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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2024
October 2024 brought discussions spanning horror literature, business strategies, and relationship advice across several prominent shows. On the Monday Morning Podcast, a listener email to Bill Burr noted that the late nineties film The 13th Floor shared themes with Westworld. Marc Andreessen appeared on The Ben & Marc Show to highlight David Halberstam's The Reckoning, illustrating how the American auto industry faced immense pressure during the rise of Japanese car makers. Pod Save America featured an introduction of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, highlighting her background as a bestselling author of The Art of Power. On My First Million, Garry Tan mentioned that Y Combinator distributes Pete Kazanjy's Founding Sales to nearly every founder. Steven Bartlett returned on The Diary Of A CEO to enthusiastically recommend James J. Sexton's How to Stay in Love, praising it as his favorite book on love and relationships. Additionally, The Book Review featured horror authors Steven Graham Jones and Joe Hill in conversation with Gilbert Cruz. During the episode, Jones discussed Gemma Files's Experimental Film and Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts, while Joe Hill recommended Mathias Clasen's How Horror Seduces as a strong non-fiction work examining the horror genre.
Monday Morning Podcast
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The 13th Floor
Recommended“if you like that and you're looking for a great movie to watch check out the 13th floor it came out in the late 90s and deals with similar themes”
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Westworld
Discussed“I obviously didn't have the money and thank God I didn't have the [ __ ] rights to it cuz I have to tell you I watched the first episode of Westworld”
Stuff You Should Know
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Classic Ghost Stories
Book club“What's it called? This is 'The Woman's Ghost Story' by Algernon Blackwood.”
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A Woman's Ghost
Discussed“This is the woman's Ghost Story by alenin Blackwood”
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The Middle Toe of the Right Foot
Discussed“the middle toe of the right foot by Ambrose beer”
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The Long Lost Friend
Discussed“um paow refers to uh or it actually came from um this German book called the long lost Friends by uh John George homman published in 1820”
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Grimm's fairy tales
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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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Discussed“none other than William Butler Yates published I don't know if it was the first one but maybe one of the first big guide books almost about fairies it was called fairy and folktales of the Irish peasantry uh published in 1888”
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Backyard fairies
Recommended“Well, I'm looking, yeah, yeah, 'Backyard Fairies' by Phoebe Wahl.”
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The Colossus
Discussed“it gained some ubiquity uh being referenced in a Sylvia Plath poem The Colossus in the 1950s”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Imminent
Discussed“You've got There's a book in front of me called Imminent, which is the book you've written. It says Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs.”
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How to Stay in Love
Recommended“Everyone, if you didn't go by the book last time, you have to go buy the book. It's called How to Stay in Love; um, and it's my favorite book ever written on the subject of love and relationships and life, quite frankly. So, I think everyone needs to go and get the book.”
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The Little Prince
Discussed“you know the boy the F The Little Prince you know there's so many books like that that I think ins spired me to think about rediscovering our childlike um curiosity uh ability to to to think Beyond ourselves our imagination like almost like re-remembering yourself before many of the hurts”
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The Churchill Factor, How One Man Made History
Discussed“In fact when I opened up the first couple of pages of the book you you dedicate the book in memory of of Charlotte your mother”
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Unleashed
Recommended“thank you very much Steve it's been an honor I I think do I get a prize for I think that must be that was a that how long was that interview supposed to be”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Briefly Perfectly Human
Discussed“and that led me to your book briefly perfectly human and I have to say first of all before you even crack this book open this is one of the most gorgeous books I've ever seen in my entire life”
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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The non-existent manuscript
Discussed“There was an Italian writer, and they know Cesare Michelis, who wrote a book translated in English called "The Non-Existent Manuscript."”
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It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism
Discussed“So you wrote a book, It's Okay To Be Angry About Capitalism.”
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Fighting Soul
Recommended“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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Hamlet's mill
Recommended“They wrote an immense book in the 1960s called 'Hamlet's Mill'.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Valkyrie
Discussed“it goes back to that whole thing which is we have whole movie yeah of course they do it's that whole movie Valkyrie which is okay you know the hero of the movie was trying to kill Hitler the entire time acted by Tom Cruz and you know Dietrich bonhoff”
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Toxic Empathy
Discussed“the book is called toxic empathy how progressives exploit Christian Compassion by Ali Beth Stucky”
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Between the World and Me
Critiqued“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.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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The Reckoning
Recommended“there's a great book actually David helber St wrote a great book called The Reckoning where he he actually told the story which is a really good book”
Conversations with Tyler
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Unit X
Discussed“He wrote a book that I thought was great. It is Unit X, how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war and that is co-authored with Raj M. Shah.”
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The Islamic Moses
Recommended“there's a great book that just came out I think it's Mustafa iol who wrote it called the Muslim Moses”
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Radetzky march
Recommended“uh the retki March it's uh it's fabulous”
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Paved Paradise
Discussed“paved Paradise I just finished that which is a book about like parking lots and cars and car culture it's very very good”
Timcast IRL
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The Last Election
Discussed“he wrote a book called the last election with Andrew Yang”
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Ephesians
Discussed“Ephesians 6 is just one of my favorite books of the of the entire Bible it's just incredibly written it is uh you know the Apostle Paul writing that just just fantastic”
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War
Discussed“because I think it was just a few days ago right in Bob Woodward's new book War where Biden was bashing Obama saying that it's like his fault that Ukraine has been melting down”
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The Great Wave
Recommended“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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Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger
Discussed“I can't believe that those um those books from the 1800s what what are they one about Baron Trump who wrote Inger Soul Lockwood that's still I still I'm that's a hoax there's no way that's real you know about these books I've heard of it”
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
Recommended“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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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
Recommended“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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Black Book of Satan
Discussed“so they have a book called The Black Book of Satan comes in three volumes uh these are considered so extreme that they're kept in a special section of the British library or they're not available to the general public”
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The Grapes of Wrath
Discussed“Shout out to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, hugely, that's the book that really hipped me to this whole struggle and this whole structure, you know?”
Speaker What was the Ludlow Massacre? Chapter One: The Colorado Coal Rush 2024-10-16 Listen at 19:46 -
Bound for Glory
Discussed“There's a film called Bound for Glory that is about Woody Guthrie's story, the folk singer and his involvement in labor, and it shows this exact kind of Grapes of Wrath type situation where there are these, just they're these almost like camps of folks that are waiting for work, and it's just not coming.”
Speaker What was the Ludlow Massacre? Chapter One: The Colorado Coal Rush 2024-10-16 Listen at 20:10 -
Killing for Coal
Discussed“the national death rate in 1912 and we're getting this from a amazing book called killing for coal by Thomas G Andrews the national death rate in the US in 1912 was about three people per 1,000 across the United States 3.15 in the coal mines of Colorado alone at the very same time the r of death is 7.06”
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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 U.S. Civil War
Recommended“I just watched that Civil War movie that came out pretty recently and I don't know if you guys have seen that yet but yeah I I would recommend it because it's worth a conversation”
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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
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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The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail
Discussed“and then we have a returning school of thought from a previous episode in 1982 the author of a book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail”
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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Violence and the Sacred
Discussed“he's also the violence and the sacred guy”
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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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Jarhead
Discussed“right right right right right yeah isn't that kind of what Jarhead was about yeah yeah I mean well was yeah I guess so”
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Democrat to Deplorable
Discussed“but despite this he pretends to have been a liberal and in 2018 writes a book titled Democrat to deplorable an attempt to take advantage of the fact that right”
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Brown America
Discussed“and the show opened by reading excerpts from Brown America the book written by Rosenwald Chief Edwin Embry had been found in the Statesboro College library board Regent member James S Peters said throughout this book The Thought runs erase the feeling of superiority of the white man”
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The Wild Man from Sugar Creek
Discussed“uh and I'm going to quote now from Jean's biographer William Anderson in his book The Wild Man from Sugar Creek quote Jean became furious with the he ordered the adjunct General Lindley Camp to arrest the deputy on the spot and he told Camp to place military guard around the persons and offices of himself the treasurer and the”
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Labor in the South
Discussed“to quote the book labor in the South by F Ray Marshall who extensively documented this period of Union activity quote It turned out that one employer had hired Pearl beroff a notorious strike breaker who came with 200 hired gunmen from New York to help break the strike but jean had them deported”
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The Clansman
Discussed“the Mover behind it were 75-year-old John Henry Kirby Texas Oil Man and old huie longb backer and the Reverend Gerald LK Smith termined by the New York Times as a semi fascist nut and Thomas L Dixon author of The clansmen unquote uh Robert are are you familiar with The Clansman yes that is the book that got made”
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Rethinking the color line : readings in race and ethnicity
Discussed“so I've I've also kind of supplemented some of the research that that Willie manderson did in that book with a few other books like race and racism in the United States by Charles A Gallagher and Cameron D liard as well as the book labor in the South by F Ray Marshall”
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Race and Racism in the United States [4 volumes]
Discussed“so I've I've also kind of supplemented some of the research that that Willie manderson did in that book with a few other books like race and racism in the United States by Charles A Gallagher and Cameron D liard as well as the book labor in the South by F Ray Marshall”
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.”
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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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Queen Victoria
Discussed“I loved your biography of Queen Victoria and then I was like cuz I was going to write about Queen Elizabeth in my discipline book the second and I was like there's got to be a book this good about her”
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The Reason Why
Discussed“He also wrote a book on The Charge of the Light Brigade that's incredible and it's just called the reason why”
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Phosphorescence
Discussed“well so I put phosphorescence in I I'm doing a 10 year anniversary edition of the obstacles away and I use one of your stories in it”
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Lucy by the Sea
Discussed“and it got me thinking about kind of the last time we ever kind of say or do something you know um Elizabeth Stout wrote about it in um Lucy by the Sea you know the last time you pick up your kid”
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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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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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Three lives for Mississippi
Discussed“I read three lives from Mississippi which Martin Luther King writes a forw to yeah and the author comes off as pretty heroic and decent and not like the southern leers at that time and then in your in your book he's a [ __ ] villain”
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Lancelot
Discussed“and my favorite Walker Percy novel is Lance aot I've never read that oh dude it's so good”
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We Don't Know Ourselves
Recommended“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
Recommended“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 End of the Myth
Recommended“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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Empire of cotton
Recommended“and like you know the degree to which there's a book you should read if you haven't called uh Empire of cotton by Harvard professor at the back I read it twice like I L this is not an exaggeration”
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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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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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Dying Every Day
Recommended“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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The Therapy of Desire
Recommended“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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The inner citadel
Recommended“and then I went back to p p Hado who did did this great um did this kind of great sort of introduction as to how to read meditation this is the inner Citadel right”
My First Million
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Founding Sales
Recommended“Pete Kazanjy founder sales like that book we give a copy of that to like literally every founder.”
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Discussed“he actually wrote a book that was kind of popular called Common Stocks and uncommon profits which by the way when I went to money P's house he I asked him to recommend you know four or five books off his wall and that might have been one of them”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Story of a Soul
Discussed“and she wrote down her daily experiences in her journal and after she died that journal got published into a book called The Story of a Soul”
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Secret Agenda
Discussed“the best books about Watergate like secret agenda and Silent coup”
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Silent Coup
Discussed“the best books about Watergate like secret agenda and Silent coup”
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The Truth About Watergate
Recommended“and and uh the link to your new book The Truth About Watergate will be in the description below”
Huberman Lab
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The No Asshole Rule
Discussed“Steve Jobs I would say hands down was a high conflict person famous for there was a guy in Silicon Valley wrote a book The no a-hole Rule and he talked about Steve Jobs in there because he knew Steve Jobs”
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A Poison Like No Other
Recommended“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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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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Homo Prospectus
Recommended“in fact Marty Seligman uh kind of the the father of positive psychology put forth this idea in this great book called homo prospectus that what separates us out from almost every other species as far as we know the ones we can talk to mostly us is that that we do two things extremely well”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Discussed“And the idea that East Berlin—you cannot read—you cannot read, um, To Kill a Mockingbird or, you know, any—any or Doctor Zhivago for crying out loud.”
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Life on the Mississippi
Discussed“Do you remember the book Body for Life?”
The Book Review
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Come Closer
Discussed“and that is come closer by Sarah Grant it's a book that after seeing you recommended to hear and hearing her talk about it I'm ashamed not to have read but tell me a little bit about it”
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The Wolfen
Discussed“the first four novel I ever read and I think I must have been 11 or 12 was Whitley striber wolfen the werewolves novel and there's chapters in there that are from the grandfather wolf”
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Experimental film
Recommended“the next book that you characterized Loosely sorry if I'm overusing your phraseology here as an altimer is experimental film by Gemma files”
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A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel
Recommended“and this is a headful of ghosts the author is Paul Trimble oh man headful of ghosts Paul Paul was at the top of his game with that book”
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Why Horror Seduces
Recommended“there is a writer from a Dutch writer named Matias Clawson who's written a book called How horror seduces that's one of the better non-fiction works on the genre in the last quarter century”
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My Friends
Discussed“let's start in chronological order of what came out first this year so that would be Hashem matar's book my friends this is by a Libyan British writer”
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Soldiers and Kings
Discussed“in the west there's soldiers and Kings survival and hope in the world of human smuggling this is by Jason Deon”
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Circle of Hope
Discussed“you are familiar with our next book which is Circle of Hope a Reckoning with love power and Justice in an American church this is by Eliza Griswald”
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Unshrinking
Discussed“the last book we'll mention here the fifth non-fiction nominee for the national book Awards this year is unshrinking how to face fat phobia by Kate man”
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What I Ate in One Year
Discussed“and now he's back with what I ate in one year”
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Go Set A Watchman
Critiqued“because let's face it I keep thinking about to Kill a Mocking Bird and how desperately we all wished that sequel had not been written”
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The Plot
Discussed“her 2021 novel The Plot was a literary Thriller about the world of literature the world of writing fellowships and failed careers and one's promising authors Fading Into Oblivion”
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How to Save Your Own Life
Discussed“I read how to save your own life which is Erica jong's sequel to fear of flying”
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84, Charing Cross Road
Discussed“the first thing that I ever published was a review of 84 Ching Crossroad in 17 magazine”
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Underfoot in show business
Discussed“she began with a collection of Hela 's BBC broadcast called letters from New York and she's about to republish underfoot and show business which is hela's Memoir”
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The Sequel
Recommended“her new novel called the sequel is a sequel to the plot of direct Sequel and as such we'll be discussing some key twists from Jean's first book and if you haven't read that one you should do so”
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D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
Recommended“and one of the stories that I tell in that is the experience of becoming an atheist at age eight or nine in the final pages of do's book of Greek myths which I now feel is the single most important book I've ever read”
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Doctor Sleep
Recommended“and by the way another great sequel is Dr sleep with a sequel to The Shining”
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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John Stuart Mill
Discussed“it will probably surprise listeners because you're so focused on data and solving practical problems that back in 2007 you wrote a biography of John STW Mill a big thick book that runs to more than 600 Pages we include the footnotes”
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Why Nations Fail
Discussed“Okay, so back in 2012, you and James Robinson published a book called 'Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.' I remember at the time thinking it took a lot of audacity to tackle a topic that was so huge and so fundamental and so complex that it wasn't likely to have an easy answer.”
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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American Carnage
Recommended“and I would urge everybody to read or reread Tim Alberta's American Carnage”
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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“in 2020 the political scientist Daniel Dresner published a book entitled the toddler in 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 Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
Discussed“John Kelly Trump's second Chief of Staff is known to have bought the book The Dangerous case of Donald Trump 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president seeking Insight on the man served”
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The City That Became Safe
Recommended“Franklin zimmering the criminologist has a book called the city that became safe which is about New York's experience specifically and he argues the reason that new New York in particular experienced such a large decline even relative to the rest of the country is because of its adoption of these tactics under Rudy Giuliani and then subsequently Mike Bloomberg”
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Thinking About Crime
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“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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Justice for Some
Recommended“the first book I I I would recommend is Justice for some by nura erot Justice for some is supposed to be an analysis and it is this of the legal work as she calls it uh that that underg guards Israel and Israeli rule of Palestinians”
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The Unspoken Alliance
Recommended“and then this this this one hit me hard uh the unspoken Alliance uh Israel's secret relationship with South Africa uh by Sasha POA sanski boy that was a tough book”
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Our Man
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“my first book is how the world became Rich by Mark coyama and Jared Rubin it's just an amazing synthesis of the amazing research in the last 20 years that looks in a deep way at the role that institutions culture geography and other factors have played in just the enormous transformation of um humankind”
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Emil Zola
Recommended“um the final book is a novel by Emil Zola called the Ladies paradise”
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The Goodness Paradox
Recommended“second one is outside of my discipline and it's the goodness Paradox by Richard rangam that gets at the question of why humans can be so good to each other but also can be so bad and when we're bad we plan it meticulously and execute it over a long period of time um rather than just do it spontaneously”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Hillbilly Elegy
Discussed“I have not yet met JD Vance, although we have a podcast planned; I have read his book, however, much of it twice.”
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Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump
Discussed“I own a very comical book The collected poems of Donald J Trump available for purchase at the daily wire website by the way which compiles his most memorable tweets and declarations from 2009 to 2019 into beautiful Library Edition hardback form”
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History of Religious Ideas
Discussed“he also has a three book series called a history of religious ideas and I really like a history of religious ideas it's a great book”
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The Origins and History of Consciousness
Recommended“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
Recommended“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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Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
Discussed“One of the things you see in the Old Testament accounts is that the Jewish people are characterized in their covenant with God. They're characterized by when they're good.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
Discussed“there another great book by John Barrow and Frank tippler called the anthropic cosmological principle from the 1980s it one of my favorite books actually and I remembered it”
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Rise Up
Discussed“amazing book called rise up and kill first I've read that yeah it's a great book it's about this it's about like we can't win a war so we're going to assassinate our way to safety yeah yeah it's all about Israel yeah and and using political assassinations fantastic”
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A World on the Wing
Recommended“So have you ever heard of the book called World on the Wing by Paul I think last name is Weeden How something it's about the world of migration it it is mind B if you like to read nature stuff and science it's it's written so anybody can enjoy You don't have to be a scientist But it's fascinating”
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How to Tame a Fox
Recommended“book title is how to tame a fox and create a dog One of the most interesting books I've ever read”
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Spillover
Recommended“czy another book you'd like to read is called spillover Have you read that by David Quan”
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Woman among Wolves
Recommended“Diane Boyd uh woman Among Wolves her her entire life has been tagging wolves”
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The new menopause book
Discussed“this is why a book like the new menopause is like the number one book in the country for a while because women are desperate”
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Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Discussed“Richard Johnson from un University of Colorado wrote Nature wants us to be fat”
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Drop Acid
Discussed“and then David pearlmutter wrote um drop acid”
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The end of Alzheimer's
Recommended“an amazing book about Alzheimer's that just hasn't gotten as much attention as I think it should as Dale brison's book the end of Alzheimer's”
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Let my people go surfing
Discussed“I just read um Ivon chard's book uh let my people go surfing with the guy who started Patagonia”
Modern Wisdom
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The Noonday Demon
Discussed“he wrote a book called The Noonday demon about a depression it's a brilliant book about depression”
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Underworld
Discussed“Take a look at a book I published in 2002 called Underworld; it’s about 700 pages long and has 2,000 footnotes.”
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Henry V
Discussed“why write a book about Henry V why is he sufficiently important for you to spend several thousand words talking about him”
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Verity
Critiqued“started trying to read Verity by Colleen Hoover it's just loads of sex scenes so I bailed out of that”
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Discussed“I read the narrow road between desires which is the new Nolla that Patrick rothus wrote”
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Spiritual Enlightenment:: The Damnedest Thing
Recommended“um Ted McKenna's spiritual enlightenment now is just so fantastic”
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The Scottish Highlander
Recommended“the gotten Highlander by alist Art also great that's real life non-fiction”
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Metabolical
Discussed“hacking of the American Mind by Robert lustig and metabolical by Robert lustig again you can agree disagree with a lot of the finer points”
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Convict conditioning
Discussed“and I found this book that he recommended called convict conditioning the do you know it no oh okay but it's written by God spent like 18 years”
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The Year of Living Constitutionally
Recommended“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.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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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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The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics
Discussed“he writes in his book his book about you know Marxist economics he talks about you know this book is dedicated to my daughters K and Maya”
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Hamilton
Recommended“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.”
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Rights Come to Mind
Recommended“Joe fins who's a secular um bioeth thesis wrote a great book called rights come to mind if listeners want to explore it we now know that a significant percentage of people in a vegetative a so-called vegetative state are actually conscious”
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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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Discussed“and so um it was at that point they were looking at Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
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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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The Creative Habit
Recommended“And she wrote a wonderful book called The Creative Habit, which I encourage everyone to read, inspiring dancers still today! Still today!”
Speaker The Iconic 400! | Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang 2024-10-12 Listen at 46:36
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Good Inside
Recommended“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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How Behavior Spreads
Recommended“and that was the uh so the idea of complex contagion and how Behavior spreads he has a whole book called How Behavior spreads uh that actually kind of walks through this process in a bunch of different ways”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Irreducible Mind
Discussed“one of them is irreducible mind toward the psychology for the 21st century”
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My Early Life
Recommended“instead of biographies I'd like to ask about an autobiography so I it's my impression that you recommend that young people read my early life yeah and that there are life lessons contained within it that perhaps might help young people”
EconTalk
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Land Use without Zoning
Discussed“here's this famous book called land use without zoning by Bernard Sean where he made the point of yes so Houston really barely has any regulation of that sort that”
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The Noble Lie
Recommended“and he has a very powerful book called The Noble lie which I recommend where he talks about how people self-sup the truth”
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Tribal
Discussed“uh let's start with the title of the book um we have we have discussed the book tribe on this program okay uh and it is a by Sebastian Jer and tribe and tribal and tribalism uh have I would say neutral interpretations they have negative interpretations and I think you're trying to reclaimed the word tribal”
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Orbiting the Giant Hairball
Recommended“it's called orbiting the giant hairball it's one of my favorite books and it's a book about culture”
Freakonomics Radio
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A History of the World in Six Glasses
Discussed“our first interview was with Tom standage he's an editor at The Economist in London and I'm also the author of a book called A History of the World in six glasses”
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The Demagogue's Playbook
Discussed“for now first term you published a book called The demagogues Playbook the battle for American democracy from the founders to Trump so let's talk about that a bit”
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The Executive Unbound
Discussed“one of posner's books co-authored with Adrien vermule is called the executive Unbound after the madisonian Republic James Madison the fourth president and so-called father of the Constitution was passionate about the division of the federal government into three branches the legislative the judicial and the president's Branch the executive”
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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.”
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A Different Way to Win
Recommended“Jim Rooney wrote a book about his father Dan called a different way to win there is a forthcoming audio version of the book that includes interviews with several key Pittsburgh Steelers as well as current NFL commissioner Roger gell and former commissioner Paul tagliaboo”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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The Boxcar Children
Discussed“when I read that the book The boxar Children and I stare at those freight trains and I just wanted so bad to hop on one”
How I Write
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West with the night
Discussed“West With the Wind you know barel oh my goodness the writing in that is unbeliev amazing life and amazing writing”
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Shantaram
Discussed“go Sean trom and I go okay tell me about it he goes like it's a thousand pages”
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Redeployment
Recommended“it's called redeployment by Phil clay we [ __ ] dogs”
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an actor Prepares
Discussed“and how how to uh an actor prepares is one of one of his works and you know how how to inhabit a role of someone on stage who isn't you”
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White Noise
Discussed“and you could look at a book like white noise and you could look at the dialogue in that book which is crazy you know”
StarTalk Radio
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Light
Discussed“and your author yes this this is just a stunning book light the visible spectrum and beyond uh this is just an expensively produced just look at this it's an expensively produced book so congratulations on that and that effort and you have a co-author on this Megan Watsky”
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The Singing Neanderthals
Discussed“and Steven Myan has written a wonderful book called The Singing neanderthals MH where he posits that some sort of Proto language was music”
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I Heard There Was a Secret Chord
Discussed“so in it which has a the beautiful title I heard there was a secret chord it's great”
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A Mathematician's Apology
Discussed“I mean there was this this rather famous mathematician Hardy Who Um this was around the time of World War II he was writing this U book called a mathematician lament or sorry a mathematicians apology”
Candace
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The Gods of Atheism
Recommended“you would like a book by father Vincent melli called the gods of atheism it's very much along these lines so I'll tell you I'll remind you about it later”
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Islands of Space
Discussed“The concept of w Drive was first imagined by science fiction author John Campbell way back in 19 31 in his novel islands of space”
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A Record of the Jews in Jamaica
Discussed“and he says that actually more can be learned about him in a book that was published in 1941 from a man named Jacob APM androd”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Creative Calling
Discussed“he is an award-winning commercial photographer a director an artist an entrepreneur and the bestselling author of one of my very favorite books on creativity creative calling which was the subject of our first podcast back in 2019 as I Look Backwards”
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Never Play It Safe
Discussed“um but you've got this new book never play it safe which in thinking about it I mean it's great I love it um it's it's a book about creativity but it's really a book about life um and a sort of relationship or a Dynamic uh in which we all approach Our Lives”
SmartLess
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My Secret Garden
Discussed“in the 70s Nancy Friday wrote a book called My Secret Garden and she did the introductions to Chapters and she invited women to send in letters to her about their sexual fantasies”
No Stupid Questions
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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.”
Never Enough
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City of Gold
Recommended“well first I read three books about it before even going there so that helped a lot especially a book called City of Gold about the founding of Dubai”
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Never Enough
Recommended“and I love your Never Enough book and that even that you took that angle which I love how it even developed after we met in Wellington”
The Ramsey Show
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Complete Guide to Money
Discussed“and the one of the books on our list was your uh Complete Guide to Money”
Big Technology Podcast
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I Am a Strange Loop
Discussed“I think what I think I really like um there's a a book uh Hof's book I am a strange Loop um which has this idea of Consciousness as an emergent property of sufficiently self-referential systems um and it's a beautiful book”
This Week in Startups
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Release 2.1
Discussed“which is you know Esther Dyson um who was a like a a mentor of mine when I started in publication she had a publication release 1.0 she always made time for me thank you Esther for that um and you know really informed a lot of how I think about technology reading release 1.0 that she did with Jerry”
