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Books podcasts were talking about in March 2025
During March 2025, several podcasts featured prominent book recommendations across a variety of subjects ranging from relationships and health to politics and ancient history. On The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, Steven Bartlett promoted Logan Ury's "How to Not Die Alone" as a leading title on love and the science behind finding a partner. Bartlett also highlighted Sara Szal Gottfried's "The Autoimmune Cure" and Nickie Charles and Marion Kerr's "Women, Food, and Families" during his episode outros. Romance and human attachment also surfaced on Modern Wisdom, where Dr. John Delony and host Chris Williamson discussed Stan Tatkin's audiobook "Your Brain on Love," praising it as an exceptional resource on attachment theory. In political and cultural discussions, Breaking Points featured Emily Jashinsky recommending Jonathan Allen's "Fight," while Konstantin Kisin appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to endorse Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions" for its insights into human nature. Additionally, The Tucker Carlson Show included Andrew Isker referencing Peter J. Leithart's "Delivered from the Elements of the World" to explore historical purification customs found in ancient cultures.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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A Deadly Misunderstanding
Discussed“I had the privilege today of sitting down with Mark sender a former Congressman Mark wrote a book in 2008 called a deadly misunderstanding a congressman's quest to bridge the Muslim Christian divide”
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Use of VEE Maps and Concept Maps in the Learning of Form Five Mathematics in Samoa College, Western Samoa
Discussed“Have you written about this for example I wrote a little bit about it in the story of Noah”
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The Sovereignty of Good
Discussed“and this you just made Iris Murdoch's argument in the sovereignty of the good she talks about the example of the Mother-in-law who has like this attitude towards her daughter-in-law”
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A Thousand Plateaus
Discussed“I'm in the office at the Google headquarters where I'm going to be meeting with Serge Brin ... and so in the in the moment where I'm about to actually have a serious business meeting about my company being acquired by what at the time was by Def by steps the ascendant giant of the space my curiosity is still”
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Awakening From the Meaning Crisis
Recommended“talked about that in uh in the book uh Awakening from the meaning crisis”
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Values
Critiqued“It's a fair bit of international experience appears on the surface to be a highly credible individual And we assessed carne's ideas as put forward in his book values Uh for better or worse and I would say mostly for Worse”
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The Parent Revolution
Discussed“you said I believe I think it was in the parent Revolution I I um I read your both of your books in the last week”
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Manliness
Recommended“yeah I mean I think that that picture that you're describing is the same one that Harvey Mansfield lays out in his wonderful book manliness where he has three levels of of masculinity”
EconTalk
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The Moral Circle
Discussed“Our topic for today's conversation is his new book, The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why.”
Modern Wisdom
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Bad Therapy
Discussed“I had Abigail Shrier on the show. She was wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against therapy culture for kids, specifically for kids.”
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The Distracted Mind
Discussed“I'm thinking about the distracted Mind by Adam gazali and Larry Rosen where they talk about how human beings tend to forge for information in the same way that animals forage for food”
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Book of Lost
Discussed“I seem to remember in uh lost connections Johan Harry's book uh that there's a carve out in the DSM for grief around depression”
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Daring Young Men
Discussed“I had a conversation with Richard rebs sat here um Richard oh my gosh yes of boys and men yeah so he's great American Institute of boys and men”
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The Power of Your Brain
Recommended“Stan tkin did your brain on love best best book on attachment that I've ever listened to only exists as an audiobook to your brain on Love by Stan tkin [ __ ] outstanding”
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Your Brain on Love
Recommended“Stan tkin did your brain on love best best book on attachment that I've ever listened to only exists as an audiobook to your brain on Love by Stan tkin [ __ ] outstanding”
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Don't Tell Me I Can't
Discussed“So it start it's a it's called don't tell me I can't. It's written by a 14-year-old at the time called Cole Summers and essentially just to contrast it to the Department of Education.”
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Learned Optimism
Discussed“Uh, in fact, I'm reading a book at the moment by Martin Seligman, uh, that has a quiz, and much of the quiz is asking you questions about agency.”
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How to Know a Person
Discussed“How to Know a Person, that book.”
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Meditations for Mortals
Recommended“Have you read any Oliver burkman... did you get his new one meditations for Mortals”
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Bottle of Lies
Discussed“i mean in this there's a book called bottle of lies where this investigative journalist goes over to India with the FDA just to follow them and they're literally burning records”
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Bad Men
Discussed“well you have that's certainly one of the concerns I think in David bus's book bad men about how women become socially isolated from brothers and uncles and fathers and grandfathers”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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How to Not Die Alone
Recommended“Logan you have an incredible book which is I mean one of the I think the book on this subject matter called how to not dial alone the surprising science that will help you find love”
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The Autoimmune Cure
Recommended“The autoimmune cure, healing the traumas and other triggers that have turned your body against you is the book that I'm going to um highly recommend.”
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Women, Food, and Families
Recommended“and one of the books that I was referencing as we were going which is Women Food and Hormones a four-week plan to achieve hormonal balance lose weight and feel like yourself again.”
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Hormones
Recommended“and one of the books that I was referencing as we were going which is Women Food and Hormones a four-week plan to achieve hormonal balance lose weight and feel like yourself again.”
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Hard Times
Discussed“yeah we talk about Charles Dickens I read hard times I read hard times and this is written in the 19th century when Britain was like the industrial super of the whole world”
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The Trading Game
Recommended“I'd also highly recommend everybody to go check out the trading game because everybody's talking about this this book and I think it's what four weeks at the moment on the Sunday Times besteller list four weeks number one number one four weeks number one which is an incredible achievement”
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The Next Conversation
Discussed“You've written the book on conversation argue Less Talk More”
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Being There
Discussed“and I noticed that on your first book which was written in 2017 being there on the cover it says why prioritizing motherhood in big letters in the first three years matters scientifically evolutionarily with studies and research”
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Chicken Little the Sky Isn't Falling
Recommended“and then this one here Chicken Little the sky isn't falling raising resilient Adolescence in the New Age of Anxiety which was published in 21 I believe”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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A Court of Mist and Fury
Discussed“And another thing that I have to give a shout out about is that the cover for the paperback version of The Court of Mist and Fury, it's number two in the series, was the inspiration.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women
Discussed“And The Magicians I like the most like Harry Houdini Ricky Jay Ricky J wrote a book called learned pigs and fireproof women which is that kind of guide book to all these people that were using their bodies to do crazy thing”
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DON QUIXOTE
Discussed“he wrote Don kote which is this book about a guy that wants to save the world and make the world a better place”
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Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women
Discussed“The Magicians I like the most like Harry Houdini Ricky Jay Ricky J wrote a book called learned pigs and fireproof women which is that kind of guide book to all these people that were using their bodies to do crazy thing”
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Good Anxiety
Recommended“I really hope that everyone goes and grabs a copy of your book good anxiety”
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Happy Money
Recommended“I interview I don't know if you've had Ken Honda on, but he wrote I know Happy Money had him on. Dude, he's so cool.”
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Make Money Easy
Recommended“The book's called Make Money Easy: Create Financial Freedom and Live a Richer Life. Lewis House. Lewis, I'm so grateful genuinely for this conversation.”
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I've Never Been (un)Happier
Discussed“Shaheen my sister wrote a book um it's called I've never been unhappier”
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Mental Radio
Discussed“up in sin Clair who wrote The Jungle I mean you know beautiful writer and one of his books that he wrote after he had like gone through his life was called mental radio where him and his wife did a bunch of telepathy tests together and they documented how accurate they were”
Breaking Points
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Fight
Recommended“we'll have a link in the description to the book everybody should go and buy it”
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The Best and the Brightest
Discussed“another one of my favorite books is called uh it's like this no it's uh the best and the brightest David halberstam and specifically a reconstruction of the US decision to you know escalate into Vietnam”
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Man on the Run
Recommended“watch the documentary read more importantly Man On The Run I'm in it the book is oh that's right you are in it because I texted you about it I was like oh my God Ryan's in this Jolo documentary guys have to watch it the book is unbelievable”
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Commentaries on the laws of England
Discussed“you mentioned the Benjamin Franklin quote that I had cited where he said it is more just to allow 100 guilty people to go free than to punish wrongfully a single innocent person that comes from Blackstone which is the foundation of American and British law”
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Blessing the World
Discussed“Derek Thompson is going to join us for an interview about his new book and the political theory that he is sharing here with Ezra Klein yeah I'm excited to talk to him this uh book taking there's a lot of discourse around it”
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Antisemitism in America
Discussed“and Chuck Schumer canceling his uh planned book Tour on his book anti-Semitism because of quote unquote security concerns after there is a fierce Democratic backlash to his decision to Cave to the Republicans and the Trump Administration”
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What is Project 2025?
Discussed“but those are three areas where the like Russ vote project 2025 conservative movement yeah where they had a plan to dismantle them”
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The Age of Fallibility
Discussed“One thing that people need to do maybe is go back and maybe Scott Besson should do this. Read his old boss's book George Soros The Age of Turbulence where he talks about herd mentality.”
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Dot.con
Recommended“I went back and was reading some chapters from John Cassidy. He's a New Yorker reporter, a book, and he wrote a book in 03 called Dot Con. Highly recommend it.”
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Walter Isaacson: The Genius Biographies
Critiqued“um in the the biography the walter isacson biography oh that that book sucks i it's the worst book”
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Glengarry Glen Ross
Discussed“now Bill Burr did an interview where he was asked by the New York Times uh because he's doing a actually he's actually kind of cool he's doing a Glen Gary Glenn Ross adaptation uh which is interesting because David mammo is has long been sort of affiliated with the right though Glen Gary Glenn Ross is a critique of”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Delivered from the Elements of the World
Recommended“Peter Leidhardt, who wrote a book, delivered from the elements of the world.”
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Discussed“The diagnostics and statistics manual of the a the American Psychiatric Association, the DSM, yeah, had changed from revision four to five the definition from gender dysphoric disorder to gender dysphoria.”
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The Trials of Masculinity
Discussed“Angus Eon and an case did a book U um he called death of Despair that that that demonstrated that these people now live on average about eight years shorter lives because of of of of alcohol and drugs and suicide”
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars
Discussed“there Paul RoR another Nobel lat has the same thing but so you can go through and you can find ver there's a guy named Michael Pettis who's A Carnegie guy who's who's thought these things through and his he wrote a book um 10 years ago called uh trade Wars or class Wars but a guy named Matthew Klein”
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Discussed“uh Angus Eon and an case did a book U um he called death of Despair that that that demonstrated that these people now live on average about eight years shorter lives because of of of of alcohol and drugs and suicide”
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Tolstoy
Discussed“really have you ever read tol sto”
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In the Terrace
Recommended“You could read blood in the water uh Joan melon's Incredible Book”
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Blood in the Water
Recommended“you could read blood in the water uh Joan melon's Incredible Book”
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Armageddon
Discussed“most of the Germans killed in the military uh towards the end of the second world war were killed in the last nine months Max Hastings wrote wrote a book about it I can't remember the exact title of it it wasn't perfect but it wasn't a bad uh illustration of what was going on”
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The Clash of Civilizations?
Discussed“Samuel Huntington actually cautioned against this in 1996 saying you know when he wrote The Clash of civilizations and he said Don't expect of African leaders”
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Conspiracy to Murder
Discussed“I think Linda Melvin wrote a book called conspiracy to murder which is about I think she lived in Rwanda and she's a journalist and she wrote about the what happened”
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My Traitor's Heart
Recommended“there's a well-known book that was an international bestseller um My traitor's Heart by a guy called ran malan”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Defeat Into Victory
Discussed“there's General Slim had this phrase, you know, from defeat into victory.”
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Life and Fate
Discussed“Vasily Grossman says at the center of "Life and Fate," almost everything that is worth saying about antisemitism”
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The Satanic Verses
Discussed“And it's actually a scene that appears in "The Satanic Verses" of Rushdie, where that exact same thing happens.”
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Tragic Sense Of Life
Discussed“Did you ever read the "Tragic Sense of Life," Miguel de Unamuno?”
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Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
Discussed“...the numbers of copies of "Mein Kampf" in Arabic in an average Gazan household, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."”
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Culture of Hope
Discussed“You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's "From Counterculture to Cyber Culture"?”
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Discussed“You've read probably, is it Frederick Turner's From Counterculture to Cyber Culture? That was a story of cheap housing.”
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Confidence Man
Recommended“if you read, say, Maggie Haberman's great biography of Donald Trump, "Confidence Man"”
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Siddhartha
Discussed“The book is "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse.”
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The Upanishads
Discussed“Hesse immersed himself in translations of ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts, studying the "Upanishads" and the "Bhagavad Gita."”
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Demian
Recommended“I would recommend to read "Demian" when you are younger,”
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Steppenwolf
Recommended“"Steppenwolf" when you are older,”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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A Conflict of Visions
Recommended“Thomas Soul has a great book about this called conflict of visions”
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Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
Discussed“Um, but the safeguard process was created by Joe Pone, Donnie Brasco. It was created by Joe and a and a former agent who was back his background was a clinical psychologist, Steve Ban.”
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Siege
Discussed“the base is an accelerationist group and that's what I I again great detail in the book uh in the podcast but the thing is is most people hear white supremacy they think hoods and robes and crosses on fire right that's not this man the these are these are this is why they're called accelerationist there's a book out”
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Atheism is Winning!
Discussed“I read your book and I started reading uh Turtles All the Way Down which uh also which is really interesting because they wrote another book called Turtles All the Way Down and someone else published it that has almost the identical cover and that book is a provaccine book.”
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Forbidden Science
Discussed“What's that there? Forbidden Science. Oh, Jacqu Valet.”
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Jesus the Nazarene Myth or History
Discussed“I read your book and I started reading turtles All the Way Down which also which is really interesting because they wrote another book called Turtles All the Way Down and someone else published it that has almost the identical cover and that book is a provaccine book.”
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The Virus and the Vaccine
Recommended“There's a really good book called The Virus and the Vaccine by Bookchin and Schumacher.”
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Giza : the Tesla Connection
Discussed“And um Christopher Dunn uh had long ago theorized and wrote a book that he believes that the Great Pyramid of Giza is a gigantic power plant.”
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The Giza Power Plant
Recommended“Christopher Dunn had long ago theorized and wrote a book that he believes that the Great Pyramid of Giza is a gigantic power plant.”
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The Color of Money
Discussed“cuz it was the same Walter tev novel as the Hustler the color money it was very different”
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Power Metal
Discussed“I just read this crazy book called Power Metals by Vince Biser possibly we had him on the show Daily Show and it's all about like minerals and metals and what we need for our batteries”
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The New Jerusalem
Recommended“and I encourage you if you're like I can't believe you have this guy on listen to Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem”
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Forbidden Science 6
Recommended“and your book again uh the one that's available now this is uh Forbidden Science 6 this is the sixth of these books”
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Caste
Recommended“read cast by Isabelle Wilkerson and you know before you go judging what is going on”
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The Last President or 1900
Discussed“I got it in a three-part series that has the the baron Trump one and then the last president and there's one other one”
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Brother Sam
Recommended“his brother wrote about it there's a great book called uh Brother Sam okay by his brother Bill His bill wrote Bill wrote about the childhood about him getting hit by a car and becoming this Maniac”
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The Greatest Generation
Discussed“but I always kind of had an objection to Tom brokos book the greatest Generation because I thought like damn it that's not my generation why how do they get that”
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Recommended“Fear and Loathing on the campaign Trail is one of the best books ever on the American political system just like what it's like when people are running for officee”
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Every Shot Must Have a Purpose
Recommended“there's a great book these ladies I got p and neelson and Lynn pan Nelson's an easy one to remember but ly what's whatever ly last time they wrote a great book called every shot must have a purpose you ever read that one”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Tender Gift
Discussed“and that term actually started in an article in 1969 by a woman named Dana Raphael and then later on in a book in 1973 called the tender gift breastfeeding and that's when she brought this term back and said”
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Discussed“if you've there was a 1999 novel from Tracy Chevalier uh the girl with the Pearl Earring and then the 2000 film adaptation starring Scarlett Johansson who was perfectly cast”
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Spoon River Anthology
Discussed“and that's great that they did a good job with it because people all the way back to the 1940s um with Edgar Lee Masters the poet author of Spoon River Anthology who lived there for a while was worried about the the the gist of the Chelsea Hotel being Stripped Away by new owners”
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You Can't Go Home Again
Discussed“Thomas wolf was a frequenter there um in fact he died um he spent the last years of his life there in room 829 uh writing things like you can't go home again”
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The Head Trip
Recommended“it's got to me uh which I learned about from Jeff Warren's awesome book The Head trip”
Timcast IRL
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The Hunger Games
Discussed“i look at it like uh capital city in The Hunger Games basically there are people who don't have to work the machine takes from everybody else to fund and feed them”
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World of warcraft - death knight
Discussed“man on the right there is there is logic and code and on the left there is chaos”
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Demolition Man
Discussed“i'll make it easy for you tim the left are the society of demolition man the right are the society of starship starship troopers”
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Starship Troopers
Discussed“i'll make it easy for you tim the left are the society of demolition man the right are the society of starship starship troopers”
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
Discussed“Do you guys remember um Tucker Max yep yeah we had Tucker Max uh bought a billboard for his book and then he was working with Ryan holiday and the story goes”
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Book of the Dead
Discussed“but then in ancient Egypt they talked about the underworld under the pyramids where Souls would go I think it's am Amoth or something in the the book of uh gosh the is it the Book of the Dead yeah they talk about it”
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The Book of Enoch
Discussed“No, everybody knows it's from the Nephilim in the book of Enoch, the Jewish giants used to roam the earth and that the Smithsonian are hiding.”
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The age of spiritual machines
Recommended“Shane Wilder says, "Hey gang, yesterday y'all were talking about the advancements in robotics and AI. I recommend Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Curtzswwell from 1990, one of his 147 predictions. All but three have happened within a year of his predictions."”
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Darwinian Politics
Discussed“so there's a fascinating book called darwinian politics uh by a guy named Paul ruin and he's got kind of models of what motivates left and right”
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How Civil Wars Start
Discussed“this is data an uh analyst Barbara Walter hired by the the CIA to predict the likelihood of Civil Wars developing in foreign countries she believes the United States is potentially years away from another civil war”
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The Case for Christ
Recommended“sure I I recommend a book on this called the case for Christ by Lee Strobel”
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Death Note Gold
Discussed“have you ever heard of Death Note yeah the manga you know Trump's in it”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Discussed“Steve you're familiar with the two cultures book by CP snow”
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Women of Strength
Discussed“your books have been extremely well received both liked by readers and by book critics and you've got a new book called the age of diagnosis which I think people will like as well but I think your book is also going to make a lot of people angry”
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It's All in Your Head
Discussed“we start our conversation with Matthew one of the patients she describes in her first book it's all in your head true stories of imaginary illness”
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The Sleeping Beauties
Discussed“as I read your first book which talked about these psychosomatic illnesses it was really mind-boggling but nothing prepared me for what was going to be in your book called Sleeping Beauties”
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The Age of Diagnosis
Recommended“I hardly recommend all four of her books especially her most recent book book entitled the age of diagnosis how our obsession with medical labels is making us sicker”
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Is Earth Exceptional?
Discussed“he's co-authored a book on the topic called is Earth exceptional the Quest for Cosmic life”
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What Is It Like to Be an Addict?
Discussed“in our last new new episode we interviewed psychologist and neurobiologist Owen Flanigan who recently wrote a book on addiction it's based on research but also is part Memoir”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Gravity's rainbow
Discussed“it reminds me a little bit of um oh what was that excellent gravity's rainbow do you guys remember that one ... is that Thomas Pinon Yes yeah ... that novel has this thing about a secret conspiratorial Postal Service”
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The Things They Carried
Discussed“For instance uh you know a great a great debate uh covering the things they carry is whether that should be evaluated as a cohesive novel or whether it's a series of interrelated short stories”
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The Best American Short Stories 2024
Discussed“yeah remember I told you Ben that on our trip to the Middle East I was really hoping to read a whole book and so I bought the 2024 collection of the best American short stories”
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Lazarus
Recommended“there's a great graphic novel called Lazarus for anybody who likes graphic novels it explores the dystopian end spectrum of corporate run Global government”
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The Great Depression
Recommended“Oo, I'm glad you're mentioning this. Yeah, there's a great uh there's a great book by a Dartmouth economics professor named Doug Irwin. Uh he also has a great NPR interview regarding exactly what you're talking about.”
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The Creature from Jekyll Island
Recommended“So, I believe it's the creature from Jackal Island. That's a good search term if you wish to go down that rabbit hole.”
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Poor Richard's Almanac
Discussed“and it might sound crazy until we realize that he publish a best-selling book Poor Richard's Almanac remember that one”
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For the Record
Discussed“Don has a memoir called for the record from Wall Street to the White House here's how he depicts the interaction of astrology with the Reagan Administration”
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My Turn
Discussed“in 1989 Nancy Reagan uh has her Memoir my turn good name honestly”
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The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry
Discussed“oh this is a pretty good one the Norton anthology of uh modern poetry”
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The Moon Is Always Full
Discussed“so let's consider the work of a guy named David Hunter David Hunter uh was a retired Deputy from Knox County Tennessee in his book The Moon is always full he collected multiple stories of police officers relaying strange events”
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10 Little Rubber Ducks
Discussed“I've read that book The the small the short book by Carl no I don't I can't remember who wrote it but it's a book about 10 little rubber ducks that fell overboard when they were being shipped across the sea”
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Witch Cult in Western Europe
Discussed“and this Association was made within an author Margaret Murray's work the witch cult in Western Europe I love that title”
Candace
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The Witness Tree
Discussed“this guy used to work for the state had to write this book the witness tree which someone has sent to me by the way as a PDF.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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In Memoriam A.h.h.
Discussed“Alfred Lord Tennyson is a very famous English poet and he has a very very long poem. It's basically a book called Inmemoriam that tracks his experience through grief after losing his best friend.”
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Chip, the Dam Builder
Discussed“and the first book that I read was about a beaver it was called chip the dam builder”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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On Muscle
Discussed“yes you know it's interesting because we didn't talk about it but Bonnie's Bonnie Shy's new book coming out on muscle on muscle it's her followup to why we swim another champion of the Pod”
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The Explorer's Gene
Discussed“that article introduced me to this idea of an Explorer's Gene which is the title of my book and which you know public service announcement to everyone there is not an Explorer Gene”
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Good Stress
Discussed“all of which Jeff elaborates upon in his wonderful new book good stress”
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The Tao of Physics
Discussed“and I kind of wo up this theory of Health called the da of Health very much kind of built on the shoulders of The Da of physics which was a very influential book that I read by fritzo CA”
How I Write
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The Faith of Our Fathers: Being a Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ
Discussed“So there is the objective quality of a book. That's the first one. And this is what everybody thinks about. So we'll take a book like Gibbons, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Okay, people tell me amazing book. They'll say the writing is is is really strong. It's been super influential. Sure, you know, maybe you got”
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon. Vol. 2. [-3-4].
Discussed“So we'll take a book like Gibbons, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Okay, people tell me amazing book. They'll say the writing is is is really strong. It's been super influential.”
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“The” History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Discussed“So we'll take a book like Gibbons, the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Okay, people tell me amazing book. They'll say the writing is is is really strong. It's been super influential.”
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The Power Broker
Discussed“Or they'll talk about The Power Broker. That's one of my favorites. The Power Broker by Robert Carrow. It is 1,344 pages. But David, I know it's long, but I'll tell you, Robert Caro is such a good writer.”
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The Sense of Style
Recommended“Stephen pinker's got this great book sense of style that where he unpacks this and it it is my entire Bible of writing”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Elements of Typographic Style
Discussed“Reading Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style over and over and over and over. It's so dogeared my copy of it.”
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Recommended“Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.”
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Thrilled to Death
Recommended“She has a great book that just came out called Thrilled to Death, which if you're going to start Anywhere with Lynn, she's so funny.”
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Pattern Recognition
Recommended“Pattern Recognition is an incredible book. I read it once every couple of years. It's beautiful.”
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The Art of Simon Bisley
Discussed“I have that book this is Simon Bisley yeah the art of Simon Bisley”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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No Angel
Discussed“it look I mean the book starts with you getting shot so this stuff is dangerous and I'd love to start with that story because it frankly it sounds like a good reason not to join the ATF in the first place unless you're the right kind of person it actually enforced my reason to join to be honest with”
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Donnie Brasco
Discussed“um you know uh I I think Joel pastone I think Donnie Brasco like at least touched on that uh to some extent you know and that's a guy who's on the Mount Rushmore of of undercover work um you know he's so legendary but he still overlapped with his family at times too”
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The Deja Vu Experience
Discussed“there was a Tony Scott movie years ago titled Deja Vu that starred Denzel Washington that story originally Denzel is an FBI agent and he is investigating this bombing of a tour boot which kind of leads to like this big massive destruction”
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Sons of Anarchy
Discussed“and then you make you get the was that show Sons of Anarchy right and that's it's clearly kind of about them/ all motorcycle clubs but there there were consultants for them on the show to make it look more realistic”
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First in Thirst
Recommended“one of my favorite books is first and thirst it's this guy Darren rll Sports commentator a lot of people might know he wrote a book called First and thirst about the Gatorade store in the very early days”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Stalin's War
Recommended“one of the books I was going to recommend to you at the end of this of this conversation is a book called Stalin's War by Sha mcmein it's a history of World War II and it's largely about Stalin and the ways in which World War II is actually a product of his enmity for the West in the”
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Back from the Brink
Recommended“it's called back from the brink and it's the story of the '90s crime decline in New York City he did a fantastic oral history talked to basically everybody who's still alive and able to discuss it um and it's a fantastic story both about State capacity about how do you actually do something that you want the federal government”
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Power and responsibility
Recommended“there's a book by a Catholic priest named Romano guini a book called It's a short book It's called Power and responsibility and he writes it after the second world war about what kinds of people do we need to be what kinds of uh governors and leaders we need to be in a world where the bomb exists where”
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National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
Recommended“um so the first one I'd recommend is Albert hershman's National Power and the structure of foreign trade um from 1945 which is something that's gone completely out of fashion in recent years but shed a lot of light on where we are today”
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A Dictionary of Chinese-Japanese Words in the Japanese Language
Recommended“I would recommend John Min Kan The Economic Consequences of the piece um which just read the first third the last two thirds not worth reading”
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How to Think Like an Anthropologist
Recommended“if you want to get a very quick take on what anthropology is there's a book by Matthew Angel called think like an anthropologist that summarizes some of the key ideas in anthropology”
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Recommended“I would recommend John Min Kan The Economic Consequences of the piece um which just read the first third the last two thirds not worth reading”
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Debt
Recommended“and I'd recommend another book which is David graber's debt the first 5,000 years which looks at what you do with debt system systems from a very long-term perspective and makes a point about the fact that debt is always about power”
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Recommended“a second is mountains Beyond mountains by Tracy kit this tells the story of Paul Farmer who founded Partners in Health”
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The worldly philosophers
Recommended“uh the worldly philosophers by Robert H Broner it tells a story of the origins of Economics through the lives and ideas of the fields founding fathers”
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The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Discussed“I was talking about this ABS I was talking about this with Martin G that he has a sort of Revolt of the public there I was like no this is a Revolt of Elites”
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The Jungle Grows Back
Recommended“so I was thinking about it and one of them think would be Robert kagan's book The Jungle grows back which is a which is a short book that tries to explain the nature of this world that America built and how its erosion and Decay will result in the jungle growing back the jungle of real politic War”
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Diplomacy
Recommended“the second would be if you want to get a feel for 19th 18th century diplomacy and you know it's ups and downs uh Henry Kissinger wrote a wonderful kind of History called diplomacy and it begins in the 17th century and it goes all the way to you know the 1970s 80s as I recall”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Queen Anna's New World of Words, Or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues
Discussed“And John Florio even included includes it in his 1598 publications. A world of words.”
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Much Ado About Nothing
Recommended“Looks look for the No Fear Shakespeare line of books. So, go enjoy the play. Yeah, that's what I'm reading. Uh, no fear Shakespeare.”
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Hamlet: No Fear Shakespeare
Recommended“Looks look for the No Fear Shakespeare line of books. So, go enjoy the play. Yeah, that's what I'm reading. Uh, no fear Shakespeare.”
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Sweet Child of Mine
Recommended“Deanna Adler Steven Adler's mom wrote a book Sweet Child of Mine and um especially if you if you should read this you should read Stevens first”
Huberman Lab
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
Discussed“this is kind of Western price stuff”
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Sleep Wrecked Kids
Recommended“and um sleep wrecked kid by Sharon Moore”
SmartLess
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A Doll's House
Discussed“I was about 2 years old, one of Norah's children in a doll's house with my father playing Torva.”
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Nashville Skyline
Discussed“Bob Dylan went out of his way to come down here and right and do Nashville Skyline”
Acquired
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A New Innings
Discussed“And I've been referring a couple times to Manoj Badali and the book he wrote in New innings about his experience owning and running the Rajasthan Royals, the other team that was suspended for two seasons.”
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The Tao of Cricket
Discussed“There's an amazing line about this by an author named Ashis Nandi who wrote a book called the Dow of Cricket and he says cricket is an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English.”
The Book Review
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Discussed“She wrote a book called at the existentialist cafe. This was about Jean Paul Sartra Kimu Simone de Bvois and her first book which Stephen you read this year was how to live a life of Michelle de Monten.”
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A child of the century
Discussed“And I thought this was a defect in my brain until I read this book written by the famous and skilled Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hec, a child of the century, which is his doors stop of a memoir.”
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Cocktails with George and Martha
Discussed“And this was Cocktails with George and Martha. It's a book about the making of Mike Nichols's film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”
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Martha
Discussed“And this was Cocktails with George and Martha. It's a book about the making of Mike Nichols's film, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”
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The Thing Around Your Neck
Discussed“What spurred you to read Americana, The Thing Around Your Neck, Notes on Grief, Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus?”
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Notes on Grief
Discussed“What spurred you to read Americana, The Thing Around Your Neck, Notes on Grief, Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus?”
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Discussed“What spurred you to read Americana, The Thing Around Your Neck, Notes on Grief, Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus?”
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Purple Hibiscus
Discussed“What spurred you to read Americana, The Thing Around Your Neck, Notes on Grief, Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus?”
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Pictures from an institution
Recommended“Uh, it's a book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Gerald. Randall Gerald was a poet, a fairly well-known, very respected poet and critic post World War II and he wrote a single perfect novel and Mike gave it to me.”
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Wandering Stars
Discussed“so last year Tommy orange the novelist Tommy orange he joined this podcast to talk about wandering Stars wandering Stars was his sequel to there there”
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Dream Count
Recommended“yes so this is dream count by chimamanda and adicha it's been a long time since we've seen a work of fiction from her”
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Sunrise on the Reaping
Recommended“this is called sunrise on the reaping this is by Suzanne Collins and it is another book set in the world of The Hunger Games”
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Medicine River
Recommended“this is a book called Medicine River a Story of Survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools this is by Marie Annette pimber”
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The Legacy
Recommended“this is a book called Medicine River a Story of Survival and the legacy of Indian boarding schools this is by Marie Annette pimber”
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Great Big Beautiful Life
Recommended“so I am going to talk about Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry who is somewhat of a actually not somewhat no qualifier needed romance Superstar right now this is her sixth romance”
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John and Paul
Recommended“so this is John and Paul a love story in songs this is by a gentleman named Ian Lesley”
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Yoko
Recommended“not enough books about this person is Yoko the biography by David chef”
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Searches
Recommended“I am looking forward to searches by wahini havara who re was a finalist for the Pitzer for her novel The Immortal King ra”
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Strangers in the Land
Recommended“it's called strangers in the land exclusion belonging in the Epic story of the Chinese in America by Michael luo”
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Wuxia America: The Timely Emergence of a Chinese American Hero
Recommended“it's called strangers in the land exclusion belonging in the Epic story of the Chinese in America by Michael luo”
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Rabbit Moon
Recommended“okay so this is rabbit Moon by Jennifer hay this is coming out in early April”
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Authority
Recommended“this is by the Pitzer prize winning book critic named Andrea longchu and I actually really the title of this book it's called Authority”
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The Mirror and the Light
Discussed“there's three books by the way for wol fall there's the mirror and the light the third one which we've also adapted”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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When the Night Comes Falling
Discussed“He's the New York Times bestselling author of the book When the Night Comes Falling, a Reququum for the Idaho Student Murders, and he's my guest today.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Build a Brand Like Trader Joe's
Discussed“Gardner learned enough about the company by working there that he wrote a book about it called Build a Brand Like Trader Joe's.”
The Daily Stoic
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Catch as Catch Can
Discussed“he goes this guy probably made more money this week then catch 22 has made in its entire run and and says yeah that's true but I have something that this person will never have”
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The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Discussed“but does your does your boy mark Rus talk about embracing impermanence”
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Big Magic
Discussed“I think she might write about in big magic but I it's a great profile”
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Surprised by Joy
Discussed“so I was listening to CS Lewis's uh Surprise by Joy his like biography autobiography”
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Teaching As a Subversive Activity
Discussed“I mean in like I think it's Neil po Postman in like um teaching is a subversive activity uh a lot of people know his book uming ourselves yeah yeah um but teaching is a subversive activity starts out”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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The Gatekeepers
Discussed“So, there's a book called The Gatekeepers that was written that people gave me, "Oh, you should read this book." And it's about chiefs of staff.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Lost and Sound
Discussed“I'm we're reading a book now in the research um it's called Lost And Sound um you know the the the the beginnings of berine and the EasyJet set”
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Notes on a Scandal
Discussed“we're reading a book now in the research um it's called Lost And Sound”
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The Lost Girls
Discussed“we're reading a book now in the research um it's called Lost And Sound”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
Discussed“the book that made me want to become a journalist was from beir to Jerusalem”
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The Future of Freedom
Discussed“and the book that I found most inspiring in high school when I absolutely decided to become a journalist was the future of Freedom by Fred Zakaria”
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Summary of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World: Fareed Zakaria
Recommended“uh the book that made me want to become a journalist was from beir to Jerusalem and the book that I found most inspiring in high school when I absolutely decided to become a journalist was the future of Freedom by Fred Zakaria”
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). New Ed ...
Discussed“um um the game by Neil Strauss no uh no no no no no uh Huckleberry fin really yeah I read Huckleberry fin like three different times and uh it just is a it's just the most beautiful book about like The Human Condition and how important we are to one another and uh how like Outsiders often connect and”
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Pascal's Wager
Discussed“it's called Uh Pascal's wager”
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English Poems for Kids - Volume One
Discussed“I think the other book that typified this era at Facebook wasn't actually a Facebook book but was leanin written by Cheryl Sandberg”
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Whistleblower
Discussed“in 2014 and this email is included in the book Mark sends an email Zuckerberg explaining what he views as the company's three-year plan to have Facebook fully operational in China”
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Changing World Order
Recommended“I think um Ray Doo’s Book Changing World Order you hear some of the ideas reflected in my comments today”
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Recommended“Ray Doo's Book Changing World Order you hear some of the ideas reflected in my comments today”
StarTalk Radio
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The God Particle
Discussed“There's a book called the God particle written about the higs boson that was written decades ago because we knew that should be there”
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The Secret Life of Dust
Recommended“Hannah Holmes wrote The Secret Life of dust from the cosmos to the kitchen table great title”
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I, Robot
Discussed“this is the same with Isaac asimov's ey robot which predates the Jetson”
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Discussed“yes based on a novel by do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K dick”
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A True Story (English Edition)
Discussed“that's the name of the Lucan is the name of the person who wrote is credited with writing a science fiction novel called a true story”
My First Million
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The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Recommended“I'm reading this great book right now called the Great CEO within I also keep it on my desk as a reminder and it helps me lead”
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Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got
Recommended“so you know there's a great book called getting everything you have out of everything you got and it just walks through like those are the only three options”
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The Sweaty Startup
Recommended“I'm going to send you guys a copy of our boy Nick Nick Huber's book the sweaty startup how to get rich doing boring things because you guys are all doing sweaty startups”
Behind the Bastards
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Worm
Discussed“as best as I think anyone can tell if you're curious about where the name ziz came from there's another piece of Serial relased online fiction that's not like a rationalist story but it's very popular with rationalists it's called worm”
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Inadequate Equilibria
Discussed“and 2014 she attends a lecture by Alicia yid Kowski on the subject of inadequate equilibria which is the title of a book that yid Kowski had wrote about the time and the book is about where and how civilizations get stuck”
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Discussed“it's primarily based on a Haron Ellison short story called I have no mouth but I must scream which is one of the Great short stories of all time”
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The Revolutionary Temper
Recommended“as Robert Darton writes in the Revolutionary temper which is a great book about the way the media worked in Paris leading up to the revolution for most parisians especially the little people Versa was an alien world and politics was the king's business transacted in His Name by ministers corders and power Brokers among legans”
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The sun king
Discussed“in her book The Sun King Nancy mitford writes that as a result of this quote we seldom hear of other people giving parties for the king”
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The Story of Versailles
Discussed“Francis luring pay describes in her book The Story of Versailles 17 lofty windows are matched by as many Venetian framed mirrors”
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Truth in Our World Today
Critiqued“The 1924 textbook our world today and yesterday a history of modern civilization published 2 years after Mussolini's fascist government took over Italy had nothing but praise for that nation's new dictator.”
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The record of America
Critiqued“Another textbook published in 1935, the record of America told students that the so-called founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton were not big believers in democracy, an attitude the authors seem to endorse.”
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Encyclopedia of World Geography
Critiqued“To get to the topic of conversation, you literally have to turn through the pages of her son's geography textbook. Immigration in the United States can be divided into four district periods.”
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The Jefferson Lies
Critiqued“These sort of facts are the subject of Barton's 2022 New York Times bestseller. ironically titled the Jefferson lies, exposing the myths you always believed about Thomas Jefferson.”
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One Nation Under God
Discussed“As Cruz points out in his book, One Nation Under God, how corporate America Invented Christian America, the three-hour 40inute epic movie, The Ten Commandments, was a monster hit and wowed audiences with its 25,000 member cast”
The Rubin Report
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Who are We?
Discussed“and and he said well in relation to America it was funny rereading that book last month he said Americans are based on distinctive values and those values are under threat through large scale Hispanic Latino immigration”
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Private Truths, Public Lies
Discussed“you know um there's always I think it's the uh what is it the public lies private truths book Tim timer Kuran I believe”
ChooseFI
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The Miracle Morning
Discussed“one thing that's you know really helped me there there was a book I read it was the miracle morning yeah and it was a good book and you know I read it and I tried to force the structure on myself and it it it was square peg round hole and it didn't really form to me”
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Design Your Future
Discussed“and I know that you've read Dominic's book uh design your future right and like you can hear me quoting his exact phrasing there but that's what's so cool is like there's nothing that says you need to leave your job”
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The Gap and The Gain
Discussed“I was reading that I think I found out about it through the the email newsletter but that Gap in the gain book”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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Conscious Capitalism, Updated and Expanded
Discussed“have you read um John Mackey's book founder of Whole Foods yes where he talks about win win Winn you know win for the community win for the customer”
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Topgrading
Recommended“there's a book called top grading which is all about like finding the best people uh they talked and this has worked really well too they talk about um the threat of reference check”
Conversations with Tyler
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Air-Borne
Discussed“the approximate reason for this episode is Carl's excellent new book it's called Airborne the hidden history of the life we breathe”
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Life's Edge
Discussed“so in my book life's Edge I um you know I I I was writing about kind of um you know how far we can push our concepts of life and and you know can we think about life elsewhere”
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh
Discussed“um and I I I write a lot about that in a book she has her mother's laugh which is about heredity in general and heritability really is just saying like Okay in a certain situation”
