Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W18

“Again, I hark back to what Dr. Baker wrote in his book, The Storm of Witchcraft; he provides a great introduction that describes it as the 'perfect storm' of all these elements that come together.”

“This also reminds me of a work by Carol Carlson, 'The Devil in the Shape of a Woman,' that I wanted to ask you about.”

“Look, we all love Color of Money; it made money! Color of Money was a separate book!”

“I also think that's how Bill Clinton wrote his autobiography, My Life. Yeah, he wrote, I'm 99% sure he wrote it by hand.”

“And so in my second book, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt, I appeal, I put out a challenge to, uh, modern Egyptian engineers to go and check the artifacts for themselves. And that's what they did.”

“Giza: The Tesla Connection. Acoustical Science and the Harvesting of Clean Energy.”

“This is a great example of something I've talked about multiple times; Herbert Marcuse wrote a paper called 'Repressive Tolerance,' and what's going on here is emblematic of the ideas in that paper. The idea that you have to shut down other people's speech.”

“He noted the Book of Galatians that remarks on enlightenment and cited other philosophies about enlightenment and the afterlife. He also acknowledged that some may respond cynically to his interest in Christianity but explained it as meaning deteriorates in the modern world.”

“You guys just don't know what it's like to live on a farm; sometimes you gotta kill puppies—they're always killing puppies. You ever read Babe or Charlotte's Web? Most of that book is about killing pigs.”

“Hillary Clinton wrote a book called Hard Choices that was about negotiating with North Korea, and this woman thinks that her medal is proven by murdering a 14-year-old puppy.”

“Hey, I got a book for you—read The Sacred and the Profane by Eliade. Yes, sir, he was a big influence on Campbell too, and Eliade is a real genius; he's a real genius.”

“It’s so curious to me because I've read the book 'Inheritance' by Dani Shapiro. I haven't read it, but I know she came from an Orthodox Jewish family and was always the blonde outlier.”

“The right person is the person it happens with, Matthew. AI's book is called Love Life. That hit right there.”

“So the reason I like authenticity is why I’m on book seven, why I’m still here, why in the 2007-08-09 social media world of just Twitter and a little bit of Facebook, there were a lot of personalities.”