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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2023
In September 2023, podcast discussions spanned memoir, historical geopolitics, media critique, and biological sciences. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan highlighted John Krakauer's Into the Wild as his favorite book of all time. Memoirs and personal narratives also featured on The Book Review, where Lauren Christensen recommended Melissa Bond's Blood Orange Night, praising the author's audio narration. Contemporary technology and media critique drew attention on The Jordan Harbinger Show, where Tim Urban discussed Tobias Rose-Stockwell's Outrage Machine in relation to hidden harms in new media. Geopolitical structures were analyzed on The Shawn Ryan Show, where Erik Prince referenced Barbara Reid's The Party to describe the organization of the Chinese Communist Party. Historical and scientific themes rounded out the month's conversations, with David French recommending Tom Holland's Pax on The Ezra Klein Show to explore the Roman Empire, and Peter Attia discussing Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell on EconTalk to explain the cellular revolution in medicine. Finally, Ben Bowlin promoted Stuff They Don't Want You to Know on his own podcast while addressing government information collection tactics.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Natural Selection in the Wild. (MPB-21), Volume 21
Recommended“you know the end of the wild you know that book yeah John krakauer my favorite book of all time”
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
Discussed“like one of the weird things is the Dead Sea Scrolls which is the oldest versions of some of the stories in the Bible and they're different they're in Aramaic and it's like well should we all just read that now you know”
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The End of the Line
Discussed“The end of the line is informative Clover's reporting reveals that blue fin tuna...”
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HOT ROD Magazine
Discussed“He had a book called Hot Rod Magazine all the covers which covered up to no pun all the way up to 2009”
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Hot Rod Magazine All the Covers
Discussed“Drew Harden who's been an editor at like think hot rod Roden custom bunch of different books and he's written books like books he had a book called Hot Rod Magazine all the covers which covered up to no pun all the way up to 2009 hot rod started in 1947 so all the way up to 2009 every cover”
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Running the Table
Discussed“did you read running the table the kid delicious book no I haven't read it completely yeah it's a really good book he was a great guy the guy who wrote it what is his name John worthheim I believe uh [ __ ] just did a beautiful job like painting that romance that's a painting that romantic story of”
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The Conjuring
Discussed“The Conjuring movies are [ __ ] great by it's my favorite franchise”
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The Great Mortality
Discussed“a book called The Great mortality by John Kelly I was looking at is [ __ ] crazy”
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Matt Towery: Volume I
Discussed“Matt taibi's book is basically saying that Rachel Maddow has become Bill O'Reilly”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Realms of the human unconscious ; observations from LSD research
Discussed“so 51 years ago and that's when I was just 18 years old and I had just read um book by stanislav gra who was the world's leading LSD researcher at Hopkins his research was being just shut down after the backlash against the Psychedelic 60s and his book was about the therapeutic use of LSD but it was called”
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Extraterrestrial
Discussed“Your last two books, 'Extraterrestrial' and 'Interstellar,' and what's interesting is the tone of those books is very different than your tone now; they're very measured; they're very scientific.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Black Power
Discussed“exactly and the um and in the book Black Power by stokeley carmichel AKA quame té which is is you know the manifesto of the Black Power movement hardly a a right-wing Source they they made the same point about welfare reform”
The Book Review
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Blood Orange Night
Recommended“this is a more recent book it is called blood orange night it is a memoir by this woman named Melissa Bond she reads it which is something I I really love when an author reads their own Memoir”
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We the Animals
Discussed“blackouts by Justin torus who wrote We the animals which was his debut it became a bestseller”
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Blackouts
Discussed“blackouts by Justin torus who wrote We the animals which was his debut it became a bestseller”
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Chain Gang All Stars
Recommended“Chain Gang All Star which is in the same vein of kind of futuristic sci-fi social satire and it's it's wonderful”
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The Rigor of Angels
Discussed“I want to end this conversation by asking you in probably much shorter time than the book deserves to to be honest to talk about one final book that you reviewed so positively recently which was a book called The rigor of angels”
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Holly
Discussed“Stephen King joins us to talk about his new book Holly which is a suspense novel starring what is quickly become one of his most recurring characters the private investigator Holly Gibney”
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Mr. Mercedes
Discussed“she was introduced in Mr Mercedes alongside your retired detective Bill Hodges”
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Finders Keepers
Discussed“and so in the other books in the trilogy I had no idea that this was going to be a Trilogy to begin with there's Mr Mercedes there's Finders Keepers and there's End of Watch”
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End of Watch
Discussed“and so in the other books in the trilogy I had no idea that this was going to be a Trilogy to begin with there's Mr Mercedes there's Finders Keepers and there's End of Watch”
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Black House
Discussed“I just reread the Talisman and I'm holding off on black house which was the other Jack saw novel that we wrote”
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Land of Milk and Honey
Recommended“there is a second novel that several of us on the book review have read called land of milk and honey what is this one about land of milk and honey this is second novel by C Pam Jang”
My First Million
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Biography of Louis Fitch Q.C
Discussed“and so I read the biography of Louis and Clark because I remember that sacka joa had a kid like on that Journey or something like that and so I wanted to read the book”
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Predictable Revenue
Discussed“So, I started the Vettery at the NYU incubator. Um and um what what one of the guys there handed me a book one day and it's like it was it was the book it was the predictable revenue book which is basically like an outbound lead generation marketing playbook.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know
Recommended“also also let's point out in a a book that we highly recommend called in a stunning coincidence stuff they don't want you to know uh there there's a pretty good examination of”
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Designing casinos to dominate the competition
Discussed“what's the book called It's called designing casinos to dominate the competition is to dominate the competition like in after colon is it like the subtitle I don't man smaller text I don't think there's a colon there”
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The Final Witness
Discussed“So, the the book is called The Final Witness, A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After 60 Years.”
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The ghost bride
Recommended“there's a great novel uh called oh gosh I think it might be called The Ghost Bride it is called the ghost bride”
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Discussed“according to writings in an indigenous people's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz uh to quote indigenous American agriculture was based on corn”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Baldur's Gate
Discussed“I love the idea of of playing I think you mentioned Baldur's Gate an incredible game just having an AI that you played together with and you I mean that could that seems like a small thing but it could deeply enrich the like gaming experience”
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The origins of political order
Discussed“Francis Fukuyama, the book that I'm reading right now, "The Origins of the Political Order" actually does this wonderful job of pointing out how we're not special in a variety of ways.”
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Poison Ivy
Recommended“And there's a great book called "Poison Ivy" by Evan Mandery which I recommend to everybody.”
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Drugstore Cowboy
Discussed“There's a line in "Drugstore Cowboy," which is a great film. Where he says, "We played a game you couldn't win to the utmost."”
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Eight miles high
Discussed“And we did it like at the end, like Eminem at the end of "Eight Mile." It was very like, yeah, I cheated on her with this person.”
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How to stay in love
Recommended“You write in the book, which everybody should get, it's a great book, it's a great read, it's a window into your soul.”
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Dreams from My Father
Discussed“Barack Obama wrote in his memoir, "Every successful man is either trying to live up to his father's expectations or live down his father's sins." This is especially relevant for Elon, who had a violent and troubled childhood, with a psychologically complex father.”
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The Innovators
Discussed“In 'Innovators,' another book of yours that I love, you write about individuals and groups. One of the questions the book addresses is whether it is individuals or groups that turn the tides of history.”
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Lyndon Johnson and the American dream
Discussed“And when she was going for tenure at the university, she wrote a biography of 'Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream.' They denied her tenure because it was beneath the dignity of the academy to write history through one person.”
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The Code Breaker
Discussed“That's one of the reasons you write books about these people, so that if you're a young woman in a school where you're not being told to do science, and you read 'The Code Breaker' about Jennifer Doudna, you say, 'Okay, I can be that.'”
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The Alchemist Graphic Novel
Discussed“Do you think there's something to this whole manifestation thing, like focusing on a vision of what you want the world to become, and in that focusing you manifest it, like Paolo Coelho said in "The Alchemist," "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it"?”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The city gardener's handbook
Discussed“And he, that’s exactly what he was talking about and you mentioned in your book that academic journal articles are being retracted with real science are being retracted because they conflict with ideas that they make people uncomfortable, I guess is for lack of a better word.”
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The Great Gatsby
Recommended“In the end of the book, which I read and liked, you mention that your 97-year-old grandmother said that she was sticking around so she could see your book.”
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Outrage Machine
Recommended“um and um when you know I was just reading uh Tobias Rose stockwell's new book um called the outrage machine”
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How to Spot Lies Like the FBI
Discussed“veteran FBI Agent Mark Bouton and writer of how to spot lies like the FBI looks out for a bunch of signs of deception in the people that he interrogates again”
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The Ballad of John Henry
Discussed“do you have you ever heard when you're a kid you ever hear this thing The Ballad of John Henry”
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When Reason Goes on Holiday
Recommended“So like the stakes are super high, and to your point, it's very easy; there's a great book I recommend called 'When Reason Goes on Holiday.'”
How I Write
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Discussed“Murakami was one of, I remember I first read him when I was a teenager and I read, yeah, the Wind Up Bird Chronicle and just read nothing but Murakami for like the next few months.”
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Impro
Discussed“Have you read the book Impro? No, I wanted to read that for so many years. I'm sure like 70 people have recommended it to you. I basically read it because so many people kept mentioning it to me.”
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A Writer's Time, a Guide to the Creative Process, from Vision Through Revision, 1st, First Edition
Recommended“And, um, there's a great book called The Writer's Time. Stuart Brand turned me on to it when he was writing his first book.”
The Ramsey Show
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Intentional Living
Discussed“I am reading intentional living by John Maxwell”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Stopwatch Gang
Discussed“why was the book The Stopwatch Gang important to you and could you provide some context for how that appeared in your life?”
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Buffett: the Making of an American Capitalist
Discussed“Were you introduced to them by Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, or how did you get introduced to them?”
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Lateral Thinking
Discussed“He wrote a book called Lateral Thinking.”
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The Miracle of Mindfulness
Discussed“I mean, he starts off The Miracle of Mindfulness, that famous book, big bestseller with this simple description of washing the dishes.”
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Dream Work
Discussed“And I've been delving back into Mary Oliver. I read her collection, Devotions. And I recently bought a small collection called Dream Work, which I haven't finished.”
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Time Is a Mother
Discussed“And this particular poet, I have not read this yet, but you can see this, it says Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong, V-U-O-N-G, which I assume is Vietnamese. I read his first book, which blew my mind.”
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Writing Down the Bones
Discussed“She was author of this book called Down the Bones, I think it's called. Tim Ferriss: Writing Down the Bones. Writing Down the Bones. Tim Ferriss: That is a great book. Great book.”
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Chiyo-ni
Discussed“It's Chiyo-ni. Are you familiar with it? C-H-I-Y-O, Chiyo-ni, N-I. Is that how you would say that?”
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Recommended“I read his first book, which blew my mind. I'm not sure why I was drawn to it. I bought it as an impulse purchase at some Barnes and Noble in New York City, and I think it was probably the title. The title was Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which is a great fucking title.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Party
Recommended“and I read rather an interesting book called The Party and it's a really inside look as to how the CCP is organized and they actually have a a general Personnel Department that assigns people into certain roles whether it's into a company into a private company into a government Ministry or whatever”
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The Myth of Capitalism
Recommended“a great book um that I I recently read actually at the impetus of my daughter was called the myth of capitalism like Jonathan Tepper please read it please have your audience read it”
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The Other Path
Recommended“the other path obviously the other path other than The Shining path I'd encourage your viewers to read that as well”
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To Dare and to Conquer
Recommended“another book you must read is called to Daren to conquer the the book is written by Derek Lee part and it's about basically Special Operations in world history”
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Raising a Modern-day Knight
Recommended“as I read about this there's a great book out there by Robert I forget his last name Robert”
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The Psychology of Selling
Recommended“listen to these the psychology of selling by Brian Tracy”
No Stupid Questions
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Pour Your Heart Into It
Discussed“I don't know Howard Schultz; actually I would love to know Howard Schultz, but I did read his memoir. I think it's called something like 'A Cup at a Time' or something like that.”
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The Light We Carry
Discussed“Right, and you know, Michelle Obama in her book, 'The Light We Carry,' talks a lot about being an only and being a first. And when you're an only, you carry this massive additional burden because you are sort of the person laying the groundwork and setting the stage for what this is like.”
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Discussed“and I keep residing to my myself that poem I will not go gentle into this good night”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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What’s Killing America
Discussed“and the book is what's killing America inside the radical left's tragic destruction of our cities”
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The Gift of Failure
Discussed“Know Dan for his sharp political commentary he's host of the huge hit the Dan bongino show but today he's here to discuss yes the news but also his new book The Gift of failure which he calls a motivational Memoir in it”
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The Democrat Party Hates America
Discussed“so the new book I love I love the title the Democrat Party hates America which you're”
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Bookends
Discussed“Zibby Owens, who hosts Moms Don't Have Time to Read uh books, she's great uh and she's also the author of Bookends.”
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Mrs. Astor Regrets
Discussed“So they both wrote a book on the Astors. Meryl's was mainly on Brooke Astor, but she's 105 years old, so it covers 100 years of the Astor family. Mrs. Astor Regrets. Mrs. Astor Regrets and it's a terrific book.”
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Do Not Comply
Recommended“I do want to urge people to support will by his book it's called do not comply”
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When Kids Say They're Trans
Recommended“this book today that we're going to talk about is called when kids say they're trans a guide for thoughtful parents uh and it's out right now in the UK it's coming out on October 17th in the US”
Stuff You Should Know
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Casino Royale
Discussed“the character of Vesper land and Casino Royale the great James Bond novel and films apparently was based on Granville because she reportedly had an affair with Ian Fleming the author of the James Bond novels”
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
Discussed“there's this guy named John Camden hotton and he wrote one of the better titled or at least most directly titled books I've ever heard of and there's no colon no there's not there are a couple commas though a dictionary of modern slang can't and vulgar words used at the present day in the Streets of London”
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A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, And, Vulgar Words, Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London
Discussed“there's this guy named John Camden hotton and he wrote one of the better titled or at least most directly titled books I've ever heard of and there's no colon no there's not there are a couple commas though a dictionary of modern slang can't and vulgar words used at the present day in the Streets of London”
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The Whetstone of Witte
Discussed“and he wrote it in the a book called The Whetstone of wit and of course the Whetstone is what you sharpen things with so it sharpens your wit to read this book I love that title yeah and it actually became very influential and well read as far as 16th century math books go”
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Cherokee English Dictionary
Discussed“What's called the Durbin feeling Language Center uh named after this guy Durbin feeling who wrote the Cherokee English dictionary”
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Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Discussed“one of my favorite historians is named Laurel Thatcher Ulrich she of well-behaved women rarely make history Fame”
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A Midwife's Tale
Discussed“origi's most famous book A midwife's Tale is about one of these women”
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The Chicago Manual of Style
Discussed“the Chicago Manual of style which is another popular one uses both um they usually capitalize”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Pax
Recommended“one is Pax p-a-x by Tom Holland not Spider-Man uh the British popular historian writing about the peak of the Roman Empire”
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The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
Recommended“the second is by Lisa deore the emotional lives of teenagers”
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The Fifth Season
Recommended“and then my third um NK gemson the fifth season”
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Flamer
Recommended“second ph is a big is on the list of the top 10 banned books from the Ala called flamer by Mike Corrado”
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Troubled Waters
Recommended“and so there's a book which I've been fortunate enough to read a preliminary draft of it's called Troubled Waters it's a novel by Mary Anna is hegler and it's just a warm and beautiful and complex story about a southern black family wrestling with the climate crisis”
EconTalk
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The Song of the Cell
Recommended“I'm sure you've read Sid mukherjee's book the cell and I think he does perhaps the best job of anyone in kind of explaining what really took place in this cellular Revolution”
SmartLess
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Johnny Got His Gun
Discussed“and then we found out about Dalton Trumbo's story of Johnny got his gun and then um we we wrote a song around that”
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Just Because
Discussed“But we are going to talk about his books, and we are going to talk about his foundation, and then we are going to talk about his new book, Just Because, which I read, which is for kids that comes out September 12, 2023.”
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Greenlights
Discussed“And but what's really amazing is in the last couple years, as I mentioned, you have been writing books! So you wrote Greenlights, huge success!”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Dr. Mary's Monkey
Discussed“there's a book called Mary's monkey yeah and it's about uh you know the uh Dr Mary's monkey is that it”
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A History of the World in Ten and a Half Chapters
Discussed“Julian Barnes wrote a book history of the world in 10 and a half chapter”
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Saving Beauty
Discussed“that and Han talks about this in Saving Beauty”
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Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
Recommended“there's a really good book by Susan Wolf called meaning in life and why it matters”
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The Courage to Be
Recommended“and we started it with Tick's book the courage to be which is a really great book”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Thicker Than Water
Recommended“I think it's one of the most important books that I've read in my life called the artist Way by Julia Cameron”
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Bradshaw On--the Family
Discussed“there's a book that I read called the family on Bradshaw and it really blew my mind about the rigid roles that we play in like family systems”
ChooseFI
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Widen the Window
Recommended“and this is one that comes from Elizabeth Stanley from a book called wide in the window and it's a book about how to increase your ability to handle distress”
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The $100 startup
Discussed“he wrote a great book called The 100 startup it's written a bunch of other things too”
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Everyday Cheapskate
Recommended“My aunt gave me this book by Mary Hunt called Everyday Cheapskate.”
Behind the Bastards
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Critique of the Gotha Programme
Discussed“Um he writes a thing called the critique of the gotha program where he goes on a giant rant about how you know nature also produces use values and so on and so forth.”
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God's debris
Discussed“I said we're delaying the start of God's debris now we read the religion War last time which is actually the sequel to God's debris”
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The religion war
Discussed“now we read the religion War last time which is actually the sequel to God's debris”
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Ivanhoe
Discussed“Well, Scott actually has a lot to say about that in his first book.”
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What doesn't kill us
Discussed“not only writing the book what doesn't kill us which spent a few months on the New York Times bestseller list but also appearing for more than 300 media engagements”
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Becoming the Iceman
Discussed“in the 2011 book becoming the Iceman Hoff wrote that he almost died on his first attempt under the ice”
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The way of the iceman
Discussed“In his book The Way of the Iceman, he claims he came out as something of a surprise, quote, "after his mother had given birth to his twin brother, Andre."”
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The late great planet earth
Discussed“one of the key books of the Jesus movement is how Lindsay's the late great planet Earth”
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Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Discussed“I've been reading this book called anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world. And there's a section uh um by a guy named Anthony Guman that I found really interesting.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Is Marriage for White People?
Discussed“it's called is marriage for white people how the African-American marriage decline hurts everybody”
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Everyday Utopia
Discussed“she's an ethnographer and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of a new book called everyday Utopia with two thousand years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life”
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WALDEN TWO
Discussed“Twin Oaks was started in 1967. by a group of people studying psychologist B.S Skinner's book Walden II”
Huberman Lab
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Fool's Paradise
Discussed“And then perhaps if people will have a bit more of a psychological understanding, or they’re reading some pop psychology books these days, some of which are pretty good, they might understand something about themselves or the other person being a bit more anxious or a bit more relaxed.”
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
Discussed“And so I finally found this book that I think has a good model for it. A book is called Men, Machines, and Modern Times. And it's written by this MIT professor, like, 60 years ago.”
Pod Save America
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Gender Queer
Discussed“That was Senator Kennedy quoting the most sexually explicit passages from the two most censored books in America: Maya Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' and George M. Johnson's 'All Boys Aren't Blue.'”
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All Boys Aren't Blue
Discussed“That was Senator Kennedy quoting the most sexually explicit passages from the two most censored books in America: Maya Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' and George M. Johnson's 'All Boys Aren't Blue.'”
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Mobility
Recommended“It's now been one month since Crooked Media Reads published our first book, 'Mobility' by Lydia Kiesling, and not only did it make the bestseller list, it also received amazing reviews from outlets like the LA Times, which called it an emotionally and geopolitically savvy coming-of-age story.”
Big Technology Podcast
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Exit Interview
Recommended“She's a 12-year Amazon veteran and the author of Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career. It's out this week. Definitely encourage you to pick it up. I enjoyed reading it very much.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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This Too Shall Pass
Discussed“so even though there were all these things that kind of could have eaten me up sort of new and I had a very good there's a wonderful one called Julia Samuel and she wrote this too shall pass”
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Grief Works
Discussed“and another book called grief works I don't know if you've ever had her on your podcast”
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Fearless
Recommended“the book is available in September yes Fab so everyone can go pre-order that now yeah wonderful now right so highly recommend everybody goes in pre-orders it because it's a beautiful book”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Bible
Discussed“There's another scene in Exodus where that's actually laid out. It becomes part of the principle of subsidiarity, which is a core element of Catholic social doctrine and a fundamental element of genuine conservatism.”
The Daily Stoic
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Master of Change
Discussed“so I thought I would open with given that your book is about change there's probably no theme that Marcus talks about in meditations more than change”
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The Practice of Groundedness： A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul
Recommended“I love the book I love the groundedness book too”
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The Bassoon King
Discussed“He wrote another book called The Bassoon King, and then he is the creator, co-founder of Soul Pancake”
Acquired
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Deep Thinking Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
Recommended“So if you go to blinkist.com/Nvidia you can find books by Gary Kasparov, Kai-Fu Lee, and Cade Metz, who we already mentioned earlier on the show who wrote the amazing Wired article.”
Timcast IRL
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The Governance of China
Discussed“I mean you read his his uh his books governance of China”
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The Darkest Path
Recommended“you should give the darkest path book by Jeff hirs a read or listen”
StarTalk Radio
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Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Discussed“another famous book that uses or references Prometheus is the subtitle of Mary Shell's book Frankenstein and yeah what or or what's the full title is Frankenstein the modern Prometheus”
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Drug Dealer, MD
Discussed“what was that what's that called drug dealer drug dealer MD”
Modern Wisdom
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A people's tragedy
Discussed“Orlando 5g's wrote an excellent history of the Russian Revolution called a people's tragedy”
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Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since ...
Discussed“and uh you know Walter Scott writes a great novel perhaps the greatest historical novel Waverly really addressing this question how on Earth does Scotland go from being Afghanistan to being Athens in this really short space of time”
