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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2024
During January 2024, podcasts engaged with a variety of nonfiction and fiction titles. StarTalk Radio featured Peter Hotez discussing his 2018 book "Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism." On No Stupid Questions, the hosts referenced Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" while exploring the theme of sentimentality and possessions, and Mike shared a personal story about reading John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen Meany." Stuff You Should Know explored Edgar Allan Poe's views on the Mechanical Turk, referencing his connection to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Pod Save America welcomed Liz Cheney to discuss her new book, "Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning." The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast featured Dr. Jordan B. Peterson referencing his own book, "12 Rules for Life," while discussing goal-setting and self-improvement. The Daily Stoic highlighted Dale Carnegie's lesser-known book "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living" for its incorporation of stoic tenets. Lastly, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured Ben Shapiro referencing Richard Delgado's book "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" during a discussion on wokeism.
StarTalk Radio
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Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism
Discussed“Well, you know, I had written this book titled 'Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism' in 2018. And this new one is called 'The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science.'”
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Bold Return to Giving a Damn
Discussed“You're the author of 'A Bold Return to Giving a Damn.' That's a great title!”
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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?”
No Stupid Questions
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Discussed“Right, and in the world of the life-changing magic of tidying up and the world that kind of called forth Marie Kondo to write a book about how we accumulate like so much crap in our lives, I mean we have so much crap.”
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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 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.”
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Free-Range Kids
Discussed“That weekend, she started a blog called Free-Range Kids and later wrote a book of the same name.”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Discussed“That’s what some people thought; I think that's what Edgar Allan Poe thought too. You kidding me?”
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In broad daylight
Discussed“There was a book written in 1988 by Harry MacLean, a crime writer called In Broad Daylight: A Murder in Skidmore, Missouri. There was a documentary, just a few years ago in 2019, called No One Saw a Thing. Of which I watched the first episode.”
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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”
Pod Save America
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Oath and Honor
Discussed“Joining us today is 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 Save America!”
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God and Man at Yale
Discussed“But I would say on the negative side, the young people who are showing up now to Republican events like they are opting in because they like Donald Trump with the exception of like a handful of super nerds who are still like reading God and Man at Yale. And I love those super nerds; I love them.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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12 Rules for Life
Discussed“The predatory value-seeking, goal-oriented side of the equation, which is what you say in 12 Rules for Life: go make something of yourself and become a better person. And all of the good things that happen downstream of that, that is the predatory side of the equation.”
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Mold Warriors
Discussed“You mentioned fungi, and I've written books such as 'Surviving Mold' and 'Mold Warriors,' but we now know that fungi play a role while endotoxins from bacteria are second on the list, and first is actinobacteria.”
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Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
Discussed“They were nice enough to let me take a book, so I finished off The Gulag Archipelago—it was quite a useful time in the cells, and you're thinking, well, I don't know, that bad.”
The Daily Stoic
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HOW TO STOP WORRYING & START LIVING
Discussed“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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The Second Mountain
Discussed“David Brooks' book, 'The Second Mountain', emphasizes that the second stage of life is rarely driven by financial motivation, focusing instead on deeper meanings and contributions.”
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Discussed“We did have a bunch of books about Theodore Roosevelt lying around, probably more than the ordinary family did, so I read those because I just read every book in the house when I was growing up.”
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The Daily Stoic
Discussed“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going. The book was 366 meditations, and I planned to write one more every single day and give it away for free as an email.”
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Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Discussed“That's the letter I was telling you about why I was so struck by it; I wrote about it in my courage book.”
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The Myth of Judicial Activism
Discussed“There’s a book called The Myth of Judicial Activism, which is about Supreme Court decisions trying to decide whether the Supreme Court is abusing its power.”
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Bury the Chains
Discussed“As he's riding away, Adam Hild writes about this in 'Bury the Chains', but he has this sort of Road to Damascus moment on the road.”
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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.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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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.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption
Discussed“He’s like, 'Oh look in this baby doll, what's in there? A picture of Andy Dufresne?' I mean, he's got guns and a printer.”
Behind the Bastards
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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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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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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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The Cheetah girls 2
Discussed“I, they wish, they do wish they were like the Spice Girls, but they're a band that was started by, well, some great novellas for young girls, but it's, uh, it's like Raven Simone, two of the girls.”
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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.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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Public opinion
Discussed“Um, and in particular there's, there's a book called Public Opinion written by a guy named Walter Lippmann that sort of defined this at the time. What I'm about to describe.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Great Depression: A Diary
Discussed“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?”
