Joe comes at me with a knife. Bag of bolts vs. anti-depressants. Sir Terrance Allen Pratchett and the tragic comedy of death. Everything is funnier on shrooms. Asking directions from talking trees. Ruthless 80's corporatism. Ankh-Morpork. Something unpronounceable. Death's hot daughter. Honoring Kobe's ghost. Banning insider trading, paying congress more, keeping money out of politics. The awesome Assyrian empire. There's a new sucker born every minute.

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## Current Booklist:

1. Dune, Frank Herbert

2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

3. Range, David Epstein

4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

6. Anabasis, Xenophon

7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

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FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: If you have any questions relating to future books, or just about ourselves, leave a message in the comments and we might squeeze them into a future episode!

The second half of our Siddhartha discussion: it's all bits this time.

The mysteries of youth. Mysterious notes I left myself three years ago. 9-year-old me thought we'd solved racism. The Hunger Games as a metaphor for societal collapse. Unsolicited opinions on falling birth rates and Somalia. The rise of India and China as super-powers. Trump cuts the brake lines on the car he's driving. We're officially Nazi sympathizers.

Current Booklist:

1. Dune, Frank Herbert

2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

3. Range, David Epstein

4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

6. Anabasis, Xenophon

7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

...

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: If you have any questions relating to future books, or just about ourselves, leave a message in the comments and we might squeeze them into a future episode!

The futility of teaching through language. Samana of the woods. Kamala teaches us the ways of love. The buddha is a degenerate gambler. The buddha is my landlord and I'm getting evicted. Good friends who took separate paths in life come together once again. All humans are children and it's disgusting. The caged bird is set free, or it dies in its cage. We have forgotten the face of our father. The river flows, each drop rippling past rock, waterfall. Each drop replaced with the next, and the sound the river makes is "Ohm".

Current Booklist:

1. Dune, Frank Herbert

2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

3. Range, David Epstein

4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

6. Anabasis, Xenophon

7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

...

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: If you have any questions relating to future books, or just about ourselves, leave a message in the comments and we might squeeze them into a future episode!

Epstein's views on the acceptable range. The power of changing course late in life. Disfigured venetian orphans. High-school test-score cartels. Our ancient brains and the modern struggle. The danger of liberal c*cks. Trump's diverse, inclusive and equitable fan-club. Reform! Antidisestablishmentarianism vs. Lugubrious.

Current Booklist:

1. Dune, Frank Herbert

2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

3. Range, David Epstein

4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

6. Anabasis, Xenophon

7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

...

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: If you have any questions relating to future books, or just about ourselves, leave a message in the comments and we might squeeze them into a future episode!

The AI Book club. Just kidding. The Alpha Book Club. Just kidding. The movie "Ghost Dog". An abusive father. The corrosive power of words. Joining the Japanese army in spring 1945. Overthrowing the Japanese Government in 1970. Clouds of semen. My best friend Hitler. The tragic beauty of being utterly yoked in the shadow of death. The value of perspectives you disagree with. The genius of the America Party.

Current Booklist:

1. Dune, Frank Herbert

2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

3. Range, David Epstein

4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

6. Anabasis, Xenophon

7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

...

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: If you have any questions relating to future books, or just about ourselves, leave a message in the comments and we might squeeze them into a future episode!

Dune. The Atreides and the Haarkonens. Feints within feints within feints. Schemes within schemes within schemes. Good, evil, and politics. The scene that made me put the book down for five years. The big men theory of politics. Sexism in the force. Mister Pickles. That one actor from the Emperor's New Groove whose voice I always recognize but name I can never remember. A book written by Epstein. Not that Epstein. Get your head out of the gutter.

Current Booklist:

1. Dune, Frank Herbert

2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

3. Range, David Epstein

4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

6. Anabasis, Xenophon

7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

8. ???

9. ???

10. ???

...

FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY: If you have any questions relating to future books, or just about ourselves, leave a message in the comments and we might squeeze them into a future episode!