Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W24

“I saw that Robert Merton won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on option pricing theory.”

“Have you read the book 'The Boy, the Fox, the Horse, and the Mole'? Have you read that kids book? No, oh it’s incredible! I carry it in the bookstore; it's amazing! It’s by this guy Charlie Mackesy, he’s this brilliant illustrator.”

“like the book Heather has two mommies came out way before gay marriage like people were already wanting to enable you to have these kind of conversations about kids”

“I read it was really good and I'm sure she wrote it herself we were looking at the political books and I was like I'm willing to bet that I can accurately predict with 90 sir I can predict with 90 certainty who actually wrote their book and who didn't and then there's like Elizabeth Warren like no way I”

“then Charlie Kirk I'm like Charlie Kirk definitely wrote that book so there are certain people where you know they talk too much like Charlie's the kind of guy who talks so much you know he's sitting there he's gonna write a book”

“you remember a long time ago they had that book you know eat like uh why eat like a French woman be a skinny [ __ ] [ __ ] like the uh [ __ ] chick over there in Paris whatever whatever was called the secrets of being a skinny [ __ ] in Paris when uh you're Drinking”

“I was listening to try to explain the origin and meaning of Catch-22 and had to write in yeah I didn't I had never seen the movie and I was unfamiliar so thank you for writing in to set me straight here in the book the soldiers are required to complete uh all right so anyway there's the expression catch-22”

“He wrote a book uh of elements Elemental and chemistry I'm sorry chemical philosophy four years after that and at that point it was spelled aluminum”

“if you ask me like did you know that in the talmud bad breath is considered a quote major disability and grounds for divorce it's in the talmud”

“If we focus on his economic analysis in 'Capital', we miss the entire picture.”

“So these sects that you're referring to in the Middle Ages of kind of bizarre Christianity were actually Gnostic heresies that were developing, and I think that by means of Hegel coming down through Marx, who inverted it, I believe we actually are looking at a Gnostic heresy hidden inside of economics, social — in fact, if we read 'Phenomenology”

“So we go back to our neo-Marxist Herbert Marcuse writing in 'One-Dimensional Man'... and what is he saying? What's his argument?”

“Bjorn wrote a book a while back called 'How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place,' which is an intelligent approach to... I wouldn't say the polycrisis because that isn't how he frames it!”

“Did you read Klaus Schwab's 'Great Reset'? I did, and quite the aggregation of clichés.”

“So 'The Great Narrative,' his second book that he wrote… well, it's his fourth, really, but the second book he wrote in that series is much more poignant.”

“What did Marcuse write in '69? He wrote in 'An Essay on Liberation' that it's crucial that the resistance, meaning the radicals, take on the form, he said this, the clownish forms that so irritate the establishment.”

“I want to give a shout out to author Theresa Bain in her work Encyclopedia of fairies and World folklore mythology”

“and I'll tell you even more we read his autobiography as I think anybody would that was trying to tell the story seriously and he talks a lot about what he was thinking and feeling during these intervening hours as well”

“the New York Times just published an opinion piece by a gentleman who's uh writing a new biography about Ted Kennedy who um inexplicably thinks that uh this is not something to be included in the public discussion about Ted Kennedy at the moment”

“Even if they weren't trying to intimidate them, jurors are scared. I actually write about this in a chapter in my book.”

“everybody on your show gutsy virtually all the brave people are women”

“And by the way, if you're interested in the story of Alexander Shulgin and the drugs he synthesized, as well as the group he built to take these drugs and try them—who had several members using these drugs in therapy with their patients for a long time, both before and after MDMA became illegal—there's a wonderful book called Pihkal, which”

“I then read this book by Eric Butterworth called Discover the Power Within You, and it helped me articulate how I felt. And that is if you take Christ’s words as philosophy, right?”

“I remember writing a poem called 'Phoenix' in my first book, 'Inward.'”

“Your newest book, 'Lighter,' is about self-love, with the subtitle: 'Let go of the past, connect with the present, expand the future.' Self-love, what does that actually mean?”

“so in our book The pragmatist guide to crafting religion what we essentially do is we argue that Humanity could be thought of as sort of an evolving firmware which is like our biology our genes”