Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W45

“If you want to learn more about David Eagleman's ideas, I really enjoyed a couple of his mini books, like Livewired, which talks about his brain research, and Some 40 Tales from the Afterlives, his book of speculative fiction. So this is the point in the show where we take a listener question, and I welcome my producer, Morgan.”

“They okay, got it, in the books, you also see also see it mentioned as, you know, kind of like when people are following a religion and they rationalize they're doing by citing a book.”

“Isn't Robert W. Chambers who wrote 'The Yellow King,' famously sort of memed in its own way in season one of 'True Detective'? And in 'The Yellow King,' the entire universe of that, which is very Lovecraft, and it's wrapped around... that's a nice Carcosa reference! The idea that there is some sort of play, and if you read the”

“It's a comic series that you can get in these little graphic novel compendium things called 'Department of Truth.' Without spoiling it too much, it's based on a secret government society that attempts to ensure conspiracy theories aren't believed by enough people. It manifests in the real world.”

“Well, you know, there's a famous communist theorist, Antonio Gramsci; he's an Italian theorist, and in the Prison Notebooks, which is his great work that was translated actually by Joseph Buttigieg, so they're all—and Kamala is the daughter of a Marxist! So you're seeing them seep into the government!”

“First of all, let's not forget Timcast is what made my book, which accurately did—unlike David Pakman, it did make my book Speechless! It really helped it get to number one nationally!”

“You know, my buddy Spencer just wrote this great...I'll plug a book that's not my own! He just came out with this great book, 'Light of the Mind, Light of the World', which makes all of these points, and it does so beautifully!”

“Our friend Terry Slat has a new book out, and I was doing a book event with him. In his book, he talks about how the only time in his life he'd ever been disappointed with Barack Obama was during that speech.”

“And now this is the film which is such a beautiful blessing and responsibility to have as people who also love it and have lived for this for 20 years and have done the research like read the L. Frank Baum books and have done their homework and have lived it and loved it!”

“So in the late 60s, the DSM-2 introduced a diagnosis called hyperkinetic reaction of childhood, and it's essentially ADHD that they were talking about.”

“It is, and my God, just at the dawn of co, you had a book by that title. That's right, Alien Oceans.”

“We can talk about that later, but let's just focus on the chemicals, as that's what led me to much of my research and to writing the book that I authored.”

“And you know, a lot of these chemicals, just to let you know, are obesogens; they increase obesity; there's a book out called Obesogens; you can read about them, and so you know it'll be very—there is some overlap so by reducing some of these chemicals that are in your food storage containers, you're also reducing obesogens, so it's not”

“There's also a book that goes along with it. The 'Giants' book is spectacular.”

“So I even think about like what do I want to do, and there's this beautiful book called 'The Sage Warrior' by a woman named Valarie Kaur, who’s this incredible, she's a lawyer, she's an activist, she's a woman who just—she's a writer, she does all this incredible stuff, and she paired this book with this album of music that”