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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2025
In June 2025, podcast discussions spanned sociological theories, political memoirs, and historical references. On Pod Save America, Sarah Longwell highlighted Tim Miller's book Why We Did It while presenting a slideshow, and a speaker jokingly referenced Hillary Clinton's memoir Hard Choices. Over on The Tucker Carlson Show, guest Laura Delano discussed Robert Whitaker's Anatomy of an Epidemic, explaining how its data on long-term psychiatric outcomes prompted her to reconsider her own treatment. Sociological and cultural topics also surfaced on Stuff You Should Know, where the host praised the title of Erving Goffman's 1956 classic, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. On Freakonomics Radio, Nicholas Cullinan shared his appreciation for Susan Sontag's novel The Volcano Lover and noted that Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital inside the British Museum's round reading room. Meanwhile, on the Monday Morning Podcast, host Bill Burr recalled Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner after hearing a description of a shark's eye and read an email referencing Margaret E. Schotte's Sailing School. Across these episodes, hosts and guests drew upon historical texts and personal reading to explore social behavior, medical literature, and past eras.
Pod Save America
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Why We Did It
Discussed“I call this Tim's Why We Did It era, which you only know if you've read Tim's book, but it's a good joke if you got Tim's book.”
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Hard Choices
Discussed“Talk about hard choices by Hillary Clinton.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Anatomy of an Epidemic
Discussed“And then it was in that space that I found a book by a medical journalist named Robert Whitaker. The book is called Anatomy of an Epidemic. And in a nutshell, he was curious about the fact that outcome long-term outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia are much better in the you know so-called third world and countries where we”
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Discussed“I would say there was development of doctrine. I'm using John Henry Newman's language there. Newman says that doctrine is not just handed out like a football, you know, from one generation to the other. It it unfolds more like a like a river expanding or like a a tree growing like so.”
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Born of Water and the Spirit
Discussed“the influence of Emanuel Kant and uh uh I might be boring your audience with this but Emanuel Khan late 18th century the most influential of the modern philosophers writes a book called religion within the limits of reason alone extremely important text hilarious title”
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The Strangest Way
Discussed“It's I wrote a little book years ago called The Strangest Way. The strangest way. And it's a book about Christianity because that's the argument I made was this is the weirdest religious ever.”
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Bible of the Time. ...from the Big Bang to the present day...
Discussed“I I mentioned the my ministry word on fire. We have the an addition of the Bible that I think is beautiful. It's full of great artwork, but also it's got the biblical text, but then surrounded by literally surrounded on the page by commentary from the church fathers and the great saints and the popes and so on.”
Freakonomics Radio
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The Volcano Lover
Discussed“And that's also kind of why I chose it because I'm a big fan of Susan Santag's novel, The Volcano Lover, which is essentially a romantic novel around Lord Hamilton, who was the British ambassador to Naples.”
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Discussed“Oscar Wild, Virginia Wolf, you see here Sylvia Pankhurst, Carl Marx, who pretty much spent every day for 30 years sat here writing Des Capel.”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Discussed“Uh he wrote a book in 1956 called the presentation of self in everyday life. What a great title.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Discussed“Um, that just reminded me of hear the rhyme of the ancient mariner.”
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Sailing School
Discussed“All right. Sailing School for Dummies. All right.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Miracle of the Gods
Discussed“That was 17. Uh Cherries of the Gods. No, when I was at Peter Teal's house when Von Dan that must have been 2018, 2019.”
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Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Discussed“In 1844 I believe he wrote a book um called you know is e economic and philosophic manuscripts. I hate Karl Marx.”
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Penetration
Discussed“Lowest probability craziest thing is Engo Swan who is another remote viewer in the Stargate program. He wrote a book called Penetration where he's basically like abducted by this guy in a suit like this kind of Men in Black style guy named Axel Rod and he is told to remote view the moon”
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UFOs and Nukes
Discussed“Now, being as deep as I am in UFO research where like I know there's a nuclear connection, there's a great book by a guy named Robert Hastings called UFOs and nukes and it's like 600 pages and it is 167 Qcle cleared ICBM security personnel, radar operators, employees at nuclear bases where they're saying they see tic tacs, orbs,”
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A New New Testament
Discussed“If you look at every culture, whether it's or or maybe a better example is medieval Christianity with St. Thomas Aquinas or just read the New Testament like a multitude of angels.”
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The Book of Sam
Discussed“But also look at there's a great book called The Half-Life of Facts by Sam Arbisman. And he talks about how like at any given time 50% of you know received knowledge like our our physical model of the universe is wrong.”
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Messengers of Deception
Discussed“I mean the the the other weird thing in that story is in Messengers of Deception, Jacques Valle's book, he talks about because he's not a believer in Lazar.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Hansel and Gretel (First Edition)
Discussed“That's the story of Hansel and Gretle, right? They go out into the forest um chased there not chased there in part by um the fracturing of their family and they find a gingerbread house which is a little bit too good to be true, right?”
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Snow White
Discussed“Um, I was looking at the Brothers Grim Snow White version recently because I went and saw the Disney Snow White version, which, you know, was exactly the sort of mistake that you'd think it would be, both to attend and to produce. And so, I want to just tell you a snippet of that story.”
Huberman Lab
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The Grieving Body
Discussed“You know, I will say that in in the book that I wrote recently, The Grieving Body, some of these lessons have come to me because I have multiple sclerosis.”
Modern Wisdom
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Atrocitology
Discussed“Um, I've been spending a good bit of time reading more um like military history and and and trying to get a bit more of an understanding of there's a a great book called Atrocitology, which is the hundred greatest human atrocities across time.”
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John Lyle catalogue
Discussed“M you know who you should have on the show? A guy called John Lyle. So he wrote a book called The Dirty Tricks Department. It was a a book about the founding of the OSS and the insane tactics that they used in World War II to try and stop World War II.”
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The Dirty Tricks Department
Discussed“But he's got another one coming out which is the OSS came into the CIA and then I think this one is the the transitions through that.”
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Untitled Jocko Willink Non Fiction
Discussed“You've got uh uh Chris Pratt uh doing starring as the dramatized version of one of your books.”
ChooseFI
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Resolving Your Tax Issues
Discussed“And Cody, so you mentioned Sha Malaney. I know you two are writing a book. I'm not sure what kind of uh if we're in early stages, middle stages where we are. Any kind of sneak peek on that and when it might come out. Yeah. So, today we talked about taxable brokerage accounts, which is one chapter out of”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands & Music
Discussed“And one of the reasons that in a book that I wrote where I was sort of I probably wasn't overly enthusiastic about those web 2.0 sleeping pills, the ambience lenus and it was for several reasons.”
