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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2024
Books discussed across various podcasts in September 2024 covered a broad spectrum of human behavior, historical origins, and personal reflection. On Huberman Lab, the host Andrew Huberman thanked guest Dr. Charan Ranganath for writing Why We Remember, describing the work as a fantastic exploration of the modern understanding of memory, while Dr. Ranganath discussed how the publication relates to the choices people make regarding which memories to retain and the significance of intentionality in that process. Memory and the human mind also connected to discussions on SmartLess, where Laura Linney praised Gabrielle Zevin's wonderful fiction novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, noting she was still floored by the book about three friends who make video games, and she also expressed interest in the Sylvia Plath biography Red Comet by Heather Clark. Human behavior and psychological impact emerged in other conversations, as Piers Morgan appeared on The Rubin Report to reference Jonathan Haidt's book regarding the frightening effects of smartphones on impressionable young minds. On No Stupid Questions, the hosts touched on human behavior and leadership by mentioning Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect and explored the historical origins of medical ethics by examining Hippocrates' book Epidemics from 400 BCE. Finally, on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Shawn Mendes recounted meeting someone who was reading Pema Chödrön's When Things Fall Apart during a transitional period in Los Angeles.
Huberman Lab
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Statistics for the Social Sciences
Discussed“That's why I titled it for the book. And the question is what do you want to remember?”
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Why We Remember
Discussed“Second of all, I want to thank you for writing your book, 'Why We Remember,' because it's a fantastic exploration of the modern understanding of memory.”
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Mating in Captivity
Discussed“She's also the author of best-selling books such as "Mating in Captivity" and "The State of Affairs."”
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The State of Affairs
Discussed“She's also the author of best-selling books such as "Mating in Captivity" and "The State of Affairs."”
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Summary of Marc Brackett's Permission to Feel
Discussed“Thank you for joining me for today's discussion with Dr. Mark Brackett, to learn more about his work and to find links to his book, Permission to Feel, which by the way, I highly recommend, as well as other links to his laboratory and other resources please see the links in the show note captions.”
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Protocols
Discussed“For those of you that haven’t heard, I have a new book coming out; it’s my very first book, it’s entitled Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.”
SmartLess
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Discussed“But tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow is—is one of the things I read last year which I just still am floored by, really, if tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, it's wonderful fiction, wonderful fiction, yeah.”
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Red Comet
Discussed“There's Sylvia Plath biography that everybody loves; I’m going to write that down too.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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When Things Fall Apart
Discussed“And there was just a lot of beautiful things that happened in that time, like I moved to LA and I didn’t really have a lot of people around at that time, and I remember I went to this coffee shop every morning and I got this coffee, and as I was like sitting there telling myself this, I saw”
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How to Do the Work
Discussed“I would hear from many individuals on their healing journey after writing my first book, how to do the work. I'm starting to feel good in my life, and now I feel either ready to be in a relationship or I am in a relationship, but it's in my relationship where I'm really stuck.”
The Rubin Report
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The Righteous Mind
Discussed“A lot of it is down to phones, you know this, Jonathan Haidt’s book that came out was pretty scary about the impact on impressionable young minds, but I also think we're not preparing kids when they come through school; we're not preparing them for the hard knocks of the real world.”
No Stupid Questions
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The Lucifer Effect
Discussed“Uh, his book? Oh, you read The Lucifer Effect? I have it on the bookshelf right back there.”
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On Epidemics
Discussed“However, a version of 'Do no harm' is found in Hippocrates' book of the Epidemics from 400 BCE. He writes that the physician must have, quote, two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely to do good or to do no harm.”
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Evicted
Discussed“But I do think that it's really important for me and I would encourage others to engage with some of these stories and some of the realities of what's around us; this book that we've talked about before called 'Evicted' that goes through this psychological and social and emotional impact of growing up in a really financially limited setting where”
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The Chamber
Discussed“I mean I tried reading like a John Grisham novel or like a Jack Reacher, yeah, that are just pure beach reads. But I couldn't even go there.”
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The Secret
Discussed“I mean I tried reading like a John Grisham novel or like a Jack Reacher, yeah, that are just pure beach reads. But I couldn't even go there.”
Stuff You Should Know
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Little People, BIG DREAMS
Discussed“And then I also want to shout out a book series called Little People, Big Dreams; it’s a kids' book series that we've been reading to my daughter. In fact, it’s kind of all she wants to read right now, and they are on great women in history and kind of brutally honest for reading to kids.”
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks
Discussed“Um, and this was written by the same person who wrote the award-winning book, 'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.' Her name is uh, Jean, uh, Theoharis, it's all one word.”
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THE THERMONUCLEAR WAR
Discussed“He wrote a book in 1961 called On Thermonuclear War, and then went on to form the Hudson Institute, where he basically was like, we are a group that is going to forecast the future.”
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Future shock
Discussed“The one that I ran across in this article that I had heard of but didn't know anything about is Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. I remember that; I think, did you read it?”
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Children of the Plague
Discussed“But back in I think the 1910s, writing, yeah, he wrote a book called Ralph 124C 41+ which predicted everything in this!”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Andromeda Strain
Discussed“You know, I read the very scientific book by Michael Crichton called 'The Andromeda Strain'.”
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Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton
Discussed“I did write a book called, 'Who Killed Epstein?' So, yeah, he soured the island image. Yeah, he ruined private islands for the rest of us, unfortunately.”
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Hard time
Discussed“And then I put those in my books; Hard Time is the jail one if people are interested. Wow, yeah, wow, and man, you wanted to read a thousand books in prison, right?”
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Один день Ивана Денисовича
Discussed“One thing that Two-Tony taught me was about the book 'A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.' In that book, they were fighting over fish eyeballs in the soup to try and stay alive in the gulag, where if you refuse to work, you're hung from a tree, dragged to death by a horse, or thrown off a cliff.”
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Lying
Discussed“There’s a Sam Harris book called 'Lying' I really love; he's done a show on this subject.”
Pod Save America
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Our Journey Together
Discussed“So, you've got your Trump trading card NFTs. You've bought Trump's coffee table book. You got Milan's memoir that she's out there hawking right now.”
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Milan Undone
Discussed“You've bought Trump's coffee table book. You got Milan's memoir that she's out there hawking right now. You've stocked up on Trump and Son's private cryptocurrency, World Liberty Financial—their cryptocurrency platform.”
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Triggered
Discussed“Now it's like, you can stay at Trump properties, you can buy Trump stock; apparently you can now buy crypto, Trump trading cards, NFT business, the new Save America coffee table book where he threatens Mark Zuckerberg with jail time in a coffee table book of pictures; that's just something that's happening.”
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Smart on Crime
Discussed“Specifically, I was reading about Back on Track in her 'Smart on Crime' book, and I was so impressed with it that I was running for State's Attorney at the time.”
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America's Deadliest Election
Discussed“She is now the author, along with David Fiser, of "America's Deadliest Election: The Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History."”
ChooseFI
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The Artist's Way
Discussed“You also mentioned 'The Artist's Way' as a helpful book for you.”
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Born to Run
Discussed“Did you read Born to Run at some point? Me too!”
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From Strength to Strength
Discussed“I think like one of the more recent ones that I probably will read but I haven't read is Arthur Brooks' recent book—it’s a living your best life or something like that co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. I had read Strength to Strength before that, right?”
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The Tipping Point
Discussed“I think back to Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point' and how he discussed a certain type of clothing, though I'm struggling to recall the exact item.”
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Stillness Is the Key
Discussed“But some of the guys are now calling it like a treat; we're trying to add some little extra things into it; like we're reading a particular book by Ryan Holiday on Stoicism about Stillness, and we're all kind of making it like a pseudo-book club.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Good Energy
Discussed“Casey gets into regenerative agriculture and farming in her book, 'Good Energy,' which everyone should buy and read, but you saw what the media did afterward.”
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How to Be a (Young) Antiracist
Discussed“I guess you’ve got your skinny jeans, your man bun, and your purse into which you put 'How to Be an Anti-Racist' by Ibram X. Kendi.”
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White Fragility
Discussed“In any paper, if you were to sit and read, I actually read Robin D'Angelo's book, White Fragility, in preparation for our interview with her. It's really just that; it circles around that idea over and over again.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Rethinking Paul's rhetorical education
Discussed“Every wedding you go to, they're always reading 1 Corinthians 13. It's like I think it's the only verse in the Bible, actually.”
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
Discussed“We know now there's actually a really great series of books, it's one of the best I recommend to everybody, but it's really expensive now, and it's six long volumes called History of British Special Operations in the Second World War.”
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Murder in Three Acts
Discussed“You look like in the book of Acts, when Stephen gets martyred; they freak out and stone him, not when he's making doctrinal points; it's when he gets to the places you murdered him.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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TIME-LIFE Mysteries of the Unknown
Discussed“There's often a huge deal made in ancient alien shows or Time Life Mysteries of the Unknown.”
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Records of the Grand Historian
Discussed“So he is very, very well-connected, according to a book called Records of the Grand Historian; this guy was a monster!”
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
Discussed“There's a fantastic book called, uh, Devil in the Shape of a Woman that looks at this practice in the Salem Witch Trials.”
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Sons of Cain
Discussed“He believes that when there's economic downturn, especially on a wide scale, in any region or globally even or just in a town, the probability of creating a future serial killer who is going through this, uh, the economic downturn, all the realities that you face when that's happening, he believes that you increase the probability of creating serial killers,”
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Skeleton Crew
Discussed“Ben, what's that Stephen King short story where the doctor is stranded and he slowly starts cutting away pieces of himself to sustain his life? I think it's called Survivor type!”
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Watership Down
Discussed“They were continually hunted by the press—if you've ever read Watership Down, there's a fantastic mythology that the rabbits in that story have about being the prince with a thousand enemies.”
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The Big Breach
Discussed“In 2007, he went ahead and published the book 'The Big Breach'.”
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Hide Your Assets and Disappear
Discussed“So one of the things with this show that I found really fascinating is I have a book sitting right behind me called 'Hide Your Assets and Disappear.' It was a best-selling book, I think, in 1999 or 2000. So I think it was possible that Robert Fisher got out in the nick of time.”
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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Discussed“Are you referring to Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Čapek?”
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Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus
Discussed“And another example historically speaking is of course Moses from the Bible, from the book of Exodus, who was found as a babe in the rushes or whatever and adopted by a powerful family and then ultimately became a pretty important political figure. Let's just say love it!”
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Asset Recovery Handbook
Discussed“This is where we want to introduce our first book, the one that people would consider conspiratorial. Doug Ledger wrote a book called Maritime UFO Files, and in this book he claims that additional witnesses exist.”
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Dark Object
Discussed“Several weeks after the initial sighting, he co-wrote a book called Dark Object: The World's Only Government Documented UFO Crash. In this book, Styles and his co-author Doug Ledger from earlier, oh, the what was that book called, the Maritime UFO Files?”
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The Celts [2 volumes]
Discussed“There was an excellent article by a guy named Joseph Siegel that references a book by a guy named Samuel Romani. And Romani writes about Russia in Africa—resurgent great power or bellicose pretender?”
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Raven Rock
Discussed“He has a book on it, the story of the U.S. government's secret plan to save itself while the rest of us die. So shout-out, shout-out to you, Garrett, because it's a great book, it's a gripping read, and Garrett is how I learned about Mount Weather.”
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Seven Days in May
Discussed“So I guess, I guess it was rumored back in '06, like if this was the place, but they reference in this article that there was a book called 7 Days in May where they reference inside this novel, they mention a place called Mount Thunder.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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What You Think of Me is None of My Business
Discussed“Here's a book that my mom literally had a self-help book on her shelf! Alright, called, It's None Of My Business What You Think Of Me! 30 seconds, we got there! And even as a little kid, that was my mantra!”
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Utopia
Discussed“And it was just so funny because you're watching 'Chimp Crazy,' and I was reading this book called 'Status and Culture' and I was like if this isn't role reversal like it's a role reversal 'cause usually I'm like watching like the Housewives and he's like reading a book!”
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Mémoires d'Hadrien
Discussed“I was reading a lot of memoirs in the past couple of years when I was thinking about writing one.”
Timcast IRL
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Melania
Discussed“Well, Melania Trump's memoir is coming out in October, so maybe that's the October surprise. I doubt it would be bad for Trump; maybe that's good for me.”
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One Nation under Blackmail
Discussed“It was, it's, there's a, there's a great book I think we talked about last time, Amazon One Nation Under Blackmail, right? So this is a—it's a—not only a fantastic book but the idea here that uh, politics runs off of blackmail and it runs off of uh bribes, it runs off of all this, that's true.”
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No go zones
Discussed“I've written a couple of books, including 'No-Go Zones,' which is about migrant-dominated neighborhoods, specifically Muslim migrant-dominated neighborhoods in Europe.”
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Predicting the next president
Discussed“His forecasts are based on a historical index model he dubs the keys to the White House.”
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Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus
Discussed“Men and women do socialize differently; if you've read 'Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus,' it talks about how women tend to gather information during social outings while men often solve problems together.”
Behind the Bastards
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Where Am I Now?
Discussed“Mara, you are, I mean, if you are a person listening to this who is roughly my age, Mara was in, I don't know about like 30% of the movies that made up a huge part of your childhood. And you have recently written a memoir, Where Am I Now?”
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Camp des saints
Discussed“He also praises the novel, "The Camp of the Saints," a racist narrative about migrants from India invading Europe and destroying civilization, which happens to be a favorite of Steve Bannon.”
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Discussed“The company name derives from a fictional short story written by Borges in 1940, describing a secret society attempting to construct a brand new world via the establishment of an encyclopedia.”
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A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
Discussed“He begins disseminating his new thoughts on politics through his blog, in a series of essays called 'Unqualified Reservations,' aimed at garnering support for reorganizing society away from democracy and towards his vision of enlightened rule.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Selfish Gene
Discussed“The bitter pill is in Chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene, where he presents the concept of memes. For the first time, he says that memes are a new primeval suit; he sees it as a new evolutionary realm where creatures are beginning to form.”
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Lord of Light
Discussed“I read a book called Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, which introduced me to Buddhism and Hinduism and the power of myth. It opened me up, and I rejected Christianity.”
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Братья Карамазовы
Discussed“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”
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Записки изъ подполья
Discussed“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”
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Moby Dick
Discussed“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
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Heart of Darkness
Discussed“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
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Tod in Venedig
Discussed“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
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La Peste
Discussed“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
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New Science of Narcissism
Discussed“So that's how much scientific work he's done; it's a lot—and several books, including 'The New Science of Narcissism' and 'Professor OCEAN from The Big Five: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism'.”
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Complete Books Of Enoch 1 Enoch First Book Of Enoch 2 Enoch Secrets Of Enoch 3 Enoch Hebrew Book Of Enoch
Discussed“And you know, I really want to read the Book of Enoch, but maybe I’ll just scroll through (X) and see what’s going on.”
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Genesis And Exodus
Discussed“In addition to the Mastering Life series, we've examined biblical texts and their cultural implications, delving into the books of Genesis and Exodus, exploring the origins of the biblical corpus.”
The Daily Stoic
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Meditations
Discussed“When attacked online, I remind myself I've got a healthy life and love around me, which alleviates my anger. The best revenge is living well, as Marcus suggested.”
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The Storm Before the Storm
Discussed“One of my favorite books is called "The Storm Before the Storm," and the idea is that we just see Caesar crossing the Rubicon one day as if it just popped into his head, as if there wasn't all this history and all these other events leading up to this major event.”
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Burr
Discussed“By the way, have you ever read Gore Vidal's book on Aaron Burr? No, that's another great book.”
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Discussed“There's a wonderful book that I recommend to you that you'll thank me a million times for; it's called "The Swerve." Have you ever heard of it?”
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)
Discussed“All right, let's talk because you mentioned Shakespeare. Greenblatt wrote this amazing book called "Will in the World" that I found incredible.”
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Discussed“He has a book called "Tyrant" as well, which I loved, but I was thinking there's a common theme between this movie and Apocalypse Now, as well as the theme of Shakespeare: the ability to find old stories and place them in a new context while preserving the arcs, characters, and morals.”
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Ideal and Actual in the Story of the Stone
Discussed“For example, one time I chose a great Chinese book called "The Story of the Stone" or "Dream of the Red Mansion" written in the 16th century. I found myself trying to change Megalopolis to be more like that, which I actually did, because that was one of the few books I ever read where the dream life of the”
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Discussed“He wrote a book called "Wilhelm Meister" and that was him stealing from Shakespeare. That is Goethe saying, "I want to be as much like Shakespeare as I can be," while Shakespeare was stealing from Plutarch, from Montaigne, from Danish legends, and from other plays—everyone has been stealing from one another.”
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Papyrus
Discussed“I was just reading a book called "Papyrus," which covers the history of paper and early writings. One of the things the author notes is that scrolls, because they weren't books, were stored in specific boxes that often held seven scrolls.”
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Shahnameh
Discussed“Have you ever read that beautiful Persian book called the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi? No, that's like Gilgamesh! It's an early Persian epic, and it's great—a tale of kings!”
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Tender is the Night
Discussed“That it wasn't successful at first, so he and his editor straightened out something, I guess, I don't know which version I have. But I think what's unusual is that in the original 'Tender Is the Night,' there's a huge flashback in the middle of it that goes back and tells the story of Nicole and Dick Diver.”
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Antkind
Discussed“Sure, he wrote a book, a novel called 'Antkind,' a seven- or eight-hundred-page book called 'Antkind.' And that's what Google said: if you want to read something about being a... so I got it, and damned, if you know, as I said, everything I read changes my movie, but this book is changing my life because it's so, I finished”
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De Bello Gallico Libri Vii.
Discussed“Well, the schoolboys in the founding of our nation were reading Caesar and the Gallic Wars. They knew it all by heart.”
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A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake
Discussed“And maybe a period where it's an apparent disaster, but over time, you know, I once read an article that James Joyce was talking about 'Finnegans Wake.' And he said, 'I'm going to put so much interesting stuff in this that it's going to take, you know, uh, 50 years for people to figure out what's in it and it'll”
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Traffic
Discussed“Did you read the Ben Smith book?”
Freakonomics Radio
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Advancing the Ball
Discussed“The other thing to say is this: Jim Rooney is an unabashed fan of his late father, Dan; he wrote a book about his father called 'A Different Way to Win.'”
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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
Discussed“The name of my book is 'More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from The Open Hearth to the Microwave'.”
StarTalk Radio
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The Martian
Discussed“So that was like for a— Did you watch the movie The Martian? We did not watch The Martian, but I had read the book already! And one person read the book while we were in!”
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Discussed“Okay, he's claimed by the gay community in some books I've read. Right, but he never procreated.”
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Little Oxford English Dictionary
Discussed“I didn't know about the OED, the Oxford English Dictionary, but the Random House was nice and big! Found the biggest word!”
The Ezra Klein Show
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String Theory
Discussed“I have David Foster Wallace's string theory and the book that I have as its companion is the dictionary because his vocabulary was far far greater than mine will ever be”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire
Discussed“There was a military strategist, a guy named Edward Luttwak, who wrote this book, "The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire," which was basically about frontiers and how the Romans defined their frontier. And everybody's jumped on this and argued about it, and says it's wrong and all, but it started this debate among Roman historians about, yeah, what does”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Quotes from George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones Book Series 2019 Day-to-Day
Discussed“I liked it so much I told Dean after the first season I didn't want to wait til the second season. So I got the book and I ended up reading all five.”
Modern Wisdom
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A People's History of the United States
Discussed“And, you know, you've always had Howard Zinn types, let's say, on the left who are willing to point to issues, and your parents would say, 'Well, you know, be very careful with that book, because if you do know the truth, you can't participate in polite society.'”
