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Every book Bridget Phetasy recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Bridget Phetasy appears on, in one place — not just one.
Bridget Phetasy appears frequently as a guest on podcast programs such as The Joe Rogan Experience and The Megyn Kelly Show, where she engages in wide-ranging discussions on culture, history, writing, and politics. Throughout her appearances, she frequently recommends and discusses influential works that have shaped her worldview and creative output. Phetasy highlighted S. C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon while discussing Texas history and tough settlers, and noted Lewis Hyde's Trickster Makes This World as a personal favorite that helped her through difficult times. She discussed Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment as her inspiration for wanting to learn Russian, and brought up Carol Roth's The War on Small Business to analyze the negative impacts of pandemic policies on small enterprises. Furthermore, Phetasy credited Louise Perry's Case Against the Sexual Revolution with framing her own perspectives, referenced Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated as her essential guide for navigating a mediated world, and pointed to Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West to discuss the Enlightenment and human progress.
Books recommended by Bridget Phetasy
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Empire of the Summer Moon
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C.
Recommended“I mean it's insane and it's accurate that's really I mean read Empire of the summer Moon if you never have you read that yepo that's here that's right here”
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Blindness
Blindness by José Saramago is a dystopian novel depicting a sudden epidemic of inexplicable blindness that causes societal collapse.
Recommended“have you ever read the book blindness no i couldn't read fiction for two years after i read that book and it's all about a pandemic of blindness hits people and they all get put in quarantine”
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Case Against the Sexual Revolution
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry is a cultural critique examining the long-term psychological and social consequences of modern hedonistic hookup culture and sexual liberation.
Recommended“and I ended up writing this piece because Louise Perry wrote a book the case against sexual Revolution and it it kind of framed what I had been feeling”
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a psychological masterpiece that explores the crushing guilt, moral torment, and eventual redemption of a destitute former student who commits a brutal murder in St.
Recommended“I am one of my favorite books and the reason I always wanted to learn Russian was Crime and Punishment”
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Irresistible
Irresistible by Adam Alter is an exploration of modern technological addiction, examining the business models and design strategies that corporations use to keep users permanently hooked on screens, applications, and digital games.
Recommended“so I went down all these science holes and now I'm looking at reading this book irresistible which is all about screen addiction and all the studies and it's brilliant”
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Irresistible Change
Irresistible Change by Phil Gilbert is an insightful examination of modern screen addiction, behavioral design, and the psychological mechanisms that keep people constantly tethered to their digital devices.
Recommended“and now I'm looking at reading this book irresistible which is all about screen addiction and all the studies and it's brilliant”
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Mediated
Mediated by Thomas de Zengotita is a thoughtful exploration of how contemporary media saturation profoundly shapes personal experiences and political realities.
Recommended“I've been having this conversation with this writer Thomas he wrote this book mediated and I'm talking to him chapter by chapter on Watkins welcome because the book has been my Bible for a mediated world”
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Suicide of the West
Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg is a political and cultural work examining how modern civilization and Enlightenment values emerged almost by accident.
Recommended“i mean jonah goldberg wrote this amazing book suicide of the west and he talks about all of this essentially how the enlightenment and we just stumbled on this miracle”
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is an influential exploration of how trauma physically impacts the brain and body, offering pathways to healing through modern science and therapy.
Recommended“you know I hate I hate that the word triggered has been destroyed like it's been destroyed because it does when you have had trauma and there's a brilliant book the body keeps the score and he talks about how it lives in your body basically”
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The War on Small Business
The War on Small Business by Carol Roth is a critical examination of how government policies during the pandemic devastated independent businesses and the American economy.
Recommended“my friend Carol Roth is brilliant on this and wrote a book the war on small business all about this”
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Trickster Makes This World
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde is a captivating exploration of myth, creativity, and cultural disruption that examines the enduring archetype of the trickster figure.
Recommended“It's interesting because I've been reading that rereading my favorite book trickster makes this world and how the trickster what was that who wrote that uh Lewis Hyde it's all about trick”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.
Discussed“I think you could read Animal Farm in a week”
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Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood is a late 19th-century children's fantasy novel about a young aristocrat named Baron Trump navigating strange subterranean worlds.
Discussed“and I was like Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey What is this it's like an old it's a book from wrote it it is from 1893 nearly forgotten Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey blends of Science Fiction and Fantasy in a story told by little Baron Trump an aristocrat boy”
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson is a non-fiction exploration of internet culture, modern outrage, and the severe consequences of public shaming on social media.
Discussed“have you ever read Jon Ronson's book so yeah I love him yeah that's great that book is amazing”
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Books Bridget Phetasy wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
“i i had this guy james nestor on he's the author of breathe breath breathe breath breath breath breath breath the book is breath”
“I'm Bridget Phetasy and I'm here with Dave Rubin with the "Don't Burn This Book" book club doing chapter two. Hi, Dave.”
“She said, it's "Ender's Game" meets "Risk" on Twitter.”
“She said, it's "Ender's Game" meets "Risk" on Twitter.”
“My roommate Samantha said it perfectly. She said, it's "Ender's Game" meets "Risk" on Twitter.”