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Books podcasts were talking about in December 2024
December 2024 podcast episodes featured discussions on history, science, human behavior, and health. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Yannis Pappas and Joe Rogan talked about Sheila Faith Weiss's The Nazi Symbiosis and its depiction of scientific research involving Holocaust victims. Megyn Kelly discussed Valerie Bauerlein's The Devil at His Elbow on The Megyn Kelly Show regarding a true crime narrative. Andrew Huberman mentioned Jaak Panksepp's Affective Neuroscience on Huberman Lab while addressing emotion and neuroscience literature. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Jay Shetty recommended Dr. Rangan Chatterjee's Make Change That Lasts for health strategies. StarTalk Radio included Neil deGrasse Tyson referencing George Gamow's Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland series for physics concepts. Stuff They Don't Want You To Know hosts recommended James George Frazer's The Illustrated Golden Bough for comparative religion and Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma for food choices. Additionally, Dr. John Delony mentioned Terrence Real's I Don't Want to Talk About It on The Dr. John Delony Show while discussing masculinity.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The way to happiness
Discussed“same book, the way to happiness, very interesting”
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Napoleon's Letters to Josephine
Discussed“Napoleon's letters to Josephine, he wanted her to have a full bush and he wanted her not to bathe for a week”
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The Nazi symbiosis
Recommended“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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The Adventurous Bowman
Recommended“like my favorite book of all time is called The Adventurous Bowman a friend of mine Jeff Johnson who's a writer gave it to me and I I read it all the time”
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Open Skies, Closed Minds
Discussed“So thirty and we rumored about it because Nick Popa talked about this case in a book he wrote called open Skies closed minds”
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The art of District 9
Discussed“you ever see District 9 use that movie great movie”
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The Rise of Superman
Discussed“it's like uh that book The Rise of Superman when you go in a flow State and like everything speeds up in your brain”
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The Book of secrets
Discussed“well it's sort of like a guide book for life like see if pull up his books I'll tell you which one it was the Book of Secrets he's got a Bento can you show me what they look like so I can see the covers it's got a bunch of books one would always wonder if it's one of”
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Robin Hood
Discussed“lo and behold I found this old penguin paperback of you know an old old version of Robin Hood written by E Charles Vivien and I'm like oh man this is going to be great”
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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?”
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Kill Bin Laden
Discussed“this was like happened to me on my so I did a solo mission in Afghanistan the book kill Bin Laden you ever hear of it”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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The Devil at His Elbow
Recommended“His Story begins much earlier than the crimes that made national headlines over the past few years and no one has covered the story quite like the Wall Street journals Valerie borine who wrote the book The Devil at his elbow”
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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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The Charm School
Recommended“he wrote a book called the charm school and this came out in 1988”
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Eve in Hollywood
Recommended“it's called Eve in Hollywood and some short stories so it's easy to you know pick up and read a 30 page short story”
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The Zimmermann Telegram
Recommended“and so this is called the Zimmerman Telegram and it's really the biggest reason we got into World War I”
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The Magician's Nephew
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.'”
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The Evolution of Childhood
Discussed“we don't have to guess we have Scholars like Dr Melvin Connor Emory who spent his entire career decades studying this question and published this huge tone 800 Pages Oxford University press uh titled the evolution of childhood comparing development of our species with development of other species”
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The Collapse of Parenting
Recommended“With me today is Dr. Leonard Sax; he is the author of the book 'The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups', which has just been updated this year.”
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This Book Is Antiracist
Discussed“the first is this book is anti-racist”
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Understanding Gender
Discussed“social justice handbook understanding gender”
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Discussed“I mean we knew of Anne couter because she wrote a book called high crimes and misdemeanors about what Bill Clinton was doing”
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Trial by Ambush
Discussed“Mara has a new book out as well it's called trial by Ambush murder Injustice and the truth about the case of Barbara Graham”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Holy Science
Discussed“and at the same time I was reading this book the holy science which was you know yoga nand is the one who brought yoga to the west”
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The Power of the Downstate
Recommended“friend of mine Sarah mednick wrote a beautiful book called The Power of the down state and she talks about rest and and naps”
Huberman Lab
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Affective Neuroscience
Recommended“yeah the closest one I ever encountered probably is affective Neuroscience panp book”
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
Discussed“I had this lovely woman Jessica pan on the show is this book called sorry I'm late I didn't want to come”
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The Book of Delights
Recommended“there's a really lovely book by the author Ross gay called The Book of delights and and he used a delight practice where every day he not only had to find a delight but write a short essay about it”
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Basic Writings Freud
Discussed“I was an Avid Reader as a matter of fact I embarrassed my father or actually made him disappointed when for a birthday I think I was 14 years old I asked him to buy me the 12 volumes of Freud's writings and yeah and he said what four so but I was very impressed with it of course I”
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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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Deep Survival
Discussed“I read this great book called Deep survival which is Lawrence Gonzalez which is about why people end up in survival situations”
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Normal Accidents
Discussed“there was a footnote in there from a book called normal accidents by Charles pero who's recently passed on”
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Eat Smarter
Recommended“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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Kinesiology and Applied Anatomy, the Science of Human Movement
Recommended“uh he wrote this book on functional embryology which I highly recommend called movement uh muscles and meridians”
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The Psychology of Money
Recommended“He is also the author of the spectacularly bestselling book, The Psychology of Money.”
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Same as Ever
Recommended“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.”
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30 Lessons for Living
Recommended“there's a a gerontologist named Carl pmer who wrote a book great book called 30 lessons for living”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Make Change That Lasts
Recommended“his sixth and latest book make change that lasts offers a personalized approach to simple nine strategies for lasting change in daily life to unlock long-lasting health and happiness this I truly believe is rang's best book yet and that's saying a lot he's had some incredible books out the last few years go and grab your copy right now”
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10% Happier
Discussed“I guess that's one of the things I loved about your book, '10% Happier.' It's a huge bestseller, a huge success that led to the podcast. One of the things I loved was this idea about not losing your edge, and I really appreciated that.”
ChooseFI
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Buy What You Love Without Going Broke
Discussed“so okay in a week you have a book coming out called buy what you love without going broke transform your spending and get more of what money can't buy”
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The Gap
Discussed“and I I talked about the book The Gap in the gain that I read recently and I think this helped reframe things for me”
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Recommended“if you haven't read this it's a similar in a in a weird way so poor Charlie's Almanac which is basically the wit and wisdom of Charles TM so Charlie Munger”
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The Big Leap
Recommended“The book that I really recommend is called The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. Have you heard of it? No. I'll read it somewhere. He talks about how we have an upper limit problem.”
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 Holy Grail of Investing
Discussed“and then I'm looking I'm looking at one of the books here the Holy Grail of investing and of course Carl ien said that a man who needs no introduction”
Modern Wisdom
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Slumdog millionaire
Discussed“Slumdog Millionaire If you've seen that movie where he I'll give you the tldr he goes through his entire life of Randomness and he gets on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire version in India and has 12 questions to make a million dollars”
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Tools And Weapons
Discussed“he's the president of Microsoft he is one of the only technologists who openly admits to the the well he wrote a book about it it's called tools uh and weapons”
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Total Recall
Discussed“and you know his his his autobiography that he wrote when he was 70 called Total Recall is excellent right”
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Arnold and Me
Discussed“then I'm watching that Netflix documentary on him that came out and they kept interviewing this his his girlfriend that Arnold lived with before he was famous from 21 to 26 and she go and it's like author of Arnold and me”
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All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There
Discussed“that line is in my favorite book um on Buffet Ander it's called all I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there”
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Invent and Wander
Recommended“and um there's this great book called invent and wander and it's the collected writings of Jeff basos so they take his shareholder letters and they take transcripts of his speeches”
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Liftoff
Recommended“but I just read this book called liftoff uh Elon Musk in the desperate early days of SpaceX”
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Make Something Wonderful
Recommended“so the Steve Jobs archive which is run by Steve's Widow just released this free book you can read online called make something wonderful Steve Jobs in his own words”
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The Ancient City
Recommended“great book called the ancient city that goes back and reconstructs basically like pre basically prehistoric civilization like what it was like”
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Open
Discussed“I have this quote in one of my substack about Andre Agassi it's in his book open and Andre gasi”
The Daily Stoic
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The Minimalist Mindset
Discussed“We can hear this stuff, and the people who read your books will know this is a central idea in my new book, but I don't think people are connecting that to their health and behaviors. Since I spoke to Edith Eger, and your audience probably knows who she is, a 93-year-old lady, I thought, 'Wow, this really resonates with”
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The Daily Stoic
Discussed“We can hear this stuff, and the people who read your books will know this is a central idea in my new book, but I don't think people are connecting that to their health and behaviors. Since I spoke to Edith Eger, and your audience probably knows who she is, a 93-year-old lady, I thought, 'Wow, this really resonates with”
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Courage
Discussed“There are things in the courage book that in retrospect I would have had in the discipline book or in the justice book or in the wisdom book.”
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Disrobed
Discussed“And he had written a book called Disrobed, which is about, like, the somewhat mysterious world of federal judges.”
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Race to Judgment
Discussed“He's written a bunch of books, Race to Judgment, Disrobed an Inside Look at the Life and Work of a Federal Trial Judge, Crimes and Punishments Entering the Mind of a Sentencing Judge.”
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Crimes and Punishments
Discussed“He's written a bunch of books, Race to Judgment, Disrobed an Inside Look at the Life and Work of a Federal Trial Judge, Crimes and Punishments Entering the Mind of a Sentencing Judge.”
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A Second Chance
Recommended“It's called A Second Chance. A federal judge decides who deserves it.”
StarTalk Radio
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Mr. Tompkins in paperback
Recommended“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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Poor Richard's Almanack
Discussed“my favorite quote is from Ben Franklin from poor Richard Almanac yes he said three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead”
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A Federation Trivia Book
Discussed“this is the Federation trivia book wow mission one and mission two”
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The handy answer book for kids (and parents)
Recommended“There's the handy answer book, which is a series.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Illustrated Golden Bough
Recommended“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 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 Omnivore's Dilemma
Recommended“Check out The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. To your point, Sarah is whispering in.”
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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
Recommended“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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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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Conference on Clean Room Specifications
Recommended“and also uh check out clean room I'm I'm bullish on it uh anyway”
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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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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Recommended“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
Recommended“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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Sailing Alone Around the World
Recommended“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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THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
Discussed“And the guy who was Uday's body double survived, escaped Iraq, and there was even a movie made about his story called The Devil's Double.”
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Let Go
Discussed“she died by suicide right after the release of her first album, which was called Let Go.”
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Why Crime Does Not Pay
Discussed“she actually wrote a tell all book called why crime doesn't pay now”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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I don't want to talk about it
Recommended“and um in the book I don't want to talk about it by Terry real it's one the top five books of my lifetime”
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
Recommended“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
Recommended“and her most famous novel you've probably heard of it is middl March”
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Adam Bede
Recommended“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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The Seven Day Circle
Recommended“the second book I would recommend is called the seven-day Circle and it's by a sociologist who actually invented something I draw on heavily in my book called The sociology of time his name is evat zerubavel”
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On the Clock
Recommended“and the third book I would recommend is uh by a young journalist named Emily gwend elberger and it's called on the clock what low AG work did to me and how it drives America insane”
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Making a Way
Recommended“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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What If We Get It Right?
Recommended“the second book would be what if we get it right by Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson and she is such an inspiring person”
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Creating the administrative constitution
Recommended“the first book that I'd recommend is one by Jerry mashaw called creating the administrative Constitution it was one of the first in this line of cases looking historically and traces out all of the ways in which we had a robust and developing administrative state in the first 100 years after the Constitution was adopted”
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Mediated
Recommended“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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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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Electronic Identity
Recommended“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
Recommended“uh Gary wills's Gettysburg uh Daniel melson's uh lost and Julian Barn uh the noise of time”
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Spin Dictators
Recommended“second book which Builds on that is another good book by Serge gorov and Daniel triman and the book is called spin dictators and it's about the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century”
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Lincoln at Gettysburg
Recommended“what are three books You' recommend to the audience uh Gary wills's Gettysburg”
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The Lost
Recommended“Gary wills's Gettysburg uh Daniel melson's uh lost”
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The Science of Cheese
Recommended“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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Leaders Eat Last
Recommended“second one um Leaders Eat Last by Simon synic uh just an ethic of the way at least you know helped inform me in the way I think about leadership and pushing for uh with conviction outcomes that we care about”
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin'
Recommended“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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Secret of the Ages
Discussed“um and it's it's through a series of pamphlets the secret of the ages published by an American Self author named Robert CER right”
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Rhythms of the Pachakuti
Discussed“I think I've said on this show like multiple times that I really ran into in a sort of completely unrelated book called Rhythms of the Patchudi, which is about the the sort of the water and gas wars in Bolivia.”
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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 Moral Economy of the Peasant
Discussed“And what's important about you know price and the reaction to inflation is that it's an outrage based on a sense of justice right this rage is not a measure of direct exploitation necessarily I think it was the political scientist James C Scott who wrote his own book called the moral economy of the peasant”
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Capital as Power
Recommended“If you want to know more about this, read their book capitalist power. It's quite good. I am mentioning them because I am about to misuse their argument completely”
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Poison Pills
Discussed“As Tom Nessie writes in the book Poison Pills, even among top level physicians who are generally known as opinion or thought leaders, Groupman stands out.”
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GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO
Discussed“I'm going to pivot to uh Freud here, specifically his essay on group behavior and how individuals regress to become part of masses. He writes about how a leader of a cult can exploit psychological shortcuts in its followers to embody this like group ideal that governs their ego as a substitution.”
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1945
Discussed“uh and the the the book that I have received is 1945 by new gridge”
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Mtg: The Story of America First
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.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Rebel Talent
Discussed“her latest is called Rebel Talent why it pays to break the rules at work and in life”
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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
Recommended“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.”
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Reinventing American Health Care
Discussed“one of them published I believe it was 2014 was called Reinventing American Health Care how the Affordable Care Act will improve our terribly complex blatantly unjust outrageously expensive grossly inefficient error-prone system”
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Freedom's Laboratory
Discussed“Wolf's latest book is called Freedom's laboratory the Cold War struggle for the soul of Science and it really looks at the ways that science”
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Supermarket USA
Discussed“that again is Shane Hamilton a historian and the author of supermarket USA food and Power in the Cold War Farms race in the book he tells a story of a project called the chicken of Tomorrow”
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Midnight in Moscow
Discussed“he's just published a book called Midnight in Moscow a memoir from the front lines of Russia's war against the West”
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While England Slept
Discussed“Churchill gives these speeches warning about what's coming and they're combined into a book that's published in the United States and the title of it is while England slept”
Conversations with Tyler
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The Second Machine Age
Discussed“um but we have pik's second Machine Age”
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How Adam Smith can change your life
Discussed“Russ Roberts how Adam Smith can change your life”
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The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World)
Discussed“uran OST haml the transformation of the world to global history of the 19th century”
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Music at Midnight
Discussed“the very the very revved John Drury music at midnight the life and poetry of George Herbert”
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Patterns of Motion in the Poetic Imagery of Donne, George Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan
Discussed“the very the very revved John Drury music at midnight the life and poetry of George Herbert”
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Midnights Descendants A History Of South Asia Since Partition
Discussed“John K Midnight's descendants a history of South Asia since partition”
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On the Run
Discussed“Alice gofman on the Run fugitive life in an American city”
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The book of strange new things
Discussed“Michael Faber the book of strange new things”
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Limonov
Discussed“Emanuel carer carer I'm not sure if I'm saying that right limonov the outrageous Adventures of the radical Soviet poet”
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Outlaws
Discussed“Javier circus or kirkus Outlaws a novel”
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Discussed“Richard Flanigan the narrow road to the Deep North”
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Broken Hierarchies
Discussed“Jeffrey Hill broken hierarchies and poems 1952 to 2012”
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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Discussed“it is called Hardy women mothers Sisters Wives Muses it's about the women in the life of Thomas Hardy and in the novels of Thomas Hardy”
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Jude the Obscure
Discussed“if Ponder say Jude the Obscure what's your implicit model of why it is for Hardy first marriages are so hard to break”
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The well-beloved
Discussed“that's why I think the well-beloved is so interesting because it's the pursuit of the well-beloved that you once you get it you don't want it”
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Mansfield Park
Discussed“it happens to be my favorite joural novel Mansville Park I know everybody hates but I I really love it”
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Two on a tower
Recommended“and I do think some of those minor novels are really really fascinating and sort of not hardes you know two on a tower it's just so fascinating it's so brilliant”
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Clueless
Recommended“the ones the films I like I love clueless clueless is the best adaptation because it's so funny like she just gets the funniness”
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History of madness
Discussed“so I went up to him as a naive with the this book Madness and civilization which we had been forced to read and I I started asking him questions what does this mean”
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Madness and Civilization
Discussed“so I went up to him as a naive with the this book Madness and civilization which we had been forced to read and I I started asking him questions what does this mean”
a16z Podcast
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The Sims: The Complete Guide
Discussed“despite the fact that we've had The Sims for, you know, 25 years where we can in a 3D environment drag and drop furniture and see how it fits.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Action Bible
Discussed“I read the Bible and most of the time I'm just being honest I have no idea what I just read and uh so I I have a bunch of different versions I've been diving into this one called the it's called The Action Bible I I heard of that one it's more like a comic there like little comic”
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Is God Real?
Discussed“let's move into is God real the book yeah what is some of the evidence that really stood out to you”
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Where Prayer Becomes Real
Recommended“um my son actually wrote a great book on prayer my son's a theologian um he and John Co who's a well-known Theologian wrote a book called when prayer gets real and um it's it's something cool about your son writing a book on prayer I mean so proud of him and it's such a profound book um I I'd”
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Al-Qaeda 2.0
Discussed“so this is the best thing you can get open source Al-Qaeda 2.0 the upcoming attack on the United States and Europe unveiled”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Discussed“that was Nikos kazus work right he got excommunicated right”
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Zorba the Greek
Discussed“he he he did zor of the Greek for example a book most people know about but he wrote a variety of stories that have a very well the is it the Temptation”
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In the Beginning Was the Word
Discussed“I don't know in the beginning was the word Christ is a master at using short mysterious stories they change the listener who takes them seriously”
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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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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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Black Comedy
Discussed“I had I was asked to write uh an accompanying uh play for a Peter schaer farce which I love called black comedy which just got the most extraordinary um premise”
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Venus and Adonis
Discussed“for instance with with Shakespeare you know he can't right produce his narrative poems Venus and Adonis or rap crease without patronage”
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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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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.”
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Lady Chatterly's Lover
Discussed“really starting in the 1920s he identified a famous case uh who was the novelist lady chatterly's lover was banned as a pornographic novel in Great Britain and it was quite sexually graphic especially for the time and that ban was overthrown”
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Inspiration
Discussed“I began to I mean there was one book that was really influential in my life called um inspiration by Dr Wayne Dyer”
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Your erroneous zones
Recommended“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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Takedown
Recommended“they can read the book take down takeown is the this the most comprehensive indictment of this company uh in existence currently”
BG2 Pod
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Chinchillas
Discussed“so uh Google published a paper called chinchilla which says the optimal ratio of uh data to parameter you know model size and and that's the scaling thing”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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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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Eon
Discussed“This is the plot, actually, of a great science fiction book called "Eon" by Greg Bear.”
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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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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.”
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40 more years
Discussed“In 2008, I have a book on my shelf and I never, and I always look at it to remind myself how much things can change, James Carville and it says "40 More Years," how Democrats will never lose an election again. 2008, they wrote that book after the Obama coalition and the landslide.”
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Born Fighting
Discussed“And that guy the, he wrote the book "Born Fighting," I think it's history of the Scots-Irish people, something like that.”
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Melting pot or civil war?
Discussed“Historically as well, my friend Reihan Salam wrote a book called "Melting Pot or Civil War" and one of the most important parts about that book is the history of mass migration to the United States.”
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Essence of decision
Recommended“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 Loudest Voice in the Room
Recommended“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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The Origins of Woke
Recommended“Two books I can recommend. One is called "The Origins of Woke," that's by Richard Hanania.”
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Freedom from fear
Recommended“Another, again, book recommendation, "Freedom from Fear," by David Kennedy is about the Roosevelt years.”
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Master of the Senate
Recommended“Now, the reason I'm bringing that up, one of my favorite books, "Master of the Senate" by Robert Caro, part of the LBJ series, the Senate has an institution, it reveres independence, it reveres, I mean, the entire theory of the Senate is to cool down the mob that is in the House of Representatives and to deliberate.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Rumbles
Discussed“even one of the things that was interesting to me as I've read this in your book rumbles is that it just shows how little we knew about even the most basic things about digestion into the 1800s”
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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The Tipping Point
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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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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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.”
Stuff You Should Know
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Trivia
Discussed“he and another guy named Dan carlinsky wrote a book simply called trivia”
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How to Win at Trivial Pursuit and Other Knowledge Games
Discussed“in 1983 a guy named Robert Jay hel wrote a book called how to win a Trivial Pursuit”
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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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On the Art of Cutting Metals
Discussed“and from that he ended up writing a book called on the art of cutting Metals in 1907 and from what I saw for years and years that was considered like a Bible in the metal cutting industry”
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Cheaper by the Dozen
Discussed“and anyone who has ever read the book or seen the the movie or the Remake Cheaper by the Dozen this is the family that that movie and that book were based on”
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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.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Protect Your Peace
Discussed“and his book protect your peace New York Times bestseller he hopped on a plane and flew all the way from Texas and arrived in our Boston Studios”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Beyond Anxiety
Discussed“I just wanted to ask you you know of all the things you could have written about at this exact moment in time you chose to write a book about anxiety it's called Beyond anxiety”
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Masters of Scale
Recommended“and also masters of scale which is an iconic podcast that many of us listen to here where you sit down with some of the greatest founders of all time”
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Radical honesty
Discussed“We did uh one of our friends um uh was a coach for Brad Blanton and he wrote a book called Radical Honesty.”
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Into the Impossible : Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner
Discussed“Then I read these books. I Steve Richard Dawkins' books and a bunch of other books on the subject matter.”
Never Enough
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Never Enough
Recommended“so I would say your books s Never Enough right and that was very good”
Breaking Points
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Homage to Catalonia
Discussed“Obviously, people say 'man' in George Orwell's book 'Homage to Catalonia.' But it's much more of a thing in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.'”
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Recommended“Now rewind to Vietnam; all the people who feel nostalgic have this Cronkite book behind me. People should go and read it because the news has always been fake; it's just that now you know it's fake.”
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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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Delay, Deny, Defend
Discussed“You have the book 'Deny, Delay, Defend' which was cited on the shell casings by Luigi Mangion; that has surged to number three on the Amazon bestseller list.”
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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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Can't Hurt Me
Discussed“From his Goodreads profile, he had a couple of books listed He had David Goggins' 'Can't Hurt Me' and also some books indicating his interest in addressing back pain, including 'Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery', 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance', and 'Back Mechanic' by Dr. Stuart McGill”
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If I Must Die
Recommended“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
Recommended“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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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.”
Candace
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The Book Of Joshua
Discussed“then there are religious zealots I would use even stronger terms who uh use uh the Book of Joshua which is uh 2,700 years ago that said well God gave us everything from uh from uh the river in Egypt meaning the Nile to the Euphrates”
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The Great American Gamble
Discussed“I would also say things like other interest like another great book which I read in the last five years was the Great American gamble which is a weirdly kind of academic book about America's nuclear policy in the last 70 years and when I say nuclear I mean like nuclear weapons and it really demonstrated to me the and”
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Reclaiming the American Right
Recommended“this is reclaiming the American right by my mentor Justin Rondo who was the founding editorial director of antiwar.com and this is the history of the real American conservative movement that was supplanted by the neocons and how it was done”
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Hebrews to Negroes 2: Wake Up Black America!
Discussed“Kyrie Irving the basketball player tweeted out a link to a documentary called from Hebrews to Negroes”
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Bearing False Witness
Recommended“one book Rodney Stark bearing false witness which would be a great book for you to read”
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Veil
Discussed“well it turns out Bob Woodward with some of the information Casey gave him publishes Veil The Secret Wars of the CIA”
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Twilight of the Shadow Government
Recommended“so you guys go do not walk run to get this book Twilight of the Shadow government how transparency will kill the Deep State”
Acquired
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Chocolate Wars
Discussed“I got this from um there's a descendant of the Cadbury family Deborah Cadbury who wrote this book called chocolate Wars”
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Higher Control in Management
Discussed“while he's in England Forest reads a textbook called higher control in management by TG Rose”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Dylan goes electric!
Recommended“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!”
The Book Review
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Intermezzo
Discussed“one of the books that you were big on this year I I don't know that you called it out in your piece but I did want to briefly touch on it was intermetzo by Sally Rooney as you recall”
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
Discussed“Brad G is the perfect person to write this biography”
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My Beloved Monster
Discussed“and Pressly before he died Caleb Carr published a memoir a Meir about his a Meir which I got into the my fi my proudest accomplishment this year is that neologism is now in The Archives of the New York Times”
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Beautyland
Discussed“are you going to say Beautyland I want to ask you about Beauty Land”
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Free and Equal
Discussed“I don't know if I'd call them disagreements but at least Lively discussions about the book itself was free and equal a Manifesto for a just Society by Daniel Chandler”
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Seeing Through
Discussed“Ricky Ian Gordon the composer also came out from behind some kind of veil to write his Memoir seeing through a Chronicle of sex drugs and Opera”
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The Grapes of Wrath - An Opera in 3 Acts
Discussed“Ricky Ian Gordon the composer also came out from behind some kind of veil to write his Memoir seeing through a Chronicle of sex drugs and Opera”
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You Dreamed of Empires
Recommended“Dwight you did write early on about another one of our top 10 books of the year and I think it was your piece that really put it on a a ton of our Radars which was you dreamed of Empires which was a book by Alvaro enri that we all just love so much”
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The Year That Broke America
Recommended“I can't discuss when the clock broke without speaking up for the year that broke America by Andrew rice the New York Magazine writer which is about the year 2000 and how it was the foundation for everything that followed”
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Miss May Does Not Exist
Recommended“and this was a book called Miss May does not exist the life and work of Elaine May Hollywood's hidden genius”
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Private Citizens
Recommended“Jen actually first turned me on to his work because I had not read his first novel remind me the title private citizens private citizens and I've since read it and it's terrific”
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Good Material
Discussed“let us move to something completely different as different from this book as can possibly be which is good material by Dolly alderton”
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Martyr!
Discussed“one of our editors in particular saying martyr by cave Akbar is it it's going to be one that I'm going to nominate and that we're all going to talk about”
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Reagan
Discussed“our next book is Reagan his life and legend by Max boot”
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I Heard Her Call My Name
Discussed“our next book is I heard her call my name A Memoir of transition by Lucy Sant is one that I believe you really took to”
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Cold Crematorium
Discussed“let us move on to our last book which is cold crematorium reporting from the land of aitz by Yousef deeni Nema”
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Godwin
Recommended“I loved Godwin by Joseph O'Neal”
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The Coin
Recommended“I keep telling people about the coin by Yasmin sahir”
Timcast IRL
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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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Theater of the Oppressed
Discussed“there's that there's theater of the oppressed there's all of this the whole thing is about oppression”
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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 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?”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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How to be a conservative
Discussed“What about Roger Scruton? Uh yes yes, um How to Be a Conservative. That also had”
Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
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Barbie!
Discussed“I decided to go to Hollywood um and I um am giving this award to Greta Gerwig who was the writer and director of Barbie um who just got completely shut out at the Oscars losing everything losing even some nominations”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Hijacking Bitcoin
Discussed“and more than a decade after I had already renounced my US citizenship and just a couple of weeks after I published a book on the hijacking of Bitcoin how it no longer works as perer to-peer cash for the world”
EconTalk
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Pop Internationalism
Recommended“uh I could Point people to Paul krugman's book pop internationalism which does a very effective job of um refuting many of these uh mercantilist ideas”
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Stalingrad
Discussed“uh for Grossman both his work Stalingrad and life and fate”
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Everything Flows
Discussed“because he does seem a um I mean even even the most awful passages of his writing like um the trinka article and the account of the terror famine in everything flows”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Cixin Liu Bestselling Collecting Books Series, Set of 4 Books. the Three-Body Problem, the Wandering Earth, the Dark Forest and Death's End
Discussed“if you have read or watched the three three body problem America is unfolding a sofon over China”
This Week in Startups
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Airframe
Discussed“amazing book by the way Alex by Michael kryon called airframe which is about the counterfeit it's basically you know one of his great books he got into like why planes fall out of the sky”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Consolations
Discussed“it was a revolutionary moment in my life actually I just and led to the consolations essays and led to the writing of the first one with the title regret”
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Everything Is Waiting for You
Discussed“I think particularly after putting one of your poems in my newsletter five Friday everything is waiting for you yes it put words to a sentiment that I had had difficulty verbalizing”
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Selected Poems, by Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes
Discussed“and so I had to reach up and I got hold of one of the portrait books and they right in the Tipsy Topsy tween of my two fingers and pulled it off”
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The Blue Cliff Record
Discussed“we have the Blue Cliff record with hundreds of numbered coens all commented on by various then Masters through the centuries but actually they're everywhere”
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Fire in the Earth
Discussed“and the note went straight through me and and at exactly the same time I heard the redwinged Blackbird outside which here in the Northwest the Pacific Northwest is the sound of spring and the world just both collapsed and came together at the same time”
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Wild Geese
Recommended“she's so engaging she's so simple she's so clear you do not have to be good you do not have to walk for 100 miles through the desert repenting you only you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves that is the line wild geese”
My First Million
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Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
Recommended“roughly so there was um there was a author called Harvey McCay who wrote some very kind of pedestrian business books now by today's standards not sophisticated all but realized like at that age for me it's like this is brilliant it makes so much sense it's uh the one of the books was titled how to uh swim with”
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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Recommended“yes exactly uh there was another one that was less about business but still it's like everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten and these are like basic very very like basic basic things but it's one of those that it's like if you're an alien from another planet which is what I felt like large part of”
Pod Save America
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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.'”
SmartLess
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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.”
