Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W16

“and you I would hate for somebody to have read the simple path to wealth or worse have heard about the simple path to wealth, throw everything in VTSAX in their retirement accounts, set it and forget it and never look at it again.”

“And you are the lead author on Chooseify, your blueprint to financial independence, the book, which is absolutely marvelous.”

“It reminds me a little bit of the old David Foster Wallace quote where a fish goes up to the other fish and is like, uh, it's crazy. We're swimming around in water and the fish says, "What's water?"”

“We talked to his son for the book. We did. We talked to his son uh when we were researching researching a book named in a burst of creativity stuff they don't want you to know the book that's because we had the title for the show earlier anyway so uh so this is this is the parable or the”

“This is a real pitch made by a British author named Anthony Gray in his book uh they published in 1983. named in a burst of creativity, the prime minister was a spy.”

“Maggie mentioned that book that you're always referencing Ben and I'm totally losing the name by Elizabeth Woods playing dead a million%”

“Back in 2019, uh Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post published At War with the Truth, and the world said, "Uh, what?"”

“...somebody would fly on a plane and they would read the kiterunner or something while they were on the plane and they would hop out and think that they understood everything about this place that has been a battleground for centuries and centuries.”

“It's based on a book right by this guy named Charles Brandt, right? It's called what is it? I heard you paint houses. This book purports to be non-fiction. It includes interviews and alleged confessions made to the author Charles Brandt uh by a former mafia hitman named Frank Sheiran.”

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“This has been around forever. Did you guys read Marquita Assad? Mhm. Julia like you know stuff has been around for a while, right?”

“Did you guys read Marquita Assad? Mhm. Julia like you know stuff has been around for a while, right?”

“Uh, shout out the book Unhumans: Secret History of Communist Revolutions: How to Crush Them. uh that book it's been going strong for uh almost a year at this point because unfortunately we are living inside.”

“It's hard to understand. Um Oliver Bulock actually who you who you've interviewed has a his book is called Moneyland and it's one of the best and easiest to understand versions that explains it if you if you want to know more about it. Um um but the the problem is not just that that complicated world of finance.”

“Um you know it was a it was a process that took you know several decades to to achieve. um it was the destruction of all as I said there was no no independent business no independent economy of any kind in addition to that there were no non-state organizations of any kind either so um when and I wrote”

“It's actually now out of power, but we did have it for several years. Um I saw it happen in Hungary, which is a country that I spent a lot of time in at one point. One of my books is partly about Hungary. I saw a version of it in Russia um 20 years uh earlier as well.”

“I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma last fall and I got a book called The Burning by Tim Madigan about the Tulsa race massacre which was very eye opening and astonishing that I did not learn that in history.”

“And then Jason Stanley's erasing history, how fascists rewrite the past to control the future, which is very preient uh in terms of what the Trump administration is trying to do to universities right now.”

“And while I have your attention, Joseph Massie, who was on promoting his poetry book, America is the poem, has now risen not only well past Maria Shrivever on the number one under poetry, but his book went up to number 18 in all books in America on Amazon.”

“Luis Miranda recently published a memoir about his work in politics and beyond. It's called Relentless.”

“Seller is also about to publish a memoir called Theater Kid.”

“That is Stacy Wolf. She's the author of a book called Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theater Across America and she teaches theater and American studies at Princeton.”

“That is Stacy Wolf. She's the author of a book called Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theater Across America and she teaches theater and American studies at Princeton.”

“Uh the latest one was Homestead Tsunami which is a description of well the dawning interest in homesteading as a uh potential choice of life let's say.”

“Um he's also written everything I want to do is illegal which I love as a title.”

“um You Can Farm, which is partly what we discussed, and pastured poultry profits, which is a book that documents a particular form of agrarian lifestyle as a solution to the economic problems that young people might be facing.”

“um You Can Farm, which is partly what we discussed, and pastured poultry profits, which is a book that documents a particular form of agrarian lifestyle as a solution to the economic problems that young people might be facing.”

“And because he'd already gotten on to this this moving animals around some Andre Voyini was a Frenchman who who wrote grass productivity, kind of still the Bible of of rotational or controlled grazing.”

“That's very tovillian. The the Alexis detoville when he wrote democracy in in America he said well this is what is going to make America great in in the 1830s is well and America's got that right with its 51 state or 50 state experiments.”

“well, these [ __ ] is trying to bring up the Bible. It's like, get the [ __ ] out of here, dude. Harry Potter's better than the Bible.”

“He tells the story in his book and I apologize to him. He goes, 'Oh, don't worry. It's a good story.'”

“...what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel.”

“...what they were following airport was based on a novel by Arthur Haley and he had written hotel.”

“But uh Dave also wanted us to shout out and we want to shout out a book by Ben McIntyre, A Spy Among Friends, Colon Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal.”

“His latest book, which we talk about today, is called Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious.”

“I recommend a book called uh after by a doctor named Bruce Grayson, which is there have been a lot of surveys of the literature on this going back.”

“And it was the uh Wendel Bear wrote a book about this called the unsettling of America. And it was about the destruction of family farms and the the the centralization and the aggregation of big agricultural uh sort of organizations.”

“Michael Moss wrote a book about this called Salt, Sugar, and Fatty. interviewed 300 different food industry executives and scientists and whistleblowers.”

“And I wrote a book about it called the 10day detox diet. And and I created an online program.”

“You got Chris Palmer who wrote a book called Brain Energy talking about how he cured schizophrenics by changing their diet and bipolar disease.”

“Um, it wasn't one book, but it was Jack Carowak as an author, maybe Desolation Angels, which really kind of set me out on this path of being on the wild adventure and having a kind of crazy wisdom way of living that's sort of not on the beaten path.”

“He's author of a number of books including the origins of woke and also has his own Substack.”

“And then we've have um Brian Goldstone on. He's written written a really important Roen... Um written a really important new book about, you know, we talk so much about the working poor. He digs into the working homeless, which is increasingly a reality, people who are doing everything they can, working full-time, but because housing and rent is so”

“By reading books such as the first 40 days, I learned this is not normal in the rest of the world.”

“It's called Bringing Up Bay. One American mother discovers the wisdom of French parenting.”

“How to raise kids who aren't The Anxious Generation, The Self-driven Child, and even throwbacks like Battle Him of the Tiger Mother.”

“How to raise kids who aren't The Anxious Generation, The Self-driven Child, and even throwbacks like Battle Him of the Tiger Mother.”

“Much later I read um I was reading a book by uh Naomi Orescus the historian of science and she wrote a book called Why Trust Science? And it's a wonderful book. But in the book she talks about she gives examples of places of phenomena where the public didn't trust science and they should have and this is one”

“And I'm just reading for the second time this book. It's called Open Socrates. Okay. And it's a really wonderful book and I've learned a lot about Socratic philosophy that I didn't know.”

“And I was reading that book, The Courage to be Disliked over Christmas. And it kind of it changed my view on this quite profoundly and in an important way because it helped me to understand. And I think it basically says that what happens to us doesn't create who we are. We use what happened to us and we”

“yeah that may be in the beat the odds um I thought it was in this book”

“But if marginalized groups aren't doing well, it's it's something wrong with society. And, you know, it's interesting sort of if you break this down politically, there's a really interesting book that just came out uh called Outraged by the psychologist Kirk Gray.”

“Uh Rob K. Henderson on Twitter. Uh you can buy my book. It's out in paperback. Troubled by Rob Henderson.”

“I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura Lynn Jackson who wrote the book Signs. Yeah. And I love that book. For anyone who loves learning about signs, loves knowing about signs, that that book is speaking so closely to I don't know if you've ever seen it or ever met Laura Lynn, but she speaks so beautifully about how all”

“The next book from Crooked Media Reads is coming soon. It's called WinW We're in Charge: The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership by our pal Amanda Litman. She's been on the pod many times. Uh it's out May 13th. Amanda's co-founder of Run for Something. Uh she's helped launch the political careers of hundreds of millennials and Gen Zers. Uh”

“anyway, oh, speaking of that, I had a great [ __ ] conversation with somebody that was explain to me the book of Job, not Job. It's not get a [ __ ] job. It's get a job. And it's the book of Job. And I'm listening to this this this story. And the story of Job is basically Job”

“And I wrote a book called Eat Fat Get Thin where I cataloged the whole history of how we got there and what the problems were and what the science is telling us about what we should be eating about the reconsidering saturated fat being bad.”

“He wrote a book called biochemical individuality.”

“he gave me a book called nutrition against disease by Roger Williams and it was this is like in 1980 and I read it I was like oh wow this is nutrition is such an important thing.”

“I started to go down that rabbit hole and I wrote a book called Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, our communities, uh, our economy, our communities, and our planet one bite at a time where I mapped out from field to fork the problems with our food industry, how it's making us sick, how it's costing us trillions”

“And there's a whole book on this that I read like almost 30 years ago called Our Stolen Future by Theo Coburn which lays out it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins that are everywhere in our food and our water”

“it was kind of like the Rachel Carson silent spring version of a few years ago which talked about the reproductive effects of these petrochemical toxins that are everywhere in our food and our water and our air and they affect fertility rates.”