Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W30

“His memoir, which Angela is currently reading, is titled 'Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer's Life.'”

“I mean going way back to Booker T on Booker Washington when he wrote up from slavery that was his theme”

“so uh Robin Baker who's who has since retired wrote a book uh I think it was in the mid 90s called sperm Wars where he talked about what's called the sperm competition hypothesis”

“Dr Allen is a former chairman of the U.S Commission on civil rights a professor emeritus at Michigan State University and editor of the book the state of Black America”

“the book is called gender Madness one man's devastating struggle with woke ideology and his battle to protect children”

“I actually I have so many books that I started and then my ADD kicks in I got this book that Jim Carrey wrote that is [ __ ] amazing Jim Carrey and Dana Vashon Memoirs and misinformation I'm halfway through it”

“I just nodded and I grabbed the book I read him good night good night construction site or maybe farming strong all year long”

“Have you guys read foucao's pendulum? I have not. It's by Umberto Echo and it is a um it is so it's so weird it's about if I remember correctly I haven't read in quite some time it's kind of like what you're describing it's like where people invent a kind of intellectual game or conspiracy and it gets out”

“I encourage everyone to read his book demonic foes if you're fascinated with this topic and you want a really good beach read for people to walk by and see you reading”

“We want to hear your thoughts on the Jack the Ripper investigation. We also want to point out that Miss Bax Horton does have a book coming out on this. If you are interested in learning more it is called one arm Jack uncovering the real Jack the Ripper. uh it will be coming out this summer in full disclosure.”

“and Jaffe was also uh popular for something that I had the little side books I bought of uh Snappy answers to stupid questions”

“uh the first is called critical period hypothesis long-standing debate about this uh it was proposed by a dude named a neurologist named Wilder Penfield along with Lamar Roberts in a 1959 book called speech and brain mechanisms”

“and I thought their sexual conflict theory right there and that made a great vehicle for a book that was strangely a little bit more light-hearted and speculative”

“so going back to the AI stuff you wrote your book a little while ago like yeah two years ago but that's a lifetime ago in the world of AI what didn't you predict”

“no no Nora Vincent was a gay woman uh and a journalist who um really sad story she thought her book I think the book's called Inside Man she basically lived as a man for I think 18 months just to sort of understand what the male experience is like”

“Really good book you should read Chris it's called factfulness by Hans rosaling I don't know if you read it a million so good”

“In 1851, he published a novel called The Whale, later retitled Moby Dick or The Whale. At some point, you may have read Moby Dick or pretended to.”

“dude Journey to the Center of the Earth it's an old Jules Verne book which is a great book”

“yeah this reminds me more of a hook the movie with with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman Yes with a Peter Pan movie”

“you know what women really did like though that movie where the uh the dude kidnaps the woman's dad and then she gets Stockholm syndrome and marries him uh Beauty and the Beast”

“I'm gonna be—I’m gonna see about some dolls in the Valley of the Dolls sense—but not the bad dolls! Right, 100!”

“Joco Studio made this for us at joke at joco.io! I mean a bound book!”

“You do not want your name in an Epstein book! You do not want your name in an Epstein book; that is a recipe for disaster for your PR!”

“So I started looking at their bookshelf and came across a pop science book called 'The Language Instinct' by Stephen Pinker. That was a turning point for me.”

“So one day he gets a book called The Black Poets. And in the book, he read a poem by Etheridge Knight, who had also spent time in prison and had written this incredibly stirring poem about the criminal justice system.”

“I've been watching Lord of the Rings. Okay, moving on.”

“There's that, you know, perfect explanation of how to solve things from the Ed Catmull book about Pixar, Creativity, Inc., where the motto is, 'Be wrong as fast as you can.'”

“So it turns out, you know, in any store that you walked into, there was a paperback called The Jaws Log that Carl Gottlieb wrote, and it answered both of those questions.”