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Books podcasts were talking about in October 2026
During October 2026, podcasters explored a diverse array of literary works spanning fiction, psychology, and personal development. On The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday introduced Robert Greene’s forthcoming book, The Law of the Sublime, while on Modern Wisdom, Chris Williamson highlighted Martin E. P. Seligman’s What You Can Change and What You Can't. Science fiction and novella enthusiasts heard from This Week in Startups, where Jason Calacanis brought up Steven L. Peck’s A Short Stay in Hell, and Lon Harris recommended Richard Socher’s The Eureka Machine. Relationship and cultural titles also drew focus, as Rachel Cruze discussed John Delony’s Building the Marriage You Want on The Ramsey Show, and Matt Rogers spotlighted Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber’s I Want to Be Famous on Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang. Finally, looking toward seasonal reading on The Book Review, Leigh Bardugo shared her appreciation for Barbara Casey’s Night Jar's Promise and Megan Giddings’s short-fiction collection, The Black Arts, rounding out a month of wide-ranging recommendations.
The Daily Stoic
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Forget the Alamo
Discussed“There's a wonderful book called "Forget the Alamo," which is a look at the history of Texas in the midst of the Alamo from a different perspective, which is written by three friends of mine here in Austin.”
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The Law of the Sublime
Recommended“Robert was here at the bookstore because he has a new book coming out, The Law of the Sublime. It's an incredible book.”
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Situated
Recommended“It's called Situated. The subtitle is Find the People and Places That Bring Out Your Best.”
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What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Recommended“What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars is about a trader on the Chicago Stock Exchange who blows it in the 80s and loses over a million dollars. Obviously, today they're playing with slightly larger amounts of money, but this one is really good.”
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Billion Dollar Lessons
Recommended“Billion Dollar Lessons. Again, you can learn as much from people's very expensive failures than you can from their successes.”
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Epictetus
Discussed“Thomas Wentworth Higginson brought out an edition for American readers. Stockdale was introduced to it at Stanford. Years later, Steve Hanselman, my co-writer on the Daily Stoic, encountered Higginson's Epictetus while studying at Harvard Divinity School.”
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Mayflower
Discussed“He's also got a great book on the Mayflower, which is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.”
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Travels with George
Discussed“He has a great book on George Washington, just one of our great narrative nonfiction writers.”
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Two Years Before the Mast
Discussed“I mean, it was that, you know, there was one sort of early account two years before the mast, Richard Henry Dana, and that had come out well before the gold rush.”
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The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
Discussed“I thought this book would be amazing. It's called the Imperial Cruise. It's about this uh trip that that Theodore Roosevelt sent his vice president on to to explore and then pacify the Philippines.”
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Recommended“You can read Diogenes is a book The Lives of uh eminent philosopher, which has biographies of the different Stoics.”
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Thyestes
Discussed“This is from Seneca's play, Thiestes. He says, silence is a lesson learned from the many sufferings of life.”
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Tough Jews
Discussed“I wanted he had this book called Tough Jews that I love.”
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The Adventures of Herbie Cohen
Discussed“His father is fascinating who we wrote a book about called The Adventures of Herbie Cohen who wrote that book about negotiation.”
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The Hunters
Discussed“Did you read The Hunters?”
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A Sport and a Pastime
Discussed“Well, his famous book, you know, is a sport in the past time, which is very dirty.”
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Dusk and Other Stories
Discussed“Somebody gave me his book of short stories, Dusk, which there's this thing that old European novels have like...”
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Solo Faces
Recommended“There's another really great book by James Salter called solo faces.”
Oprah's Super Soul
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Keeping the Love You Find
Discussed“I also started applying Harville Hendrix Amago, I read Keeping the Love You Fine when I was 15. And I thought, here is a model that explains to me healthy love and active participation in both people's healing and your partner's healing.”
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Brave Enough
Discussed“They are the heart of her latest bestseller brave enough.”
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The Book of Secrets
Discussed“Yeah, I heard that when you were in dialysis, you were reading Book of Secrets from Deepak Chopra. You were reading Dante.”
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My Love Story
Discussed“I mean, so many, I couldn't even believe it when I was reading my love story.”
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I, Tina
Discussed“If we were to trace a line from the bravery it took for you to write your story back in the '80s, I, Tina, to women today speaking out about Harvey Weinstein and other powerful and abusive men.”
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Out on a Limb
Discussed“I invited her to the show because I had read and loved her memoir out on a limb while filming The Color Purple.”
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Silver Chair
Discussed“the marsh wiggle um puddle glum puddle glum is like puddle glum is not even so puddle glum is supposed to be this um he's called a marsh wiggle and marsh wiggles are a you know it's like a fantasy species that lives in the reedy marshes outside of narnia to the north as their way up in the silver”
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Malachi
Discussed“well the lord says in malachi for i hate divorce so you know there's there's that too i don't know blake”
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The Acts of the Apostles
Discussed“the acts of the apostles describes many signs and wonders uh achieved by the apostles similar to the miracles of jesus that they were able to drive out demons heal people perform other miracles”
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Burn It Down
Recommended“rich barris author of burn it down everybody should check out a copy i know that book has done gangbusters rich”
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Doubting Darwin?
Recommended“and you should have the courage to say that out loud and read doubting darwin it's an excellent book by secular intellectuals”
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No Campus for White Men
Discussed“and you also I remember your first book that we talked about a decade ago no campus for white men why don't you set the stage for us”
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Nothing Left of Me
Recommended“Evan Barker change check out her book nothing left check out her article thank you for joining us again”
Modern Wisdom
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Agency
Discussed“This is the new book. How is it different from optimism? Uh, how have you come to conceptualize that?”
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What You Can Change and what You Can't
Recommended“Well, my favorite book of yours is What You Can Change and What You Can't. And maybe not quite as obscure.”
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Discussed“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was a little bit of a shame. Because I was such a fan of the book first. And I don't know whether you ever listened to the audiobook that's behind it, but the guy that did the audiobook has just got the most brilliant, classic, sort of 1940s, posh British accent.”
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The Golden Compass
Discussed“It had the subtle knife in it, the golden compass. Oh. Uh, so it's it must be 30 years old.”
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The Subtle Knife
Discussed“So I listened to The Subtle Knife first, which is the second book. And uh it kind of makes sense.”
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Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Discussed“he wrote a book called Inside the Company in which he documented in an appendix the names of every undercover CIA officer that he ever met.”
This Week in Startups
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A Short Stay in Hell
Recommended“This is a 100 page novella, a short stay in hell. Stephen L. Pack, a short stay in Stephen L. Pack, a influencer who reads a lot of books, was in my feed. I may have mentioned I have a grock-bock, things to watch read and to consume or travel, whatever, like a medium, I have a media bot.”
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The Eureka Machine
Recommended“I read Richard Sotier's book, this week in AI guest. I read his book, The Eureka Machine, which is really interesting about-- Oh, really? Yeah, I have a copy. Yeah, they sent us a copy, which is why I gave him-- Any good? It's fantastic, it's really good.”
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Something Like An Autobiography
Recommended“Then you could go even further back and read Akira Kurasawa's something like an autobiography.”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Three Trillion Dollar War
Discussed“but her and an economist called joseph stiglitz wrote a very influential book on the cost of the iraq war called the three trillion”
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Dying of Whiteness
Critiqued“This is like the most amusing thing ever is a book by professor professor Jonathan Metzel of Vanderbilt University called Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland.”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The Death of Vince Foster
Discussed“That's a death of Vince Foster is a great book. What's that? I read that book in like I think that guy was on Jimmy show just recently”
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The Book of Jude
Discussed“You know why it's not in the Bible? Because of because of rabbis. Because rabbis said it didn't jive with the Torah. So they removed it from the Bible. It's in the Ethiopian Bible. But in the Book of Jude they're quoting they quote Mormon in the Old Testament.”
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Man and His Symbols
Discussed“So, I read this and I think it's called um uh I think this was in the red book, but I'm not sure or it might be I can't remember which might be man and his symbols.”
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RAGMAN'S SON
Discussed“and also I had my my my my dad Kirk you know he had wrote written nine books already including a a good biography the ragman's son”
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Sitcom
Discussed“your story is awesome the book is great it really is it's very compelling”
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The Chinook sign of freedom : a study of the skull of the famous Chief Comcomly
Discussed“Look at the title of the book. The Chinook sign of freedom. If you didn't have an artificially modified school, you were a slave.”
Freakonomics Radio
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Co-Existence
Discussed“In his new book, Coexistence, the next phase of AI, Malik argues that if we want to properly leverage AI's capabilities, we should rely on four robust human advantages, as he calls them.”
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The American Story
Discussed“Rubenstein has also compiled several books worth of these interviews. There's the American story, conversations with master historians and the American experiment, dialogues on a dream.”
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Inside the Owner's Box
Discussed“He's just published a new book called Inside the Owners Box: Conversations on Power and Leadership in Sports.”
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Putting Meat on the American Table
Discussed“A couple decades ago, Harowitz published a book called Putting Meat on the American Table.”
The Ramsey Show
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Building the Marriage You Want
Recommended“Look how pretty it is. And it's building the marriage you want. So many people end up like roommates in marriage, something you didn't sign up for and something that you keep thinking, "Oh my gosh, how did we how did we get here?"”
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The Millionaire Mind
Discussed“the millionaire mind. Is that it? Okay, that's that's the book. Thank you.”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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I Want to Be Famous
Recommended“I'm kind of in my, my book, my reading era. Oh, well, speaking of reading. So we're going to have, we're going to have them on next week. So this is, I want to be famous when everybody and nobody is a celebrity by Bobby Finger and Lindsay Weber”
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Big Little Truths
Discussed“So, I bought Big Little Truths. What's that? Well, it's the sequel to Big Little Lies cuz you know there's going to be a a new season of Big Little Lies. That's right. And apparently it's like the kids are grown and you know I don't know what else. All I know I I didn't make it very far honestly.”
The Book Review
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Ethan Frome
Critiqued“and this woman has been brought into this world of plenty but at what cost and that is what gets peeled back in the story and I think it's really wonderfully done and I didn't think Edith Wharton could get me back after the horror of reading Ethan Fro, which I just absolutely loathe.”
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Down a Dark Hall
Discussed“Um, Down Hall by Lois Duncan. It's a very gothic read. It's a girl arrives at a boarding school and soon discovers that the head mistress has nefarious intent and I think slots very neatly into the kind of tradition of teenage girls as both predator and prey in horror.”
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Bunnicula
Discussed“And the last one is Bicula by James How. Do you know Vanicula? Yes, I know Vanicula. Is that where he he's It's a vampire bunny, but vampire bunny sucks the orange out of carrots.”
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Where are You Going, where Have You Been?
Discussed“But anyway, in that class, we read Joyce Carol's Where Have Are You Going? Where Have You Been? Uh, and I'll never forget reading that and thinking, "Oh, I didn't know people wrote things like this."”
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Wounds
Discussed“Also, his novella, The Visible Filth, uh, which is now in the collection Wounds, is one of the scarier things that I've read. Um, yeah, and so, you know, Nathan's just a wonderful writer again”
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Night Jar's Promise
Recommended“And I'm thinking of Night Jars. It was pitched as Momento meets Dracula. And that's not a bad description. It has a great setup where basically this guy is handed a horrifying picture of a childhood he doesn't remember.”
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Black Arts
Recommended“I also just started a book of short fiction by Megan Giddings called The Black Arts, and I've only read the first short story in it, and I do not want to give anything away about it, but one, the writing is spectacular.”
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Afterward
Recommended“There's a short story by Edith Wharton of all people called Afterward. There's a collection, an Edith Warren collection that I believe New York Review of Books Press put out called Ghosts, and it collects all of her, she wrote many ghost stories, many more than people think.”
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Our Share of Night
Recommended“But I might if they if they look like an NPR listener, then I might direct them to Our Share of Night by I think it's Mariana. And if they're not ready to commit to a sprawling novel that is a parable for Argentine politics, then I would direct them to her short stories.”
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The Skull
Recommended“But, you know, specific to younger readers for younger young kids, like I would recommend John Clawson's The Skull, uh, which almost has like zero text. Yes. But it's one to fun.”
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The Nest
Recommended“Yeah. So, for for teen readers, uh there's a wonderful novel uh called uh The Nest by Kenneth Opel. You know, the conceit is that it's from the the point of view of of essentially like a 12-year-old boy and they have a newborn who's, you know, struggling and the parents are sort of struggling with it, too.”
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She Said Destroy
Recommended“The first I'm going to give you is Nadia Bulan. She is has so far been primarily a short story writer. She has two collections. One called she uh she said Said destroy and she writes just amazingly beautiful, challenging and disturbing.”
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North American Lake Monsters
Recommended“Uh the other author is Nathan Balenrude. He has a short story collection called North American Lake Monsters, which is just amazing. It was a briefly run, it became a briefly run show on Hulu, but the the collection is much better.”
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The Visible Filth
Recommended“Also, his novella, The Visible Filth, uh, which is now in the collection Wounds, is one of the scarier things that I've read. Um, yeah, and so, you know, Nathan's just a wonderful writer again”
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Books of Blood Volume One
Recommended“Uh, again, I'm going to split it for for two. If I could, I would give them one of Clive Barker's books of blood. It would be the one It would be It would be the one with a short story, but it's whichever one has a story in the hills, the cities.”
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Nothing Random: Bennett Cerf and the Publishing House He Built
Recommended“I want to put on reader radar, Nothing Random by Gail Feldman. This is one of the first books I reviewed this year.”
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Will and Attention
Recommended“So, this is a book that I actually just recently reviewed, and it's called Will in Attention, and it's by Megan O'B.”
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American Fried
Recommended“and also Calvin Trillan's books about food. They're called collectively the Tummy Trilogy, but I hate that name because it makes them seem cute and trilogy. Yeah. But their their initial titles are American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat, and Third Helpings, which a introduced me to sort of vernacular food all around us and why it matters.”
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Alice, Let's Eat
Recommended“and also Calvin Trillan's books about food. They're called collectively the Tummy Trilogy, but I hate that name because it makes them seem cute and trilogy. Yeah. But their their initial titles are American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat, and Third Helpings, which a introduced me to sort of vernacular food all around us and why it matters.”
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Third Helpings
Recommended“and also Calvin Trillan's books about food. They're called collectively the Tummy Trilogy, but I hate that name because it makes them seem cute and trilogy. Yeah. But their their initial titles are American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat, and Third Helpings, which a introduced me to sort of vernacular food all around us and why it matters.”
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Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Recommended“One of the things that's so beautiful about it is it starts out as children's books, Betsy, Tacy, and then it's Betsy, Tacy, and Tib.”
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The Oyster Diaries
Recommended“Nancy Lemon's The Oyster Diaries, this witty New Orleans ccentric novel, was a great discovery this year.”
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Biological War: A Scenario
Recommended“Biological War by Annie Jacobson, the first thing you should know is it reads like a rocket. I mean, it is like the most gripping novel.”
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Love and hydrogen
Recommended“Jen, Love and Hydrogen, a short story collection by Jim Shepard. It came out about 20 years ago.”
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A House for Mr Biswas
Recommended“It wasn't that different from one of my favorite books, A House for Mr. Biswis. This idea that I just want to have my little place and no one can kick me out of. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that.”
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The Hero's Journey
Discussed“Well, Peter and I started with the talisman because he had read a book called The Hero's Journey, and there was certain ideas in there that he really liked.”
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Redheaded Peckerwood
Discussed“And finally Peter wrote me a letter and he said, "We really ought to do this." and he sent me a book called Redheaded Peckerwood and it was about Charles Starkweather, but it was a book of photographs.”
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Ghost Story
Discussed“Well, I read Ghost Story and some of his short fiction before I started to try and get his voice.”
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Floating Dragon
Recommended“My favorite book of his is a long novel called Floating Dragon.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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The Friedkin Connection
Discussed“I just read the William Freen book and he's talking about how Hackman just [ __ ] hates the French Connection”
Behind the Bastards
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Crossed #9
Discussed“Are you familiar with the comic series crossed, Jason? No. They're making it into a movie. It's like a kind of a zombie story, but instead of it being a zombie plague, it's this disease that causes this like cross-sape rash on people's faces.”
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Breadfruit
Discussed“That's Russell Fielding, an associate professor at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina who researches geography and environmental justice and who wrote the book, "Breadfruit, Free Global Journeys of a Bountiful Tree,"”
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The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution
Discussed“In 1989, American political scientist Robert Gervis published a book titled "The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution, Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon".”
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Edge of Armageddon
Discussed“In 1989, American political scientist Robert Gervis published a book titled "The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution, Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon".”
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Disposable Workers
Discussed“The New York bill is quote very innovative, said Paul Austerman, a professor ammeritus at MIT and the author of disposable workers, a new book on the transformation of employment. His own surveys of work arrangements indicate about 12% of US workers are contractors employed by intermediaries.”
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Digging for Troy
Discussed“From the book Digging for Troy, quote, He wrote to a friend asking for help with the search.”
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Memoirs of Heinrich Schliemann
Discussed“leo duel author of memoirs of heinrich schliemann points out that while schliemann would claim late in life to have been inspired to find troy by vivid tales of the war spun into bedtime stories by his father he never mentioned this in his earliest books where he wrote about his upbringing because he writes about his upbringing before he”
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Finding the Walls of Troy
Discussed“from the book finding the walls of troy by susan allen on hearing of his brother's death in california schliemann traveled to the united states in order to recoup some of the fortune louis schliemann had made as a san francisco innkeeper during the gold rush”
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Border and Rule
Recommended“Her book, Border and Rule, Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, I think is essential reading for all of us who are concerned with the rise of fascism and its connection to anti-immigrant sentiment and narratives that are taking root in a lot of our societies.”
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From U-boat to Pulpit
Discussed“one sunday while at church pondering my people and my home he decided to become a pastor in his nazi era autobiography from u-boat to pulpit martin would claim that working the soil had drawn him closer to his volk”
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Then They Came for Me
Discussed“um in the book then they came for me hawkenos seems to attribute martin's uh failure to join the freikorps at this point to his belief that serving as a pastor would better allow him to participate in the revival of the german nation”
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Hitler's Personal Prisoner
Discussed“uh yeah in his book hitler's personal prisoner benjamin siemen describes most of the early 20s as a time of intense right-wing radicalization”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Vibe
Recommended“Professor Grant, I love what you write and your new blockbuster vibe. This one is so good. This is on page four. There's even evidence that if we're standing with a friend, a hill looks less steep.”
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Firefly Lane
Recommended“Okay, book recommendation number two is Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah. Oh my gosh, this book.”
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The Client
Discussed“He has written some of the most iconic and award-winning legal thrillers ever. The firm, the pelican brief, the client, the rainmaker, runaway jury and a time to kill.”
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The Runaway Jury
Discussed“He has written some of the most iconic and award-winning legal thrillers ever. The firm, the pelican brief, the client, the rainmaker, runaway jury and a time to kill.”
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The French Illusion
Discussed“And I personally cannot wait for John's newest book. I've been looking for a page turner and John says, Oh, Mel, this is the fastest page turner I've ever written, the French illusion.”
Timcast IRL
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Nothing Left
Discussed“It's it's like probably 20% people like me, disaffected Democrats, I would say maybe like 60% Republicans and then the rest were very very angry Democrats and progressives who have still been very very angry at me since this book came out.”
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The Lost Majority
Discussed“Sean Trendy, I think that's how he pronounced his last name, Real Clear Politics, he wrote this book back in 2016 after Trump won, called The Lost Majority. He argued essentially that the most important voting bloc in America is what he called the Ross-Perot voter, which is these disaffected, typically white men, but they oscillate between both parties and”
How I Write
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Four Quartets
Discussed“well the number one with me was T.S. Eliot not the cat poetry so much it's the wonderful cat poetry and it's amazing that the four quartets or Ashland's Day are those probably read any of them hundreds of times”
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Ash-Wednesday
Discussed“well the number one with me was T.S. Eliot not the cat poetry so much it's the wonderful cat poetry and it's amazing that the four quartets or Ashland's Day are those probably read any of them hundreds of times”
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The Blackboard Jungle
Recommended“there was a writer named Evan Hunter it wasn't his real name but he was famous he wrote the blackboard jungle and a number of famous novels under that name and he was very facile but he also was excellent dialogue”
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Hollow Bones
Discussed“like Hollow Bones in the new book, there is this the origin story.”
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Harvesting the Heart
Discussed“I was writing Harvest in the Heart, which is my second novel, and I remember waking up in the middle of the night”
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A Spark of Light
Discussed“A Spark of Light. That is a book about abortion rights in America”
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Life of Pi
Discussed“And Life of Pie is one of them, for example.”
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Small Great Things
Discussed“small great things that I went and revisited that and I was like oo oo there are some real flaws in this book”
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Keeping Faith
Discussed“So, I remember writing Keeping Faith. That's one of the ones where”
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Shadows on the Grass
Discussed“And if you read Out of Africa and Shadows of the Grass, which are the two companion pieces”
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Perfect Match
Discussed“I remember there was this scene in Perfect Match. Um, Perfect Match is about this”
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By Any Other Name
Discussed“So, Amelia Basano was at the heart of my book by any other name. And of all of my books, I think this is my personal favorite.”
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Second Glance
Discussed“So, um, for my book, Second Glance, uh, I wanted to write a ghost story”
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Sing You Home
Discussed“in uh Sing You Home, which is about gay rights.”
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Mad Honey
Discussed“before I wrote with Jenny Boland to write Mad Honey”
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Nineteen Minutes
Discussed“In 2024, 19 minutes was the most banned book in America.”
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The Witches of Cambridge
Recommended“Um, her new book, Witches of Cambridge, is fantastic.”
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The Peregrine
Recommended“And I have a story in there about a man who is obsessed with a hawk, a parag. Yeah. He's looking at the maps and stuff. It's it's one of the greatest I highly recommend reading this book. Like it was FER Herzog's favorite book, the the paragine by J. Baker.”
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Ghost Town Living
Recommended“He's amazing person and he wrote a book and I kind of helped him a little bit with the book called Ghost Town Living. I highly recommend this book. It's it's great.”
Stuff You Should Know
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Hidden Pictures
Recommended“But I did read another pretty good one called hidden pictures. It is a horror fiction novel by Jason Rekulak. And it was a New York Times bestseller.”
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The Tao of Pooh
Discussed“There was a book in 1995 called Pooh and the Philosophers where all of the characters are sort of written about too as embodying all the famous philosophers. Plato, Kant, Descartes, Pooh was Nietzsche.”
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Pooh and the Philosophers
Discussed“There was a book in 1995 called Pooh and the Philosophers where all of the characters are sort of written about too as embodying all the famous philosophers.”
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Paper Ghosts
Recommended“that's right everyone go out and get a paper ghosts yeah”
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Uplift
Discussed“according to that book Uplift that we mentioned earlier, uh, despite Victoria's Secret and its history, uh, women have really been key to the development of bras in the United States.”
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The Magic Island
Discussed“But the funny thing is it was based on a book called The Magic Island by WB Sebrook which is a non-fiction travel log. So, I guess I don't know if those were pre presented as fact or what, but that that's what the movie was based on.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Ambiguous Loss
Discussed“There's an incredible book called Ambiguous Loss which is all about learning to live with unresolved grief and the author Pauline Boss shares this that I wanted to share with you. Ambiguous loss is the most stressful kind of loss because it remains unclear.”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Developing the Qualities of Success
Discussed“Oh, okay, so – and this one's called Developing the Qualities of Success. So Zig Ziglar was, like, a motivational speaker?”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Leeds, 1710 the American Almanack for the Year of Christian Account 1710. ... Fitted to the Latitude of 40 Degrees, and a Meridian of Five Hours West from London But May, Without Sensible Error
Discussed“Daniel Leeds was an Englishman who immigrated to the U.S. in 1678. Spent most of his adult life publishing The American Almanac. He created this publication as well, and it continued to print new issues until his retirement in 1716.”
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South Jersey Towns, History and Legend
Discussed“His name is Professor Fred McFadden of Coppin State University over in Baltimore. He did the work. He dug deep into everything you could find about the life of Daniel Leeds, and then also into the earliest mentions of the devil in some form in print.”
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Legend
Discussed“His name is Professor Fred McFadden of Coppin State University over in Baltimore. He did the work. He dug deep into everything you could find about the life of Daniel Leeds, and then also into the earliest mentions of the devil in some form in print.”
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Masks of the Illuminati
Discussed“And it looks like there's a third or an additional book that came out later that's only by Robert Anton Wilson called Masks of the Illuminati that also has a dope cover with like a sea serpent swimming in a book, that open book with Albert Einstein's face in the clouds.”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Unreliable Boyfriend
Discussed“Because even in the story you tell in the book, the trade negotiations in Trump 1 feel like they are about trade. And they're ultimately resolved through questions of trade.”
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Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
Recommended“Liberty's Dawn by Emma Griffin, which is a collection of the average worker's biographies and notes from during the Industrial Revolution.”
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Insull
Recommended“And the last one that I always put is Samuel Insul, a largely forgotten figure. He was the, probably one of the most important entrepreneurs of the 1920s whose empire in electricity shows what happens that you can build, building an empire on top of a GPT and even doing that successfully can still end up in collapse and calamity.”
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Day the Universe Changed
Recommended“So my three books. The first is The Day the Universe Changed. It's written by a BBC science journalist back in the early 80s.”
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Playing and Reality
Recommended“one of the books that I'm going to say is one of the, I know you asked for my favorite books, and one of the books I'm going to suggest is ZW Winnicott playing in reality, where he talks about the early internalization of objects, how we grow, how we develop in inner life, how we bring things inside.”
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Thinking in Systems
Recommended“and that led me to the book Systems Thinking by Donella Meadows from many many years ago”
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Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest
Recommended“The second book I will name, I have a two-year-old and a four-year-old, Little Witch Hazel. It's a picture book by Phoebe Wall. It's just absolutely beautiful.”
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The Voice That Is Great Within Us
Recommended“number one it's a book of poetry called The Voice That Is Great Within Us it's by Hayden Carruth and it is a remarkable collection of 20th century poetry that's where I first became aware of my favorite poem of all time which is a poem by Charles Olson called Maximus to himself P.S. I name my dog Maximus that's”
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Hunger
Recommended“but more recently in 2017 I started reading a book called Hunger by Roxane Gay and when I read that book I fell in love with the author sight unseen just reading her words so much so that I reached out to her I wanted to get her on my podcast she said no I tried to stay in touch”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Revealing
Discussed“And this is, to your points in the book, you can't just roll in and be like, what's up, everybody?”
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Dogs that Know when Their Owners are Coming Home
Critiqued“But he wrote a book called dogs that know when their owners are coming home, in which he kind of made the same claim.”
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Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams
Discussed“In fact, Aristotle, for one, he wrote On Divination in Sleep, and he was skeptical of the idea of prophetic dreams.”
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Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners - Freud
Discussed“In 1921, he wrote psychoanalysis and telepathy. And then in 1922, he wrote dreams and telepathy, although he was careful to note that he had never actually witnessed telepathy.”
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Dreams and Telepathy
Discussed“In 1921, he wrote psychoanalysis and telepathy. And then in 1922, he wrote dreams and telepathy, although he was careful to note that he had never actually witnessed telepathy.”
The Rubin Report
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Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind
Discussed“Like it's just this incredible disconnect with reality as Gadzad often points out in his new bestselling book. I think it is the number one book in the entire world this year, "Suicidal Empathy."”
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Healing Politics
Discussed“Al-Sayed himself wrote in his book, Healing Politics, that his mother was a leader on campus, though he left out that her campus leadership role was with the Muslim Brotherhood.”
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This Cursed Beautiful Land
Discussed“The Wall Street Journal reporter was speaking at a literature festival to promote his memoir, This Cursed Beautiful Land.”
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Political Theology
Discussed“Tracy Strong, a philosopher that I don't agree with on many things, wrote the foreword to the English translation of Carl Schmitt's 1923 or thereabouts book called Political Theology.”
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Omnipotent Government
Recommended“One of the best books on this topic is hardly ever cited. It's called Omnipotent Government, the Total State and Total War by Ludwig von Mises.”
Hidden Brain
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Tell Me Where It Hurts
Discussed“So when I was writing Tell Me Where It Hurts, I really went down the rabbit hole to explore the research. And I found so much science behind this.”
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The Opposite of Happiness
Recommended“And maybe it will even make you more accepting of yourself, knowing how broadly shared your miseries are.”
EconTalk
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Staring at the Sun
Discussed“Erwin Yallum has a book called, I think it's called Staring at the Sun. The sun is death. You can't look at the sun, you'd have to turn away.”
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Terra Incognita
Discussed“Our topic for today is fertility and demography, based on a recent paper he wrote, he co-authored with Patrick Norick, and that paper is Terra Incognita, the Economics of a Shrinking World, a paper I found, to be honest, shocking in its claims, but the claims are mostly facts.”
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Gravity and Grace
Discussed“And one of her most famous books is Gravity and Grace. And what that was, was basically her, her friend, who is a French Catholic farmer, Gustave Thibon”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Time Loops
Recommended“I'm always bringing up Dr. Eric Warga, who changed the way I think about time and how time works and multiverse. When I read his books, I recommend Time Loops.”
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Wuest's Expanded Translation of the Greek New Testament
Recommended“This is actually I don't know if you've ever heard of this. This is the Kenneth Wuest New Testament.”
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Coming Home to Myself
Discussed“In 2005, your memoir came out, Coming Home to Myself. Public Triumph vs. Private Struggles with Money, Food, Self-Worth and Relationships.”
Huberman Lab
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The Gospel according to st. Mark [ed.] by S.F. Smith
Discussed“We have no contemporary information whatsoever about him. The first information that we have about him is the letters of St. Paul and the gospel according to St. Mark. Both of which follow his death by about 20 years.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Death Is But a Dream
Recommended“Death is but a dream, finding hope and meaning at life's end by Dr. Christopher Kerr. I'll link this book below for anyone that would like to read it and dive deeper into these subjects.”
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How to Get Rich
Discussed“I had read a book by Donald Trump way back then on this is it, how to get rich. It inspired me to become an entrepreneur and failed miserably.”
a16z Podcast
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Discussed“When you put out a provider directory, frequently you're in the business of publishing the Encyclopedia Britannica, right?”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Me
Discussed“It's called me. And you have to wait for it. If you can get it, I know it's not, but it takes a while to get there because it's out of print”
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The Mannings
Discussed“And, uh, so I've, I've, I've dug into this quite deep as well. And I wrote a book on the Manning family called The Mannings.”
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The Zizians
Discussed“In a little while, we're going to be joined by Andy No. He's an independent journalist. He's going to talk about his new book on a trans death cult.”
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Mean Baby
Discussed“She wrote a memoir called Mean Baby back in 2022. She said, she named it after the fact that her perpetual frown as a newborn was said to make neighborhood kids scream when they saw her.”
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Unthinkable
Discussed“I'm currently reading Congress member Jamie Raskin's book Unthinkable.”
Breaking Points
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The AGI Chronicles
Discussed“And Kevin Roos is going to join us to talk about his new book, The AGI Chronicles, which is a very interesting look behind the scenes at the race between Anthropic and OpenAI and Google and all of the characters involved and where he thinks the state of that race is today.”
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Weimar Germany
Recommended“He is the author of a new book, Weimar Germany, The Death of a Democracy.”
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Sea Change
Recommended“Joining us now is Ron Farrar. She's an FT columnist. But for our purposes, she's the author of a fantastic new book. Let's go and put this up here on the screen. It is called Sea Change, America's New Great Game in the Arctic Circle.”
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Berlin
Discussed“It was called The Battle of Berlin, I think it was something about Berlin, The Downfall by Sir Anthony Beaver.”
Conversations with Tyler
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1873
Discussed“Your book Lords of Finance, it convinced me that financial crises really matter, and your new book, 1873, almost convinced me that financial crises don’t really matter, because the world just keeps on growing.”
David Senra
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Michael Faraday
Discussed“And he's reading this biography of Michael Faraday, who is an inventor from the generation before. And he's reading the biography of Faraday. His roommate goes to bed. His roommate wakes up in the morning. And Edison is just finishing the biography.”
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Jesus
Recommended“The Paul Johnson biography, I think, does a really good job. That's the one I read.”
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The Mind of Napoleon
Discussed“have you ever read this book called the mine in napoleon no okay so mine in napoleon published in 1957 um i found it because i saw this interview i think tyler cowen interviewed sam altman and uh i think this is 2019 and he asked him like what's the most important book that you read this year and he”
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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Discussed“Because you, you, you rep Mark Wahlberg... like there's getting Brad Jacobs who wrote this book called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars.”
Founders
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Me, You, Them
Discussed“There's this great biography of the partnership that he had with Henry Clay Frick that's called Me, You, and Hell. I've done an episode on that.”
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Hell
Discussed“There's this great biography of the partnership that he had with Henry Clay Frick that's called Me, You, and Hell. I've done an episode on that.”
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The Tycoons
Recommended“That was an excerpt from the preface of the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is The Tycoons, How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Super Economy, and this book was written by Charles R. Morris.”
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Roll the Calls
Recommended“That is an excerpt from the book I'm going to talk to you about today, and one of the most entertaining autobiographies, and just frankly, craziest books I've ever read. And it's called Roll the Calls, a memoir written by Ari Emanuel.”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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Potemkin
Discussed“Seabag, of course, is the author of more than 12 other books, like Stalin, The Court of the Red Czar, The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great and Potemkin.”
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The Cauldron
Recommended“And that is what he does in his brilliant, best-selling new book, The Cauldron, the making of the modern Middle East.”
The Peterman Pod
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
Discussed“The man who knew infinity, which is a biography of, of, uh, Ramanujan. Um, and then, uh, I read, uh, uh, biographies of Feynman and of course his, his, his autobiographies. Um, and because I felt like this is the world that I am trying to enter, right?”
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The Mind-Body Problem
Recommended“A novel that had a really big impact on me was, uh, was called The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein. Um, it's, it's just a, it's a novel about, uh, like, a, a, a woman who marries a mathematician.”
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Recommended“yeah i guess i really liked um ddia designing data intensive applications i i just spoke with somebody a month ago and they were telling me that they they did read through it but for them like most of it didn't really stick”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Bloodlines
Discussed“Um, and this is the essence of Blood Lunger book. Like, it's a memoir, but it's really this odyssey like experience of navigating this disease and trying to find a way to heal yourself, not just in body, but in mind and spirit.”
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Operation Nemesis
Discussed“Now since like Eric Bosian who's another you know hero of mine wrote took seven years to write Operation Nemesis which was about the attempts by the Armenians after the war to kill all of the Turkish government officials who were responsible for the genocide”
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The Burning Tigris
Recommended“Then you find Peter Bolakian's books, The Burning Tigris, which is like a textbook, and then you find the Black Dog of Fate, which is a a memoir about his memories of his grandmother that survived the genocide. And that was a big influence on me.”
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Black Dog of Fate
Recommended“Then you find Peter Bolakian's books, The Burning Tigris, which is like a textbook, and then you find the Black Dog of Fate, which is a a memoir about his memories of his grandmother that survived the genocide. And that was a big influence on me. That's probably my favorite memoir is Black Dog of Fate.”
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Man in the Mirror
Discussed“In an affable mood to grapple with some serious issues, which, you know, your book very much is. You know, Man in the Mirror.”
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The Persuaders
Discussed“On some level, it's surprising to hear that you had to be jolted out because it feels somewhat of an extension from persuaders.”
REAL AF with Andy Frisella
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Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life LP
Discussed“i look dude i read i read a there's a book by donald trump that's really good dude it's called how to it's called think big and kick ass with donald trump there's a chapter in that book about revenge okay and he wrote he took the time to write an entire chapter about how when people fuck you you”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Hard Times
Recommended“but the book that i was introduced to is called hard times an illustrated oral history of the great depression”
Interesting Times
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The New Dark Ages
Discussed“James Marriott calls this the new dark ages and he thinks that as we slip away from mass long- form literacy into a world of Tik Tok and slop that we're in danger of sacrificing the foundations of democracy itself.”
Candace
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Proverbs 31 Virtuous Woman
Discussed“Yes, Erica, you really are the standard Proverbs 31. Wife just kind of falls apart.”
My First Million
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From Poop to Gold
Discussed“Well, you read Poop to Gold. Yeah, Poop to Gold.”
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The User Method
Recommended“There's a book called The User Method by Jeff Schwarting and Jeff Schwarting goes through and explains that out of the top businesses, the vast majority of them were made by founders who were just solving a problem for themselves.”
SmartLess
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Memo from David O. Selznick
Recommended“So what I've done in the book, you know, obviously I my my childhood I think is pretty interesting in terms of my mother being Bermudeian and my father a Russian Jew and how they came together at academy and and all that stuff and u and and growing up and but then what I decided to do as a”
StarTalk Radio
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Creative Evolution
Discussed“But in 1907, he writes this book, Creative Evolution, right?”
