Books featured on the podcast "If Books Could Kill" hosted by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri. "The airport books that captured our hearts and ruined our minds."
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Phil in SF says: Ep. 49. A memoir about parenting very badly and then getting weirdly defensive when anyone asks you about it.
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15802540-battle-hymn-of-the-tiger-mother
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Who moved my cheese? by Spencer Johnson
3 stars
Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths about change. It is an amusing and enlightening …
Phil in SF says: Ep. 52. What should workers do when they get laid off? In 1998 a bleak, asinine bestseller told them to find another whey.
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/15901105-who-moved-my-cheese
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Phil in SF says: Ep. 54. Peter and Michael discuss the book that launched the phenomenon of New Atheism and asked the question: What if we hated Muslims, but in a secular way?
www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/16041649-sam-harris-s-the-end-of-faith
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What's the matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank, Thomas Frank
4 stars
"Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls "the Great Backlash" - the popular revolt against a supposedly liberal …
Phil in SF says: Ep. 54. In 2004, historian Thomas Frank proposed a theory about the rightward drift of the white working class. Was he a prescient king whose work presaged the rise of Trump — or a bumbling fool with a broken thesis? Unfortunately it turns out he is a secret third thing that takes 1 hour & 6 minutes
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You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
3 stars
The #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are A Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to …
Phil in SF says: Ep 55. Peter and Michael dissect Jen Sincero's "You are a Badass," a book that answers the question: What if "The Secret" was written in the painful, try-hard style of "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"? Featuring a surprise digression about Sincero's other, even worse books.
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Phil in SF says: Who's to blame for the crisis of American masculinity? On the right, politicians tell men that they being oppressed by feminists and must reassert their manhood by supporting an authoritarian regime. And on the left, users of social media are often very irritating to people who write airport books.
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Nationally best-selling author (The Tyranny of Big Tech), constitutional lawyer, and U.S. senator for the state of Missouri argues that …
Phil in SF says: Teaser episode. Full episode on Patreon.
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Phil in SF says: Peter and Michael discuss The Let Them Theory, a self-help guide to seeking bliss through unmitigated complacency.
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In Covid's Wake by Stephen Macedo, Frances Lee
The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half …
Phil in SF says: Two political scientists look back at a deadly pandemic and ask, "could we have done even less?"
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
4 stars
Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of …
Phil in SF says: Did you know that in the split-second it took you to read the title of this episode, your subconscious already figured out that it was going to be extremely good?
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Phil in SF says: How one comedian's offhand advice launched a decent TV episode, a mediocre book and a terrible movie.
