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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2025
Throughout May 2025, guests and hosts across several podcasts highlighted historical accounts, memoirs, and contemporary analyses. On The Megyn Kelly Show, Glenn Greenwald discussed written reviews regarding dramatic works. The Shawn Ryan Show featured Larry Vickers referencing The Quiet Professional's Advantage by Darren Joseph Massaro to describe military standards. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Luke Caverns recommended Percy Fawcett's personal diary Exploration Fawcett, noting he listened to the audiobook version. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Jay Shetty recommended Megan Bennett's book to help listeners navigate personal challenges and life uncertainties. The Ezra Klein Show featured a discussion where Ezra Klein recommended Zeke Faux's Number Go Up in the context of crypto speculation. In turn, Zeke Faux recommended Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, detailing fourteenth-century France, alongside Adam Ehrlich Sachs's collection of interconnected fables titled Gretel and the Great War as part of his closing recommendations.
The Rubin Report
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My Blue Heaven
Discussed“Did you ever see My Blue Heaven with Steve Martin when he's plays a mafia guy in witness protection and he goes, "I don't tip, I overtip."”
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Guinness World Records
Discussed“The record, according to Guinness World Records books, is 4,080 at the moment.”
Stuff You Should Know
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Folk Tales of Sherpa and Yeti
Discussed“Um there's a there was someone named um Shiva Dal that collected a bunch of these stories in a book called Folktales of Sherpa and Yeti and all of them kind of figured the same way which was uh whether it's a story called the annihilation of the Yeti.”
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My Quest for the Yeti
Discussed“Uh people like Reinhold Messner and uh one Sir Edmund Hillary both searched for evidence of the Yeti while they were hiking. Uh and Messner even wrote a book called My Quest for the Yeti: Confronting the Himalayas's Deepest Mystery, right?”
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The Seven Daughters of Eve
Discussed“Sykes is like a a a leading expert on um analyzing mitochondrial DNA. Wrote the book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which kind of introduced the world to genetic analysis through M MTDNA.”
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Cliffs Notes
Discussed“Great episode about the Cliff's Notes, guys.”
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Popped Culture
Recommended“And uh check out that book by Andrew Smith, Pop Culture, because it's the definitive toe on popcorn.”
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The Day of the Jackal
Discussed“Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsight had been published a few years before and it and it appears that he literally kind of followed the steps of how to obtain a false identity from that book kind of note by note.”
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The Scarlet Letter
Discussed“like if you went to read a book in high school in the 80s like the Scarlet Letter and you're like, 'Oh god, do I really have to read the Scarlet Letter?' You would go to a store and you would buy this uh yellow and black uh very thin pamphlet.”
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The Monster at the End of This Book
Discussed“the monster at the end of this book is a classic children's book with Grover as as the center character.”
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Alibaba
Discussed“So, the title, if you're wondering where that came from, um it was uh from Alibaba and the 40 Thieves, Open Sesame.”
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Discussed“So, the title, if you're wondering where that came from, um it was uh from Alibaba and the 40 Thieves, Open Sesame.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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The Half-Life of Facts
Discussed“There's a great book uh this guy wrote called the half-life of facts.”
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Tao Te Ching
Discussed“And it's a book about vibe coding by way of a 3,000-year-old spiritual text called The Da Jane, written by LaSu.”
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Beatles - Please Please Me
Discussed“It's we know it very specifically in the hip-hop world, but that's really when the Beatles listened to Roy Orbison and then wrote Please Me based on his Please, Roy Orbison's Please song.”
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The Way of the Code
Discussed“My takeaway is basically that you're saying we've got to vibe with ourselves when using these tools and watching and reading the way of code is basically a window into watching how you Rick vibed with yourself in the creation of this.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Good Night, World
Recommended“I just read a review of this play by my friend Michael Tracy, who's an excellent writer. I really encourage people to go read it.”
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Good Luck
Recommended“I just read a review of this play by my friend Michael Tracy, who's an excellent writer. I really encourage people to go read it.”
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Dignity
Recommended“Chris Arnardi is amazing. I I call him the Rebi, which in Hebrew means like, you know, the the the the one who influences in a positive way, who you look up to as a as a teacher and he he's so incredible and his book dignity is so beautiful”
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Summary of Jake Tapper's the Outpost
Discussed“Tapper and Thompson out there pushing this book. They were on the program on Tuesday and, notwithstanding the fact that we gave Jake Tapper a very hard time for not being the right person to author this book. Alex Thompson is fine. He he actually can author this book. He did not only try to cover some of the Biden”
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Soulman
Discussed“And they wanted to call the book uh Soulman or um shadow boxer and um I said no and uh good hill to die on.”
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Shadow Boxer
Discussed“And they wanted to call the book uh Soulman or um shadow boxer and um I said no and uh good hill to die on.”
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Prostate Cancer
Discussed“He's also author of the book Prostate Cancer. Now what? A practical guide to diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.”
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Manual Not Included
Discussed“She's got a new book out, okay? And she really, really wants us to get to know her better. It's called Manuel Not Included. It came out this past Tuesday.”
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Careless People
Discussed“Uh it's from a a futurism.com and they have taken a deep dive into the recent tell all book by the former Facebook insider turned whistleblower Sarah Win Williams who came forward with the information about how Instagram was targeting young girls in particular and has revealed a bunch of secrets about Meta, Facebook, Instagram. And listen to this. Um”
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Slaves to Fashion
Discussed“Of course, what does that mean? I have no idea, but it seems to be based on a 2009 book written by a woman named Monica Miller called Slaves to fashion, black dandism, and the styling of black diasporic identity.”
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Dawn's Early Light
Discussed“He's also a former college president and he's author of the book Dawn's Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America.”
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Invisible Man
Discussed“It is like when you go to a bookstore and try to find a copy of an American classic, Invisible Man, written by a black guy, and it's in black literature.”
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The Kingdom of Cain
Discussed“I mean, truly like the the whole notion of your book, The Kingdom of Cain, meant to find God in the midst of evil, is what we kind of try to do every day on this show”
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Please Stop Helping Us
Discussed“I know you've had other books too to please stop helping us which uh was your earlier book about how the government just oh so desperately wants to quote help the black community”
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The Art of Winning
Discussed“I agreed to speak with CBS Sunday morning to promote my new book, The Art of Winning.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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Tiger Woods
Critiqued“look at this editor's pick. The secret history of Tiger Woods. Said the death of his father set a battle raging inside the world's greatest golfer. Dish. Dish. How the [ __ ] do you know? Why? Cuz you talked to his gardener. Is that the closest you could get to him? And now you're going to write 400 pages”
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The Secret History
Discussed“Look at this editor's pick. The secret history of Tiger Woods. Now, how how much do you think they actually talked to Tiger Woods? Said the death of his father set a battle raging inside the world's greatest golfer. Dish. Dish. How the [__] do you know? Why? Cuz you talked to his gardener.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Combat Arms
Discussed“Before I went in, I knew I was going to be a light weapon specialist. So I I got these books, Combat Arms and Small Arms of the World, and I would just absorb them looking at pictures, reading about the guns and everything like that.”
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Small Arms of the World
Discussed“Before I went in, I knew I was going to be a light weapon specialist. So I I got these books, Combat Arms and Small Arms of the World, and I would just absorb them looking at pictures, reading about the guns and everything like that.”
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Delta Force
Discussed“According to Charlie Beckwood's book, Delta Force, you had 20 hours to do the 40 mileer. Had to do two hours, 2 miles an hour in very hilly terrain. Very hilly train. Some of it on roads, some of them on trails, some of them cross country. And you had to do it in 20 hours.”
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The Quiet Professional's Advantage
Recommended“There's fantastic book written about him called Quiet Professional.”
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Fast tanks and heavy bombers
Recommended“You know, it's a great story in a book called Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers, which is the oxymoron title.”
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Heavy Bombers
Recommended“You know, it's a great story in a book called Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers, which is the oxymoron title.”
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Good Pictures Bad Pictures
Recommended“There's a there's a book called a good book. Um, I think it's good book, bad pictures and um, so it's I think it's been around for about 20 years, but there's a there's a theme in it that's helpful for even adults. There are bad pictures in the world that you probably will see, but if you see those”
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The Master Plan of Evangelism
Recommended“there's a really great book I I love uh master plan of evangelism. Uh Roberty Coleman wrote it and he talks about how um it's good to tell people, you know, something, but it's better to show them. Like people are often not looking for an explanation. They're looking for a demonstration.”
Modern Wisdom
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Building Community Among Adults of Different Generations
Discussed“But there seems to have been a cultural shift among youth where um and Gene Twangi has has done a great analysis of this in her book generations. prior generation.”
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The Seven Basic Plots
Discussed“This guy called Christopher Booker who's who wrote an epic book called the seven basic plots. Um and he defined the heroes having these four qualities”
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Undeniable
Discussed“And we missed each other on the first book on Endur and then you've got Undeniable, which is a new one, which is [ __ ] awesome, by the way.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Lost City of Z
Discussed“and we watched the movie The Lost City of Z about Percy Faucet and something about that guy's journey reminded me so much of my family”
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Exploration Fawcett
Recommended“I was reading uh yesterday I was reading uh uh exploration faucet. Have you ever read this before? Listen to the audio book. It it's his Percy Percy Faucets personal diary.”
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Letters to a young contrarian
Discussed“there's a book that he wrote about politics, the um letters to a young contrarian. Oh my god.”
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Free: My Search for Meaning
Discussed“You have a book. I do. Yeah. I hope you like it. Free. That's a great name.”
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The Psychopath Test
Recommended“He has a good book about that. Have you read the psychopath test? No, I haven't.”
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Island
Discussed“Then his last book that he wrote before he died was called the island, than it was sketching out what he believed would be just what you describe, a a non-abusive a place where a small scale community where humans could flourish”
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The Captive Mind
Discussed“which was this book called the captive mind that somebody had left out by Chesaf Milos a po who was a Polish poet and he had grown up in Warsaw”
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Violence and the Brain
Discussed“and this is extensively documented in published papers and in their book violence in the brain.”
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The Terminal Man
Discussed“So, Michael Cretton wrote the book The Terminal Man, which was his second novel that was about Kyle. He masks the name of Kyle.”
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The Hidden Persuaders
Discussed“they wrote books like the hidden persuaders to expose the effects of advertising and PR.”
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Evaluation of Selected Insecticides for Control of the Mexican Rice Borer, Eoreuma Loftini (Dyar), on Rice
Discussed“And I did that. I did that um in like 05 06 when I was like he was on his show and his his first like killer album came out, Skanks for the Memories.”
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The Glass Bead Game
Recommended“There's a book that I'd um recommend for people um by Herman Hess, and it's called The Glass Bead Game. Magister Ludy, the glass bead game. And and it helped Herman Hess win the Nobel Prize for literature.”
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Blind Man's Bluff
Discussed“There's a book I was um uh recommended to read called Blind Man's Bluff and uh it's a book about uh deeply classified projects uh connected to the Navy, right?”
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And Now You Know
Discussed“Um, Tucker, your book is called And Now You Know. And, uh, You Know. I didn't even know you had a book when I reached out to you.”
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
Discussed“You really freaked me out with the whole outlaw Josie Wales thing. Like I loved that movie and now I'm like, "Oh no. I can't watch it anymore. Oh no. The guy who wrote the book that turned into I mean tell the story cuz it's so crazy. So yeah, there was a fellow named Asa Carter... One of them”
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The Running Man
Discussed“Exactly. He wrote um Running Man. Yes, he wrote Running Man as Richard Bach and other things too.”
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The Dark Half
Discussed“But yeah, what is it? What is it? The Dark Half. Is that the other one that I that I really liked?”
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The Talisman
Discussed“I see if Running Man says Stephen King and I think Talisman. I think that was one that also he had a fake picture and everything.”
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'Salem's Lot
Discussed“Carrie's number one and then it's like Carrie Salem's Lot The Shining a couple other”
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Christine
Discussed“it like and then Christine which yeah I didn't enjoy the dark half move.”
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My Big TOE
Discussed“That's when things get like Tom Campbell, you know, the my big toe, the theory of everything.”
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The Physiology of Taste
Discussed“The phys the physiology of taste physiology and tell Briat Sabaran is the guy that said tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.”
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Fundamentals of Quantum Electronics
Discussed“co-authored with my thesis advisor uh uh textbook graduate level textbook fundamentals of quantum electronics published in English, French, Russian and Chinese.”
How I Write
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Political Liberalism
Discussed“I think I used to conceptualize knowledge the way you see it in the movie The Matrix where it's like I wanted the port in the back of my mind that the little needle would go into and then I had read John RS's political liberalism.”
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The Darwin Awards Next Evolution
Discussed“So, I then got about five of these books the Darwin Awards they're called and that's where I came up with four or of the characters.”
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As You Like It
Discussed“I wrote term I wrote papers on the role of the fool and king Arthur King Leer. King Arthur and King Lear and a touchstone and as you like it and you know he used the fool a lot.”
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King Lear
Discussed“I wrote term I wrote papers on the role of the fool and king Arthur King Leer. King Arthur and King Lear and a touchstone and as you like it and you know he used the fool a lot.”
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Oliver Twist
Discussed“And I said what about Oliver Twist? uh whatever and I just started naming off all the novels where the characters are children.”
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Great Expectations
Discussed“Oliver Twist Great Expectations Tale of Two Cities he wasn't afraid of emotion”
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A Tale of Two Cities
Recommended“And uh, I chose Tale of Two Cities.”
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Recommended“But my favorite thing of his is something wicked this way comes which is just a wonderful wonderful book about fathers and sons and the right kind of father-sons relationships and things.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Fast Like a Girl
Discussed“I've watched a lot of Dr. Mindy's interviews and docu and and I've read her book and you know the power behind fasting in itself.”
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The Effortless Focus: How to Stop Struggling and Start Doing
Recommended“And genuinely, if you pick up a copy of How to Stop Breaking Your Heart, I feel that you'll be able to walk through life with grace, you'll be able to deal with the discomfort that comes along your way, and you'll be able to find your way even when it feels completely foggy, fuzzy, and uncertain about your future.”
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The Bhagavad Gita
Discussed“The Bhagat Gita has a beautiful verse 2.14 that says the non-permanent appearance of happiness and distress and their disappearance in due course are like the appearance and disappearance of the winter and summer seasons.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Number Go Up
Recommended“your great book which I love and recommend to people number go up is all about the embrace of the idea that the point here is more people buy in and then the number go up.”
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A Distant Mirror
Recommended“So one book I've been reading recently that I really love is called uh a distant mirror, the calamitous 14th century by Barbara Tukman. It's about France in the 14th century, but during the like hundred years war after the black plague.”
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Gretel and the Great War
Recommended“Then a novel I really liked recently is called Gretle and the Great War is by Adam Saxs. It's a collection of interconnected fables set in early 20th century Vienna.”
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The Reactionary Spirit
Recommended“His book the reactionary spirit is great on the international perspective for this.”
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Melting point
Recommended“It's called Melting Point. Um, and it's a fascinating book and it's all primary sources and it just sets you down in the middle of history. In this case, it's the history of the early days of Zionism.”
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The Disengaged Teen
Discussed“Her latest book co-authored with Jenny Anderson is The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.”
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Democracy and Education
Recommended“So the first one is democracy and education by John Dwey which is over 100 years old and we are now seeing through lots of great neuroscience that his observations around the teaching and learning experience and what makes for a good teaching and learning experience were right.”
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Blueprint for Revolution
Recommended“And the last one it's called blueprint for revolution. How to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other nonviolent techniques to galvanize communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world by Sergio Papovich”
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Experiences in Visual Thinking
Recommended“Um and then um there's another one uh experiences and visual thinking. It's like kind of a hippie like you know 70s but it is really brilliant at helping exercise the other parts of your brain that analyze problems like drawing and using your fing like it's it's I think does it a necessary part of rebuilding you know parts”
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Random House Book of Poetry for Children
Recommended“Um the other thing, uh you know, I've got a 3 and 1/ half-year-old son at home and he's like we cloned his father. He's like a really smart, gifted little mechanic and and um fun, but he also really loves poetry and um any of the children's poetry anthologies from uh Jack Pletki and uh just that reading and”
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The Wheelwright's Shop
Recommended“So there's a book my grandpa gave me uh uh the wheelright shop by George Strut uh is written in the 1920s by a guy whose family had been building wooden wheels in England for 200 years and like the specifics of it is just beautiful.”
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Muppets in Moscow
Recommended“Well, I have uh I have a few books to recommend, but I have to start out with my wife's book, Muppets in Moscow, which I've given you as a present about the making of Sesame Street in the 1990s, which she oversaw hundreds of uh artists uh the making of it in Russia.”
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Benjamin Franklin
Recommended“And another book would be uh Walter Isacson's Ben Franklin. I just I I just hadn't known everything about him.”
Breaking Points
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The Book of Frank Herbert
Discussed“A good book, a good novel to think of this all through is the is the book June I think which offers a really interesting prism. On the one hand, you have hyper advanced technologies accompanying effectively a quasi feudal political order and you know we always presume that technological advance will go hand in hand with you know social”
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Original Sin
Discussed“And I think that's some something that Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are reporting in Original Sin is that but I I also wonder to what extent that's a kind of cope and I want to get your thoughts on that”
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The Gates of Gaza
Recommended“Author of the Gates of Gaza, by the way, terrific book.”
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Why We Did It
Recommended“The headline here is why we did it travel from the Republican road to hell. And you wrote this about, you know, your own journey from being inside”
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The Shallows
Discussed“And Nicholas Carr started writing on this. When was the Shallows? Was like 2011. That's right. Yeah.”
StarTalk Radio
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Flatland
Discussed“I happen to have a copy right here on my desk. Oh. Oh, really? That's great. Yeah, I've got one over on the shelf over here. So this is this is a very classic book where um the author had you imagine a world that's just two-dimensional.”
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Waves in an Impossible Sea
Recommended“a good friend of mine, Matt Straler, guys should have him on. He wrote a wonderful book about this called Waves in an Impossible Sea and it's all about the Higs field.”
The Daily Stoic
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Painting as a Pastime
Discussed“Churchill wrote this book called Painting as a Pastime. Have you read it?”
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Team of Rivals
Discussed“And it's a team of rivals, which is by far my my favorite of them, is how when he gets the nomination and then he gets the presidency and he's the least likely to do any of this, how he brings Mlelen, Seward, I mean, all of these people into his world.”
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Her Right Foot
Recommended“Have you read Her Right Foot by Dave Edgars?”
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Meatball Sundae
Discussed“Well, there's a book over there that I see like sometimes I I c they catch my eye there, but Seth Goden wrote this book called Meatball Sunday”
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James
Discussed“Have you read James? Have you read the book James? No, I haven't.”
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The Library Book
Recommended“Have you read Library Book? No.”
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Night of the Grizzlies
Recommended“Uh, and then just like how they were not prepared for the fire at all, then how bad the science on tracking down the arsonist. I thought this one was really good. Uh, Night of the Grizzlies.”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Open Socrates
Discussed“All of Agnes' experiences and her reflections on them became fodder for her new book, which is called Open Socrates, the case for a philosophical life, where she says we're not asking ourselves the most important questions.”
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Original Sin
Discussed“It's coming out, this news, um, the day before Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book, Original Sin, which is broadly, uh, reparage about the cover up of Joe Biden's mental condition when he was president of the United States.”
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
Recommended“What's the most important book you've read in the past five or so years, the Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Lans or Landes. Okay. Um, late Harvard economist. It's basically on the industrial revolution.”
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Start, Stay, or Leave
Recommended“And Trey Gaudy is a colleague of mine who had been a prosecutor, been a congressman, and he decided to leave um the leadership track in Congress. I wanted to ask him, how did you know that it was time? I think his book uh Start, Stay, or Leave is one of the best books of decision-making I've ever read.”
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On Democracies and Death Cults
Discussed“And maybe put another way, and you write about this in the book, and as I read it, I'm like, "Wow, I can't I can't believe I didn't think about it this way." You know, there's been so many protests since October 7th, 2023. And what you write about and point out is that there was no mass protest in”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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From Dictatorship to Democracy
Discussed“They recruited Gene Sharp. They got $50 million in Pentagon funding to develop a the playbook that they now call from dictatorship to democracy.”
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Free to Choose
Discussed“You know, you had these folks like Milton Freriedman as a classic example of someone who was sort of making this very public case that literally his his best work is called free to choose, right?”
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A Choice Not an Echo
Discussed“when she wrote a choice not an echo in 1964 and all the way through her career and then the last 10 years of her life when I worked with her you just you come to know about the party right the Republican party is u probably more problematic in in certain ways than the Democrat party is obvious opponents”
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The Affirmative Action Myth
Discussed“Well, you know, um if you were to pick up a typical um work wanted ad, `` page in 1960 in a major American city, you would see explicit kind of no blacks need applied type language.”
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The Philadelphia Negro
Discussed“Dubo, `` the Philadelphia Negro at the turn of the 20th century, `` is, `` quick to point out that there was, `` that there was crime.”
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Discussed“So, like all high school students, I read the autobiography of Malcolm X, which I don't even know if it was written by Malcolm X. `` Um, was written by Alex Haley, but I don't know to what extent it reflected his real views.”
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The Message
Discussed“The black American writer Tanahasi Coats `` came out with a book called The Message `` in which he describes writing about politics and there are several chapters.”
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Scott Davis' World of Balloon Art Two
Recommended“Um I think when you there there's a wonderful book `` that I want to plug here called the world of patients grooms g r o ms by a man called Scott Davis.”
EconTalk
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The Alien Corn
Recommended“There's a very um powerful Somerset mom short story called The Alien Corn uh which is about a young man who desperately wants to be a great pianist, a great musician”
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Strangers and Intimates
Discussed“Her latest book, which is our topic for today, is Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.”
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Janesville
Recommended“There is a very good book by a Washington Post journalist called Jainsville. It's about Jamesville, Ohio, Wisconsin, where a GM plant closes down...”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Wisdom of Crowds
Discussed“There was a book called Oh, it was The Wisdom of Crowds. I think it was that one. I think it was The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki.”
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Eat to Beat Your Diet
Discussed“I've got these two great books in front of me, Eat to Beat Disease, which is a New York Times bestseller, and Eat to Beat Your Diet”
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Grown Woman Talk
Recommended“We have partner in podcast Dr. Sharon Malone who wrote a book grown woman talk where she's talking she's sort of ripping the the the the curtain off of women's health questions.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Thriving with Anxiety
Discussed“And that's why I was really curious because the title of your best-selling book is Thriving with Anxiety.”
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Finding Confidence in Conflict
Discussed“And so even in your book I'm reading on page 11 you say negotiation is just any conversation where someone in the conversation wants something. That's all that it is. That's it. That's all that it is.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The War in the West - A New History
Discussed“In volume one of the war in the west, your book series on World War II, you write, "The Second World War witnessed the deaths of more than 60 million people from over 60 different countries.”
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Munich
Recommended“from a historian's point of view or even a novelist point of view in the case of Robert Harris writing his book about these negotiations which I don't know if you've read it but it's really it's terrifically good”
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KL
Recommended“There's a book you've recommended, KL. Yes, it's just called KL. It's about the the whole concentration camp system.”
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Copenhagen
Discussed“You might know this play "Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn. There's this line that he attributes to Bohr. And Bohr was the great thinker of early foundations of quantum mechanics, Danish physicist, where Bohr says to his wife, "Nobody's thought of a way to kill people using quantum mechanics."”
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The Black Hole War
Discussed“Lenny Susskind in his book "Black Hole Wars" says, his subtitle is "My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics."”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Rubicon
Discussed“Tom Holland wrote a book called Rubicon that tackles the downfall of Rome's democracy.”
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
Discussed“In the past, John said that discussion influenced his decision to stop writing the novel he was working on and instead devote himself to writing his new book, Everything is Tuberculosis.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Discussed“Gonzo journalism, if you look at the official definition, was pioneered by Hunter S. Thompson and it included elements of um reality and fiction and it was always retrospective fiction. So, like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is supposed to be half true”
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A Massage Therapist's Guide to Understanding, Locating and Treating Myofascial Trigger Points
Discussed“On the same token, you you mentioned in the book that we can't simply label all shooters as mentally ill because it might cause us to ignore other more important warning signs.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Book club“Thinking things like Canacle for Liowitz, The Day After Tomorrow. Uh hey, you hit us to your favorites.”
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The Day After Tomorrow
Book club“Thinking things like Canacle for Liowitz, The Day After Tomorrow. Uh hey, you hit us to your favorites.”
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Nuclear Choices
Recommended“Um let's also shout out Nuclear Choices for the 21st century, a citizen's guide. Uh that's written by Richard Wolfson.”
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Alan Moore: Providence
Discussed“Did you ever read the uh graphic novels based on HP Lovecraft's work, Providence?”
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Nameless
Discussed“Also, Nameless is another good one for this, and I know you love like Nameless. Nameless is an age appropriate buddy comedy in space for everyone.”
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Atlas of Remote Islands
Discussed“And I love that you're pointing this out, Matt, because we want this to be exactly the same kind of misstep that we made earlier when we kept shouting out one of my favorite books, The Atlas of Remote Islands, which now is out of publication and relatively unaffordable.”
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How Did We Get the Bible?
Discussed“Um, because the Bible doesn't actually refer to, you know, specifically by name, the act of being gayed. I think it's the idea of seeking something about unusual flesh or or there's a term that I'm maybe misconstring, but there's this sense that or there's this u theory that perhaps that is referencing these nephilim, but it's not actually contained”
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
Discussed“And his later biographer Bernard of Clairvo would write an entire book about this man because that's what biographers do. Uh he calls this work the life of St. Malachi or just life of St. Malachi.”
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Lignum vitae, Ornamentum, et Decus Ecclesiae
Discussed“It's important to note this wasn't published on its own. Um, it is published as part of Arnold Wy's uh work Lnum Vite.”
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Conclave
Recommended“Now, I actually started reading that novel, too, that the that the film's based on, and I was really impressed with the author, Robert Harris, so far. I haven't finished it, but um he he put boots on the ground like he went to the Vatican, they walked him through the process.”
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Discussed“Also, I love Ladies Detective Agency. That one was great.”
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The Ramayana
Discussed“History has proven that concepts like diplomatic immunity are surprisingly ancient. You can go to uh Indian epics like the Ramayana.”
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Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch
Discussed“Um the line that stands out to me and I think to a lot of us uh is from Plutarch in his work lives where he says the first messenger that gave notice of Lucilles's coming was so far from pleasing Ty Grains that he had his head caught off were his pains and no man dared to bring further”
The Book Review
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Are you my mother?
Discussed“Put those two things together and you get a book like Funhome, one of the New York Times's 100 best books of the 21st century, or a book like its follow-up, Are You My Mother?”
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Spent
Discussed“Allison has a new book, Spent, a comic novel, which features several characters from that longunning comic.”
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Discussed“And I'm not going to ask those questions, but I am curious because when you did our by the book feature many moons ago, you said in reference to Janette Wintererson's memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? That you were fascinated by the dividing line between fiction and memoir.”
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Capital
Discussed“You in this book take your chapter titles I believe correct me if I'm wrong from Kar Marx his book das capal Ulisses is threaded throughout funhome there there are many books thread it throughout are you my mother Virginia Wolf and some other authors”
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The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Discussed“You started in black and white and then now when you did Funhome, are you my mother? And then the secret to superhuman strength that started to change”
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The unstrung harp, or, Mr. Earbrass writes a novel
Discussed“This book spent is an extended riff on Gory's first illustrated novel, The Unrung Harp.”
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The well of loneliness
Discussed“It's especially funny because Funh Home is about my own like search for queer history and queer literature and finding the well of loneliness, this super depressing book.”
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Mark Twain
Discussed“His new book Mark Twain looks at one of the most famous American citizens of the 19th century, one of the most revered American writers of all time.”
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The Innocents Abroad
Discussed“And so even when he sold the rights to his first book, The Innocence Abroad, he writes to his publisher in Hartford of how important the money is to him.”
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Discussed“On the other hand, he started actually started with his novel Putinhead Wilson that I think it was 35 chapters each 35 chap each of 35 chapters starts with Putin had Wilson's calendar...”
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The First Gentleman
Discussed“The first is it's called The First Gentleman, and this is by well-known author James Patterson and former president of these United States, Bill Clinton.”
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Vanishing Treasures
Recommended“She wrote a book called Vanishing Treasures, a beastiary of extraordinary endangered creatures and it's just all these chapters.”
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Atmosphere
Recommended“So on the subject of exploration and remarkable human achievement, I would like to mention atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reed.”
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Next to Heaven
Recommended“Okay, so this is called Next to Heaven by James Fry.”
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Recommended“This is Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab.”
Timcast IRL
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Goliath
Discussed“And look, I mean, I interviewed him back and he moved to Israel and lived there for 10 months to write his book Goliath back years ago.”
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Devil's Game
Recommended“And you can read it in Robert D's great book Devil's Game and in Treata Parsey's great book The Treacherous Alliance.”
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Discussed“You know that book mouse that the left is always raging about. No. It's where it's where the cat is Hitler and then the mice are Jews or whatever.”
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Rerum Novarum
Discussed“Pope Leo I 13th produced an encyclical which is a papal document on instructing the church on teaching and it was called Ram Navarum and it was the first uh document that really went after the errors of communism. It also went after a lot of the shortfalls and shortcomings of capitalism.”
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Monopoly
Discussed“I want you all at home to imagine you're playing a game of Monopoly with me. I'll be the banker. Uh I'm going to keep pulling money out of the bank and putting it on my side no matter what you do. You want to keep playing? Nope. How do I keep winning?”
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The sound of freedom
Recommended“People need to watch The Sound of Freedom again. Like re-watch that, bro. that intro.”
This Week in Startups
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The Man who Fed the World
Discussed“You know, one of the things I wanted to ask you about was I read this book back in the day um and I'm sure you're you're well aware of it, the man who fed the world about Norman Borlo.”
Behind the Bastards
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Political Romanticism
Discussed“This period of chaos would inspire his first great and truly influential book political romanticism published in 1919”
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The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
Discussed“That book is called the crisis of parliamentary democracy”
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The Enemy
Discussed“Another of Schmidt's biographers, Gopal Balakrishnan, describes this situation aly in his book, The Enemy. Most poor smalltown Catholics lived in a world closed off from a hostile, increasingly secular society, a world in which the local priest was a revered authority in matters of politics and morality.”
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The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Discussed“As Lawrence Steppovich writes in an article for the journal of modern Judaism, the Young Hegelian school suddenly came into being in 1835 with a brilliant theological study, the life of Jesus Christ critically examined. It was written by a young and little-known theologian David Friedrich Strauss”
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Carl Schmitt
Discussed“I'm going to quote from Merring's book again here from October 12th. The diary contains a passionate love letters and an aesthetic philosophy of love that aims to base love on permanence and enforce faithfulness by idealizing love as devotion to an idea.”
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One of the Boys
Recommended“But the actual and more important question it asks is, "What if a poster could write fiction?" And the answer is that it [ __ ] rips. Thank you. Um, this this book rules it.”
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Fall
Discussed“One colleague cited in the book Fall later quoted him as having admitted, Well, of course I'm conservative, but I'm not a member of the establishment, so I've got to become labor.”
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Foreign Body
Recommended“And there is a much more accurate look at his spying and and his involvement in intelligence agencies in the book foreign body the secret life of Robert Maxwell by Russell Davies. And Davies outlines the directions of the the dimensions of these shady dealings”
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Fall
Discussed“This is not an account that is repeated by his by Maxwell's most recent and probably most rigorous biography, Fall by John Preston, which alleges that Mel beat his son in public on a regular basis.”
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Perpetual Peace
Discussed“In the book perpetual peace, Kant imagined a cosmopolitan condition where individuals, not just states, had universal rights and where a global federation of free republics would ensure peace and cooperation.”
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Black Flame
Discussed“The anarchist St. Amir International which ran from 1872 to 1877 was one such network as discussed by Lucian Vanderwalt and Schmidt in Black Flame.”
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Cambodia
Discussed“Um now Chsky preferred a different book. Um he compared Ponchard's work uh Ponchad's work unfavorably with another book called Cambodia starvation and revolution written by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter”
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Murder of a Gentle Land
Discussed“there was another book written by two readers digest writers called Murder of a Gentle Land that Chsky also went after”
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Kampuchea
Discussed“in fact he had finished a book before he goes there called Kampuchia a rationale for rural policy”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Well of Being
Discussed“Tim, one other thing I'll say is that you had mentioned a book that immediately sold out before called The Well of Being. Oh, yeah. Several episodes ago. And I'm actually rebying it right now because it's back in stock.”
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Everything Is Its Own Reward
Recommended“It's called Everything is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna. And it is a book of beautiful architectural drawings. You might think to yourself, boring.”
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Violence
Recommended“I'm a big fan of Jim Gilligan's book, Violence. It's not an easy read.”
Conversations with Tyler
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Gray Matters
Discussed“I saw his book in a Barnes & Noble. I bought it. I read it. I loved it. It is called Gray Matters, a biography of brain surgery.”
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Capitalism & Material Life, 1400-1800
Discussed“a historian and economist called Fernand Braudel wrote a book called Capitalism and Material Life.”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Some Parts are NOT for Sharing
Recommended“And we would probably read the book together. Some parts are not for touching.”
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The Proximity Principle
Recommended“I'm also going to send you his book. Um it was a number one bestseller. It's called the proximity principle”
Freakonomics Radio
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GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE
Discussed“You'll run into that Churchill quote in a lot of the literature around grit.”
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The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Discussed“You'll run into that Churchill quote in a lot of the literature around grit.”
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Discussed“JK Rowling got rejected 12 times before she finally wrote and published Harry Potter.”
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The Violence Project
Discussed“Reedman has collaborated with other academic researchers including Jill Peterson and James Densley, co-founders of the Violence Prevention Project Research Center. In 2021, they published a book called The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Walt Disney
Discussed“I'm reading um Walt Disney's biography right now like halfway through because like honestly that um I want to make art like that.”
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Marsha
Discussed“Um yes, the book is Marca, the joy and defiance of Marcia P. Johnson.”
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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Recommended“And Samuel Delaney, I don't know if you've read like Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, right about it.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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War on the West
Discussed“So I'm talking today to Douglas Murray who just wrote this book on democracies and death cults, Israel and the future of civilization.”
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Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes)
Discussed“I had read that infamous quirky but I think important book political ponerology Yes um is that Lubachsky or something like this is that name that the author and um I had read that and found it striking and at the same time almost I think sometimes you know a chapter here a chapter there”
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Abuse of language, abuse of power
Discussed“I read a very I think one of the most important essays in English which is Joseph Peeper's uh abuse of language abuse of power I don't know if you've heard of this Joseph Peeper was a Catholic and he had some he wrote this I don't know what else he did honestly I should probably look into it but”
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The Postmodern Condition
Discussed“I had been reading liotard the the postmodern condition Um and he has this very confusing se they're all very confusing sections throughout the whole book”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy
Recommended“And one of the resources we use is this book called Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy. I highly recommend it to everyone who is dealing with loss and I buy it for anyone close to me that I hear has a loved one who they've lost and they've found some peace from that book.”
Pod Save America
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Lawless
Recommended“You'll also hear my interview with our pal Leah Litman, strict scrutiny co-host and new author of the book Lawless, which comes out next week.”
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Papa's Coming Home
Recommended“We So Chaston's got a book coming out. It's called uh Papa's Coming Home. It's a children's book. We talked about uh why he wanted to write that, LGBT representation in books, what it's like to be the focus of uh disgusting constant right-wing attacks on his family, book bands, their adoption story, being a dad, Pete's Beard.”
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I Have Something to Tell You
Recommended“You're also the bestselling author of a young adult memoir called I Have Something to Tell You, so folks can pick that one up, too.”
Interesting Times
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Discussed“If you’ve read the children’s novel the witch of Blackbird pond, right. Isn’t that that’s set in Wethersfield.”
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Hardy Boys Mystery Stories 1-2
Discussed“You publish the Hardy Boys, the original Hardy Boys before some multicultural PC cleanups, correct.”
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The Forest Passage
Discussed“and actually a passage press comes from the book forest passage by Ernst jünger.”
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En El Congo/ in the Jungle (Tintin Facsimil)
Discussed“One of the early Tintin books is called Tintin in the Congo. And it’s super racist. Like it is a set of super racist caricatures of Africans”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Carbon
Discussed“Paul's latest book and the subject for today's conversation is entitled carbon which posits that our greatest solutions for planetary healing reside in a deeper appreciation for the complexities of the natural world.”
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Civil Disobedience
Discussed“And when he got arrested, he carried in this thing paper written by thorough called, we all know that one. Leaves of grass. No, not leaves of grass on Walden. No. Which one? On civil disobedience.”
Big Technology Podcast
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The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance
Discussed“I read a great book called uh privacy and power I'm blanking slightly on the title by Carissa Viz um and she had examples in there like people were taking data from Grinder and extorting people”
My First Million
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Recommended“Sean you should read Ed Thorp's biography one of the best biographies I've ever read adding it to the list a man for market.”
Huberman Lab
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Discussed“The great Richard Fineman, Nobel Prize winning physicist of surely you're joking, Mr. Fineman fame, said that understanding things at a reductionist level added to his sense of beauty with the with the physical world.”
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True Romance - Love and Laughter
Discussed“a couple years ago I saw you on a podcast and you were talking about the movie True Romance Oh sure uh love that movie”
