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Every book Mike Mangan recommended on podcasts

Host of No Stupid Questions · 2 books · 2 episodes across 1 podcast

Books recommended by Mike Mangan

Who said what is determined automatically. In hand-checked samples, at least 6% of mentions were credited to the wrong speaker — sometimes an interviewer’s line recorded as the guest’s, sometimes the reverse. Every entry below quotes the words and links to the episode, so you can check it.

  1. Born a Crime

    Trevor Noah · Discussed · 1 episode

    Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is a critically acclaimed memoir that chronicles the comedian's turbulent upbringing under apartheid in South Africa as the child of a white Swiss father and a Black Xhosa mother.

    Discussed
    “We have these constructs, and I think one fascinating thing I listened to recently was from Trevor Noah, who's the comedian who wrote one of my favorite books, 'Born a Crime.'”
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  2. Zoom

    Istvan Banyai · Discussed · 1 episode

    Discussed
    “I will say one of the best pieces of advice I heard recently was from someone who was telling me about a children's book, I don't know what book it is, but the entire book just repeats over and over the two words, 'Zoom out, zoom out, zoom out, and maybe that's the power of nostalgia.'”
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Appearances

EpisodePodcastDateBooks
212. When Do You Become an Adult?No Stupid Questions2024-09-221
190. What’s the Point of Nostalgia?No Stupid Questions2024-04-071
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing Little House on the Prairie
“I felt like I was, I don't know, it was like very Little House on the Prairie feeling, like you know, you're Laura with Mary.”