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Books podcasts were talking about in June 2025
Podcast conversations in June 2025 highlighted historical movements, literary works, and societal trends across multiple shows. On Candace, Candace Owens discussed reading Gershom Scholem's From Frankism to Jacobinism during her historical deep dive into the Frankist movement. The Huberman Lab featured Dr. Harold McGee suggesting that listeners read John Keats's poem To Autumn to appreciate the writer's medical background. On Acquired, Ben Gilbert cited John Battelle's book The Search to illustrate early internet growth statistics. Freakonomics Radio included Stephen Dubner introducing several titles related to demographics and economics, including James Chappel's Golden Years about the history of old age, Andrew J. Scott's The Longevity Imperative regarding supportive societies, and Kyla Scanlon's In This Economy. Additionally, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured Scott Horton recommending Terry McDermott's Perfect Soldiers during a discussion regarding the motivations behind the September 11 attacks.
Candace
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A Candid Examination of the Scoffield Bible
Discussed“This is starting to sound a lot to me like Scoffield Bible principles and like the whole idea of the rapture.”
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From Frankism to Jacobinism
Recommended“Then I buy a book from Gersham Shalom that uh Israeli historian and this book is called from Frankism to Jacabanism.”
This Week in Startups
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Tomorrow, the World
Discussed“And the start of the American Empire was arguably 1939. There's this great book called Tomorrow the World by Steven Wartheim that actually documents that the fall of France was actually the moment, it wasn't actually post World War II at the beginning.”
My First Million
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How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars
Discussed“He has a book. That's I've never met him. I've read his book. It's called How to Make a Billion Dollars. He's created I think six billion dollar companies like XO Logistics is one of them.”
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Amp It Up
Recommended“So he's got this book called Amp It Up. But if you really you could just read his blog post called Amp It Up and get 80% of the the idea. It's not even just about working hard.”
EconTalk
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Mapmatics: A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World
Discussed“Her book, which is our topic for today, is Mapmatics, A Mathematician's Guide to Navigating the World.”
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Discussed“So, what we're going to do today, uh, Leon's going to give a brief summary of Rouso's life and career, and we're going to do a close reading of a few paragraphs from his discourse on the origins and foundations of inequality among men, which is also known as the second discourse.”
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Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men
Discussed“So, what we're going to do today, uh, Leon's going to give a brief summary of Rouso's life and career, and we're going to do a close reading of a few paragraphs from his discourse on the origins and foundations of inequality among men, which is also known as the second discourse.”
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Discussed“A prolific political philosopher known for the social contract. A philosopher of education, famous for his a meal, author of a romantic novel, composer of seven operas, a theater critic, an author of the first modern autobiography, The Confessions, and even a scientist writing an elements of botany.”
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European Self-representations at the New York World's Fair of 1939
Recommended“But this is a fascinating thing that 1939, by the way, David Galler wrote a wonderful novel on the 1939 World's Fair, which I really enjoyed, which I recommend.”
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American Midnight
Discussed“And there's a really interesting book called American Midnight about how America had been going in a more authoritarian direction since the end of the Civil War and then in the 1920s after World War I that dramatic or sorry during World War I it dramatically accelerated.”
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Aspiration
Recommended“I should have mentioned the names of their books that I read and that inspired me along with the interviews. Agnes Callard's book is Aspiration, and L.A. Paul's is Transformative Experience. Great books.”
Huberman Lab
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To autumn
Recommended“To know that and then to read a poem like "To Autumn," which is the poem that I would suggest people read, just adds a dimension of appreciation to that poem.”
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Little Chapel on the River
Discussed“She wrote a book called Little Chapel on the River and it's about she was at the Wall Street Journal uh when 911 happened...”
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The Ghost
Discussed“And you know it's uh difficult to decide whether or not movies like Ghost um I think that was the movie, right? Where she loses her spouse or a loved one.”
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The Secret Pulse of Time
Discussed“And I've been motivated to read there's a wonderful book the secret pulse of time that talks about this somewhat.”
Acquired
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The Search
Recommended“This is from John Battel's book, The Search, which is excellent. From 1993 to 1996, the web grew from 130 sites to more than 600,000.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Best Children's Stories
Discussed“Their most famous work, Children's and Household Tales, was first published in 1812, and it included stories that everyone knows, such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Hansel and Gretle.”
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Household Tales
Discussed“Their most famous work, Children's and Household Tales, was first published in 1812, and it included stories that everyone knows, such as Cinderella, Snow White, and Hansel and Gretle.”
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Confession
Discussed“I remember reading the the autobiography of Leo Toltoy called Confessions.”
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Have Space Suit _ Will Travel Digital Graphic Novel
Discussed“One of the Well, the a famous book by Heinland is Have Space It Will Travel. And in the book, uh, uh, precocious youth builds a spaceship, gets picked up by, you know, bugeyed monsters or by space aliens, gallivance around the universe”
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Naturalist (Pul)
Recommended“I recently read his autobiography Naturalist which I highly recommend for anyone who yeah it's beautifully written really gorgeous autobiography.”
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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.”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Full Burn
Discussed“The Full Burn by Kevin Connley.”
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Fight Choreography
Discussed“Fight Choreography: The Art of Non-verbal Dialogue by John Cring.”
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Stuntman!
Discussed“And then Hal Nem's biography, stunt man with a c a exclamation.”
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McNamara's Folly
Discussed“And we also should shout out a writer uh Hamilton Gregory who was a Vietnam vet and journalist and who wrote a book McNamera Spali Colon the use of low IQ troops in the Vietnam War which I guess sort of gives away what we're talking about.”
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In Retrospect
Discussed“he's certainly somebody who uh maybe more so than most uh secretaries of defense uh looked back a lot on his life and he wrote about it and he and there was a memoir called in retrospect colon the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam”
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A Path Where No Man Thought
Discussed“they wrote a book called A Path where No Man Thought.”
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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. No colons. It's exactly what it says it is.”
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The Golden Bough
Discussed“He was an anthropologist who wrote a book, very influential book in 1890 called The Golden Bow.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Golden Years
Recommended“So Chapel wrote a book to fill in that narrative. It's called Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age.”
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Old Age May be the Happiest Part of Life
Recommended“So Chapel wrote a book to fill in that narrative. It's called Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age.”
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The Longevity Imperative
Recommended“This led to Scott writing a book called The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Longer Lives.”
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In This Economy?
Recommended“She can be found on most platforms at Kyla Scan, and her book is called In This Economy.”
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The King's Midwife
Recommended“There's a wonderful book by Nina Galbart called The King's Midwife where she argues that you could extrapolate the number of successful births based on Kudra's training and then the midwives who followed her training.”
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The Volcano Lover
Recommended“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.”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Fighting the Florida Shuffle
Discussed“Here to break it all down for us, our friend Dave Arinberg. He is the author of the new book Fighting the Florida Shuffle, the inside story of corruption in the drug treatment industry and how one community found the solution.”
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Dog Soldiers
Discussed“I agree about Robert Stone that he should be more read. He he was actually a pretty good friend of mine and u uh I first got hooked on dog soldiers. Yeah, that was a really good book. I think the pri prior novel”
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A Rage in Harlem
Recommended“number two is Chesterheims, A Rage in Harlem. So wonderful crime writer. He actually did write who done Dunits, but this is not a who done it.”
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A flag for sunrise
Recommended“number three, published in 1981, A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone. One of my favorite writers. I feel like he has been a bit eclipsed.”
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Berlin Game
Recommended“Well, um I'm going to start with my u crime thriller because I actually am not really a reader of crime fiction and and suspense novels. Um, but I I think for Christmas, uh, my friend Morgan Entreken, who's the publisher of Grove Atlantic, um, gave me this Len Dayton novel, um, called Berlin Game.”
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Brightness Falls
Recommended“And I recommended Jay's book, Brightness Falls, which you just mentioned, as an example of the a novel that I think best captures the publishing world as it as it was when I first began to publish in the in the mid '9s.”
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Epitaph for a Spy
Recommended“When he mentioned Lendy and you know there was it it reminded me of Eric Amler who I think is actually a great father's day book and somebody who has kind of been forgotten over time but wrote early spy novels... and epitap to a spy would be a great one to start with”
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The Possibility of an Island
Discussed“This sounds like Michelle Wbec possibility of an island where the protagonist corresponds with his future clones over time.”
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Stand
Discussed“Associated Press. Associated Press's most recent article on Cy Booker, it's all about how he expanded upon his historic senator Senate floor speech for his new book, Stand.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Spies
Discussed“and I made a TV series back in 2016 called Spies. The idea was we take 16 members of the public, find out if they have what it takes to be a spy.”
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Six Thinking Hats
Discussed“Thinking six thinking hats. Yes, I was close.”
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Iggie's House
Discussed“One of my my favorite Judy Bloom book is uh Iggy's House.”
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Message to the Blackman in America
Recommended“because the autobiography of Malcolm X led me to you know um read Message to the Black Man by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad who I think is just you know one of the greatest humans to ever walk the face of the earth”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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By way of deception
Discussed“Well that's almost always a reference to Beirut 1983, which you can read in the book "By Way of Deception," by Victor Ostrovsky, the former Mossad officer, that the Israelis knew that they were building that truck bomb to bomb the Marines with, and withheld that information from the United States”
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Angler
Discussed“That was reported originally by Stephen Clemens in the Washington Note, but it was later confirmed in "The New York Times," and by "The Washington Post," reporter Barton Gellman, in his book "Angler," on Dick Cheney.”
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Manufactured Crisis
Discussed“Now in Gareth Porter's book "Manufactured Crisis," he shows that the major conclusion that the DIA had made”
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The black banners
Discussed“Ali Soufan you know, Ali Soufan, the former FBI agent, counter-terrorism agent, he wrote in his book "The Black Banners," that the Bin Ladenites said to Bin Laden, we don't understand why you're so angry at America.”
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Perfect soldiers
Recommended“You can read "Perfect Soldiers," by Terry McDermott.”
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The Looming Tower
Recommended“Or you could read "The Looming Tower," by Lawrence Wright”
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Life Ascending
Recommended“Really, we can go back to the entire history of life on Earth, and a previous podcast guest, Nick Lane, does a great job of this in his book, "Life Ascending," listing these 10 major inventions throughout the evolution of life on Earth, like DNA, photosynthesis, complex cells, sex, movement, sight, all those kinds of things.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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A leechbook
Discussed“The remedy was found in Ball's leechbook, an old English manuscript containing instructions on various treatments held in the British Library.”
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Taming Your Gremlin
Recommended“There's a really good book called Taming Your Gremlins if anyone wants to look into that idea more.”
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Next Whole Earth Catalog
Discussed“We are as gods, as Stuart Brand wrote in the whole Earth Catalog, right? And we just better get good at it.”
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The Chaos Agent
Discussed“um a fiction book, one of the Greyman books um that is specifically about using autonomous weapons. It's the chaos agent by mark Grainy.”
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13 steps to mentalism
Discussed“So the first book I started reading was a book called 13 steps to mentalism. But man is it going to be tough for most people because it was written in the 1920s.”
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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“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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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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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.”
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Pre-capitalist economic formations
Discussed“In 1844 I believe he wrote a book um called you know is e economic and philosophic manuscripts. I hate Karl Marx. I think he got so much wrong about human nature.”
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The Invisible College
Discussed“In chapter nine of the invisible college by Jacqu Valet, he talks about the UFOs being this sort of autonomous control system and when we you know it's like a node lights up like when we engage in super advanced research or something.”
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UFOs and Nukes
Recommended“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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The Book of Sam
Recommended“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.”
Behind the Bastards
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Cults in Our Midst
Discussed“The first like professional like psychiatrist type figure to describe this was a Margaret Singer in a book called Cults in Our Mist and she describes lovebombing this way.”
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Marjo's
Discussed“You always start with a like here's how bad I was when I was younger. You know, there's a really good there's an Oscar winning documentary from 1973 called Marjo.”
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Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism
Discussed“Incidentally, one such parent of an autistic child is Dr. Hotes, whose 2013 book, Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism, directly targets RFK Jr.'s long-held belief about the link between autism and vaccines.”
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Migra!
Discussed“Now, in the wonderful book, Migra, Kelly Hernandez writes, quote, "He charged local officials, the chief patrol inspector and border patrol officers in the Laredo station with immigrant smuggling and forced just under half of Laredo's 28 Border Patrol inspectors and the chief patrol inspector to quit or be fired." Perkins then transferred select Border Patrolmen who had all been”
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Gunfight
Discussed“I want to highlight particularly a passage from the book Gunfight by Adam Winkler and Gunfight. There's actually like five books titled Gunfight. ... The good one, the one that you would actually be worth reading is Winkler's uh gunfight. He's a he's a UCLA professor. Um and gunfight is a critical history of the battle over the Second Amendment”
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The NRA
Discussed“According to Frank Smi in his book, The NRA: The Unauthorized History. At the same time, accidental gun wounds and deaths were on the rise, and three out of four Americans supported stricter gun control measures as a result.”
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Badges without Borders
Discussed“According to Stuart Schrader in his up forthcoming Badges Without Borders, how global counterinsurgency transformed American policing, it was common practice during the Cold War to send former border patrol agents like Long to train foreign police”
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Instruments of Statecraft
Discussed“during congressional investigations led by Senator James W Alberesque uh in 1973 aid officials admitted that the Los Fresno Sessions what the press would call the bomb school offered lessons not in bomb disposal but in bomb making.”
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Counterterrorism
Discussed“during congressional investigations led by Senator James W Alberesque uh in 1973 aid officials admitted that the Los Fresno Sessions what the press would call the bomb school offered lessons not in bomb disposal but in bomb making.”
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A Mother's Offering to Her Children
Discussed“Elaine Brown writes back in Sydney press accounts of the shipwreck were synthesized for a chapter in Australia's first children's book A Mother's Offering to Her Children written by a lady long resident in New South Wales and printed by the Sydney Gazette in 1841 the text is in the form of a rather mannered conversation between Mrs. S. and”
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The Transit of Empire
Discussed“um and cites Jodie Bird's book, The Transit of Empire, which describes this as part of a process that allowed the Empire to quote, "facilitate, justify, and rationalize the state sponsored violence that tear land, resources, and sovereignty from indigenous people."”
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The State and Revolution
Discussed“As the anthropologist David Greyber pointed out, Lenin's obsession with the German postal service was such that he included this passage about the future socialist state in his famous state and revolution, a text written between the February and October revolutions of 1917.”
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Under the Perfect Sun
Recommended“That's literally the thesis of Under the Perfect Sun, right? Which is a book that should be obligatory if you want to move to San Diego. I think it's one of the one of the earlier Mike Davis books.”
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Regenesis
Discussed“the book Regenesis was about to hit shelves and suddenly there's all these articles about how he stored 70 billion copies into like a a dot of DNA no longer than like a [ __ ] period on a piece of paper that you know was able to store so many copies like isn't that amazing right”
Breaking Points
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Jack
Discussed“For example, I read uh Jack Welch's book uh or a book about Jack Welch and he would never sell CNBC because he was like, "You don't understand."”
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Revolutionary Iran
Recommended“I'm reading this book right now about uh I told you about it. It's called Revolutionary Iran. Fantastic book. I highly recommend it.”
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Elon Musk Biography
Discussed“And so Elon Musk going all in. It reminded me in in the book where there's an anecdote the this Elon biography, I'm sure you remember this, where he plays poker and he has no idea how to play poker and but he wins like his first night.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Master of the Game
Recommended“Martin Indig's Master of the Game, Henry Kissinger and the art of Middle East diplomacy and Peter Baker and Sudan Glasser's masterful the man who ran Washington life at times of James Baker. Those are two books I would recommend about there are real lessons there about how to do successful diplomacy.”
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The Man Who Ran Washington
Recommended“Martin Indig's Master of the Game, Henry Kissinger and the art of Middle East diplomacy and Peter Baker and Sudan Glasser's masterful the man who ran Washington life at times of James Baker. Those are two books I would recommend about there are real lessons there about how to do successful diplomacy.”
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American Lion
Recommended“Uh one is the biography of Thomas Jefferson, John Mitum, the art of power, an extraordinary life story of one of the greatest figures in American history.”
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All or Nothing
Recommended“And then of course Mike Wolf uh uh story all or nothing about the last year before the last elections in America about President Trump which is uh interesting very exciting.”
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Wait Till Next Year
Recommended“But she read also wait till next year which is a personal story not her biography but a personal story about her time in Brooklyn where the Brooklyn Dodgers were still the uh most popular baseball team which was part of her life.”
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Economic Interdependence and War
Recommended“And then finally um I would say a world safe for commerce by Dell Copeland which is this lengthy historical treatment of how the US um and its foreign policy have been impacted by our trade with other countries”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Running Lean
Recommended“Running Lean helped a lot with the interviews.”
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The 80/20 Principle
Recommended“And if you combine that with Richard Kosha's book, The 8020 Principle, like those those two will take you a long way.”
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One Up On Wall Street
Discussed“I was obsessed with martial arts and that anyone from my childhood would tell you, Chatch is a He's the martial arts guy. He's crazy about martial arts. But I was also crazy about for Christmas somebody gave me the book One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch. It's a great book.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Down the Drain
Discussed“But over the last few days, I've been listening to her audio book, Down the Drain.”
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Love and Survival
Discussed“I was with Dean Ornish. Do you know Dean Ornish? He's a internist, but he's written a lot of work on diet and health and he wrote this one book called Love and Survival. And it's one of my favorite books I ever read”
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Healing ADD
Recommended“Dr. Daniel Amen has one of his books which is called the Healing ADD, the breakthrough program that allows you to see and heal the seven types of ADD that we discussed in today's episode. So, I highly recommend the book if you don't already have it.”
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Healing A.D.D. at Home in 30 Days
Recommended“My wife Tana wrote a cookbook, Healing ADD at home through food or The Brain Warrior's Way. That's her big cookbook. It's been reprinted like 53 times.”
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The brain warrior's way
Recommended“My wife Tana wrote a cookbook, Healing ADD at home through food or The Brain Warrior's Way. That's her big cookbook. It's been reprinted like 53 times.”
StarTalk Radio
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Science, the Endless Frontier
Discussed“Science the endless frontier. Yes. A report to the president.”
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Newton's Philosophy of Nature
Discussed“I got this paperback called Newton's Philosophy of Nature. Okay. Little paperback selections from his writings.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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China Syndrome
Discussed“And I think it happened right after a movie came out called the China syndrome which was about a nuclear meltdown. So this movie came out and right after this accident happened and just drove the US into a state of fear about nuclear that lasted decades.”
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Dreamland
Discussed“Bob Lazar uh he wrote a a really good book called Dreamland that where he describes all of this.”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Compassion in the Court
Discussed“You write in your remarkable book, Compassion in the Court, about one of the most impactful moments in your life. You were in sixth grade. You were about to graduate and something happened.”
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The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific ...
Recommended“He has a book out called The Good Life. And in his book, he says, quote, Most busy people tend to think that in some unspecified future, like when I'm retired, we'll have a time surplus where we'll be able to connect with old friends.”
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Along Came a Spider
Discussed“Wasn't it almost 20 years later though that Along Came the Spider was published? And that's kind of the the Alex Cross novel.”
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Win the Inside Game
Discussed“You know, the book is called Win the Inside Game. What does winning the inside game mean exactly? And why is it so important to know how to do this?”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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A Monk's Guide to Happiness
Recommended“Both Sunday Times bestsellers I believe. And a monk's guide to happiness, meditation in the 21st century. And this book is called Handbook for Hard Times, a monk's guide to fearless living.”
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Handbook for Hard Times
Recommended“And this book is called Handbook for Hard Times, a monk's guide to fearless living. I think that your message is more important now than it's ever been because there's I mean much of the reason why I've probably stumbled across Buddhism is for the same reasons that many people are”
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The Care Dilemma
Discussed“David Goodhart, who's a a friend and author, he wrote a book recently called The Care Dilemma. And he described this this historical event as a one-time boost to GDP.”
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The Atlantic
Discussed“I wrote an article in the Atlantic recently that said it's already getting hard for university graduates to get jobs.”
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The Promise of a Pencil
Discussed“My brother wrote a book, a really great one called The Promise of a Pencil. And it was a New York Times best seller”
Timcast IRL
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Top Gun
Discussed“It reminds me of uh the blockbuster with Tom Cruz, the the second Top Gun. It was like an unbelievable movie about them hitting a target twice. They had to hit it two times and come up out of that that curve, not get hit by the Sams. It was impossible. And only one guy could do it and it”
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Civilization
Discussed“Like when I'm looking at if this was a video game, which it's not obviously like a game of civilization, and you've got this one country that's this radical theocracy that's like hellbent on attacking, you know, like of course you have to you have to remove them from the the playing board if you want to win the game.”
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The Art of the Deal
Discussed“Trump's negotiation strategy which is maximum pressure. I mean if anyone read the art of the deal you'd know what's going on here.”
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First Corinthians
Discussed“And people that subscribe to covenant theology say, well, when Paul addresses the church and calls them Israel in the New Testament in First Corinthians, he's saying that the church has basically absorbed all of the promises made to Israel.”
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The Blueprint
Discussed“You remember that uh book uh the blueprint that was about the change in Colorado?”
The Book Review
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Land, Politics and Nationalism
Discussed“You take a poem like Philip Larkin's Party Politics.”
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The Gilded Auction Block
Discussed“He had a book called The Gilded Auction in 2019 with a poem in it called the Hell Poem that forms the heart of this book.”
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Cain Named the Animal
Discussed“And then in his follow-up book, Cain Named the Animal, he revisited that hell and went into some more of it.”
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What the Living Do
Discussed“Her second book, What the Living Doine in it of the death of her brother, John by AIDS.”
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New and Collected Hell
Recommended“The book on top is called New and Collected Hell. It's by a poet named Shane McCrae. I should say this book has a subtitle. It is a poem. New and collected hell, a poem.”
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Ominous Music Intensifying
Recommended“It is her fourth book of poem and it is called ominous music intensifying.”
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New and Selected Poems
Recommended“It is by Marie How. It's called New and Selected Poems.”
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Jaws
Discussed“So, for the 50th anniversary of Peter Benshley's novel last summer, you wrote just a wonderful piece for us here at the book review, looking back on that book and how it started this entire thing.”
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Everybody Knows
Discussed“Like when I read Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper, I read Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier.”
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Little Secrets
Discussed“Like when I read Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper, I read Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier.”
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Darkness, take my hand
Discussed“You read, I don't know, Darkness Take My Hand by Dennis Lane, right? That book feels epic.”
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Discussed“You read Devil in a Blue Dress. These stories that I find the most captivating, The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler or Lill by Ross McDonald or If You Hollow, let him go by Chester.”
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The chill
Discussed“The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler or Lill by Ross McDonald or If You Hollow, let him go by Chester. books that really move me, that really touch me...”
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If He Hollers Let Him Go
Discussed“The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler or Lill by Ross McDonald or If You Hollow, let him go by Chester. books that really move me, that really touch me...”
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A thousand acres
Discussed“...or you can read A Thousand Acres by James Smiley and you may not relate to a family that owns a huge farm in Nebraska.”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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The Venturesome Economy
Discussed“I'm pretty partial to theories of innovation like the one that was propounded by a guy named Amar Bhidé who wrote a book a number of years ago called The Venturesome Economy. What he stresses there is the feedback loop between consumer demand and what producers are doing.”
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China's Economy
Recommended“a research consultancy focused on China, and the author of China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know. A friend, while I was in China, recommended it to me. And it’s been the most valuable and useful resource you can get today on how China works.”
Conversations with Tyler
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Plato's Republic for today
Discussed“one of the things I wrote about on both of pieces was I just kept thinking of, you know, them as a guardian class kind of incorporating Plato's republic. you know that they really do think of themselves as kind of as the guardian class whose goal it is to build the best society.”
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Existence
Recommended“Does that David Croninberg movie existence about some of these hypotheses? You should watch it if you haven't seen it.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Talking Book
Recommended“He gave me, for, it was one of my birthdays, he gave me Stevie Wonder's talking book. Talking book, the four songs in the key of life.”
The Daily Stoic
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Hello, Cruel World!
Discussed“I was really struck. I was reading this book, Hello Cruel World by Melinda Winter.”
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The opposite of spoiled
Discussed“Like Ron Lieber's book about the opposite of spoiled. It's like okay, we know what spoiled is.”
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Public Enemies
Discussed“Days of Rage, Public Enemies, and now the Gunfighters, they're all different forms of outlaws, and it's unique that we celebrate them.”
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Truman
Discussed“Have you read much about Truman? Um, I read his memoir or his autobiography. Biography. Makulla. The makulla.”
SmartLess
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The Book of Revelation
Discussed“It says that in the book of Revelations. It says, "Out of the mouth comes the double-edged sword."”
Pod Save America
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Why Civil Resistance Works
Discussed“So, um, the sort of backstory behind the 3 and a half% rule is that my colleague Maria Stefen and I together wrote a book in 2011 called Why Civil Resistance Works.”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Recommended“This is called the uh simple sabotage manual or we'll we'll use that phrase here. To understand what it is, we have to understand the folks who created it.”
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Third Eye Spies
Discussed“specifically I know I bring it up a lot, but I know you guys enjoy this conversation to Russell Tar to third eye spies author and person who is involved in some of those very programs with the government for training psychic spies”
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Murder on the Rails
Recommended“Like one book um we read for this is Murder on the Rails, the true story of the detective who unlocked the shocking secrets of the box car serial killer. That's by William Palmini who has firstirhand experience in the investigation. So if you want to read more, that is a fantastic place to start.”
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The People's Peking Man
Recommended“It's a book called The People's Peeking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in 20th Century China written by Sigrid Schmolzer. And this was a great name. I know, right? And this was published in uh 2008.”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Keeping at it
Recommended“And uh you want to read a good book? Paul Vulker is keeping at it. great uh book about has uh Reagan going to him and trying to get him to cut rates.”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University
Recommended“I'm gonna give you, okay, Financial Peace University, all nine lessons.”
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Questions for Humans
Recommended“I'm gonna send you all three questions for humans couples deck.”
The Ben & Marc Show
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Job Stacking
Recommended“And then by the way, there's this incredible book called Job Stacking that I always recommend which is sort of this how-to manual to how to hold down two jobs.”
The Ramsey Show
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Retire Inspired
Discussed“I think he started listen to me because I did buy him the book Retired Inspired and I recently gave him two of my copies of Dave Ramsey's books and he's been skimming through it.”
Modern Wisdom
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Slowness
Discussed“Milan Kundra wrote this short book called slowness and kind of the the nub of the book the message is that memory and speed are inversely proportionate.”
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Atrocitology
Discussed“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
Recommended“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
Recommended“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.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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Deadly Betrayal
Discussed“a an Air Force commander named Dennis Fritz who wrote a very important book called Deadly Betrayal in 2024 telling the same story in essence”
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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.”
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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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Three to Get Married
Discussed“Go back now to the 1950s and Fton Sheen, the great Catholic preacher, writes a book called three to get married. Made the same argument, right?”
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Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
Discussed“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”
How I Write
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Ironweed
Discussed“I actually remember at the time thinking about you know William Kennedy and Ironweed his novel Ironweed. It was another thing like he he couldn't get it published.”
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Terra Nostra
Discussed“my favorite books to read are the big blockbusters, War in Peace and Carlos Fentes Teranostra.”
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The Elements of Style
Discussed“it was reiterated centuries later in the famous style manual the elements of style by white where professor in lectures at Cornell that EB White recalled and then turned into a book would say that the first rule of writing is omit needless words.”
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Crazy English
Recommended“Letterer has written a number of delightful books like Crazy English and Anguished English.”
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Anguished English
Recommended“Letterer has written a number of delightful books like Crazy English and Anguished English.”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Braiding Sweetgrass
Discussed“Robin's book, Braiding Sweetg Grass, is one of the best-selling and most influential non-fiction books of the last decade.”
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Gathering Moss
Discussed“But my favorite of her books, the one that totally enthralled me, is called Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses.”
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The Serviceberry
Discussed“Now, you sound as we talk like a very kind and gentle person, but I'm going to say your latest book, which is entitled The Serviceberry, is really fun to read, but at the same time, I'm going to call it a manifesto for social change.”
Interesting Times
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Marie Antoinette
Discussed“I mean, I probably read Stefan zweig’s Marie Antoinette when I was 15 or 16 years old and started a French Revolution Jag.”
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The House of Government
Discussed“And I was obsessed with the Russian Revolution. And then the literature on that has expanded over time and the show trials and how have you ever seen house of government. It’s just an incredible book.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Sicker, Fatter, Poorer
Recommended“Dr. Leo Tresande has a great book on endocrine disruptor. I think it's called sicker, fatter, poorer. He dives deep. I've had him on my podcast. He dives deep and the endocrine disruption.”
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The Invisible Rainbow
Recommended“Um, uh, the invisible rainbow was a good research, a good book by a doctor that I could at least go, okay, that's, you know, even starting the look at the history of of just electricity.”
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Things Become Other Things
Discussed“Like, if you inverted Mr. Miyagi, you get John. Whatever the opposite. Yeah, exactly. And we should say you keep bringing up Brian, but for the audience, the book is structured as basically an elongated, you know, uh, letter.”
Big Technology Podcast
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No Trade Is Free
Recommended“We allowed free trade to flow into the United States unfettered by and large. And we accepted protectionism from other countries. You can read Robert Lighheiser's book, No Trade Is Free to understand the history of this.”
