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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2024
December 2024 brought a fascinating array of book discussions across various popular podcasts, highlighting historical investigations, scientific inquiries, and philosophical reflections. On The Joe Rogan Experience, the host discussed Sheila Faith Weiss's book The Nazi Symbiosis, touching upon historical accounts of human experimentation, and recommended Brian C. Muraresku's The Immortality Key, which explores the historical role of psychedelic drugs in ancient Greek religious practices like the Eleusinian Mysteries. Scientific and speculative themes continued elsewhere, as StarTalk Radio featured George Gamow's classic physics book series Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, and SmartLess welcomed Luis Elizondo to discuss his book Imminent, which details inside accounts from the Pentagon's hunt for unidentified anomalous phenomena. History and personal development also featured prominently. Megyn Kelly highlighted Victor Davis Hanson's The End of Everything on her show to emphasize historical credibility, while Tony Robbins appeared on The Rubin Report to recount how Claude M. Bristol's vintage self-help book The Magic of Believing influenced his early mindset strategies. In pop culture and cultural history, Stuff You Should Know referenced a 1978 New York Times piece invoking Sigmund Freud's essay on rejection in the context of Studio 54, and Stuff They Don't Want You To Know referenced Erich von Däniken's writings on ancient astronauts. Across these varied shows, the highlighted books shared an overarching fascination with uncovering hidden histories, questioning established orthodoxies, and exploring the boundaries of human knowledge and belief.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Nazi symbiosis
Discussed“They said, okay, let's liberate them now! What scientific data was it yielding supposedly? Yeah, it's this book I read called The Nazi Symbiosis. They talked all about it.”
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Immortality Key
Discussed“but I think that was all due to the times, and I, yeah, my people kind of democ... you really should read the Immortality Key, have you read that? No, it's Brian Murescu, he's a scholar who was studying the use of psychedelic drugs in ancient Greece, where the Eleusinian Mysteries, where everybody would go to learn about democracy, and”
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Breathe
Discussed“Yeah, but you know, he's got the Breathe book, but he just came out with a new one. I just listened to it like last week, you know what I mean?”
Stuff You Should Know
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On Narcissism
Discussed“Uh, and then one guy—and this is from a 1978 New York Times piece—said, 'The doorman told me to go home and read Freud's essay on rejection.' Wow, wow, that's pretty great!”
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The Mystery of the Blue Train
Discussed“One of the big things that came out of that French book, The Birth of a Lie is the, um, the filmmaker unearthed a recording that was, I don't know where he found it, but they found it and released the transcript of it that clearly has, um, if not Zimbardo, at least Jaffy, definitely Jaffy, coaching the um, the”
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The Principles of Scientific Management
Discussed“Uh, and that is the year, I'm sorry, the next year is when he put out the 'Principles of Scientific Management', which was probably easily the biggest business book, um, maybe at the 20th century, but at least the first half of the 20th century.”
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The doctors' case against the pill
Discussed“And in 1969, a very famous book came out called The Doctor's Case Against the Pill written by a medical journalist named Barbara Seaman.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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History Is Wrong
Discussed“Yeah, that's just at least the image I get. Eric Von Däniken! Love to drop that name.”
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The Illustrated Golden Bough
Discussed“George Frasier, 'The Golden Bough' is nuts; it was first published in 1890 and it’s talking about a lot of the same things and it still holds up because Frasier was largely correct!”
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Discussed“Check out The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. To your point, Sarah is whispering in.”
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The Mafia, CIA & George Bush
Discussed“Well, according to a gentleman named Pete Bruton who wrote a book called The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush, he says as soon as Seal was freed, he quote, 'began working full-time for the CIA, traveling back and forth from the U.S. to Latin America!'”
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The Bible
Discussed“That’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah.”
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Jesus
Discussed“So people in the modern world figuring out the exact date of Jesus's birthday, their goals differ from the goals of whomever wrote the gospels.”
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The New Complete Works of Josephus
Discussed“But if you go to other scholars, like Flavius Josephus—oh, what a great name!”
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The Gift of Fear
Discussed“That's why Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear is a must-read book, and it's a really important point, I think, beyond just France; it's a human experiential point.”
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Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
Discussed“Such that, you know, Cloud Atlas becomes an awesome story and people believe in reincarnation.”
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The Nameless
Discussed“Oh yeah, and guys, in the time between these two episodes, I mentioned just off air that I was reading that book, The Nameless.”
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The Invisibles
Discussed“Yeah, it's written by one of our favorite graphic novel authors, Grant Morrison, that Ben, you got me into with The Invisibles when I was just a wee kid, so thank you for that.”
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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Discussed“The name is derived from a passage that T.S. Eliot wrote in his haunting poem The Waste Land, which also, if you like good stuff, you should read in full.”
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The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics
Discussed“One of the best books about this, and shout out to our pal Dylan Fagan, there is The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by a guy named John Gyer.”
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South!
Discussed“As a matter of fact, we have a couple of quotations; one from Shackleton's same work on his expeditions called simply South, because, you know, it's Antarctica.”
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Sailing Alone Around the World
Discussed“Oh true, it goes... and I love that we're mentioning Slocum, who is an historical figure that I wish more people read; his book is Sailing Alone Around the World, a stem-to-banger.”
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Altered Egos
Discussed“When you call in, tell us something about maybe McDonald Critchley, the dude who wrote 'The Idea of a Presence,' which is one of the things that went into this episode.”
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Journeys Out of the Body
Discussed“In his 1971 book Journeys Out of the Body, is that correct? Yes, correct. And he had Far Journeys; that's another one of his books, Ultimate Journey, lots of journeys.”
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Far Journeys
Discussed“And he had Far Journeys; that's another one of his books, Ultimate Journey, lots of journeys. Journey Out of the Body, that's the big one. It's really—he's a fascinating character, and if you go to the Monroe Institute's website, which is monroeinstitute.org, you can actually find YouTube videos of this man, Bob Monroe, where he's giving talks.”
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The Pacific Pharmacist
Discussed“Well, I think it’s very interesting because actually when I had finished and premiered 'The Pharmacist,' I had been contacted by these producers who wanted to attach me as a director to this film about Anthony Fauci's work in Africa.”
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
Discussed“That's why Proust wrote 'A Taste of Things Remembered.' It's all about how he eats a madeleine dipped in tea or something like that.”
SmartLess
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Imminent
Discussed“You have a book called 'Imminent,' which I'm getting. It's Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, it's called 'Imminent', and I haven't read it, but I want to; I can't wait to read it. And you wrote it.”
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The Color Purple
Discussed“And for Steven Spielberg, you know, the E.T. man, the shark man to to then, you know, direct The Color Purple and and Whoopi Goldberg. This character became so big, you know, when your little life is just bigger and brighter and more impactful.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The End of Everything
Discussed“Joining me now—Victor Davis Hansen, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution! He's also the author of 'The End of Everything'! Wow, what a night!”
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Dark City
Discussed“There's a lot to dig into with Howard Bloom. He's the author of the book 'When the Night Comes Falling,' which includes much of his extensive and amazing reporting on this case.”
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Samuel Francis Smith
Discussed“You know, I mean, we used to sing 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' in my class in the mornings, and that's gone, and so is religion in the public square, which was absolutely one of the things that we saw the country founded on, and it's been erased and erased and erased and replaced with active school shooter drills.”
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Fame: The Hijacking of Reality
Discussed“I go into detail in my book, Fame, right? We talked about that years ago.”
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Boys Adrift
Discussed“Yes, absolutely I think it's such an illuminating story And I've seen this so much in my own practice as a family doctor now for more than 30 years So many boys want to be heroes They want to be seen as heroes They want to see themselves as heroes in their own eyes You know, I spoke some years”
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The Collapse of Parenting
Discussed“And to those parents, you say I would say I would come back to the central key point that I try to make in the new edition of my book, The Collapse of Parenting, which is that central paradox of American parenting right now Which is that parents are spending more time and more money on their kids than parents”
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Why Gender Matters
Discussed“So there are different factors affecting boys and girls—that's why I wrote a book called Boys Adrift and a book for girls called Girls on the Edge. I also wrote a book called Why Gender Matters.”
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The Magician's Nephew Color Gift Edition
Discussed“You know, 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote this book for kids, 'The Magician's Nephew,' and he said, 'The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.'”
The Rubin Report
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Magic of Believing
Discussed“I read a book called 'The Magic of Believing' by Claude M. Bristol, this old book, and it talked about how to condition your mind, and it talked about incantations, not affirmations. You go, 'I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy,' and your brain goes, 'BS,' I'm not happy.”
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The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption
Discussed“It's in my first book, by the way. The evolutionary basis of consumption.”
StarTalk Radio
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Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Discussed“Now that being said, there's a book series called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland written by a physicist, George Gamow, a mid-20th-century physicist; brilliant!”
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Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's almanack for kids
Discussed“My favorite quote is from Ben Franklin from Poor Richard's Almanack, yes he said, three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead!”
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The handy answer book for kids (and parents)
Discussed“There's the handy answer book, which is a series.”
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The Martian Chronicles
Discussed“I read somewhere in the Space Chronicles book that they would need to hold the antimatter in a chamber made of antimatter so it wouldn't have to interact with the matter.”
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The Science of Interstellar
Discussed“Yeah, well, I'd put it a little differently; I saw it as a superb opportunity to use this film as a motivator and to get people interested or intrigued in science, and then there would be a bridge to the science through this book.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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The Sabbath World
Discussed“in her beautiful book the Sabbath World Judith schvitz looks very squarely at that question”
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Hessel
Discussed“well I was going to recommend Hessel but I am going to skip that because we've talked about it a lot”
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Middlemarch
Discussed“and her most famous novel you've probably heard of it is middl March”
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Adam Bede
Discussed“her first novel was called Adam beid and it's from 1859 and it's an incredible novel with a what we would Now call a feminist plot but it's also set in an English Village in the turn of the 19th century”
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Making a Way
Discussed“uh there's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my favorite book and it it's all the book is this letter of an older man to his young son and he says you see how it is Godlike to love the being of someone Your Existence is a delight”
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The Paradox of Democracy
Discussed“it's a conversation with my friend Sean illing the host of the gray area podcast and a co-author of the book The Paradox of democracy”
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Mediated
Discussed“but he wrote a book called mediated and it's just a really lucid and well- written and kind of funny look at the consequences of living in a media saturated Society at the personal and the political level”
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Electronic Identity
Discussed“uh Gary wills's Gettysburg uh Daniel melson's uh lost and Julian Barn uh the noise of time”
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The Noise of Time
Discussed“uh Gary wills's Gettysburg uh Daniel melson's uh lost and Julian Barn uh the noise of time”
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War on Sacred Grounds
Discussed“and again with Ron inglehart I wrote a book on that sacred and secular and as increasing security came about so religion no longer seem to be as important in people's lives”
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The Only Networking Book You Will Need
Discussed“When I was reading your book though uh another word was used in passing disorientation and I've been thinking a lot about that word”
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Everything I Know about Story Telling
Discussed“but in your data and telling something happens around 2010 that is like a a step change in the success of this populist authoritarian tendency”
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The Science of Cheese
Discussed“Al our final question what are three books You' recommend to the audience uh so first is tyranny of Merit by Michael sandell's Justice philosopher at Harvard”
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
Discussed“but the one that also just came to my mind was I think it's called don't get above the raisin which is a story about um country music and how it infused Southern working-class politics by Bill Malone F Shakir”
Behind the Bastards
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Ramblin' Man
Discussed“In Ramblin' Man, Ed Craig dives into more detail about a left-wing anti-war song he wrote called 'Why Do You Stand There in the Rain.', based on the title of a New York Post article.”
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Bound for Glory
Discussed“He had composed an autobiographical novel at this point entitled 'Bound for Glory,' which had been set for adaptation into a major Hollywood production, but that deal fell through, as did many others, as unions adopted anti-communist stances during this paranoid era.”
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Needful Things
Discussed“There's a photo of Regis Philbin, and I can only describe the look on his face— he looks like he is smiling like the devil—like he, like—like you would cast him in Needful Things, he is selling you a cursed victrola!”
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Blood Meridian
Discussed“I'm going to go do a Blood Meridian after this. Use my own urine to make gunpowder.”
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Bad Boy
Discussed“Ronin's book 'Bad Boy,' which covers Diddy’s influence on the hip hop industry, paints a picture of a young man who was beyond everything else an opportunist!”
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It Was All a Dream
Discussed“In the book 'It Was All a Dream,' culture journalist Justin Tinsley writes this of sophomore Sean Combs' involvement in this protest campaign: 'For Combs, the student protest in the spring of '89 presented an opportunity to unite the student body and put some money in his pockets at the same time.'”
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The Lord of the Rings
Discussed“There you go; you could journal the Lord of the Rings into ChatGPT and you too could be a novelist.”
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Works (Carrie / Night Shift / 'Salem's Lot / Shining)
Discussed“Speaking of people who aren't pedophiles in a way that I can prove today, we're going to be reading Marjorie Taylor Greene's book. Oh my God, there's an entire section about pedophiles in this book!”
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Mtg
Discussed“Garrison and I walked down a little bit to where Marjorie Taylor Greene was doing a book signing for her new book. Yes, Jamie, it's called MTG.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Brothers Karamazov
Discussed“I'll give you an example: so in The Brothers Karamazov, the hero is a novice named Alyosha, and he's contrasted with Ivan. Alyosha is a very good person, but he's not an intellectual and his arguments aren't as tightly formulated and pointed as they might be.”
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How to Be an Antiracist
Discussed“And for race, we used passages from Kendi’s How To Be an Anti-Racist and from D’Angelo’s White Fragility; these books are widely required throughout colleges.”
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Cato
Discussed“Now, of course, her name is going to escape me; it's Titania McGrath, yes, of course—of course. You wrote a book as her that was very comical, and you had and still have—how active is Titania McGrath now?”
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Discussed“So I mean it happened recently where a well-known author, Bo John, Bo came out in defense, who was someone who had attacked, he wrote the Boy in the Striped Pajamas, very famous novel, he had attacked Graham back in the day, and I saw this in, it was an incredible post.”
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Macbeth
Discussed“He wasn’t interested in plots; you have Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet—could you change a single syllable and improve it?”
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Les Miserables
Discussed“There's a great book by Victor Hugo about artistic genius, and he estimates that about three or four major artistic geniuses emerge in every generation.”
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Laptop from Hell
Discussed“Now I read the Biden laptop book, Miranda Devine's book, 'Laptop from Hell,' and the Bidens have been making excuses for Hunter of the sort that a relatively unsophisticated, dependency-enabling parent could make with some justification the first time their 14-year-old son committed a juvenile offense.”
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Your erroneous zones
Discussed“After that moment, I began to read more and explore spiritual growth; one book by Dr. Wayne Dyer helped reveal where true happiness comes from.”
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Discussed“He identified a famous case with Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was banned as a pornographic novel in Great Britain. It was quite sexually graphic for its time, and that ban was eventually overturned.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Sum
Discussed“You wrote a book called 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.' How do you describe the book to people?”
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The Work of Art
Discussed“The title of Adam Moss's book, The Work of Art, is of course a double entendre.”
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Discussed“The other book he just mentioned, 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,' is also well worth reading, and you can hear its author, Samin Nosrat, on a couple of Freakonomics Radio episodes from 2023.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Aurora
Discussed“There's also a different perspective presented in Kim Stanley Robinson's book 'Aurora.' Many century ship stories exist where Earth sends out a generation ship to colonize another planet, only to discover that the planet isn't actually habitable for Earth life.”
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De Rerum Natura
Discussed“This is the frontier we are in, and that was the topic of my last book, "Light of the Stars." You've got to do the astrobiology of the Anthropocene.”
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Altered Carbon
Discussed“"Altered Carbon" is a great series on this concept. I think it’s on Netflix; it's a really good series where that’s exactly the idea of sleeves.”
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Discussed“And every koan, you know, if you've ever read 'Godel, Escher, Bach', he's got a whole chapter on koans. They're kind of non-logical problems that you have to work on.”
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Why England slept
Discussed“I have an original copy of that book, which is one of my most prized possessions. From 1939, this was a 23-year-old kid, who the hell are you, John F. Kennedy?”
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40 more years
Discussed“In 2008, James Carville wrote a book that I always refer to, titled '40 More Years,' claiming Democrats would never lose an election again after the Obama coalition landslide. I was born in 1992, I watched red states go blue, I've seen blue states go red, and seen swing states change as well.”
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Coming apart
Discussed“One of my favorite books is called 'Coming Apart' by Charles Murray, which underscores how the cultural environment that people experience while attending college affects their entire trajectory in life. It influences everything from where they move, who they marry, to their grocery shopping habits and the television shows they watch.”
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The age of entitlement
Discussed“Two books I recommend are 'The Origins of Woke' by Richard Hanania and 'The Age of Entitlement' by Christopher Caldwell. It's effectively a religion, and its meaning varies among different people.”
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Born Fighting
Discussed“Now I have to return to Jim Webb's book, an incredible read that delves into the legacy of the Scots-Irish. War, that's the— Yeah.”
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Essence of decision
Discussed“We were forced to read 'Essence of Decision' by Graham Allison in graduate school, and I'm so thankful we did. It's one of the foundations of political science because it lays out theories of how government works.”
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The Unwinding
Discussed“I really believe that Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations in The Atlantic is one of those. It radicalized an entire generation of basically like white college-educated women to think completely differently on race.”
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Discussed“I've been deep diving on Genghis Khan. Reading 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.' Yeah, Jack Weatherford.”
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The Loudest Voice in the Room
Discussed“Roger Ailes, who is a genius, shout out to 'The Loudest Voice in the Room' by Gabriel Sherman. That book changed my life, too, because it really made me understand media.”
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
Discussed“And I actually think about that a lot from, you know, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. Actually, your episode on Rome was fantastic. People should go listen to that.”
Timcast IRL
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The Federalist papers
Discussed“Which again, it’s not Charlie Kirk’s idea; it’s Madison’s idea and Hamilton’s idea and Jay— they wrote this for a reason because they did not want senators to become pseudo-celebrities.”
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Gender Queer
Discussed“But then you have another really great example, of course, is the book 'Gender Queer.' When the left was claiming to ban books, it's like, well, yeah, the ones that have porn in them.”
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Pedagogia do oprimido
Discussed“I don’t know if that’s exactly how it breaks down, but the thing is, if you have people in the schools of education indoctrinated with Freire's garbage, you know, the pedagogy of the oppressed, I think is the book that he uses.”
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The Hunger Games
Discussed“And you see, we—and the Hunger Games, we knew this because, living out there, we checked and we used apps and we searched on the internet and confirmed the edible sources.”
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Generations
Discussed“And, uh, you would think that it’s massacres are happening on every single block the way that people are treating children and that long gates childhood. There was a great book called, um, Generations. I forget the author’s name.”
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The Thorn Birds
Discussed“Then you had your little 'Thorn Birds' and the different miniseries and stuff; I mean, it was glorious with big rollouts. You know what?”
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Delay, Deny, Defend
Discussed“Experts have pointed out that it appears to be malfunctioning; one of the live rounds had a phrase scrolled on it that said, 'Depose, deny, defend,' which is similar to 'Delay, deny, defend,' the name of a book about how insurance companies screw people over.”
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Discussed“So she essentially did what they did in Wolf of Wall Street, where they launched an IPO and they already held it and they were selling it off?”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The expression of emotions in man and animals
Discussed“It really reminds me of — have you ever read Charles Darwin's "Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals"?”
No Stupid Questions
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Start Making Sense
Discussed“The other book I’ll just say, which is much longer and unpublished, is start making sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times is really on the same topic. It’s a book by Steve Hina, who’s one of my favorite psychologists; he's at University of British Columbia. It’s coming out in January 2025.”
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Outliers
Discussed“Adam Grant writes about Malcolm Gladwell, who's the well-known author of many New York Times bestsellers like 'David and Goliath,' 'Tipping Point,' and 'Outliers.'”
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Discussed“While it's true that this subject has only become a focus of modern emotion psychology in recent years, we should note that in 1872, Charles Darwin described emotions related to learning and thinking in his book 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.'”
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Small Fry
Discussed“And I think that when you have a really amazing guest speaker or I'm reading Steve Jobs' daughter's memoir, 'Small Fry,' oh my gosh, I'm just leaning into every detail.”
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1
Discussed“Like there was a time when people bought Julia Child's cookbook and made coq au vin for the first time. Oh my gosh, this is how French people eat chicken, it's amazing!”
Pod Save America
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Murder at the Puppy Fest
Discussed“This was before the puppy-killing thing and before her book, The Puppy Murder!”
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Rage
Discussed“You know about that, you're involved in one, which has been going on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward where he didn't quote me properly from the tapes.”
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Not Quite White
Discussed“And if people don't care, then they're free not to care, but might as well tell that story. I'm sure we'll get to read it in a book coming out in October 2025. Maybe they can do one together!”
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Government Gangsters
Discussed“I guess he does; it's easy for me to say that I would stay on to get fired when I am not specifically mentioned to my knowledge in Kash Patel's book, so it is, maybe that is what he's doing.”
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One: The Lightning Thief
Discussed“I, this was, first of all, why Greece? Was Percy Jackson unavailable? I like, does she have a connection to Greece?”
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The Nuff
Discussed“He's also an author, uh, and I just want this, a kid's book, a kids' book. This is the description of the book: 'Hillary Quinton and her Shifty Knight Adam Schiff have spread lies that King Donald had cheated to become king.'”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Dylan goes electric!
Discussed“The film's taken from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, a book that came out in 2015! It's a fantastic retelling of events from the early sixties that led up to the fiasco at Newport! After you see the movie, read the book!”
Breaking Points
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Kids for cash
Discussed“They called this man— I remember covering this case—it was the 'Kids for Cash.'”
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Discussed“The Times published the entire Unabomber manifesto, so...”
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The antitrust paradox
Discussed“What she said on Hasan's show is one of the reasons conservatives don't like her, as Rachel Bard has talked about, is that the consumer welfare standard of Robert Bork was gospel on the right for a long time.”
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If I Must Die
Discussed“Next week, on Tuesday, there's a book called 'If I Must Die,' which is Ratallah's posthumously published book of prose and poems.”
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Mao Tŝe-tung's quotations
Discussed“Go read some Mao; like you think that any of those revolutionaries would be tolerating this level of indiscipline when they actually believe that their revolution is important, is so important that it is going to save humanity?”
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A biography of James A. Garfield
Discussed“Anyway, I don't know a lot about Garfield; I do have a biography of him on my shelf, though, which is interesting.”
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The Constitution of the United States and related documents
Discussed“If you read the Constitution, there is no such thing as an independent agency, and yet there it is.”
The Daily Stoic
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Testosterone
Discussed“I actually had this interesting conversation with Carol Hooven, who wrote a book about testosterone. She talked about evidence around differences in crying and criticized the idea that men don't cry enough.”
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Sophistry and Political Philosophy
Discussed“Actually, I have a friend who’s going to write a book about sophistry. It’s just about someone who engages in sophistry, where they're essentially kidding you, right?”
Huberman Lab
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Becoming a Supple Leopard
Discussed“In today's episode, there's an immense amount of actionable information that I'm certain all of you will benefit from. Dr. Kelly Starrett has authored several best-selling books, some of which you may know, such as 'Supple Leopard.' He was actually one of the first people to become synonymous with the use of a lacrosse ball or foam roller.”
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The Spinal Engine
Discussed“Um, really a book that makes the rounds from time to time is a book called The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky, and he really talks about the trunk as a driver of power, not just as a chassis of which the big engine moves, and that really is a nice conceptual way of simplifying movement!”
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Anatomy Trains
Discussed“One of the things that we want to look at is... and this is a Philip Beach muscles meridian idea — there are contractual fields, and this goes along with if we look at Thomas Meyer's Anatomy trains of seeing the system as a system of systems. So we start to look at your back and your erectors, and then”
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Eat Smarter
Discussed“Sean Stevenson wrote a beautiful book about creating a table culture and a culture around eating for your family. For me, the functional unit of change is the household; that's where I want to invest my energy. That's how we'll transform society—one household at a time.”
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The Psychology of Money
Discussed“He is also the author of the spectacularly bestselling book, The Psychology of Money.”
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Same as Ever
Discussed“To learn more about Morgan's work and to find links to his two superb books, The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, please see the links in the show note captions.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The 48 Laws of Power
Discussed“If you enjoyed this conversation, you will love our discussion with the author of The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene.”
