Year 2023 which is going to be published in September”
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The Maltese Falcon
Discussed“listen to another book podcast that's called backlisted for listeners and and for you amore it's a great podcast out of England that's run for many years in which they talk about old books they bring on two or three people and they did an episode on the maltes Falcon”
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A Pocketful of Happiness
Discussed“so let's talk about this wonderful book which is really life affirming even though its subject is so sad it's called a pocket full of Happiness”
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Slow Horses
Recommended“and you have alighted this summer also on someone that I am reading I started reading him after watching the Apple TV series and I can't wait to get through as many of his books as possible who is that what is this book I'm looking at and it was the same thing for me as Mick Haron and what”
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The Bee Sting
Recommended“tell us about the beasting oh I love the beasting”
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The Visionaries
Recommended“and he's back with a new book called The Visionaries this is a group portrait of four female philosophers over pretty significant decade for all of them which is 1933 through 1943”
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Pet
Recommended“okay pet by Katherine Chi she is a New Zealand writer”
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Happiness Falls
Recommended“um tell us about the last book on your list which is called Happiness Falls”
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These Precious Days
Discussed“your previous book a collection of essays was called these precious days”
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Vintage Contemporaries
Discussed“there was a book from earlier this year called vintage contemporaries by this guy Dan K who who's an editor at slate”
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The skin of our teeth
Recommended“are there any outside of our town in the bridge of St Louis Ray that you would recommend our listeners check out by the skin of our teeth of course is fabulous”
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.”
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Disco Elysium :
Discussed“I really liked playing "Disco Elysium". It was one of the most beautiful computer games I played in recent years. And it's a noir novel that is a philosophical perspective on Western society from the perspective of an Estonian.”
Pod Save America
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The People Vs. Barack Obama
Critiqued“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
Recommended“I just read a wonderful novel uh called enter ghost by Isabella Hamad and it's about doing uh performance of Hamlet”
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The Parisian
Recommended“she also wrote a novel called the Parisian which is a wonderful novel”
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This Changes Everything
Recommended“this changes everything uh by Naomi Klein is a is a wonderful book”
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Time's Mouth
Recommended“so does uh Eden lapucky her novel is called times mouth and it's amazing”
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Revolutionary Power
Recommended“and uh a book called revolutionary Power by Shalonda Baker who I think now holds a position in the department of energy”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Art & Arcana
Discussed“I was reading this book called, I believe it's Art & Arcana. Or arcana. I'm not sure how you pronounce that word properly, even though I've read it a thousand times, which is a visual history of Dungeons & Dragons.”
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A Whack on the Side of the Head
Recommended“I researched a ton. I read some great books on creativity, A Whack on the Side of the Head is one I'd recommend.”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes- E-Book
Discussed“Her first book, Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Impairment Syndromes—you may have heard Eric Cressey mention this; it was a hugely influential book for him—has been translated into seven languages.”
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Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Extremities, Cervical and Thoracic Spines
Discussed“Her second book, Movement System Impairment Syndromes of the Cervical and Thoracic Spines and the Extremities, has been equally influential in promoting movement diagnoses.”
Timcast IRL
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The Next Civil War
Discussed“let's say that by hard definitions we are in civil Strife as Stephen Marsh described it in his book titled the next civil war”
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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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The 9/11 Commission Report
Recommended“flight 77 Khalid almadar nawafal hazmi the 28 Pages the 911 report just go check that out”
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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
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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The Mars Project
Discussed“it's called Mars project reference a person named Elon that would bring humans to Mars pretty nuts”
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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”
a16z Podcast
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The Diamond Age, Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Discussed“It's an AI-based virtual reality app um that can educate a child and it gets pirated. It gets in the hands of these 200,000 orphan girls living in in barges and they just take over”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Lentil Underground
Recommended“There's a woman in Liz Carlisle who wrote Amazing book called The lentil underground”
Big Technology Podcast
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When Women Lead
Discussed“Let's talk about this book. When Women Lead. You got it. Got it here. It's been out for a few months. You know, I thought the book was interesting for a couple of reasons.”
My First Million
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
Discussed“let me see the uh you know there's a there's a gnarly a really pretty heavy one called Embrace The Fearless uh embrace fearlessly the burning World by uh Barry Lopez he's he's pretty radical”
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THE LIFE AFTER LIFE
Recommended“well I did I did I liked uh there was a book called Life After Life that I really um I I really enjoyed um by uh what's his name Moody”
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The Lazy Man's Way to Riches
Discussed“have you ever heard of this book called The Lazy Man's way to riches yes so I don't remember when that originally came out I think in the 60s but the Lazy Man's way to riches is a really famous ad it sold like three or four million copies of this book and the ad is famous amongst copywriters because”
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Asada
Discussed“Okay, so uh she and she's got a cookbook. Like, she's kind of like doing her thing. She's got a lot of a lot of stuff going, which I think is pretty fun. She's got a book called Asada, The Art of Mexican Style Grilling by Bricia Lopez.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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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.”
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The Man in the High Castle
Recommended“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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The Man from the Future
Recommended“so so there's this great book that that Ben and I've read this I think it's called The Man from the future the Van Norman book and so I think it does a very good job of telling telling about Norman's side of the story”
