Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W50

“I don’t know if that’s exactly how it breaks down, but the thing is, if you have people in the schools of education indoctrinated with Freire's garbage, you know, the pedagogy of the oppressed, I think is the book that he uses.”

“And you see, we—and the Hunger Games, we knew this because, living out there, we checked and we used apps and we searched on the internet and confirmed the edible sources.”

“And, uh, you would think that it’s massacres are happening on every single block the way that people are treating children and that long gates childhood. There was a great book called, um, Generations. I forget the author’s name.”

“And if people don't care, then they're free not to care, but might as well tell that story. I'm sure we'll get to read it in a book coming out in October 2025. Maybe they can do one together!”

“I guess he does; it's easy for me to say that I would stay on to get fired when I am not specifically mentioned to my knowledge in Kash Patel's book, so it is, maybe that is what he's doing.”

“I, this was, first of all, why Greece? Was Percy Jackson unavailable? I like, does she have a connection to Greece?”

“it's a conversation with my friend Sean illing the host of the gray area podcast and a co-author of the book The Paradox of democracy”

“but he wrote a book called mediated and it's just a really lucid and well- written and kind of funny look at the consequences of living in a media saturated Society at the personal and the political level”

“Now, of course, her name is going to escape me; it's Titania McGrath, yes, of course—of course. You wrote a book as her that was very comical, and you had and still have—how active is Titania McGrath now?”

“So I mean it happened recently where a well-known author, Bo John, Bo came out in defense, who was someone who had attacked, he wrote the Boy in the Striped Pajamas, very famous novel, he had attacked Graham back in the day, and I saw this in, it was an incredible post.”

“He wasn’t interested in plots; you have Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Romeo and Juliet—could you change a single syllable and improve it?”

“There's a great book by Victor Hugo about artistic genius, and he estimates that about three or four major artistic geniuses emerge in every generation.”

“Now I read the Biden laptop book, Miranda Devine's book, 'Laptop from Hell,' and the Bidens have been making excuses for Hunter of the sort that a relatively unsophisticated, dependency-enabling parent could make with some justification the first time their 14-year-old son committed a juvenile offense.”

“The Times published the entire Unabomber manifesto, so...”

“What she said on Hasan's show is one of the reasons conservatives don't like her, as Rachel Bard has talked about, is that the consumer welfare standard of Robert Bork was gospel on the right for a long time.”

“The name is derived from a passage that T.S. Eliot wrote in his haunting poem The Waste Land, which also, if you like good stuff, you should read in full.”

“One of the best books about this, and shout out to our pal Dylan Fagan, there is The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by a guy named John Gyer.”

“As a matter of fact, we have a couple of quotations; one from Shackleton's same work on his expeditions called simply South, because, you know, it's Antarctica.”

“Oh true, it goes... and I love that we're mentioning Slocum, who is an historical figure that I wish more people read; his book is Sailing Alone Around the World, a stem-to-banger.”

“When you call in, tell us something about maybe McDonald Critchley, the dude who wrote 'The Idea of a Presence,' which is one of the things that went into this episode.”

“In his 1971 book Journeys Out of the Body, is that correct? Yes, correct. And he had Far Journeys; that's another one of his books, Ultimate Journey, lots of journeys.”

“And he had Far Journeys; that's another one of his books, Ultimate Journey, lots of journeys. Journey Out of the Body, that's the big one. It's really—he's a fascinating character, and if you go to the Monroe Institute's website, which is monroeinstitute.org, you can actually find YouTube videos of this man, Bob Monroe, where he's giving talks.”

“Well, I think it’s very interesting because actually when I had finished and premiered 'The Pharmacist,' I had been contacted by these producers who wanted to attach me as a director to this film about Anthony Fauci's work in Africa.”

“Yes, absolutely I think it's such an illuminating story And I've seen this so much in my own practice as a family doctor now for more than 30 years So many boys want to be heroes They want to be seen as heroes They want to see themselves as heroes in their own eyes You know, I spoke some years”

“And to those parents, you say I would say I would come back to the central key point that I try to make in the new edition of my book, The Collapse of Parenting, which is that central paradox of American parenting right now Which is that parents are spending more time and more money on their kids than parents”

“So there are different factors affecting boys and girls—that's why I wrote a book called Boys Adrift and a book for girls called Girls on the Edge. I also wrote a book called Why Gender Matters.”

“You know, 70 years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote this book for kids, 'The Magician's Nephew,' and he said, 'The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.'”

“I actually had this interesting conversation with Carol Hooven, who wrote a book about testosterone. She talked about evidence around differences in crying and criticized the idea that men don't cry enough.”

“Actually, I have a friend who’s going to write a book about sophistry. It’s just about someone who engages in sophistry, where they're essentially kidding you, right?”

“In today's episode, there's an immense amount of actionable information that I'm certain all of you will benefit from. Dr. Kelly Starrett has authored several best-selling books, some of which you may know, such as 'Supple Leopard.' He was actually one of the first people to become synonymous with the use of a lacrosse ball or foam roller.”

“Um, really a book that makes the rounds from time to time is a book called The Spinal Engine by Serge Gracovetsky, and he really talks about the trunk as a driver of power, not just as a chassis of which the big engine moves, and that really is a nice conceptual way of simplifying movement!”

“One of the things that we want to look at is... and this is a Philip Beach muscles meridian idea — there are contractual fields, and this goes along with if we look at Thomas Meyer's Anatomy trains of seeing the system as a system of systems. So we start to look at your back and your erectors, and then”

“Sean Stevenson wrote a beautiful book about creating a table culture and a culture around eating for your family. For me, the functional unit of change is the household; that's where I want to invest my energy. That's how we'll transform society—one household at a time.”