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Books podcasts were talking about in November 2023
During November 2023, several podcasts featured prominent discussions about non-fiction and fiction titles spanning societal anxieties, history, and deeply personal narratives. On Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Ben Bowlin highlighted Ethan Watters and Richard Ofshe's book Making Monsters, exploring the cultural and psychological phenomenon of the recovered memory movement. Meanwhile, on The Ramsey Show, George Kamel recommended Dave Ramsey's book The Legacy Journey to help a young caller reframe his personal perspective on wealth and long-term financial planning. Historical trauma and human suffering also drew significant attention. On Behind the Bastards, Robert Evans strongly recommended Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost for its deep dive into the severe human misery caused by King Leopold's regime. Literary discussions were similarly prominent, particularly on The Book Review, where the host Siti Stein championed Elsa Morante's massive eighty-hundred-page saga Lies and Sorcery as an overlooked classic translation. Additional literary mentions on the same program included MJ Franklin recommending Jen Beagin's Big Swiss as an alternate favorite, and Jumana Khatib presenting Susie Boyt's Loved and Missed as an exceptional novel. On The Ezra Klein Show, Maryanne Wolf discussed her favorite reads, highlighting Gish Jen's World and Town alongside Wendell Berry's Standing by Words while reflecting on deep reading and comprehension.
Stuff You Should Know
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The Professor and the Madman
Discussed“The Professor in the madman uh the book was by Simon Winchester and the book starred Mel Gibson as Murray and Shawn Pinn as the quote unquote madman Chester Miner”
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The Origin of Continents and Oceans
Discussed“Alfred Wagner came along in 1912 and published a book called the origin of continents and oceans where he was kind of like hey wait a minute everyone this looks like a giant puzzle”
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Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour
Discussed“uh we mentioned earlier that Davon wrote a book uh it is called goodbye Natalie goodbye Splendor uh that was in 2009 in November of 2011 the LA Sheriff's Department um reopen the investigation”
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Little Sister
Discussed“so she said this in a 2021 Memoir um that you mentioned before it's called Little Sister colon my investigation into the mysterious death of Natalie Wood and she says that Robert Wagner told her that after the funeral she's like what happened”
Behind the Bastards
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Holy rollers
Discussed“because next from Holy Rollers quote Joshua ruled that men women and children were all to sleep together on the floor”
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In darkest England
Discussed“in 1890 booth and some of his colleagues wrote a Manifesto A book titled in darkest England and the way out”
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In Darkest England and the Way Out
Discussed“in 1890 booth and some of his colleagues wrote a Manifesto A book titled in darkest England and the way out”
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Holy Rollers
Discussed“in their book Holy Rollers te mcracken and Robert blet describe the school this way Ryan's group was part of a Holiness movement that taught the Bible in its entirety from the first word of Genesis to the last word of Revelation”
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King Leopold's ghost
Recommended“I really recommend reading King Leopold's ghost by Adam hosch child it's a great book and it really delves into the human misery caused by this regime”
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The Story of Corn
Discussed“Betty Fusel is the author of quote the story of corn which chronicles corn's several thousand-year history. She says it might sound innocuous but the history of corn probably changed the course of humanity.”
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The End of Food
Discussed“Paul Roberts wrote in his 2009 book, The End of Food, that in the following decades, the number of bushels of corn per acre doubled and then it continued to rise each year.”
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Leopold II., King of Belgium, Sovereign of the Congo Free State, Vindicated ...
Discussed“Now, the first is a biography called Leopold II, King of Belgium. Uh, it's a pro- monarchist book that was written in 1910.”
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Java
Discussed“So, uh, Prince Leopold, one of his favorite books as he's a young man studying trying to find a new colony for Belgium is a book about the Dutch East Indies called, uh, Java: How to Manage a Colony.”
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History of Zionism
Discussed“In 1919, he wrote the introduction to Nahim Sokulo's history of Zionism. In this introduction, Balffor wrote that the Zionist movement would quote mitigate the agelong miseries created for Western civilization”
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When Technology Wounds
Discussed“In the book When technology wounds by psychologist Chalis Glendining by psychologist Chelis Glendining she studied technology survivors people who had suffered injury or illness in recent years after being exposed to various toxic technologies in their homes and workplaces whether nuclear radiation pesticides asbestos birth control devices or drugs”
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The trap
Discussed“and gets he's as kind of a response to failing to to stop the EU he writes this book in 1994 called the Trap and the basically the argument is the TR in the Trap is that like us style attitudes of free trade which bring with them Mass migration right which open borders that people can travel between borders”
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The Gamblers
Discussed“having identified so closely with his gorillas he started to imitate their habits and showed a marked preference for the rules governing the world of animals to that of human beings from watching how the dominant old silverback gorilla ruled the females in his Entourage he concluded that the idea of women's rights and women's Liberation was not only ridiculous”
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Grey Wolf
Discussed“and the book is called grey wolf right which is today the name of a fascist organization in Turkey”
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The passion of John Aspinall
Discussed“one of them is this fawning 1988 book by Brian Masters that's literally titled The Passion of John Aspen”
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Nada the Lily
Discussed“John's favorite book by Haggard was called notada The Lily and it's this book about the Zulu King Shaka”
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Fight Like Hell
Discussed“You are a labor journalist. Uh you published a book what was it last year? Year before last called Fight Like Hell. Um yeah about about the history of the labor movement”
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Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits
Discussed“Emma Wilby describes in her book, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, how into the early modern period, many cunning folk, basically low-level magicians and conjurers, had ghosts, fairies, and animal spirit companions”
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Of Ghosts and Spirites, Walking by Night, and of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdomes. One Booke, Written by Lewes Lavaterus of Tigurine, and Translated Into English by R.H. (i.e. Robert Harrison].
Discussed“A Swiss theologian named Lewig Laviter attempted to solve this cosmological problem in his 1569 book Despectress. I just picked up my copy a few weeks ago and I've been going through it and it's a lot of fun.”
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Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night
Discussed“A Swiss theologian named Lewig Laviter attempted to solve this cosmological problem in his 1569 book Despectress. I just picked up my copy a few weeks ago and I've been going through it and it's a lot of fun.”
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Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell
Discussed“In 1785, he published a book titled Heaven and Hell based on his experiences of the afterlife. According to Swedenberg, once humans on Earth pass on to the spiritual world, they enter a intermediate realm in between heaven and hell”
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Heaven and Hell
Discussed“In 1785, he published a book titled Heaven and Hell based on his experiences of the afterlife. According to Swedenberg, once humans on Earth pass on to the spiritual world, they enter a intermediate realm in between heaven and hell”
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Voices from the Spirit World
Discussed“In 1852, the medium Isaac Post published a collection of messages he supposedly channeled from such people as Voltater, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous figures who urged the living to push for radical social change. The book entitled Voices from the Spirit World included a passage claiming that the ghost of George Washington became an abolitionist after death.”
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Ghosts of Futures Past
Discussed“According to ghosts of futures past, spiritualism and cultural politics of 19th century America by Molly McGarry, Thomas Watson, famed assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, experimented with the telephone as an aid to spiritual communication.”
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What is to be Done?
Discussed“Drawing from Lenin's what is to be done, Larouche believes that a select intellectual group which I mean he was clearly a part of these professional revolutionaries held a pivotal role in transforming society”
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In Defense of Common Sense
Discussed“So, Larouche decides to write a book called In Defense of Common Sense. It's a mix of obscure geometric illustrations, a passionate defense of Platonism, a tribute to the 17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler and some heavy denunciations of philosophers like Kant”
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The Last King of Scotland
Discussed“He wrote in his book, which was one of the major sources for Last King of Scotland, quote: 'Amin's bizarre behavior derives partly from his tribal background; like many other warrior societies, the Caka—Amin's tribe—are known to have practiced blood rituals on slain enemies.'”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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CU Love and Respect Anconnect Readerlink
Discussed“have you read the book love and respect it talks about like men want to solve problems and women want to be heard and listened so it's just like ever since we got that frame I was just like it's so much easier”
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Love and Respect
Discussed“have you read the book love and respect it talks about like men want to solve problems and women want to be heard and listened so it's just like ever since we got that frame I was just like it's so much easier”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Sybil
Discussed“and this also saw the rise or the popularization of the idea that trauma would be so bad that your mind had fractured into multiple personalities which is where we see things like um was the pop culture phenomenon cibil that's the right one right”
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Making Monsters
Recommended“so I want to shout out a fantastic New York Times piece by a guy named Ethan Waters who is the co-author of a book called making monsters which came out in 1994 it is about this phenomen on the recovered memory movement”
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Necronomicon
Discussed“I love that you mention the Necronomicon at the top of the show null because for everyone listening if you're a fan of horror movies you're intimate familiar with that old Trope of the cursed book and lovecraft's Necronomicon Howard Philip Lovecraft uh he he made this book it's a perfect example of what we're talking about because for years”
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The Greater Key of Solomon
Discussed“today's episode is about one of the most famous grimas in existence the book or slash books known as the key of Solomon”
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Origen on the Song of Songs as the Spirit of Scripture
Discussed“he composed 3,000 Proverbs 1,05 songs he wrote the song of songs The Book of Proverbs and other religious works in the Jewish tradition”
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The Proverbs of Solomon (Deluxe Hardcover Book)
Discussed“he composed 3,000 Proverbs 1,05 songs he wrote the song of songs The Book of Proverbs and other religious works in the Jewish tradition”
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The Lesser Key of Solomon
Discussed“he is thought to be the builder of the first temple in Jerusalem and the last ruler of the Kingdom of Israel before it was divided into the northern kingdom in the southern Kingdom of Judah and in the tradition concerning the key of Solomon or also in the Lesser key of Solomon which we'll we'll have to mention because”
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The Testament of Solomon
Discussed“we mentioned there are other books that came later like The Testament of Solomon or the Lesser key of Solomon that's the one with uh the 72 demons and their properties named”
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De praestigiis daemonum
Discussed“so the Lesser key of Solomon is is based on a another book or a couple of different books one by a guy named Johan V or Johan wi called they prestigious Damon”
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The Travels of Marco Polo
Discussed“and in the travels of Marco Polo he writes that it has been an invariable custom that all the grand KH and Chiefs of the race of jangus Khan should be carried for interment to a certain lofty Mountain named alte and in whatever place they may happen to die all the it should be at the distance of a”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Mao
Discussed“um Wild Swans obviously but also your biography of Mao titled Mao the unknown story both of which we'll talk about today”
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Was Mao Really a Monster?
Discussed“there were some academics who public even published a book a collection of their criticisms against our book and the title was was M really a monster I mean you know the preface was rate him by by someone who was of a senior lecturer in lsse”
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Conflict
Discussed“I have the pleasure of speaking with Andrew Roberts, who is most recently the author of “Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.””
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Now it Can be Told
Discussed“Manhattan Project is much in the news with the Oppenheimer movie. If you look at the very last bit of General Grove's book on Manhattan Project, he talks about what are the most fundamental principles about why it succeeded?”
Conversations with Tyler
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The New Leviathans
Discussed“Now your new book, it is called The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism.”
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The book of Genesis
Discussed“The whole of the Bible, one of the key texts for me is the Book of Genesis, two books, the Book of Genesis and the Book of Job.”
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Principles of Political Economy
Discussed“In other words, I'm not talking about the famous population conclusion in him whereby if you have a vast world and everybody's lives are barely worth living in you add up the utility, it could be better than a smaller world with many fewer human beings whose lives were much higher.”
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The new Leviathan
Discussed“And he he was the one person who introduced me to R.G. Collingwood's book The New Leviathan, singular, uh on which I wouldn't say this book is based, it's quite different in every respect, but it gave me the thoughts that 60 years later then found fruition or in the in this book of mine.”
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A positive program for laissez faire
Discussed“Henry Simons had a book that was sort of a big deal in the 1930s it was called a positive program for Le fair”
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A monetary history of the United States
Discussed“that also comes after he's completed with Anna Schwarz his magnum opus a monetary History of the United States”
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Goddess of the Market
Recommended“and her earlier book I also like very much that is goddess of the market Ein Rand and the American right”
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A soldier of the great war
Discussed“um Mark help uh and Mark said uh Mark helin wrote a soldier of the Great War um uh and um winter tale not the political journalist so they're different people not halin but helprin and and he talked about the cost the emotional cost of reading novels after 50 and that the way a novel can stir you up”
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Winter's Tale
Discussed“um Mark help uh and Mark said uh Mark helin wrote a soldier of the Great War um uh and um winter tale not the political journalist so they're different people not halin but helprin and and he talked about the cost the emotional cost of reading novels after 50 and that the way a novel can stir you up”
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Norwegian Wood
Discussed“uh and um because I want to have two that I can read later that I've never read uh but I find him a Marvel a miraculous Marvel and I'm I I'll never forget reading um Norwegian Wood for the first time and and just understanding that there was somebody out there working at the highest possible level that you”
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Big Deal
Discussed“um Anthony Holden's book is really entertaining Peter alon's book about the World Series of Poker there are many many great poker I'm leaving so many out”
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Difficult Men
Recommended“and you know David milch cuts his teeth on um and Hill Street Blues there's a wonderful book by Brett Martin called difficult men that's about showrunners and it starts in a way with botcho and milch in in that time period and it's a great look into uh how this idea of showrunners created um modern modern television and”
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Deadwood
Recommended“uh and so this is why someone like David milch and that's another book I would recommend as milch's book which is one of the best maybe the best book ever written about television the one that came out last year when you think about a guy like that who was able to write some of the best episodes of”
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Kafka on the Shore
Recommended“well I think Kafka on the shore is like an astonishing so to me Kafka on the shore is it works so well uh and it shouldn't work it doesn't it it encompasses the entire experience of life and and Love and War it just encompasses it just encompasses so much”
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The Biggest Game in Town
Recommended“I have um there's a little known book so the books about poker that that are the non-fiction book you know a Alvarez's book is is perfect it's a perfect book I highly recommend it”
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Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
Recommended“and that is William Kennedy's Billy fail's greatest game uh if I have you ever read that book no never read it Tyler it's as good as Kennedy to me is like you know another one of these people like Kennedy I think should have won the Nobel”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Merrily We Roll Along
Discussed“I forgot who wrote the book!”
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Songbook
Discussed“Elton John is one that like I got my dad the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road vinyl and he got really way more excited than I thought he would and it excited me how excited he was”
How I Write
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Adult Children of Alcoholics
Discussed“tell me about adult children of Alcoholics I think that this book speaks deeply to how writing can move people how it can just be a light bulb in the reader eyes”
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The Bed of Procrustes
Recommended“One of my favorite Nassim Taleb books is his least well known, it's called The Bed of Procrustance. So good. It's a collection of aphorisms.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The wave
Discussed“there's a book called The Wave right and written by Susan Casey who's an incredible writer and she writes different books about different subjects and in the book The Wave there's a there's a chapter or two about a day that we rode on Maui which was it's it's not at jaws it's another location right by the airport”
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Science
Discussed“these study by science this new research by the Science magazine said that Mexico that the cartels are the fifth largest employers in Mexico”
The Ramsey Show
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The Legacy Journey
Recommended“baby steps millionaire uh book talks about this the Legacy Journey talks about this so check those out”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939
Discussed“I'm actually reading one right now so it actually this is why I'm bringing this up um about holwood in I'm I'm reading a book by a really interesting historian named Thomas dhy and it's called Hitler in Hollywood and it's about how all the studios um basically had I mean they're all owned and runed by by Jewish guys”
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Gotti
Discussed“and John gleon said it in his book about Gotti he says fres basically took us to the cleaners because we got nothing out of him”
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Chomp Chomp Chomp
Discussed“joining me now author of the new children's book Chomp Chomp Chomp the snap Fest challenge JP Sears a comedian and very popular YouTuber”
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2,000 Mules
Discussed“We were told this is an impossibility and that you're a lunatic fringe here if you believe things like 2,000 Mules, Dinesh D'Souza's film that tries to document suspicious ballot drops in the presidential race of 2020.”
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No Safe Spaces
Discussed“You starred in the movie No Safe Spaces made by our pal Mark Joseph, which I absolutely love and was calling attention to the campus insanity years ago.”
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Testosterone
Discussed“And meanwhile, it was just I think last year where Carole Hooven, um who is in our book, Carole Hooven is a a brilliant person, she's a lovely person, she was on Fox News to talk about her book testosterone.”
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Beckham
Discussed“I read that Beckham had been having dinner with Leonardo DiCaprio and said I want to make a documentary about my life do you think Netflix would be interested so hell yes right so but this is his legacy play right this is enshrining the Beckham Legend that's what it should be called Beckham my story”
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Discussed“I was reading the Britney Memoir as soon as it came out last week and I kept thinking about Matthew Perry because at this time last year I was reading his Memoir and coling on his Memoir and his his Memoir struck me as so much more candid than the average celebrity Memoir”
The Book Review
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom;
Discussed“they joined the Abolitionist speaker circuit and they also told their own story in a book called Running 1,000 miles for Freedom which Ilan wo first encountered decades ago as a graduate student”
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Lies and Sorcery
Recommended“I am so excited to tell everyone to read this 800 page Saga lies and sorcery by Elsa marante”
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Big Swiss
Recommended“but the other book I wanted to talk about is Big Swiss by Jen Bean”
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Loved and Missed
Recommended“I am very excited to talk to you about loved and missed by Susie boy this is something if you like the beasting”
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The Grand Sophy
Discussed“particularly in this novel The Grand Sophie which is one of her most beloved books but has this very egregious kind of anti-Semitic stereotype in one scene that has bothered readers for a long time”
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Fourth Wing
Discussed“this was about Rebecca yaros Rebecca yaros is the author of one of the year's surprising bestsellers fourth Wing the sequel to which iron flame has just been released for those listeners who haven't read fourth wi yet or read your story if you haven't please do so Alexandra tell us what the book is about”
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Antony and Cleopatra
Discussed“there's a suggestion that maybe the Anthony and CLE plra was types set for one of Shakespeare's own drafts perhaps”
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The Winter's Tale
Discussed“well if we didn't have the first folio given that all the manuscript versions of the place are lost we wouldn't have Place such as the Tempest or 12th night or a Winter's Tale or Julius cesa or anti Cleopatra or MC Beth”
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Pericles
Discussed“certainly an obvious one that's missing is paricles and two two Noble Kinsmen”
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The Two Noble Kinsmen
Discussed“certainly an obvious one that's missing is paricles and two two Noble Kinsmen”
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Sir Thomas More
Discussed“the main example of that is a play called Sir Thomas Moore the book of Thomas Moore which is a play that never got through the senses written by somebody else never got through the senses”
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Gutenberg Bible
Discussed“he had a Gutenberg Bible”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Reader, Come Home
Discussed“you argue in reader come home that reading is a quote unnatural process”
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Proust and the squid : the story and science of the reading brain
Discussed“it was a book called PR and the squid the story and science of the reading brain I realized that there was nothing in the brain”
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How We Read Now
Discussed“I have been doing a lot of work with colleagues like Naomi Baron who has an Oxford book called How we read now”
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World and town
Recommended“but I would really actually want to say that my favorite was her book World in town in which like few other people she helps us understand”
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Standing by words
Recommended“the third will be very difficult for me because it's something between Wendell Barry standing by words and John Dunn the Theologian”
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The Peace Puzzle
Recommended“what are three books you'd recommend to the audience the peace puzzle by Daniel curzer at all Arabs and Israelis”
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The Missing Peace
Recommended“and the missing Peace by Dennis Ross”
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The Much Too Promised Land
Discussed“in his great book The much too Promised Land Aaron David Miller points out that before the yor war in 1973 Israel ranked 24th in foreign aid from the US 24th within a few years of that war it ranked first as it typically has since”
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The prophets
Recommended“the first is Abraham Joshua hessel's seminal work the prophets which for me in the course of my Rabin it was an absolutely transformative book to help me understand not only our prophetic tradition but really what's demanded of us in a time of moral crisis”
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To Bless the Space Between Us
Recommended“the second is John Odon Hugh's book to bless the space between us it is just Sublime and beautiful and enchanting and reminds me of my own humanity and of other people's of our ability to bless each other with love”
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Homegoing
Recommended“and the third I would say is a novel written by yaji Assi homegoing which I really think is one of the best novels I've ever read it is this epic story of generations of the descendants of Two Sisters from Ghana the impact of violence and enslavement and multigenerational Trauma”
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Steadfast Democrats
Recommended“there's a great book called steadfast Democrats that talks about how the black vote is always so high because that's the only socially acceptable vote in that Community because you always are black in America”
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Politics and the English language
Recommended“it's by George Orwell and it's called politics in the English language I think that the way we talk about all these things makes us less able to solve problems and we' just be better to have honest conversation”
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Tyranny, Inc
Recommended“there's a new book called tyranny Inc by someone who endorsed Trump before but actually looked at the Modern American labor situation and sees clearly what someone in the labor movement or someone who's actually paying attention to what work life is like how it's basically a dictatorship”
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Crashed
Recommended“and the third is one actually I that you brought to my attention which is the book crashed by Adam TW which I think should open the aperture for people about how our economy all of these decisions are connected to the world in a way that makes everything make a lot more”
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
Recommended“the first is I think the best book ever written about Israel which is a tale of love and darkness by amamos which is autobiographical”
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Who by Fire
Recommended“the second book book I love by mati fredman who by fire which tells the story of Leonard Cohen's tour”
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The War of Return
Recommended“and finally a book called The War of Return by anat wil and ADI Schwarz which makes a very strong case for why the key to peace is confining the Palestinian demand”
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Recommended“Yosi K Hali you have many great books but one that I read in anticipation of this and that I would really recommend to people in this moment is letters to my Palestinian neighbor which is excellent”
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The Only Language They Understand
Discussed“he wrote a book some number of years ago called the only language I understand arguing that both Israelis and Palestinians tend to make their concessions under the threat of force”
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Hamas contained
Recommended“it's a very complex organization and to wrote a really fantastic book about this called Hamas contained where he really provides like a very great complex analysis of how was born and fantastic details”
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A history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Recommended“I recommend my colleague Mark tessler's book a history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict”
EconTalk
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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy
Discussed“one was H bruners the worldly economists and the other is that big Bill Simmons book about NBA players book of basketball”
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A Treatise on the Family
Discussed“uh I think you're a little unfair to the subtlety that he brings in books like the economics of discrimination and a tretis on the Family”
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Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 19
Discussed“but I read law legislation and Liberty and I don't think it totally makes sense”
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Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1
Discussed“but I read law legislation and Liberty and I don't think it totally makes sense”
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The Subjection of Women
Recommended“the single best thing to read is actually subjection of women which is thought of as a feminist tract”
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The Geek Way
Discussed“Our topic for today is his latest book, The Geek Way, the radical mindset that drives extraordinary results.”
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Price Theory
Discussed“somewhere on this shelf is price Theory by Milton Friedman which was a sasot a a compendium of his notes that his students eventually turned into a book”
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Theory of the Consumption Function
Discussed“there's another um book that's less wellknown except among economists the theory of the consumption function and this book came out of fredman's Engagement with women researchers”
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A City on Mars
Discussed“our topic for today is his latest book co-authored with his wife Kelly a city on Mars”
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Alone
Discussed“he wrote a a book that was famous in the early 20th century called alone which was about going close to I think it was close to the South Pole and he basically lived down a hole”
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Principles of Space Anthropology
Discussed“there's an anthropologist named Cameron Smith who wrote a book called space anthropology and we don't agree with everything he says”
ChooseFI
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ART FEAR
Discussed“I always love the analogy in uh David Bell's and Ted orland's book art and fear did you read that Brad”
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Made Whole
Discussed“and she's back with a new workbook called made whole the Practical guide to reaching your financial goals”
Acquired
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A Piece of the Action
Discussed“this is the name of the title in this fantastic book a piece of the action how the middle class joined the money class and is chapter 1 the drop 1958”
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One from Many
Discussed“there's this great passage from him in his book one for many he says any organization that could guarantee transport and settle transactions in the form of arranged electronic particles that's what he calls digital information”
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Electronic Value Exchange
Recommended“well we are starting actually with a big thank you to Dave Sterns author of what is undeniably the very best book on Visa and its history electronic value exchange”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD -
Discussed“Conversations with God. I remember, you know, it's like I read that book and I was like like just blew my mind cuz I didn't know anybody that thought like that.”
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Smarter Not Harder
Recommended“And he's doing that in this new book called Smarter Not Harder, The Biohacker's Guide to Getting the Body and Mind You Want.”
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Be Water, My Friend
Discussed“Bruce Lee's daughter wrote a book called Be Like Water.”
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Energy Speaks
Discussed“And after the show, I pulled him aside and I like very quickly told him what was going on and I was and how like I was, you know, coping with my divorce and I was in this depression. And he was like, "Listen, your husband, even though you don't love like love him like that and want to be”
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The Messy Truth
Recommended“Today's guest is someone who's excited to share with us what I believe is the truth, and it's called The Messy Truth.”
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Hidden Potential
Discussed“So this is page 26 for anyone who's listening or watching right now, page 26 of Hidden Potential.”
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Steal like an artist
Discussed“As Austin Kleon discusses in another book, 'Steal Like an Artist,' I found that very insightful.”
No Stupid Questions
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Blood, Bones, & Butter
Discussed“I am dying to ask you a question that has actually been simmering as I read through like essays that you've published in The Times and of course I read Blood, Bones, and Butter.”
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Smuggler's Cove
Discussed“And Eli Finkel, he has this one diagram in his like magnum opus on how our expectations about marriage have changed over time and he calls it 'Mount Maslow.' And there's quite literally a picture of a mountain!”
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The Giver
Discussed“Have you ever read The Giver? I just read it last year. Okay, it's probably the book I've read more than any other book.”
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Words on the Move
Discussed“There is this linguist, John McWhorter, he wrote a book, Words on the Move: Why English Won't and Can't Sit Still, and he talked about the very fact that words just change and dictionaries sort of set in our minds that language is going to be precise forever, and this is just what this word means, or this is how”
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The Principles of Psychology
Discussed“In the first half of the show, Angela says that 19th century psychologist William James wrote something along the lines of, "Happiness is when your expectations meet your reality." She was thinking of a formula for self-esteem that James outlined in his book The Principles of Psychology.”
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Will
Discussed“Because I don't know if you've read Will Smith's autobiography— Oh yes! Will, I read it cover to cover!”
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What Are People For?
Discussed“in which she was citing Barry's 1990 collection of essays what are people for Barry wrote True Solitude is found in the wild places where one is without human obligation one's inner voices become audible one feels the attraction of one's most intimate sources in consequence one responds more clearly to other lives”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The Abundant University
Discussed“his recent book the Abundant University is a scathing critique of the US higher education system everybody involved in the system is doing what their incentives tell them to do even though we know it's leading to really bad outcomes”
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Worlds I See
Discussed“One of the many things I loved about a book that you just wrote, entitled The Worlds I See, is how beautifully you lead the reader through your field's many dead ends and struggles, which is unusual. So often we hear only about the triumphs, the AlphaZeros, the ChatGPTs, not the many, many failures.”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Rise and Decline of Nations
Discussed“And so this sort of massive harming of the young, and in some sense this is a larger phenomenon that's related to the things Mancur Olson wrote about 40 years ago in 'The Rise and Decline of Nations' in which, in a stable society, insiders basically figure out how to rig the game for themselves.”
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Plunder
Discussed“I suppose if I thought that it was good for society I wouldn't have called the book plunder today on free economics radio the rise and Rise of the private Equity”
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Two and Twenty
Discussed“cajor is investing his own money and he has written a book called two and 20”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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12 Rules for Life
Discussed“I just finished your book you did which one uh the your first 12 rules”
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The Bear and the Dragon
Discussed“I told that to the Russians, and Tom Clancy wrote a book about it years ago called "The Bear and the Dragon" or something along those lines. The Chinese are coming for that land, and they're doing it very cleverly.”
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Never Give an Inch
Discussed“I had to sit down, and Mike Pompeo wrote about this in his book, and I'll mention it because Secretary Pompeo mentioned it. He said, 'Listen, you got carte blanche.'”
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Atlas Shrugged
Discussed“I've just been rereading Atlas Shrugged, which I do oddly enough about every 15 years, and I figured out one of the core problems with her doctrine; it might be the core problem.”
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When China rules the world
Discussed“Actually, I'm reading a book called 'When China Rules the World' written in 2009.”
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Lost and Broken
Discussed“topics related to mental health and political action, outlined in his new book, Lost and Broken: My Journey back from chronic pain and crippling anxiety.”
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The Abolition of Man
Discussed“In two books—'The Abolition of Man' and 'That Hideous Strength'—he spelled that out and made the point that if that happens, it is not going to liberate human beings; in fact, it's going to abolish them.”
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The book of Exodus
Discussed“I've been reading and writing about the Book of Exodus and conducted a seminar with a variety of people on that book. I was reading a section the other day where the burning bush appears to Moses, which is a compelling section.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Discussed“One of the books that I read as a youngster was Viktor Frankl's famous book, 'From Death Camp to Existentialism.' Now, I didn't know too much about existentialism, and I still don't, but I do know that he survived that by focusing on the love he had for his wife and the love he had for his family.”
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Faust
Discussed“If you look at the conditions of life, especially when things are not going well for you, you could easily proclaim, like the antinatalists do, that life is so bloody miserable in its essence that it would be better if it didn't exist at all. That's Mephistopheles, by the way, in Goethe's Faust.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Coyote America
Recommended“I had a man on the podcast named Dan Flores, he wrote an amazing book called coyote America that I read and it's all about the history of the coyote in North America”
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Cosmos
Discussed“I remember my my aunt gave me Cosmos by Carl Sean when I was in Middle School and it was that book was from the 80s”
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Skinwalkers at the Pentagon
Discussed“even Jim laty who ran the program who retired Dia officer PhD in engineering even made this disclosure in his book skinwalkers at the Pentagon page 152 to 153 and he also made a disclosure a couple weeks ago”
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Proof of Heaven
Recommended“and it's the same thing like um book Proof of Heaven by Dr eban Alexander MD I remember reading when I was in Afghanistan and I was like this is a crazy experience”
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Poems and Letters to Don Brown
Discussed“There's a bunch of books out there that I've seen that performers have written that I I didn't agree with there one dirt to soil by gay but Brown the great so you know there others”
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Dirt to Soil
Recommended“there a few books out there that I've seen that performers have written that I I didn't agree with there one dirt to soil by gay but Brown the great”
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The DNA Way
Discussed“this guy I don't want to uh plagiarize his work Kashif Khan he wrote that DNA way book about how their micro uh the forever chemicals in women's yoga pants”
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The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
Discussed“and uh I started uh reading your uh the book on the Nez purse M and then I I picked this up as well”
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A Land So Strange
Discussed“have you read uh the uh cabesa debaca book uh a strange new land yes I have a land so strange a land so strange strange”
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Orangutans
Discussed“There's a wonderful book called ghosts of Extinction uh and U that's exactly exactly long”
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Horizontal Yellow
Discussed“Dan is a book called horizontal yellow which is the Kami word for for this area this is where horses evolved this is where where they were born”
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The Last Indian War
Discussed“and you talk about what happened after that in your other book on the NES purse the last Indian War yeah right yeah that was the next year uh 1877”
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Continental Reckoning
Recommended“Continental Reckoning the American West in the age of expansion one of the most fascinating subjects I think in the history of the human race”
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Wild New World
Recommended“Dan Flores I think he's been on your coup times yeah uh Dan has this marvelous new book a wild new world uh that goes into that goes in that in some detail”
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Recommended“it's also so interesting that that number of 125 people aligns with we know as dunbar's number That's exactly right that's where it comes right so you're aware of that yeah wonderful book”
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The night is a time for listening, by elliot west
Recommended“you got to read folks Continental Reckoning the American West and the age of expansion Elliot West”
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The Romance of Conquest: the Story of American Expansion Through Arms and Diplomacy
Recommended“you got to read folks Continental Reckoning the American West and the age of expansion Elliot West”
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The Comanche Empire
Recommended“the best in my opinion is by uh it's called the Kaman Empire that follows a story you know of the rise of Kaman power it's by good friend of mine a pekka his name is a pekka hamayan and he a native Finn”
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Lonesome Dove
Discussed“it's just like woodro f call said in lome Dove it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it”
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The Discovery of Witchcraft
Discussed“well the first one was like uh I think it was called discovery of Witchcraft from like 1584 or something like that and a guy wrote all these secrets of methods that like witches were using and they were being burned alive”
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The Expert at the Card Table
Discussed“I would assume like there there's a book written by a guy that called himself erdes the expert the card table and he had so many secrets in this book that are so relevant to all of the magic that any card magician does to this day and he was using it mostly for cheating or to explain how people”
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Prepared
Recommended“mike glover wrote great book prepared and that in that one of the big takeaway ways was like it”
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The New Rules of War
Recommended“there's this amazing book called the new rules of war and the new rules of war lines out all of the ways that America is not prepared to fight a war by non-state actors by corporations by cartels by violent extremist organizations using proxy methods”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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A Path with Heart
Discussed“And my dad sent me A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield, and that became my Bible for the next, probably, decade, and so for those of you who don't know, Jack Kornfield is a very famous meditation teacher, and he's written many books.”
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Masterpieces of Fantasy Art
Discussed“And if you look at my kitchen table and the books strewn about, including this one: Masterpieces of Fantasy Art. This is a TASCHEN book, or a TASCHEN book, Dian Hanson.”
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The Harvard Classics
Discussed“This is a book from the Harvard Classics with Plato, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.”
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The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics
Recommended“The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics right here by Dennis O'Neil, which is a great book by the way.”
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Thanks for the Feedback
Discussed“This topic of feedback in Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well, it's a bit of a Trojan horse for a bunch of things, as you mentioned, right?”
The Realignment
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Why Flying Is Miserable
Discussed“this is a really fascinating book that more than most policy books and this is obviously by Design is going to resonate with the lived experiences of everyone who's checking out this podcast”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Devil's Cup
Discussed“And then I read a book called The Devil's Cup that just Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's a fun book. It's I don't know how well it's aged, but it's just travel writing. So, he traces the route that coffee took from Ethiopia to Yemen through kind of Turkey into the Mediterranean, how it spread around the world.”
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The World Atlas of Coffee
Recommended“The World Atlas of Coffee is one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen in my life, and it's got They did a great job. beautifully rich photography in it, lots of history, all of the equipment questions that I've been asking you about. So, if anyone really wants to understand coffee, or I'll tell you what, get someone”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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SLAY the Bully
Discussed“you have written three books on the subject”
The Daily Stoic
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1933 was a Bad Year
Discussed“Maybe 1933 was a bad year, The Road to Los Angeles. He has a couple books about his journey.”
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The Road to Los Angeles
Discussed“Maybe 1933 was a bad year, The Road to Los Angeles. He has a couple books about his journey.”
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Full of Life
Discussed“He wrote this book, Full of Life, which was his most popular book. It wasn't a popular book, but it gets turned into a big movie”
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Dreams from Bunker Hill
Discussed“He dictates to his wife the sequel Dreams from Bunker Hill. How's that? Because that's done. It's not done, written out.”
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The Laws of Human Nature
Discussed“Just as The Laws of Human Nature should not be—The Laws of Human Nature is a 600-page book about, you know, everything that makes humans both rational and irrational; that should not be a commercially viable book, you know? Especially for someone who, again, it’s not like he’s a—you know, Adrian would turn it down.”
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A Farewell to Arms
Discussed“Take, for instance, the opening of "A Farewell to Arms" where he describes the dust on the trees that summer. It resonates throughout the story and comes back at the end; that's a poetic genius that AI simply cannot replicate.”
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Gates of Fire
Discussed“Not whatsoever, because if you think about, like, the second book was Gates of Fire for me. And as I was writing it, I thought, who's going to possibly be interested in this?”
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Everybody Behaves Badly
Discussed“everyone behaves badly it's a book about I just read that a little while ago yeah it's a great book”
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Deliver Me from Nowhere
Recommended“Are you at, like, I love this book, I've been raving about it. Um, deliver me from nowhere, about Bruce Springsteen making Nebraska.”
The Rubin Report
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Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Discussed“It's very, if you go back and you read the first page of Marx's "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right," which sounds obscure, but that's the very famous, "religion is the opiate of the masses" page. It's just one page.”
Timcast IRL
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What is a Liberal Education
Discussed“a liberal education was one of the first books that opened my eyes about what they're indoctrinating kids with and now when you have your own children in college you really see it”
StarTalk Radio
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Discussed“I don't think Edmund Mars, who was in the White House, who was his official biographer, and I also got to know Mars because he wrote "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt," which I wrote as a screenplay for Martin Scorsese at one point.”
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Apocalypse Television
Discussed“it's called apocalypse television how the day after helped end the Cold War sweet by David Craig um just got it in the mail this morning it it comes out on the 15th and I I read it course 15th of November 2023 immediately went to the index to see how I turned out and yeah I come off like”
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Jim Fixx's second book of running
Discussed“There was a guy named Jim Fixx, who was a big running enthusiast; he was interviewed everywhere and wrote a bestseller, then dropped dead of a heart attack!”
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The glass universe
Discussed“They died in poverty, penurious, and a book highlighting their care—Dava Sobel focused on this, right? Called 'The Glass Universe'?”
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How the Universe Got Its Spots
Recommended“Editor-in-chief of the Pioneer Works podcast, author of 'How the Universe Got Its Spots,' one of my favorites.”
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Black Hole Survival Guide
Recommended“Editor-in-chief of the Pioneer Works podcast, author of 'How the Universe Got Its Spots,' one of my favorites. 'Black Hole Survival Guide.'”
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Black hole blues
Recommended“And also one of my favorites, 'Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space.'”
Modern Wisdom
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The Bench
Critiqued“I mean, I read Meghan Markle's book, 'The Bench', and that's worse.”
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The Madness of Crowds
Discussed“Okay, um, but you know, your book, 'The Madness of Crowds,' talks about the collapse of grand narratives.”
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The Girl from the Fiction Department
Discussed“You mentioned George Orwell; The Telegraph recently spoke about his bi—his wife's biography or autobiography.Oh, there's a new biography of Sonia Orwell?”
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Fairer Tales
Discussed“HSBC rewrote wrote three classic fairy tales uh their book's called fairer tales and it shows that women don't need men at all”
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101 Questions to Ask Before You Get Engaged (Wright, H. Norman & Gary J. Oliver)
Discussed“then we go to borders I buy her a book on our second date called 101 questions to ask before you get engaged on our second date by Norman Wright”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Elon Musk
Discussed“Walter Isaacson, in his new biography of you, wrote about your difficult childhood. Will you ever find forgiveness in your heart for everything that has happened to you during that period of your life?”
Big Technology Podcast
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The Fund
Discussed“there's the version that Ray Delio would tell you and there's the version that my book uh I think breaks open let me tell you the ray doio version”
This Week in Startups
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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Discussed“there were some authors who sued people I think they might have sued open AI for ingesting their books yeah well this gives them an off RM they could say you know what in the core model we're taking out Stephen King's Works”
Huberman Lab
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Intro to Behavioral Endocrinology
Discussed“I found a very interesting graph in a textbook on behavioral endocrinology by a guy named Randy Nelson who I happen to know through the field of Behavioral Endocrinology as it's typically studied in animals so most of that book centers on animal studies”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Tintin in the Congo
Discussed“and uh the is a very disgust cartoon called Tintin in Congo and you have to put in mind that was made in the 30s but when you look at it today it's very very ristic H and and they have talked about should they pull it out and stuff like that because it was in in that time you”
