Books Mentioned in This Podcast
The Nazi symbiosis
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2249 - Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano
... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen
Buy on AmazonWell, like Man's Search for Meaning with Victor Frankl! You ever read that?
Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2249 - Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano
Immortality Key
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2249 - Yannis Pappas & Chris Distefano
Breathe
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Moby Dick
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The Comfort Crisis
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In the Heart of the Sea
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Buy on AmazonWhat do you love about his writing? Like Fear and Loathing?
Fingerprints of the gods
Buy on AmazonLike when Graham Hancock says that there's a missing chapter of human history, like this is reality. We don't know how they built the Great Pyramid.
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1984
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The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018)
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The Real Anthony Fauci
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Blitzed
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1984
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2220 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
Fingerprints of the gods
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The Sign and the Seal
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Hamlet's mill
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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Blitzed
Buy on AmazonAnother great TV show, I've talked about a thousand times, but there's a book that we just read, it's called Blitzed; this dude, Norman, or hurt, it's all about the Nazis. They gave them meth!
Episode: JRE MMA Show #163 - Protect Ya Neck
Quotes from George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones Book Series 2019 Day-to-Day
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A Fighter's Heart
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1984
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Brother Sam
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Murder Machine
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Cujo
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The Shining
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The Real Anthony Fauci
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The lord of the rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
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The hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
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Open
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The man without a face
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The War of Art
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The War of Art
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Nuclear War
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Nuclear War
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Nuclear War
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Nuclear War
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Nuclear War
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
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Nuclear War
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Twilight of the elites
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The Undiscovered Self
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Critique of psychoanalysis
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Mysterium Coniunctionis
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Moderner Mythus
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Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken
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In My Time of Dying
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The Shining
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The Shining
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A Moveable Feast
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The Hunt for Red October
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Patriot Games (Tom Clancy)
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Best evidence
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Think and Grow Rich
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Ashur version of the Seven Tablets of Creation
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Atra-ḫasīs
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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean
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The Sumerian king list
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Dracula
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Of Mice and Men
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Foundation
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Dune
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Mastering the Rubber Guard
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Lives
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Episode: JRE MMA Show #157 with Craig Jones
Faith of my fathers
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Before the dawn
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On Liberty
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Outliers
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The Danaher Diaries
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Episode: JRE MMA Show #156 with Royce Gracie
Empire of the Summer Moon
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Moby Dick
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Colour of Money
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The Hustler
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The Queen's gambit
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My Life
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The Secret
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The Secret
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For Love of Country
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Lost technologies of ancient Egypt
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Lost technologies of ancient Egypt
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Giza : the Tesla Connection
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The President is Missing
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Aliens from Planet X
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Dracula
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The War of Art
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2140 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
The War of Art
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2140 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
The War of Art
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2140 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
The War of Art
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2140 - Francis Foster & Konstantin Kisin
The War of Art
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Fear and Loathing
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Underworld
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Hamlet's mill
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble
Fingerprints of the gods
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Episode: Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble
The Shallows
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1984
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The Real Anthony Fauci
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Meditations
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Dune
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Dreamland
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Best evidence
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The Anxious Generation
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Free-Range Kids
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The Righteous Mind
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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Technological Society
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The Singularity Is Near
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Swimming Against the Current
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Atlas Shrugged
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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Kids Travel Journal
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Irreversible Damage
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Travels with Charley
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The Coddling of the American Mind
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Elon Musk
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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
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The Real Anthony Fauci
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Coyote America
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The Real Anthony Fauci
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Dissolving Illusions
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The Secret
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Subculture Vulture
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The Queen's gambit
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The Hustler
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Boys and sex
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Creative Act
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The sacred mushroom and the cross
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La Nuit du Titanic
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The Body Keeps the Score
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Rig-Veda
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Fire in the sky
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Contact
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