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The Shawn Ryan Show

The "Shawn Ryan Show" is hosted by Shawn Ryan, former U.S. Navy SEAL, CIA Contractor, and Founder of Vigilance Elite. We tell REAL stories about REAL people from all walks of life. We discuss the ups and downs, wins and losses, successes and struggles, the good and bad in a respectful but candid way...

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WORKBOOK FOR FOREVER STRONG: A Practical Guide to Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Book (A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well) Cover

Leonard S. Olivia

WORKBOOK FOR FOREVER STRONG

A Practical Guide to Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Book (A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well)

She announced an upcoming womenfocused followup to her original bestseller, extending her sciencebased longevity strategy to female readers.

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The book after that is one for women.

— Episode: #175 Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - The Nicotine D...

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She announced an upcoming womenfocused followup to her original bestseller, extending her sciencebased longevity strategy to female readers.

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The book after that is one for women.

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Jared Hudson

Waging War in the High Places

The Armor of God Through The Eyes of a Navy SEAL

He wrote a short 40page paperback about his experiences and how faith shaped his SEAL career. He described it as a modest pamphletstyle book that he completed despite finding writing difficult.

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I actually wrote a small book... it's only 40 pages... that's called the armor of God through the eyes of a seal, and I write about it in there.

— Episode: #173 Jared Hudson - The War Against Our...

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He wrote a short 40page paperback about his experiences and how faith shaped his SEAL career. He described it as a modest pamphletstyle book that he completed despite finding writing difficult.

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I actually wrote a small book... it's only 40 pages... that's called the armor of God through the eyes of a seal, and I write about it in there.

It wasn't that hard, but it was the hardest thing I ever did... I was a terrible writer, but it kind of popped out.

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Richard H. Thaler

Nudge

The book was described as the holy bible for the censorship industry and required reading for anyone pursuing a career in counterdisinformation or information integrity work.

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He wrote a book called Nudge.

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The book was described as the holy bible for the censorship industry and required reading for anyone pursuing a career in counterdisinformation or information integrity work.

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He wrote a book called Nudge.

Nudge is basically the holy bible for the censorship industry. And it's basically required reading for anyone who wants to have a career in countering disinformation or information integrity work.

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Vivek Ramaswamy

Woke, Inc.

Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

The book was cited as a critique of wokeism in corporate America and was mentioned as part of the guest's antiDEI work.

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I was the chief DEI crusader, antiDEI crusader, what, four or five years ago when I wrote Woke Inc. and criticized the spread of wokeism through corporate America and other parts of our culture.

— Episode: #169 Vivek Ramaswamy - Making Ohio Tax F...

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The book was cited as a critique of wokeism in corporate America and was mentioned as part of the guest's antiDEI work.

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I was the chief DEI crusader, antiDEI crusader, what, four or five years ago when I wrote Woke Inc. and criticized the spread of wokeism through corporate America and other parts of our culture.

American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology Cover

D.W. Pasulka

American Cosmic

UFOs, Religion, Technology

She listed it among her published works and later said that material from her Vatican research formed the final chapter of the book.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intellige...

— Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History,...

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Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenom...

She listed it among her published works and later said that material from her Vatican research formed the final chapter of the book.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intelligences.

we did find interesting information that basically made it into the last chapter of American Cosmic

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Diana Walsh Pasulka

Heaven Can Wait

Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture

She mentioned it as one of the titles in her bibliography during the introductory segment of the interview.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intellige...

— Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History,...

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Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenom...

She mentioned it as one of the titles in her bibliography during the introductory segment of the interview.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intelligences.

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D. W. Pasulka

Encounters

Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences

She listed it among her publications and later referred to it when describing her role as a consulting producer on a Netflix series of the same name.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intellige...

— Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History,...

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Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenom...

She listed it among her publications and later referred to it when describing her role as a consulting producer on a Netflix series of the same name.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intelligences.

you've served as consulting producer on the Emmy Award winning Netflix series, Encounters.

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Diana Walsh Pasulka

Heaven Can Wait

Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture

She cited it as part of her scholarly output and later said she had written a book on purgatory while researching archival sources.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intellige...

— Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History,...

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Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenom...

She cited it as part of her scholarly output and later said she had written a book on purgatory while researching archival sources.

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you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs, UFOs, Heaven Can Wait, Purgatory in Catholic Devotional Culture and Encounters, experiences with non-human intelligences.

So I wrote that book.

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Adam Kirsch

The Republic of Plato

She referenced it multiple times as a classic work that discusses the allegory of the cave and influences modern dystopian novels.

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I looked back and I saw that again Plato's Republic it talks about the cave the allegory of the cave is like where you know you're in this cave and people are creating a fictional world it's basically...

— Episode: #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History,...

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She referenced it multiple times as a classic work that discusses the allegory of the cave and influences modern dystopian novels.

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I looked back and I saw that again Plato's Republic it talks about the cave the allegory of the cave is like where you know you're in this cave and people are creating a fictional world it's basically the matrix.

Brave New World was Plato's an update of Plato's Republic then 1984 was also an update of the allegory of the cave.

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Chris Bledsoe

UFO of GOD

The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe

The book was described as a New York Times bestseller that narrated Chris Bledsoe's extraordinary UFO encounters and the spiritual transformation that followed.

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You are the author of the New York Times bestseller, UFO of GOD, the extraordinary true story of Chris Bloodsill.

— Episode: #165 Chris Bledsoe - The Episode We Neve...

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Episode: #165 Chris Bledsoe - The Episode We Never Censored

The book was described as a New York Times bestseller that narrated Chris Bledsoe's extraordinary UFO encounters and the spiritual transformation that followed.

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You are the author of the New York Times bestseller, UFO of GOD, the extraordinary true story of Chris Bloodsill.

The CIA, Jim Simivan wrote the forward to my book.

John Alexander wrote the forward or introduction.

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive Cover

Philipp Dettmer

Immune

A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

The host mentioned a book titledBorn Immuneas a recommended source for evidencebased vaccine information and said they would share a link to it in the show notes.

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I'll put a link to a vaccine schedule, a book that was written by, in my opinion, one of the top MDs, PhDs in the world on what are the viable vaccines and the ones to avoid. I think it's called Born...

— Episode: #163 Gary Brecka - Biohacking Secrets to...

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The host mentioned a book titledBorn Immuneas a recommended source for evidencebased vaccine information and said they would share a link to it in the show notes.

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I'll put a link to a vaccine schedule, a book that was written by, in my opinion, one of the top MDs, PhDs in the world on what are the viable vaccines and the ones to avoid. I think it's called Born Immune.

The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win (Expanded Edition) (Extreme Ownership Series, 2) Cover

Jocko Willink

The Dichotomy of Leadership

Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win (Expanded Edition) (Extreme Ownership Series, 2)

Leif and Jocko were noted as coauthors of the #1 national bestseller that explores the balance between opposing leadership qualities, and the episode highlighted how the book's concepts help leaders avoid extremes.

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The number one national bestseller, The Dichotomy of Leadership with Jock.

— Episode: #162 Leif Babin - What Leadership Looks...

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Leif and Jocko were noted as coauthors of the #1 national bestseller that explores the balance between opposing leadership qualities, and the episode highlighted how the book's concepts help leaders avoid extremes.

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The number one national bestseller, The Dichotomy of Leadership with Jock.

And when you're talking about humility and ownership, you also have to understand the dichotomy - you're pulled in different directions, you want to be detached but also involved.

That's a dichotomy and you're getting pulled in different directions. So you want to be detached as a leader... you want to step back, you want to let your people step up and lead.

Rogue Warrior(Forge) 1st (first) edition Text Only Cover

Richard Marcinko

Rogue Warrior(Forge) 1st (first) edition Text Only

Leif recalled reading this Marcinko memoir during his teen years, saying it sparked his fascination with SEALs and inspired him to pursue a naval career.

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I started reading about the SEALs in Vietnam and learning ... I read Rogue Warrior. You probably read it about the same time.

— Episode: #162 Leif Babin - What Leadership Looks...

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Leif recalled reading this Marcinko memoir during his teen years, saying it sparked his fascination with SEALs and inspired him to pursue a naval career.

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I started reading about the SEALs in Vietnam and learning ... I read Rogue Warrior. You probably read it about the same time.

When I was probably in junior high school and I started hearing about the SEAL teams, the Marcinko books came out, read Rogue Warrior.

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Rob Luna

Close Your Wealth Gap

Financial Lessons to Upgrade Your Life

The book performed modestly, did not reach the NewYorkTimes bestseller list, but the author said it provided essential financial information and listeners reported it was changing their lives, leading him to view it as a winner.

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Since you've been on the show the author of Close Your Wealth Gap. Yeah. So how'd the book do? Book did pretty good. It wasn't a New York Times bestseller so I guess I'm a failure by...

— Episode: #161 Rob Luna - 2025's Million-Dollar Qu...

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The book performed modestly, did not reach the NewYorkTimes bestseller list, but the author said it provided essential financial information and listeners reported it was changing their lives, leading him to view it as a winner.

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Since you've been on the show the author of Close Your Wealth Gap. Yeah. So how'd the book do? Book did pretty good. It wasn't a New York Times bestseller so I guess I'm a failure by all counts.

I wrote it to be able to provide information to people who didn't have what I felt was the right information to take control over their finances and from that aspect the people that are reading it are saying it's changing their lives so ... I think it's a winner.

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Tim Sheehy

Mudslingers

A True Story of Aerial Firefighting

He said he wrote the book two years earlier about aerial firefighting and noted that all proceeds were donated to injured and fallen wildland firefighters.

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I wrote a book about it two years ago called Mud Slingers about aerial firefighting. And 100% of the proceeds of that book go to fallen and injured wildland firefighters.

— Episode: #160 Tim Sheehy - Former Navy SEAL & Aer...

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He said he wrote the book two years earlier about aerial firefighting and noted that all proceeds were donated to injured and fallen wildland firefighters.

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I wrote a book about it two years ago called Mud Slingers about aerial firefighting. And 100% of the proceeds of that book go to fallen and injured wildland firefighters.

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Robert Greene

The 33 Strategies of War

Jane Doe praised Saif alAdel's book 33 Strategies, describing it as a militarystrategy guide that the host recommended to decisionmakers.

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I think the most powerful person in Al Qaeda central is Saif alAdel. ... I would even give it to my country's politician is reading because this is what we need leadership. ... He is writing about les...

— Episode: #159 Jane Doe - Terror Playbook: Sleeper...

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Episode: #159 Jane Doe - Terror Playbook: Sleeper Cells, Bi...

Jane Doe praised Saif alAdel's book 33 Strategies, describing it as a militarystrategy guide that the host recommended to decisionmakers.

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I think the most powerful person in Al Qaeda central is Saif alAdel. ... I would even give it to my country's politician is reading because this is what we need leadership. ... He is writing about lessons and learn... I suggest the new administration to read his book because it's just very impressive. This is how Al Qaeda is. ... The book is called 33 Strategies.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Cover

Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

He mentioned that a New York Times journalist had authored a book titled "Empire at Pain," which served as source material for their project.

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And then a journalist from the New York Times had written a book that was one of our source, pieces of source material for the book, a book called Empire at Pain.

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He mentioned that a New York Times journalist had authored a book titled "Empire at Pain," which served as source material for their project.

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And then a journalist from the New York Times had written a book that was one of our source, pieces of source material for the book, a book called Empire at Pain.

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Ronald W. Walker

Massacre at Mountain Meadows

He said a Mormon author wrote a book titled "The Meadows Massacre," which recounts a violent 1857 incident and provides historical context for their research.

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One Mormon wrote a book called The Meadows Massacre.

— Episode: #157 Peter Berg - Exposing Big Pharma, L...

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He said a Mormon author wrote a book titled "The Meadows Massacre," which recounts a violent 1857 incident and provides historical context for their research.

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One Mormon wrote a book called The Meadows Massacre.

His book is really interesting; it's about this crime in Mormon history.

Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guidance Cover

Frederick H. Atwater

Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul

Living with Guidance

Atwater recounted his experiences in remote viewing, psychic research, and his career in intelligence, presenting a personal memoir of his life and work.

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You're the author of Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul, Living with Guidance.

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Atwater recounted his experiences in remote viewing, psychic research, and his career in intelligence, presenting a personal memoir of his life and work.

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You're the author of Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul, Living with Guidance.

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Fr. Benedict Croell O.P.

A Living Sacrifice

Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life

In this book Atwater explores the concept of an inner guidance that directs his actions and decisions, blending his spiritual insights with his intelligence background.

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You're the author of Captain of my ship, Master of my soul, Living with Guidance.

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In this book Atwater explores the concept of an inner guidance that directs his actions and decisions, blending his spiritual insights with his intelligence background.

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You're the author of Captain of my ship, Master of my soul, Living with Guidance.

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