Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W32

“There's this children's book that my sister gave my grandmother many years ago called I Love You the Purplest, and basically all the grandkids are like 'Grandma, do you love me the most?','Do you love me the most?','And the grandma responds 'I love you the reddest; I love you the bluest,' whatever, right?”

“But by David Simon, it's called Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets, and at the same time, he said his favorite TV show was Cops.”

“But the main reason I wanted to talk to her today is that she has produced a stunningly touching book called How to Say Goodbye.”

“It's interesting because in the book that Stephen Dubner and I wrote called Think Like a Freak, we talk about the business context. One of the things we say is nobody ever in a business context says, 'I don't know.'”

“So what we did at X is we had this image of a monkey on a pedestal, and the story was: imagine you’re trying to train a monkey to recite Shakespeare's sonnets while standing on a pedestal; what do you work on first? The monkey training or the pedestal?”

“He wrote a bunch of books uh coincidentally he was also influential when it comes to queer theory he wrote this book called Eros and civilization he wrote a book called one dimensional man But all these things that we're seeing in reality here in in society now these things are all at least outlined in in leftist theory books”

“when I was first deep diving ESG when I had just started my show woke Inc by Vivek was one of the the first books I read on it that really like set me on this journey of understanding the High Finance like Marxist takeover of our economy”

“Joe Brown says there is a book called psycho cybernetics by Maxwell maltz self-improvement book he strongly suggests therapy before plastic surgery interesting trans people should have to do the same look into it”

“You know, in Huxley's 'Brave New World,' that went by the wayside, and it was a sign of immorality to say no to anyone who asked you or who offered a sexual invitation.”

“I think the partial answer to what you're asking might be to think along the lines of Adam Smith, who saw two different spheres, and in 'The Wealth of Nations,' he talked about the invisible hand which governs the market, but then he also talked about the theory of moral sentiments, which was the realms where the market didn't go.”

“I believe that was actually the name of the biopic starring Oprah Winfrey The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks which was a book written by Rebecca skloot and that was from 2010.”

“What if there's a secret organization of Flannery O'Connor stands you know what I mean and all they want to do is take over Travis Air Force Base so they can cosplay uh good country people and a good man it's hard to find and all all those hits”

“clay Travis co-host of the clay Travis and Buck Sexton show and author of the new book American Playbook”

“look this is my last book ironically Republicans buy sneakers too which I think is an amazing quote”

“There's a great book I would recommend for people who want to dive deep on this; I believe the book is called 'What Your Food Ate,' and it's a wonderful book. It's a bit of a deep dive, a nerdy book; it's not light reading.”