Week 2024-W38

Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W38

28 books, grouped by podcast.

ChooseFI

Discussed Born to Run
“Did you read Born to Run at some point? Me too!”

The Daily Stoic

Discussed Meditations
“When attacked online, I remind myself I've got a healthy life and love around me, which alleviates my anger. The best revenge is living well, as Marcus suggested.”

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Discussed Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton
“I did write a book called, 'Who Killed Epstein?' So, yeah, he soured the island image. Yeah, he ruined private islands for the rest of us, unfortunately.”
Discussed Hard time
“And then I put those in my books; Hard Time is the jail one if people are interested. Wow, yeah, wow, and man, you wanted to read a thousand books in prison, right?”
Discussed Один день Ивана Денисовича
“One thing that Two-Tony taught me was about the book 'A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.' In that book, they were fighting over fish eyeballs in the soup to try and stay alive in the gulag, where if you refuse to work, you're hung from a tree, dragged to death by a horse, or thrown off a cliff.”

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

Discussed Skeleton Crew
“Ben, what's that Stephen King short story where the doctor is stranded and he slowly starts cutting away pieces of himself to sustain his life? I think it's called Survivor type!”
Discussed Watership Down
“They were continually hunted by the press—if you've ever read Watership Down, there's a fantastic mythology that the rabbits in that story have about being the prince with a thousand enemies.”
Discussed The Big Breach
“In 2007, he went ahead and published the book 'The Big Breach'.”
Discussed Hide Your Assets and Disappear
“So one of the things with this show that I found really fascinating is I have a book sitting right behind me called 'Hide Your Assets and Disappear.' It was a best-selling book, I think, in 1999 or 2000. So I think it was possible that Robert Fisher got out in the nick of time.”
Discussed R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
“Are you referring to Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Čapek?”

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

Discussed Lord of Light
“I read a book called Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, which introduced me to Buddhism and Hinduism and the power of myth. It opened me up, and I rejected Christianity.”
Discussed Братья Карамазовы
“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”
Discussed Записки изъ подполья
“And maybe we could do that by referring to the Grand Inquisitor in the Brothers Karamazov, as long as we put it together with Notes from Underground, which I just taught for a course. I did a course on literature in the meaning crisis, and so I that you use notes.”
Discussed Moby Dick
“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
Discussed Heart of Darkness
“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
Discussed Tod in Venedig
“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”
Discussed La Peste
“You know, I did a course on Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Notes from Underground, Death in Venice, and The Plague—all one course. Oh yeah, that's fun.”

Behind the Bastards

Discussed Camp des saints
“He also praises the novel, "The Camp of the Saints," a racist narrative about migrants from India invading Europe and destroying civilization, which happens to be a favorite of Steve Bannon.”
Discussed Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
“The company name derives from a fictional short story written by Borges in 1940, describing a secret society attempting to construct a brand new world via the establishment of an encyclopedia.”
Discussed A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations
“He begins disseminating his new thoughts on politics through his blog, in a series of essays called 'Unqualified Reservations,' aimed at garnering support for reorganizing society away from democracy and towards his vision of enlightened rule.”

Freakonomics Radio

Discussed Advancing the Ball
“The other thing to say is this: Jim Rooney is an unabashed fan of his late father, Dan; he wrote a book about his father called 'A Different Way to Win.'”
Discussed More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
“The name of my book is 'More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from The Open Hearth to the Microwave'.”

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Discussed Utopia
“And it was just so funny because you're watching 'Chimp Crazy,' and I was reading this book called 'Status and Culture' and I was like if this isn't role reversal like it's a role reversal 'cause usually I'm like watching like the Housewives and he's like reading a book!”

Timcast IRL

Discussed One Nation under Blackmail
“It was, it's, there's a, there's a great book I think we talked about last time, Amazon One Nation Under Blackmail, right? So this is a—it's a—not only a fantastic book but the idea here that uh, politics runs off of blackmail and it runs off of uh bribes, it runs off of all this, that's true.”

Pod Save America

Discussed Triggered
“Now it's like, you can stay at Trump properties, you can buy Trump stock; apparently you can now buy crypto, Trump trading cards, NFT business, the new Save America coffee table book where he threatens Mark Zuckerberg with jail time in a coffee table book of pictures; that's just something that's happening.”

StarTalk Radio

Discussed The Martian
“So that was like for a— Did you watch the movie The Martian? We did not watch The Martian, but I had read the book already! And one person read the book while we were in!”

Huberman Lab

Discussed Mating in Captivity
“She's also the author of best-selling books such as "Mating in Captivity" and "The State of Affairs."”
Discussed The State of Affairs
“She's also the author of best-selling books such as "Mating in Captivity" and "The State of Affairs."”