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Every book Phil Labonte recommended on podcasts
Phil Labonte’s most recommended books
- Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks
- The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
- Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping by Allen Carr, John Dicey
- IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
- The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Chaos by Tom O'Neill
- Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
Phil Labonte has appeared as a guest on discussion programs and commentary podcasts, where conversation often turns toward political ideologies, modern culture, and personal habits. During episodes of Timcast IRL, Labonte engaged with and recommended several different titles to listeners and co-hosts. Labonte read a viewer recommendation for Edwin Black's IBM and the Holocaust, a book examining corporate involvement with Nazi Germany. Labonte also brought up Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind during a conversation about political psychology and the origins of political opinions. On multiple occasions, Labonte recommended Stephen R. C. Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism as a foundational read for understanding the philosophical roots and ideology of the modern political left. In addition to political and historical works, Labonte recommended Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, sharing personal testimony about how reading the book successfully helped him quit smoking after other methods had failed. Furthermore, Labonte brought up the classic game and concept of The Oregon Trail during a discussion about making difficult choices in life and reincarnation.
Books recommended by Phil Labonte
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Explaining Postmodernism
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen R.
Recommended“there's this book called explaining postmodernism and it's a great book and it goes all the way back to rouso and Kant and Hegel”
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The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt is an insightful exploration of moral psychology that investigates why good people are divided by politics and religion.
Discussed“there's this guy, John Height, that wrote a book called The Righteous Mind, and he goes through the types of people the the types of personality traits that lead someone to be more progressive or Democrat and more conservative or Republican.”
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking Without Willpower - Includes Quit Vaping by Allen Carr and John Dicey is a well-known self-help book designed to help people overcome nicotine addiction without relying on willpower.
Recommended“I just want to recommend for people um there's a great book uh the easy way to quit smoking I tried everything to quit smoking Nothing worked But I read that book and it actually helped me”
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IBM and the Holocaust
"IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black is a meticulously researched historical investigation into the business relationships between American corporations and Nazi Germany.
Recommended“Celtic Sallaro says, Ian, if you want to read a well researched book on US corporations making money with the Nazis, check out IBM and the Nazis by Edwin Blackie.”
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The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr is a self-help guide designed to eliminate psychological dependencies on nicotine by reframing how smokers perceive the habit rather than relying on willpower.
Recommended“um there's a great book uh the easy way to quit smoking I tried everything to quit smoking nothing worked but I read that book and it actually helped me”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 presents a chilling vision of a totalitarian society characterized by perpetual surveillance, historical denial, and severe psychological manipulation.
Discussed“If you don't have the words to uh articulate a thought then you can't think the wrong things I'd like the the whole 1984 justification for Newspeak”
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Chaos
Chaos by Tom O'Neill is a deeply researched investigative non-fiction book that exposes startling connections between the CIA's MKUltra mind control experiments, COINTEL Pro, and the infamous Charles Manson murders of the 1960s.
Discussed“If you've read Chaos, the book Chaos about Helter Skelter being like a madeup idea from the prosecutor and Bugliosce, not really a Charles Manson thing.”
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Eros and Civilization
Herbert Marcuse's book Eros and Civilization offers a philosophical critique and exploration of social rules, human drives, and psychoanalytic theory.
Discussed“they've been writing books about it since the I mean Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marquis came out in like the 60s or something like that”
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Original Sin
Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson is a political nonfiction book that investigates the final years of Joe Biden's presidency, his cognitive decline, and the internal party discussions surrounding his reelection campaign.
Discussed“but Jake Tapper is about to release a book called Original Sin here we go and it is about how everyone knew that Joe Biden was a Walking Corpse”
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire is a foundational educational and political text that argues education is inherently non-neutral and shapes worldview through specific ideological frameworks.
Critiqued“Freddy's garbage uh you know the pedig pedagogy pedagogy of the oppressed I think is the book that that he uses there's that there's theater of the oppressed”
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Rules for Radicals
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky is a notable political manual outlining strategies and tactics for community organizing and effecting social change.
Discussed“well it's right out of Rules for Radicals though right accuse your opponent of what you're doing they accuse us of being genocidal for saying don't sterilize kids”
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The Art of the Deal
Discussed“Trump's negotiation strategy which is maximum pressure. I mean if anyone read the art of the deal you'd know what's going on here.”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a complex philosophical novel that delves deeply into faith, doubt, free will, and morality through the turbulent relationships of the Karamazov family.
Discussed“really centralized for the left the heat map actually focuses on rung 13 or 14 which is all living things including trees and plants so it's this kamam Brothers karamazov problem where you can't love individual people or things or your community you have to love everything in the abstract and I feel like this is that it's a little”
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The Oregon Trail
Discussed“I I played Oregon Trail the other day. True. And you can choose to be a banker, a carpenter, or a farmer. So like, why would anyone possibly choose to be the farmer?”
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The Principia
The Principia by Isaac Newton, along with I.
Discussed“Isaac Newton's discovery of like allowed for long-range ballistics which allowed the British Navy to dominate the world they're long-range cannons they could hit boats before the boats could hit them and that was like prinkipia Mathematica”
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The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon is a psychological and political analysis of decolonization, oppression, and the inevitable use of violence by the colonized against colonial powers.
Discussed“this guy France fan and he wrote a book called um the wretched of the wretched of the world and it's about decolonization and he specifically says that decolonization is an inherently violent phenomenon”
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Theater of the Oppressed
Discussed“there's that there's theater of the oppressed there's all of this the whole thing is about oppression”
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What is a Liberal Education
Discussed“a liberal education was one of the first books that opened my eyes about what they're indoctrinating kids with and now when you have your own children in college you really see it”
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Appearances
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
“In uh Dogma, Jay uh when when the uh this is blasphemous to Sheamus. Yeah, I hate that.”
“They'd become like feral ghouls from Fallout. They like if you were in there dying and starving, they like the people would eat the other person who like you died.”
“When I started my my uh my stream of Balders Gate 3, they were like, "Name him Sir Phillip." So I did.”
“I think if you're if you're going back to religious purposes or the Bible, I could care less what a book says.”
“I saw the wire. I know.”
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“our new record dropped on January 31st it's called antifragile you can check it out on Apple music Spotify Pandora Amazon music”
“what's his name Palo frier and and the P what is it the pedagogy of the oppressed and stuff”
“I'm not worried about Nome first of all he looks like uh he looks like the dude from American Psycho right like he looks like the joker”