T.H.E. Audio Book Club
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsJordan Leigh and Matthew English talk about books
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Episodes
Ch. 13 - Billion Dollar Whale (Tom Wright), The Oligarchs (David Hoffman), China's Second Continent (Howard French)
February 09, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBJho Low makes a bid for T.H.E. Audio Book Club hall of fame
Ch. 12 - Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport), Remote (DHH, Jason Fried), The 4-Hour Workweek (Timothy Ferriss)
January 05, 2019 05:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBMatt and Jordan take a look at some of the most popular books around modern work productivity.
Ch. 11 - The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery (Robert Greene)
December 02, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 79.3 MBMatt and Jordan return from break to discuss their journey through Eastern Europe and Robert Greene's uncanny ability to analyze wikipedia articles
Ch. 10 - The Power Broker (Robert Caro), Divided Highways (Tom Lewis)
October 26, 2018 05:00 - 3 hours - 214 MBMatt and Jordan break down Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert Moses, the man who built New York.
Ch. 9 - The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe), PiHKAL (Alexander Shulgin), The Psychedelic Experience (Timothy Leary)
October 12, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 96.1 MBMatt and Jordan review some famous books that explore the topic of psychedelics. Jordan describes his experience taking LSD for the first time.
Ch. 8 - Understanding Media (Marshall McLuhan), Propaganda (Edward Bernays), Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)
October 01, 2018 05:00 - 48 minutes - 56.2 MBMatt and Jordan work through Marshall McLuhan's media theory and the life of Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda.
Ch. 7 - The Fish That Ate the Whale (Rich Cohen), Fordlandia (Greg Grandin)
September 20, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBMatt and Jordan talk about the incredible history of bananas, Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, and Samuel Zemurray makes a bid for T.H.E. Audio Book Club hall of fame.
Ch. 6 - The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner), The Chip (T.R. Reid), Crystal Fire (Michael Riordan)
September 15, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBCh. 6 - The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner), The Chip (T.R. Reid), Crystal Fire (Michael Riordan)
Ch. 5 - Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
September 07, 2018 05:00 - 2 hours - 139 MBCh. 5 - Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
Ch. 4 - The Rum Diary (Hunter S Thompson), The Battle for Paradise (Naomi Klein)
August 31, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes - 53.3 MBCh. 4 - The Rum Diary (Hunter S Thompson), The Battle for Paradise (Naomi Klein)
Ch. 3 - The Patriarch (David Nasaw), Conspiracy (Ryan Holiday)
August 24, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBCh. 3 - The Patriarch (David Nasaw), Conspiracy (Ryan Holiday)
Ch. 2 - Einstein (Walter Isaacson), Moonwalking with Einstein (Joshua Foer), Civilian Warriors (Erik Prince)
August 17, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBCh. 2 - Einstein (Walter Isaacson), Moonwalking with Einstein (Joshua Foer), Civilian Warriors (Erik Prince)
Ch. 1 - On China (Henry Kissinger), China's Economy (Arthur Kroeber)
August 07, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBOn China (Henry Kissinger), China's Economy (Arthur Kroeber)