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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2024
In May 2024, book discussions across various shows touched upon financial literacy, historical analysis, creative writing, and personal transitions. On The Ramsey Show, George Kamel recommended Dave Ramsey's Real Estate: The Ramsey Way to a caller. Generational anxieties and societal changes were discussed on Never Enough, where Andrew Wilkinson recommended John Updike's Rabbit Is Rich. The history of science was highlighted on The Ezra Klein Show, featuring Darrin Burnett's recommendation of Lorraine Daston and Peter L. Galison's Objectivity. Personal growth and professional transitions were explored on The Tim Ferriss Show, where Jerry Colonna discussed Parker J. Palmer's Let Your Life Speak, and Tim Ferriss recommended Colonna's own book, Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up. History and investigative topics also appeared, as Robert Evans held up Dusty Sklar's Nazis and the Occult on Behind the Bastards. Finally, writing craft and social justice were represented by Jack Carr recommending David Morrell's The Successful Novelist on My First Million, and John Legend discussing Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow on Pod Save America to advocate for reform.
The Ramsey Show
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Real Estate The Ramsey Way
Recommended“and I'm going to send you a copy of Dave's book real estate the Ramsey way to help you make the right choice”
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I'm Glad for Where I Am
Discussed“she's the bestselling author of the bookI'm glad for where I am which is the sequel to I'm glad for what I have”
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I'm Glad for What I Have
Discussed“I'm glad for what I have”
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Get Clear Career Assessment
Recommended“Ken Coleman just hit the bestseller list with this the get clear assessment find find the work you're wired to do”
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Money is Not a Math Problem
Recommended“uh you could add Jades book in there money's not a math problem some doesn't want to read a bunch of 74 Pages”
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Everyday Millionaires
Discussed“I read that book in just the idea of of becoming a millionaire where years ago kind of seemed like this just a dream”
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Life's Little Instruction Book
Discussed“oh he did a book many years ago that sold several million copies he's from here in Nashville called life's Little Instruction Book and it was this little almost like one of our quick reads but it was you know quote per page of whatever quotes from his friends his dad's friends and that kind of stuff and it was”
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Thou Shall Prosper
Discussed“I've read a book called Thou shalt prosper and I started talking about on the air what a wonderful book it was and the author called me up and he said who are you I love you my book is selling”
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The Holistic You
Discussed“uh but this book came out um the new book uh Rabbi is a Orthodox Jewish rabbi and the book Thou shalt Prosper is his main or or the book that made you in terms of in terms of with your help uh well it's a fabulous book it's one of my top 10 faves of all time and so”
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Gospeler
Recommended“stopping in the studio my good friend Willie Robertson from Duck Dynasty we've been hanging out this week a little bit and he's got a brand new book out called gospeller Turning Darkness into light”
The Book Review
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My Jim
Discussed“yeah that a novelist named Nancy RS did a book called my gym published in 2005”
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Was Huck Black?
Discussed“in the 9s there was a book of literary criticism by a woman named Shelley Fisher fishkin called was Huck black”
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Out of Africa
Discussed“and Karen Bixon my girl ISC Dennison I haven't read out of Africa in at least 10 years”
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Challenger
Discussed“Adam higin Bam's new book is called Challenger a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space”
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King of Scars
Discussed“that's the Shadow and B Trilogy the six of crows duology the king of scars duology”
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Hell Bent
Discussed“then I branched into novels for adults and that's where ninth house and hellbent came in”
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The Familiar
Discussed“and with the familiar this is my first historical fiction set during the Spanish Inquisition and it is very much a standalone”
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Love Medicine
Discussed“then I encountered books like beloved and love medicine and I understood the way that magic and the idea of other worlds”
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The Miniaturist
Recommended“some of the books I've really loved reading are the miniaturist the gollum and the genie I loved Carter beats the devil”
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Golem and the Jinni
Recommended“some of the books I've really loved reading are the miniaturist the gollum and the genie I loved Carter beats the devil”
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Carter Beats the Devil
Recommended“I loved Carter beats the devil is one of my all-time favorite books I think it is a perfectly plotted novel and really walks the line”
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Howl's Moving Castle
Recommended“and I think the book I've returned to again and again in my life is how Moving Castle by Diana wi Jones which again operates as a kind of fairy tale”
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Brooklyn
Discussed“Long Island is the sequel to Brooklyn published in 2009”
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The Age of Innocence
Discussed“so I was sort of working with that and working as well with you know ideas in Edith Warton say Age of Innocence in which an outside woman seems more glamorous”
Never Enough
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Rabbit is rich
Recommended“I read this book called rabbit is Rich by John upake have you heard”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Growing Up in the Ice Age
Discussed“in her 2021 book growing up in the ice age as well as her more recent work from just last year rethinking neander tals an archaeologist named April Noel from Canada University of Victoria”
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The Inheritors
Discussed“the idea of trolls as an embellishment on human interaction with neandertal has been explored extensively in fiction William Golding uh the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies wrote about it in a novel called the inheritors”
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The Witches
Discussed“it's like that scene in The Witches by R do where behind the closed doors that's when they take off their human masks”
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Biggest Secret
Discussed“a guy who gets a lot of credit for this is a guy we interviewed back in the day named David Ike in 19 I want to say 1998 he wrote a book called the biggest secret”
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George's Marvelous Medicine
Recommended“everybody check out George's Marvelous Medicine by the way roll doll's best conspiracy book I think”
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Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg
Recommended“there's a great book with a really long name from eye of new and toe of frog adders fork and lizard's leg the lore and mythology of amphibians and reptiles”
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Natural History
Discussed“And it's weird; when you look at what he writes in Natural History, he is kind of the first cryptozoologist; like, the scholarly burden of proof is not really a thing, so this guy is just sort of like when Freud was making up psychoanalysis.”
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Ctesias: On India
Discussed“The earliest mention of it comes from another ancient historian, a Greek named Ctesias, who wrote a book called Indica in the fifth century BCE. The book, which translates to 'the couch,' is unfortunately lost to history.”
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How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex
Recommended“There's a person um that we're leaning on a lot in tonight's exploration, uh fantastic author and journalist Samantha Cole, wrote a book called How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex, An Unexpected History.”
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A Storm of Witchcraft
Discussed“Again, I hark back to what Dr. Baker wrote in his book, The Storm of Witchcraft; he provides a great introduction that describes it as the 'perfect storm' of all these elements that come together.”
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The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Discussed“This also reminds me of a work by Carol Carlson, 'The Devil in the Shape of a Woman,' that I wanted to ask you about.”
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Body of Secrets
Recommended“we do talk about the Gulf of tonen at length in our book check that out the best book about Northwoods is by a guy named James Bamford it's called body of Secrets an intensely researched expose on the NSA the National Security Agency and uh Mr B published this in 2001”
Behind the Bastards
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God and the IRS
Discussed“To describe what happened next, I want to read a quote from a book by Professor Samuel Brunson called God and the IRS, which is about the difficulty the IRS has dealing with the religious right.”
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The Complete Practical Joker
Discussed“it seems to have originated this story in a 1953 book titled the complete spelled in a weird way practical joker by H Allen Smith who was a journalist and a comedy writer”
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The Nazis and the Occult
Recommended“I do have what is for me the good book Molly oh yeah yeah my my copy of Nazis and the Occult by D Skylar um great book a good time”
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The Cuban Revolution
Discussed“It's only with Sam Dulov's book, The Cuban Revolution, a critical perspective, in 1976 that attitudes began to shift, leading to a gradual reassessment of the MLCE within the anarchist community.”
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Cuban Anarchism
Discussed“As Francisco Fernandez wrote in Cuban anarchism, the history of a movement, hopefully there are those in this generation who will take up the legacy of their forebears so that the roots of anarchism that are now buried in the fertile Cuban soil will once again spring to life.”
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The autobiography of a race horse
Discussed“What Wally George does in his 1999 autobiography is he coined the phrase 'combat TV' to describe the thing that he invented—now that’s like all news programs!”
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THE TURNER DIARIES
Discussed“And that is the, yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying to remember my Behind the Bastards extended universe. Uh, that all comes from the Turner Diaries, right?”
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Unsafe at any speed
Discussed“When Joe was 11, he lost his younger brother to an auto accident, which was not uncommon in those days because cars didn't crumple, and seat belts were but a fever dream in Ralph Nader's eye.”
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Corydon
Discussed“He found solace in the book C on by Andre GED a series of Socratic dialogues about the naturalness of queer love”
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The History of Sexuality
Discussed“Michelle Fuko critiqued this in a 1976 book on the history of sexuality”
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The mass psychology of fascism
Discussed“he spends the early Nazi years writing a book called the mass psychology of fascism that cites the patriarchal family unit that had existed in mainstream German society as effectively a recruiting tactic for the Nazis”
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Male Fantasies
Discussed“in 1977 the sociologist klous theel white published male fantasies a TW volume book that Drew on the Diaries of German paramilitary Fighters and concluded that their inhibited drives along with the fear of anything gooey gushing or smelly had been channeled into a new outlet destruction”
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The Authoritarians
Discussed“But the more hostile reactions had me thinking about a book that I read many years ago and did a video on years after that was called the authoritarians by Bob Altmire.”
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The Authoritarian Specter
Discussed“In chapter nine of the authoritarian spectre, Ultima conceptualizes left-wing authoritarianism or LWA as also composed of submission, aggression, conventionalism.”
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Sapling Cage
Discussed“Um, it's a particularly bad idea in her case because the book that she decided to write wasn't a really good work of fiction like your book, The Sapling Cage, Margaret.”
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Dr. Spock's baby and child care
Discussed“You might think of him as like Dr. Spock, if you're old enough to remember Dr. Spock, not the one from Star Trek but like the child development doctor who was kind of huge. I think in the 80s and 90s, I think my parents had a Dr. Spock book or two around.”
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To train up a child
Discussed“There's a very popular book among the Christian right called To Train Up a Child, and the basis of it is you should, when children are infants, do stuff like lay them down on a mat, and if they like wiggle to such a point that any part of their body is off of it, you like whip them! Basically,”
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Memoirs of my nervous illness
Discussed“and spent years institutionalized only being released in 1899 at which point he wrote A Memoir about his nervous illness”
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Gold in the Furnace
Discussed“She later wrote in her book, Gold in the Furnace, that the gods had ordained that I should have a glimpse of ruins, bitter, irony of fate.”
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Hitler's Priestess
Discussed“And I'm going to quote again from the book, Hitler's Priestess.”
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Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats
Discussed“For example, she retold the story of her first trip back to Europe in the children's fable, Long Whiskers and the Two-Legged Goddess, whose heroine is a cat-loving Nazi named Heliodora.”
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The Lightning and the Sun
Discussed“Over the next few years, Savitri wrote and conversed with increasingly aged Nazis and gradually refined her theories about the world until, in 1958, she published what would prove to be her magnum opus, The Lightning in the Sun.”
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Impeachment of Man
Discussed“And some of her early books that she wrote when the Nazis were in power, but before she was explicitly a Nazi, like the impeachment of man, don't explicitly reference Nazism.”
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The Young Hitler I Knew
Discussed“And she used several segments from August Kubizek's ill-advised book, The Young Hitler I Knew.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Attention Economy
Discussed“two Biz School theorists Davin Porton Beck do a book called um the attention economy I think it's 2001”
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Taking Care of Youth and the Generations
Discussed“the recently deceased French philosopher Bernard eer in a beautiful and difficult book called taking care of the youth and the generations centers that book on attention”
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The Wings of the Dove
Discussed“in the early 20th century novel wings of the dove the American novelist Henry James describes a really beautiful and intense scene”
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Suspensions of Perception
Discussed“in a book called suspensions of perception published around 2000 he made a super challenging argument about where that language of attention comes from”
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Objectivity
Recommended“a second book that I love and that also comes out of my field and that I think is a deep and hard but beautiful and important book for thinking about the history of science would be the book objectivity by Peter Gallison and Lorraine daston”
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Intelligence and Spirit
Recommended“um so resen aarani wrote a book called intelligence and spirit it's a pretty dense philosophical book uh about intelligence and spirituality that I think is uh really great”
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Plurality
Recommended“and then there's a book called plurality that was um led by Glenn V and Audrey tang and a wide um community of contributors I also contributed a small part to this book it's about the future of collaborative technology and democracy and it was actually written in an open collaborative Democratic way which I think is really interesting so”
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Why Information Grows
Recommended“one book which greatly influenced my book was the book why information grows which is by a physicist named Cesar Hildago”
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The American Dream Is Not Dead
Recommended“my final book is the American dream is Not Dead by one of my AI colleagues uh Michael strain which is sort of a noons look at issues like weight age stagnation income inequality”
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Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
Recommended“the first I would recommend is Anthony angi's imperialism sovereignty and the making of international law which retells the history of international law as well as the intellectual history of canonical European jurists by centering the colonial encounter as the structuring event that triggered the emergence of international law as we know it”
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Worldmaking after Empire
Recommended“I would also recommend Adam gachu world making after Empire the rise and fall of self-determination which returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how the principle of self-determination was differently understood by anti-colonial leaders and how that understanding had it prevailed might have yielded alternatives to Logics of partition Logics like the logic that underlies”
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The Rise and Fall of Self-determination
Recommended“I would also recommend Adam gachu world making after Empire the rise and fall of self-determination which returns to the era of decolonization to offer an account of how the principle of self-determination was differently understood by anti-colonial leaders and how that understanding had it prevailed might have yielded alternatives to Logics of partition Logics like the logic that underlies”
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Drugs and drug policy
Recommended“so there's so many good books written about in this area it's hard to pick so I decided to prioritize personal relationship starting with your your late friend of mine Mark kimman who wrote a book called drugs and drug policy what everyone needs to know co-authored with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawkin”
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Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know
Recommended“so there's so many good books written about in this area it's hard to pick so I decided to prioritize personal relationship starting with your your late friend of mine Mark kimman who wrote a book called drugs and drug policy what everyone needs to know co-authored with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawkin”
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Confessions of an English opium-eater
Recommended“and then the last one maybe a more Ecentric choice but it's such a good book is by Thomas D Quincy and it's called confessions of an English opium eater”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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When Things Fall Apart
Discussed“so on that plane ride from New York to Arizona to Canyon Ranch I read three books When Things Fall Apart by Anie pemma children Faith by Sharon salsburg and let your life speak by Parker Palmer”
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Faith
Discussed“so on that plane ride from New York to Arizona to Canyon Ranch I read three books When Things Fall Apart by Anie pemma children Faith by Sharon salsburg and let your life speak by Parker Palmer”
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Let Your Life Speak
Recommended“so on that plane ride from New York to Arizona to Canyon Ranch I read three books When Things Fall Apart by Anie pemma children Faith by Sharon salsburg and let your life speak by Parker Palmer”
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Reboot
Recommended“of course the book reboot subtitle leadership and the Art of growing up is available and certainly something I would recommend people people check out has the many of the prompts and more that we've talked about a lot of case studies the personal history and distillation of a lot of what you've learned working with hundreds thousands of clients”
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Great by Choice
Discussed“there's a concept in Great by choice called the 20m March and so I kind of had a 20 mile March”
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Building on Bedrock
Recommended“my colleague at Princeton Derek lidow has written a couple of books and the his most recent is built on bedrock and it's a lot of the book is about Walmart and Sam Walton and how it started”
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Beat the Market
Discussed“and so that became the book beat the market”
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The Wolf at the Door
Recommended“he has a book called the wolf at the door which is fairly recent which basically explains the things that I learned in his political science course a few months ago and it tells you how to form coalitions that can win and how to pass things that will stay in place”
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Amphibious Soul
Discussed“Why did you decide to write Amphibious Soul, subtitled Finding the Wild in a Tame World? And it's rare that a book exactly resonates with what has been deeply on my mind for certainly the last few years.”
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The Wayfinders
Recommended“I recall, just to give people a reference as well, if they're interested in digging into this, there's a book called The Wayfinders by Wade Davis that has a long chapter on Polynesian navigation, which blew my mind.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The devil's chessboard
Discussed“And then, you know, you start reading, you read books like The Devil's Chessboard by David Talbot about the creation of the National Security State about the Dulles brothers and how influential they were.”
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Gambling with Armageddon
Recommended“if people want to read about it in detail the most remarkable book about this is a book by the late historian Martin Sherwin called gambling with Armageddon which is a absolutely phenomenal work”
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Firepower
Discussed“I've just been uh reading a book called Firepower which is a history of basically a history of gunpowder and you track the change of warfare going from Spears and longbows to the wheel”
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The psychology of war
Recommended“it's called the psychology of military incompetence and it and it went through five of the biggest disasters in British military history”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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To Serve Man
Discussed“you know what my favorite one was to serve man oh yeah it's a cookbook”
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Foundation
Discussed“Every sci-fi property you love is based on Foundation, interesting, Isaac Asimov's Foundation series is widely understood to be the inspiration for Star Wars, Dune, and even The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.”
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The Painted Bird
Discussed“if you read The Painted bird no oh don't I mean it's so good”
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Mastering the Rubber Guard
Discussed“I had Eddie Bravo's mastering the ragard book that came to me at a very influential time where I read the chapter about weed”
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Curious George Discovers the Rainbow
Discussed“until the 90s we thought chimps like these sweet animals that are like eating bananas and hanging out and Curious George meanwhile they're [ __ ] monsters they're straight up monsters”
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Faith of my fathers
Discussed“It's also just so... the thing that's so wild to me is that after, and I know I've talked about this, I'm sure on previous episodes, but just after 20 years of the terror wars and what a disaster those were, and to the point that John McCain wrote in his memoir that the war in Iraq was a mistake;”
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Before the dawn
Discussed“There's a weird, I remember reading this book. I believe it was called 'Before the Dawn,' I believe, by Nicholas Wade.”
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Sand And Foam
Discussed“but he wrote another book called um sand and foam in that book he told a story of a man who had been away from his family for four months working”
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The Universal One
Discussed“if you can go to my in my book there's a there's a picture of Einstein reading Walter Russell's first book um second book The Universal one”
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Journey of Souls
Discussed“there was a there was a u hypnotherapist in who wrote a book called journey of souls Dr Michael Newton”
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The Danaher Diaries
Discussed“What he eats, and yep, it's, uh, John Danaher talks about Kaizen. Kaizen is this Japanese phrase for doing something over and over and over again.”
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Fighting Indians of the West
Discussed“There was books in my grandparents' house. Like the one of them was called Fighting Indians of the West and then there was like uh Russell and Remington books, the painters.”
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Colour of Money
Discussed“Look, we all love Color of Money; it made money! Color of Money was a separate book!”
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The Hustler
Discussed“He did serious acting too; he was in The Hustler! He was great in The Hustler!”
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The Queen's gambit
Recommended“And it’s by the same guy who also wrote The Queen's Gambit! Amazing show!”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Guinness book of world records, 1998.
Discussed“We had a copy of the Guinness Book, I think we probably got it as a Christmas gift one year, and maybe your dad lifted it from his school library. He brought it home.”
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The Guinness Book of Records
Discussed“wash the stank of Unit 731 off of us by talking uh about a very fun thing which is the Guinness book of world's records or the Guinness World Records uh I feel like when I was a kid it was called The Guinness Book of World Records in the United States”
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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
Discussed“like this may have been my Uncle John's bathroom reader for you uh no I yeah okay I got you have both no no no Uncle John's bathroom reader definitely trumped it for sure”
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Guinness Book of World Records
Discussed“if you've ever wondered if the Guinness Book of World Records is actually connected to the Guinness beer company my friend yes they absolutely are the guy who was the managing director of Guinness son and Company Limited the Guinness beer company was also the guy responsible for coming up with the Guinness Book of World Records”
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G-Man
Recommended“and also to a writer and this Olivia got some information from this um this great book a historian named Beverly Gage from Yale University wrote a book in 2022 called G man colon mhm Jay Edgar Hoover and the making of an American Century”
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Around the World in 80 Days
Discussed“Around the World in 80 Days and so since it was October they wanted to do something spooky”
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The World Without Us
Recommended“And by the way, I keep saying once we're gone, um remember that amazing 2007 book, The World Without Us by Alan Weisman?”
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Discussed“I read Fear and Loathing, of course, and what other one did I read?”
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An American Prayer
Discussed“I actually bought a one of Jim Morrison's poetry books oh I used to listen to American Prayer like ceaselessly”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Look Again
Discussed“but then after reading the book she went back and she said um if you go to sleep early you'll look better and be more en energetic for your girlfriend”
Conversations with Tyler
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Star Maker
Discussed“You and I were both fans of Olaf Stapledon who wrote the dual classics Last and First Men and Star Maker.”
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Deschooling Society
Discussed“So, in Deschooling Society, he really makes the point that in fact schools do not treat children as as human to some extent at all.”
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India: A Million Mutinies Now
Critiqued“quite an interesting book but ultimately not willing to understand what makes India work”
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In a Free State
Discussed“had to find my own way in the world to use the title of one of his novels”
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A Turn in the South
Discussed“when I read a turn in the South I greatly enjoyed it but over time I somehow grew not to like the book”
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Amsterdam stories
Recommended“in the New York Review classics there s a book called I think it s called Amsterdam stories”
My First Million
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The Successful Novelist
Recommended“So those ones another one's called The Successful Novelist by David Morrell who created Rambo with First Blood back in 1972.”
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The World Is Flat
Discussed“This has been going on for a long time. I remember my dad once bought this book called The World is Flat. And I was a little kid and I read this book and it was all about globalization of talent.”
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Adventures of a Bystander
Discussed“I read Observations of a Bystander by Peter Drucker. I read Sapiens several times.”
How I Write
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The white goddess
Discussed“he he wrote a book called The White goddess”
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The alchemy of finance
Discussed“so that's why I will read a book by George Soros called the Alchemy of Finance where he shows how he became a billionaire by understanding the way financial markets especially currency markets would evolve”
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Getting Real
Discussed“So even going back to Getting Real it's like 90 short pieces and that's the same thing in Rework and Remote and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.”
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Remote
Discussed“So even going back to Getting Real it's like 90 short pieces and that's the same thing in Rework and Remote and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.”
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Discussed“So even going back to Getting Real it's like 90 short pieces and that's the same thing in Rework and Remote and It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.”
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Why They Can't Write
Discussed“tell me about John Warner and the book why they can't write loved that book”
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The Learning Game
Discussed“you know there's so many things from your book that are just your book is just beautiful and I can see you in the design of the book you know in the yellow on the cover in these big yellow pages in a lot of the drawings and I want to hear about how did you go about working on”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Kamasutra
Discussed“one that seems popular is that people say I should um become the greatest lover and do all the positions in the Comm Sutra”
Pod Save America
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The New Jim Crow
Recommended“I read books that pushed me to think about some of these issues, like 'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander and others that created a sense of urgency around ensuring our kids received better schools and that our justice system was reformed to facilitate decarceration.”
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A Case for the American People
Discussed“The smart money—I talked to a bunch of them for my book and for the New York Times based on the book—the consensus seems to be if he gets sentenced, it will be less than a year, probably somewhere in the six-month range just because a jail sentence is unusual.”
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No Going Back
Discussed“And she also, she can't cancel her interviews, she can't apologize, so she just has to do this idiotic, so defensive. Her book is called No Going Back, I guess that's right.”
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Hard Choices
Discussed“It's like that, like, you know, we started off, uh, we started off as people who couldn't see eye to eye, but over a local craft beer and two hours of good and difficult conversation, we came to see each other's point of view like that. Kind of, who's that for? Was that in Hard Choices?”
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My First Book of Sign
Discussed“Politico reported that, do you know she wrote a first book? This was her second book and in the first book her team got her to take the story of killing the puppy out.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Encounters
Recommended“Diana Pulka, have you heard her? Oh, you you should try to interview her. She is fantastic. She is a religious studies professor at NC State and she's written two books, American Cosmic and Encounters.”
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Imagine the God of Heaven
Discussed“in your new book imagine the god of Heaven near death experience is that your latest book that you've written”
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The Blue Book
Discussed“and I'm reading that book but I'm not they there's a lot of things they recommend like hey you go to meeting obviously you don't drink you go to meetings you get a sponsor which is someone who guides you you know through sobriety and you go through the steps you know and work the steps with a sponsor I”
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War and the Soul
Discussed“this guy named Edward tick and War in the soul is the name of his book I got all this information this TTP basically of right is how the warrior heals is the warrior gets with the trusted agents in the community and tells a story and it transfers some of some of some of that experience onto them”
Huberman Lab
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The Wisdom of the Body
Discussed“I once read a very elegant paper by Walter Cannon, a foundational figure in physiology. Cannon was the chair of physiology at Harvard in the 1920s and 1930s and authored 'The Wisdom of the Body.'”
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Memoirs of a Stomach
Discussed“In our research, we referenced some beautiful passages from the book 'Memoirs of My Stomach,' written by a French author in 1853, highlighting the gut-brain dialogue.”
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Rabid
Recommended“But what I find amazing about the rabies virus—and there's a great book by the way called 'Rabid,' which is essentially a history of the study of rabies—is that once it travels from the site of the bite up to the brain, what does it do?”
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The End of Craving
Recommended“There’s a wonderful book called "The End of Cravings" by Mark Schatzker, who also wrote "The Dorito Effect."”
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The Dorito Effect
Recommended“There’s a wonderful book called "The End of Cravings" by Mark Schatzker, who also wrote "The Dorito Effect."”
ChooseFI
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The Daily Stoic Journal
Recommended“I got that quote from a book that I've been reading called The Daily Stoic, and that book has been very helpful for me.”
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Stocks for the Long Run
Discussed“there's this term um stocks for the long run I think Jeremy seagull who's a famous economist investor academic talks about stocks for the long run and it's incontrovertible”
Modern Wisdom
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Marriage, a History
Discussed“So, I interviewed Stephanie Coontz, who wrote a book, A History of Marriage, and her take on it is, you know, we kind of went from, you know, what you were saying that it was this, you know, extra workers and inheritance rights and things like that to this idea of love to now she sees it as a pick”
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Discussed“and there's also a chapter in a book called The 22 immutable laws of marketing”
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The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader
Recommended“it's a great book called The Blue Ocean strategy that I recommend people read as as you think about this”
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Of wolves and men
Recommended“of wolves and Men is a non-fiction book by Barry Lopez beautifully written”
No Stupid Questions
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How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes
Discussed“She's also the author of a book called How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes—a good goal for anyone! Yeah, that's a good goal.”
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The Hiding Place
Discussed“Mike got some details wrong in a story from Corrie ten Boom's 1971 autobiographical novel, The Hiding Place. When directly asked by the Gestapo whether a young woman hiding in their home is Jewish, ten Boom's sister, who is named Nollie, not Nelly, admits that she is.”
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The Highly Sensitive Person
Recommended“I wanted to recommend the book The highly sensitive person by Dr elain Aaron to Amanda and anyone else who feels similarly”
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Give and Take
Discussed“And in the book Give and Take, Adam has this typology: there are three kinds of people.”
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The Giving Tree
Discussed“And I think maybe that very famous book, The Giving Tree, if you'll remember the book, is about this tree.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Peak Mind
Recommended“So one of my colleagues, Amishi Jha, she wrote a book called "Peak Mind" and talks about mindfulness as a method for improving attention and focus.”
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Discussed“You go back to that Frans de Waal book, 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?', there's so many incredible examples of controlled studies where the researchers didn't understand how to shed this insurmountably human perspective and recognize that there's other types of intelligence, whether that's in elephants or cats.”
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Plants of the Gods
Discussed“– Yeah, he wrote the "Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers".”
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Hallucinogenic Plants
Discussed“– Yeah, he wrote the "Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers".”
Timcast IRL
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Brothers
Discussed“he wrote a book about the assassinations as well called about CIA involvement in the assassinations called Brothers”
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Politics
Discussed“This was the Sparta problem Aristotle talks about in 'Politics,' where Sparta knew how to wage war.”
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Beyond Order
Discussed“Like it is about framing the way you view the world and giving people this lens from which to approach the challenges they face. What is it? Jordan Peterson's book called '12 Rules for Life'?”
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Recommended“Listen, if you're worried about global warming or climate change, just go watch An Inconvenient Truth; it came out in 2006, everything in it has been proven wrong.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Imitation of Christ
Discussed“it's in the imitation the uh the text the book you know the imitation of Christ”
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Shattered assumptions
Discussed“She's a social psychologist and the author of two books; one from about 30 years ago called 'Shattered Assumptions' and the other called 'The Two Moralitities: The Origin and Fall of Right and Left Politics.' Why did I want to talk to Dr. Janoff-Bulman?”
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Im Westen nichts Neues
Discussed“Well, it's interesting, because the Book of Job is one of the books that really sets the stage in the biblical corpus for the story of the crucifixion, right? Because the crucifixion story is the story of Job expanded even more thoroughly, right?”
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
Recommended“You know, the notion that we're not going to make a change every second based on one disconfirming thing—I mean, I actually love Karl Popper. You know, the notion is we should be cognitively conservative when it comes to our schemas, or our theories.”
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Barnaby Rudge
Discussed“I did my final Capstone on Barnaby rudge by Charles stickens and I've just I mean I was obsessed and so a lot of the classes I I made it through”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Thirteen Reasons Why
Critiqued“Let's give the audience just a little flavor; let's play the montage of John reading from some of these pornographic books in front of these school boards so people can get a flavor. "13 Reasons Why" by Jay Asher, currently in Storm Grove Middle School and Freshman Learning Center, Page 265: "As if letting him finger me was going to”
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It's Perfectly Normal
Critiqued“This is one we played from May of 2023, and it happened in Asheville, North Carolina, where John went into the school board meeting to take issue with a book that, ironically, is called It's Perfectly Normal.”
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Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts)
Critiqued“When you consider even a book like this, I went to Missouri just two days ago. This book is entitled Jack of Hearts and Other Parts.”
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Let's Talk About It
Critiqued“Same with this book right here. This book right here is called Let's Talk About It.”
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Queer
Critiqued“I can't even open this book, and then you have this book. It's called Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens.”
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The Audacity of Hope
Discussed“And the reason I'd like to see it more like President Obama is because, as he said, these are his words, 'The Audacity of Hope,' like you have to be optimistic.”
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Hoodwinked
Recommended“Again, just for those of you who are listening, it's called Hoodwinked, and I'm going to try it again; it's John Amanchukwu.”
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New Rules
Discussed“Bill, welcome I must say that book title is a lot funnier when you see it because it's supposed to mock clickbait Of course, I got it immediately Okay, I know But I've had book titles that went right over the heads of many This is the tease we used on Fox News for about two decades without the words”
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The Undead Among Us - The Figure of the Vampire as the "Unknown Other" and Its Representation in "True Blood"
Discussed“You raised this point in the in the book too, and I thought it was a really good one about how when we do our, you know, look back at history, only the whites get excoriated for their bad behavior 200 years ago. It's like wait a minute, yeah; Genghis Khan was pretty rough. You know, talk about colonizers; I”
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What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
Recommended“he's author of the brand new book that's just out today what this comedian said will shock you”
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Swimming Against the Current
Recommended“Today, she is here to share her story in a new book that goes into her childhood, the unfair advantage transgender athletes have, and her advice for not just women and girls, but everyone. The book is called 'Swimming Against the Current, Fighting for Common Sense in a World That's Lost Its Mind,' and it's out tomorrow.”
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Day Trading Attention
Discussed“his new book day trading attention is set to be released next week and is available for pre-order right now”
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Say More
Critiqued“Meantime, Jen Psaki's book came out last week and her publisher is now having to correct quote inaccuracies. You could also call them lies.”
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Morning After the Revolution
Recommended“first joining me now is Nelly bus author of the brand new book Morning After the revolution dispatches from the wrong side of History great title”
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Not My First Rodeo
Discussed“Now they've had to pull all that from the audiobook; it'll be on the bookshelves in Barnes & Noble and elsewhere today because they couldn't get it out of the written book, but it's out of the electronic.”
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Old Yeller
Discussed“What about Old Yeller I'm like Old Yeller had rabies everybody it was a mercy it was a mercy killing”
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Detrans
Recommended“this is again a Luca story is is told in Mary Margaret olan's new book drans true stories of escaping the gender ideology cult it comes out later in May you can buy it now to support both of these women”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Chasing Slow
Discussed“she wrote a book also called chasing slow which is I'm such a good preface like we have to chase this”
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Learning All The Time
Discussed“his name is John Hol and he wrote a book called learning all the time”
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Discussed“it's called teach your child how to read in a 100 easy lessons”
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Until the Streetlights Come On
Recommended“Buy Ginny's book Until The Streetlights Come On”
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Balanced and Barefoot
Recommended“so there's a woman a phenomenal book it's called balanced in Barefoot by Angela hansam”
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Beyond Winning
Recommended“this Kim John Payne he wrote a book called Beyond winning it's about Youth Sports culture”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Chickenhawk
Discussed“hello Bill have you had a chance to read the book chickenhawk written by Robert Mason I've only started reading it and it reminded me of how you described your time flying Robert was a chopper pilot during the Vietnam War”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Peace Is Every Step
Discussed“Peace in Every Step.”
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Fat Chance
Discussed“and your book Fat Chance covers this really profoundly In New York Times bestell the first word in the subtitle there is the word sugar”
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The Button
Discussed“He wrote his own book with a colleague called The Button.”
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Rebel Rising
Discussed“and as I read through your book Rebel Rising which is out now I was surprised in many ways”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The forbidden body
Discussed“It's a brilliant book called 'The Forbidden Body', where she argues against this stigma. When I tracked Shelley down, she stressed to me she's really proud of everything she said about stigma and is 100% right.”
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The light between us
Recommended“Finally, I get to sit down with her—I’m talking about Laura Lynn Jackson, the author of these two incredible books: "The Light Between Us" and "Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe."”
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You can heal your life
Discussed“Louise Hay, I love me some Louise Hay! That lady, oh, if she was still alive!”
The Daily Stoic
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Black Hawk, Down
Discussed“yeah who's the guy that wrote Blackhawk Down uh Mark bow”
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The Wisdom of the Bullfrog
Discussed“yeah you know in the wisdom of the bullfrog when uh when I was asked to write the book The Publisher said Well we'd like you to write a book on leadership”
This Week in Startups
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Grinding it Out
Discussed“I showed myself taking the screenplay yeah for founder the founder and the book rinded out the PDF of the book rinded out about Ray Croc and a bunch of other Ray Croc business case studies”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Journey To Ixtlan
Discussed“his book journey to exit laon that one on second from the the top that had a big influence on me”
The Ben & Marc Show
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High Output Management
Discussed“This is like I actually think this is a general kind of organizational psychology problem and Andy Grove kind of remarked about it um and I think it was high output management when he talked about well there's you need people with ambition.”
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Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
Discussed“By the way, as ue Keynes famously said, it was his essay, I think, was Economic Prospects for Our Grandchildren, which was basically that.”
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Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
Discussed“So, there's this thing called the GINA law, Genetic Information Non- Non-Discrimination Act of uh 2008, and basically it it base it base bans health insurers in the US from actually using genetic data”
Freakonomics Radio
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America in Black and White
Discussed“What I'm thinking is, take my friendship with the late Abigail Thernstrom and Steven Thernstrom, which goes back to my early days at Harvard, and which ended when I critically reviewed their book, America in Black and White, in a long review in the Atlantic, and they broke off with me.”
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Wealth Supremacy
Discussed“Kelly is also the author of a book called Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crisis.”
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Vienna
Book club“the push to finally go to Vienna was provided by a new book called Vienna how the city of ideas created the modern world”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Baby Reindeer
Discussed“baby reindeer was a very that's why it's so that's why it's catching on so Netflix Netflix this is a huge Netflix room today”
EconTalk
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Black Bourgeoisie
Discussed“I remember reading E. Franklin Frazier's book, Black Bourgeoisie, of that title, in which he satirizes and criticizes the the world of high black society of the 1940s and 1950s.”
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The End of Racism
Discussed“And there were these books, Murray's and Herrnstein's The Bell Curve, Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom's America in Black and White, Dinesh D'Souza's The End of Racism, books promoted by the American Enterprise Institute”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Transvaal Episode
Discussed“he'd written a book in called transval episode and who was in in prison with Nelson Mandela who was like this hero in my mind”
The Rubin Report
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Nation of Victims
Discussed“I read his books, and so I didn’t would not have guessed personally, you know, that Vivek would have—and again, no shade on him; he's a super successful guy.”
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Breaking History
Discussed“he did it I mean have you read his book I've read his book”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Fighting fire
Discussed“So you wrote a memoir about your years as a firefighter called Fighting Fire, and you tell one incredibly powerful story after another about your experiences. Do you have your own personal favorite story from that book?”
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Tough Broad
Discussed“Your most recent book is called Tough Broad, and one thing I like about your books is they're also different from one another, but this one starts with an observation which I think is 100% true but almost never talked about, which is that our society is incredibly dismissive of older women.”
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The gutsy girl
Discussed“so the you're talking about now is the Gutsy Girl it's such an interesting book because it's very adult stories about your Misadventures but aimed at 13-year-old girls”
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Lost cat
Recommended“You wrote a book about, of all things, your cat running away; it's called Lost Cat, and I have to say, being just totally honest, in a million years I never would have read that book if I didn't know I was going to talk to you today.”
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Extended Mind
Recommended“I did read Annie Murphy Paul’s book, The Extended Mind, and she talks about awe in there. It turns out awe is really good for us and is really easily triggered by going outside.”
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Between Two Kingdoms
Recommended“We're back with a brand new episode featuring Suad Jwad. Her incredible book, Between Two Kingdoms, documents her battle with cancer, and she's also the subject of the recent documentary film American Symphony.”
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The Night Before Christmas
Discussed“But there are things in this book that do not look high octane at all because I understood how important it was for people just to get outside.”
The Realignment
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New Cold Wars
Discussed“We are following up Tuesday's episode with demito perovich that covered the possibility of an invasion of Taiwan with an episode with the New York times's David E Sanger to discuss his new book new cold Wars new cold Wars is the best book I've read in the past few years on this broad subject”
