Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W51

“There's also a different perspective presented in Kim Stanley Robinson's book 'Aurora.' Many century ship stories exist where Earth sends out a generation ship to colonize another planet, only to discover that the planet isn't actually habitable for Earth life.”

“This is the frontier we are in, and that was the topic of my last book, "Light of the Stars." You've got to do the astrobiology of the Anthropocene.”

“"Altered Carbon" is a great series on this concept. I think it’s on Netflix; it's a really good series where that’s exactly the idea of sleeves.”

“And every koan, you know, if you've ever read 'Godel, Escher, Bach', he's got a whole chapter on koans. They're kind of non-logical problems that you have to work on.”

“Which again, it’s not Charlie Kirk’s idea; it’s Madison’s idea and Hamilton’s idea and Jay— they wrote this for a reason because they did not want senators to become pseudo-celebrities.”

“But then you have another really great example, of course, is the book 'Gender Queer.' When the left was claiming to ban books, it's like, well, yeah, the ones that have porn in them.”

“It really reminds me of — have you ever read Charles Darwin's "Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals"?”

“The other book I’ll just say, which is much longer and unpublished, is start making sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times is really on the same topic. It’s a book by Steve Hina, who’s one of my favorite psychologists; he's at University of British Columbia. It’s coming out in January 2025.”

“This was before the puppy-killing thing and before her book, The Puppy Murder!”

“You know about that, you're involved in one, which has been going on for a while and very successfully against Bob Woodward where he didn't quote me properly from the tapes.”

“There's a photo of Regis Philbin, and I can only describe the look on his face— he looks like he is smiling like the devil—like he, like—like you would cast him in Needful Things, he is selling you a cursed victrola!”

“I'm going to go do a Blood Meridian after this. Use my own urine to make gunpowder.”

“Ronin's book 'Bad Boy,' which covers Diddy’s influence on the hip hop industry, paints a picture of a young man who was beyond everything else an opportunist!”

“In the book 'It Was All a Dream,' culture journalist Justin Tinsley writes this of sophomore Sean Combs' involvement in this protest campaign: 'For Combs, the student protest in the spring of '89 presented an opportunity to unite the student body and put some money in his pockets at the same time.'”

“There you go; you could journal the Lord of the Rings into ChatGPT and you too could be a novelist.”

“The title of Adam Moss's book, The Work of Art, is of course a double entendre.”

“The other book he just mentioned, 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,' is also well worth reading, and you can hear its author, Samin Nosrat, on a couple of Freakonomics Radio episodes from 2023.”

“Such that, you know, Cloud Atlas becomes an awesome story and people believe in reincarnation.”

“Oh yeah, and guys, in the time between these two episodes, I mentioned just off air that I was reading that book, The Nameless.”

“Yeah, it's written by one of our favorite graphic novel authors, Grant Morrison, that Ben, you got me into with The Invisibles when I was just a wee kid, so thank you for that.”

“You know, I mean, we used to sing 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee' in my class in the mornings, and that's gone, and so is religion in the public square, which was absolutely one of the things that we saw the country founded on, and it's been erased and erased and erased and replaced with active school shooter drills.”

“I go into detail in my book, Fame, right? We talked about that years ago.”

“One of the big things that came out of that French book, The Birth of a Lie is the, um, the filmmaker unearthed a recording that was, I don't know where he found it, but they found it and released the transcript of it that clearly has, um, if not Zimbardo, at least Jaffy, definitely Jaffy, coaching the um, the”

“Uh, and that is the year, I'm sorry, the next year is when he put out the 'Principles of Scientific Management', which was probably easily the biggest business book, um, maybe at the 20th century, but at least the first half of the 20th century.”

“There's the handy answer book, which is a series.”

“I read somewhere in the Space Chronicles book that they would need to hold the antimatter in a chamber made of antimatter so it wouldn't have to interact with the matter.”

“And for race, we used passages from Kendi’s How To Be an Anti-Racist and from D’Angelo’s White Fragility; these books are widely required throughout colleges.”

“The film's taken from Elijah Wald's Dylan Goes Electric, a book that came out in 2015! It's a fantastic retelling of events from the early sixties that led up to the fiasco at Newport! After you see the movie, read the book!”

“They called this man— I remember covering this case—it was the 'Kids for Cash.'”