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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2024
Throughout September 2024, podcast discussions highlighted works exploring memory, biographical history, and contemporary fiction. On Huberman Lab, Andrew Huberman thanked Dr. Charan Ranganath for authoring Why We Remember, describing it as an excellent exploration of contemporary insights into human memory. SmartLess featured Laura Linney praising Gabrielle Zevin's novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow as wonderful fiction about three friends creating video games, alongside expressing interest in a Sylvia Plath biography by Heather Clark. On Stuff You Should Know, the podcast host recommended the children's book series Little People, BIG DREAMS by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Lisbeth Kaiser for its brutally honest approach to teaching kids about great women in history. Josh Clark also contributed to the show by recommending Phillip Hoose's Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice and Jeanne Theoharis's The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks to highlight lesser-known figures of the civil rights movement. Finally, on The Book Review, Joumana Khatib recommended Lisa Halliday's novel Asymmetry alongside a strong recommendation for Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake's Life with Picasso during the book recommendation segment.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Recapture the Rapture
Discussed“I had the opportunity today to speak with Jamie wheel who's author of recapture the Rapture and uh we talked about his book and his thoughts”
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The gnostic Gospels
Discussed“you know elain pagle's work and and her her translations of the nagadi Scrolls and then the Gnostic Gospels won the national book award”
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Strange Rites
Discussed“Tara Isabella Burton I don't know if you know her work she wrote strange rights which is a a fasc she she's an Oxford PhD and it and it say it's everything from Soul cycle to to sleep no more to Burning Man like just contemporary expressions of semi- religiosity”
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The Selfish Gene
Critiqued“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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The Brothers Karamazov
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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Notes from Underground
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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The Reasons of Love
Discussed“and then there's another thing that seems to be voluntary necessity which which is what his book is about reasons for love love is a voluntary necessity”
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Lord of Light
Discussed“and I read a book by Roger zasi called Lord of Light that introduced me to Buddhism and Hinduism and the power of myth”
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Truths
Discussed“well one of the consequences of Ramaswami's journey has been the modification and specification of his political and philosophical views and he's written a new book called truths the future of America first which launches on September 24th and so we walked through that we walked through the chapters uh his which detail out his attempt to put forward something”
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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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Justice for Animals
Discussed“Martha Nussbaum defends a version of this in a book Justice for Animals, which I've just finished. And she says, you know, there are creatures all over the world that want to reproduce and play and and grow and all of these things. She says, Thwarting those ends would be bad”
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Math That Matters
Discussed“so you know for example there's I think a book in grade four math I think it's called math that matters and the math is correct 2 plus 2 equal 4 but the language being used is all about environmentalism it's all social justice oriented exactly it's all about you know anti-development and that whole side of things”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Popol Vuh
Discussed“And they have a creation story called the Popol Vuh.”
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Mein Kampf
Discussed“To try to analyze Hitler's acts or alleged motives in the absence of the ideology that he himself subscribed to and described in hateful detail in 'Mein Kampf' and other manifestos and speeches is an enterprise that's doomed to failure, justifiably.”
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What is to be done?
Discussed“Among them was Nikolay Chernyshevsky, who wrote, what's been called, the worst book ever written. It was in fact one of Lenin's favorite books, in Russian it's (speaking in Russian). In English it gets translated "What is to Be Done?"”
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Main currents of Marxism
Discussed“the Polish philosopher, Leszek Kolakowski, who was at first a committed communist and then later became disillusioned and wrote a three volume study of Marxist thought called "Currents of Marxism."”
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Fifth Business
Discussed“- "The Deptford Trilogy," "Fifth Business," "The Manticore," "World of Wonders," and he got a really nice beard.”
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The Manticore
Discussed“- "The Deptford Trilogy," "Fifth Business," "The Manticore," "World of Wonders," and he got a really nice beard.”
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World of Wonders
Discussed“- "The Deptford Trilogy," "Fifth Business," "The Manticore," "World of Wonders," and he got a really nice beard.”
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The Whisperers
Recommended“Orlando Figes has a amazing book called "The Whisperers," that traces several families' history in the Stalin period.”
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Witness
Recommended“One of the most amazing books of the 20th century is the book written by Whittaker Chambers, who had served as a Soviet spy. First a committed communist, then a Soviet spy, and then later a renegade from those allegiances. His book is entitled, "Witness," it published in 1952, and it's one of the most compelling books you could ever”
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The Deptford Trilogy
Recommended“And he's most famous probably for "The Deptford Trilogy," three novels in a series that are linked, and they're just masterful. If only there were more books like that.”
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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 did the Romans define their frontier.”
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The Long Shadow of Antiquity
Discussed“For leaders not to be learning lessons of history, you co-wrote a book precisely on this topic, "The Long Shadow of Antiquity: What Have the Greeks and Romans Done For Us?"”
EconTalk
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Freedom and the Law
Discussed“Leone was working on his major book what turned out to be really his only major book Freedom in the law which was published in 1961”
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Politics by Principle, Not Interest
Discussed“so Buchanan and congleton wrote a book politics by principle not interest”
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Truffle Hound
Recommended“Interested listeners, if you missed the episode with Rowan Jacobson on his book Truffle Hound, which is a similar thing of training dogs to find truffles and ideally not not eat them cuz they're very valuable.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Operation Pineapple Express
Discussed“you're the president and founder of rooftop leadership a New York Times best-selling author of operation Pineapple Express”
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Game Changers
Discussed“and number one international best-selling author of Game Changers going local to defeat violent extremists”
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Nobody Is Coming to Save You
Discussed“You came out with a book called nobody is coming to save you a Green Beret guide to getting big [ __ ] done which is a practical guide for leaders”
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Imagine Heaven
Recommended“he wrote a book called imagine heaven and I and I cannot remember the the the big one that he wrote but it's all about NES”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Breaking the Age Code
Discussed“and she wrote a book called breaking the age code and she's the one where I came upon the studies”
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The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts
Recommended“I really I just wanted to say this from my heart written eight books which I don't have the same motivations I'm not trying to just sell things but this book the hidden power of the five hearts does synthesize these teachings this science these tools”
Huberman Lab
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Why We Remember
Recommended“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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Summary of Marc Brackett's Permission to Feel
Recommended“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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Hope for Cynics
Recommended“I'd also like to mention that Dr Zaki has authored a terrific new book entitled hope for cynic the surprising science of human goodness and I've read this book and it is spectacular”
SmartLess
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Recommended“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
Recommended“There's Sylvia Plath biography that everybody loves; I’m going to write that down too.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Identity Economics
Discussed“two of my favorite economists George aof and Rachel cranton somewhere around 2000 wrote a paper on the economics of identity and they start this paper with this beautiful sentence that identity is one of the most important choices that an individual can make”
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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”
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No Judgment
Discussed“Oiler recently published a collection of essays called no judgment one of the pieces is titled my anxiety”
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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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 Good Earth
Discussed“The Good Earth did you read The Good Earth by Pearl sbck”
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Humor, Seriously
Discussed“and she co-wrote a book with Naomi Bonas who's a lectur at Stanford as well called humor seriously oh that's cute why humor is a secret weapon in business and life and how anyone can harness it”
Stuff You Should Know
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Little People, BIG DREAMS
Recommended“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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Claudette Colvin
Recommended“there's a book by the way called claudet koven colen twice toward Justice from Phil who or H and uh I think a lot of people these days are trying to shine a little light on some of the Lesser known figures of the civil rights movement and books are being written and stuff like that”
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks
Recommended“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 Theo Harris Theus it's all one word”
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Contract with America
Discussed“it was all about the contract for America which basically was small government lowering taxes um really sticking it to the poor”
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The Search for Bigfoot (Monster, Myth or Man?)
Discussed“and he's like hey Tom you go back home I'm going to just stay here and he even wrote a book called The search for Bigfoot monster myth or man so uh I think that's a great 1976 in particular title for a book on Bigfoot”
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Love Drugs
Discussed“they have kind of been hitting this hard and actually came out with the book called love drugs colon the chemical future of relationships”
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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!”
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On Thermonuclear War
Discussed“he kind of was a bit of a celebrity at the time he wrote a book um in 1961 called on Thermonuclear War”
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The Year 2000; A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener, With Contributions From Other Staff Members of the Hudson Institute. Introd. by Daniel Bell
Discussed“and this book that he wrote called um the uh the year 2000 a framework for speculation on the next 33 years”
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The Limits to Growth
Discussed“one of the books that came out of the club of Rome uh in 1972 was called limits to growth by uh danella H Meadows Dennis Meadows Jurgen randers and William Barons at MIT”
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Ralph 124C 41+
Discussed“he wrote a book called Ralph 124c 41 plus”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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And Then There Were None
Discussed“But then I looked at your recent finds from the book, and I'm like, that doesn't make sense at all.”
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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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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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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Sex Robots and Vegan Meat
Discussed“She wrote a book Sex Robots and Vegan Meat.”
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Lying
Recommended“There’s a Sam Harris book called 'Lying' I really love; he's done a show on this subject.”
The Book Review
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The Hypocrite
Book club“I'm an editor here at the New York Times book review and for this month's book club we're talking about the hypocrite by Joe hamia”
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Life of the Mind
Discussed“and it also reminded me of the ending of the life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood which also involves some trash”
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Asymmetry
Recommended“hypothetically speaking I also really like Lisa halliday's novel asymmetry which I think is a fictionalized account”
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Life with Picasso
Recommended“but I think everybody should read life with Picasso by franois gillo”
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Liars
Recommended“but I guess just in recent reading and viewing there's Dany senna's colored television as well as Sarah Mango's Liars which are both told from the perspectives of female writers who are married to artists”
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Daughter
Recommended“the book that came to mind for me is Daughter by Claudia day”
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The flamethrowers
Discussed“and I remember reading the flamethrowers which came out like a decade ago and really liking it”
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Authority
Discussed“some of you may remember about a decade ago he wrote the southern reach Trilogy which is which starts with Annihilation then its Authority and acceptance”
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Acceptance
Discussed“some of you may remember about a decade ago he wrote the southern reach Trilogy which is which starts with Annihilation then its Authority and acceptance”
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Playground
Recommended“so when I heard that he has a new book coming out this fall called playground that is about the sea and water I was really excited”
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Sonny Boy
Recommended“it is Al Pacino's Memoir this is called Sunny Boy A Memoir”
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Recommended“it comes out October 1st it's called be ready when the luck happens”
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We Solve Murders
Recommended“this is a separate one and it's called we solve murders”
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Creation Lake
Recommended“and that is creation Lake by Rachel Kushner”
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V13
Recommended“it's called v13 The Chronicle of a trial”
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Absolution
Recommended“and so this newest book Absolution is a prequel to what happened to lead to the conditions of mysterious area X”
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Lazarus Man
Recommended“new book by Richard Price Richard Price has Lazarus man coming out November 12th”
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Colored Television
Recommended“this is colored television by Dany Senna It's a Good Morning America book club pick”
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Health and Safety
Recommended“and then in the nonfiction category I am I'm still thinking about health and safety by Emily wit”
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The passage of power
Discussed“volume four passage of power appeared on our recent list of the best books of the 21st century so far”
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The Prime Minister
Recommended“Anthony trop the 19th century British novelist ... AA was doing research for me in the Truman library and someone had she staying in a boarding house out there with kind of place where people left their books and she said one night I'm reading the greatest political novel I ever read it's the Prime Minister by Anthony trol”
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Behind the scenes at the museum
Discussed“her debut novel behind the scenes at the Museum won the wit breeds book of the Year award in 1996”
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A god in ruins
Discussed“in the 2010s two of her other novels Life After Life and its sequel a God in Ruins won the Costa Award for best novel of the year in Britain”
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Started Early, Took My Dog
Discussed“and of course one of the titles of your one of your Jackson Brody books comes from a poem of hers I long time I wanted to write a novel had an Emily diggson first line line as the title for no good reason part of him to amuse myself and that's the reason in that book that Jackson gets”
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Death at the Sign of the Rook
Recommended“and one of those books if you're a mystery fan will likely be Death At The Sign of The Rook by Kate Atkinson this is the sixth novel starring Atkinson's beloved private eye Jackson Brody”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Primal Screams
Recommended“so I recommend Primal screams by Mary IAT”
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Trust
Discussed“and they they begin with a concept that he wrote a book about in 2020 which is Trust”
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Morning and evening
Recommended“I just read um Yan fussa the Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize recently um he's got a book a really short book you and the Scandinavians man I know somebody heard that I was I like Norwegian literature asked me if I'd read this novelist who had become very famous with the Nobel Prize I hadn't and then”
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The Future Is History
Recommended“I recently read uh Masha gon's book uh the future is history it's the most helpful account I've seen of what happened in Russia and why Russia is now the way it is”
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Mr. Churchill in the White House
Recommended“I've got uh um a book called Mr Churchill in the White House by Bob schu's a scholar of American studies um that I know from Notre Dame and just when you thought there couldn't possibly be another book about Churchill”
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Hope Against Hope
Recommended“the first is a book called hope against hope which is a memoir by nes dandam who was the wife of then the Widow of the great poet OIP mandam”
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These Truths
Recommended“I think Jill Lor's survey is is these truth it's just so moving brilliantly written and I'm not picking it because she's my colleague at the New Yorker much”
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Cosmopolitanism
Recommended“the third is kwami Anthony apia's book cosmopolitanism so in a world in which we're constantly discussing singular identities and with reason I understand why why we do that”
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Feel Free
Discussed“reading the introduction to Zade Smith's 2018 book of essays feel free”
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The Fraud
Discussed“still I was surprised when I finally read the fraud the book she released last year”
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Discussed“and there's these books on like the you know four Arguments for the elimination of television”
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Tell Me Everything
Discussed“her last novel is called tell me anything and there's a line or tell me everything maybe”
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White Teeth
Recommended“if you've not read her back catalog like white teeth and on beauty and swing time I almost Envy you”
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On Beauty
Recommended“if you've not read her back catalog like white teeth and on beauty and swing time I almost Envy you”
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Swing Time
Recommended“if you've not read her back catalog like white teeth and on beauty and swing time I almost Envy you”
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The Director
Recommended“well right now I'm reading the director which is by my Austrian friend Daniel kilman It's a Wonderful book about uh the filmmaker WG Pabst”
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Frantz Fanon
Recommended“I am reading another friend's book Adam shatz on Fanon who was the radical socialist psychiatrist and that's a really really great book about F on”
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf
Recommended“and the other thing I've read recently which I keep on banging on about is all of Virginia wolfes Diaries um there's five volumes”
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String Theory
Recommended“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”
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The Nickel Boys
Recommended“one of the books that I have read in the past two years that has impacted me considerably and that I consider to be absolutely exquisite in its writing and in its power and it in its message is the nickelbys by Coulson Whitehead that is one of the best books I've ever read”
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In Ascension
Recommended“I really like this book in Ascension that our friend Max Reed recommended to me it's sort of if anyone is in the sort of Ted Chang Jeff vandermeir kind of thing it's like that kind of grounded beautiful enigmatic slightly schematic sci-fi really loved it”
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When We Cease to Understand the World
Recommended“another one that I've been texting a lot of people about the third one is when we see to understand the World by Benjamin labatut one that I feel like I've been texting friends about like every month since I read it it's about scientific discoveries that bring people to the brink of Madness and there's a really interesting thing”
The Ramsey Show
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Business Boutique
Discussed“because I've read Christy Wright's book business Boutique my business plan and my market research have confirmed my”
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EntreLeadership
Recommended“hold on the line Connor and Christian's going to pick up and we'll give you a copy of entree leadership because I think there is a what you're experiencing as a small business when you're having to lead people”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Fat City
Discussed“and then also um there's a movie called Fat City with Stacy keich and Jeff Bridges and it starts off with this amazing establishing shot of Stockton California”
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The Prince and the Pauper
Discussed“you know the the the the prince and the popper I read that one”
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Flags of Our Fathers
Recommended“you got what the [ __ ] was Flags of Our Father you got to read that book now that book I read”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Song of Myself
Recommended“so the poems of Hafiz or roomie or Mary Oliver or Walt Whitman Song of Myself from Walt Whitman which is essentially just a big letter from love”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Good Energy
Recommended“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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Kim's Lost Words
Discussed“Kim's lost words that's what it's titled this woman when she knew she was dying said”
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The Extinction of Experience
Discussed“is this basically what you're trying to embody with the extinction of experience”
Big Technology Podcast
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Character Limit
Discussed“The subtitle of the book is How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter. I like picked the book up and I said, is Twitter really destroyed?”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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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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Records of the Grand Historian
Discussed“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
Recommended“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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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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Disappear
Discussed“one of the things with this show that I found really fascinating I have a book uh sitting right behind me called um Hide Your Hide your assets and disappear hide your assets and disappear uh and it was it was a best-selling book I think 1999 2000”
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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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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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Russia in Africa
Discussed“there was an excellent article by a guy named Joseph seagull that references a book by a guy named Samuel romanii and romanii writes about Russia in Africa resurgent great power or bellicose”
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Raven Rock
Recommended“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.”
How I Write
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The 30 Day Startup: How to Create a Successful Tech Startup in 6 Weeks for Less Than $50k
Discussed“when you were at y commentator you had a big initiative of open sourcing knowledge around a course and you wrote a book called the startup the startup Playbook”
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The power of the charlatan
Discussed“An absolutely fantastic book, way out of print, although somebody might have brought it back called The Power of the Charlatan.”
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The possessed
Recommended“And like one of my favorite novels of his is The Possessed. I think it's also translated as The Demons, but I like the title, The Possessed. What an amazing novel that is.”
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Save the cat!
Recommended“So, learning all of that and like reading books like there's a great book on screenwriting called Kill the Save the Cat.”
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Rocket men
Recommended“And to do that, I'm going to read you a quote from a book that I love called Rocket Men by Robert Kurson.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Bulletproof: The Cookbook
Discussed“we're writing an entire book about this, that, bullet proof, he's got it, that you realize that at some point, at some point, Tucker, is it indifference, is it incompetence, or is it complicity?”
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9/11 Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Discussed“And on the list is the is the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, who was responsible for the 9/11 report.”
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The Revolt Against the Masses
Recommended“Man, he has an amazing book. I can't recommend enough. It's called Revolt against the Masses. And it's a history of what Tucker just said.”
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The Natural
Recommended“you ever read the book The Natural? Not the movie. The movie's good, but the the book, the Malamud book and there's a line where Roy Hobbs' girlfriend says to Roy, you know, that we all live two lives.”
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Murder in Three Acts
Discussed“Yeah, as Acts, first of all, because of course the Gospels are incredible—the accounts of our Lord and Savior, but in particular Acts, because he is pasted, and the kind of fervor, febrility, evangelism, and zeal of the Apostles—like the absolute belief, like early on with Stephen, like being torn apart and just going, 'Whoa, I’m off!'”
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
Recommended“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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War and Peace
Recommended“I was amazed to read in this book called 'The Red Czar.'”
Behind the Bastards
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A Symbolic Study of Jeremiah Johnson
Discussed“uh and he if if you've seen the movie Jeremiah Johnson he's the expert survival consultant for that movie which is that the movie that with with a gift right of the yes of the guy like nodding and smiling”
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Full metal jacket
Discussed“thanks to cultural touchstones like the film Full Metal Jacket the term boot camp has kind of an magic effect on the minds of a certain type of American”
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Where Am I Now?
Recommended“Look up Mara's excellent book 'Where Am I Now: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame.' And most importantly, slash all of the tires in the parking lot.”
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Where Am I Now? True Stories Of Girlhood And Accidental Fame
Recommended“look up Mara's excellent book where am I now true stories of girlhood and accidental Fame and most importantly slash all of the tires in the parking lot you know”
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Camp des saints
Critiqued“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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The Camp of the Saints
Discussed“in that same essay he praises the novel The Camp of the Saints which is a racist book about migrants from India flooding Europe and destroying civilization which is Steve bannon's favorite book”
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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.”
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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right
Discussed“I want to quote from a a profile Joshua Tate wrote about yarvin for a book on the radical right quote Engineers like yarvin are typically sorted through competitive academic programs which they consider analogous to the competition imagined in a libertarian societ Society”
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The new Scofield reference Bible
Discussed“And eventually uh he produces something published in 1909 called the Scoffield Reference Bible that uh basically uh uh is the King James Bible with footnotes”
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Bare-faced Messiah
Discussed“Now, according to the book Bareface Messiah, quote, "Lights, dollies, cameras, and a vast range of technical equipment were all moved into the new studio. Hubard took to wearing a cowboy hat, suspenders, and a bandana"”
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The Scandal of Scientology
Discussed“The Guardian office saved the worst for author Pette Cooper of New York City, whose scathing 1972 book, The Scandal of Scientology, pushed her to the top of the church's roster of enemies.”
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Grief Diaries
Discussed“So Boggs sends the Steiners a copy of a book titled Grief Diaries surviving the loss of a spouse and then he sends them a funeral wreath.”
Modern Wisdom
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The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions
Discussed“I had a great conversation yesterday with Laith Al Shaw who wrote the Oxford handbook of evolutionary emotions.”
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The possibility principle
Recommended“it's pretty good book called the possibility principle you can look that up”
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Homo Ludens
Recommended“it's a book called homo ludens by Dutchman Johan henka written in like the 30s”
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Machiavellis Virtue
Recommended“the if the my favorite book about makavelli is called Machiavelli's virtue by Harvey Mansfield it's a fantastic book”
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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.'”
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Victor/Victoria
Discussed“did you ever see a film called Victor Victoria no Victor Victoria is the I think the tagline on the poster was the story of a woman playing a man playing a woman”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Discussed“an immigrants love letter to the West is the title of your book it's I love this title um for a variety of reasons”
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Glucose Goddess Method- the 4-Week Guide to Cutting Cravings, Getting Your Energy Back, and Feeling Amazing by Jessie Inchauspe
Discussed“right on page seven of your book the glucose goddess method you talk about this 2,700 person pilot experiment that you did in 2019”
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Homicide
Discussed“This is from uh a book called Homicide by uh Martin Daly and Marggo Margot Wilson.”
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Eight Secrets
Discussed“And what are the most important because you have a book here called happiness, eight secrets for leading the good life.”
ChooseFI
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Born to Run
Discussed“Did you read Born to Run at some point? Me too!”
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Sapiens
Discussed“I'm always looking for the cross-section of different ideas that come to the same conclusion. Have you read like Yuval Harari's Sapiens? I certainly have read portions of it, yep!”
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Risk Savvy
Recommended“the book you'd want to read is called risk Savvy it's by a guy named ger gigin he's at the MOX plunk Institute in in Germany”
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Stillness Is the Key
Book club“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.”
Pod Save America
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Democracy Or Else
Recommended“Two quick things before we go to break: You guys all already know about Jon Lovett and Tommy's great book, 'Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps.' It's a funny, practical guide to help you navigate the rest of this election.”
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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."”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Ida Tarbell's Second Look at Standard Oil
Discussed“A famous woman journalist, Ida Tarbell, wrote a book about the Standard Oil trust. She said it was a great company, but it always played with loaded dice.”
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The New Map
Discussed“One is in The New Map and you and I have talked about it. It’s the meeting with Prime Minister Modi in India.”
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The Commanding Heights
Discussed“I discussed this in a book you probably don’t know I did called The Commanding Heights. I describe a scene in the book where he brought his senior advisors together to argue about whether you allow market forces to work or not.”
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The Quest
Discussed“That is one of the things that made The Prize, The New Map, and The Quest distinctive. The Quest, the middle book, was a question. Where the hell did the modern solar and wind industry come from anyway?”
Timcast IRL
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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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The Affordable Care Act
Discussed“that is about allowing people to be able purs what has been fleeing in terms of the American dream down payment of $25,000 down payment assistance for firsttime home buyers that's the kind of conversation I believe David that people really want tonight as opposed to a conversation that is constantly about belittling and name calling let's turn the page”
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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.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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They Never Talk Back
Recommended“it's a great um book you book you'd love it's by this guy who had a store in New York Henry treick it's called they don't talk back”
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Quotes from George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones Book Series 2019 Day-to-Day
Recommended“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.”
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I Used to Like You Until...
Discussed“so um you wrote a book about well I think the title is I used to like you but until yeah I used to like you until”
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The Jungle Book
Discussed“Baloo. Jungle Book. Oh yeah, the friendliest. It's amazing, isn't it that we anthropomorphize Bears”
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The Moth in the Iron Lung
Discussed“based on uh the the book The Moth in the Iron Lung.”
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!”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Daily Dad
Recommended“the book is called The Daily dad 366 meditations on parenting love and raising great kids by Ryan holiday if you don't already follow Ryan on Instagram on YouTube across social media his podcast of course we named all the books earlier”
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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.”
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How to Be the Love You Seek
Recommended“So, above where everyone the book is called How to Be the Love You Seek, Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships. Dr. Nicole LePera, the holistic psychologist on Instagram.”
The Daily Stoic
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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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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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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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De Rerum Natura
Discussed“Yeah, on the nature of things.”
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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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Creation
Discussed“had you by the way ever read the gorv Vidal's book on Aaron bur no that's another great book uh Vidal was a you know brilliant for all his other complications he was a great scholar and he wrote a beautiful book uh on on Aaron bur and also on who's the first CH Christian uh uh Emperor uh Ju”
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Burr
Discussed“had you by the way ever read the gorv Vidal's book on Aaron bur no that's another great book uh Vidal was a you know brilliant for all his other complications he was a great scholar and he wrote a beautiful book uh on on Aaron Burr”
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The swerve
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“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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The Storm Before the Storm
Recommended“one of my favorite books is this book called The Storm before the storm and uh the idea is that we kind of just see Caesar Crossing the Rubicon one day as if it it just popped into his head as if there wasn't all this history and all these other events leading up to this other major event yes”
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Ben Smith
Discussed“did you read the Ben Smith book uh no it's pretty like just yeah just as it”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Deep
Recommended“and you know what my answer is I say what you should really read is Deep by James Nester”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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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.”
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Over the Influence
Recommended“I mean we we've just been so like enraptured by and impressed by the Memoir this is over the influence by our guest and if you are a music fan especially if you are a millennial music fan you have to have to read this”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Traveling Mercies
Recommended“This is a quote from the great Anne Lamott. One of one of my favorite writers of all time. She says the opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.”
Candace
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Moses and Monotheism
Discussed“And it was called I I want to say Moses and monotheism. And in it, he posited that the Jews weren't actually the original Jews or that they killed Moses”
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Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
Discussed“And so, yes, he co-wrote the book Jewish Fundamentalism. And I want to let you know what he actually wrote in that book.”
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Supermob
Recommended“inspect clo writes please read super mob by Gus Russo ties together with politics Hollywood and the mob which infiltrated into our government me government in the 1940s Etc”
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Savage Peace
Discussed“and you should watch this documentary The Savage pieace”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Recommended“Patrick Lencioni. I'm sure some of you have read the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, but he kind of got into early this sort of ability to be unliked inside of a company. And I'll just I think I highly recommend the book because it really talks about this sort of fear of conflict and avoidance of accountability”
Conversations with Tyler
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The Invisible Man
Discussed“you've written a book on invisibility after I read your book I was wondering how much would it be worth today to be you know Wells as the Invisible Man say you're an able-bodied 30-year-old man in the United States or in the UK”
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
Discussed“so they were things like Frankenstein Dracula Jael and Hyde Sherlock Holmes”
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How Life Works
Discussed“let's turn now to your new book again how life Works a user's guide to the new biology which I enjoyed very much and learned a great deal from a simple question”
Never Enough
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The Triumph of William McKinley
Recommended“there's an incredible book called the Triumph of William McKinley and it's written by I think the smartest polit the political mind that I've ever heard of many people agree which is Carl Rove”
