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Every book Gavin de Becker recommended on podcasts
Gavin de Becker appears on long-form interview programs like The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett and The Joe Rogan Experience, where discussions heavily feature intelligence, safety, institutional trust, and systemic skepticism. As evident from these conversations, de Becker is deeply engaged in questioning mainstream medical and political narratives, exploring alternative viewpoints, and examining philosophical approaches to predetermination. He recommends Nisargadatta Maharaj's I Am That when explaining his spiritual views, alongside the documentary House of Numbers by Brent Leung as an informative critique of HIV and AIDS statistics. De Becker also touches upon several other notable texts and films during his interviews. He references George Orwell's 1984 to draw alarming parallels between modern societal control and the novel's famous themes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fauci to highlight discrepancies in global AIDS diagnoses, and John Green's Turtles All the Way Down to support arguments concerning the lack of adequate safety studies on childhood vaccines.
Books recommended by Gavin de Becker
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The house of numbers
The house of numbers by Jack Finney is a suspenseful thriller and dramatic story often associated with adaptations and discussions surrounding institutional control and narrative manipulation.
Recommended“and so it it keeps the you know the great documentary that's on YouTube is called House of Numbers about this. It keeps the numbers going.”
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I Am that
I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj is a profound spiritual text compiling the dialogues and teachings of the revered Indian philosopher.
Recommended“It is um it comes from a teacher of mine in India, my best teacher in life, Nisargadatta, wrote a book called I Am That, recommended to everybody.”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 depicts a chilling totalitarian society under the constant surveillance of Big Brother.
Discussed“And yeah, the we are participating in I won't even call it an experiment, but a process that you read 1984, I'm sure, and most of your audience did. I was very heartened during the beginning of COVID that 1984 became the 17th best-selling book in the world in the English language.”
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Hitler's Professors
Discussed“There's a book called Hitler's Professors, and it is about a a process that Hitler administration used.”
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The Real Anthony Fauci
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F.
Discussed“And there's a great line in uh in the real Anthony Fouchy, a book I know you read where Bobby says, "If you get diagnosed with AIDS in Africa, the fastest way to get cured is go to New York. You won't be diagnosed with AIDS."”
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Turtles All the Way Down
Turtles All the Way Down by John Green is a contemporary young adult novel that navigates the intricate emotional landscape of a teenager dealing with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety.
Discussed“uh particularly the childhood vaccines, there never was, as you learned from turtles all the way down, never a a viable study on these.”
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Books Gavin de Becker wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top Intelligence Advisor: “Epstein Was A Front.” They Can See Everything, Even Your Messages! | The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett | 2026-03-02 | 2 |
| #2411 - Gavin de Becker | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2025-11-13 | 7 |
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“In in that new book I gave you, Forbidden Facts, I I lay out what all the pharma companies have been fined criminally, what it cost them, and what they made nonetheless.”
“Uh well, they they all know that their dad is a big proponent and and my first book, which is still a a very big book, The Gift of Fear, that book is, I think, still the best-selling book in the world on violence after 25 years. And that book is all about intuition and personal responsibility.”
“In order to help people deal with these issues of skepticism, of fear, etc. You don't get somebody doing what I do, where my ambition is long gone. My ambition for more more anything, more money, more houses. Well, houses I might still slip on, but now it's about service to other people. Wasn't always, but it was service to”
“when COVID happened the the book 1984 be in 2021 it was the 17th bestselling book in the world.”