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Every book Josh Barnett recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Josh Barnett has recommended or discussed 23 books on podcasts, as of March 29, 2022.
- Josh Barnett has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of March 29, 2022.
- Those books came up in 5 episodes, as of March 29, 2022.
- The 3 books Josh Barnett has mentioned in the most episodes, as of March 29, 2022: No Country for Old Men, Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Being and Time.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Josh Barnett aired on March 29, 2022.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Josh Barnett appears on, in one place, not just one.
Josh Barnett’s most recommended books
- No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Political Parties by Robert Michels
- Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays
- Public opinion by Walter Lippmann
- Public Relations by Edward L. Bernays
- The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon
- The Machiavellians by James Burnham
Joshua Lawrence Barnett is an American former mixed martial artist, submission wrestler, professional wrestler, and color commentator. Barnett previously competed for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he was the youngest-ever UFC Heavyweight Champion. Barnett was the final Openweight King Of Pancrase, a finalist in both the 2006 PRIDE Openweight Grand Prix and the 2012 Strikeforce Heavyweight Championship Grand Prix. He has also competed in Affliction, World Victory Road, DREAM and Impact FC. During an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Barnett recommended a wide-ranging list of philosophical and political texts concerning human behavior, propaganda, and elite theory. To understand societal decline and philosophical concepts of the modern era, he recommended Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra alongside René Guénon's The Crisis of the Modern World. For insights into public perception, media manipulation, and political organization, Barnett suggested Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion, Edward Bernays's Propaganda and Public Relations, Robert Michels's Political Parties, and James Burnham's The Machiavellians.
Books Josh Barnett recommended or discussed
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No Country for Old Men
Recommended“and this is which also is part of the reason why i like no country for old men so much which i felt was a great great great movie even better book”
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Recommended“you want to understand this go read the spoken serathustra”
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Being and Time
Recommended“and I'm also a big fan of Heidegger so like being towards death knowing that this is inescapable”
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Recommended“and part of what genon and nietzsche and you know nietzsche's concept is the last man and this is you know you want to understand this go read the spoken serathustra uh with get on start with crisis of the modern world with uh spengler probably man and technics is the is the easiest one to get with if you”
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The Crisis of the Modern World
Recommended“get on start with crisis of the modern world”
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The Machiavellians
Recommended“read james burnham's machiavellians it is the easiest way to get familiarized with the cons with the thinkings of the what's called the italian elite theorists”
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The Outfit
Recommended“derived from a book by called the outfit by ah what is his name uh i forget but darwin cook the comics illustrator he did donald westlake wrote so darwin cooked is does an amazing comic book send up of darwin cook's novels And they are fucking incredible”
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Blood Meridian
Discussed“and i think the one of the best explanations i ever got from this and another person very impactful on my life and outlook and thinking about things cormac mccarthy and so in blood meridian there's this fantastic speech about war given by the judge which there's a ton of fantastic speeches on things given by the judge all that”
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Brave New World
Discussed“and then it was also a major element within Aldous Huxley's brave new world which and that was based on that”
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Das Capital Volume One
Discussed“until one day you know I look over and I'm like huh Das Kapital”
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Das Kapital
Discussed“you know she's from she might to Berkeley so it wasn't something that I ever saw especially to begin with it didn't seem like that was what I was in store for until one day you know I look over and I'm like huh Das Kapital Well yeah I think we reading Marx is interesting and I think it's worthwhile”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Discussed“you brought up frankel and i'm like yeah frankel's dope answers for meaning uh maslow's great and and i talked to you about how i started to think like man do the ability for human beings to to to live and or potentially flourish in the worst environments you can think of is pretty incredible in and of itself and”
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Mein Kampf
Discussed“for example i've been recently reading mineconf you know what that's the thing even there's something in there's probably things in mineconf that are not the surface level Read if you get all hung up on on all probably all his crap about uh you know his anger anger at jews and this and that all this crap It's like”
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Storm of Steel
Discussed“you know reading a storm of seal by Ernst humor and you're reading this guy's take on being in World War one”
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The Decline of the West
Discussed“and oswald spengler in the decline of the west volume we wrote two whole giant books on this”
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The other 3 books Josh Barnett recommended or discussed, ranked
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
- The Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo, D. E. Tarver
- Wrestling Tough by Mike Chapman
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Rogan Experience #1797 - Josh Barnett | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2022-03-29 | 9 |
| #165 – Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2021-03-01 | 8 |
| #1503 - Josh Barnett | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2020-07-07 | 6 |
| JRE MMA Show #34 with Josh Barnett | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2018-07-09 | 1 |
| #981 - Josh Barnett | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2017-06-28 | 2 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing The Torah
“It's like well you could always pick a book and read out about read about it clearly it's called the torah”