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Books podcasts were talking about in April 2025
Books podcasts were talking about in April 2025 covered technology, economics, writing methodologies, and political history. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, Lex Fridman recommended Matthew Ball's book The Metaverse during his conversation about gaming and the future of virtual spaces. Tyler Cowen used his platform on Conversations with Tyler to recommend Kenneth Rogoff's new book Our Dollar, Your Problem at the end of an episode discussing monetary moves and classical chess. On How I Write, Johann Hari shared several literary recommendations, including Annie Dillard's book The Writing Life for its helpful research analogy, Robert A. Caro's brilliant book Working, which details professional methods, Timothy D. Wilson's fantastic book Strangers to Ourselves regarding human self-awareness, and Michel Houellebecq's novel The Map and the Territory in connection with abstractions. Additionally, Marc Andreessen appeared on The Ben & Marc Show to recommend Eric Burns's book Infamous Scribblers for listeners interested in the historical media environment of the American colonial era. Lastly, on The Ezra Klein Show, Shujaat Wasty highlighted Kim Phillips-Fein's book Invisible Hands while explaining the long-term history and ideological push of the business conservative movement following the New Deal.
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Metaverse
Recommended“He wrote a really great book that I recommend people check out.”
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Discussed“You can read all sorts of things in China about totalitarian, you can read Hannah Arendt's book on totalitarianism, which would be the kind of thing you just, you know, you're not supposed to be able to read that in a somewhat totalitarian state or a dictatorial state, or anything.”
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Brave New World Revisited
Discussed“But you know, there was a kind of, it's not exactly a sequel, but Huxley did write something called 'Brave New World Revisited.' - Yes, he did.”
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We
Discussed“And it's a box set where you have Zamyatin's 'We', that inspired both Orwell and Huxley to some extent. That's one book.”
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Neuromancer
Discussed“So the other line besides best of worst internet, I always like is William Gibson who wrote one of the other important dystopian novels of the present, 'Neuromancer.'”
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The Media and Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
Recommended“My favorite book about, one of my favorite books about Chinese censorship, Margaret Roberts, where she talks about there are three different ways that the government can control the stories.”
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Among the Braves
Recommended“I should give credit for that insight, Shibani Mahtani, who's co-wrote a very good book on Hong Kong, 'Among the Braves,' she was talking about that...”
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Let Only Red Flowers Bloom
Recommended“One is called 'The Xi Jinping Effect,' which was just a bunch of scholars, an academic volume sort of looking at take this topic, and that topic, how much is Xi Jinping as a person really affected it? And they come up with all kinds of answers. But there's a book I really like, Emily Feng of NPR has a”
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No Straight Road Takes You There
Recommended“So Rebecca Solnit, he's got a new book, 'No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.' And she's talking about taking a longer view of some struggles...”
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1948
Discussed“as Norm Finkelstein called out Benny Morris for writing in his book, "1948," which is a great book.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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I Am Maria
Discussed“Okay, so this is the book. It's called I am Maria. Maria Shrivever.”
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Pride Puppy!
Discussed“Some of the books in question, Pride Puppy, a story about a dog lost at a pride parade.”
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Love, Violet
Discussed“Love Violet, about a young girl overwhelmed by her crush on a female classmate.”
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Jacob's Room to Choose
Discussed“Jacob's Room to Choose, about transgender students who lead a campaign to make their school's bathrooms gender neutral.”
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Uncle Bobby's Wedding
Discussed“Let's say the school, a an exquisitely competent and well-resourced school, is able to say, "On Tuesday at 9:00, we're going to read Uncle Bobby's wedding."”
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What Happened to Ellen?
Recommended“The book is called What Happened to Ellen? An American miscarriage of justice.”
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Silent Invasion
Discussed“Well, Deborah Bergs kind of admits that, doesn't she, in her book? I she one thing she does admit, she sort of touches on that. One thing she does admit is that the 15 days she never had an intention of of stopping there.”
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An Abundance of Caution
Recommended“Well, my next guest, David Zwag, has a new book out tomorrow that is a thorough account of the faulty decision-making process behind the school closures. It's right here. I have it in hand. And the book is called An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”
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The story of David
Recommended“Well, my next guest, David Zwag, has a new book out tomorrow that is a thorough account of the faulty decision-making process behind the school closures. It's right here. I have it in hand. And the book is called An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.”
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Abundance
Recommended“Again, it's called An Abundance of Caution with the yellow tape. It's actually quite well done by David Swag.”
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America is the Poem
Discussed“And while I have your attention, Joseph Massie, who was on promoting his poetry book, America is the poem, has now risen not only well past Maria Shrivever on the number one under poetry, but his book went up to number 18 in all books in America on Amazon.”
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Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter
Discussed“she wrote a book called Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter and talk about her mother was just o totally overbearing and definitely had some mental issues.”
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Steele Dossier
Discussed“In the years since, counter investigations proving the intel community was aware of the dubious origins of the Steele dossier, opposition research funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign, and used it anyway to obtain secret warrants allowing the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign.”
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The Cookie Baking Gnome Notebook
Discussed“You know, she that thing she put in her book about shooting dogs, her her dog. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she put that in her first book, uh, which came out a few years ago, but the editors there took it out. They said, "What is wrong with you? We're not putting that in your book about shooting dogs." But what”
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It Takes a Family
Discussed“reportedly he read Rick santorum's book on the manufacturing crisis and what we did to our own before he ran for president”
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The Joy Luck Club
Discussed“It reminds me of um not not your P particular example but you know remember the Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club um where one of the four women”
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Uncharted
Discussed“and then thereafter I'm trying oh the name of the book Uncharted Uncharted by um some guy named Whipple last name Whipple Chris Whipple”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Eat to Beat Disease
Discussed“I was talking to um I don't know if you've ever seen this gentleman. He's really great. He wrote a book uh called Eat to Be Disease named Dr. William Lee”
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My Next Breath
Discussed“It's been I started listening to your audio book. It was giving me anxiety. It gets better, right?”
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Painkiller
Discussed“You've seen Peter Berg's uh thing on Netflix, Painkiller? Have you seen that? It's a docu drama documentary.”
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Skeleton Crew
Discussed“It's a Stephen King book that or maybe it might have been a short story. It was a short story in one of his adapted skeleton crew.”
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Wired
Discussed“Did you see the thing that he said about Wired, the book? Yeah. Wait, which one? Wired is the book on John Belalushi.”
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True Identity: The Bible for Women (NIV)
Recommended“well, these [ __ ] is trying to bring up the Bible. It's like, get the [ __ ] out of here, dude. Harry Potter's better than the Bible.”
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Testaments Betrayed
Discussed“The great Czech writer Milan Candera had this beautiful phrase in a book of his from the '9s called testaments betrayed where he said the odd thing about mankind is he said we walk through life in a fog and we stumble along a path and we create the path as we stumble along it.”
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Provoked
Recommended“And you know, my uh um uh Scott Horton, who I always try to promote on here, he just wrote this book called Provoked. I think it's the best book that's been written on the uh history leading up to uh um the the war between is basically takes you from the collapse of the Soviet Union up to the”
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Popular science woodworking projects
Discussed“It was like they were saying we're all going to use hemp now because now there's an effective way to process the fibers and they're superior to everything else. Make superior paper, superior cloth, superior everything much much much better plan and uh William Randph Hurst was like [ __ ] that.”
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The China Study
Critiqued“I read about the China diet. And so you start believing that, but that's not really true.”
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Life
Discussed“And then there was a whole ton of different versions of us that didn't it seems like well you know what evolution is see this is the other thing Jehovah witnesses we had a book called how did life get here by evolution or by creation”
Conversations with Tyler
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Our Dollar, Your Problem
Recommended“Again everyone, Ken's new and excellent book is Our Dollar Your Problem. Ken Rogoff, thank you very much.”
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Fact, fiction and forecast
Discussed“Nelson Goodman was one of my favorites. Um uh like fact fiction for funny enough, I just bought it again. Fact fiction and forecast.”
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Naming and necessity
Discussed“Crypkkey there's a naming necessities is this kind of legendary book on reference and language.”
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IDENTITY AND NECESSITY
Discussed“Crypkkey there's a naming necessities is this kind of legendary book on reference and language.”
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Read Write Own
Recommended“Before we say goodbye I'd like to recommend Chris's book again. Read, write, own, building the next era of the internet.”
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John & Paul
Discussed“He has a new book out which I just loved. It is called John and Paul a love story in songs”
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Controlling Contagion
Recommended“Before my last question let me just plug your new book again. It's called Controlling Contagion Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to COVID and I believe it is the very best book on those topics.”
Behind the Bastards
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Brother Number One
Discussed“In his book on Pulpot, brother number one, Chandler writes, "Recollections about Salathsar's behavior at the meetings are contradictory."”
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We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us
Discussed“It's this book called We Eat the Minds and the Mines Eat Us, which is about these indigenous Bolivian tin miners. And one of the things that always struck me about that was, you know, like because they're all they're all literally like sleeping next to each other.”
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The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Recommended“There's a great line, I don't have it right in front of me at the moment, but in uh in Toqueville's regime in the French Revolution, which is really dynamite book everybody should read. At the end of it, he lays it out.”
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Present Age and of the Difference Between Genius and an Apostle
Recommended“I mean a really simple one that I talk about way too much is um Kierkegaard's the present age which you find in this book called Two Ages that's easy to buy. It's normally really cheap or you can just read it online someplace that kind of describes a society in which people get caught up in media and reflection”
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Two Ages
Recommended“I mean a really simple one that I talk about way too much is um Kierkegaard's the present age which you find in this book called Two Ages that's easy to buy. It's normally really cheap or you can just read it online someplace that kind of describes a society in which people get caught up in media and reflection”
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An American Utopia
Recommended“I've been very Frederick Jameson pilled recently and I think I mean I've read Jameson before on and off but recently dove in more deeply and there's one okay I have it arms reach so I can say the title correctly that I've really been enjoying it's um called an American utopia dual power and the universal army by Frederick”
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Silence in the Snowy Fields
Discussed“his first poem of collection of poems, which was called Silence in the Snowy Fields, was published in 1962, and it focused on moments of solitude and beauty”
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Peasants into Frenchmen
Discussed“Like France is like language. If you read like peasants into Frenchmen is kind of the classic work on like French nationalization. But like in order to make people French, they did have to press like Basque and Breton and Catalan and other languages, right?”
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The Fateful Alliance
Discussed“as Herman Beck lays out in his book the fateful alliance students preceded the established bildings burgurtum in appropriating a new conservatism before the German defeat in the first world war”
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Hugenberg's economic program
Discussed“Uh so his first while he's in co college effectively he gets you know he he does his like dissertation right which is his first booklength publication like these are effectively books and his first dissertation is titled internal colonization in northwest Germany which he fetishes at the university of Strasburg in 1891.”
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Alfred Hugenberg
Discussed“Uh in his book on Hugenberg John Leopold writes quote the young doctoral candidate analyzed in detail the role of the state in fostering economic growth.”
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Major Barbara
Discussed“In 1905, George Bernard Shaw had already in his play M. Major Barbara not been sparing with his insinuations.”
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Cultish
Recommended“Our wonderful guest today, Amanda Montel, author of the book Cultish, which I've cited on this show.”
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Deadly Choices
Discussed“As off, it writes, "All these tests and procedures were expensive, potentially dangerous, and according to the opinions of expert witnesses, of no value to the child."”
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Defeating Autism
Discussed“Feeding into this complex churn is the fact that as the term autism grows to Encompass more people it loses what author and Doctor Michael Fitzpatrick describes as a sense of coherence Michael wrote a great book about the biomedical movement titled defeating autism a damaging delusion and in it he writes”
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Toxic Childhood
Discussed“So these experts are not mostly doctors though and in fact among the most influential of them is former school teacher Sue Palmer author of the book toxic childhood published in 2006”
How I Write
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The Writing Life
Recommended“There's an analogy in an amazing book about writing that I really recommend called the writing life by Annie Dillard um where she uses analogy from from thorough.”
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Working
Recommended“I mean, I literally use that question because I've read Robert Car's brilliant book, Working, where he talks about his methods, but that I recommend to people.”
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Strangers to Ourselves
Recommended“There's a fantastic book I recommend everyone read called Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy Wilson, a guy I interviewed and you should definitely talk to him.”
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The Map and the Territory
Recommended“By the way, people who want to think about that analogy more, there's an amazing novel by Michelle Wbeck, the French novelist called the map and the territory.”
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Death of a Salesman
Discussed“Um Willie Lman in the death of a salesman is something about um success is all that matters. You know, success in the world. that's all that matters. so, so he's he's he's obsessed with the idea of success both for for him and his sons.”
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Shooting an Elephant
Discussed“So you have uh consider the lobster, David Foster Wallace, 2003, and then uh shooting an elephant by George Orwell. I think it's 1936.”
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A Pattern Language
Discussed“So, that's a book by Christopher Alexander in uh 1978. And basically it's him trying to map the universal patterns across all of architecture. So he has 253 patterns.”
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How to Write a Thesis
Discussed“So Alberto Ekko, he wrote a book called How to Write a Thesis. Uh and he has something called the pick one volcano principle.”
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Oldboy
Discussed“It's almost like um the movie Old Boy where it takes I'll spoil it a little bit. Sorry, you're not going to watch it.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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Infamous Scribblers
Recommended“Um uh and so and just for people want to read about this, there's the best book on this is called in infamous scribblers. Um uh which was sort of the the the the name for for journalists in those days.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Invisible Hands
Recommended“The major part of the story is, you know, after the New Deal, and there's a great book called Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips Fine, which she really details the the push of that ideology over 40 years, a long-term plan.”
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The Promise of Politics
Recommended“One is The Promise of Politics by Hannah Rent. And the other is The Populist Moment by Lawrence Goodwin.”
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The Populist moment
Recommended“One is The Promise of Politics by Hannah Rent. And the other is The Populist Moment by Lawrence Goodwin.”
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Listen, Liberal
Recommended“Um, and then listen liberal. Listen liberal by Thomas Frank who wrote What's the Matter with Kansas? Who had a call to arms about the future of the Democratic Party about 10 years ago.”
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Destructive Creation
Recommended“I'll say, uh, destructive creation by Mark Wilson. was probably the most detailed book I've read about the actual mobilization during World War II.”
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Bad Samaritans
Recommended“second book I'd say is probably the second bad Samaritans by Hajun Chang, which tells the story of how a bunch of developed countries managed to go into mission mode and and develop their countries.”
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The Defining Moment
Recommended“And uh, the third I'd say is probably the defining moment by Jonathan Alter. It's about FDR's first 100 days and really paints a picture of his style of leadership and how he was able to do so much without legislation.”
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Believe
Discussed“He's the author of Believe, Why Everyone Should Be Religious, a book I enjoyed very much, even though quite a bit of it I had some questions about.”
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Living with a Wild God
Discussed“someone like you know Barbara Aaron Reich who's famous I had her on for this book right famous left liberal writer wrote a whole book called and a famous atheist yes famous atheist called living with a wild god right”
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Inventing the Renaissance
Discussed“I've been reading about the Renaissance recently. Ada Palmer's great book on inventing the Renaissance.”
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Modern Trial Advocacy
Recommended“Uh the first one is a book called from about 20 years ago by a physicist named Steven Bar called ancient physics and modern faith. Uh that is I think despite being a little bit dated is still really the best overall survey of sort of where arguments in modern physics that relate to religion stand and how a reasonable”
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Mind and Cosmos
Recommended“Um but a book by called Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel who's a famous philosopher not religious but arguing for the fundamental limits and problems with a materialist framework on the world and it is a very short book which is why I don't hesitate to recommend it.”
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
Recommended“The first one is a book called from about 20 years ago by a physicist named Steven Bar called ancient physics and modern faith.”
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Troubled memory
Recommended“And the the third book is a book by Lawrence Powell called Troubled Memory. Annne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Dukes, Louisiana.”
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The Burning
Recommended“I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma last fall and I got a book called The Burning by Tim Madigan about the Tulsa race massacre which was very eye opening and astonishing that I did not learn that in history.”
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Breaking Twitter
Recommended“I recently read Ben Mezri's breaking Twitter uh which is basically how Musk broke Twitter but it is an interesting playbook that you are seeing replicated now.”
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Erasing History
Recommended“And then Jason Stanley's erasing history, how fascists rewrite the past to control the future, which is very preient uh in terms of what the Trump administration is trying to do to universities right now.”
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Recent History of Shipbuilders Local 18, I.U.M.S.W.A.,AFL-CIO and how to Save It!
Recommended“Okay. Well, I just read it's it's been out for a while, but I just read and had a discussion Zack Carter's uh the price of peace uh which is about John Mayer Kanes and his his role in in the world and then beyond. Fantastic book.”
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How Not to Invest
Recommended“the uh my friend the uh uh uh fund manager Barry Rith Holtz has a great book called How Not to Invest, which believe it or not is is interesting.”
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How the War Was Won
Recommended“Um, and oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”
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British and American Naval Power
Recommended“Um, and oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”
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War and Power
Recommended“And oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”
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The Age of Addiction
Recommended“one is an incredible book called the age of addiction by David cordr and he Chronicles how you know people have always like wanted you know sugar”
Candace
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Libido Dominandi
Discussed“But he did a whole book on the origins of pornography. Talks a lot about the French Revolution. Uh even where the word sadism comes from. Um and it's fascinating to learn that and to know that again we don't know the origin stories. We just know that it's here. Uh, so I don't remember what the name of his”
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Shot In The Dark
Discussed“Sam writes, "Thank you, Candace. My husband and I are trying to start a family and a shot in the dark has been a godsend. We are for sure antivax gang gang. We need Auntie Candace loves me onesies, please. God bless. Oh, that would be so cute to do a shot in the dark onesies."”
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Measles
Discussed“And it was his organization, Children's Health Defense, that authored a book that was entitled The Measles Book. Okay, the Measles book, which set out to prove that healthc care had been traded in for profit.”
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My booky wook
Discussed“How do we know? because Russell Brand wrote all about it. He told us all about it. He had a uh autobiography that was published back in 2007 entitled My Bookie Wookie.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Things Fall Apart
Discussed“And so it was it was like books that come to mind is a book called like things fall apart. I don't know if you're familiar with this book. Shininoa Okabi, I think.”
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The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill
Discussed“And I was reading a book um a lot about Winston Churchill and he had a quote in there um where he said, "If you have enemies, good. It means you stood for something at least once in your life."”
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Homestead Tsunami
Discussed“Uh the latest one was Homestead Tsunami which is a description of well the dawning interest in homesteading as a uh potential choice of life let's say.”
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Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal
Discussed“Um he's also written everything I want to do is illegal which I love as a title.”
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You Can Farm
Discussed“um You Can Farm, which is partly what we discussed, and pastured poultry profits, which is a book that documents a particular form of agrarian lifestyle as a solution to the economic problems that young people might be facing.”
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Pastured Poultry Profit$
Discussed“um You Can Farm, which is partly what we discussed, and pastured poultry profits, which is a book that documents a particular form of agrarian lifestyle as a solution to the economic problems that young people might be facing.”
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Grass Productivity
Discussed“some Andre Voyini was a Frenchman who who wrote grass productivity, kind of still the Bible of of rotational or controlled grazing.”
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Discussed“Stephven CVY in the seven habits of highly effective people, you know, talks about emotional equity.”
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Democracy in America
Discussed“That's very tovillian. The the Alexis detoville when he wrote democracy in in America he said well this is what is going to make America great in in the 1830s is well and America's got that right with its 51 state or 50 state experiments.”
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Kill the Boer
Discussed“Now, your book is entitled Kill the Boore. There's a reason for that.”
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The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud
Discussed“There are two Talmuds. The main one is the Babylonian Talmud, two and a half million words.”
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Phaedo
Discussed“Then just like Plato starts, you know, in a dialogue called the Lockis, Socrates runs into a couple guys.”
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Discussed“I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this”
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Modern Classics Civilization and Its Discontent
Discussed“I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this”
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Two photographers: Robert Capa centennial - Gerda Taro retrospective
Discussed“I knew this quote before I found this out cuz I read Foust one and two and there's a line in there Mephostophles.”
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How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Discussed“One of my earliest memories was being in Iowa City when I was a kid. My mother was reading me a story by Toltoy called How Much Land Does a Man Need?”
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The Assembly of Women
Recommended“But more important is Aristophanes play Assembly Women in which the women take over and establish a communist society.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Tower of Basel
Recommended“So, there's a wonderful book called The Tower of Basel by a wonderful Hungarian journalist where he documents and describes the whole history of the Bank of International Settlements. And if you want to understand power in this world, understanding the how the Bank of International Settlements and the and the plumbing of the central banking system works is very,”
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The Nightingale's Song
Recommended“And my grandfather, who is very important to me, um he he was a paratrooper, but I became obsessed with the Marine Corps. and he had me read two books. The night and gale song. Yeah. About amazing book. It's amazing book. I read I still go and read it every couple years. It's honestly and the and the he”
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The Soul of Prosperity
Recommended“And then he had me read Fields of Fire by Jim Webb. Oh my gosh. And Jim Webb is one of my personal Those are both Vietnam books.”
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A Rumor of War
Recommended“The night and gale song. Yeah. About amazing book. It's amazing book.”
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Fields of Fire
Recommended“And then he had me read Fields of Fire by Jim Webb. Oh my gosh.”
EconTalk
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The Scaling Era
Discussed“At the end of the first chapter, you say uh this book's knowledge cutoff is November 2024.”
Modern Wisdom
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The Shield of Achilles
Discussed“One of my favorite books was a shield of Achilles, which is like this thousandpage book on constitutional government in Europe and it shows how every time there's like a new form of warfare that's best.”
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Of Boys and Men
Critiqued“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here. And the one I think big problem I had with the book is he kind of argues at the end that we've got to figure out a new way to do fatherhood apart from marriage.”
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Hegel, Love and Forgiveness
Discussed“What do you think about the story of the book Eat, Pray, Love? You know, Liz Gilbert's book obviously got a lot of attention, a lot of popularity among women especially.”
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The Nurture Assumption
Discussed“Yeah, I mean I think you know on the twin study issue there's certainly some you know Judith Harris for instance is famous writing this book kind of arguing that you know because of genetics there's not much that parents can do to really influence the lives of their kids.”
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The Two-Parent Privilege
Discussed“Well, we saw this with Melissa Carney's book, the the two parents advantage, two parent privilege. And um before it even came out, Melissa Carney is as sort of policy wonk DC, probably center left, I would imagine, a lovely lady, softly spoken, very well researched, and writes this book saying, "Look, there is kind of the freest advantage that”
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Men
Discussed“I just actually wrote a piece on Richard Reeves, you know, has written this great book actually of of boys and men here.”
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Eat Pray Love
Discussed“What do you think about the story of the book Eat, Pray, Love?”
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Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder
Recommended“from Vikings to Tinder, by Mads Lawson. So, I've got some stuff in there. I've got poetry in there for the first time. I've got free books like Mads's book.”
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Next Generation HALT and HASS
Discussed“But if marginalized groups aren't doing well, it's it's something wrong with society. And, you know, it's interesting sort of if you break this down politically, there's a really interesting book that just came out uh called Outraged by the psychologist Kirk Gray.”
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Get Married
Discussed“And uh Brad Wilcox in his book Get Married, he talks about uh there are certain like high-risk environments that you can find yourself in if you're in a relationship.”
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A Short History of the Norman Conquest of England
Discussed“There's a a cool lesson uh about had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with and then he wrote another book about uh like the history of alcohol and um he basically described alcohol as kind of the perfect drug for the human”
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Trying Not to Try
Discussed“I had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with”
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The Heart is a Quarter Pounder
Discussed“but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called The Mating mind”
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The Mating Mind
Discussed“laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called The Mating mind in which he says”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Art of Spending Money
Discussed“You're working on a book currently which is being released in October this year called The Art of Spending Money.”
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The Snowball
Recommended“There's a book called The Snowball, which is kind of the most detailed do biography of Warren Buffett, and it would talk about how when he was on his adulthood, he wouldn't want to get haircuts because in his mind, a haircut would cost $10,000”
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Be Exceptional: Master the Five Traits that Set Extraordinary People Apart
Discussed“exceptional individuals are made not born and that's a good thing because that puts this level of excellence within reach of you and me and you've identified several traits that make someone an exceptional person.”
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Why Trust Science?
Discussed“Much later I read um I was reading a book by um Naomi Orescus the historian of science and she wrote a book called Why Trust Science?”
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Philosophy as a Way of Life
Discussed“And I'm just reading for the second time this book. It's called Open Socrates. Okay. And it's a really wonderful book and I've learned a lot about Socratic philosophy that I didn't know.”
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The Courage to Be Disliked
Discussed“And I was reading that book, The Courage to be Disliked over Christmas. And it kind of it changed my view on this quite profoundly and in an important way because it helped me to understand. And I think it basically says that what happens to us doesn't create who we are. We use what happened to us and we”
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Outlive the Science and Art of Longevity
Recommended“I would highly recommend anybody who has not read this book to read this book because this is the book on this subject.”
The Rubin Report
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Fiddler on the Roof
Discussed“And so I think when he came in, they figure, you know, it's that like that line in Fiddler on the Roof, when you're rich, they think you really know.”
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All the Demons Are Here
Discussed“It sort of reminds me of the ridiculous right now whereas I'm sure you know about a month ago Jake Tapper announced he has a book about the scandal around Biden's health.”
Interesting Times
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Amoris Laetitia
Discussed“and even in the synod and LGBTQ issues and in amoris laetitia, in his apostolic exhortation on the family, a lot of his critics said Oh, well, anything goes it’s just we’re just going to listen to people.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Unforgiving Places
Discussed“So, you've written a book. It's called Unforgiving Places. And one piece of your book that I really love is how you capture the assumptions that people on the right and the left make about the causes of crime.”
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Discussed“In 1961, Jane Jacobs published a book called The Death and Life of Great American Cities, where she observed in the same way that I note in my book, like, isn't it wild that when you look around similarly poor neighborhoods, there are huge differences in violence rates across those communities?”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts
Discussed“You recently published a book called The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts. What can you tell us about cause and effect with cultural institutions?”
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Relentless
Discussed“Luis Miranda recently published a memoir about his work in politics and beyond. It's called Relentless. As nice as I seem, he writes, I was and continue to be relentless.”
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Theater Kid
Discussed“Seller is also about to publish a memoir called Theater Kid. He grew up in a chaotic working-class family in a Detroit suburb.”
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Beyond Broadway
Discussed“She's the author of a book called Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theater Across America and she teaches theater and American studies at Princeton.”
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Leadership in Turbulent Times
Discussed“She wrote a book called Leadership in Turbulent Times which is about what she considers to be the four most effective presidents.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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The Fate of Rome
Discussed“You have this graph in The Fate of Rome. You show human population over the last few thousand years. I assume that these two downspikes are both the bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, right?”
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Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275–425
Discussed“Let's turn to another one of your books, the one about slavery in the Roman world. I did not realize before I read that one how much Rome was a slave society.”
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
Discussed“one of my favorite examples of this is David Anthony, the guy who wrote the Horse, the Wheel and Language. He made this super impressive discovery before we had the genetic evidence for it”
Stuff You Should Know
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Little Johnny Jones
Discussed“I do know Give My Regards to Broadway is from Little Johnny Jones from 1904, written by George M. Cohan.”
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Discussed“they said, 'Hey, let's turn this DS Elliott old possums book of practical cats into a musical and have real people dressed up as cats.'”
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The Last Kids on Earth
Discussed“The the last kids on earth or something like that. Oh, that sounds good. That may not be the title, but that's sort of the premise. Is she she might be too old for this, but maybe not. Um, has she ever read any of the scary stories to tell in the dark books? Uh, I don't think. And it”
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More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Recommended“Yeah, there's also more scary stories to tell in the dark pretty much equally good. Uh, so maybe we should flip it and start with Little Free Libraries since I mentioned that one first as insp.”
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The Daughter of Time
Discussed“Uh it was a very popular detective novel called A Daughter of Time in which they reimagine the disappearance of the two princes as a modern murder mystery where Scotland Yard gets involved and Scott Lanyard says Henry VIIIth was the guy who murdered these two boys. It wasn't Richard III. was a very big book uh bestseller in fact”
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Richard III
Discussed“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle uh called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested uh she's a historian and a screenwriter obviously a Ricardian and she was like I want to figure out what happened to this body that's still the mystery”
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Richard III
Discussed“Um, so Richard III is the you may his name may ring a bell if you're not already familiar with him because there's a very very famous play by Shakespeare called the tragedy of Richard III.”
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Richard III
Discussed“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested”
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The Practice
Discussed“If you want to know anything else about Adidas and Puma, we'll just go start reading up more. There's actually a book by a woman named Barbara Schmidt called Sneaker Wars, appropriately um all about the rift between Adidas and Puma. So, if you want to know more about it, that's a pretty good place to start.”
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Airport
Discussed“...what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel.”
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Hotel
Discussed“...what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel.”
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A Spy Among Friends
Recommended“But uh Dave also wanted us to shout out and we want to shout out a book by Ben McIntyre, A Spy Among Friends, Colon Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal.”
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A Spy Among Friends Kim Philby And The Great Betrayal
Recommended“But uh Dave also wanted us to shout out and we want to shout out a book by Ben McIntyre, A Spy Among Friends, Colon Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal.”
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Happiness
Discussed“Uh there was another guy we talked about the nudge earlier uh in 2008. Another Nobel economist named Richard Thawer co-wrote a bestseller called nudge colon improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness. And in that book he talked about um social priming experiences uh benign paternalism or that nudge that you know you kind of mentioned earlier toward making”
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Death on the Nile
Discussed“um set in this period of time that and for some reason it just captured everybody's attention and apparently when she started expanding I think after World War II uh to some slightly more exotic loces like Egypt or Mesopotamia you know um uh for like Death on the Nile was a very famous one during this time or the”
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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
Discussed“um set in this period of time that and for some reason it just captured everybody's attention and apparently when she started expanding I think after World War II uh to some slightly more exotic loces like Egypt or Mesopotamia you know um uh for like Death on the Nile was a very famous one during this time or the”
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Curtain
Discussed“So she wrote a book for each of them. Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”
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Sleeping Murder
Discussed“So she wrote a book for each of them. Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Discussed“I started reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which I think was her first published work um last night, and it's just great.”
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The Murder at the Vicarage
Discussed“So this is when Miss Marple comes along as as a a detective in 1930 with The Murder at the Vicorage. That was her first one.”
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Murder On The Orient Express
Discussed“Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written uh during this period...”
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Crooked House
Recommended“Um, have you seen the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Crooked House that came out in 2017?”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Seek
Recommended“Um there my friend of mine Scott Shagyoka has a great book called Seek all about curiosity. Uh curiosity is is a skill.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Discussed“There's a thing called Swedish death cleaning. I produced a show about it which is all about that. Swedish death cleaning. the gentle art of Swedish death cleaning, which is the Swedes believe one of the things that you can do for your family is you can clear out your stuff before you die.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Unanxious
Recommended“And grab a copy of the book Unxious. It's available right now. Make sure you follow Humble across social media if you don't already.”
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I Am a Big Helper!
Recommended“He wrote a book called the case against reality that the universe that we see is not real. It's a projection.”
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Signs
Recommended“I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura Lynn Jackson who wrote the book Signs.”
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Dr. Vonda Wright's guide to THRIVE
Recommended“People can get more depth inside your book, which I highly recommend. Thank you. Uh and we'll be putting the link in the captions so you can order it as you've been listening.”
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Human Nature and the Social Order
Discussed“so there's this beautiful piece of wisdom that I always share from Charles Horton Culie and he wrote this in 1890 I think it was which just shows how true this has been for such a long time and obviously long before that as well and he said The challenge today is I'm not what I think I am. I'm”
Breaking Points
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We Are the Union
Recommended“He's an assistant professor at Ruckers and he's also out with a terrific new book. Highly recommend. Let's put it up on the screen. It's called We Are the Union: How Workertoworker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big. an extremely relevant and timely book given how important unions were to building factory jobs into good well-paying um jobs”
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The Canceling of the American Mind
Discussed“First of all, you are the author of several books and more recently this one. Let's put it up there on the screen, The Cancelling of the American Mind. But more recently, uh you know, you might look at that and be like, "Oh, this is a right-wing guest or something."”
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The American Wine Society Basic Guide to Pruning
Discussed“In Greg, you didn't just write cancelling of the American mind. That was a follow-up to a really great book you wrote as well called The Coddling of the American Wine with John Height. And that's a really important book.”
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We Have Never Been Woke
Discussed“I think um I'm reading Musa Algarvey's um book, We've Never Been Woke, and he he really kind of saw James Lindseay's term woke right, you know, coming that essentially when you look at some of the tenants of the right of the hard the authoritarian left and the authoritarian right”
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Generation Kill
Discussed“I mean that changed a lot of people's minds or that book generation kill having the guy literally in the front Humvey and people were like this is a cluster [ __ ]”
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Neoconservatism
Discussed“This is a guy who again when he was in his what mid20s wrote neoconservatism and why we need it in ' 06 when the Iraq war was a disaster has since written books about migration about wokeness and now about whatever his latest in defense of the west book is.”
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Band Of Brothers
Discussed“That's like reading Band of Brothers for the first time about World War II.”
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Hitler 1936-1945 Nemesis Sml Banner
Discussed“Chapter one, I was re doing a rereading. Chapter 1, volume 2, Ian Kershaw's Hitler, 1936 to 1945, called Nemesis.”
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There Is No Place for Us
Discussed“And then we've have um Brian Goldstone on. He's written written a really important Roen... Um written a really important new book about, you know, we talk so much about the working poor. He digs into the working homeless, which is increasingly a reality, people who are doing everything they can, working full-time, but because housing and rent is so”
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Permanent Homelessness in America?
Discussed“And with that in mind, we are really happy to be joined by an author, Brian Goldstone, and journalist who's just put on a fantastic new book called There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America that takes a look at a number of families in and around the Atlanta area who are working, doing everything right,”
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The age of entitlement
Recommended“I mean, if people want to read a good um book on this, Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell is a a short read and it was hugely influential. I mean, I've seen some people point to the book Richard Hanania wrote a couple of years back, but Caldwell is the book that really um was influential on the right”
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The First Forty Days
Discussed“By reading books such as the first 40 days, I learned this is not normal in the rest of the world.”
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Bringing Up Bébé
Discussed“It's called Bringing Up Bay. One American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting.”
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The Self-driven Child
Discussed“How to raise kids who aren't The Anxious Generation, The Self-driven Child, and even throwbacks like Battle Him of the Tiger Mother.”
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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Discussed“How to raise kids who aren't The Anxious Generation, The Self-driven Child, and even throwbacks like Battle Him of the Tiger Mother.”
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Cribsheet
Recommended“And that is why I am urging any expectant parent read these books and her follow-up crib sheet.”
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My Life
Critiqued“I only read My Life, which is complete propaganda, by the way. It's just laughable.”
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Too Big to Fail
Discussed“He wrote Too Big to Fail.”
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No Logo
Discussed“uh is none other than uh Naomi Klene who relevant to this uh this conversation is the author of uh many uh books but in particular no logo published in 1999 which kind of drew inspiration from and also provided inspiration to uh the burgeoning anti-globalization movement at the time.”
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Recommended“I do recommend if anybody ever wants to, you should read uh Ezra Vogle has a biography of Deng Xiaoping and Deng specifically was purged and was one of these people who was purged and actually sent to go work in a factory and his period during the cultural revolution and the great leap forward.”
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
Discussed“In none of those cases, not even with the infamous Smoot Holly tariff, could the president be held responsible for the downturn as self-evidently as today?”
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Den of Thieves
Recommended“Anyway uh den of thieves great book recommendation if you've never read it uh the movie Wall Street was uh based on some of the characters that were in there iosi and Michael I Michael milin is one of the most notorious white collar criminals literally of all time”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Cross Purposes
Discussed“In this new book of yours called Cross Purposes, which is a wonderful title, you ask a simple question, which is why has America become ungovernable?”
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American Heretics
Recommended“There's a wonderful new book about this by Jerome Kapolski called American Heretics about how the founders had to actually face down some attempts by Christians who were very unhappy that the country wasn't named as Christian”
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
Discussed“if you read William James varieties of religious experience, the famous, you know, the famous attempt to sort of catalog and analyze these experiences, I saw things like that happened to my parents and people I know.”
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After
Recommended“I recommend a book called uh after by a doctor named Bruce Grayson, which is there have been a lot of surveys of the literature on this going back.”
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Prepare the Way of the Lord
Discussed“And it was the uh Wendel Bear wrote a book about this called the unsettling of America. And it was about the destruction of family farms and the the the centralization and the aggregation of big agricultural uh sort of organizations.”
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Consilience
Discussed“I Wilson's I read his book Consilience, the unit of knowledge. He talked about this this sort of framework that connects all these disciplines together in in sort of social sciences sciences and he said there's no theory of medicine.”
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The Unsettling of America
Discussed“And it was the Wendel Bear wrote a book about this called the unsettling of America. And it was about the destruction of family farms and the the the centralization and the aggregation of big agricultural”
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Desolation Angels
Recommended“Um, it wasn't one book, but it was Jack Carowak as an author, maybe Desolation Angels, which really kind of set me out on this path of being on the wild adventure and having a kind of crazy wisdom way of living that's sort of not on the beaten path.”
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Good Food on a Tight Budget
Recommended“So I gave them a guide called Good Food on a Tight Budget from the Environmental Working Group. How to eat well for your wallet, good for the planet, and good for your health.”
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Salt Sugar Fat
Recommended“Michael Moss wrote a book about this called Salt, Sugar, and Fatty. interviewed 300 different food industry executives and scientists and whistleblowers.”
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Brain Train
Recommended“You got Chris Palmer who wrote a book called Brain Energy talking about how he cured schizophrenics by changing their diet and bipolar disease.”
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Pronoun Trouble
Recommended“but for now your happy book is called pronoun trouble The Story of Us in seven little words you can get it anywhere you get books”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Men Without Work
Recommended“If they're if they're serious about what you just framed, the book to read is called Men Without Work. It's by a guy called Nick Everest. He is a real economist and I know him.”
StarTalk Radio
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Ideas And Opinions
Discussed“No, if you read his uh ideas and opinions, it's a book, right?”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Old Testament Use of Old Testament
Discussed“Here's what's crazy. It's not the devil because there actually wasn't originally a devil with a capital D in the Old Testament. See, the word Satan originates from the Hebrew Hebrew word. Then he writes it out like with all the accents on it. Looks like Satan to me, which means ad adversary or accuser.”
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Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Biblical Archaeology ...
Discussed“anyway, oh, speaking of that, I had a great [ __ ] conversation with somebody that was explain to me the book of Job, not Job. It's not get a [ __ ] job. It's get a job. And it's the book of Job. And I'm listening to this this this story. And the story of Job is basically Job”
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Job
Discussed“Um, anyway, oh, speaking of that, I had a great [ __ ] conversation with somebody that was explain to me the book of Job, not Job. It's not get a [ __ ] job. It's get a job. And it's the book of Job.”
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Caveman Chronicles
Discussed“I ended up interviewing the owner, Todd Mayo, because he wrote a book called The Caveman Chronicles about starting this venue.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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The Green Berets
Discussed“So, one day I go into the bookstore, and there's a book, The Green Beretss.”
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Build a Business You Love
Discussed“Your newest book, Build a Business You Love, is set to release on April 15th, tax day.”
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Recommended“John Maxwell talks about um in his book 21 laws of leadership which is his bestselling book and my favorite of his. The number three law is the law of the lid.”
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The Works of William Shakespeare
Discussed“90% used to do it when the only three resources they had in their home was the Bible Shakespeare and the local newspaper”
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
Discussed“so you may read like amamos Fortune Freeman in challenge one who was a Tanner and while you're doing that you're also in science learning about biology and tanning”
Huberman Lab
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Disease Concept of Alcoholism
Discussed“Emelick, he was at at Stanford for a bit, the end of his career. and he had done a lot of research on alcoholism and I wrote a book in the ' 50s or 60s called the disease concept of alcoholism and out of that book there was a curve and you can look this up it's called the gel”
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Network Medicine
Discussed“and there's like scientists like Lero Hood who created the institute for system biology and folks like at Harvard Lazium Barbasi was studying this and wrote a book called network medicine about the body as a network”
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Biochemical Individuality
Discussed“One of the fathers of sort of the thinking in functional medicine was Roger Williams who discovered pantaththenic acid or vitamin B5. He wrote a book called biochemical individuality.”
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Nutrition Against Disease
Discussed“And actually his book was the one that got me interested in this in college because I live with a nutrition PhD student who was talking about the basically the gut flora of cows when he was studying to understand fiber and the microbiome and he gave me a book called nutrition against disease by Roger Williams”
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Our Stolen Future
Discussed“And there's a whole book on this that I read like almost 30 years ago called Our Stolen Future by Theo Coburn which lays out it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins”
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The Paradox of Choice
Discussed“Well, I think what the apps do is there's a phenomenon that Barry Schwarz talks about in his book, The Paradox of Choice.”
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5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life
Discussed“Bill Eddie was on this podcast. He's a therapist and lawyer and he wrote the book uh I think it was like five types of people that will ruin your life.”
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High Fidelity
Recommended“There's a great line in that movie High Fidelity based on the Nick Hornby novel, which I also highly recommend where he's like, you know, people tell me that we should listen to our gut.”
Acquired
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7 Powers
Discussed“The first part of analysis is a section called power which we have shamelessly ripped from Hamilton Helmer's book seven powers.”
ChooseFI
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The Simple Path to Wealth
Discussed“and you I would hate for somebody to have read the simple path to wealth or worse have heard about the simple path to wealth, throw everything in VTSAX in their retirement accounts, set it and forget it and never look at it again.”
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Die with Zero
Critiqued“And largely in the fire community, what I've noticed is there's a book called Die with Zero. I think that's very popular.”
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Your Money Or Your Life
Discussed“Many of you have read her book, Your Money or Your Life. But even if you haven't, you know about this book.”
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Playing with Fire
Discussed“I loved that book and since reading it, I've heard Vicki on many podcasts and enjoyed seeing her in Playing with Fire, a great documentary that you should all check out.”
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Your Money or Your Life
Recommended“Many of you have read her book, Your Money or Your Life. But even if you haven't, you know about this book. It's changed the way so many people think about work and money.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Moneyland
Recommended“It's hard to understand. Um Oliver Bulock actually who you who you've interviewed has a his book is called Moneyland and it's one of the best and easiest to understand versions that explains it if you if you want to know more about it. Um um but the the problem is not just that that complicated world of finance.”
The Book Review
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Wolf Hall
Discussed“Those novels were Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the first two in a trilogy of novels about Thomas Cromwell”
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Newton's Niece
Discussed“I first encountered her having not read her, I'm completely honest, in the early 90s and I was at Faber and Faber and I I took on a historical novel by a writer called Derek Beavenon, a novel called Newton's Niece.”
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Twist
Discussed“to be honest with this book with twist which came first the cables or the characters cables came first”
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Discussed“His life is also broken. He's one of these lonely men in shirt sleeves hanging out in out of windows as he would have been in the 20th century TS Elliott poem, Love Song of Jay Alfred Proof Rock.”
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Letters to a young writer
Discussed“And it was reminiscent of another line that you wrote in your letters to a young writer which is a book they wrote years ago in which you have all these sort of short chapters which you're talking to young writers.”
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Underworld
Discussed“And so for me one of the the great novels along with Ulisses and there are a few others and in fact I would I I would venture to say that Underworld by Don Dilo is one of the other great novels of the 20th century.”
Timcast IRL
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The Marquis de Sade
Recommended“This has been around forever. Did you guys read Marquita Assad? Mhm. Julia like you know stuff has been around for a while, right?”
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Justine
Recommended“Did you guys read Marquita Assad? Mhm. Julia like you know stuff has been around for a while, right?”
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Minority Report
Discussed“Minority Report is real. Do you guys remember in Minority Report when he he steals the eyeball and then he goes into the mall and it's like hello Mr. Chen and it shows a picture of like an Asian guy that scanned his eye.”
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Tower of Lies
Discussed“She released a memoir, Tower of Lies. What my 18 years of working with Trump reveals about him.”
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The Autobiography of Mr. James Dawson
Discussed“It's it's so uh some parents in Illinois called the police on a teacher who gave the kids a book called This Book Is Gay.”
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Antifa
Discussed“I read the Antifa handbook. Have you read it?”
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Watchmen
Discussed“You know what's really sad is um uh for Watchmen, Alan Moore wanted to use the DC characters and they wouldn't let him.”
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American Splendor
Discussed“my mentor Harvey Pekar rested. God Restless His Soul from American Splendor. He went on a book tour...”
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Attack on Titan Sampler
Recommended“You should watch Attack on Titan.”
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Death Note, Vol. 4
Recommended“You should uh you'd like the first half of Death Note.”
SmartLess
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Dr Zhivago
Discussed“Russian novel made into a film starring Omar Sharif. You got this one. I can see. Oh my god, I know it. I'm literally my brain is on fire. That's where the answer would be. Don't look in the other organs. It's not in your lungs or the frozen turkey section. I'm s Dr. Jivago.”
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Anam Cara [Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition]
Discussed“There's a book about that. that John O' Donahghue the poet wrote called the anamara which is means soul friend it's gaic right it means soul friend”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Prime Minister was a Spy
Discussed“This is a real pitch made by a British author named Anthony Gray in his book uh they published in 1983. named in a burst of creativity, the prime minister was a spy.”
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The Afghanistan Papers
Discussed“Back in 2019, uh Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post published At War with the Truth, and the world said, "Uh, what?"”
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The Kite Runner
Discussed“...somebody would fly on a plane and they would read the kiterunner or something while they were on the plane and they would hop out and think that they understood everything about this place that has been a battleground for centuries and centuries.”
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Kim
Discussed“Afghanistan became uh once again as you mentioned Matt a very uh fertile battleground right you can see uh you can see some excellent fiction based on this period of time a work by Richard Kipling it's intensely problematic author but I would I would say a talented poet uh he wrote a novel called Kim which is about a”
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I Heard You Paint Houses
Discussed“It's based on a book right by this guy named Charles Brandt, right? It's called what is it? I heard you paint houses. I heard you paint houses which is a fantastic title.”
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The Hoffa Wars
Discussed“the author uh Dan Mula, he wrote the book The Hoff Wars and he's been researching the disappearance of this gentleman for god 40 years.”
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Oblivion
Discussed“fast forward in 1996, a book comes out called Oblivion, and it cites a CIA operative as its source who claims that Richard Cox did work in the intelligence field in Europe during the Cold War.”
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Playing Dead
Discussed“Years ago, I interviewed this woman, Elizabeth Greenwood, and she wrote a book about faking your own death cuz she was like, 'I need to know if this is possible.' We we did. We talked to her as well, didn't we, Matt? What was the book called? Oh, Ben's a big fan of it. I think it's called Playing Dead.”
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Deep Learning
Discussed“Um, but anyway, it's it's really fascinating stuff and Goodfellow, our friend Ian Jay Goodfellow actually wrote a book on this subject. Yeah. A book called his book about deep learning is called deep learning.”
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Amelia Earhart Lives
Discussed“so in a book by Joe class from the the 1970s I'm not quite sure exactly what year came out called Amelia aart lives um this gentleman makes the case that aart was in fact captured”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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DOS for Dummies
Discussed“We were working on MS DOS5, which maybe I would say we'll have to go two standard deviations out in your audience distribution curve to find anybody who really knows what MS DOS5 was, but it was a really big operating system for Microsoft at the time and we made an upgrade and the feature was we broke the 640K”
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The Paper Menagerie
Discussed“Kenneth Leu I think is Liu. He has the paper managerie which was actually gifted to me by Matt Mullen blends or alternates in a sense between sci-fi and fantasy in this really compelling way.”
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Why? the Purpose of the Universe
Discussed“And so your last book, why explored the middle ground between God and atheism. Now I'm going to paraphrase this just to make a third person or a second person. I guess you came out as a heretical Christian, which caused a big reaction, a heated discussion within the philosophical community”
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Reality+
Discussed“or the simulation hypothesis Nick Bostonramm's famous for exploring and David Charas in his recent book reality plus you know maybe we're in a computer simulation and there's some you know random software engineer who set it all up”
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The case for God.
Discussed“So her book, her great book, The Case for God, which is a bad title. I think that's a strong title.”
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Mind Beyond Brain
Recommended“So if people want to get really squirly and explore consciousness as something perhaps non-loized or not limited to the brain, they can read a collection of different writings called mind beyond brain which was edited by David Prey. Now, if David Prey were just playing singing bowls and swinging copal around the public square, walking around in rags, it”
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The Varieties of Spiritual Experience
Recommended“Also if people want an adjunct to that there's a book called the varieties of spiritual experiences the newer book 21st century research and perspectives by a scientist named David Yeden y a deen out of John's Hopkins and that is also worth taking a gander at if you are particularly really interested in mystical experiences, what that means and”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Pray for Him
Discussed“I found a book. It's called Pray for Him. Oh, it's a good one. It basically teaches you that you can control yourself and you keep praying for them to find their way. Um I I've been following it. I just I don't It just doesn't feel like he's wanting to change his opinions or feelings or thoughts.”
Pod Save America
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When We're in Charge
Recommended“The next book from Crooked Media Reads is coming soon. It's called WinW We're in Charge: The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership by our pal Amanda Litman. She's been on the pod many times. Uh it's out May 13th. Amanda's co-founder of Run for Something. Uh she's helped launch the political careers of hundreds of millennials and Gen Zers. Uh”
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Who Is Government?
Discussed“Michael's most recent book, Who is Government? Showcases the thankless, unglamorous work of doctors and engineers and civil servants inside the government at a time when the government is under attack.”
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The Fifth Risk
Discussed“So I just thought I started got interested in the characters and then I found this character towards at the end of the fifth risk. I just picked him basically out of h out of a hat.”
The Daily Stoic
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A Whole New Mind
Discussed“Uh and I would say one regret I have to go to your book is that I in retrospect, I took this the talks way too seriously, if that makes sense.”
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Boys Among Men
Discussed“I read this interesting book a couple years ago called Boys Among Men, which is about the generation, which now you can't do, generation of NBA basketball players that went straight from high school because now you have to.”
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The Power of Regret
Discussed“We did that a lot before we had kids. Uh and I would say one regret I have to go to your book is that I in retrospect, I took this the talks way too seriously, if that makes sense.”
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Our Town
Discussed“So, you know, it's a famous, you know, famous Thornton Wilder play.”
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Quit
Recommended“And Annie Duke has a good book about quitting, you know, and and I do think that that in some ways powering through, sticking with it is is slightly overrated, but you know, it's it's this is this is what adult life is about.”
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Andy Warhol
Recommended“Like I really recommend uh Blake Gopnik's massive biography of Andy Warhol.”
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Good Bones
Discussed“All right. I'm sure you're sick of talking about it, but I do want to talk about Good Bones a little bit because I'm not sick of talking about it. No, no. I it's just um what I what I found so beautiful about the poem was this tension that I think is it was relevant that it's probably always”
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Memoirs of ... Mrs. S. Huntington
Discussed“Also, like uh Susan Strait, the novelist, who is uh my professor in college, she talks about this in her memoir.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Abundance
Discussed“He's got a new book with Derek Thompson, Abundance, and he co-founded Vox in 2014, and he's our guest here today before Trump ships him to El Salvador.”
Build with Leila Hormozi
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Overcoming Overeating
Discussed“I saw another therapist in college who who I spoke to about that restrictive and binging pattern. who who gave me like this really good book overcoming overeating because I now had turned into it had gone from like anorexia like starving yourself to now binge eating. And because obviously those two almost come together sometimes you can't spin this”
The Ramsey Show
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Con man or saint?
Discussed“There's a guy who scammed a bunch of people and wrote a book from jail in the 70s. The book he wrote about himself was con man or saint. Obviously, he thought he was a saint, but he was in jail.”
a16z Podcast
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
Recommended“What book should every defensebased founder read? 100red-year marathon by Michael Pillsbury.”
