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Every book Yannis Pappas recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Yannis Pappas appears on, in one place — not just one.
Yannis Pappas’s most recommended books
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Nazi symbiosis by Sheila Faith Weiss
- Juiced by Jose Canseco
- Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Yannis Pappas is a comedian and podcast guest who has frequently appeared on programs like The Joe Rogan Experience and the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he discusses history, human psychology, and cultural phenomena. During his conversations with Joe Rogan, Pappas recommended Sheila Faith Weiss's The Nazi Symbiosis, noting how it details the scientific data gathered from Holocaust victims by Nazi researchers. He also recommended Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, using it alongside Rogan to explore the psychological realities of surviving the Holocaust and how personal experiences can fundamentally transform a person's worldview. In discussions concerning mental health and trauma, Pappas mentioned Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score to illustrate the physical impact of trauma. Across his podcast appearances, he has also discussed Jose Canseco's Juiced regarding steroid revelations in baseball, William Styron's Sophie's Choice in the context of difficult decisions, Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death to examine the human condition's foundation in the fear of mortality, and George Orwell's Animal Farm when reflecting on hard work through the character of Boxer.
Books recommended by Yannis Pappas
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Discussed“well like ‘Man's Search for Meaning’ with Victor Frankl. You ever read that? No. Victor Frankl, he survived the Holocaust...”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that uses a farmyard setting to satirize the corruption of socialist ideals and the rise of totalitarianism following the Russian Revolution.
Discussed“and one of my favorite books is animal farm by orwell and the horses don't get a good ending in that”
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“i i mean i'm with ernest becker as a philosopher uh he wrote a book called denial of death”
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The Body Keeps the Score
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a comprehensive exploration of how trauma physically impacts the human mind and body.
Recommended“there's a book called um the body keeps the score by I think his name is Bessel”
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The Nazi symbiosis
The Nazi symbiosis by Sheila Faith Weiss examines the complex and deeply disturbing relationship between Nazi ideology, science, and the exploitation of vulnerable populations.
Recommended“They said, okay, let's liberate them now! What scientific data was it yielding supposedly? Yeah, it's this book I read called The Nazi Symbiosis. They talked all about it.”
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Juiced
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big is a tell-all memoir by Jose Canseco that exposes widespread steroid use in Major League Baseball.
Discussed“it's called juiced you know if there's a reason why yeah juice wild times rampant roids smash hits and how baseball got big”
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Sophie's Choice
Sophie's Choice by William Styron is a deeply moving novel examining the immense moral burdens and harrowing historical weight of the Holocaust through the agonizing decisions forced upon its central character.
Discussed“sophie's choice that's a good one yeah that's a real sophie's choice where you gotta choose between explain that to people what is sofia sophie's choices like she had to choose it's great movie by a great movie with meryl streep uh you know that a lot of people just was you were supposed to read the book in high”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| #2249 - Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-12-31 | 3 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #2088 - Yannis Pappas | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2024-01-19 | 1 |
| #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2021-04-12 | 4 |
| Joe Rogan Experience #1594 - Yannis Pappas | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2021-01-13 | 2 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“i'm like the bull durham yeah even when i did new faces in montreal which is like comics that's like when the industry takes a look at your whatever i was like i was like the dude i mean i was in what was i i was in my late 30s i felt like bull durham”