Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W14

“Many of you have read her book, Your Money or Your Life. But even if you haven't, you know about this book. It's changed the way so many people think about work and money.”

“Largely in the fire community, what I've noticed is there's a book called Die with Zero. I think that's very popular. And I looked at that book and he said, "Oh, don't worry about saving. Have all your experiences when you're young and healthy and just get an annuity. That'll be fine."”

“Michael's most recent book, Who is Government? Showcases the thankless, unglamorous work of doctors and engineers and civil servants inside the government at a time when the government is under attack.”

“And what happens is, you know, it's the equivalent of what is that Timothy Snyder line about uh the guy who wrote on tyranny, anticipatory obedience.”

“James has written for uh about economics for Outlets like Fast Company the Atlantic the New Yorker and is the author of the book The Wisdom of crowds”

“And I put it away and I trust future me to know what to do with it and future me might know what to do with it in a month or it might be nine years later that suddenly I mean I think I just finished a poem for and that was in my last book um Golden Rod from”

“I'm sure you're sick of talking about it, but I do want to talk about Good Bones a little bit because I'm not sick of talking about it.”

“And so, for me, I knew that the first sentence of my memoir would have something in it that would say this is not a tell- all, right?”

“Also, like uh Susan Strait, the novelist, who is uh my professor in college, she talks about this in her memoir.”

“I read about the China diet. And so you start believing that, but that's not really true.”

“It sort of reminds me of the ridiculous right now whereas I'm sure you know about a month ago Jake Tapper announced he has a book about the scandal around Biden's health.”

“I mean, I always say to people, look, I wrote a book, uh, it was the best pro, it might be the bestselling book in American history about defending classical liberalism.”

“I have one more question. Um, have you seen the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Crooked House that came out in 2017? No.”

“um set in this period of time that and for some reason it just captured everybody's attention and apparently when she started expanding I think after World War II uh to some slightly more exotic loces like Egypt or Mesopotamia you know um uh for like Death on the Nile was a very famous one during this time or the”

“um set in this period of time that and for some reason it just captured everybody's attention and apparently when she started expanding I think after World War II uh to some slightly more exotic loces like Egypt or Mesopotamia you know um uh for like Death on the Nile was a very famous one during this time or the”

“So she wrote a book for each of them. Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”

“So she wrote a book for each of them. Uh one is called Curtain, that's Puarro's final book, and the other is Sleeping Murder. Um that is Marple's final case.”

“It's it's so uh some parents in Illinois called the police on a teacher who gave the kids a book called This Book Is Gay.”

“I read the Antifa handbook. Have you read it?”

“You know what's really sad is um uh for Watchmen, Alan Moore wanted to use the DC characters and they wouldn't let him.”

“my mentor Harvey Pekar rested. God Restless His Soul from American Splendor. He went on a book tour...”

“When I gave you Dianetics, it was a joke. You weren't supposed to read.”

“You should watch Attack on Titan.”

“You should uh you'd like the first half of Death Note.”

“It's called Ego and Hubris.”

“Okay. Well, I just read it's it's been out for a while, but I just read and had a discussion Zack Carter's uh the price of peace uh which is about John Mayer Kanes and his his role in in the world and then beyond. Fantastic book.”

“Um the uh my friend the uh uh uh fund manager Barry Rith Holtz has a great book called How Not to Invest, which believe it or not is is interesting. Even if you aren't in investing, he's just he's just uh really a lot of fun.”

“Um, and oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”

“Um, and oh yeah, I'm just reading the latest uh book by Phillips O'Brien who's a military historian and uh he has a new book called War and Power and he is uh always uh fantastic.”

“reportedly he read Rick santorum's book on the manufacturing crisis and what we did to our own before he ran for president”

“and then thereafter I'm trying oh the name of the book Uncharted Uncharted by um some guy named Whipple last name Whipple Chris Whipple”

“but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called The Mating mind”

“and the book is the book is called I should say bird sex and Beauty The Strain the the the um oh what did I what's the subtitle the the implications of Charles Darwin strangest idea”

“I had Abigail Shrier on the show. She was wrote this book called Bad Therapy, sort of pushing back against therapy culture for kids, specifically for kids.”

“What book should every defensebased founder read? 100red-year marathon by Michael Pillsbury.”

“Feeding into this complex churn is the fact that as the term autism grows to Encompass more people it loses what author and Doctor Michael Fitzpatrick describes as a sense of coherence Michael wrote a great book about the biomedical movement titled defeating autism a damaging delusion and in it he writes”

“So these experts are not mostly doctors though and in fact among the most influential of them is former school teacher Sue Palmer author of the book toxic childhood published in 2006”

“Well, I think that if you're going to teach it in such a way, uh, like the 1619 project did, which was also funded and then used at some of these elite universities to say America is irrevocably racist, then what are we all doing here?”

“Anyway uh den of thieves great book recommendation if you've never read it uh the movie Wall Street was uh based on some of the characters that were in there iosi and Michael I Michael milin is one of the most notorious white collar criminals literally of all time”

“I have a chapter in my book called make the second date the default yeah and it's really because I feel like I won the lottery with my husband but he is somebody that takes longer to open up”

“so I change it to work in progress notes on becoming a man and I just talk about stories that I've written about about some of the things we've talked about today and trying to use masculinity as a code”

“And The Magicians I like the most like Harry Houdini Ricky Jay Ricky J wrote a book called learned pigs and fireproof women which is that kind of guide book to all these people that were using their bodies to do crazy thing”