Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W27

“In fact, the version of the aphorism, 'the grass is always greener on the other side,' seems to have originated in a line from 'Mrs. Miracle,' a 1996 book by bestselling romance novelist Debbie Macomber.”

“The original maxim evolved from 'The Art of Love' by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, who wrote, 'The harvest is always more fruitful in another man's field!'”

“Yeah, Economics for Dummies, which I think is a mean non-answer when someone asks why the healthcare system is so broken. It's like, 'Let me Google that for you.'”

“No, the dummy series is a very helpful demystification tool.”

“Crop circles have fascinated people for a long time, and depending on when you grew up and what your predilections were like as a kid, you might be most familiar with crop circles in terms of fiction or in terms of books about the paranormal.”

“They took a lot of, they thought it was hilarious that people would study these circles and then with strident confidence come out and say, 'This is what teaches us about the messages from the heavens.' And you know, 'This is ancient technology, buy my book and learn more about it.'”

“The one people are referencing when they talk to you about Project 2025 is a thing called Mandate for Leadership: A Conservative Promise. Spoiler alert: it's about as long as the unabridged copy of The Stand by Stephen King!”

“As I describe in the memoir, one of the best things I ever did in my half-century career was to set aside the theatrics of the demonstrations and listen to what the activists had to say; they were making perfect sense.”

“When I interviewed Olivia Nuzzi for my book last year, she talked about how covering the Trump administration, there was no social penalty if you went after them.”

“so then always our final question what are three books you'd recommend to the audience so the first book I recommend is called Southerners by Marshall Fred”

“the third I would recommend um is the company she keeps by Mary McCarthy this was McCarthy's debut novel”

“she's been on the DNC rule Rules Committee for many years she's the author of the book on this primary politics and she's a senior fellow at Brookings”

“and so it reminds me a bit of something that I love from that Lincoln book Edward acorn's book um the Lincoln miracle and he quotes Charles suner who is a senator at that point sending a welcome message to the delegates whose Duty it is to organize Victory which I just think is such a great quote about what”

“I go to next the making of the president 1960 by Theodore White which is about that election and there's lots of background stuff on how John Kennedy won the Democratic nomination and how Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination”

“Well, uh, Barack Obama talked about how just being in the room with the donor class changes you; just being in the room with—and Chris Hayes wrote a book called 'The Twilight of the Elite' about how all that happens, and then he became the thing he wrote about.”

“I've had, uh... so I was reading this book called The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung, and it's amazing how it fits what's happening right now today!”

“I was reading a book called The Mysterium Coniunctio that he wrote, and it took me like a week just... just the opening paragraph just to keep going and I'm like, what the f***!”

“What is Carl Jung's book on flying saucers called? But he had this concept about flying saucers; he thinks they're... they're constructs of the mind, but not necessarily that they're not real!”

“I think the best book to start with Carl Jung is my memories, dreams, reflections, which is his biography and he wrote... mhm!”

“I will be publicly executed by my publisher if I don't mention my book, *In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife.*”

“yeah the hemperor yeah yeah the hemperor yeah he's a a famous marijuana activist and researcher and and he wrote this book this guy was a like a Goldwater Republican and then uh met this lady and they were smoking a little marijuana together hanging out and like all of a sudden he gets it and he goes oh my”

“It's very famously associated with dopamine for anybody who has read Awakenings or saw the movie.”

“Anyway, I have a novel! It's called After the Revolution!”

“And then the third one we shot was Lazy Sunday, which was a dork rap about me and Parnell having a lazy Sunday going to see The Chronicles of Narnia! So good!”

“You've got a book out called 'Level Up' by Rob Dial from the Mindset Mentor podcast.”

“I remember you told me in 2017 to read the Bhagavad Gita, so I literally wrote it down, got it the next week, and read it while we were traveling.”