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Books podcasts were talking about in August 2024
August 2024 conversations spanned media manipulation, historical atrocities, civilizational rise and fall, and the intersection of ancient philosophy with modern science. On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday cited Daniel J. Boorstin's The Image as an all-time classic while analyzing the historical transmission of information and public perception. A comprehensive overview of historical and ideological literature came from Rudyard Lynch during an appearance on Modern Wisdom. Lynch recommended Tamim Ansary's The Invention of Yesterday as an ideal entry point for non-historians seeking to understand world history through the lens of shifting ideologies. He also pointed listeners toward Matthew White's Atrocities for an objective perspective focusing on the top one hundred bloodiest events in human history. The bulk of Lynch's literary recommendations centered on works by his favorite author, Amaury de Riencourt. He discussed Sex and Power in History to explain how relations between the sexes inform the rise and fall of civilizations, and referenced The Eye of Shiva to demonstrate how ancient Hindu teachings anticipated conclusions reached by modern science two millennia later. Furthermore, Lynch highlighted The Coming Caesars for drawing parallels between American and Roman political structures, and mentioned both The Soul of India and The Soul of China to examine the distinct mental systems and character of those eastern civilizations.
Stuff You Should Know
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Helter Skelter
Discussed“Yeah, like I definitely remember the book Helter Skelter being a huge, huge thing. Um, and I remember a time before like media was so robust when the idea of Charles Manson was just so terrifying to me.”
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Near Dark
Recommended“she did a movie a vampire movie called near dark back in the day it was great oh yeah and uh yeah you should see that one too”
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Marathon running
Discussed“He actually wrote a book in 1909 called Marathon Running, where he said, ‘Don't get into the habit of drinking and eating in a marathon! Some prominent runners do, but it is not beneficial!’”
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Blood in the Machine
Discussed“I think there was an author named Brian Merchant who wrote a book called blood in the machine and he essentially said he did he didn't cite pinchon”
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Top ten Arthurian legends
Discussed“And it turned out that book was a Welsh Aran Legend, and another Reddit post contained some Mayan numerals that you had to decode that became a key that you could use to analyze the Arthurian legend with.”
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The Dictionary of Body Language
Discussed“Yeah I think this quote sums it up I'm trying to learn, I'm try, sorry, trying to use body language by reading a body language dictionary is like trying to speak French by reading a French dictionary See, you can list off all the non-verbal cues in the world, but if you try and learn the body language, quote unquote,”
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The Secret History of the Mongols
Discussed“There's a story called The Secret History of the Mongols, and it was written in about 1240, so shortly after Genghis Khan's death! We don't know who the author was, but that's the primary source for most of the biography of Genghis Khan.”
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Being and Nothingness
Discussed“to Kierkegaard, and I think he even calls out Kierkegaard in the section of Being and Nothingness.”
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The coal question
Discussed“But there was already back in the 1860s a book by a guy named Stanley Jevons, called 'The Coal Question,' and this guy was already warning about Peak Coal, essentially pointing out like coal is a non-renewable resource, everybody, and we are using it really, really fast. This guy was already ringing the alarm about it, and Rudolf Diesel was”
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Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
Recommended“Uh, if you want to know more about diesel and his engine, then just go read, uh, Douglas Brunt's book on it. And since I mentioned Douglas Brunt for one last time, it's time for listener mail. Uh, I'm going to call this Harvard follow-up with the old Puritans episode.”
The Daily Stoic
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The Image
Recommended“It's what Daniel Borson was talking about in The Image, all-time classic.”
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Discussed“But at the same time I read things like I was reading Harry Potter and, you know, the Order of the Phoenix.”
Behind the Bastards
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On the Edge
Discussed“Continuing with the work of Dennis Turish and Tim Wolforth in their book on the edge political cults left and right. I've spoken before about the cult recruitment process”
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Bounded Choice
Discussed“I also got some information on Dixon's activity, not just from On the Edge, but also from the book Bounded Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults by Janja Lich, who was actually a member of Dixon's Democratic Workers Party for 10 years.”
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Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light
Discussed“They believed in Thomas Kinkade, not just in the man or the company, but in the ethos supposedly represented by his art, one in which, to quote Kinkade's introduction to 'Cape Light,' people have the time to savor life, simple pleasures, and lead deep, satisfying lives.”
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Dinotopia
Discussed“Now you can compare this to his old friend whose Dinotopia books were labors of love; whatever else you might say about them, you could tell it was clearly the work of someone who cares deeply about telling a dinosaur story.”
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Cape Light
Discussed“one in which to quote kincade's introduction to Cape light people have the time to savor life Simple Pleasures and Lead deep satisfying lives”
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Chicago '68
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from the the very good book Chicago 68 which is a I politically it's a bit questionable but it has an excruciatingly in-depth account of of these I mean we're talking hour to hour rundowns of of the convention itself.”
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Mussolini and Fascism
Discussed“in his study musolini and fascism the view from America John Patrick Diggins notes that out of 150 articles that mentioned musolini in US newspapers from 1925 to 1932 the majority had either a neutral or a bemused positive tone”
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Modernity
Recommended“now the very very best investigation I have found into this period of German media is the book modern modernity by yaken hung”
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The Color of Violence
Discussed“and this is from the book The Color of violence in it he said he was on his way home in October 1988 after trying to get work at a bakery when a man in a backy it's a kind of vehicle asked him if he wanted a job”
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Colour of Murder - One Family's Horror Exposes A Nation's Anguish
Discussed“uh and I'm going to quote next from Heidi Hollands the color of murder uh and this is her talking to Pitman”
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The colour of murder
Discussed“but this paragraph from journalist Heidi Holland's book the color of murder does a decent job of setting up the next few moves around 1838 clinging to a dream of racial exclusivity but leaving behind their homes in the fields they had cultivated the Afric Conor set out to escape the British by migrating northwards across the drakensburg mountains into”
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Safety through Solidarity
Discussed“I'm Garrison Davis, and today I'm joined with authors Shane Burley and Ben Lorber who have a new book out called Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Anti-semitism.”
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Patriots of Treason
Discussed“Now, David wrote a book back in 2012 called Patriots of Treason.”
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Right-Wing Resurgence
Discussed“Now, the reality is that in 2009 a Homeland Security analyst named Daryl Johnson wrote a report titled Right-Wing Extremism about the danger of groups like the Oath Keepers”
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Texit
Discussed“Um now, their top titles like the book Texit make the case for like that makes the case for Texas secession and it sold about 10,000 copies”
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Trump and the Resurrection of America
Discussed“Well, Texas Monthly describes it as like books that stretch that definition with titles like Corona Fascism, Trump and the Resurrection of America, uh and Hunt It, Kill It, and Drag It Home, which is apparently a self-help book.”
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Hunt It, Kill It, Drag It
Discussed“Well, Texas Monthly describes it as like books that stretch that definition with titles like Corona Fascism, Trump and the Resurrection of America, uh and Hunt It, Kill It, and Drag It Home, which is apparently a self-help book.”
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Kill Something and Drag It Home
Discussed“Well, Texas Monthly describes it as like books that stretch that definition with titles like Corona Fascism, Trump and the Resurrection of America, uh and Hunt It, Kill It, and Drag It Home, which is apparently a self-help book.”
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Looks Like a Cheetah to Me
Discussed“They have a young adult book called Looks Like a Cheetah to Me that's apparently an anti-trans fairy tale, I'm sure that one's great.”
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An American Carol
Discussed“Chadwick Bicknell's 2022 novella, An American Carol, reimagines Ebenezer Scrooge as Alex Led Dumas, a militant gay lefty”
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Blue Dawn
Discussed“Now, there are a lot of hideous books these people have put out but the one we're going to actually do in this episode or maybe episodes, we'll see how it goes, is a little title named Blue Dawn.”
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Capital accumulation and income distribution
Discussed“the thing about this book so this book is from 19 19 1978 which is actually after he had broken up with Camala's mom and so Camala doesn't like know him super well.”
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Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
Discussed“here is how the start of his most influential book production of commodities on means of commodities starts let us consider an extremely simple society which produces just enough to maintain itself commodities are produced by separate industries and are exchanged for one another etc. culture.”
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A Growth-Inducement Strategy for Jamaica in the Short and Medium Term
Discussed“I'm going I'm going to read So, so he wrote a book called a grow This is in 2011, a growth inducement strategy for Jamaica in the short and medium term. I'm going to read you the the bullet points under a section called Guiding Principles.”
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After Camelot
Discussed“and a lot of this is not known at the time of the writing of books like after Camelot which cites Bobby's claims about Mary's drinking and her regular violent outbursts”
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Vax-Unvax
Discussed“RFK Jr starts writing antia books with titles like vax unvax let the science speak”
Modern Wisdom
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The Invention of Yesterday
Recommended“the uh if you want to learn history as a person who's not a historian the best book to read is the invention of yesterday by tamim msar”
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Atrocities
Recommended“atrocities by Matthew white is also very good it's a history of the world from the perspective of the top 100 bloodiest atrocities in history”
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Sex and power in history
Recommended“one of which is said he wrote book sex and Power in history which how the relations between the Sexes inform the rise and fall of civilizations”
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The Eye of Shiva
Recommended“uh he wrote The Eye of Shiva which compares the teachings of modern science to Hinduism and how the Hindus 2,000 years ago reached a lot of similar philosophic conclusions to modern science”
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The coming Caesars
Recommended“the coming Caesars is about uh the parallel in America and Rome that's where I got the groy stuff from”
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The soul of India
Recommended“and then he wrote The Soul of India and the soul of China which is about the mental system and the character of Indian and Chinese civilization”
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The soul of China
Recommended“and then he wrote The Soul of India and the soul of China which is about the mental system and the character of Indian and Chinese civilization”
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The 1-Page Marketing Plan
Recommended“uh for that one for marketing I'm gonna go onepage marketing plan by Alan dibs it's an awesome book yellow book so good”
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Codependent No More
Discussed“codependent no more yes that's a good one”
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The Truth about Cinderella
Discussed“Martin dally about actually is because he's his Cinderella effect book is just so yeah such a fun one about infanticide and humans”
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The Worst Journey in the World
Recommended“I think shackleton's hard to beat yeah Ur by Al laning”
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Unfit for the Future
Discussed“His name is Julian Savulescu. Um he's head of the Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford. And he wrote a book called Unfit for the Future.”
This Week in Startups
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The Five Temptations of a CEO
Recommended“Shout out Sarah Five Temptations of a CEO is like an Incredible Book every CEO should read the thing about wanting to be liked is like an Achilles heel that we all as humans have”
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My American Journey
Discussed“but if you go back to Colin Pal's autobiography and his parents discussion of their I think Lottery went that let them buy a house yeah it was a way to essentially have an option on a different future”
The Ramsey Show
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Breaking Free From Broke
Discussed“After reading George Kamel's Breaking Free from Broke and the chapter about car loans, I felt guilty for being a part of this industry.”
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Love Talk
Recommended“I want you to go buy the book Love Talk by Les and Leslie Parrott. In that book, it has a brief assessment with it that will teach you your love talk styles.”
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Marketing Made Simple
Recommended“The other book is Marketing Made Simple from Donald Miller. Those two books alone should get you very far.”
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What Happens Next
Discussed“the new book is what happens next a traveler's guide through the end of this age”
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Nothing Is Wasted
Discussed“has continued to be a friend and uh has a brand new book out called nothing is wasted a true story of Hope forgiveness and finding purpose in pain”
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Boundaries in Marriage
Recommended“I'm sorry pick up Dr Henry Cloud's book boundaries um you'll read it and you'll go oh there's my family”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Discussed“I'm reading an Isaac Asimov book from 1950 right now. I know this is obvious for fans of science fiction, but I'm always blown away by how close they get it in the 50s, like what modern civilization looks like and what technology of the future actually looks like.”
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Planet Medicine: Origins, Revised Edition
Discussed“We’ve made this a two-part episode; let’s get into it; what does he say in his book—the message of the engraved stones of Ica? Let’s take these one at a time; the first one is that the stones themselves are way older than you think.”
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The Message of the Engraved Stones of Ica
Discussed“the good doctor wrote his own book where he set forth the majority of the claims that have become sort of the manifesto for people who believe in the eeka stones and this is the hidden history we got to talk about it right we've made this a two-part episode let's get into it what does he say in his”
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Recommended“Yeah, to be specific Venezuela due to the, everybody read Confessions of an Economic Hitman first off! But Venezuela is having an economic collapse!”
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Trance Formation of America
Discussed“She wrote a book called 'The Transformation of America.' Since this is an audio show, I just want to make sure you get the pun there: 'trance' as in hypnotic trance, and 'formation' as in an organization or group.”
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Discussed“Crowley also practiced some stuff like this, and the Illuminatus Trilogy, which is a fantastic work, also depicts this.”
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Outbreak!
Recommended“And I've brought with me today an old friend of ours, this book, 'Outbreak: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior,' which is about moral panics and how they spread!”
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Outbreak! the Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior
Recommended“this book outbreak the Encyclopedia of extraordinary social behavior which is about moral panics and how they spread I highly recommend this book for anyone who is um interested in seeing just how quickly moral panics can spread”
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Revelations of a Spirit Medium
Discussed“There was a book that was originally published anonymously called "Revelations of a Spirit Medium," and it was like when a stage magician breaks the big code.”
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Banksy. Wall and piece
Discussed“and a comment that copyright is for losers from his 2006 book wall and peace”
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Spying on America
Discussed“It is true, though he did end up writing those newspaper articles; he wrote Nazi Spies in America.”
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The FBI
Discussed“There's this historian I've been reading, uh, Jeffery Jones, who wrote a book called "The FBI: A History" and several other articles.”
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Where My Shadow Falls
Discussed“He got a bronze star, wrote another book, and I haven't read this one; it's called "Where My Shadow Falls" in 1949. Um, I told you he's in the shadows, mhm.”
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My Political Awakening
Discussed“I wrote this pamphlet it's called my political Awakening I think you should join up with us you know thanks for coming to the meeting”
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Prison Writings
Recommended“check out his Memoir from 1999 prison writings my life is my Sundance”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The God Equation
Recommended“and my third recommendation is the god equation by mitu Kaku I love this book because it conveys kaku's just sheer awe and wonder of physics and you know you learn about so many strange things wormholes and time travel and if I had read a book like this before I went to college I I might have wanted to”
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Prospecting for Mineralization in Steeply Dipping Beds Covered by Glacial Till, Talus, and Weathered Zones, by F. W. Lee, H. L. Scharon, and C. H. Sandberg
Discussed“and so you know when you think of some of the very culturally important documents here you know you think about CH sandberg's lean in or you think about Amry Slaughter Big Atlantic article from a couple years ago on whether or not women can have it all”
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The Life of Dad
Recommended“and the third book I got a huge amount out of was a book by Anna mein who's a anthropologist I think May evolutionary Anthropologist at the University of Oxford and her book maybe you'll know it actually as it's called the life of dad the making of a modern father as few years old now”
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Why Liberalism Failed
Discussed“and actually his first book that came out that was actually kind of a huge deal to the point that Barack Obama even recommended it in his books of the summer the year that it came out was literally called why liberalism failed”
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Justice Gender And F
Recommended“the first one is Justice gender and the family by Susan Muller Oaken which I think is a really classic and sort of underappreciated and popular discourse treatment of liberal feminism”
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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy
Recommended“and the last one I think sort of speaks to our conversation at the very end which is a book called conservative parties and the birth of democracy by Daniel ziblat where he argues that European countries that had very differentl political arcs in terms of their movement towards democracy being smooth or not in the 19th and early 20th”
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Black Pill
Recommended“so first most recently I read El Reeves black pill which has actually been reviewed in the times”
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What Are Children For?
Recommended“a second book that I would recommend is what are children for on ambivalence and choice and this is by Anastasia ber and Rachel wisman”
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Justice, gender and the family
Recommended“the first one is Justice gender and the family by Susan Muller Oaken which I think is a really classic and so underappreciated”
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Cultural Backlash and the Rise of Populism
Recommended“the second book is cultural backlash by Pepa Norris and Ron Englehart they're two political scientists”
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The hour between dog and wolf
Recommended“Um so, one book is pertinent to the discussion that we had a moment ago, which is called The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. It's written by John Coates, who is an academic economist who then um became a derivatives trader, I think, for Deutsche Bank in New York.”
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Walk, Ride, Paddle
Recommended“always our final question what are three books you'd recommend to the audience Walk ride paddle is Tim kan's book about when he walked the Appalachian Trail paddled the James River and then did some other bike ride across it's a very yeah it's a very fun book and he's just such a lovely man and he's such a it's”
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Wounded Knee
Recommended“I'm I'm just finishing up a book by Heather Cox Richardson called Wounded Knee and it's about Sue and other tribes in the dtas Senator Brian Shotz thank you very much”
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The Amen Effect
Recommended“I just finished reading uh the am man effect by um Rabbi Sharon Brouse which I loved”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Unspeakable
Discussed“have you read unspeakable yes Robert uh RFK recommended it”
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Lady in Red
Discussed“I spoke to her press secretary Sheila Tate I read her book lady in red”
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I Love You, Ronnie
Discussed“and he wrote this book and that's the cover of the book and it's called I love you Ronnie and it's all the love letters”
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Outlive
Discussed“But there's a reason Peter AA did so well in his book; there's a reason guys like Mark Sisson, who's been calling attention to this, he's been on the show too, have been jumping up and down about this stuff because Americans know.”
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The Power of Positive Thinking
Discussed“We've talked about this before, but he was raised going to the church of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote 'The Power of Positive Thinking,' and it's a fascinating read.”
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On the Edge
Recommended“But we're also going to talk about the importance of risk-taking and the habits of successful risk-takers, which he lays out in his new book out today, On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything.”
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Stolen Youth
Recommended“commentators and co-authors of the Fantastic book stolen youth Bethany mandal and Carol marowitz join me now to discuss all these and more headlines”
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Chasing Embers
Discussed“at least since I aren't I reading cheating chasing Embers next that is the Glenn Beck young adult novel that I want to read first chasing Embers and then nuclear war”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Loose change
Discussed“He had these poetry books. Great book. I still have it. It's called Loose Change.”
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Do the Distance
Discussed“And he had another one called Do the Distance.”
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Mafia Democracy
Discussed“mafia democracy by yourself and the forward on here is from Rudy Giuliani which I thought was hilarious”
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The Wuhan Cover-Up
Recommended“frankly I would I would suggest that people read Robert Robert F Kennedy Jr's uh most recent book it's called the Wuhan coverup in which he explores at Great length this weapons program and it's probable link to SARS K to it is also Al worth reading the book he wrote before that the real Anthony fouchy”
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That Will Never Work
Discussed“you wrote this book called that will never work why books are painful and hard to write”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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The Capitalist Manifesto
Recommended“If people could just read stepen pinker's book Enlightenment now or Johan norberg's books and defense of global capitalism or the now the rework of that the capitalist Manifesto”
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Superabundance
Recommended“if they would read um Maran T's book on super abundance people just don't understand the past”
Timcast IRL
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Becoming
Discussed“She's like a hardcore Democratic Party operative, sound producer, a producer for 'Becoming.' It's called 'Becoming.' For some reason, that was what Michelle decided to call her memoir.”
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We Still Hold These Truths
Discussed“Now the ideas—why to be fair, like Heritage Foundation's put out a book for the last 50 years; almost like this is not anything new.”
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Let Trump Be Trump
Discussed“but you know what his book is essentially is let Trump be Trump”
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Yellowstone
Discussed“look at watch the show Yellowstone have you guys ever watched Yellowstone they make a point of this very very much”
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Das Kapital Karl Marx
Discussed“But they fundamentally believe the way that Marx explained the world: there's oppressors, there are oppressed, and their job, their duty, is to stick up for the oppressed.”
Candace
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Hollywood Babylon 2
Discussed“And now I've just embarked on reading Hollywood Babylon 2 and realizing that it's always been a ring.”
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Zohar: The Book of Splendor
Discussed“and so he Å worshiped the Jewish cabala and Å he Å the Zohar was his book”
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Germany Must Perish!
Discussed“Germany must perish it was a 104 page book written by Theodore Kaufman which he self-published in 1941 in the United States”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Why Not Socialism?
Discussed“so so so I fully agree with that analysis and this is why civilization is so fragile”
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The Critical Turn in Education
Discussed“uh his name is Isaac goddman and he's a Marxist educational scholar and he released this book called the critical turn education where he lays out the critical Marxist infiltration from within the discipline”
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Thought reform and the psychology of totalism
Discussed“he wrote a really famous book called thought reform in the psychology of totalism a study of brainwashing in China”
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The storm of war
Discussed“And but one of the things, you know, I I I I said, you know, as well as talking about the famous great figures of the past, I gave the example of there's a as a 16-year-old who who who Andrew Roberts mentions in his history of World War II, The Storm of War, the 16-year-old who lied about his”
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The Satanic rituals
Discussed“you know I was reading the Satanic rituals this morning and back you know I'm old enough so I kind of caught the tail end of the Heen itic 60s”
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The Satanic Bible
Discussed“people in the public would just say oh do you know that it would be horribly embarrassing but they' say well do you know where this part of the Satanic Bible came from or do you know where that really came from”
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Satan's silence
Recommended“did you ever read Satan Silence by any chance do you know that book Satan silence oh well it was written by a lawyer and social worker and it's the best account that I've ever read by a large margin of the satanic daycare panic in the 1980s”
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Waking Up
Discussed“I really feel, you know, I read a book last year called Wake Up, and at the start of it, I told the story of several thousand years ago—people existed in tribes, and they all had the same haircuts, the same clothes, or whatever, you know—loincloths they were wearing.”
EconTalk
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The Eudaemonic Pie
Discussed“Uh it happened to be something I'd read about in another book called The Eudaemonic Pie by Thomas Bass.”
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Do No Harm
Recommended“and you know Henry Marsh um wrote an amazing book of few years ago called Do no harm where he really spent an entire book um each chapter going in um in quite detail to patients who he feels like he harmed during his career um you know Always setting out to do the best um but where the outcomes”
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What Is Art?
Discussed“um for reasons I don't fully understand I found myself reading the other day a book by Toll story called what is art yes and it's a remarkable book”
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I, Pencil - My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read
Discussed“join the web of interacting human beings called the modern economy, which is sustained mostly through forces that no one controls, the price system that that Leonard Read writes about in I, Pencil or that Hayek writes about in the use of knowledge in society”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Ego, Authority, Failure
Recommended“one of the guys on my team Derek gun wrote a book called about leadership applying tactical empathy to leadership it's called ego Authority failure”
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Awakening the Heroes Within
Recommended“there's um there's a book by Carol Pearson and I think it's called the 12 archetypes or something like that but if you look at her name thank you”
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Women who Run with the Wolves
Recommended“I think we women women who run with the wolves that incredible book they were talking about how women”
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The Drama of the Gifted Child
Discussed“and how wonderful as traumatizing as my childhood was to have create a sense of self it you know reading drama of the gifted child I understand that you know in retrospect my identity became about accomplishment”
ChooseFI
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Retire Before Mom & Dad
Recommended“the psychology of money by Morgan howel is good also like die with zero retire before Mom and Dad”
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Dad
Recommended“the psychology of money by Morgan howel is good also like die with zero retire before Mom and Dad”
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Choose Yourself!
Discussed“And then I'm almost done with The Choose Yourself book, also very high up on my list for obvious reasons.”
No Stupid Questions
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Klara and the Sun
Recommended“I think, Mike, as we close out this fascinating question from Vivien, I want to ask you whether you have read a book called Clara and the Sun. I have not!”
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From Strength to Strength
Discussed“Here's what I love about that, especially when you get to this generativity stage: I'm sure you're familiar with Arthur Brooks' book, 'From Strength to Strength.' Yeah, I read it!”
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Childhood and society
Discussed“you know if we think about identity and stages something that we haven't talked about is Ericson's stages of Life have you ever heard of this psychoanalytic thinker named Eric Ericson”
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Diligis from Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Discussed“I'm sure you're familiar with Arthur Brook's book from strength to strength yeah I read it but he kind of goes through the same idea or principle that sometimes we hang too doggedly to one version of ourselves”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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A book about birth control
Recommended“As a guy, I really didn't think that I would do a show on or love a book about birth control, but here we are.”
The Book Review
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The Days of Abandonment
Discussed“I have read all of the Neapolitan series I've also read the days of Abandonment a very short novel that she wrote”
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Innocents and others
Recommended“and the book that I'm thinking of is called innocence in others this is about a similar female friendship this time”
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Inseparable
Recommended“this is one I actually thought maybe Jam would mention it is in separable by Simone deovir which is a novelized memoir written in the 50s”
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The Fortress of Solitude
Recommended“the novel is Jonathan Liam's novel The Fortress of Solitude from 2003 it tells the story of two friends”
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Stay True
Recommended“which leads me to my second recommendation which is wasu's stay true published in 23 A Memoir of his friendship”
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A Separate Peace
Recommended“want to mention I'll mention a separate piece by John nolles which is just a beautiful book”
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In Memoriam
Recommended“and I'm going to flash through one title too and that is in memorium by Alice win this is a complicated friendship set during World War I”
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The Keep
Discussed“but when as I worked on books after that I would think hm you know I wrote a Gothic novel a Gothic Thriller called the keep”
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Light years
Recommended“and also James suter's light years which is a beautiful book about time passing”
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The House of Mirth
Recommended“mine is I think the house of Mirth by Edith Warden”
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Long Bright River
Discussed“I had published three novels before long bright river that were not categorized as Mysteries although I've always been interested in telling a kind of propulsive story”
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Woodswoman
Discussed“I think there's one of the epigraphs at the start of the book is by the the outdoors woman and ecologist Ann lab bestel who's a very well-known figure in the at andex and she wrote a series of books called the woodswoman trilogy about in and it was about they were non-fiction books about her time living as a”
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Lost person behavior
Recommended“so there is a book called Lost person behavior and I don't remember the name of author or authors but that's one of the books that I read as part of my research into how people actually get lost and how people actually get found”
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Freedom
Critiqued“I thought it would be ponderous I had to read freedom for school and hated it”
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Transactions in a foreign currency
Discussed“so I ransacked them so I read deborah eisenberg's first Story collection i didn't know she started out as a playwright before she started writing fiction but this was hysterical it's called transactions in a foreign currency”
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Veronica
Discussed“this is Veronica by mary gateskill that's right that's right published in what 2004 five”
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Out
Discussed“a friend recommended a Japanese crime Thriller called out by natsuo Corino it was originally published in 97”
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Spy hook
Discussed“it's Len Dayton it's i i believe the beginning of a Trilogy it's called spy hook”
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Talk
Recommended“so one thing that I've been dipping into all summer has been Linda Rosen cr's book called talk”
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You Like It Darker
Recommended“so I read a Stephen King book you like him right who's surprised crickets I read his new short Story collection which is called you like a darker”
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The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
Recommended“and i finished a book called The brightsword it's by L Grossman it's a fantasy book right”
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The Neapolitan Novels : My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child
Recommended“and What's the title of that one it's called those who leave and those who stay”
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Lincoln in the Bardo
Discussed“I hope that listeners have had the opportunity to experience that book which was one of the times as notable books of 2017 it won the booker prize”
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The Underground Railroad
Discussed“I spoke to Coulson Whitehead as part of this podcast series about his book The Underground ril Road and he said something to the effect when talking about the steps that led to that book”
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The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol
Discussed“I'd love for you to tell us about the book that you've read the most over the course of your life I it's this one it's the collected Tales of Nikolai Gogle”
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The Overcoat
Discussed“it's the classics the the nose and the overcoat and then a couple of side stories that I like to teach called the story of how the two Ivans quarreled”
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The Nose
Discussed“it's the classics the the nose and the overcoat and then a couple of side stories that I like to teach called the story of how the two Ivans quarreled”
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The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Discussed“and then a couple of side stories that I like to teach called the story of how the two Ivans quarreled and another one a flawed Masterpiece called nevy Prospect”
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Nevsky Prospect
Discussed“and another one a flawed Masterpiece called nevy Prospect so I've taught these stories and I especially the overcoat and the nose”
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The Dinner
Discussed“and I for some strange reason mentioned that I had been trying to get my hands on a book that was yet to be published here in the states and I had been combing strange and obscure book websites and chats and she asked me the name of the book and I said oh it's this a book by this”
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Discussed“I think it was probably six months out from publishing uh publishing date and it was called a constellation of vital phenomenon”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Outsider
Recommended“you know there's uh there's three great books by Kimu which I highly recommend one The Outsider or the stranger a lot of high school students read this book and the main character starts off his his mom's just dies and he doesn't care and then he goes to the beach and just shoots some random guy and he doesn't”
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Limits to Growth
Discussed“from the other side was this uh book by the club of Rome 1972 the limits of growth and it's you can't have we need to head towards a society in which there's zero% there's very limited growth”
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The Warren Commission Report
Discussed“and then the the Warren report he was the head of the CIA was the head of the of the D Alan d yeah Alan Dallas of the I said John Foster Allan Dallas was was the head of of the Warren Commission which is nuts cuz Kennedy had fired him”
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Matrix
Discussed“Matrix was basically that whole that's the thing make get you to think that you can download your soul into a computer”
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Cujo
Discussed“There's something about his early stuff when he was off the rails—like he said, he doesn't even remember writing Cujo, which is my favorite book of his.”
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The Shining
Discussed“Um, so is The Shining, you know, it's another one where he was like deep in the throes of addiction just writing this captivating book.”
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Tripped
Discussed“uh this is your book it's called tripped Nazi Germany the CIA and the dawn of the Psychedelic Age”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Better Sex Through Mindfulness
Recommended“well there's a couple of good books that I would recommend um come as you are I think it's a really great book um by Emily nagowski and um better sex through mindfulness by Dr Lori BR so those are those are a couple of good books that I recommend”
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In Praise of Walking
Recommended“now he wrote the bestselling book in Praise of walking and Dr rera is going to get you off your rear end and out the door and walking”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Case against Education
Discussed“The economist Brian Kaplan in a book called "The Case Against Education" argues that one major function of a college degree is to act as a social signal—a way to tell the world that you are worth hiring, worth being friends with, perhaps worth being intimidated by. In Kaplan’s view, this has driven a kind of credential inflation, where more”
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Prayer Has Spoiled Everything
Discussed“In a book called 'Markets, Minds and Money', why America leads the world in university research, Kola charts the development of these institutions.”
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Markets, Minds, and Money
Discussed“their Prestige is linked to their strength as research institutions in a book called markets mines and money why America leads the world in University Research”
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No More Throw-away People
Discussed“years ago I came across a couple books written by Edgar Khan a lawyer and social activist one was called No More throwaway people”
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Time Dollars
Discussed“the other was called time dollars the new currency that enables Americans to turn their hidden resource time into personal security and Community Renewal”
How I Write
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The party decides
Discussed“I remember many years ago you wrote a piece called I think it was called the voters decide which was inspired by a book called The Party decides”
Pod Save America
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True Gretch
Recommended“I just read her book when we were on our plane, by the way! And, um, it's actually a really interesting read, and it's very digestible!”
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Shameless
Discussed“Later, our pal Brian Tyler Cohen is here to talk about his brand new book and play a round of Take Appreciators with me and Lovett. But first, remember Donald Trump?”
StarTalk Radio
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Gravitation
Discussed“Okay, uh, he's co-author of like the most famous relativity book there ever was! It's called Gravitation!”
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Black holes and time warps
Recommended“There's a book from the 1990s by Kip Thorne, probably the most famous relativist in the world, but also very gifted for writing and for making things very, very clear!”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Infectious Generosity
Discussed“his most recent book published in January 2024 is called infectious generosity the ultimate idea wor”
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TED Talks
Recommended“let's talk about your other book you've written it must have been eight or nine years ago it's called Ted Talks the official Ted guide to public speaking it is easily the best book I've ever read on public speaking”
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The Genetic Book of the Dead
Discussed“you've got a new book and it's called the genetic Book of the Dead how would you describe it it's aimed at the same audience as the selfish Gene that's to say as we were talking about earlier”
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Flights of Fancy
Discussed“yes the artwork is by Yana Lenova who is a Slovak artist and translator actually met her because she translated The God Delusion into Slovak and she illustrated my previous book Flights of Fancy which is about flight”
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Cuckoo
Recommended“by the way I'm deriving this mostly from the work of Nick Davis of Cambridge University whose book called cucko I strongly recommend it”
My First Million
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$100M Leads Summary & Workbook
Discussed“No, it was Leads, I thought. Bro, you got to read the Leads one.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Psalms
Discussed“every morning I'd write I read a chapter in Psalms and I also read this book called a silver refined”
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As Silver Refined
Recommended“and I also read this book called a silver refined and the book was basically saying it's not be easy but you'll get through it and it'll be worth it”
Never Enough
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The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Recommended“I love your book uh everyone should go read it it's called The 2our cocktail party it's available on Amazon and it'll make your life better I can't say that about that many books but uh it's definitely helped me run better events it's a very simple practical book that has simple things like put a label on the bathroom”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Nixon Defense
Discussed“in 2014 he publishes lots of books all on Watergate his wife publishes a book on waterg he publishes one in 2014 called the Nixon defense”
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Yours in Truth
Discussed“when this author Jeff himman uh the book's called yours in truth describes it chapter and verse 2014 he approaches Woodward”
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Responses of the Presidents to charges of misconduct
Discussed“and they publish it as a book out of nowhere I happen to have a copy of the book responses of the presidents to charges of misconduct with C van wood reading the introduction”
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
Discussed“David Reich wrote this book. It's called, I think, Who We Are, where We came from.”
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How We Got Here
Discussed“David Reich wrote this book. It's called, I think, Who We Are, where We came from.”
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Program Or be Programmed
Recommended“There's a book by dog. Not Hofstadter, Rushkoff, Douglas Rushkoff. It's called Program or Be Programed.”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Once An Eagle
Recommended“I have probably given the most copies of a book written in 1968 by Anton Myrer called Once an Eagle.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Dirt
Discussed“And that movie was about the book, The Dirt book. They said it was pretty true to form, a lot of it.”
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The Dirt
Discussed“And that that that movie was about the book and the the dirt book. Um they said it was pretty true to form a lot of it I think. Yes. It's it's it's identical”
Huberman Lab
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Whole Brain Living
Recommended“whole brain living is her latest book”
SmartLess
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Swimming For Triathlon And Open Water
Discussed“did you see open water do you remember that movie Open Water JW still was a was a tattoo on my brain bil Zayn”
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Bad Monkey
Discussed“so but tell us about Bad Monkey Vince before we let you go uh it's with Bill Lawrence and for Tracy Bill Lawrence created scrubs he created Ted lasso City Ted lasso uh well he's great I I I used to play in a poker game with him when I was like 19 and he was super funny and he”
