Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W15

“Uh and I would say one regret I have to go to your book is that I in retrospect, I took this the talks way too seriously, if that makes sense.”

“And Annie Duke has a good book about quitting, you know, and and I do think that that in some ways powering through, sticking with it is is slightly overrated, but you know, it's it's this is this is what adult life is about.”

“I read this interesting book a couple years ago called Boys Among Men, which is about the generation, which now you can't do, generation of NBA basketball players that went straight from high school because now you have to.”

“Like I really recommend uh Blake Gopnik's massive biography of Andy Warhol.”

“Before you know it, you're reading the threebody problem. Um, yes, that's a great book.”

“It's the same way that the samurai or the stoics or or uh the debent book of living and dying over death. You just go through the thing and then you're like because what we're avoiding is the emotional experience.”

“There's a a cool lesson uh about had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with and then he wrote another book about uh like the history of alcohol and um he basically described alcohol as kind of the perfect drug for the human”

“So fast forward in 1996, a book comes out called Oblivion, and it cites a CIA operative as its source who claims that Richard Cox did work in the intelligence field in Europe during the Cold War. And it says he lived there until the 1990s before dying of cancer in Maryland.”

“Years ago, I interviewed this woman, Elizabeth Greenwood, and she wrote a book about faking your own death cuz she was like, 'I need to know if this is possible.' We we did. We talked to her as well, didn't we, Matt? What was the book called? Oh, Ben's a big fan of it. I think it's called Playing Dead.”

“Uh you can look up the lawyer who became DuPont's worst nightmare. That is a book by Nathaniel Rich about this gentleman we're talking to.”

“Well, I I I have also recently published a book called Exposure, which I try to go into more detail about the discovery of this chemical and how it was we came to find out it even existed and what documents we saw this in and how how I really started to understand what was going on here.”

“She's doing very well, but she wrote a book called Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter and talk about her mother was just o totally overbearing and definitely had some mental issues.”

“You know, she that thing she put in her book about shooting dogs, her her dog. Yeah. Yeah. Well, she put that in her first book, uh, which came out a few years ago, but the editors there took it out. They said, "What is wrong with you? We're not putting that in your book about shooting dogs." But what”

“This um Chadwick Moore, who he's been on the program, he wrote a biography on Tucker.”

“I saw another therapist in college who who I spoke to about that restrictive and binging pattern. who who gave me like this really good book overcoming overeating because I now had turned into it had gone from like anorexia like starving yourself to now binge eating. And because obviously those two almost come together sometimes you can't spin this”

“And you know, my uh um uh Scott Horton, who I always try to promote on here, he just wrote this book called Provoked. I think it's the best book that's been written on the uh history leading up to uh um the the war between is basically takes you from the collapse of the Soviet Union up to the”

“Uh there was another guy we talked about the nudge earlier uh in 2008. Another Nobel economist named Richard Thawer co-wrote a bestseller called nudge colon improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness. And in that book he talked about um social priming experiences uh benign paternalism or that nudge that you know you kind of mentioned earlier toward making”

“I have another podcast called Magical Overthinkers and I got a bunch of books. Cultish, The Age of Magical Overthinking.”

“Uh so his first while he's in co college effectively he gets you know he he does his like dissertation right which is his first booklength publication like these are effectively books and his first dissertation is titled internal colonization in northwest Germany which he fetishes at the university of Strasburg in 1891.”

“Uh in his book on Hugenberg John Leopold writes quote the young doctoral candidate analyzed in detail the role of the state in fostering economic growth.”

“He wrote Too Big to Fail.”

“uh is none other than uh Naomi Klene who relevant to this uh this conversation is the author of uh many uh books but in particular no logo published in 1999 which kind of drew inspiration from and also provided inspiration to uh the burgeoning anti-globalization movement at the time.”

“I do recommend if anybody ever wants to, you should read uh Ezra Vogle has a biography of Deng Xiaoping and Deng specifically was purged and was one of these people who was purged and actually sent to go work in a factory and his period during the cultural revolution and the great leap forward.”

“Like you have the most wonderful bookshelf of cues and captivate up there, right? Like my books, which I love.”

“Like you have the most wonderful bookshelf of cues and captivate up there, right? Like my books, which I love.”

“And Still I Rise, Still Still I Rise was a moment in culture history.”

“So, that's a book by Christopher Alexander in uh 1978. And basically it's him trying to map the universal patterns across all of architecture. So he has 253 patterns.”

“Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.”

“Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.”

“Jane Austin, love phonetics, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility.”

“so there's this beautiful piece of wisdom that I always share from Charles Horton Culie and he wrote this in 1890 I think it was which just shows how true this has been for such a long time and obviously long before that as well and he said The challenge today is I'm not what I think I am. I'm”

“as Norm Finkelstein called out Benny Morris for writing in his book, "1948," which is a great book.”

“There are two Talmuds. The main one is the Babylonian Talmud, two and a half million words.”

“Then just like Plato starts, you know, in a dialogue called the Lockis, Socrates runs into a couple guys.”

“I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this”

“I mean Freud has this phrase in civilization and it's discontent about how modern man is a prosthetic god right like we we equip ourselves with all these tools and things like this”

“But more important is Aristophanes play Assembly Women in which the women take over and establish a communist society.”

“I knew this quote before I found this out cuz I read Foust one and two and there's a line in there Mephostophles.”

“There's a great line in that movie High Fidelity based on the Nick Hornby novel, which I also highly recommend where he's like, you know, people tell me that we should listen to our gut.”

“And I write about this in my book, Last Call for Bud Light.”