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T.H.E. Audio Book Club

English, Arts, 1 season, 13 episodes, 19 hours, 43 minutes
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Jordan Leigh and Matthew English talk about books
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Ch. 6 - The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner), The Chip (T.R. Reid), Crystal Fire (Michael Riordan)

Ch. 6 - The Idea Factory (Jon Gertner), The Chip (T.R. Reid), Crystal Fire (Michael Riordan)
1/1/11 hour, 29 minutes, 32 seconds
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Ch. 8 - Understanding Media (Marshall McLuhan), Propaganda (Edward Bernays), Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)

Matt and Jordan work through Marshall McLuhan's media theory and the life of Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda.
1/1/148 minutes, 35 seconds
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Ch. 5 - Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)

Ch. 5 - Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
1/1/12 hours, 21 seconds
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Ch. 2 - Einstein (Walter Isaacson), Moonwalking with Einstein (Joshua Foer), Civilian Warriors (Erik Prince)

Ch. 2 - Einstein (Walter Isaacson), Moonwalking with Einstein (Joshua Foer), Civilian Warriors (Erik Prince)
1/1/11 hour, 30 minutes, 52 seconds
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Ch. 7 - The Fish That Ate the Whale (Rich Cohen), Fordlandia (Greg Grandin)

Matt 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.
1/1/11 hour, 31 minutes, 31 seconds
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Ch. 9 - The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe), PiHKAL (Alexander Shulgin), The Psychedelic Experience (Timothy Leary)

Matt and Jordan review some famous books that explore the topic of psychedelics. Jordan describes his experience taking LSD for the first time.
1/1/11 hour, 23 minutes, 12 seconds
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Ch. 1 - On China (Henry Kissinger), China's Economy (Arthur Kroeber)

On China (Henry Kissinger), China's Economy (Arthur Kroeber)
1/1/11 hour, 57 minutes, 30 seconds
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Ch. 11 - The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery (Robert Greene)

Matt and Jordan return from break to discuss their journey through Eastern Europe and Robert Greene's uncanny ability to analyze wikipedia articles
1/1/11 hour, 27 minutes, 12 seconds
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Ch. 12 - Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You (Cal Newport), Remote (DHH, Jason Fried), The 4-Hour Workweek (Timothy Ferriss)

Matt and Jordan take a look at some of the most popular books around modern work productivity.
1/1/153 minutes, 41 seconds
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Ch. 3 - The Patriarch (David Nasaw), Conspiracy (Ryan Holiday)

Ch. 3 - The Patriarch (David Nasaw), Conspiracy (Ryan Holiday)
1/1/11 hour, 28 minutes, 17 seconds
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Ch. 4 - The Rum Diary (Hunter S Thompson), The Battle for Paradise (Naomi Klein)

Ch. 4 - The Rum Diary (Hunter S Thompson), The Battle for Paradise (Naomi Klein)
1/1/146 minutes, 5 seconds
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Ch. 10 - The Power Broker (Robert Caro), Divided Highways (Tom Lewis)

Matt and Jordan break down Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert Moses, the man who built New York.
1/1/13 hours, 5 minutes, 3 seconds
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Ch. 13 - Billion Dollar Whale (Tom Wright), The Oligarchs (David Hoffman), China's Second Continent (Howard French)

Jho Low makes a bid for T.H.E. Audio Book Club hall of fame
1/1/11 hour, 21 minutes, 58 seconds