Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2025-W23

“I call this Tim's Why We Did It era, which you only know if you've read Tim's book, but it's a good joke if you got Tim's book.”

“Talk about hard choices by Hillary Clinton.”

“And then it was in that space that I found a book by a medical journalist named Robert Whitaker. The book is called Anatomy of an Epidemic. And in a nutshell, he was curious about the fact that outcome long-term outcomes for people diagnosed with schizophrenia are much better in the you know so-called third world and countries where we”

“I would say there was development of doctrine. I'm using John Henry Newman's language there. Newman says that doctrine is not just handed out like a football, you know, from one generation to the other. It it unfolds more like a like a river expanding or like a a tree growing like so.”

“the influence of Emanuel Kant and uh uh I might be boring your audience with this but Emanuel Khan late 18th century the most influential of the modern philosophers writes a book called religion within the limits of reason alone extremely important text hilarious title”

“It's I wrote a little book years ago called The Strangest Way. The strangest way. And it's a book about Christianity because that's the argument I made was this is the weirdest religious ever.”

“I I mentioned the my ministry word on fire. We have the an addition of the Bible that I think is beautiful. It's full of great artwork, but also it's got the biblical text, but then surrounded by literally surrounded on the page by commentary from the church fathers and the great saints and the popes and so on.”

“And that's also kind of why I chose it because I'm a big fan of Susan Santag's novel, The Volcano Lover, which is essentially a romantic novel around Lord Hamilton, who was the British ambassador to Naples.”

“Oscar Wild, Virginia Wolf, you see here Sylvia Pankhurst, Carl Marx, who pretty much spent every day for 30 years sat here writing Des Capel.”

“Uh he wrote a book in 1956 called the presentation of self in everyday life. What a great title.”

“Um, that just reminded me of hear the rhyme of the ancient mariner.”

“All right. Sailing School for Dummies. All right.”

“That was 17. Uh Cherries of the Gods. No, when I was at Peter Teal's house when Von Dan that must have been 2018, 2019.”

“In 1844 I believe he wrote a book um called you know is e economic and philosophic manuscripts. I hate Karl Marx.”

“Lowest probability craziest thing is Engo Swan who is another remote viewer in the Stargate program. He wrote a book called Penetration where he's basically like abducted by this guy in a suit like this kind of Men in Black style guy named Axel Rod and he is told to remote view the moon”

“Now, being as deep as I am in UFO research where like I know there's a nuclear connection, there's a great book by a guy named Robert Hastings called UFOs and nukes and it's like 600 pages and it is 167 Qcle cleared ICBM security personnel, radar operators, employees at nuclear bases where they're saying they see tic tacs, orbs,”

“If you look at every culture, whether it's or or maybe a better example is medieval Christianity with St. Thomas Aquinas or just read the New Testament like a multitude of angels.”

“But also look at there's a great book called The Half-Life of Facts by Sam Arbisman. And he talks about how like at any given time 50% of you know received knowledge like our our physical model of the universe is wrong.”

“I mean the the the other weird thing in that story is in Messengers of Deception, Jacques Valle's book, he talks about because he's not a believer in Lazar.”

“That's the story of Hansel and Gretle, right? They go out into the forest um chased there not chased there in part by um the fracturing of their family and they find a gingerbread house which is a little bit too good to be true, right?”

“Um, I was looking at the Brothers Grim Snow White version recently because I went and saw the Disney Snow White version, which, you know, was exactly the sort of mistake that you'd think it would be, both to attend and to produce. And so, I want to just tell you a snippet of that story.”

“You know, I will say that in in the book that I wrote recently, The Grieving Body, some of these lessons have come to me because I have multiple sclerosis.”

“Um, I've been spending a good bit of time reading more um like military history and and and trying to get a bit more of an understanding of there's a a great book called Atrocitology, which is the hundred greatest human atrocities across time.”

“M you know who you should have on the show? A guy called John Lyle. So he wrote a book called The Dirty Tricks Department. It was a a book about the founding of the OSS and the insane tactics that they used in World War II to try and stop World War II.”

“But he's got another one coming out which is the OSS came into the CIA and then I think this one is the the transitions through that.”

“You've got uh uh Chris Pratt uh doing starring as the dramatized version of one of your books.”

“And Cody, so you mentioned Sha Malaney. I know you two are writing a book. I'm not sure what kind of uh if we're in early stages, middle stages where we are. Any kind of sneak peek on that and when it might come out. Yeah. So, today we talked about taxable brokerage accounts, which is one chapter out of”

“And one of the reasons that in a book that I wrote where I was sort of I probably wasn't overly enthusiastic about those web 2.0 sleeping pills, the ambience lenus and it was for several reasons.”