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Every book Doug Stanhope recommended on podcasts
Doug Stanhope, as observed through his guest spots on The Joe Rogan Experience, often reflects on his road trips, media consumption, and historical deep dives with his characteristic candid perspective. Stanhope discussed listening to several audiobooks during his travels, including Robert Wright's evolutionary psychology text, The Moral Animal, noting that he listened to the sixteen-and-a-half-hour audiobook on his drive. He also brought up Jia Jiang's Rejection Proof, recounting the author's background moving from Beijing to Austin and his entrepreneurial quest to overcome a fear of rejection. In addition to audiobooks consumed during travel, Stanhope explored heavier historical non-fiction, mentioning The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. He described this extensive seven-hundred-page work as brutal while discussing the harrowing history of Australia functioning as a British prison colony. Through these literary discussions, Stanhope shares his personal media intake, ranging from psychological and entrepreneurial audiobooks to exhaustive historical accounts of penal colonization.
Books recommended by Doug Stanhope
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Rejection Proof
Discussed“one of the books i listened to on the way out a guy lives in austin uh zha zhing or zhao zhang wrote a book called uh rejection proof where he was born in beijing and he lives in austin and he was trying to be an entrepreneur but he found himself afraid of rejection”
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The fatal shore
Discussed“I read that I just did a couple weeks there in April and I've read it's a it's called the the fatal Shore and it's like this 700 page history of Australia and it's [ __ ] brutal”
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The Moral Animal
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright is a foundational exploration of evolutionary psychology that examines how natural selection shapes human thoughts, emotions, and social behavior.
Discussed“i downloaded a book on audible about it 16 and a half hours and listened to it on the way out so i should have a degree even though i didn't understand most of what they were talking about what's the book uh the moral animal”
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Books Doug Stanhope wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Joe Rogan Experience #1623 - Doug Stanhope | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-06-27 | 3 |
| #1144 - Doug Stanhope | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2018-07-16 | 1 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“i i have a whole chunk in the book that i'm here to promote i see but about how i i'm i glued to reality just to find where they're lying all right that's obviously fame”