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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2024
In June 2024, podcast hosts and guests explored a diverse array of health, political, and investigative titles. On ChooseFI, Dr. Bobby Dubois joined Brad Barrett to discuss Michael Easter’s bestseller The Comfort Crisis, examining the drawbacks of modern comfort and the value of personal challenge. Timcast IRL saw Tim Pool reference the film adaptation of The The Nines while discussing simulated realities. The Book Review featured Joumana Khatib mentioning Roland Barthes's essay collection Mythologies. On The Ben & Marc Show, Marc Andreessen cited Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner’s Superforecasting to analyze political predictions and credentialed expertise. True crime dominated discussions on The Megyn Kelly Show, where Megyn Kelly recommended both Mark Fuhrman’s Murder in Brentwood and A Simple Act of Murder regarding the Martha Moxley case. On The Diary Of A CEO, Steven Bartlett praised Dr. Mindy Pelz’s Eat Like a Girl for practical nutrition insights. Lastly, Pod Save America featured the hosts encouraging listeners to grab a copy of Democracy or Else.
ChooseFI
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The Good Life
Discussed“One of the most important studies that has gained popularity is the Harvard Study of Adult Development.”
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The Comfort Crisis
Recommended“And if folks are sort of intrigued by this, Michael Easter wrote a book that came out probably a year ago—a New York Times bestseller—called The Comfort Crisis.”
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Social Security Made Simple
Discussed“but Mike we talked about obviously opo security.com we talked about your book Social Security Made Simple is there anywhere else that you'd want to send people or have people reach out to you”
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Financial Feminist
Discussed“she's the author of The New York Times best-selling book Financial feminist and her site her first 100K docomo for getting started with investing and putting a money plan together”
No Stupid Questions
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The Sweet Spot
Discussed“And he wrote this book called The Sweet Spot and it really was I think a kind of like manifesto on how there is a sweet spot of discomfort. The reason why he wants to say sweet spot is it's not more is all better.”
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Twilight of the Idols
Discussed“Clarkson's 2011 and hit song Stronger parentheses what doesn't kill you is a direct reference to n's famous aphorism what does not kill me makes me stronger from his 1888 book Twilight of the idols”
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Against Empathy
Discussed“So he wrote a book you may have read called 'Against Empathy.' So where do you think he falls on the spectrum of this? I know because I know the book!”
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Discussed“Have you ever read The Elegance of the Hedgehog? Nope! It's a beautiful novel written incredibly well.”
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The Book of Job
Discussed“But I'll tell you my favorite story of all time—it comes from the Old Testament, the Book of Job. It's studied as one of the great poems of all time.”
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Creed Or Chaos?
Discussed“The language is actually from Mosiah 18 of the Book of Mormon.”
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Tribe
Discussed“The first book we read was Tribe by Sebastian Junger, and I actually thought it was an incredible first book because it basically talks about so many of these principles of why we are a tribe and how people gather and become sort of a group, but very different than the Priya Parker thing.”
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Beartown
Discussed“It's called Beartown by Fredrik Backman, who is maybe my favorite fiction author.”
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A Man Called Ove
Discussed“He wrote A Man Called Ove.”
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Anxious People
Discussed“I've read Anxious People three times.”
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The Art of Gathering
Recommended“I was recently reading an amazing book called The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.”
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Cool
Discussed“Anyway, two of them got together and wrote this book, and it is on neuro-economics, but it's actually called 'Cool: How the Brain's Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World.' And what Quartz's research and other neuroscientists' research show is that we have a basic human need for status and to be respected.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Hollow Parties
Discussed“in the great book The Hollow parties Sam Rosenfeld and Danel schlossman tell the history of how the strong parties of yesterday became the hollowed out vehicles for individual presidential ambition we see today”
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Awakening Corporate Soul
Recommended“uh Eric Klein's book 1177 the year civilization collapsed has been recommended to me by so many people over the years I finally read it it's fantastic this is about things that happened thousands of years ago but it's really interesting”
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God is on the Road
Recommended“and I I came across a book by a guy named Paul Dixon called the rise of the GI Army that's about the effort to sort of build up the World War II American Military before Pearl Harbor and really making the case of the kind of like wisdom of the people who saw in 1939 1940 that America was”
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What Goes Without Saying
Recommended“the first book I would recommend is a book called what goes without saying by Taylor Carlson and Jamie settle which is about how people talk to each other or actually don't talk to each other about politics which is a really kind of fascinating book especially for people who really like talking about politics about what everyone else uh”
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Through the Grapevine
Recommended“it's a book called Through the Grapevine which is a book about what happens when we count on other people to tell us about political news how people get it wrong and what ends up happening if that's who we are dependent on”
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A Place of Greater Safety
Recommended“I recently read the best political book that I've ever read which is called a place of Greater safety”
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Franchise
Recommended“however there's a really great book that came out a few years ago called franchise the golden arches in Black America by Marsha shelene and it's about McDonald's and franchising specifically about the growth of McDonald's and its role in Black communities and with black consumers”
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Nickel and Dimed
Recommended“and then um I was thinking about of the best books about the kind of NE liberal economic deal that we make for a really long time in America that I think that we are just starting to upset and grow past the best book I think about it and it it's a classic is is nickel and died by”
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Up from Liberalism
Discussed“William F Buckley wrote a book called up from liberalism that articulated the case for fusionism you know bringing together more old traditionalists free marketeers and anti-communists into a new conservative movement”
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The Two Faces of American Freedom
Recommended“Aziz Rana who a law professor he has a giant new book out about Americans views of the Constitution but he in 2010 wrote a very substantial and Brilliant book called the two faces of American Freedom that is a good synthesis of a master theme in American history”
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Rainbow's End
Recommended“wonderful book by Steven Erie rainbows and Irish Americans in the dilemmas of urban machine politics 1840 to 1985”
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An American Melodrama. The Presidential Campaign of 1968. Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, Bruce Page. (1. Publ.)
Recommended“the best to our mind book about an American political campaign ever written is an American Melodrama the presidential campaign of 1968 by Lewis Chester Godfrey Hodson and Bruce page”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Jungle
Discussed“They're certainly not really old, because at least in the United States, it wasn't until that book you mentioned, The Jungle, was published in 1905 that people like really sat up and took notice, and Congress acted almost immediately and passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the next year.”
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Gary Meets Marge the Barge
Recommended“Uh that is from uh, Jessica Chang in Brooklyn, New York and Jessica's book is Gary meets Marge the Barge, that's awesome, congratulations Jessica, that's a great book idea.”
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History
Discussed“And then there's another guy, Herodotus, he was a historian from Greece; he wrote basically a monograph on Babylon a hundred years after Nebuchadnezzar, and he didn't mention the Hanging Gardens at all.”
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Powerslave
Recommended“if you want to see kind of probably what it looked like just go look at the Iron Maiden Power Slave album cover”
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The burning bed
Discussed“Uh, another one that came out was obviously The Burning Bed, which is a big case that we're going to talk about now because it was, uh, I mean the movie was a landmark TV movie, but the case that was based on also a landmark case in a lot of ways.”
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Coercive control
Discussed“He wrote a book in 2007 called 'Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life.' Evan Stark has done some pretty great work.”
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Grit
Discussed“Like I mentioned before, she did a TED Talk, and she wrote a book called 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.'”
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How Children Succeed
Discussed“He wrote a book before Duckworth did, back in 2012, called "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character."”
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Do Think Tanks Matter?
Discussed“there's a guy uh Donald Aon a professor at University of Western Ontario wrote a book called to think tanks matter where his conclusion basically is that the marketplace of ideas he says has become congested”
Timcast IRL
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To the nines
Recommended“There's a movie I think it's called The Nines. Let me let me let me check. Is it like Nines or something with Ryan Reynolds? I watched a long time ago. What is it called? It's called The Nines. I recommend you guys watch that one.”
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The Sopranos
Discussed“plausible deniability is what it is in The Sopranos when Uncle Jun you know beats his first trial by faking dementia But ultimately by the end of the series he has dementia bid”
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The Attention Merchants
Discussed“I think I read I think there's a book called Attention Merchants which sort of goes through the history of mainstream media and into the social media age and”
Pod Save America
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Win Every Argument
Discussed“Uh, and who better to have with us to do this than Mehdi, one of the best debaters and author of How to Win Every Argument? Uh, love it!”
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Hidden Sins
Discussed“Well, given that as a line from Hidden Sins, what we know... Is that the secret to their success was revealing to the world what was happening?”
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Hidden Sins
Discussed“well given that as a line from hidden sins what we know thank you what we know is that the secret to their success was revealing to the world what was happening”
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Summary of Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett & Tommy Vietor's Democracy or Else
Recommended“If you haven't grabbed a copy of Democracy or Else, please do it on your way out.”
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Discussed“A horse fell on top of Ulysses S. Grant. I'm reading his personal memoirs.”
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The Unraveling
Discussed“Later, former White House Counsel Bob Bauer stops by to talk about playing Donald Trump in debate prep for Joe Biden in 2020, the Supreme Court, and his new book, 'The Unraveling,' about just how unethical our politics have become.”
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Ethics in government
Discussed“He wrote a book called Ethics in Government. And in that book he talks about, you know, ethical sensibility on the part of public officials. They owe a certain degree of care and judgment to managing issues that I don't think can really be successfully managed by clamping major restrictions down on money.”
The Book Review
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Headshot
Book club“and for this month's book club we're talking about Rita bowinkle's new novel headshot”
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Mythologies
Recommended“rolon Bart you guys I'm not yeah guys yeah yeah Challengers so that is actually the opening essay in his collection mythologies which is good”
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Now, voyager
Discussed“he just loved movies and Now Voyager and and he couldn't stop talking about the Wardrobe and the clothing”
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The Zoo Story
Discussed“well I actually even had to be talked into auditioning to play Jerry in Zoo Story it's a one act play that when it opened on I think it opened Off Broadway in the early 60s with the death of Bessie Smith another of his plays”
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The Friday Afternoon Club
Recommended“Griffin Dunn writes about all of this and More in his funny and sad book the Friday afternoon Club a family Memoir and he joins us this week”
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The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club
Recommended“the first book that you're going to talk about that comes out the summer is set in Maine tell us about it yes I just came back from Maine and the first book I wanted to talk about is by Jay Courtney Sullivan who wrote a novel called main but her new novel is called The Cliffs it begins with”
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Horror Movie
Recommended“Gilbert what are you looking forward to reading this summer first I'm looking forward to going to psychic which I do every month I have a gal for you two I'm looking forward to a horror novel in which no psychics play A Part this one is called a Horror Story by Paul tremble”
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Heft
Recommended“and if you're a Liz more completist as I am may I suggest that you go back at some point and read heft which is one of her first books and as much as I love all her books that one might be my very favorite”
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Pearl
Recommended“so this is Pearl by Shan Hughes this was actually longlisted for the booker last year when it came out in the UK and now we are getting our taste of it and frequent listeners of the book review know that I have a particular attachment to stories about sad little girls particularly if they have lost their parents”
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Brother of the more famous Jack
Recommended“I know I'm going to read brother of the more famous Jack by Barbara tredo which comes to me from a friend who has been recommending it really highly”
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The Future Was Now
Recommended“this is a nonfiction book this is a book called The Future was now it's by a journalist named Chris nashawati”
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An Honest Woman
Recommended“yes I would like to talk about Charlotte Shane's Memoir called an honest woman the author she's a really incisive critic”
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The Book of Elsewhere
Recommended“one book that I'm going to mention that I think a very particular readership is probably very excited about is the Book of Elsewhere this is by China mavil and keano Reeves”
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Swan Song
Discussed“her latest release is her 30th novel and her final summer one for now it's appropriate L titled swan song”
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Summerland
Discussed“how did you a light on that it started in my novel Summerland which was my 2012 novel because that novel deals with a death of a teenager in a car accident and nanta did not experience that exact thing”
The Ben & Marc Show
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Superforecasting
Recommended“Phil Tetlock, a professor studying this topic, wrote a comprehensive study on political predictions, leading to the conclusion that the average credentialed expert is less than random likely to be correct.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Under Saturn's Shadow
Discussed“James Hollis is an 84-year-old Jungian psychoanalyst who's written 17 books, including 'Under Saturn's Shadow,' which is on the healing and trauma of men, 'The Eden Project,' excuse me, which is about relationships and creating a life.”
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The Eden Project
Discussed“James Hollis is an 84-year-old Jungian psychoanalyst who's written 17 books, including 'Under Saturn's Shadow,' which is on the healing and trauma of men, 'The Eden Project,' excuse me, which is about relationships and creating a life.”
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In the Plex
Discussed“I read that you looked up to Larry Page and Sergey Brin and that you can recite passages from 'In the Plex' and, like, that book was very influential to you and how Google works was influential.”
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King Henry V
Discussed“Nick Lane has a book called, "Life Ascending," where he lists the 10 great inventions of evolution, the origin of life being first, and DNA, the hereditary material that encodes the genetic instructions for all living organisms.”
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Life As No One Knows It
Recommended“She has written an amazing new upcoming book titled, "Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence." This book is coming out on August 6th, so please go pre-order it now.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Bubbles and Crashes
Discussed“So there's a guy named Brent Goldfarb, a professor of business at the University of Maryland. He's an author of a book called Bubbles and Crashes: The Boom and Bust of Technological Innovation.”
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Spies and provocateurs
Discussed“According to Wendell Minnick, the author of Spies and Provocateurs, an encyclopedia of espionage and covert action, the Finders would love you to think they're a CIA front, but I would say they're really nothing.”
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Holes
Discussed“remember that Disney movie Holes from the early 2000s this called holes I never saw it's described of wikkipedia as a Neo Western comedy drama based on a novel uh by Lewis socer from 1998”
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Red Planet
Discussed“hind line wrote red planet right yeah red planet it's just I don't know the I haven't read it in a long time um but it is a I do recall it being a really cool uh Highline novel”
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The Strange
Recommended“one of the U most recent books about Mars that I really enjoyed was the strange by Nathan ballingrud I don't even want to spoil it man I'm not even sure what genre it is”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Information Wars
Discussed“He wrote a book called Information Wars that we all had to read when we were doing the Twitter files, because we didn't know about this organization.”
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Dreamland
Discussed“I mean it's the theory of a good reporter named Sam Quinones who's written a couple books on the evolution of the drug trade in this century that the Mexican cartels had a strategy that, 'No, we don't want to sell to particularly shooty people near media capitals, we'll sell to people who will overdose and die in small towns”
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The True Believer
Discussed“You know, people, in Hofer, in The True Believer and so on, you know, he wrote so effectively about how every mass movement has sought to take away people's national identity and their personal identity.”
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Parting the Waters
Discussed“When I read this in Taylor Branch's book, 'Parting the Waters in American King years,' and Taylor Branch is a Democrat. Yeah, he's Bill Clinton's roommate at Yale. Yeah.”
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Life Lessons
Discussed“In the book of Corinthians, it says, '11 people will not enter the kingdom of heaven.'”
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And the walls came tumbling down
Discussed“Ralph Abernathy wrote in his book 'And the Walls Came Tumbling Down' that in the 1980 election, he went to them and said, 'Look guys, welfare is destroying the Black family.'”
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The parables of Jesus
Discussed“Our Bible says Jesus gave the parable: If a robber is going to come into a home, he first must bind the strong man.”
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The other Wes Moore
Recommended“The two Wes Moores, I don't know if you've heard of Oprah, Oprah had it on her book club thing. But it was a book about Wes Moore who became governor, a black man.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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American Predator
Discussed“I want to tell the audience we reached out to RFK Jr. to respond to the allegations in Maureen's book.”
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The Crying Book
Discussed“It is an act of extreme cruelty and spite, and a little nugget for your viewers and listeners: Vanity Fair fought tooth and nail to get that extract from the book about Mary and Bobby.”
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Goddess
Discussed“Phone records uncovered later by a British journalist named Anthony Summers—you can read it in his book 'Goddess' about Marilyn—about eight desperate calls that Marilyn had made to Bobby at the Department of Justice when he was serving as Attorney General of the United States.”
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RFK Jr.
Discussed“Then RFK Jr. wrote his own book trying to rehabilitate Michael Skakel, but I know from that reading Michael Skakel was big on animal torture and admitted he was in a tree jerking off to Martha Moxley shortly before the murder.”
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Murder in Brentwood
Recommended“And I know Dominique Dunn did the reporting you mentioned earlier; Mark Fuhrman wrote a whole book about this, which is well worth your time.”
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A Simple Act of Murder
Recommended“Mark Ferman wrote a whole book about this which is well worth your time”
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What Happened
Critiqued“I wonder what that was, really, you know, the woman who wrote a book called 'What Happened,' like marveling over all the external forces that could have caused her loss in a presidential election that was handed to her on a silver platter.”
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You Shall Be as Gods
Recommended“Eric Ericson is the host of the Eric Ericson Show and the author of the brand new book, 'You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke Gnostic Left,' which is out today. He joins me now.”
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The Indispensable Right
Recommended“It's called the indispensable right free speech in an age of Rage”
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Implementing Title IX and Attaining Sex Equity
Discussed“my position on that is very very clear and my uncle wrote Title Nine Senator Ted Kennedy he wrote it because women”
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Discussed“You know, I think I read the book and I really enjoyed it, and I think what makes you special is your extreme ability to be introspective, reflective about your life, to keep challenging yourself, to keep changing, keep growing, and you're very, very honest about what you perceive as your own shortcomings.”
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Get Honest or Die Lying
Discussed“I, you talk in the book about the therapy you've been through, all the way down to, I don't know if this didn't exactly come from your therapist, but you have a spiritual guru in your life as well, and the tree hugging.”
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Birth of a Nation
Discussed“Now, you know, like Aaron said in 'Death of a Nation' in my book, he’s convinced these poor white voters that he is for them, but their conditions aren't getting any better either.”
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The Game
Discussed“There's a term negging; I don't know if you've heard it and I don't know the book, the—the idea is as I understand it, I’ll give you a little bit of approval so it feels good and then you'll always be chasing that approval.”
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What the Bleep Do We Know!?TM
Discussed“I met a really talented filmmaker who I admired I just seen his film what the bleep do we know”
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Late Admissions
Discussed“I couldn't believe it's from the book; this is not the New York Times writer trying to slam you He's actually accurately representing portions of the book It reads as follows: 'Glenn Loury's new book, Late Admissions, is unlike any economist memoir I have ever read Most don't mention picking up streetwalkers or smoking crack in a faculty office at”
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The Beautiful Heart
Discussed“Those things became clear to me, as I said, with that little book in my hand.”
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
Discussed“I mean, his 'How to Be an Anti-Racist' was flying off the shelves, and he's been celebrated in academia.”
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Out of the Shadows
Discussed“There's an extraordinary passage in the book where you talk about how he warned you what was coming your way.”
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Joey
Discussed“in June 2020 Jill Biden published Joey a children's book about life the life of Joe Biden hanging on to a copy for Navy”
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Apprentice in Wonderland
Recommended“What's really interesting about this book is that it shows us how all the things you and I have just discussed are preludes to and windows of insight into President Trump; how he got it and how he managed it when he had the presidency.”
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It's a Book!
Discussed“And now he is making the media rounds because he's promoting a book in which he makes clear Trump is terrible Um, that he was aware of it, he was a witness to it, it did happen and he believes there is tape of it Though he doesn't know who has it or doesn't believe it'll actually ever come out”
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Beautiful Things
Discussed“Thanks to the audio book of his own memoir, remember we talked about this when he released it, saying this is not going to be good for him? He’s potentially facing charges, and this won't be good.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Eat Like a Girl
Recommended“I have to say because I learned a ton about my partner about my wife about myself from reading this book but also your your book eat like a girl um is equally critical for anyone that's looking for really practical ways to upgrade and think about their nutrition through the lens of everything we've discussed today I'll link both”
Modern Wisdom
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Summa Theologiae Supplementum 69-99
Discussed“by the way St Thomas aquinus in paraphrasing Aristotle in the Suma theologia written in 1265 classified those as the world's Idols”
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Deep Utopia
Discussed“Do you see Nick Bostrom's new book Deep Utopia? Have not seen the new book, but I have read Superintelligence. Yeah, I read Superintelligence way back. Yeah, so Superintelligence was basically what happens if we get it wrong. And Deep Utopia is what happens if we get it right.”
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Churchill
Recommended“there's a great book called Churchill and Son about Churchill's relationship with his own son which was so much better than his relationship with his own father”
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Son
Recommended“there's a great book called Churchill and Son about Churchill's relationship with his own son which was so much better than his relationship with his own father”
How I Write
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Courage Is Calling
Discussed“So, the thing that I want to start off with is my favorite video, okay, of yours is there's this clip where I think that you were working on Discipline is Destiny and you get a call from your editor that Courage is calling was number three on the New York Times list and I'm like, "This guy is so”
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Call Sign Chaos
Recommended“General Mattis, have you heard General Mattis's book calls on Chaos? It's very good.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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A Journey
Discussed“I was reading your memoir. There were a couple of times where you said that you realized later on that you had more leverage. In retrospect, you were able to do things that you didn't do at the time.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Silmarillion
Discussed“There's lots in the book about healing from narcissistic relationships while you are still in them or when you're just trying to separate from them a little bit.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Tao: The Watercourse Way
Discussed“I have read that you are a fan of Alan Watts and specifically the book subtitle on the taboo against knowing who you really are could you please explain if that is true”
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Time Enough for Love
Recommended“and then a few years ago when his widow released the uncensored unedited version of Stranger in a Strange Land it's like three times larger and like No Holds Barred I just favored you know every page of that my favorite book of all of his is time enough for love in which he covers almost every topic Under the”
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The Emotion Machine
Recommended“and a great book that I would recommend that goes into this subject in beautiful detail is called the emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky and Marvin Minsky is often thought of as the father of artificial intelligence”
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Hold Me Tight
Recommended“To learn more about how her work can improve your relationships check out her bestselling book hold me tight and visit Dr Sue johnson.com”
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The Riverside Shakespeare
Discussed“I mean it's not a joke that I use the Riverside Shakespeare as a booster seat that's literally what happened I sat when I had to reach the table I sat on this giant addition of Shakespeare”
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A Feast of Snakes
Discussed“no wrote a book called Feast of snakes and if you're a young man and Harry Cruz also wrote for Esquire”
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Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
Recommended“it's book called speak like Churchill stand like Lincoln I'm carrying it around with me as well this is amazing it's written by James C Humes”
Behind the Bastards
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Berlin Games
Discussed“In his book, Berlin Games, Guy Walters writes: 'Kutin was almost regarded as Christ, and Ballet Lure, who is like his second in the Olympic Committee, as his disciple.'”
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Tom Brown's School Days
Discussed“at age 20 he encounters a book called Tom Brown's school days this is a really influential maybe the most influential piece of fiction in educational history”
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Island of shame
Discussed“You know, from the book Island of Shade named by David Vine, French settlers built societies on the islands around enslaved labor and particularly on Mauritius the cultivation of sugar cane.”
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Web of deceit
Discussed“In his 2003 book, Web of Deceit, Mark Curtis notes that in making this agreement, quote, "Britain thus ignored UN Resolution 266 XX, which called on the UK to take no action that would dismember the territory of Mauritius and violate its territorial integrity."”
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The Great Uprising
Discussed“I'm going to I'm going to read a quote from a book called The Great Uprising, which is about this sort of period. Between 1963 and 1972, America experienced over 750 urban revolts.”
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Far From the Madding Crowd
Discussed“In his farm book, Jefferson writes this to describe the standard plan for the children born into his property: Quote, 'Children till 10 years old to serve as nurses; from 10 to 16 the boys make nails, the girls spin, and at 16 go into the ground or learn trades.'”
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
Discussed“Now, Banneker was an early mathematician, and he was in fact so able at mathematics that by the late 1700s he had a popular almanac that Jefferson and many other Americans used.”
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Master of the mountain
Discussed“and it's uh you know all this stuff in the farm book is a big part of what weinek bases his book master of the mountain on”
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Jefferson and his time
Discussed“Very much so, the 1890s, Dumas Malone writes a six volume history of Thomas Jefferson. This is generally considered to be like the first definitive biography of Jefferson.”
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Notes on the state of Virginia
Discussed“No, at all. Yeah. Malone goes on to quote another line from Notes on the State of Virginia, which he describes as perhaps the most erudite summary of the evil of slavery: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these”
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Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent
Discussed“the book he read was diverse voyages by a guy named Richard haut”
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American Sphinx
Discussed“In 'American Sphinx,' Ellis describes Jefferson as turning into kind of a fundamentalist on this point.”
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Lives
Discussed“From Plutarch's 'Life of Cato the Elder,' quote, 'A slave of his was expected to either be busy about the house or to be asleep, and he was very partial to the sleepy ones.'”
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In the spirit of Crazy Horse
Recommended“for more information on lard Peltier you can listen to Margaret's podcast on the looda nation and read in the spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter maen”
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Pirate Cinema
Recommended“There's a really good Corey Doctoro book that's like a fictionalized account of what this period was like called Pirate Cinema that is great. So if you ever want to Yeah. If people want to read that, it is very good.”
Candace
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How the West Won
Recommended“Candace so many moons ago I read this book by author Rodney star dark it was entitled How the West Was Won it's really a great book excellent you should read it anyways”
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The Victory of Reason
Recommended“you can learn about that by reading an an author named Rodney Stark”
EconTalk
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Evolution of Desire
Discussed“among other books she is the author of evolution of desire a life of Renee Gerard which was the first biography of the French theorist published in 2018”
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All Desire is a Desire for Being
Discussed“and she is the editor of Renee Gerard's all desire is a desire for being essential writings which was published in 2023”
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The Scapegoat
Discussed“you know and this last in his book the scapegoat his last sentence is we must forgive one another while there is still time if we wait too long there will not be time enough”
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Democide
Discussed“that the if you look at there's a book called democide if you look at the great genocides and disasters of the 19th and 20th centuries they're all perpetrated by states by government”
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I Have a Dream
Discussed“and the first book was I have a dream and it was the introduction was written um by King's children and and it's cool the book is actually paginated and laid out as king spoke so you could actually read it and kind of embody his voice almost almost like a poem”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Intuition Toolkit
Discussed“this is an expertise he learns to companies like Google and Pixar and expertly elaborates upon in his book The intuition toolkit”
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This Is Your Brain on Food
Discussed“which you quote in your book. So, it's all about this relationship between the microbiome, gut health, and other physiological processes in the body”
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The McDougall Program
Discussed“if you had people like John McDougall in 1986 you know Pioneer writing the McDougall program looked on like he was you know nut job”
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The Only Dance There Is
Discussed“the first book I I read after I had this experience with MDMA was um romos' book The only dance there is that was his a short book which I think was a transcript of of some talks he gave”
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The NASA Archives
Discussed“so I read uh I this is the most recent book I finished it's called the NASA archives I posted about it in a story but not in a post”
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Philip Kerr: The Complete Bernie Gunther Novels (14 titles)
Recommended“I this is not the book but Philip Kerr wrote a series of novels they're called The Bernie Gunther novels and it's basically Noir Berlin Noir pre World War II and then through World War II”
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Brown Dog
Recommended“one I read brown dog it's a Nolla oh Jim har this is a collection of Jim Harris and novelas and the first one's called brown dog”
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The Shipping News
Recommended“um she wrote she's famous for two books or more than two books but this one The Shipping News won the national book award I believe and the pulit Sur prise I think it won both”
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Lessons for Living
Recommended“check out Phil's books the newest one is lessons for living”
Huberman Lab
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Forever Strong
Recommended“To learn more about her work and find links to her book, Forever Strong, as well as links to her excellent podcast and website with additional resources, please see the show notes and captions.”
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Keeping Together in Time
Recommended“there's a wonderful book called keeping together in time by William mcneel uh he was either he signed up or he was drafted into World War II train training at a camp in Texas”
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The New Menopause
Recommended“Thank you for joining me for today's discussion with Dr. Mary Claire Haver. To learn more about her work, please see the link to her website in the show notes, as well as the link to her excellent book, 'The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts.'”
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It's Not Hysteria
Recommended“Karen Tang just published a book titled 'It's Not Hysteria,' and she is a gynecologic surgeon who does a lot of work around PCOS, containing huge chapters on how to advocate for yourself and understand the disease process.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Happiness Hypothesis
Discussed“If someone's creating something, I assume, based on your research and the books you've written, even the 'Happiness Hypothesis' you started with, that your intention has been to uplift people through your work.”
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Five minutes a day
Discussed“Oh, it's the same. I have this book, Five Minutes a Day.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Anxious Generation
Recommended“Jonathan Haidt has written a brilliant book discussing the anxious generation, particularly focusing on the damage that technology has done to children. Smartphones, for example, have drastically worsened their mental health and this topic has been extensively covered in his fantastic book.”
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Hamlet
Discussed“In general, the ditching of the classics where we said, 'Oh well, look at the list of books that students are to read—Maya Angelou, Shakespeare.'”
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Infidel
Recommended“She made a remarkable splash years ago with her first book 'Infidel,' which talked about her experience of moving from Somalia to the Netherlands, which is like the center of Western civilization.”
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The Devil and Karl Marx
Discussed“The Devil and Karl Marx. And I really like this book not least because it delves into Karl Marx's work as a poet and a playwright.”
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Karl Marx and the Satanic Roots of Communism
Discussed“Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was tortured in the Romanian prison of Pitesti, wrote a book called Marx and Satan. He wrote about it.”
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Marx & Satan
Discussed“Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who was tortured in the Romanian prison of Pitesti, wrote a book called Marx and Satan. He wrote about it.”
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Understanding Urban Warfare
Discussed“So, one of the things you pointed out in your 2022 book was that in the 1950s, there were 80 cities in the world with populations of more than a million, and now there's more than 500.”
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Study Guide
Discussed“You pointed out in your book that there is a predilection for women between the ages of 18 and 34, something that's been observed everywhere; they're way out of sync with every other demographic group, being way more progressive and far more radically left, and are far more likely to identify, for instance, with the notion that Hamas terrorists are”
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Hania
Discussed“And that's really where, I mean, Hania's book on affirmative action in the United States moving to this idea of well, it starts out as we want equal treatment; that's what affirmative action meant.”
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Taboo
Discussed“do you want to tell people why you entitled your new book The Third awokening and then maybe fill everybody in a little bit about your the history”
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A Room of One's Own
Discussed“They want— you know how Virginia Woolf said, 'The job of the writer is to put the severed parts together'? I think she wrote that in 'Three Guineas', one of my favorite books.”
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Three Guineas
Recommended“You know how Virginia Woolf said that the job of the writer is to put the severed parts together, right? I think she wrote that in three guineas, but uh one of my favorite books. But anyway, I always think of comedy like that”
This Week in Startups
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The Genius of Israel
Discussed“more recently he's written a book called Genius of Israel we'll go into both of those books today”
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Start-up Nation
Recommended“and I often quote my guest today Dan cenor who wrote I think the seal book on what's really happened in Israel and why it's been such a great Community for startups”
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F'd Companies
Discussed“and then I found a book called f startups at the Corvalis public library and oh my friend Phil kaplan's book exactly and so I saw Phil this week at my friend Nick J's wedding”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The Math(s) Fix
Discussed“could you walk us through the four steps that you lay out in your book of the process you call math”
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Brave New Words
Recommended“we also have an update from s KH of Khan Academy them who's been on the show a few times in the past he has a new book out it's called Brave new words how AI will revolutionize education and why that's a good thing”
Big Technology Podcast
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Our Next Reality
Discussed“You know, if you look, there was a study done by a friend of mine, Alvin Graylin, in his latest book, The New Reality. And he looked at leaders around the world who were sort of the despots and the greatest leaders.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Gray Man (Netflix Movie Tie-In)
Discussed“So yeah, I talked to Mark Greaney about that too, the Grey Man.”
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A Moveable Feast
Discussed“Yeah, I'm not there yet; I do have a really—I have one that Hemingway actually wrote A Moveable Feast on; somebody, uh, a fan sent it to me.”
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A Movable Feast
Discussed“I do have a really I have one that Hemingway actually wrote a Movable Feast on somebody uh a fan sent it to me uh when a typewriter yeah he wrote a Movable Feast on it”
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Patriot Games
Recommended“Go back and read the books in the 70s, the books in the 80s, read Tom Clancy, read Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, whatever it is, it's a snapshot of what’s going on geopolitically.”
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Best evidence
Recommended“And you know the best book that I ever read about it was David Lifton's book, 'Best Evidence'?”
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Imaginary Weapons
Discussed“In her book imagine inary weapons military expert Sharon Weinberger writes that the federal government is spending taxpayer money on the war technology at a pace of about $50,000 per second”
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Crossing the Rubicon
Discussed“uh I don't remember the Rubicon”
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Discussed“So, you know, if people were supposed to be trying to worry about how they're going to get their next meal, shelter for the night, and all these kinds of things, who has time to sit down and write these incredible works of art like the Epic of Gilgamesh? For example, yeah. So when you're reading things like the Epic”
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The Ashur version of the Seven Tablets of Creation
Discussed“Um, and he cataloged it, and it inspired him to write a complete translation of the Enuma Elish and the Seven Tablets of Creation.”
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The Dead Sea scrolls
Discussed“Did you ever read the Dead Sea Scrolls?”
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Atra-ḫasīs
Discussed“So they decided to go to war against Enki and Enlil and Anu because their demands had not been met! So they went to meet them in the Epic of Atrahasis!”
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean
Discussed“In the Emerald Tablet of Thoth, he actually says that he has achieved the ability to incarnate at will on any plane he desires.”
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The Sumerian king list
Discussed“Well, that's the Sumerian Kings list located in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England!”
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Discussed“oh it definitely is because it's referenced even in the Egyptian Book of the Dead and other ancient texts”
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The Biblical and Babylonian Accounts of Creation
Discussed“um and he cataloged it and it inspired him to write uh a complete um translation of the enuma Elish and the Seven Tablets of Creation”
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Atrahasis
Discussed“they go to war in the Epic of atrasis they go to Adam's Calendar”
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Enuma Elish: the Babylonian Creation Epic
Discussed“so they fashioned and it's also an epic ofish they fashion uh the friend that Gilgamesh went on the journey with”
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The Seven Tablets of Creation
Discussed“um and he cataloged it and it inspired him to write uh a complete um translation of the enuma Elish and the Seven Tablets of Creation”
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The Book of Deuteronomy
Discussed“and evidence of this of these wars can be found in the book of Deuteronomy in the modern day bible these gods and I do mean Gods with an S”
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Religion in Ancient Egypt
Recommended“I go with the John Anthony West Theory I'm closer to his time frames you know rest in peace John Anthony West he was amazing amazing amazing man wow magical Egypt folks it's a I think there's two versions of the video series that you can get online go find it it's incredible the first one I watched like 10”
StarTalk Radio
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Climbing Mount Improbable
Discussed“Let the record show. Climbing Mount Improbable.”
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The Ancestor's Tale
Discussed“All right, I'm up to 2004. The Ancestor's Tale.”
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The Greatest Show on Earth
Discussed“The Greatest Show on Earth, 2009, subtitled The Evidence for Evolution. Was that motivated because around that time there was the rise of what they called intelligent design.”
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Discussed“Richard Feynman tells the story in his work; he wrote a lot, of course, about physics, about this conversation that he had with John Wheeler about the one-electron universe. But I need you to tell it because...”
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Discussed“That's the theme in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, where the protagonist is in his backyard and he's lifted up by aliens—which I always want to have happen to me when I go to anybody's backyard at night and I look up!”
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Quantum Supremacy
Discussed“that's why it's called Quantum Supremacy what we're now talking about computers that's the name of your book”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Trauma Stewardship
Discussed“what's the name of b c uh best vander's book what's the name of it is that the uh trauma stewardship nope that's a phenomenal phenomenal read”
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The Berenstain Bears and the Truth
Recommended“Here one is called the barenstein Bears and the truth and these are children's books these are kid kid kid books barenstein Bears and the truth by Stan and Jan barstein”
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What If Everybody Did That?
Recommended“and there's another one called what if everybody did that and a followup for older kids”
The Daily Stoic
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Immigration and the Constraints of Justice
Discussed“And the topic of this book seems like one of the harder ones to find that overlap or... and you, the title you didn’t go with, ‘Justice is Insurmountable’.”
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The 50th Law
Discussed“Yeah, your life ceases to be normal, and you lose your bead on—the fact that you have to have this— Robert Greene talks about this in 'The 50th Law'—like you have to have this direct connection with the audience because that's ultimately who you're servicing.”
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None Shall Sleep
Discussed“Well, you also have the North Star chapter in this book.”
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Dereliction of Duty
Discussed“That’s McMaster's book – "Dereliction of Duty" – it’s pretty incredible.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Lot Six
Discussed“lot six published in 2020 he writes about seeing Sweeney Todd when he was 8 years old”
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Fighting Traffic
Discussed“I've flipped through the book fighting traffic by Peter D Norton which is all about the early years of the car industry”
My First Million
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Chasing Perfection
Recommended“there's a great book I read about the de lasal High School football team team so it's like the winningest high school football team in history it's out in California I think and the coach wrote this book and like half of it's like what drills do the safeties do and stuff like stuff I don't care about but there's”
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The Lehman Trilogy
Discussed“have you seen or heard about the Leman Brothers play”
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Six Sigma
Discussed“if you look at like I don't maybe they are like uh Jack Welsh's book Six Sigma like a lot of different types of organizations outside of business like view that book I don't really like that book but they view it as like the rules of the game”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Benghazi : Know Thy Enemy
Recommended“and don't forget Benghazi know thy enemy the best book on terrorism to ever be written”
The Rubin Report
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The Purpose-Driven Life
Discussed“And I think since becoming Christian, I am learning in my choices to recognize that as Rick Warren says in the first four words of his book: it’s not about you. It's not about you.”
Acquired
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Onward
Discussed“and when you came back in 2008 I mean this is the whole Crux of your book onward there's an entire books worth of material here”
