Week 2022-W40

Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W40

11 books, grouped by podcast.

Monday Morning Podcast

Discussed A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian
“It's true, I—there's a—there's a documentary and a book about this woman, Vivian Meyer, who was a nanny in the 40s and 50s, but she's also a street photographer.”
Discussed Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear, 1661-1896
“Uh, it was about, uh, this thing they did in the late 1800s, it's not good for tourism; uh it's called Well Wilmington's Lie: The Insurrection of 1892.”

The Daily Stoic

Discussed Courage
“And then I still had a book that I was writing, this is when I was writing Courage, and I felt like I was so much more locked in on that book.”
Discussed Journal of a Novel
“There you recommended this John Steinbeck book to me, Journal of a Novel.”
Discussed One Line a Day
“And well, it's so, it's called the one line a day journal, and each page has five slots on it.”
Discussed Lives of the Stoics
“Two days later, one year later, I started Lives; like I realized I was sort of almost unconsciously on a schedule of starting a book on this day five years in a row. Wow.”
Discussed The Artist's Journey
“As always, I love all your work—'The War of Art,' 'The Artist's Journey,' 'Gates of Fire'—I've loved all your stuff.”

Lex Fridman Podcast

Discussed Conscious
“The following is a conversation with Annaka Harris, author of "Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind," who writes and thinks a lot about the nature of consciousness and reality, especially from the perspectives of physics and neuroscience.”
Discussed Spooky Action at a Distance
“I posted an excerpt of George Musser’s great book 'Spooky Action at a Distance' where he talks about ways to absorb what this ADS CFT duality would mean. He gives an example of music as an analogy where two different notes can exist in three dimensions as if the other doesn’t exist because of the frequency of the sound waves.”

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

Discussed The Shining
“And also a little bit of like The Shining vibe! You know that hotel from The Shining?”

SmartLess

Discussed Gomorrah
“I did, I didn't love it either But you know what, I don't want to criticize anything about Gomorrah because I just, I didn't even like the movie, Gomorrah as much, the TV show, I just, I, it's mine Did you, did you and I want to, I'm not here to one-up you Anderson I think you're great, oh boy”