Host Joshua Turek is joined by guest Brian Recker, author of the new book "Hell Bent" (How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love). They discuss the books Brian read while researching his own, which details redefining his own spirituality and Christian beliefs. Discussing masculinity and softening the world, the two detail their own unique paths toward similar conclusions.

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Books Talked About Include:

Debt by David Graeber

Hell Bent by Brian Recker

Adam’s Return by Richard Rohr

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel by Renate Wind

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn

the will to change bell hooks

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Political commentator Lily Eagla joins host Joshua Turek to discuss mutual aid, retraining the offline world back into your brain, and books that radicalized her.

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books

mutual aid by dean spade

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

The Year of Living Biblically

Our American Israel

100 years was on palestine by rashid kalidi

the autobiography of malcolm x

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Guest Larry Charles and host Joshua Turek talk SF and LA noir, science fiction grounded on Earth, Larry's new memoir Comedy Samurai . They talk personal growth, the transformative power of literature and how reading can serve as both a source of pleasure and a means of preserving sacred knowledge.

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Books Talked About Include:

Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson

City of Night by John Reshy

crime writers: edward bunker, jim thompson, david goodis, raymond chandler, dashiell hammet

The Woman Chase by Charles WIliford

The Ripley Books by Patricia Highsmith

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy Hughes 

The Motel Life by Willy Vlauten

The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg

Service by John Tottenham

Ablutions by Patrick Dewitt

Days of the Locust by Nathaniel West 

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Guest Yasha Levine and Host Joshua Turek discuss everything from technofeudalism to pistachios.

San Francisco! For tickets Nov 1 to see Yasha's new documentary at Roxie Theater with live Q&A hosted by Joshua Turek here

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Books Talked About Include

Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord

Surveillance Valley - Yasha Levine

The Image - Daniel Boorstijn

Neil Postman - Amusing ourselves to death

Raven Rock

Dead Cities - Mike Davis

Moderan - David Bunch

Shadow of the torture - Gene Wolf

The Dying Earth Series - Jack Vance sci fi

Cadillac Desert

The American Genocide

The End of th Myth

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Recorded remotely from Bad Animal Books in Santa Cruz, CA. Joshua Turek and Maddy Power Maddy shares her personal experience of losing her home and books in the Eaton Canyon Fire in Alta Dena and the two books she grabbed before evacuating

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Books talked about include:

Werener Herzog's Guide for the Perplexed

Agnes Varda interviews

David Sedaris “Theft and Finding”

bell hooks "The Will to Change"

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On a pit stop in Santa Cruz with family between dates on my comedy tour (Get your tickets to my San Diego show Friday and L.A., SF, Eureka, next week then Seattle and Portland) before heading up the west coast. I get into a little of what I'm reading, my favorite bookstores so far on this trip, and why I took this podcast off of Spotify (hint they're evil). Come to my shows if I'm in your city!

All my shows

7/11 San Diego

7/16 L.A.

7/18&19 SF

7/20 Eureka

7/25 Seattle

8/15 Portland

8/21-23 Boise

8/27 Tulsa

8/28 Kansas City

8/29 New Orleans

9/6 Tucson

Books Talked About:

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

Meet Me in the Bathroom

Perfect Victims - Mohammed El Kurd

Our American Israel - Amy Kaplan

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad

Blue Desert - Charles Bowden

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Officially on my comedy tour across the United States during particularly distressing times. It took six nights and five days but the morning after my first headlining show at Rodney's in Manhattan I managed some time to visit the staple bookstore of NYC "The Strand". CHICAGO my show at Zanies is tonight! Tickets are getting low. You can use discout code TUREK10 for $15.75 tickets here. The rest of my tour is here with more dates and cities to come so follow my bandsintown to get notified for when I come to yours. Tour dates below.

6/24 CHICAGO

6/27 PHILADELPHIA

6/29 DALLAS 

7/11 SAN DIEGO

7/16 L.A.

7/18&19 SF

7/20 EUREKA

7/25 SEATTLE

8/15 PORTLAND

8/21-23 BOISE

8/27 TULSA

8/28 KANSAS CITY

8/29 NEW ORLEANS

9/6 TUCSON

9/18 TAMPA

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Comedian Cam George of Talking Talk Tuah now Talking Talk podcast discusses being mystified by Infinite Jest and encountering this red flag memed book with new eyes.

Joshua's U.S. comedy tour starts this Saturday in New York City. That's Saturday night June 21 at Rodney's on the Upper Eastside. Followed by Chicago on Tuesday June 24 at Zanies. Philadelphia June 27. Dallas June 29 and more. Get tickets now! For all things Joshua Turek go to joshuaturek.com

Books Talked About Include:

Infinite jest

sound and the fury

all the pretty horses

blood meridian

lonesome dove

confederacy of dunces

hunger games

girl with the dragon tattoo

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Catch Joshua on tour! New York City show is in two weeks at Rodney's on 6/21! Chicago at Zainies 6/24! Philly at Next in Line Comedy 6/27! And More....Just added New Orleans! Boise! Coming soon with more dates. Follow my Bandsintown to be notified! And order signed copies of my poetry book

EMT and Political Creator Hugo of Seize the Means Shirts talks reading 70 books a year with host Joshua Turek. Hard to stomach nonfiction and breezy science fiction.

Books talked about include

autobiography of malcom x

how to hide an empire

jakarta method

assada

The word for world is forest

the poppy fields

parable of the sower

parable of the talents

naomi klein shock doctrine

Washington Bullets

King Leopolds ghost

Cobalt Red

the rediscovery of america

the indigenous peoples history of the united states

black against empire

manufacturing consent

inventing reality

fight like hell

uprising by haddix

Braiding sweetgrass

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Catch Joshua Turek on comedy tour this summer of 2025. To get notified of cities and dates follow his bandsintown and to buy signed copies of his new poetry book "Of Dumb Importance" on joshuaturek.com

Writer and filmmaker Evgenia Kovda goes in depth with host Joshua Turek on sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. Did this troubled man predict the future we are living in now or was he the architect of it for bad actors? Evgenia and Joshua discuss the writings of Dick as well as their own serendipitous interactions with each other in changing neighborhoods over the years as well as Josh's visit to her podcast with Yasha Levine "In Bed with the Russians". Check out Evgenia and Yasha's Substack it's a favorite of Turek Books!

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