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Guinness World Records

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From Broke to Rich to Broke to Influential Podcaster | Sean Kelly

The speaker mentioned reading these shiny books as a kid and was impressed by records like the farthest jump and the one about the largest eyeball popping out of the head.

Guinness record holder. I'm very competitive. I've always wanted a Guinness as a kid. I used to read them. You know, the shiny books?

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Rise and Shine)

Eric Carle

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Charlamagne tha God Gets Quiet When Republican Shows Him Receipts

This children's book was mentioned as being read to the host's children, and it was noted that the book's content has changed slightly since the host's childhood.

and then of course there's Kordoroy and Curious George and the rest of them in star contrast to by Curious George which is what they teach at a lot of the schools.

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Dr. Seuss's Spooky Things

Dr. Seuss

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Charlamagne tha God Gets Quiet When Republican Shows Him Receipts

This book was mentioned as one of the books that the host's children were reading around Halloween.

Dr. Seuss's Spooky Things that's been making the rounds right now

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Night (Night Trilogy)

Elie Wiesel

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Justin Trudeau Caught Ignoring Canada’s Dirty Secret

Dave Rubin mentioned the book Night by Elie Wiesel, recommending it to viewers for further information on the Holocaust.

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Truths

Vivek Ramaswamy

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It’s Time for the Facts Liberals Can No Longer Deny | Vivek Ramaswamy

This book, written by the interviewee, focuses on truths surrounding various topics like God, climate change, and the importance of free speech. It aims to provide readers with tools to engage in difficult conversations.

I'm a fan of getting the best possible arguments for the other side on the table.

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Unsettled

Steven E. Koonin

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It’s Time for the Facts Liberals Can No Longer Deny | Vivek Ramaswamy

The book, written by a physicist from the Obama energy department, was mentioned as a source of facts used in the author's book about climate change.

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The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols (Play It Like It Is)

Sex Pistols

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Piers Morgan Visibly Shocked When Jordan Peterson Said This About Trump

The book "Mind comp" was mentioned in the context of age appropriateness; the host suggested that it would be inappropriate for a second-grader. This was used as an example to illustrate the importance of age-appropriate book selection in schools and libraries.

You wouldn't give a second grader mind comp, although you people probably would.

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Four Seconds

Laura Andrade

Mentioned 1 year ago

Is This the Issue That Finally Causes Dave Portnoy to Break with Democrats?

It was mentioned that Hillary Clinton has a fourth memoir out, and that it is full of misinformation. The speaker expressed disbelief that she would release another book.

Hillary Clinton was calling for punishment just this week. She's got her fourth memoir out, which is completely insane.

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State of Terror

Louise Penny

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Gavin Newsom Humiliated as Elon Musk Responds to His Shocking New Law

It was mentioned as Hillary Clinton's fourth or fifth autobiography, released that week, and discussed in relation to her media appearances and views on jailing people.

I think this is her fourth autobiography.

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Living History

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Gavin Newsom Humiliated as Elon Musk Responds to His Shocking New Law

It was mentioned that this is Hillary Clinton's fourth or fifth autobiography, and that she was doing media rounds promoting it while discussing putting people in jail for spreading propaganda.

I think this is her fourth autobiography.

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

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‘The View’ Hosts Get Visibly Angry When Music Legend Refuses to Say This

Clay Travis' book was referenced in relation to Michael Jordan's stance on politics and how he didn't always have to be political, much like how the book advocates a similar idea.

Which ended up Clay Travis used at least a version of that for one of his books and and that's the point.

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Republicans Buy Sneakers Too

Clay Travis

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‘The View’ Hosts Get Visibly Angry When Music Legend Refuses to Say This

It was mentioned as an example of Michael Jordan's non-political approach during the 1992 NBA playoffs. A version of his comment was later used in Clay Travis's book.

Which ended up Clay Travis used at least a version of that for one of his books and and that's the point

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Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket Book 1)

The publisher altered descriptions of characters to be more politically correct. Augustus Gloop, originally called "fat", is now described as "enormous", and the Oompa Loompas are now referred to as "small people", rather than "small men".

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Remember Augustus Gloop? Remember the fat German child who fell in the River of Chocolate got stuck in that pipe, right?

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The publisher altered descriptions of characters to be more politically correct. Augustus Gloop, originally called "fat", is now described as "enormous", and the Oompa Loompas are now referred to as "small people", rather than "small men".

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Remember Augustus Gloop? Remember the fat German child who fell in the River of Chocolate got stuck in that pipe, right?

He's going to be described as enormous. He will not be fat

the Oompa Loompas are no longer small men. They're small people

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Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

The podcast host recommended viewers watch the movie adaptation or read the book to see how the actor Christian Bale's appearance and mannerisms resembled those of Gavin Newsom. The book was referenced in the context of Newsom's perceived arrogance and manipulative behavior.

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Go watch American Psycho or read the book, but you gotta watch it because Bale looks just like him, the hair, everything.

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The podcast host recommended viewers watch the movie adaptation or read the book to see how the actor Christian Bale's appearance and mannerisms resembled those of Gavin Newsom. The book was referenced in the context of Newsom's perceived arrogance and manipulative behavior.

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Go watch American Psycho or read the book, but you gotta watch it because Bale looks just like him, the hair, everything.

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Roald Dahl

Matilda

The book had alterations made to a passage about the places Matilda visited. The original mentioned Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and Rudyard Kipling, but the new version substituted Jane Austen and John Steinbeck.

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She went she went on olden day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Ruyard Kipling.

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The book had alterations made to a passage about the places Matilda visited. The original mentioned Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and Rudyard Kipling, but the new version substituted Jane Austen and John Steinbeck.

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She went she went on olden day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Ruyard Kipling.

She went to 19th century Estates with Jane Austen. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and California with John Steinbeck.

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G. Edward Griffin

The Creature from Jekyll Island

A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

The book talks about the inception of the Federal Reserve, and the clear interest of a small group of people in getting a central bank implemented in the United States.

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You could read a book like The Creature from Jekyll Island about the inception of the Federal Reserve, which is the central bank in the United States. There was clearly a small group...

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The book talks about the inception of the Federal Reserve, and the clear interest of a small group of people in getting a central bank implemented in the United States.

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You could read a book like The Creature from Jekyll Island about the inception of the Federal Reserve, which is the central bank in the United States. There was clearly a small group of people that were very interested in getting a central bank implemented into the United States.

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Professor James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State

How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)

The book says that the state tries to make taxpayers legible so they can tax them as efficiently as possible, by knowing who people are, who they interact with, and their economic situation.

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And I think it's ultimately another consequence of fiat currency and central banking though, because the reason there is so much national debt is because governments have figured out this way to borro...

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The book says that the state tries to make taxpayers legible so they can tax them as efficiently as possible, by knowing who people are, who they interact with, and their economic situation.

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And I think it's ultimately another consequence of fiat currency and central banking though, because the reason there is so much national debt is because governments have figured out this way to borrow money into existence, right? It's literally what they're doing with the Fed is the US government issues this shit coin called US treasury bond. They can print as many of these as they want. They sell them to the Fed to borrow dollars, right? So the Fed now is already the creditor to the US government borrower at interest. The Fed's taking interest payments right off the top. The Fed can print dollars ad infinitum. So it's just total shell game. And then the government can spend those dollars as it sees fit. And that you end up with a situation where the government has extreme indebtedness, but will just keep printing more money to externalize the cost of that indebtedness onto the population via inflation. So you can think about it this way, the price inflation that you experience as a consumer, you are just paying for the slow motion default of your government on its debt.

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Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

SeaWolf Press Illustrated Classic (Unabridged)

The book is referenced when discussing the analogy of Gulliver being tied down by tiny strings, which Elon Musk believes represents the overwhelming amount of regulations that are hindering progress.

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Of course, he's talking about Gulliver's Travels, that great scene if you've read the book or if you've watched any of it, made multiple movies about it. Gulliver's laying there and h...

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The book is referenced when discussing the analogy of Gulliver being tied down by tiny strings, which Elon Musk believes represents the overwhelming amount of regulations that are hindering progress.

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Of course, he's talking about Gulliver's Travels, that great scene if you've read the book or if you've watched any of it, made multiple movies about it. Gulliver's laying there and he's huge and they have all these people with these straps keeping him down. And that's all of us right now, right?

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Paul Saladino MD

The Carnivore Code

Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet

The Carnivore Code advocates for an ancestral diet, based on the idea that optimal health can be achieved by returning to our ancestors' diets, focusing on unprocessed animal foods.

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Joining me today is a double board certified physician, an animal based diet advocate and author of The Carnivore Code, unlocking the secrets to optimal health by returning to our anc...

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The Carnivore Code advocates for an ancestral diet, based on the idea that optimal health can be achieved by returning to our ancestors' diets, focusing on unprocessed animal foods.

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Joining me today is a double board certified physician, an animal based diet advocate and author of The Carnivore Code, unlocking the secrets to optimal health by returning to our ancestral diet. Dr. Paul Saladino, I am glad to have you in studio.

It's not exactly what you do anymore, which I do want to get into.

I wrote a book about the carnivore diet and this gets to like the next level.

So I'll lay out a few cases.

I think it's very clear that grass finishing, grass feeding, that's the goal.

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Stephen P. Borgatti

Analyzing Social Networks Using R

It is a movie about the founding of Facebook.

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You know the Winklevoss twins, they were two of the original investors in Facebook way back when if you saw that movie, The Social Network, but they're big VC guys in Silicon Valley who I don't think...

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It is a movie about the founding of Facebook.

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You know the Winklevoss twins, they were two of the original investors in Facebook way back when if you saw that movie, The Social Network, but they're big VC guys in Silicon Valley who I don't think were Trump supporters and Tyler Winklevoss just tweeted this

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Michael Richards

Entrances and Exits

It was released on the "Today Show" and Michael Richards explained how he has changed since his controversial racist remarks at the Laugh Factory in 2006. He explained how anger had a hold of him, and he took an exodus to see what was going on inside him.

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Anger, looking at it very closely. It's something that's always with us, certainly with me.

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It was released on the "Today Show" and Michael Richards explained how he has changed since his controversial racist remarks at the Laugh Factory in 2006. He explained how anger had a hold of him, and he took an exodus to see what was going on inside him.

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Anger, looking at it very closely. It's something that's always with us, certainly with me.

Not as horrible as it was 18 years ago. Anger had a hold of me and I canceled myself out. You canceled yourself. Take an exodus, get away from show business and see what the heck is going on inside me to have been so despicable that night and losing my cool and hurting.

I think so.

The difference? Probably more aware of myself.

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Camille Paglia

Sex, Art and American Culture

Essays

Camille Paglia, a social critic, was interviewed in 1995 and expressed her concerns about the direction of higher education. She expressed that she believed in enlightened multiculturalism but was opposed to a politicized agenda in the classroom.

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All right now I am on the record, my last book, Sex, Art and American Culture had a whole transcript of a multicultural course I taught at the university, okay? With an Asian professo...

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Camille Paglia, a social critic, was interviewed in 1995 and expressed her concerns about the direction of higher education. She expressed that she believed in enlightened multiculturalism but was opposed to a politicized agenda in the classroom.

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All right now I am on the record, my last book, Sex, Art and American Culture had a whole transcript of a multicultural course I taught at the university, okay? With an Asian professor, okay? I believe in enlightened multiculturalism based on scholarship.

What's the difference in unenlightened and enlightened multiculturalism? I'm totally opposed to any politicized agenda in the classroom, okay? I do not want this crappy melodrama being taught to our students that Western civilization is filled with evil patriarchs and out there are the wonderful people of color.

Well, but I don't think anyone that I know of that believes that, well, just think of what you just said. Think of what you said. Listen, you don't know, Stephen Greenblatt, the new historicist, okay? Who I, I mean my God, every word out of their mouth is about the evil of Western culture. You don't know how bad it is. That all Western culture is evil and all Asian or African culture is unflawed. These people who have control of the university's humanities departments now do not believe in great art, okay? They do not believe, they believe that dead white European males are just, you know, have been canonized.

You have no freaking idea what's going on.

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Kelly G. Wilson

Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong

A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety

The host sarcastically suggested a book title for Anthony Fauci, referencing Fauci's wealth despite getting everything wrong about the pandemic.

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He should write a book, How to Get Everything Wrong and Get Really Rich by Anthony Fauci. That's a book. That's a book.

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The host sarcastically suggested a book title for Anthony Fauci, referencing Fauci's wealth despite getting everything wrong about the pandemic.

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He should write a book, How to Get Everything Wrong and Get Really Rich by Anthony Fauci. That's a book. That's a book.

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Barry Linton

The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire

Life, Liberty, And The Death Of The Republic

This book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian churc...

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This book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian church with Hillsdale College's online courses all available for free.

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Eusebius

The History of the Church

From Christ to Constantine (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

This book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian churc...

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This book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian church with Hillsdale College's online courses all available for free.

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Tong Chock, Ginger

Genesis in Ancient China

The Creation Story in China's Earliest Script

This book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian churc...

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This book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian church with Hillsdale College's online courses all available for free.

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C. S. Lewis

The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

An Anthology of 8 C. S. Lewis Titles

The book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian churc...

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The book was mentioned as one of the many free online courses offered by Hillsdale College. The book was described as one of the most important and enduring subject areas to study.

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You can learn about the works of C.S. Lewis, the stories of the book of Genesis, the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, the rise and fall of the Roman Republic or the history of ancient Christian church with Hillsdale College's online courses all available for free.

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Gad Saad

The Consuming Instinct

What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature

The book discussed the detractors of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, arguing that humans are evolutionary minded creatures.

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In The Consuming Instinct, which was my 2011 book, in the first chapter, I go through all of the key points that the detractors have.

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The book discussed the detractors of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, arguing that humans are evolutionary minded creatures.

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In The Consuming Instinct, which was my 2011 book, in the first chapter, I go through all of the key points that the detractors have.

So I'll mention a few here for you. So one is the biological slash genetic determinism.

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Richard Eyre

The Happiness Paradox the Happiness Paradigm

The Very Things We Thought Would Bring Us Joy Actually Steal It Away

The book discussed the mismatch hypothesis, arguing that many traits that would have been evolutionarily advantageous in the past are no longer adaptive in the modern environment. The book also mentioned the Harvard study on adult well-being, which found that the quality of social relationships is the biggest predictor of happiness. The book also discussed the role of genes in happiness, arguing that 50% of happiness scores are influenced by genetics.

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Indeed. You know, the psychological weight of having young children and not putting all the odds in my favor.

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The book discussed the mismatch hypothesis, arguing that many traits that would have been evolutionarily advantageous in the past are no longer adaptive in the modern environment. The book also mentioned the Harvard study on adult well-being, which found that the quality of social relationships is the biggest predictor of happiness. The book also discussed the role of genes in happiness, arguing that 50% of happiness scores are influenced by genetics.

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Indeed. You know, the psychological weight of having young children and not putting all the odds in my favor.

So there's something in evolutionary theory called the mismatch hypothesis.

So for example, when it comes to the top health killers, colon cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and so on, many of those diseases, you don't typically find them in hunter gatherer societies that mimic our evolutionary past because here's what happens.

We evolved in an environment of caloric scarcity and caloric uncertainty.

We've evolved to be in small bands of people that really matter to us.

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