The Joe Rogan Experience

There's a great book called The Warmth of the Other Suns Solomon something Solomon.

I read it in the fall of '99 when Fight Club came out, as I read this novel Motherless Brooklyn, but the novel is about a Tourette detective trying to solve the murder of his only friend; it takes place in the '90s and isn't about 1950s New York at all.

I was like what a great character--it's such a wild hot mess, smart but totally messed up, funny but also pretty painful and lonely--all of that made me want to figure it out for the film.

I read a lot of books like, you know, Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom.

I used to listen to his, I think it was called Unlimited Power. I think that was the name of the book.

He had some really good advice in terms of setting goals and in terms of like the way you approach things and look at things.

I was reading this book about barefoot running and how important it is to develop this and then most people that have problems from that they're really having problems because their feet don't have strong muscles in them because of the atrophy and the way they were describing a regular running shoe is essentially like a cast and that you're so used to being protected in this cast that everything sort of just gets mushy inside of it and then you're also striking down on the heel which is a very unnatural thing and when I watch my kids run like my kids will run with me sometimes and they naturally know to run on the balls of their feet that's how they naturally run and when people start running heel first that's where all the problems come it's just not a normal way for people to run.

Well, 2001, A Space Odyssey is an amazing film that he made with Stanley Kubrick. In it, you see these monoliths.

I read Jack Kerouac 'On the Road', okay, so I wanted to be Jack Kerouac and I wanted to be a writer, so I did everything that Kerouac did except write.

He ... the keyboards for the band did the animation for American Splendor.

I read this book called Persepolis. It's one of my greatest books of all time.

well my conf is uh it's pretty good is it did you read it now read it English yeah are you allowed to read it now like when you read it you're probably allowed to read it like if you write I don't think you can buy it yeah but he tried to buy mine come on your Kindle if you're if you're like sale stuff it's like it's literally it's just like talking about the sale I mean it's obviously talking about you know killing Jews but uh what is it talking about the sale of it's just it's talking about how they can overcome and it's like his struggles basically just it's a it's a propaganda book but it's like it's from a sales perspective you're just like I see where he's coming from not saying that it I'm condoning it but I'm saying you're like okay there's so much passion in it you know what he means like a moment it's like a memoir so he's selling to the people that they can overcome the economic situation the journey's in and they could rise up by this yes and if you tried to buy that today to read it yeah I was young I read about it about it okay I would think it was yeah oh you can buy mine come buy it on Amazon but come on son you know you're on a list you I am now right I read in the library they had a library if you buy it today you know right you get on a list yeah first you buy a better flag you're on a list now oh yeah for sure if you buy a dukes it has a DVD set you're on the list you're on a list are we doing just special worthy if it's one on the cover the one with the general Lee leaping over the fucking canyon with the Confederate flag flag clearly book that I think it was maybe the one you talk about a lot but I remember in the 90 or late 90s you people were saying if you went into the bookstore to buy this book you're on a list and you if you had to go buy a cash and like wear a hoodie and cover your face yeah I remember that it was always those stupid rumors yeah

The Grinch that stole.

One of the big selling books was Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, each chapter about a major feminist icon.

Did you ever read the Tommy Knockers?

It's about like an alien craft that crash landed in the woods and I don't want to give any spoilers for where it starts changing people.

What does Tommy Knocker mean?

I don't know but I think it was based on some like old fairy tale that people tell in Scarlet Kids.

Tommy Knocker.

I find out what it is.

Let's find out what Tommy Knocker means.

The Selfish Gene provides us a mechanism. It's basically a synthesis of what we understand about adaptive evolution.

He says in Chapter 11 of The Selfish Gene, he says that the landscape of memes is like a new primeval soup, which is not what it is.

And it was like a copy of Tom Wolf, you know, Bonfire's the fan of these.

And uniforms, there's a book, I probably shouldn't recommend another book, but I think it's a good book, I'll just say. It's called To Die For, D-Y-E.

And probably this book, To Die For, will have more information. And I have it and I'm just so busy with this right now, but I'm going to read it.

John Stewart Mill ... his book On Liberty where he said, okay look you might be completely right but by listening to somebody else it strengthens your own arguments.

There's a book called Island.

That guy smidley butler wrote a book in 1935 called like War Is a Racket.