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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2024
During June 2024, several podcasts explored themes of physical and mental discomfort, behavioral studies, and historical perspectives. On ChooseFI, Dr. Bobby Dubois discussed Michael Easter's New York Times bestseller The Comfort Crisis, which addresses the negative effects of modern comfort and the importance of challenging oneself, while also referencing the Harvard Study of Adult Development via Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz's The Good Life to emphasize the predictive power of social relationships. The theme of discomfort reappeared on No Stupid Questions, where Angela highlighted Paul Bloom's The Sweet Spot as a manifesto on finding a productive balance of discomfort, and the hosts additionally referenced Friedrich Nietzsche's 1888 book Twilight of the Idols during a fact-check segment. Conversations on other shows turned toward historical and political contexts. On The Ben & Marc Show, Marc Andreessen recalled a cult science fiction bookstore named Future Fantasy Books and discussed Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner, and Santiago Foz's Superforecasting in relation to political predictions and credentialed experts. Meanwhile, Matt Taibbi referenced Graham Greene's The Quiet American on The Tucker Carlson Show to describe Western attitudes toward Russia, and Megyn Kelly mentioned Maureen Callahan's American Predator on The Megyn Kelly Show.
ChooseFI
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The Comfort Crisis
Discussed“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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The Good Life
Discussed“One of the most important studies that has gained popularity is the Harvard Study of Adult Development.”
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 Idols and Anti-Christ
Discussed“Clarkson's 2011 hit song, 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)' is a direct reference to Nietzsche'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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The Art of Gathering
Discussed“I was recently reading an amazing book called The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.”
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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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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 Ben & Marc Show
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The Once and Future King
Discussed“There was a cult science fiction book retailer, a tiny little hole-in-the-wall bookstore on El Camino Real in Mountain View called Future Fantasy Books.”
Speaker Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape & the Birth of the Browser 2024-06-28 Listen at 1:20:01 -
Superforecasting
Discussed“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.”
Speaker Marc Andreessen on Building Netscape & the Birth of the Browser 2024-06-28 Listen at 1:35:52
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Quiet American
Discussed“But for the most part, you know, people came in, and they just treated it as a, you know, as a third world backwater.It's like, you know, if you've read The Quiet American, it was that attitude toward...”
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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:Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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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The other Wes Moore
Discussed“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.”
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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.”
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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Murder in Brentwood
Discussed“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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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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When the Night Comes Falling
Discussed“Bestselling author and journalist Howard Blum has been reporting on this tragedy since day one like no other I mean if you read nothing about this case, read anything Howard Blum writes He's been writing for Air Mail, which is Graydon Carter's new online publication It's doing really well Thanks in large part to Howard You may remember we featured”
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You Shall Be as Gods
Discussed“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 Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
Discussed“You, in the book you write about your background.”
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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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Scarred
Discussed“I wrote a memoir that encompasses my time in the book, but now we're working on a more of a part two of everything we've learned since the podcast, kind of to all the experts who've helped us. I'm sure it's changing, oh, I'm sorry, sorry, say it again.”
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Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
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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Book of Virtues
Discussed“He left after Ronald Reagan was reelected in November of 1984 to join the second Reagan Administration and became Chief of Staff to William Bennett, Bill Bennett, author of The Book of Virtues, and at that time Secretary of Education.”
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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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Out of the Shadows
Discussed“Lunden Roberts is set to release a tell-all book later this summer titled 'Out of the Shadows: My Life Inside the Wild World of Hunter Biden,' which is available for pre-order now, and it's riveting.”
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Apprentice in Wonderland
Discussed“Ramin Setoodeh, who is co-editor-in-chief of Variety, is the author of the new book; it's called Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.”
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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.”
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Making Book
Discussed“When I wrote about this in my second book, I talked about the alien—remember the original Alien movie with Sigourney Weaver?”
Pod Save America
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Our Time Is Now
Discussed“Stacey, you're a bestselling author of both political books and seven actual novels. You got any advice for us about writing?”
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While Justice Sleeps
Discussed“Stacey, you're a bestselling author of both political books and seven actual novels. You got any advice for us about writing?”
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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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The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant [Illustrated – 2 volumes in one]
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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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Discussed“But first, in our book, 'Democracy or Else,' comes out on Monday.”
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Battling the Big Lie
Discussed“Yes, we're working on that, largely because it was called 'Battling the Big Lie,' and it was largely about them.”
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After Trump
Discussed“The American Law Institute organized two working groups that I've been involved with, and I co-chaired each of them with Jack Goldsmith, with whom I wrote a book about presidential institutional reform called 'After Trump' a few years ago.”
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Off Script
Discussed“Tonight, Jon, Tommy, and I are on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and we're in New York as part of the launch of "Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps," a book we wrote with Josh Holloway. And that is very good.”
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Summary of Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett & Tommy Vietor's Democracy or Else
Discussed“Oh, um, 'Democracy Or Else!' A week from today! As a reminder, this is a book that you wrote, right?”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Fire in the sky
Discussed“I'll tell you what, this guy Travis Walton, this is one of the craziest stories. He's the guy that was in that movie Fire in the Sky. That one's wild, man.”
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Coyote America
Discussed“You know, Dan Flores' book, 'Coyote America,' which is an amazing book, is an incredible book.”
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
Discussed“But there's a book, there's literally a book based on some of the things they think from this called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by this guy named John Marco Allegro.”
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Chicken Soup for the Soul
Discussed“I don't remember what the book said, but I was compelled to buy this chicken soup for the soul book. You actually bought that?”
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Discussed“Yeah, there’s a book called Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. It talks about how wizards can turn themselves into dolphins. But the problem is, if you stay a dolphin long enough, you forget that you're a wizard, and you never come back to being a wizard; you just stay out there.”
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The strain
Discussed“There's a great book called 'The Strain', and it's about... uh, I think Guillermo del Toro wrote it? And then they turned it into a series for, am I saying it right?”
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Dissolving Illusions
Discussed“He hasn’t been sued, and then you have to read ‘Dissolving Illusions.’ Wow, that’s a mindblower! Yeah, Aaron Salter Jr. was killed by a mass shooter because he was working on creating a water-powered car engine.”
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Madame Bovary
Discussed“I'm reading a book now called The Dimensions of a Cave, and it's essentially about what things will look like when we are more fully on that digital platform.”
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Chariot Of The Gods
Discussed“Eric Von Daniken is the one who wrote 'Chariots of the Gods.'”
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La Nuit du Titanic
Discussed“So this dude's just getting fucked up; he sat down on his bunk and nursed it along, aware but not particularly caring that the water now rippled through the cabin doorway, wrote historian Walter Lord in A Night to Remember.”
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Rig-Veda
Discussed“Some ancient Indian drug, this is right down my alley, made from a plant called Soma, is a God and a drink that was used as an offering to the Gods in some Vedic rituals. Soma was celebrated at an early period as shown in the hymns of the Rigveda.”
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Travels with Charley
Discussed“Charlie’s a sweetie; I got Charlie right before I came here the last time. She's named after the John Steinbeck novel 'Travels with Charlie' because I was out in the van.”
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Subculture Vulture
Discussed“Well, I guess that's kind of in a way that's what this book that I just wrote is about: these little—show your book—these little...”
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Boys and sex
Discussed“No, really, she used to sit my brother and me down on Tuesday nights and read to us from a book called "Boys and Sex."”
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Endure
Discussed“and I said yeah so he's like I want you to sign my book he's like because or your book he had my endure book and he's like I used to think that I wanted records on the wall he goes but now I want a book signed by you that's that's what I want”
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Scientology
Discussed“and it was I think he initially wrote for like those pulp magazines like science fiction magazines back in the day and then wound up writing dianic ... I see this commercial for um Dianetics ... for years after I ordered that book I don't think I ever read it”
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Going Clear
Discussed“and you know Lawrence Wright covered him and the whole movement pretty extensively in going clear I I read the book and there was a HBO documentary series on going clear all about scientology”
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Discussed“and it's the same thing like um book Proof of Heaven by Dr eban Alexander MD I remember reading when I was in Afghanistan and I was like this is a crazy experience”
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Cosmos
Discussed“I remember my my aunt gave me Cosmos by Carl Sean when I was in Middle School and it was that book was from the 80s but that book tripped me out and I was like I want to study science”
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Poems and Letters to Don Brown
Discussed“There's a bunch of books out there that I've seen that performers have written that I I didn't agree with there one dirt to soil by gay but Brown the great so you know there others”
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The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
Discussed“and uh I started uh reading your uh the book on the Nez purse M and then I I picked this up as well”
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Continental Reckoning
Discussed“Continental Reckoning the American West in the age of expansion one of the most fascinating subjects I think in the history of the human race”
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A Land So Strange
Discussed“so have you read uh the uh cabesa debaca book uh a strange new land Yes I have a land so strange a land so strange strange and rendus which is a fascinating book”
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Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
Discussed“Dan Flores I think he's been on your coup times yeah uh Dan has this marvelous new book a wild new world uh that goes into that goes in that in some detail”
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Orangutans
Discussed“There's a wonderful book called ghosts of Extinction uh and U that's exactly exactly long”
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Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
Discussed“it's also so interesting that that number of 125 people aligns with we know as dunbar's number That's exactly right that's where it comes right so you're aware of that yeah wonderful book”
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Discussed“it's also so interesting that that number of 125 people aligns with we know as dunbar's number That's exactly right that's where it comes right so you're aware of that yeah wonderful book”
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Horizontal Yellow
Discussed“Dan is a book called horizontal yellow which is the Kami word for for this area this is where horses evolved this is where where they were born”
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The night is a time for listening, by elliot west
Discussed“you got to read folks Continental Reckoning the American West and the age of expansion Elliot West”
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The Romance of Conquest: the Story of American Expansion Through Arms and Diplomacy
Discussed“you got to read folks Continental Reckoning the American West and the age of expansion Elliot West”
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The Discovery of Witchcraft
Discussed“well the first one was like uh I think it was called discovery of Witchcraft from like 1584 or something like that and a guy wrote all these secrets of methods that like witches were using and they were being burned alive”
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Lonesome Dove
Discussed“but it's very important it's just like woodro f call said in lome Dove it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it”
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Audition
Discussed“Barbara Walters mentions having seen the film in her autobiography audition a memoir and Jimmy McMillan considered it to be his favorite film”
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Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak
Discussed“his his most antia quote unquote book is thimerosol let the science speak He he's trying to take the thimerosol out of vaccines”
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In Defense of Global Capitalism
Discussed“I read this book recently called in defense of capitalism by uh I I think he's like a northern European uh guy and he mentioned this this episode where UNESCO banned child labor in uh either in Pakistan or Bangladesh”
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The Battle for Your Brain
Discussed“so so I had this lady Nita farahani on my podcast probably a year ago and then I met her at Ted recently and she she wrote this book called The Battle for your brain”
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His Native Land. [An Account of Travels in the Holy Land.]
Discussed“It's I mean if you read Jonathan haes book The Cod of the American mind have you read it”
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Hell's Angels
Discussed“you know what I started rereading recently is Hell's Angels the Hunter S Thompson book”
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Natural Selection in the Wild. (MPB-21), Volume 21
Discussed“you know the end of the wild you know that book yeah John krakauer my favorite book of all time”
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Plain Jane
Discussed“and if they read again not some weird crazy but just the Plain Jane Bible”
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The End of the Line
Discussed“The end of the line is informative Clover's reporting reveals that blue fin tuna...”
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HOT ROD Magazine
Discussed“He had a book called Hot Rod Magazine all the covers which covered up to no pun all the way up to 2009”
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Matt Towery: Volume I
Discussed“Matt taibi's book is basically saying that Rachel Maddow has become Bill O'Reilly”
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The Great Mortality
Discussed“a book called The Great mortality by John Kelly I was looking at is [ __ ] crazy”
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A Procedure for Determining the Feasibility of Objective Measurements of Peripheral Visual Fields
Discussed“I have my talking points here about what I'm not supposed to say uh so again everything I'm saying is proven you know more or less my theory and things that have been backed up by books like Painkiller by the very talented Barry Meyer who wrote investigative reporter for the Times who wrote it”
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Johannes Gutenberg
Discussed“until they had say the Gutenberg Bible was published so in the in the 1400s and 1500s the first movable fixed type we had a calibrated standard where you knew how big the type font was”
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Sidereus Nuncius, Or The Sidereal Messenger
Discussed“I wonder if um if Jamie if you could find trying to find something wasn't great if you look up um Star Messenger Star Messenger Galileo sketch Jupiter”
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Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor
Discussed“I mean my book is called losing the nuball prize my first book and spoiler alert you know I didn't win the nuball prize”
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The Tools
Discussed“I know I know right this is this is a there's a book called the tools You ever see that the stunts that that uh oh [ __ ] Jonah Hill uh had his uh therapist uh he did a documentary about his therapist”
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And Tango Makes Three
Discussed“and Tango makes three Recs recounts the true story of two male Penguins who are devoted to each other at the Central Park Zoo in New York a zookeeper saw them building a nest and trying to incubate an egg shape Rock gave them an egg from a different penguin pair with two eggs after they were having difficulty hatching”
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Is This Anything?
Discussed“you know like and and he said this is all going to be my new book book Soulful materialism but it's just funny to me because it's like there are people you meet that when you talk to them you go oh yeah like this does mean a lot to you”
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If I Did It
Discussed“It's like that OJ book he released If I did it this guy's going to to bars in Long Island going yeah this is probably have people getting creeped out”
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Little Red Riding Hood
Discussed“wolves used to be terrifying that's what Little Red Riding Hood was all about”
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The Three Little Pigs
Discussed“that was with the Three Little Pigs were all about like they were [ __ ] terrifying”
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The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Discussed“Have you ever read that no by Tennessee Williams Oh there's this paragraph at the end he talks about how success just made him like you got to sorry”
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Vol. 14: Order From Chaos
Discussed“it's documented by this Guy Tom O'Neil in this book called chaos It's an amazing book that talks about the cia's LSD program”
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Dopesick
Discussed“was that was it doped up Dope Sick Dope Sick yeah yeah I didn't say it but I know the whole story about the Sackler family”
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Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon
Discussed“it's the book called weird scenes in the canyon”
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Orwell's Revenge
Discussed“there's this guy who wrote a different rewrote 1984 in a book called Orwell's revenge”
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The CISG
Discussed“and in that book what he did is he said okay we're going to use that same setup but the telescreen instead of being a one-way system is going to be a two-way system”
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Darwin's Doubt
Discussed“and I I developed these in a lot of detail in my book Darwin's doubt um uh if we we uh we now know thanks to the genetic Revolution ution the the molecular biological Revolution that if you want to build a new form of life you have at least you have to have new code”
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The Principia
Discussed“and he later writes a theological epilogue to the book called The General scholium where he makes the the religious motivation for his scientific work completely explicit and ends up making design arguments right in the in the context of that work”
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You Are Not Your Brain
Discussed“I'm a big fan of the work of uh Jeffrey Schwarz the uh uh UCLA psychiatrist has written the book um you are not your brain and um he shows that those those um um psychotherapeutic drugs can be helpful in stabilizing uh people”
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The Return of the God Hypothesis
Discussed“and when I tell in the in the the new book Return of the god hypothesis it starts there are basically three different lines of evidence”
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Signature in the Cell
Discussed“First was signatures in the cell about the origin of Life Second was about the question of the origin of the first animals called Darwin's doubt”
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The Resurrection of the Son of God
Discussed“one is William Lane Craig one is NT Wright with his maerial Tome the resurrection of the Son of God and the other is Gary habas”
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The Book of Kings
Discussed“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”
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Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: The Throne of Fire
Discussed“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”
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Exodus
Discussed“The Exodus Miracle it says and the Lord caused an East Wind to blow It represents God as an actor within the Matrix of natural law which he otherwise sustains and upholds”
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Search in the Desert
Discussed“And John Mar Marco algro wrote this book called The Sacred Mushroom in the cross it's a very interesting book book”
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Does the New Scientific Evidence about the Origin of Life Put an End to Darwinian Evolution?
Discussed“subtitle And the first book was signature in the cell DNA and the evidence for intelligence Do you have a website as well”
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Malcolm Gladwell: Collected
Discussed“this is from I think it was Malcolm gladwell's book uh where they describe how they to get over this problem they started making them speak English”
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Against Nature
Discussed“and introduced me to those wonderful books like against nature and um lotumo and well rather wonderful material”
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The Cathedral
Discussed“and introduced me to those wonderful books like against nature and um lotumo and well rather wonderful material”
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To Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. from the Assembly of Professors of the University of Virginia
Discussed“and at that point as I'd left school by then I had somehow got um the world's leading um but like I was American one because anyway on comparative religions mysticism someone called professors zaina who's at all cells in Oxford and wrote a book chords um mysticism of the Sacred and profane”
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The Man in the Tree
Discussed“there's an old Twilight Zone where these uh aliens come down and uh they they introduce themselves to Earth and they give us a book and the book is to serve man they find this book that they have and then they realize it's a cookbook”
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America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
Discussed“um you ever read the book um the Ice Age inheritance”
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Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Discussed“Okay, I I think I must have read it when I was in high school and just didn't pay attention it's completely different from the movie like 100 different or maybe I never read it King keezy”
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Tremendous
Discussed“Why would you stop doing that? His new book tremendous. Stop doing that. He's too good”
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Dinner with DiMaggio
Discussed“I gave him my book Street Smart cuz he also wrote a book on Joe de magio he lived with him for 10 years”
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True Believer
Discussed“I'm writing about it I wrote about it in the second novel in uh in um in True Believer”
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The Accidental Superpower
Discussed“but on their flight over there I read uh his book accidental superpower and that one very clearly predicts a Russian invasion of Ukraine by the year 20 22 and that was back in 2014 he wrote that”
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On War
Discussed“and uh it's Carl and klauschwitz who wrote on war said the most important attribute of a battlefield leader is common sense”
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Brian Moore Fonds
Discussed“but some of those conversations that I've had in the books I've read have made it into the pages of the novel so there's all this this overlap to include this one uh Brian Moore has a book called The able archers and it talks about a nuclear exchange that almost happened between the United States and the Soviet Union”
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Only the Dead
Discussed“thank you very much for all you do you and thank you for your awesome books thank you [ __ ] the dead it's out right now you can get it like I said I'm in the middle of it and I love it”
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Thomas James, Minister of the Gospel
Discussed“he showed me a book on how uh Tesla energy was used to destroy the twin towers and I'm like what”
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Brother Sam's Universal Joke Book
Discussed“Well Sam had uh did you ever read his uh brother Bill his book? Yeah brother Sam book's called Brother Sam um that he talks about the slide like that when he started partying all the time he stopped writing”
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The Negro Motorist Green Book Compendium
Discussed“I watched that [ __ ] thing again a couple weeks ago The Green Mile whatever the green book you know that dude's in the South he [ __ ] wanted to go sing in the South they wouldn't let him [ __ ] they wouldn't put him in a green room they wouldn't let him perform in the eat”
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A.D. After Disclosure
Discussed“but there's a cool book uh called A.D after disclosure where which kind of does a thought experiment about what would happen... I didn't read it but I love Richard Dolan who wrote it and I've watched like uh hundreds of hours of his of his podcast he's he's a great researcher”
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Unicorn Mom
Discussed“actually Annika Harris Sam Harris's wife wrote a cool book which I also haven't read but I know about it... it's uh it's called conscious and it's all about pants psychism which is cool coming from her because she obviously is like rigorous”
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Running the Light
Discussed“read the novel running the lights right here”
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Dove
Discussed“before I left a good friend of mine suggested this book called Dove written by a man named Robin Lee Graham and so he's like he's like hey I just read this book you should read it I think you'd really dig it and uh I didn't even know what it was about so um I found a used copy”
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Fun Parties for Fun Kids
Discussed“so but then I started doing some internet research on on Robin Graham and turns out he wrote like a second book um called um the Sailor returns from the sea or something like that so what what had happened um and he did go through kind of a dark period after the circum navigation...”
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Tell Your Children
Discussed“you know Alex Baron wrote a book called tell your children and it's all about instances of uh psychotic breaks and schizophrenic breaks from people that are heavy marijuana users”
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The Book
Discussed“I love those got book of longest breastfeed feedings”
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Understanding Media
Discussed“Marshall mcluhan had a [ __ ] amazing quote from the 1960s said human beings are sex organs of the Machine World... It's from understanding media 1964. Jesus mcluhan was brilliant brilliant”
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa
Discussed“like the books like Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Jackson they kind of present the case that like sports is the last or only meritocracy where like There are rules and boundaries and like truth shake out you Shake the Dice enough the truth”
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Freedom
Discussed“and he talks about how I'm sure you've read Freedom which is a book that he wrote uh uh kind of his last book”
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This Is Your Brain on Birth Control
Discussed“some of it done by Sarah hill by the way a professor at uh Texas Christian University the former student of mine and she's superb she's written a book called your brain on birth control which I recommended she would be cool to have on your podcast”
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La "Relación" o "Naufragios" de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Discussed“that uh that book the first thing I ever talked to you about was uh cabasa de vaka and then they were like the guy the guy they hired to do the navigating like [ __ ] up yeah and then they they had no idea he had to be like no I know where we're going”
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Conquerors
Discussed“like the what's the one about uh the the what's the book about the people from Portugal coming down the coast of Africa it's like the Conquistadors or the conquerors It's a book”
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War Is a Racket
Discussed“literally Smedley Butler's 1933 uh story that he wrote article he wrote War is a racket Have you ever read that Joe war is a racket”
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
Discussed“it apparently came from this says it came from a 2009 book called weapons and mass instruction and then it was echoed by someone in the New York Times”
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Controlled Process Shooting
Discussed“and so I wrote I wrote what was called the mental mechanics and instructor's guide and it had kind of the sequence of of drills and how to get somebody's mind into this”
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A Guide to Practicum and Internship for School Counselors-in-Training
Discussed“and so I wrote I wrote what was called the mental mechanics and instructor's guide and it had kind of the sequence of of drills and how to get somebody's mind into this”
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Covid-19: The Great Reset
Discussed“how about the great reset he wrote a book called The Great reset and then they denied that the Great reset is a thing they're working towards like bro you wrote a book”
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Never Finished
Discussed“If you listen to David's life story David has uh two incredible books they're they're amazing and one of the things about the books that's so amazing is you realize like what he endured as a child and what he went through like the the abuse that he received and how he came out of that this like Unstoppable dude”
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The Secret Lives of Bats
Discussed“Right The Secret Lives of bats is one of your books and the other one is the bat house guide”
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After Steve
Discussed“There's a great book uh I forget exactly the name I think it's Apple life after Steve so after Steve Jobs died Steve was a product guy... Tim Cook is a managerial type his job is to squeeze as much money out of the stock price”
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The Gray Man
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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Patriot Games (Tom Clancy)
Discussed“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
Discussed“And you know the best book that I ever read about it was David Lifton's book, 'Best Evidence'?”
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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!”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Naked Lunch
Discussed“Oh, guys, it just occurred to me– you know what else is another good free port that's in pop culture and literature? Interzone in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch is a free port, and it's like kind of a hive of scum and villainy situation that evolves around there.”
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The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon
Discussed“So we see the shadows of Limitless, we see the shadows of Flowers for Algernon. It is possible that people may be spending money on the chemical equivalent of Monkey Shines, but they feel different.”
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.”
Stuff You Should Know
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Gary Meets Marge the Barge
Discussed“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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To have and have not
Discussed“Okay, so there's a, an adaptation of a Hemingway novel 'To Have and Have Not' with Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.”
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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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The Canterbury Tales
Discussed“I think one appears in the Canterbury Tales—the wife of Bath, I believe—where they're just like always in a good mood, they have money, they're independent, they don't take any guff from anybody.”
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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."”
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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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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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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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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In the spirit of Crazy Horse
Discussed“For more information on Leonard Peltier, you can listen to Margaret's podcast, Looda Nation, and read In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen.”
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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.'”
Huberman Lab
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Forever Strong
Discussed“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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The New Menopause
Discussed“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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The Galveston Diet
Discussed“You know, when I first wrote the Galveston diet, to be honest and transparent, it was for weight loss. And, you know, I was frustrated with my weight gain and that was the pain point my patients had—and that was my pain point—but I didn't realize it represented something much more sinister than just the way I looked.”
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It's Not Hysteria
Discussed“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.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Anxious Generation
Discussed“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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Genius Kitchen
Discussed“My third book came out in 2022 and it was a cookbook that brought everything together.”
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The Art of War
Discussed“Even Sun Tzu stated that attacking a besieged city is unwise, and there is a vast history of warfare, showcasing the complexities of urban combat.”
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The rise and fall of Anglo-America
Discussed“and "The Rise and Fall of Anglo America," among others.”
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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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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.”
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.”
StarTalk Radio
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Frankenstein
Discussed“Oh, whoa, okay, very Frankenstein here. That's very cool though because our brains do the same thing, I guess, so don't they?”
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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“He's a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, futurist, and his most recent book is called Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Revolution Will Change Everything.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Awakening Corporate Soul
Discussed“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
Discussed“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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Give People Money
Discussed“she's the author of the book give people money”
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Thermal Tolerances of the Caribbean Sea Urchins Eucidaris Tribuloides, Echinometra Lividis, and Echinometra Lucunter (Echinodermata: Echinoidea)
Discussed“I had a sociologist uh on a couple months ago Caitlyn Collins who did this great book looking at parenting and work in a bunch of different countries”
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A Place of Greater Safety
Discussed“I recently read the best political book that I've ever read which is called a place of Greater safety”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The beginning of infinity
Discussed“This concept is elaborated upon in the book 'The Beginning of Infinity' by David Deutsch. You are always pursuing new knowledge.”
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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.”
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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The Next
Discussed“This is all funny because this is in the next book.”
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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“Yeah, McMaster, HR McMaster, who’s a fantastic writer, wrote a book called "Dereliction of Duty."”
Timcast IRL
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Lord of Flies
Discussed“Is it in society, or does society make him an animal? It's like Lord of the Flies. It would be a really interesting thing.”
SmartLess
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Discussed“This week, I'm going to see, though it’s supposed to be a surprise, Sarah Snook in Dorian Gray on Thursday! I read and watch movies; we went to see Monkey Man.”
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Nch'i-wána, "the Big River"
Discussed“Which one? Big River! And I was supposed to come out and surprise my son, Huckleberry Finn!”
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.”
