Host of Decoding the Gurus
1 book recommended · 3 critiqued · 12 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“And this book came out before the current tranche of documents were released right so like if it were true you would have expected in the documents to see all these details about like the blackmail plans and whatnot right…”
Why: It provides a vast amount of source material and titbits connecting historical events to Epstein.
One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Alyse Webb
Host on Decoding the GurusBlindboy, Part 2: Where Have All the Good Men Gone?
Books they argue against or name the limits of.
“And this is Russell Brand's book, How to Become a Christian in Seven Days. And oh my God, Chris, I mean, just you have to respect these guys for putting themselves through that and reading this absolute drivel.”
Why: Avoid because it is absolute drivel.
How to Become a Christian in Seven Days* by Russell Brand
Host on Decoding the GurusJensen Huang, Part 2: We Have to Hurt You to Save You
“Do you know who Tom Campbell is? No. The guy who wrote My Big Toe, The Theory of Everything? Very interesting guy.”
Why: The hosts mock Campbell as a credulous and befuddled man-child, framing his work as absurd woo.
My Big TOE by Thomas Campbell
Host on Decoding the GurusSupplementary Material 54: Solarpunk Pecan Pie, Northern Irish Sushi, & the Discourse Meat Grinder
“i i know the odyssey everyone knows the odyssey now that's right that's right um i've never read the odyssey well you look you're not missing much it's not that good…”
Why: Chris claims it is mostly repetition of 'wine dark sea' and cyclops things, concluding you are not missing much.
The Odyssey by Homer
Host on Decoding the GurusJimmy Carr & Joe Rogan: The Jester & the Khan
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“and then before he founded Scientology he founded a kind of self-help movement Dianetics his his first book I mean his first like uh kind of Scientology fiend book if you like was this self-help movement, 1950s style.”
Dianetics - The Original Thesis by L. Ron Hubbard
Host on Decoding the GurusL. Ron Hubbard: Sleeping with Bandits, Hunting with Pygmies And So On
“He's most well known for a book he wrote in 2009 called The Master and His Emissary,…”
The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist
Host on Decoding the GurusIain McGilchrist, Part 1: Right-Brain Thinking
“He's more recently published a book called The Matter with things.”
Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist
Host on Decoding the GurusIain McGilchrist, Part 1: Right-Brain Thinking
Named without an opinion attached.
“I immediately thought of this quote in Trevor Noah, who I love, his number one New York Times bestseller, Born a Crime. And I want to read to you from Noah's book.”
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Host on Decoding the GurusMel Robbins, Part 2: Matt & Chris manifest their fully actualised future selves
“So Louise Perry has a book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, arguing against the contraceptive pill and the damage it's done to women.”
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry
Host on Decoding the GurusJimmy Carr & Joe Rogan: The Jester & the Khan
“to explain the nature of reality, I'm going to explain Plato's allegory of the cave, which he talked about in his book, The Republic.”
Republic by Plato
Guest on Decoding the GurusProfessor Jiang, Part 2: Cosmic Jiang's Jenga Tower of Bullshit
“The main philosopher for the third Rome strategy is Eisner Dugan, who in 1997 wrote a book called Foundation of Geopolitics.”
Foundations of Geopolitics : The Geopolitical Future of Russia by Alexander Dugin
Host on Decoding the GurusProfessor Jiang, Part 1: Geopolitical Pantomime
“Like, you know, young people that read Plato's Republic and take it far too seriously, imagining themselves…”
Republic by Plato
Host on Decoding the GurusSupplementary Material 51: Parasitic Palate Cleansers, Selective Understanding, and the "Context"
“he wrote the subtle art of not giving a fuck. everything is fucked. So on, right?”
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
Host on Decoding the GurusKen Wilber: Spiralling Upwards through a Technicolor Cosmos
“who wrote misinformation but Cory Doctorow wrote in shitification why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it radicalize down in the out in the magic kingdom so on and so forth he is a science fiction author that's probably why he got confused what science fiction did he write…”
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Host on Decoding the GurusSupplementary Material 53: Matthew the Succulent, Bin-faced Politicians, and Very Very Tired Economists
“reminds me of a passage in your blockbuster bestseller, Imagine That. It's in the introduction. And I want to read to you from your book and have you dig a little deeper into the power of imagination.”
Imagine That by Dewey Friedel
Host on Decoding the GurusMel Robbins, Part 2: Matt & Chris manifest their fully actualised future selves
“Mary Ann Luriepden has a book, Feminism Against Progress, arguing that the women's liberation movement was a product of the Industrial Revolution rather than moral progress…”
Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington
Host on Decoding the GurusJimmy Carr & Joe Rogan: The Jester & the Khan