Books Mentioned in This Podcast
Animal Farm
Buy on AmazonYeah, I know that a lot of us listening today are huge fans of Animal Farm, right? In the work of George Orwell, there is an incredibly bleak, incredibly well-written part of that book where the animals—well, quick spoiler—Animal Farm, if you are not familiar with the plot and don’t want it spoiled for you and you’ve been waiting for a chance to read it or watch one of the many adaptations, please consider this your spoiler warning.
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Animal Farm
Buy on AmazonIn the work of George Orwell, there is an incredibly bleak, incredibly well-written part of that book where the animals—well, quick spoiler—Animal Farm, if you are not familiar with the plot and don’t want it spoiled for you and you’ve been waiting for a chance to read it or watch one of the many adaptations, please consider this your spoiler warning. Alright, so in Animal Farm, the human owners of the farm, or the human authority figures of the farm, are kicked out of power, right?
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History Is Wrong
Buy on AmazonYeah, that's just at least the image I get. Eric Von Däniken! Love to drop that name.
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The Mafia, CIA & George Bush
Buy on AmazonWell, according to a gentleman named Pete Bruton who wrote a book called The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush, he says as soon as Seal was freed, he quote, 'began working full-time for the CIA, traveling back and forth from the U.S. to Latin America!'
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
Buy on AmazonCheck out The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. To your point, Sarah is whispering in.
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A Christmas Carol
Buy on AmazonI am so sorry, guys, last thing on Scrooge, does A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens exist?
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The Illustrated Golden Bough
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The Bible
Buy on AmazonThat’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah.
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Creed Or Chaos?
Buy on AmazonThat’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah.
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Jesus
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The New Complete Works of Josephus
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The Jungle
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Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)
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Delay, Deny, Defend
Buy on AmazonA book written by author Jay Fineman, first published in 2010, has skyrocketed to number two on the Amazon non-fiction charts, titled Delay, Deny, Defend.
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The Nameless
Buy on AmazonOh yeah, and guys, in the time between these two episodes, I mentioned just off air that I was reading that book, The Nameless.
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The Invisibles
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T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land
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The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics
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South!
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Sailing Alone Around the World
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Altered Egos
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Journeys Out of the Body
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Far Journeys
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The Pacific Pharmacist
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
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You (Export)
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The Yankee Chick's Survival Guide to Texas
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The Marvel Comics Encyclopedia
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Kim
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The Handmaid's Tale
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How Did We Get the Bible?
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
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Fire and Fury
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
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Frankenstein
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The Selfish Gene
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The Demoiselle D'Ys
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The Department of Truth #2
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Science and Civilisation in China
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Dark Wire
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Satanic Bible
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2001. a Space Odyssey
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A People's History of the United States
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The Grapes of Wrath
Buy on AmazonShout out to Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, hugely, that's the book that really hipped me to this whole struggle and this whole structure, you know?
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Bound for Glory
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Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Causes Thereof
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Studies in Early American History
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Eichmann in Jerusalem
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The Mist
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Proceedings
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
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The Da Vinci Code (Republish)
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Propaganda
Buy on AmazonFirst episode of the podcast, Propaganda, available online.
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TIME-LIFE Mysteries of the Unknown
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Records of the Grand Historian
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England
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Sons of Cain
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Skeleton Crew
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Watership Down
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The Big Breach
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Hide Your Assets and Disappear
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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
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Fight Club: A Novel
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Making Sense of the Divine Name in the Book of Exodus
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Asset Recovery Handbook
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Dark Object
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The Celts [2 volumes]
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Raven Rock
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Seven Days in May
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Brave New World
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Brave New World
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Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Age of Science Fiction
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Foundation
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Chariots of the Gods?
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Planet Medicine: Origins, Revised Edition
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Snow Crash
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Chariots of the Gods?
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle
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Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana, Deluxe Edition
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Handwriting Without Tears: My printing book
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Trance Formation of America
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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Outbreak!
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Necronomicon
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Revelations of a Spirit Medium
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The Fellowship of the Ring
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The Silence of the Lambs
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Spying on America
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The FBI
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Where My Shadow Falls
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The Canterbury Tales
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Rain
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John Dies at the End
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Buy My Book: Not Because You Should, But Because I'd Like Some Money
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Economics For Dummies
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PCs for Dummies
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The Stand
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After the Revolution
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Chaos
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Chaos
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Chaos
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In Cold Blood
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Natural History
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The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
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1984
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Moo's Law
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Chaos
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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Operation Chaos
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Living Off The Grid
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Playing Dead
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