Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W26

“And if folks are sort of intrigued by this, Michael Easter wrote a book that came out probably a year ago—a New York Times bestseller—called The Comfort Crisis.”

“One of the most important studies that has gained popularity is the Harvard Study of Adult Development.”

“And he wrote this book called The Sweet Spot and it really was I think a kind of like manifesto on how there is a sweet spot of discomfort. The reason why he wants to say sweet spot is it's not more is all better.”

“Clarkson's 2011 hit song, 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)' is a direct reference to Nietzsche's famous aphorism, 'What does not kill me makes me stronger,' from his 1888 book, 'Twilight of the Idols.'”

“There was a cult science fiction book retailer, a tiny little hole-in-the-wall bookstore on El Camino Real in Mountain View called Future Fantasy Books.”

“Phil Tetlock, a professor studying this topic, wrote a comprehensive study on political predictions, leading to the conclusion that the average credentialed expert is less than random likely to be correct.”

“But for the most part, you know, people came in, and they just treated it as a, you know, as a third world backwater.It's like, you know, if you've read The Quiet American, it was that attitude toward...”

“I mean it's the theory of a good reporter named Sam Quinones who's written a couple books on the evolution of the drug trade in this century that the Mexican cartels had a strategy that, 'No, we don't want to sell to particularly shooty people near media capitals, we'll sell to people who will overdose and die in small towns”

“I want to tell the audience we reached out to RFK Jr. to respond to the allegations in Maureen's book.”

“It is an act of extreme cruelty and spite, and a little nugget for your viewers and listeners: Vanity Fair fought tooth and nail to get that extract from the book about Mary and Bobby.”

“Phone records uncovered later by a British journalist named Anthony Summers—you can read it in his book 'Goddess' about Marilyn—about eight desperate calls that Marilyn had made to Bobby at the Department of Justice when he was serving as Attorney General of the United States.”

“And I know Dominique Dunn did the reporting you mentioned earlier; Mark Fuhrman wrote a whole book about this, which is well worth your time.”

“Then RFK Jr. wrote his own book trying to rehabilitate Michael Skakel, but I know from that reading Michael Skakel was big on animal torture and admitted he was in a tree jerking off to Martha Moxley shortly before the murder.”

“Bestselling author and journalist Howard Blum has been reporting on this tragedy since day one like no other I mean if you read nothing about this case, read anything Howard Blum writes He's been writing for Air Mail, which is Graydon Carter's new online publication It's doing really well Thanks in large part to Howard You may remember we featured”

“Eric Ericson is the host of the Eric Ericson Show and the author of the brand new book, 'You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke Gnostic Left,' which is out today. He joins me now.”

“Stacey, you're a bestselling author of both political books and seven actual novels. You got any advice for us about writing?”

“Stacey, you're a bestselling author of both political books and seven actual novels. You got any advice for us about writing?”

“Well, given that as a line from Hidden Sins, what we know... Is that the secret to their success was revealing to the world what was happening?”

“A horse fell on top of Ulysses S. Grant. I'm reading his personal memoirs.”

“I'll tell you what, this guy Travis Walton, this is one of the craziest stories. He's the guy that was in that movie Fire in the Sky. That one's wild, man.”

“You know, Dan Flores' book, 'Coyote America,' which is an amazing book, is an incredible book.”

“But there's a book, there's literally a book based on some of the things they think from this called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by this guy named John Marco Allegro.”

“I don't remember what the book said, but I was compelled to buy this chicken soup for the soul book. You actually bought that?”

“Yeah, there’s a book called Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. It talks about how wizards can turn themselves into dolphins. But the problem is, if you stay a dolphin long enough, you forget that you're a wizard, and you never come back to being a wizard; you just stay out there.”

“There's a great book called 'The Strain', and it's about... uh, I think Guillermo del Toro wrote it? And then they turned it into a series for, am I saying it right?”

“He hasn’t been sued, and then you have to read ‘Dissolving Illusions.’ Wow, that’s a mindblower! Yeah, Aaron Salter Jr. was killed by a mass shooter because he was working on creating a water-powered car engine.”

“I'm reading a book now called The Dimensions of a Cave, and it's essentially about what things will look like when we are more fully on that digital platform.”

“Eric Von Daniken is the one who wrote 'Chariots of the Gods.'”

“So this dude's just getting fucked up; he sat down on his bunk and nursed it along, aware but not particularly caring that the water now rippled through the cabin doorway, wrote historian Walter Lord in A Night to Remember.”

“Some ancient Indian drug, this is right down my alley, made from a plant called Soma, is a God and a drink that was used as an offering to the Gods in some Vedic rituals. Soma was celebrated at an early period as shown in the hymns of the Rigveda.”

“Charlie’s a sweetie; I got Charlie right before I came here the last time. She's named after the John Steinbeck novel 'Travels with Charlie' because I was out in the van.”

“Well, I guess that's kind of in a way that's what this book that I just wrote is about: these little—show your book—these little...”

“No, really, she used to sit my brother and me down on Tuesday nights and read to us from a book called "Boys and Sex."”

“and I said yeah so he's like I want you to sign my book he's like because or your book he had my endure book and he's like I used to think that I wanted records on the wall he goes but now I want a book signed by you that's that's what I want”

“and it was I think he initially wrote for like those pulp magazines like science fiction magazines back in the day and then wound up writing dianic ... I see this commercial for um Dianetics ... for years after I ordered that book I don't think I ever read it”

“and you know Lawrence Wright covered him and the whole movement pretty extensively in going clear I I read the book and there was a HBO documentary series on going clear all about scientology”

“and it's the same thing like um book Proof of Heaven by Dr eban Alexander MD I remember reading when I was in Afghanistan and I was like this is a crazy experience”

“I remember my my aunt gave me Cosmos by Carl Sean when I was in Middle School and it was that book was from the 80s but that book tripped me out and I was like I want to study science”

“There's a bunch of books out there that I've seen that performers have written that I I didn't agree with there one dirt to soil by gay but Brown the great so you know there others”

“and uh I started uh reading your uh the book on the Nez purse M and then I I picked this up as well”

“Continental Reckoning the American West in the age of expansion one of the most fascinating subjects I think in the history of the human race”

“so have you read uh the uh cabesa debaca book uh a strange new land Yes I have a land so strange a land so strange strange and rendus which is a fascinating book”

“Dan Flores I think he's been on your coup times yeah uh Dan has this marvelous new book a wild new world uh that goes into that goes in that in some detail”

“There's a wonderful book called ghosts of Extinction uh and U that's exactly exactly long”

“it's also so interesting that that number of 125 people aligns with we know as dunbar's number That's exactly right that's where it comes right so you're aware of that yeah wonderful book”

“it's also so interesting that that number of 125 people aligns with we know as dunbar's number That's exactly right that's where it comes right so you're aware of that yeah wonderful book”

“Dan is a book called horizontal yellow which is the Kami word for for this area this is where horses evolved this is where where they were born”

“you got to read folks Continental Reckoning the American West and the age of expansion Elliot West”

“you got to read folks Continental Reckoning the American West and the age of expansion Elliot West”

“well the first one was like uh I think it was called discovery of Witchcraft from like 1584 or something like that and a guy wrote all these secrets of methods that like witches were using and they were being burned alive”

“but it's very important it's just like woodro f call said in lome Dove it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it”

“Barbara Walters mentions having seen the film in her autobiography audition a memoir and Jimmy McMillan considered it to be his favorite film”

“his his most antia quote unquote book is thimerosol let the science speak He he's trying to take the thimerosol out of vaccines”

“I read this book recently called in defense of capitalism by uh I I think he's like a northern European uh guy and he mentioned this this episode where UNESCO banned child labor in uh either in Pakistan or Bangladesh”

“so so I had this lady Nita farahani on my podcast probably a year ago and then I met her at Ted recently and she she wrote this book called The Battle for your brain”

“It's I mean if you read Jonathan haes book The Cod of the American mind have you read it”

“you know what I started rereading recently is Hell's Angels the Hunter S Thompson book”

“you know the end of the wild you know that book yeah John krakauer my favorite book of all time”

“and if they read again not some weird crazy but just the Plain Jane Bible”

“The end of the line is informative Clover's reporting reveals that blue fin tuna...”

“He had a book called Hot Rod Magazine all the covers which covered up to no pun all the way up to 2009”

“Matt taibi's book is basically saying that Rachel Maddow has become Bill O'Reilly”

“a book called The Great mortality by John Kelly I was looking at is [ __ ] crazy”

“I have my talking points here about what I'm not supposed to say uh so again everything I'm saying is proven you know more or less my theory and things that have been backed up by books like Painkiller by the very talented Barry Meyer who wrote investigative reporter for the Times who wrote it”

“until they had say the Gutenberg Bible was published so in the in the 1400s and 1500s the first movable fixed type we had a calibrated standard where you knew how big the type font was”

“I wonder if um if Jamie if you could find trying to find something wasn't great if you look up um Star Messenger Star Messenger Galileo sketch Jupiter”

“I mean my book is called losing the nuball prize my first book and spoiler alert you know I didn't win the nuball prize”

“I know I know right this is this is a there's a book called the tools You ever see that the stunts that that uh oh [ __ ] Jonah Hill uh had his uh therapist uh he did a documentary about his therapist”

“and Tango makes three Recs recounts the true story of two male Penguins who are devoted to each other at the Central Park Zoo in New York a zookeeper saw them building a nest and trying to incubate an egg shape Rock gave them an egg from a different penguin pair with two eggs after they were having difficulty hatching”

“you know like and and he said this is all going to be my new book book Soulful materialism but it's just funny to me because it's like there are people you meet that when you talk to them you go oh yeah like this does mean a lot to you”

“It's like that OJ book he released If I did it this guy's going to to bars in Long Island going yeah this is probably have people getting creeped out”

“wolves used to be terrifying that's what Little Red Riding Hood was all about”

“that was with the Three Little Pigs were all about like they were [ __ ] terrifying”

“Have you ever read that no by Tennessee Williams Oh there's this paragraph at the end he talks about how success just made him like you got to sorry”

“it's documented by this Guy Tom O'Neil in this book called chaos It's an amazing book that talks about the cia's LSD program”

“was that was it doped up Dope Sick Dope Sick yeah yeah I didn't say it but I know the whole story about the Sackler family”

“it's the book called weird scenes in the canyon”

“there's this guy who wrote a different rewrote 1984 in a book called Orwell's revenge”

“and in that book what he did is he said okay we're going to use that same setup but the telescreen instead of being a one-way system is going to be a two-way system”

“and I I developed these in a lot of detail in my book Darwin's doubt um uh if we we uh we now know thanks to the genetic Revolution ution the the molecular biological Revolution that if you want to build a new form of life you have at least you have to have new code”

“and he later writes a theological epilogue to the book called The General scholium where he makes the the religious motivation for his scientific work completely explicit and ends up making design arguments right in the in the context of that work”

“I'm a big fan of the work of uh Jeffrey Schwarz the uh uh UCLA psychiatrist has written the book um you are not your brain and um he shows that those those um um psychotherapeutic drugs can be helpful in stabilizing uh people”

“and when I tell in the in the the new book Return of the god hypothesis it starts there are basically three different lines of evidence”

“First was signatures in the cell about the origin of Life Second was about the question of the origin of the first animals called Darwin's doubt”

“one is William Lane Craig one is NT Wright with his maerial Tome the resurrection of the Son of God and the other is Gary habas”

“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”

“it's recorded in in Kings and Chronicles and U Hezekiah is the king And there are multiple points of agreement between the biblical record and the account of that same event in the Assyrian records many of which are now stored in the British museum”

“The Exodus Miracle it says and the Lord caused an East Wind to blow It represents God as an actor within the Matrix of natural law which he otherwise sustains and upholds”

“And John Mar Marco algro wrote this book called The Sacred Mushroom in the cross it's a very interesting book book”

“subtitle And the first book was signature in the cell DNA and the evidence for intelligence Do you have a website as well”

“this is from I think it was Malcolm gladwell's book uh where they describe how they to get over this problem they started making them speak English”

“and introduced me to those wonderful books like against nature and um lotumo and well rather wonderful material”

“and introduced me to those wonderful books like against nature and um lotumo and well rather wonderful material”

“and at that point as I'd left school by then I had somehow got um the world's leading um but like I was American one because anyway on comparative religions mysticism someone called professors zaina who's at all cells in Oxford and wrote a book chords um mysticism of the Sacred and profane”

“there's an old Twilight Zone where these uh aliens come down and uh they they introduce themselves to Earth and they give us a book and the book is to serve man they find this book that they have and then they realize it's a cookbook”

“um you ever read the book um the Ice Age inheritance”

“Okay, I I think I must have read it when I was in high school and just didn't pay attention it's completely different from the movie like 100 different or maybe I never read it King keezy”

“Why would you stop doing that? His new book tremendous. Stop doing that. He's too good”

“I gave him my book Street Smart cuz he also wrote a book on Joe de magio he lived with him for 10 years”

“I'm writing about it I wrote about it in the second novel in uh in um in True Believer”

“but on their flight over there I read uh his book accidental superpower and that one very clearly predicts a Russian invasion of Ukraine by the year 20 22 and that was back in 2014 he wrote that”

“and uh it's Carl and klauschwitz who wrote on war said the most important attribute of a battlefield leader is common sense”

“but some of those conversations that I've had in the books I've read have made it into the pages of the novel so there's all this this overlap to include this one uh Brian Moore has a book called The able archers and it talks about a nuclear exchange that almost happened between the United States and the Soviet Union”

“thank you very much for all you do you and thank you for your awesome books thank you [ __ ] the dead it's out right now you can get it like I said I'm in the middle of it and I love it”

“he showed me a book on how uh Tesla energy was used to destroy the twin towers and I'm like what”

“Well Sam had uh did you ever read his uh brother Bill his book? Yeah brother Sam book's called Brother Sam um that he talks about the slide like that when he started partying all the time he stopped writing”

“I watched that [ __ ] thing again a couple weeks ago The Green Mile whatever the green book you know that dude's in the South he [ __ ] wanted to go sing in the South they wouldn't let him [ __ ] they wouldn't put him in a green room they wouldn't let him perform in the eat”

“but there's a cool book uh called A.D after disclosure where which kind of does a thought experiment about what would happen... I didn't read it but I love Richard Dolan who wrote it and I've watched like uh hundreds of hours of his of his podcast he's he's a great researcher”

“actually Annika Harris Sam Harris's wife wrote a cool book which I also haven't read but I know about it... it's uh it's called conscious and it's all about pants psychism which is cool coming from her because she obviously is like rigorous”

“read the novel running the lights right here”

“before I left a good friend of mine suggested this book called Dove written by a man named Robin Lee Graham and so he's like he's like hey I just read this book you should read it I think you'd really dig it and uh I didn't even know what it was about so um I found a used copy”

“so but then I started doing some internet research on on Robin Graham and turns out he wrote like a second book um called um the Sailor returns from the sea or something like that so what what had happened um and he did go through kind of a dark period after the circum navigation...”

“you know Alex Baron wrote a book called tell your children and it's all about instances of uh psychotic breaks and schizophrenic breaks from people that are heavy marijuana users”

“I love those got book of longest breastfeed feedings”

“Marshall mcluhan had a [ __ ] amazing quote from the 1960s said human beings are sex organs of the Machine World... It's from understanding media 1964. Jesus mcluhan was brilliant brilliant”

“like the books like Field of Dreams Shoeless Joe Jackson they kind of present the case that like sports is the last or only meritocracy where like There are rules and boundaries and like truth shake out you Shake the Dice enough the truth”

“and he talks about how I'm sure you've read Freedom which is a book that he wrote uh uh kind of his last book”

“some of it done by Sarah hill by the way a professor at uh Texas Christian University the former student of mine and she's superb she's written a book called your brain on birth control which I recommended she would be cool to have on your podcast”

“that uh that book the first thing I ever talked to you about was uh cabasa de vaka and then they were like the guy the guy they hired to do the navigating like [ __ ] up yeah and then they they had no idea he had to be like no I know where we're going”

“like the what's the one about uh the the what's the book about the people from Portugal coming down the coast of Africa it's like the Conquistadors or the conquerors It's a book”

“literally Smedley Butler's 1933 uh story that he wrote article he wrote War is a racket Have you ever read that Joe war is a racket”

“it apparently came from this says it came from a 2009 book called weapons and mass instruction and then it was echoed by someone in the New York Times”

“and so I wrote I wrote what was called the mental mechanics and instructor's guide and it had kind of the sequence of of drills and how to get somebody's mind into this”

“and so I wrote I wrote what was called the mental mechanics and instructor's guide and it had kind of the sequence of of drills and how to get somebody's mind into this”

“how about the great reset he wrote a book called The Great reset and then they denied that the Great reset is a thing they're working towards like bro you wrote a book”

“If you listen to David's life story David has uh two incredible books they're they're amazing and one of the things about the books that's so amazing is you realize like what he endured as a child and what he went through like the the abuse that he received and how he came out of that this like Unstoppable dude”

“Right The Secret Lives of bats is one of your books and the other one is the bat house guide”

“There's a great book uh I forget exactly the name I think it's Apple life after Steve so after Steve Jobs died Steve was a product guy... Tim Cook is a managerial type his job is to squeeze as much money out of the stock price”

“Oh, guys, it just occurred to me– you know what else is another good free port that's in pop culture and literature? Interzone in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch is a free port, and it's like kind of a hive of scum and villainy situation that evolves around there.”

“There's lots in the book about healing from narcissistic relationships while you are still in them or when you're just trying to separate from them a little bit.”

“Uh that is from uh, Jessica Chang in Brooklyn, New York and Jessica's book is Gary meets Marge the Barge, that's awesome, congratulations Jessica, that's a great book idea.”

“Okay, so there's a, an adaptation of a Hemingway novel 'To Have and Have Not' with Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart.”

“In his book, Berlin Games, Guy Walters writes: 'Kutin was almost regarded as Christ, and Ballet Lure, who is like his second in the Olympic Committee, as his disciple.'”

“To learn more about her work and find links to her book, Forever Strong, as well as links to her excellent podcast and website with additional resources, please see the show notes and captions.”

“Jonathan Haidt has written a brilliant book discussing the anxious generation, particularly focusing on the damage that technology has done to children. Smartphones, for example, have drastically worsened their mental health and this topic has been extensively covered in his fantastic book.”

“If someone's creating something, I assume, based on your research and the books you've written, even the 'Happiness Hypothesis' you started with, that your intention has been to uplift people through your work.”