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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2024
Throughout January 2024, podcasts highlighted a range of historical analyses, fitness guides, and narrative literature. On the Monday Morning Podcast, Bill Burr's listener mail brought up Dave Bidini’s Tropic of Hockey during a discussion on sports seasons, and Burr later jokingly warned against books on mind control by Nguyen Tran. On The Diary Of A CEO, Steven Bartlett recommended Daniel E. Lieberman’s The Story of the Human Body, noting its adoption in educational institutions. The Ezra Klein Show featured guest Simon Rosenberg sharing several reads, including Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, Elizabeth Borgwardt’s A New Deal for the World, and Daniel Silva’s novel The Collector. On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday discussed Dale Carnegie’s lesser-known work How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, emphasizing its integration of stoic tenets. Lastly, on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know, Ben Bowlin recommended Return of the Black Death by Susan Scott and Christopher J. Duncan while examining historical scientific theories of virus immunity.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Boys and sex
Discussed“No, really, she used to sit my brother and me down on Tuesday nights and read to us from a book called "Boys and Sex."”
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Malcolm X
Discussed“what's like that dude in Malcolm X's autobiography the guy that like he ran all the numbers in his mind and he never forgot a single one”
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Chariot Of The Gods
Discussed“Eric Von Daniken is the one who wrote 'Chariots of the Gods.'”
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The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Discussed“I don't know if you've read Tom O'Neil's book, Chaos. Yeah, insane. It's insane because Tom is so detail oriented.”
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A night to remember
Discussed“So this dude's just getting fucked up; he sat down on his bunk and nursed it along, aware but not particularly caring that the water now rippled through the cabin doorway, wrote historian Walter Lord in A Night to Remember.”
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Rig-Veda
Discussed“Some ancient Indian drug, this is right down my alley, made from a plant called Soma, is a God and a drink that was used as an offering to the Gods in some Vedic rituals. Soma was celebrated at an early period as shown in the hymns of the Rigveda.”
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Fire in the sky
Discussed“I'll tell you what, this guy Travis Walton, this is one of the craziest stories. He's the guy that was in that movie Fire in the Sky. That one's wild, man.”
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Rocket Boys
Recommended“did you ever read the book Rocket Boys no by Homer hickam then they made the movie October Sky about it did you ever watch that”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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What is Humanism and Why Does it Matter?
Discussed“The book we’re talking about is Goat, who is the greatest economist of all time, and why does it matter?”
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How to Pay for the War
Discussed“If you read “How to Pay for the War” in 1940, if you didn’t know better, you would think it’s someone criticizing the General Theory.”
Behind the Bastards
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All About Love
Discussed“I just finished all about love by Bell Hooks and you know, she often talks about like the the the wandering life with lovelessness and that and that searching for it and not having having it”
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Underground
Discussed“Haruki Murakami wrote of the members of Aum Shinrikyo, the cult whose sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995 killed 13 people. In his book Underground, Murakami describes most Aum members”
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Famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia
Discussed“This is from a book called The Bear's Famous Invasion of Sicily! They take over Sicily by force!”
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The Teachings of Don Juan
Discussed“Now, a lot of people are probably familiar with the Don Juan books, right? So Carlos Castaneda, these are like 1960s; they come out chronicle of mystical self-exploration that are kind of one of the inciting incidents of the New Age movement.”
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Discussed“This is from a book called The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. Oh, nice. They take over Sicily by force.”
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The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily
Discussed“This is from a book called The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily. Oh, nice. They take over Sicily by force.”
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Sociology of Freedom
Recommended“So actually there's like this book called of him sociology of freedom I think is very important. It's a little bit like understandable.”
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Revolution in Rojava
Recommended“Yeah I know there's a good book called revolution in Roja which was translated from German that um like I think it it lays out like the how things happen.”
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None dare call it conspiracy
Discussed“In 1971, he writes an introduction to Gary Allen and Larry Abraham's None Dare Call It Conspiracy, the book which was hugely influential—this was like the center of Alex Jones's ideology today.”
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Suburban Warriors
Discussed“And yeah, I want to quote here from the book Suburban Warriors by Lisa McGirr: "By 1962, defense had become the nation's largest business, and from 1946 to 1965, 62% of the federal budget went to defense.”
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You can trust the Communists (to be Communists)
Discussed“schwarz's claim to fame is a book called you can trust the Communists to be Communists which had a stunningly subtle sequel you can still trust the Communists to mean communist socialist and progressives too”
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Problems of Leninism
Discussed“like I don't know any Communists who who who use the word beautiful to describe like communist propaganda as much as this guy does like he [ __ ] loves it he he writes about how like a a wonderful book like problems of leninism by Joseph Stalin can be acquired for just a few cents in any bookstore in”
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Contagion
Discussed“There's a really good book um called Contagions and Chaos that actually talks about how infectious diseases can amplify conflict or create it. And ultimately, I think we're just going to see this as a rolling health issue until there's a ceasefire”
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GREAT ANARCHISTS.
Recommended“If I may, there's a book called Great Anarchist by Dog Section Press. It's written uh by Ruth Kenner, who's been on the podcast. It's got very short bios of different great anarchists.”
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Work
Recommended“I've been doing a lot of union stuff recently, so I've been thinking a lot about the concept of work. So, I have kind of returned to this really good book Crime Think put out titled work.”
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No Gods, No Masters
Recommended“Robert recommends the book uh isn't it like the No Gods No Masters uh AK press one with the Chaos Stars. Oh, yeah. That that's that's got a lot of like old anarchist essays and [ __ ] starting in like the 1800s.”
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Discussed“Likewise, his wife and Bismarck had succeeded in inculcating a deep antipathy for his parents and for England in him. Kaiser Wilhelm II, a concise life describes the mindset.”
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Rolph Scarlett
Discussed“Rolph's book paints him as an eager belligerent ringing his hands in anticipation.”
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Discussed“Kaiser vilhelm II a concise life describes the mindsight all of this resulted in”
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The Kaiser's Last Kiss
Recommended“based on a book called The Kaiser's last kiss and it's it's a fictional story”
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Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1859-1941
Discussed“Uh, while most of his treatments were ineffective but benign, some were really brutal, and I'm going to quote now from the book, Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life by John Rohl.”
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Discussed“now as Vander kiss's booknotes hiding this deformed arm became a guiding motivation for the young prince throughout his life, few photographs showed his left arm clearly let alone the hand, from an early age the art of concealing it from the camera lens became second nature to him”
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The Blood telegram
Discussed“there is an incredible paragraph from the book The Blood te telegram by Gary bass that I'm going to read now”
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Kissinger
Discussed“i'm going to quote now from Kissinger a biography by Walter Isaacson Kissinger's secret with women was not all that different from his one with men whom he wanted to charm”
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Kissinger's shadow
Recommended“the most comprehensive biography of Henry Kissinger and the one i would if you looking if you're looking for just a book on Kissinger's influence in like the US and how toxic it was i recommend Kissinger Shadow by grandon”
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Nuclear weapons and foreign policy
Discussed“he also starts working privately on a book of his own titled nuclear weapons and foreign policy and this book is a version of the stuff he wants to write”
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The Necessity for Choice
Discussed“so in 1961 he publishes a book titled the necessity of choice which is his Manifesto on how the United States should approach foreign policy in the 1960s”
StarTalk Radio
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Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases
Discussed“and you me you mentioned in your book dror that he actually with there's some evidence that he tried to have something written into the Constitution about this”
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Bold Return to Giving a Damn
Recommended“Well, check out Will's book, 'A Bold Return to Giving a Damn,' from an authentic farmer! Yes, some still exist in this world!”
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Consciousness explained
Discussed“So, the fact that the bookshelves are filled with people writing titles like 'Consciousness Explained', for example, doesn't that mean we don't really understand consciousness?”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Tropic Of Hockey
Recommended“there's a great book called Tropic of hockey by a Canadian musician writer that opens with the author sitting in his living room in June watching the Stanley Cup as his wife passes by the TV asking him the score or who's playing but he has no”
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Mind Control Through Breath Regulation
Recommended“if you're taking a meeting with somebody and they have a book on mind control don't get into business with them”
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Countdown
Discussed“how can we sustain all these people on the planet or rather how many people can this planet sustain that is the question Alan Weiss been explored in his latest book countdown our last best hope for a future on Earth”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Discussed“yeah I read a biography of Joseph Smith the founding prophet of Mormonism uh rough Stone Rolling and I think it was written by a member of the church so historian I think at Columbia if I'm not mistaken”
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The Economics of Life
Discussed“one day I read this book the economics of Life by Gary Becker he's a Nobel prizewinning Economist from the University of Chicago”
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The First Rule of Mastery
Recommended“this thesis is more fully articulated in his fantastic first book the first rule of Mastery”
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Learning to Love Midlife
Discussed“Not feeling like you have anything to prove, on some level, like not giving a fuck, which you talk about in the book.”
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Education During Adolescence
Discussed“The first one was adolescence, 1904, started because a psychologist who ran the American Psychological Association wrote a book called Adolescence in 1904.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Story of the Human Body
Recommended“and this book is just gosh the story of the human body it is essential reading and as I've heard it's being used in schools and education institutions so I do hope that you continue to evolve and update the book with new science asm when it comes”
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The Obesity Code
Discussed“This book here, The Obesity Code, unlocking the secrets of weight loss. Why did you write this book?”
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The Diabetes Code
Discussed“The diabetes code. I've got the diabetes journal here in front of me.”
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Build the Life You Want
Discussed“build the life you want it's a book it's a book sat in front of me here that that has your name on it and who's this Oprah Winfrey I'd like to give you young authors a leg up how did you so you co-wrote this book with Oprah”
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The Red Tent
Discussed“like if well have you read the book The Red Tent I mean it's like very much along those lines of like Biblical times they had a red red tent for women menstruating women”
No Stupid Questions
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Discussed“By the way, I remember the day that I was reading John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and I hated, did you read that book?”
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Discussed“In her 2010 self-help book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Kondo says that she experimented with this method but that it didn't end up working for her, and she instead recommends discarding most books in their entirety.”
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The Science of Getting Rich
Discussed“She was heavily influenced by a book from 1910, so almost a hundred years before she wrote hers, by a guy named Wallace Waddles, who wrote a book called The Science of Getting Rich, and it was this three-step process: ask, believe, receive.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Sandman
Discussed“it's actually really heavily featured in um the Sandman series uh of course dream being Morpheus the main character uh the Lord of dream there's a really interesting storyline that involves Aborigines and the idea of dream time”
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
Discussed“talking about some island of Dr Maro type stuff Ben more like some Sabertooth stuff you know what I'm saying ideally it would be Sabertooth but you got to go through maroe to get to saber-tooth that's right yeah you got to you got to break a few eggs to make a cheetah omelet did you ever read the uh”
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Return of the Black Death
Recommended“two professors who worked on this Christopher Duncan and Susan Scott wrote a book called Return of the black death which is which is a great book I'd also recommend if you're interest in Light reading Norman um caners in the wake of the plague”
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Wizard's Mole
Discussed“I actually stumbled upon a book called the Wizards mole by none other than friend of the show and and owner of the uh the complaints email box Jonathan Strickland's father Brad Strickland”
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EDISON : THE MAN WHO MADE THE FUTURE
Discussed“what credit words do were pulling this from a book called Edison the man who made the future by Ronald W Clark Edison's response is lowkey hilarious”
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Tavistock Institute
Discussed“one by Daniel eelin called Tavistock Institute social engineering and the masses that's the more recent one it came out in 2015”
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Drugs as Weapons Against Us
Recommended“check out John pot's book drugs As Weapons against us which says that these agencies did not just Target John lennen but they also targeted Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain and and many other celebrities”
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China Illustrata
Discussed“we're back and we're going back in time we're going to the first Western mention of Chinese pyramids which is not in 1947 no it goes back to 1667 when Jesuit athanasius kerser writes about them in his book China monumentous illustrata”
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Guns, Gold, and Caravans
Recommended“however there's a great book you can read you can read called guns gold and caravans the extraordinary Life and Times of Fred Meer Schroeder o it's back in uh was it written by him no it's written by uh Robert only Easton”
The Book Review
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More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
Discussed“the book is more and Memoir of open marriage and the author is Molly rhen”
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Erasure
Discussed“I was reading eraser over the weekend which is of course the novel that the screenplay for American fiction is based on and the epigraph for that novel 20 years ago is from Mark Twain”
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White Cat, Black Dog
Discussed“Her Last Story collection which was called white cat Black Dog”
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Isaac's Storm
Discussed“it's something he's done ever since his very first book which was called Isaac storm I don't know if anyone's ever read it”
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Olga Dies Dreaming
Discussed“Olga dies dreaming came out a couple years ago and that was it was about a a new eure Rican celebrity wedding planner she's on the cusp of 40 and she finds herself in the midst of a bunch of family drama”
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Beach Read
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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People We Meet on Vacation
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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Happy Place
Discussed“so there's 2020s Beach read 2021s people we meet on vacation 2022 is Book Lovers and last year's happy place”
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The Lincoln Highway
Discussed“he is the author of gentleman in Moscow the Lincoln Highway”
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The Trees
Recommended“Dr no of course or the trees”
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The Book of Love
Recommended“and this is a book called The Book of Love This Is by an author named Kelly Link and you may know Kelly Link”
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The demon of unrest
Recommended“that's Eric Larson's new book it's called the demon of unrest a saga of huis heartbreak and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War”
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Recommended“It's called Anita Damonte laughs last author's name is Zoo Gonzalez”
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Splinters
Recommended“let's start with you a book called splinters yes so this is splinters by Leslie Jameson”
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Neighbors and Other Stories
Recommended“this is a collection called Neighbors and Other Stories and it's by a woman named Diane Oliver”
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Funny Story
Recommended“no jinxes is Funny Story by Emily Henry you you've probably seen her books uh at the front of bookstores listeners”
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Table for Two
Recommended“and other book that I think people will be interested in coming out in the next couple of months is table for two uh this is a short story collection by Amore tols”
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One Way Back
Recommended“at least is uh by Christine blasy Ford it's called one way back”
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The House of Hidden Meanings
Recommended“I have just one which is the house of hidden meanings by rup Paul this Memoir by the drag race producer and queer icon is easily the Spring's buzziest celebrity Memoir”
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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining: The making of Stanley Kubrick's The shining
Discussed“there's a book on here that I believe cost something like $2,000 it is tsh's making of The Shining book is that the one that I am thinking about it is”
Pod Save America
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Oath and Honor
Discussed“joining us today the vice chair of the January 6 committee and author of the new book oath and honor a memoir and a warning former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney welcome to pod Safe America”
BG2 Pod
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Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?
Discussed“remember the I think it was Lou Gerson who wrote the book elephants can dance right there was this idea that elephants can't dance the companies get large they can't innovate they can't earn a great return on Capital and So eventually they get competed away”
The Ezra Klein Show
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On Tyranny
Recommended“the second book that I just went back and have been rereading is on tyranny by Timothy Snyder”
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A New Deal for the World
Recommended“I just finished a book called a new deal for the World by Elizabeth borgart”
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The Collector
Recommended“the third book a little bit less weighty was you know I'm a big fan of Daniel silvas and his latest Gabriel Wan book The Collector”
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The Little Drummer Girl
Recommended“well in honor of this interview The Little Drummer Girl by John lare which is a study and all the moral complexities of the Israeli Palestinian conflict”
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I'm Your Man
Recommended“and lastly to make it more personal I'm your man the life of Leonard con by Sylvia Simons”
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Simplicity parenting
Recommended“but on that note have you ever read or run into the book Simplicity parenting”
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Party of the People
Recommended“Patrick gini his new book party of the people and it's all about the multi-racial Coalition”
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Welcome to the O.C.
Recommended“welcome to the OC the oral history of the greatest television show of our time written by Alan sepinwall”
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Operation Pedestal
Recommended“it's a Max Hastings book he's one of my favorite military historians it's called operation pedestal and for you military history Buffs who uh listen to Ezra really phenomenal storytelling about a pivotal Convoy to save Malta in 1942 when it was under siege just incredible cast of characters and remarkable level of heroism and it's a really tremendous book”
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Into the Heart of Romans
Recommended“the next one is a brand new book by NT Wright who's a theologian and it's called Uh Into the Heart of Romans and this is for your theology Buffs who are Ezra who listened to to your show Ezra and it really is making a really interesting argument that the book of Romans this pivotal book in the New”
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Manhunt
Recommended“and then the next book is um back to your history Buffs and it's called Manhunt uh 12-day Chase for Lincoln's killer and it's by James Swanson and if you pick it up you start reading it and you realize it feels like I'm reading almost like a a script for a television crime drama it sort of takes the”
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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
Discussed“discovered that that anime was based on a huki morakami novel called hardboiled Wonderland and the end of the world”
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Discussed“discovered that that anime was based on a huki morakami novel called hardboiled Wonderland and the end of the world”
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In Praise of Shadows
Recommended“this Japanese novelist jinichiro tanaki 1933 essay In Praise of Shadows”
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Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees
Recommended“the next book was seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees by Lawrence wetchler”
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The Mushroom at the End of the World
Recommended“and then the last book was the mushroom at the end of the world the possibility of life in capitalist ruins which is by Anna loen ho Singh”
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The Challenger launch decision
Recommended“so my first recommendation is the Challenger launch decision by Diane vau”
Conversations with Tyler
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A Floating Chinaman
Discussed“I did just finish Hua Hsu's A Floating Life, which is a text that thinks very much about the trans-Pacific imagination, who has the authority to talk about China...”
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The world republic of letters
Discussed“So, the kind of theories of literary economy and world literature I'm thinking of really start with Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters and she makes some good points about the Latin American authors here...”
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The Sage Handbook Of Social Network Analysis
Discussed“both in the United States and in Japan one of the most influential works of fiction ever is the social network and I I Bang the Drum on this a lot that the The Social Network raised the status of Entrepreneurship for Proto entrepreneurs worldwide”
How I Write
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The Daily Pressfield
Discussed“What had happened was before the episode, Pressfield was like, yo, you got to read my new book, The Daily Pressfield.”
The Daily Stoic
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HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING
Recommended“I believe it was, but he has a lesser-known book that is still sold millions of copies called 'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living,' which includes a lot of stoic tenets.”
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Sears Tower
Discussed“In the book 'Tower' and other resources, there's a company called 'Books by the Foot.' They cater to film studios and similar clients.”
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A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools
Discussed“Have you read it's a novel from around that period called The Fool's Errand?”
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All the King's Men
Discussed“Oh yeah, All the King's Men.”
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The Claim of Reason
Discussed“Um, and I think actually Stanley Cavell, a Harvard philosopher, wrote something very much like that in 'The Claim of Reason', but I don't think that it went that far outside of academic circles.”
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The Myth of Judicial Activism
Discussed“um and also there's a book called The Myth of judicial activism which is about Supreme Court decisions sort of trying to decide whether the Supreme Court is abusing its power”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
Discussed“The quest for cosmic justice, as Thomas Sowell suggests, is something that government is generally incapable of doing and more often than not botches and makes things worse.”
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Critical Race Theory
Discussed“That is the generalized theory of critical race theory as proposed by for example, Richard Delgado in their book on critical race theory that has taken a softer form that we refer to as DEI.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Getting Past No
Recommended“Getting Past No is one of my favorites. There are many others, and that is why we're spending some time on this.”
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Recommended“I brought you my favorite kind of memoir book of all time, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Book Thief
Discussed“Great episode on that, guys; I read the book a few years ago. To answer a question you had about the 11:00 p.m. start time, as I recall, you're correct in their desire to employ the cover of darkness. There was also another, probably more important issue that led to that decision; per my recollection of the book, it was”
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The Man Who Walked Through Time
Discussed“the man who walked through time was the book and he said I'm the first person to hike the entire length of the Grand Canyon”
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Hooper Humperdink ... ? Not him!
Discussed“actually one of my favorite books um Hooper Humperdink not him is written by Theo Le”
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Why Johnny Can't Read
Discussed“so I think in 1955 there was a book written called why can't Johnny re right okay and a guy named Rudolph flesh”
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Photographs of British Algae. Cyanotype impressions. [The preface signed: A. A., i.e. Anna Atkins.]
Discussed“in fact the very first um published Photography book was made with cyanotype yeah that was um by the way that was by Anna Atkins whose 1843 book photographs of British algae get this Chuck colon cyan type Impressions amazing”
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Eating in
Discussed“she ended up writing a book afterward called eating in thank you colon uh from the field to the kitchen the recipes from Biosphere 2”
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Discussed“so let me give you an example of how English has changed this this is a quote from Sir go and the Green Knight It Was Written in 1375”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Evidence of the Afterlife
Discussed“he has done the largest case study over 5,000 cases of uh near-death experiences and he wrote the book evidence of the afterlife”
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God and the Afterlife
Discussed“but I don't have God in the afterlife this is a different book yeah that came out later and that's where we went into the deeper if you will spiritual content of near-death experiences”
Freakonomics Radio
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50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology
Discussed“but you're also the author of an earlier book called 50 great myths of popular psychology so this book is incredibly fun”
Acquired
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Breakthrough
Discussed“I spent a bunch of time reading this book Breakthrough by Thea Cooper and Arthur ansburg and they go way into this basically this team was the first one to figure out you could Target the pancreatic eyelets and isolate the extra in a relatively pure form”
Modern Wisdom
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Blood, brains & beer
Critiqued“if you read his books one of his books is terrible weirdly which I think it's called blood brains and beer it's his autobiography”
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The Naked Jape
Discussed“Jimmy Carr actually wrote that co-wrote that book with Lucy Greaves the naked jape which is a absolutely fascinating kind of Investigation into the The evolutionary origins of comedy”
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The Gruffalo
Discussed“one of the most like sanity reinforcing periods of my year is when I go home for Christmas and I'm at Mom and Dad's house and the The Gruffalo comes on right and I watch the gruff”
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Invisible Women
Recommended“this is what Caroline CR Perez talks about when she in the great another great book invisible women where she writes about how um how so much of the built-in environment and the physical environment and tools”
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Paradox
Recommended“there's a there's a book by Jim Al KH called Paradox which is a description destion of so-call paradoxes”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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You Are What You Watch
Discussed“so let's talk about your new book your only book it's called you are what you watch”
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Be Useful
Discussed“So rule number two of your new book is 'Never Think Small,' and I'm holding your book and looking at it right now. I love how you start that chapter; it says, 'By the end of 1987, I'd killed 283 people, more than anyone else in Hollywood during that time, by far.'”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Amateur Hour
Recommended“don't forget buy the book now it's called appropriately Amateur hour okay buy it support Charlie Amateur hour”
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Straight Shooter
Discussed“He's written a memoir called Straight Shooter.”
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It Feels Good to Be Yourself
Discussed“it feels good to be yourself which is about a 5-year-old boy who believes he is a girl using terms like non-binary transgender cisgender intersex gender identity gender expression sex assigned to birth etc etc”
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The Way We Were
Discussed“Um but one of the things they revisit in the book is The Way We Were, which of course, you know, we've all seen with Robert Redford. And I had forgotten I went back and watched it.”
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Black's Law Dictionary
Discussed“I had to look up the definition of plaintiff and defendant in Black's Law Dictionary and wrote it down I still remember writing it down”
My First Million
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Water Boy
Discussed“what do they say in water boy he goes uh not only can I do that but yeah yes I can do that not only do I love it but but yes I love it”
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Trust
Recommended“Dude, you know what book I I just finished up that like I can't recommend enough? It's called Trust by Henry Cloud. If you guys haven't read that yet or heard of it, it's I mean, maybe it's just hitting me at like the right time in my life, but it is a powerful good book.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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One Man In
Discussed“you're the author of the wrong wolf the the author of what's the book that's in one man in which is tied up in court right now known as Obi-Wan Nairobi”
Huberman Lab
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Nature
Discussed“One of our GI pain docs that we have in the clinic, Linda Nguyen, sent me a paper from Cell or Nature that showed that after a gut infection, it can change the genetic expression related to sensitizing you to food antigens.”
SmartLess
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The Promise of Sleep
Recommended“and so I always recommend this book uh that was written uh years ago called the promise of sleep”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Great Depression: A Diary
Recommended“Then two things really solidified this for me, one being reading a book that I think is the greatest economic book ever written, called 'The Great Depression: A Diary', written by an Ohio lawyer named Benjamin Roth. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, he kept a large diary and wrote about what he saw during the Depression.”
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Popular
Discussed“I read the book and thought, wait a minute, did I get a prioritized answer because of popularity?”
Big Technology Podcast
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Profit over Privacy
Recommended“And, you know, I would say Matthew Crane's work, you know, particularly the book, you know, privacy or profit over privacy is a really good, you know, historical analysis of this time”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Praise Be to You - Laudato Si'
Discussed“and even in loto C in the papal encyclical written by Pope Francis on the climate crisis he is very clear Jordan very clear that there are tradeoffs”
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The Third Pillar
Discussed“it was written by rag Rajan who's a professor of Finance at the University of Chicago and it's called the third pillar and what the thesis that R Rajan has”
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Best Things First
Recommended“Lor's most recent book best things first and you know let's just be very clear in this book Boran lomborg points out 12 different policies”
EconTalk
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If a Place Can Make You Cry
Recommended“you moved here in 1998 from Los Angeles and you published a remarkable book a very powerful book titled if a place can make you to cry dispatches from an anxious State I strongly recommend it”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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How to Keep House While Drowning
Discussed“Casey Davis is a best-selling author and therapist and she's just one of those people that has a way of explaining something that instantly makes you feel better”
