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Take Back the Game
How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters
It is a book about how money and obsession are ruining children's sports and why that is a problem.
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Linda Flanagan, author of Take Back the Game, How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports and Why It Matters.
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It is a book about how money and obsession are ruining children's sports and why that is a problem.
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Linda Flanagan, author of Take Back the Game, How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports and Why It Matters.
And it's really out of those experiences that you came to write your book, Take Back the Game.
And the Martian says, huh, should we ban men from ever coaching women again? It might not be a bad idea. Tell me why.
The Martian's second point, which is one that Linda raises explicitly in her book, which when I came to that part of your book, I was like, amen, I'm with you on this as both as Malcolm and as the Martian.
The biggest obstacle to the de-escalation of youth sports is the parents.
Good for a Girl
A Woman Running in a Man's World
This book explains the physiological differences between men and women in sport, and how this impacts their performance trajectory.
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Lauren Fleshman, world-class runner, author of Good for a Girl, A Woman Running in a Man's World.
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This book explains the physiological differences between men and women in sport, and how this impacts their performance trajectory.
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Lauren Fleshman, world-class runner, author of Good for a Girl, A Woman Running in a Man's World.
I was struck in reading your book, Lauren, by a big chunk of your book is a very powerful and insightful explanation of the difference in the physiological trajectories of young women and young men.
And you make this, you were talking about your time at Stanford, you know, the young men are, a man or whatever they are between, of college age is at their physical peak. They get better almost automatically every year. They're full of all the, every positive hormone known to man. And whereas the women are going through a much more complicated process.
The second thing that I took from reading both of your books was particularly from Lauren's was this, this notion, this idea that I talked about very briefly before about that you spent a lot of time on the book, that the trajectory of young men and women is different and that many women have this kind of in their late teens, early twenties, how a kind of performance plateau.
And I think that it is important that parents recognize they have agency, that they don't have to go along with everything that, you know, that extra strength and conditioning training or, you know, weight workout that's might be helpful, the supplemental training, like the soccer club in my town that offers six year olds, that they can say no to that.
The Real Work
On the Mystery of Mastery
In the book, Adam Gopnik follows masters of their craft, like bakers, magicians, and boxers, to understand how they do what they do. He discovers that mastery is all around us and explores the process of achieving it.
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Adam has a new book, The Real Work on the Mystery of Mastery, in which he follows masters of their craft to find out just how they do what they do.
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Episode: The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik
In the book, Adam Gopnik follows masters of their craft, like bakers, magicians, and boxers, to understand how they do what they do. He discovers that mastery is all around us and explores the process of achieving it.
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Adam has a new book, The Real Work on the Mystery of Mastery, in which he follows masters of their craft to find out just how they do what they do.
It's a book to talk around.
I deliberately dropped George Plimpton's name in the opening chapter.
George Plimpton did these wonderful books, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears about his own engagement as an amateur.
His book Mad Ducks and Bears is one of the most entertaining sports books ever written.
Paris to the Moon
This book was mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell, who described it as one of Adam Gopnik's most famous books.
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Maybe you know his most famous book, Paris to the Moon, or perhaps you saw his cameo in the film Tar, where he played himself. Convincingly, I might add.
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This book was mentioned by Malcolm Gladwell, who described it as one of Adam Gopnik's most famous books.
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Maybe you know his most famous book, Paris to the Moon, or perhaps you saw his cameo in the film Tar, where he played himself. Convincingly, I might add.
The Disenchanted (A Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage Book)
Bud Schulberg's The Disenchanted is described as one of the most beautiful and forgotten novels in American English, recounting his experience writing a screenplay with Scott Fitzgerald.
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But he wrote one of the most beautiful and forgotten novels in American English called The Disenchanted about his bizarre adventures writing a screenplay with the then on the brink of...
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Bud Schulberg's The Disenchanted is described as one of the most beautiful and forgotten novels in American English, recounting his experience writing a screenplay with Scott Fitzgerald.
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But he wrote one of the most beautiful and forgotten novels in American English called The Disenchanted about his bizarre adventures writing a screenplay with the then on the brink of death Scott Fitzgerald.
And it's the most beautiful portrait of Scott Fitzgerald that we have.
Paper Lion
Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
Adam Gopnik mentions that George Plimpton wrote the book Paper Lion about his experiences as an amateur boxer.
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George Plimpton did these wonderful books, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears about his own engagement as an amateur.
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Adam Gopnik mentions that George Plimpton wrote the book Paper Lion about his experiences as an amateur boxer.
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George Plimpton did these wonderful books, Paper Lion, Mad Ducks and Bears about his own engagement as an amateur.
Company
The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others
Adam Gopnik talks about Stephen Sondheim throwing away four different endings for the musical A Company before he came up with Being Alive, which he said was a standard practice for Broadway writers.
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But yes, every songwriting team and every Broadway songwriter will tell you that even Sondheim threw away four different endings for a Company before he arrived at Being Alive.
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Adam Gopnik talks about Stephen Sondheim throwing away four different endings for the musical A Company before he came up with Being Alive, which he said was a standard practice for Broadway writers.
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But yes, every songwriting team and every Broadway songwriter will tell you that even Sondheim threw away four different endings for a Company before he arrived at Being Alive.
I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here
Finding My Voice, Finding My People, Finding My Way
Jonathan Conyers, one of the debate coaches, is set to release a memoir titled "I Wasn't Supposed To Be Here" in September.
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If you're curious about the league and the fantastic coaches behind it, keep an eye out for Jonathan Conyers' forthcoming memoir, I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here, out this September.
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Jonathan Conyers, one of the debate coaches, is set to release a memoir titled "I Wasn't Supposed To Be Here" in September.
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If you're curious about the league and the fantastic coaches behind it, keep an eye out for Jonathan Conyers' forthcoming memoir, I Wasn't Supposed to Be Here, out this September.
Hello Baby
Animals
Michael Spector, the science writer, created a new audiobook on how the mRNA vaccines have sparked a biotechnology revolution. He talked about the promise of heritable vaccines for endangered species, and how a smallpox infection could genuinely have wiped out New York in 1947.
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And Michael has written an audio book about that revolution, higher animals, vaccines, synthetic biology, and the future of life. And it is amazing.
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Episode: Higher Animals with Michael Specter
Michael Spector, the science writer, created a new audiobook on how the mRNA vaccines have sparked a biotechnology revolution. He talked about the promise of heritable vaccines for endangered species, and how a smallpox infection could genuinely have wiped out New York in 1947.
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And Michael has written an audio book about that revolution, higher animals, vaccines, synthetic biology, and the future of life. And it is amazing.
Get your copy at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or wherever you buy your audiobooks.
That was an abridged version of Chapter 1 of Higher Animals, Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and The Future of Life by Michael Spector.
The Andromeda Strain
It was mentioned that the scenario where a political party advocates for their followers not to be vaccinated, even in a fictional book like The Andromeda Strain, would be unbelievable.
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And that's just such a perverse scenario that even in a Michael Crichton, Andromeda strain type book, it would be unbelievable.
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It was mentioned that the scenario where a political party advocates for their followers not to be vaccinated, even in a fictional book like The Andromeda Strain, would be unbelievable.
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And that's just such a perverse scenario that even in a Michael Crichton, Andromeda strain type book, it would be unbelievable.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As told to Alex Haley)
It was mentioned as a book that reignited Justin Richmond's ambition when he was almost 16. He had been feeling down and out at the time and it motivated him to get back on track.
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I got a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and it really reignited my ambition.
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It was mentioned as a book that reignited Justin Richmond's ambition when he was almost 16. He had been feeling down and out at the time and it motivated him to get back on track.
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I got a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and it really reignited my ambition.
The Black Panthers
A Story of Race, War, and Courage―the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II
Justin Richmond mentioned being interested in the Black Panthers and a professor who was writing a book about them at Berkeley.
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He was like the preeminent funk music scholar and was writing a book on The Black Panthers and I had a strong interest in the Panthers.
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Justin Richmond mentioned being interested in the Black Panthers and a professor who was writing a book about them at Berkeley.
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He was like the preeminent funk music scholar and was writing a book on The Black Panthers and I had a strong interest in the Panthers.
The New Voice
How to Sing and Speak Properly
It was described as a deep dive into what our voices mean and what they say about us, exploring the psychology and social science of voice. It was discussed that the book touched on the phenomenon of the sexy baby voice.
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Lake's new audiobook, Inside Voice. The book is a deep dive into what our voices mean and what they say about us. Lake explores the psychology and social science of voice.
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It was described as a deep dive into what our voices mean and what they say about us, exploring the psychology and social science of voice. It was discussed that the book touched on the phenomenon of the sexy baby voice.
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Lake's new audiobook, Inside Voice. The book is a deep dive into what our voices mean and what they say about us. Lake explores the psychology and social science of voice.
She talks with icons like Drew Barrymore, Jeff Goldblum, and Pam Greer. And when she started questioning herself, she talked to me. She was struggling with how to write about the phenomenon of the sexy baby voice.
A History of American Law
This book was mentioned as one that Ben Coleman, a naval aviator, liked to read.
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Because I had this habit of reading long books like the American History of Law and listening to classical music.
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This book was mentioned as one that Ben Coleman, a naval aviator, liked to read.
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Because I had this habit of reading long books like the American History of Law and listening to classical music.
Hambre de hombre
Cuando construyes una relación de pareja desde el hambre de afecto, terminas des (Spanish Edition)
It was a small book written by the volunteers in the Minnesota starvation experiment, a psychological manual for relief workers, meant to be of use in the chaos after the war ended. The cover shows a kindly middle-aged man shaking the hand of a gaunt European against a blighted landscape.
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A little book called Men and Hunger, a psychological manual for relief workers. The cover shows a kindly middle-aged man shaking the hand of a gaunt European against a blighted landscape.
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Episode: The Rise of the Guinea Pigs
It was a small book written by the volunteers in the Minnesota starvation experiment, a psychological manual for relief workers, meant to be of use in the chaos after the war ended. The cover shows a kindly middle-aged man shaking the hand of a gaunt European against a blighted landscape.
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A little book called Men and Hunger, a psychological manual for relief workers. The cover shows a kindly middle-aged man shaking the hand of a gaunt European against a blighted landscape.
Gone With the Wind
It was mentioned as being one of the best-selling American novels ever and described as a sweeping gothic historical bodice ripper about a southern beauty, Scarlett O'Hara, her travails through the Civil War, and her epic love affair with the dashing Rhett Butler.
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Author of Gone With the Wind, one of the best-selling American novels ever.
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Episode: Star Struck
It was mentioned as being one of the best-selling American novels ever and described as a sweeping gothic historical bodice ripper about a southern beauty, Scarlett O'Hara, her travails through the Civil War, and her epic love affair with the dashing Rhett Butler.
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Author of Gone With the Wind, one of the best-selling American novels ever.
By the way, if you want to know how southerners really felt about black people, you should read Gone With the Wind.
The book gets snapped up by Hollywood. Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh, two giant stars in the leading roles.
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn
The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta
It was mentioned as a wonderful history of Atlanta and referenced when describing the Gone With the Wind premiere as a signature moment in the city's history.
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Gary Pomerantz, who wrote Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a wonderful history of Atlanta, counts the Gone With the Wind movie premiere in Atlanta in 1939 as one of the signature m...
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It was mentioned as a wonderful history of Atlanta and referenced when describing the Gone With the Wind premiere as a signature moment in the city's history.
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Gary Pomerantz, who wrote Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a wonderful history of Atlanta, counts the Gone With the Wind movie premiere in Atlanta in 1939 as one of the signature moments in the city's history.
One for the Road
An Outback Adventure (Vintage Departures)
It was described as a fascinating history of drunk driving and referenced when discussing the lack of prosecution for drunk driving in the 1930s.
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I called up Baron Lerner, who teaches at NYU Medical School. He wrote a fascinating history of drunk driving called One for the Road.
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It was described as a fascinating history of drunk driving and referenced when discussing the lack of prosecution for drunk driving in the 1930s.
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I called up Baron Lerner, who teaches at NYU Medical School. He wrote a fascinating history of drunk driving called One for the Road.
This is Baron Lerner again, author of One for the Road.
Defects Found in Drafted Men
Statistical Information Comp. From the Draft Records Showing the Physical Condition of the Men Registered and Examined ... the Requirements of the Selective Service Act
It's a book published in the 1920s that compiled physical examinations of US Army draftees during World War 1. It became a source of information for studying iodine deficiency and its effects on the population.
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There's a book published in the 1920s called Defects Found in Drafted Men, which is simply a compendium of the physicals conducted by the US Army on draftees during the First World Wa...
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It's a book published in the 1920s that compiled physical examinations of US Army draftees during World War 1. It became a source of information for studying iodine deficiency and its effects on the population.
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There's a book published in the 1920s called Defects Found in Drafted Men, which is simply a compendium of the physicals conducted by the US Army on draftees during the First World War.
It's a big, thick book, yeah.
Relax and Win
Bud Winter wrote about how he applied relaxation techniques to boxing students at San Jose State in his 1981 book "Relax and Win." The book details how the techniques were successful and yielded positive results, helping inexperienced boxers develop confidence and win every bout that season.
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The results proved not only gratifying, in some cases they were amazing to us. Green, inexperienced novices very soon showed the cool, confident poise of champions. San Jose boxers won every bout that...
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Bud Winter wrote about how he applied relaxation techniques to boxing students at San Jose State in his 1981 book "Relax and Win." The book details how the techniques were successful and yielded positive results, helping inexperienced boxers develop confidence and win every bout that season.
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The results proved not only gratifying, in some cases they were amazing to us. Green, inexperienced novices very soon showed the cool, confident poise of champions. San Jose boxers won every bout that season, some spectacularly.
The relaxation group made more significant and even spectacular progress. The greatest improvement by the relaxation group was demonstrated in the courses that involved the most pressure.
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