Week 2020-W16

Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2020-W16

4 books, grouped by podcast.

The Joe Rogan Experience

Discussed Why the Center Can't Hold
“I've been deep into your book for the last two weeks and will tell everybody what it's called right off the bat it's called chaos Charles Manson the CIA and the secret history of the 60s”
Discussed The Manchurian Candidate
“so their main objective was to commit or to create what they called hypno program assassins people who would kill on command popularly known as Manchurian candidates after a book that was written 1962 and later became a movie and then a movie again”
Discussed The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate"
“the guy that found that ended up testifying to Congress and working with Seymour Hersh to expose it was named John marks he wrote the first book about MKULTRA that came out in the mid to late 70s called the search for The Manchurian Candidate”

Lex Fridman Podcast

Discussed Fermat's last theorem
“So if you look at the story of Andrew Wiles for example with from last Last Theorem he as far as I understand he pretty much isolated himself from the world of academics in terms of the big with the bulk of the work he did and it from my perspective is dramatic and fun to read about”