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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2024
During October 2024, various podcasts explored literature ranging from historical politics and biographies to classic fiction and dark histories. On Stuff You Should Know, host Josh highlighted Algernon Blackwood's 'Classic Ghost Stories,' specifically featuring 'The Woman's Ghost Story.' Political and biographical works also drew substantial attention. The Tucker Carlson Show featured Rod Blagojevich discussing his upcoming book about his prison experiences, while Pod Save America focused on Nancy Pelosi's best-selling memoir 'The Art of Power' and Betsy McCaughey's 'Beating Obamacare 2014.' In discussions concerning intelligence and conspiracy, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured guest Rick Spence referencing Kim Philby's autobiography 'My Silent War' and examining the controversial 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' Additional historical and biographical examinations included the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast referencing Joseph Needham's 'Science and Civilisation in China' during a segment on smallpox inoculation, and Behind the Bastards utilizing Max Chafkin's 'The Contrarian' as a primary source for an episode analyzing Peter Thiel.
Stuff You Should Know
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Classic Ghost Stories
Discussed“What's it called? This is 'The Woman's Ghost Story' by Algernon Blackwood.”
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Grimm's Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)
Discussed“Um, of course, central to a lot of these stories were the Brothers Grimm, uh Jacob and Wilhelm, who we did I think a two-parter on the Grimm brothers, uh didn't we?”
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Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry
Discussed“Uh, also late in the 19th century, none other than William Butler Yeats published, I don't know if it was the first one but maybe one of the first big guidebooks almost about fairies. It was called Fairy and Folktales of the Irish Peasantry, uh published in 1888.”
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Foundation
Discussed“Yeah, well you know what that reminds me of, Chuck, is do you remember that big coffee table gnome book from the 70s, like Garden Gnomes?”
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Backyard fairies
Discussed“Well, I'm looking, yeah, yeah, 'Backyard Fairies' by Phoebe Wahl.”
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Deliverance
Discussed“This is a poem by James Dickey, who was a poet but also a novelist; he wrote Deliverance!”
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Memoirs of Fanny Hill
Discussed“And they all shrugged, and she wrote a book about it.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The governor
Discussed“Well, your prison story, I must say, is one of the most incredible I've ever heard. Yeah, I'm writing a book about it. It's an unusual story.”
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The Conscience of a Conservative
Discussed“So I was coming from a working-class background, and I saw the Republican Party—not necessarily the leadership of the Republican Party, but the principles of what Goldwater was talking about as something that attracted my interest.”
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No Disrespect
Discussed“You know, her big Sister Souljah moment was to say she wants to raise the capital gains tax rate, but less than Joe Biden. That was her big Sister Souljah moment.”
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Hamilton
Discussed“And so she wanted to be around that—she liked one thing we bonded over: I love the musical Hamilton. I don't really like musicals, but I think they did a phenomenal job with it.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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My silent war
Discussed“But he also made this statement, I think it's in the preface to his autobiography. And he says, one never looks twice at the offer of service in elite force.”
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Discussed“You gave a lecture on 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' It's widely considered to be the most influential work of anti-Semitism ever, perhaps. Can you describe this text?”
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Fighting Soul
Discussed“Ari Rabin-Havt, a former deputy campaign manager, wrote a great book depicting your journey, titled "The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders."”
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Underworld
Discussed“But by 2002, when I published a book called 'Underworld', which was the most massive and heavy book that I've ever written because I was writing very defensively at the time.”
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Hamlet's mill
Discussed“They wrote an immense book in the 1960s called 'Hamlet's Mill'.”
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Food of the Gods
Discussed“There are two names that need to be mentioned: the late, great Terence McKenna and his book Food of the Gods, where he strongly proposed the idea that our ancestral encounters with psychedelics made us fully human.”
Pod Save America
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Beating Obamacare 2014
Discussed“Yeah, the ACA is so deeply ingrained; we need massive reforms to make this work.”
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The Art of Power
Discussed“Today, I am honored to be able to sit down with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, representing California's 11th District for the last thirty years, inductee to the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, recipient of the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and also New York Times best-selling author of The Art of Power, which”
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Hatemonger
Discussed“And when you hear from Steven Miller, when you hear from some of the authors of Project 2025, Steven Miller, potential White House Chief of Staff if Trump wins again, what they really want to do is get into legal immigration.”
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Peril
Discussed“Um, but I'm sure they'll do more, um on her Howard Stern interview. Um, he asked about a report that emerged yesterday from Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, as if we needed a Woodward book!”
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The Playbook
Discussed“You have to subscribe to Pod Save America, read Playbook, read the New York Times, watch MSNBC, and most people don't do that.”
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Melania and Me
Discussed“A reporter at the Guardian got their hands on an early copy of her book that's coming out next week and reported that in it, the former First Lady reveals that she is stridently pro-choice.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Science and Civilisation in China
Discussed“There's a guy named Joseph Needham who wrote a book called Science and Civilization in China and he talks about this in volume six.”
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Dark Wire
Discussed“I only know about this; there's a book called Dark Wire. Dark Wire, it's coming out as a Netflix series actually, that was the news that brought up in the press recently. I didn't know—I remember the book, um, by a guy named Joseph Cox; it's a great read.”
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Satanic Bible
Discussed“He created the Satanic Bible, it still to this day remains available, you can find it, it's one of the most, at least most available books that you can find about Satanism or the satanic religion.”
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Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Causes Thereof
Discussed“In a work of his called Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Causes Thereof, he claims that newly discovered correspondence between Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, an actor named William Kemp, and a moneylender with a tremendously offensive name—he all show that Shakespeare had difficulty with money and marriage!”
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Studies in Early American History
Discussed“He writes a book called Studies in Early American History: A Notable Lawsuit!”
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The Mist
Discussed“I saw videos from there where it was just literally like the mist, like the Stephen King story, just absolutely this very weird, sickly kind of haze. I don't know, what did you experience that?”
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Proceedings
Discussed“In another book called Anson's Gold, a fellow named George Edmund says that we have to remember George Anson was a naval man—he was an admiral! And George Edmund argues that Anson created this cipher to hide the latitude and longitude of an island where he had buried or discovered a huge Spanish treasure! Oh, it's a treasure map!”
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Discussed“In 1982, the author of a book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail speculated that the painter you had mentioned earlier, uh, Poussin, was a member of what's called the Priory of Sion! And we remember we interviewed, uh, the daughter of one of the authors; Vent was her last name, I believe! Uh, fascinating story!”
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The Da Vinci Code (Republish)
Discussed“And you know, this is very Dan Brown! Dan Brown leans very heavily on this in one of his books, at least in The Da Vinci Code! And the idea is that this bloodline was, uh, secreted away!”
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Propaganda
Discussed“First episode of the podcast, Propaganda, available online.”
Behind the Bastards
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The Contrarian
Discussed“Now, Teal's biographer, Max Chafkin, author of 'The Contrarian,' which is a book that will be a sizable source for this, although I do have some disagreement—I think Chafkin is a very good writer, a good biographer—there are a couple of areas where I disagree with him that we'll talk about here.”
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A thousand days
Discussed“Over a long career as a political writer, he laid down the definitive first biography of JFK's White House, he convinced RFK to run for president, he then wrote a definitive book about RFK after he was assassinated, he invented the term the imperial presidency!”
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Robert Kennedy and his times
Discussed“Over a long career as a political writer, he laid down the definitive first biography of JFK's White House, he convinced RFK to run for president, he then wrote a definitive book about RFK after he was assassinated, he invented the term the imperial presidency!”
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The Call of the Wild
Discussed“They read from another book on race titled Calling America and a disgruntled professor testified that five black men from the Tuskegee Institute toured Statesboro College and ate in the cafeteria while no white people were on campus.”
Speaker Part Four: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS 2024-10-17 Listen at 13:41 -
A State-by-State History of Race and Racism in the United States [2 volumes]
Discussed“I'm going to quote from the book Race and Racism in the United States: 'On his deathbed, he told his Baptist preacher that the black race was created inferior by God.'”
Speaker Part Four: America's First Fascist Governor | BEHIND THE BASTARDS 2024-10-17 Listen at 56:43
The Daily Stoic
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Victoria: The Queen
Discussed“I loved your biography of Queen Victoria, and then I thought, because I was going to write about Queen Elizabeth in my next book, there has to be a book this good about her.”
Speaker Julia Baird On Building Resilience And The Strength Of Forgiveness 2024-10-29 Listen at 0:30 -
Phosphorescence
Discussed“I think it's unusual that someone would do a serious, big, thick biography and then transition into the books that you're doing now. Was that a deliberate choice?”
Speaker Julia Baird On Building Resilience And The Strength Of Forgiveness 2024-10-29 Listen at 1:17 -
Amazing Grace
Discussed“When you quote 'Amazing Grace' in the book, it reads as an acknowledgment of the man who wrote that song, who was a slave trader and later became an abolitionist.”
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The Return
Discussed“And for me, like honestly, just being in the car, yes, and I'm listening to Dana Milbank's new book about the dysfunctional 2022 class. Yes, which is just cathartic because I'm like, yeah, well, you guys enjoy that, right?”
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Never Play It Safe
Discussed“I'm telling you man, I hate to be that dude talking about his book, but there’s a whole chapter about that—it’s the constraints chapter.”
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The Boy Who Would Be King
Discussed“Um, what how we should wrap up is, okay, how do you determine— Um, like I was listening to your episode with Rich Roll recently, and he was like, 'My favorite thing in this book in the Justice book was the afterward where you do insert yourself into it.'”
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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Discussed“Yeah, so like some of that is like, it's just the enjoy—like, I just read this book I loved called—uh, that—it's just a masterpiece, which is 'Fint, No Tools, We Don't Know Ourselves.'”
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The Cost of These Dreams
Discussed“No, it's, um, I was thinking about this though because I was writing upstairs, uh, as I love your book, 'The Cost of These Dreams.'”
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The Devil In The White City
Discussed“And he goes, so, um, the—the man and wife who—funny, crazy story—the guy who bought this house, he built this dream house with his wife, and then like a year later he gets hit by a streetcar at the World Fair in Chicago and never like dies; never lives in the house; like, like The Devil in the White City,”
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Through My Eyes
Discussed“And I think that's true for your book, and like I remember a couple years ago my mother-in-law gave—uh, gave us a kid like Ruby Bridges wrote a—a kids' book, and um she wrote on the inside about how she like, remember, she lived in Louisiana when it happened; she lived like up—she lived in Monroe, I think; anyways, she”
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The End of the Myth
Discussed“And you know, I love that Greg Grandon book, 'The End of the Myth,' but like if there's a—you know, there's a case to be made that the land where Matt Till was killed is America was finally settled.”
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The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and Various Friends
Discussed“I thought I'd start in the nerdiest place possible: have you read Marcus's letters to Fronto? You know who Fronto is? The love letters?”
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Dying Every Day
Discussed“I mean, there are different accounts of how culpable Seneca was. I love the James Romm book 'Dying Every Day', it's extraordinary. What I love about Seneca is his humanness; he had this ideal that he tried to reach, and the reality was working for Nero.”
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Moral letters to Lucilius
Discussed“'Letters to Lucilius' is a good example; that's addressed to someone, but you can see him working out death and grief in that work. Same with 'On the Shortness of Life'; it's an intellectual exercise and a spiritual exercise. They didn't have a pre-fitted philosophy or theology that they could live by; they had to come up with it themselves,”
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On the Shortness of Life
Discussed“'Letters to Lucilius' is a good example; that's addressed to someone, but you can see him working out death and grief in that work. Same with 'On the Shortness of Life'; it's an intellectual exercise and a spiritual exercise. They didn't have a pre-fitted philosophy or theology that they could live by; they had to come up with it themselves,”
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The Therapy of Desire
Discussed“I think she's possibly Princeton or Yale, um, but she wrote a wonderful book called The Therapy of Desire, which looks, you know, there's a, a case study, a kind of fictional case study of a young woman in Stoic times who, um, is learning Stoicism. And you know there's this great, you know, um, Nussbaum is a brilliant writer,”
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Wild Things
Discussed“Um, one of my books, Well Mania was turned into a Netflix show. And, um, it's, it did a great first season. It did really well around the world.”
StarTalk Radio
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Course of six lectures on the chemical history of a candle
Discussed“So it's a great question; it's reminiscent of a famous essay from the 19th century written by Michael Faraday called 'What is Fire?' Because what is it?”
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Angels & Demons
Discussed“Uh, in the film 'Angels and Demons,' oh, I like that one! Yeah, the Dan Brown second novel of that series. It reports that the Catholic Church, oh, that's right!”
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The World in Six Songs by Daniel J Levitin
Discussed“Yeah, so I mentioned this because in 2019 there were a couple of target articles about the evolution of music, and this is something I devoted a whole book to in 2008, The World in Six Songs.”
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This Is Your Brain on Music
Discussed“So this is the book I wanted to write 20 years ago when I wrote This Is Your Brain on Music. But there was not enough evidence for medical applications of music!”
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
Discussed“So, Daniel, you have a recent book published with W. W. Norton. That's who your publisher is? Anyone over 70 will get that reference! No! Yeah, if you’re an Eddie Murphy fan, you’ll get it too! You’ll get that from that one skit he did! I'm with W. W. Norton, very happy! Yeah! I have a few books with W.”
No Stupid Questions
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Magician of West 86th Street
Discussed“But when you think about other aspects of costuming, Isaac Bashevis Singer, who is a writer and thinker from a long time ago, said, 'What a strange power there is in clothing.'”
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Lolita
Discussed“Much like Nabokov forces us to do in Lolita, the truly unsettling part, the terrifying thing, is realizing that each one of us might be capable of committing an evil act given the right reasons.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Discussed“In your book, you talk a lot about how gender roles in marriage have changed as women are doing better economically.”
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Dream hoarders
Discussed“A great example would be the book you wrote before, which is called Dream Hoarders, which is about how the upper middle class is moving away from the rest of society.”
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Little men
Discussed“I want to honor that, and what's really interesting about this is that, you know how when you write a book, by the time you finish the book and it's out there, you're sick of it?”
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Why Nations Fail
Discussed“My guest today, Daron Acemoglu, is a professor of economics at MIT and co-author of a number of influential books written for a popular audience, including 'Why Nations Fail' and 'Power and Progress.' He is also, without a doubt, one of the greatest economists I have ever met.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Art of the Deal
Discussed“the idea of trump as you know Mega CEO was forged through the art of the deal the book that he published in 1987 which was Ghost written by Tony Schwarz”
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A First-Rate Madness
Discussed“Mick Mulaney Trump's third Chief of Staff he recommended AIDS read the book A First Rate Madness uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness He thought it would help them understand the way Trump's strange psychology maybe even his mental illness helped make him a powerful and unique leader”
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The Toddler in Chief
Discussed“There is an answer to this question it's that as president Trump was surrounded by Inhibitors in 2020 the political scientist Daniel Dresner published a book entitled the toddler and chief The core of the book was over a, instances jar collected in which Trump is described by those around him in terms befitting an impetuous child”
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Managing Risk
Discussed“There is an answer to this question it's that as president Trump was surrounded by Inhibitors in 2020 the political scientist Daniel Dresner published a book entitled the toddler and chief The core of the book was over a, instances jar collected in which Trump is described by those around him in terms befitting an impetuous child”
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The City That Became Safe
Discussed“um Franklin zimmering the criminologist has a book called the city that became safe which is about New York's experience specifically”
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Thinking About Crime
Discussed“The first one is a lot of the ideas I talked about particularly early in this conversation come from the work of the political scientist James Q Wilson arguably the most influential political scientist of the 20th century my personal ideological hero and his collection of essays thinking about crime was really influential on how I think about crime”
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Against Excess
Discussed“but instead I'll actually go with Mark kleinman's work on drug policy his book against excess which is in my mind the most analytically sound articulation of how to think about drug policy I've ever read just across the board it is a dense book”
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Our American Israel
Discussed“um Amy Kaplan man our American Israel the story of an entangled Alliance This gets to you know something that we we talk quite a bit about”
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Our Man
Discussed“I went back and I started to read biographies of American diplomats and one of my favorite biographies full stop is George Packer's biography of the Diplomat Richard Holbrook the book is written in the style of a novel”
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See Under: LOVE
Discussed“um it's going to suggest also David Grossman's novel see under love which it's a spraing novel that kind of responds to the Theodore adorno's question about whether Art Is Possible after the Holocaust”
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Collected Poems: 1974-2004
Discussed“and then uh the final suggestion I was uh is Rita Dove's Collective poems she's uh a black poet who writes about history at its most brutal and despair making”
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How the World Became Rich
Discussed“my first book is how the world became Rich by Mark coyama and Jared Rubin”
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Emil Zola
Discussed“um the final book is a novel by Emil Zola called the Ladies paradise”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Hillbilly Elegy
Discussed“Vance writes with real love of the people in his life in Hillbilly Elegy, which is genuinely a people rather than idea-centered book — that is not a criticism, by the way, but an observation, as I have already commented positively on his intelligence.”
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The Origins and History of Consciousness
Discussed“Neumann wrote a book called The Origins and History of Consciousness, which is a work of genius, and also another book called The Great Mother, which is a study of the symbolism of the feminine.”
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Light of the Mind, Light of the World
Discussed“The more proximal reason for speaking with Spencer today was that he has a new book coming out called Light of the Mind, Light of the World, which is available in mid-October 2024.”
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Invisible Man
Discussed“I mean soul and poets and political leadership and moral leadership and spiritual leadership. I grew up reading Langston Hughes and Ellison and Richard Wright, and that's stitched into the narrative. But you know, I can't—all I can speak about in terms of where I think we should...”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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The Exorcist
Discussed“I looked for dark humor like dead baby jokes; I read The Exorcist for an eighth-grade book report, and I wrote about The Exorcist. That book is not appropriate for a 13-year-old!”
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Dear America
Discussed“It always says, 'Journal,' that's almost a thing you've been told from a young age–like the American Girl book and keeping of you is Dear America. Did you ever read this? Dear America?”
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The Care and Keeping of You 2
Discussed“I’m talking about there's an American Girl book from the mid-90s called The Care and Keeping of You that every young woman read! And it featured a graphic illustration of a girl putting a tampon in—every woman listening to this or watching this who was born in the late 80s or early 90s knows what I’m talking about!”
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The Naked and the Dead
Discussed“And then from then on, I was a huge fan of hers and looked up all her... you know stuff from her life! Books about her, you know, books by Norman Mailer! You know, just like incredible!”
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The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Discussed“So back in the day, we did on this podcast, we did a book club reading of 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey'! We did! And because it's my favorite book, and it is like, I think it's a piece of music history!”
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The Creative Habit
Discussed“And she wrote a wonderful book called The Creative Habit, which I encourage everyone to read, inspiring dancers still today! Still today!”
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The secret of the old clock
Discussed“Yeah, that—that her first mystery was The Old Clock? Was that the first mystery she ever did?”
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem
Discussed“Um, Slouching Towards Bethlehem! And of course, did you read Goodbye to All That when you left New York? I think people sent it to you!”
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Trick Mirror
Discussed“Thank you for the way that you communicate, the way you write! The way that you write with importance! You write with urgency about the things that are plaguing society!”
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Kiss of the spider woman
Discussed“But I will say the gag is that he and Matt Damon are producers on Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Yeah, which is going—going, which I heard is good. Okay.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Good Inside
Discussed“And you know, I'm reading like, what's the book you recommend constantly? Good Inside. Yeah, that's like the current play on my phone. She's...”
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Invisible Rulers
Discussed“What I liked about invisible rulers—the reason I picked that for the title of the book is, as you note, it's a reference to the 1920s.”
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Rich dad's guide to investing
Discussed“Jordan, I want to say this: after I wrote my book, I was reunited with that side of the family, which just happened recently.”
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Les Trois Mousquetaires
Discussed“In the book, you mentioned that you have this internal monster voice that inflicts doubt and self-worth issues into your mind; can you tell me more about it?”
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10% Happier
Discussed“I created a reason to go on TV again because it was the 10th anniversary of the first book I wrote, which was called '10% Happier.' I got my publisher to put out a fancy new 10th anniversary edition.”
Huberman Lab
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A Poison Like No Other
Discussed“In fact, there's a book that I read in preparation for this episode; gosh, it was so depressing but important for me to read; maybe you want to read it as well. It's quite good, although it will be a bit of a downer; the title of the book is 'A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet”
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A Fighter's Heart
Discussed“I think there are two phrases that come to mind; there's a book called 'A Fighter's Heart' by Sam Sheridan, and it's a pretty interesting account of all the different forms of martial arts and fighting. There's an interesting part of the book where he says, 'You can't have your 20th birthday until you're 19,' which is a big giant”
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Steve Jobs
Discussed“And the reason I say this is, um, you know, I remember when Steve Jobs was alive because I was a postdoc in Palo Alto then and would see him occasionally around Palo Alto, um, there; and then, you know, read the Walter Isaacson biography about him, and it seemed like he had a very clear sense that someday he”
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Living Your Dying
Discussed“In 1972, Ernest Becker wrote a book, which you'll know all about, the book based on the title called The Denial of Death; he won the Pulitzer Prize for it. And Becker's contention was that we are the only species that at a very early age recognizes that we are only here for a short period of time, but more”
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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 entitled, 'Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.' This is a book that I’ve been working on for more than five years and it’s based on more than 30 years of research and experience.”
SmartLess
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Why I Write
Discussed“Who's out there in Wisconsin saying, 'You know what we really need to do? We need to ban Orwell's books, provide tax cuts for billionaires, and repress women.'”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Life on the Mississippi
Discussed“Do you remember the book Body for Life?”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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What Happened
Discussed“I, you know, Hillary is busy out promoting her book. Does she have time to give lip service?”
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The Narrow Corridor
Discussed“Join now to discuss this and much more, Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large for Newsweek and host of The Josh Hammer Show and America on Trial with Josh Hammer And also with me, Delano Squires He's a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a contributor at The Blaze Guys, welcome So irritating, so dishonest”
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Little Women
Discussed“Man enough to not ban young women from reading Little Women or one of those pants books that the sisters like. I'm man enough to raw dog a flight, it sucked, not worth it.”
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Between the World and Me
Discussed“So he wrote this book; he decided to meander over into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because what we really needed was his take. You'll be shocked to learn he reduced it to skin color; shocked to learn it's about colonialism for him.”
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A Woman Underground (Cameron Winter Mysteries)
Discussed“Joining me now, Andrew Klavan He's host of The Andrew Klavan Show He's out with a new book, a highly anticipated mystery novel titled A Woman Underground available now for pre-order Don't miss a moment Subscribe to this show on YouTube and follow me on Instagram, Facebook and X Health has been a big topic around the country over the”
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The Message
Discussed“I have one very important thing in common with Ta-Nehisi Coates that I would like to confess right up top is that I too have spent 10 days in Israel on a junket. Um, and also I have not recently published a book about that called the message.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Fingerprints of the gods
Discussed“I've written about it in Fingerprints of the Gods. Let's see if Jamie has already found it.”
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The Sign and the Seal
Discussed“I decided to investigate it and explore it, and it led to The Sign and the Seal, which was published in 1992, and that’s what set me on the path to Fingerprints of the Gods and everything that followed!”
Timcast IRL
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Mein Kampf
Discussed“This is one of the most terrifying things that you've heard a presidential candidate say because it is straight out of Mein Kampf.”
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The Great Wave
Discussed“It's normally caused by a budget issue because leading up to these crises, one of the great books on this topic is The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer. He found these crises while studying the history of inflation, and he found you could correlate the history of inflation with these crises because inflation is a parallel for government instability.”
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Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
Discussed“Yeah, the novels appear to be real: 'The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger' in 1889; the sequel: 'Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey' in 1893.”
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The Last President or 1900
Discussed“Rota also mentioned another book of Lockwood's: '1900, or the Last President,' in which New York City is riven by protests following the shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election who brings on the downfall of the American Republic.”
The Rubin Report
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One Jewish State
Discussed“Joining me today is the former U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Trump and author of the new book, One Jewish State: The Last Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
Modern Wisdom
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The Year of Living Constitutionally
Discussed“That actually came from A.J. Jacobs; his newest book is called, I think, 'Living Constitutionally,' or something like that. He's the one that revealed that fact for me, so thanks A.J. Jacobs. Um, rules–yeah.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Work
Discussed“The anthropologist James Suzman, in his book 'Work,' tells a story about Kellogg’s, the cereal company, during the Great Depression. The company cut their workers’ hours to create an additional shift, which let them hire more people. The workday went from 8 hours to 6.”
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Working
Discussed“Fifty years ago, the Chicago writer and radio host Studs Terkel published a book called 'Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.' Terkel interviewed dozens of people about their jobs: a cab driver, waitress, bookbinder, factory owner, industrial designer, a gravedigger, a carpenter; the book became a classic. It was”
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What Do People Do All Day?
Discussed“This title was stolen from a children's book by the beloved author and illustrator Richard Scarry. Here is his son, Huck Scarry. When I was growing up, my father worked at home.”
