Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2026-W37

“We have lost touch with the three little pigs. Tell me. You familiar with the three little pigs, right? Like I don't think that's a story that's told to children anymore. Not enough.”

“Hansel and Gretle or Rumple Stiltskin. How is Rumple Stillilskin not like the perfect allegory for everything we are dealing with right now? Creating wealth from nothing and only wanting to eat your children in return.”

“so it's pretty clear in the New Testament, too. I don't They kept this from me in church as a kid to the extent I went. But don't owe anybody anything. Paul says that don't don't be in debt.”

“How much better would the world be if like elementary school just taught the Bible and not even in a religious way, but just for those lessons? Yes. Like that's why that has been so applicable to everybody's lives for 2,000 years, right?”

“"We must undergo a hard winter training and not rush into things for which we haven't prepared." That's Epictetus and his discourses.”

“Here's Seneca in Moral Letters 18.”

“As we mentioned, your book, tax planning, two and through early retirement, it's incredible. It's hard stop to end a story. I think it's pretty hard to make a book about tax planning really interesting and compelling and a must read.”

“- And in your book, under the section that says, hard truths, dark personalities persist.”

“Dante, who wrote Dante's Inferno, is one of the figures of the classic age, the Renaissance, let's say, classic European age, who really formulated much of the modern vision of hell.”