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Bryan Callen

32 appearances: #2393 (Oct 15, 2025), #2257 (Jan 15, 2025), #2017 (Aug 4, 2023), #1449 (Mar 27, 2020), #1404 (Dec 21, 2019), #1290 (May 3, 2019), #1269 (Mar 20, 2019), #1088 (Mar 6, 2018), #1045 (Nov 28, 2017), #899 (Jan 12, 2017), #861 (Oct 18, 2016), #848 (Sep 20, 2016), #824 (Jul 21, 2016), #691 (Sep 1, 2015), #656 (Jun 6, 2015), #636 (Apr 20, 2015), #557 (Oct 7, 2014), #402 (Oct 9, 2013), #376 (Jul 23, 2013), #345 (Apr 1, 2013), #326 (Feb 20, 2013), #307 (Jan 4, 2013), #258 (Aug 30, 2012), #251 (Aug 13, 2012), #212 (May 1, 2012), #172 (Jan 3, 2012), #121 (Jul 11, 2011), #105 (May 9, 2011), #89 (Mar 15, 2011), #69 (Jan 5, 2011), #38 (Aug 31, 2010), #32 (Jul 28, 2010)

Books from their episodes 93 books · 56 brought up by Bryan Callen

1. 

   War Is a Racket

   Smedley Butler

   #2393 · Bryan Callen · 01:16:13

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   The Rape of Nanking

   Iris Chang

   #2393 · Bryan Callen · 01:47:10

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   Waking Up

   Sam Harris

   #2257 · Bryan Callen · 00:26:38; #1269 · Bryan Callen · 02:08:05

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   Beyond Boredom and Anxiety

   Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

   #2257 · Bryan Callen · 01:51:17

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   The Blank Slate

   Steven Pinker

   #2257 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:10:34; #899 · Bryan Callen · 02:00:33

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   Guns, Germs, and Steel

   Jared Diamond

   #2257 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:12:02; #376 · Bryan Callen · 02:44:41; #326 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:28:44

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   A Man for All Seasons

   Robert Bolt

   #2257 · Bryan Callen · 02:07:21

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8. 

   The Fifth Risk

   Michael Lewis

   #2257 · Bryan Callen · 02:27:59

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9. 

   The Bible

   Traditional

   #2257 · Bryan Callen · 02:29:34; #2017 · Bryan Callen · 00:34:42; #1449 · Bryan Callen · 01:02:05; #1290 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:03:09; #1269 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:17:54; #824 · Bryan Callen · 00:26:24; #557 · Bryan Callen · 01:10:15; #326 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:28:10; #105 · Bryan Callen · 00:13:45; #89 · Bryan Callen · 00:52:30; #69 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:57:25

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    Moby-Dick

    Herman Melville

    #2257 · Bryan Callen · 02:33:02

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    Shantaram

    Gregory David Roberts

    #2257 · Bryan Callen · 02:40:35

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    The Quran

    Traditional

    #2017 · Bryan Callen · 00:17:02; #557 · Bryan Callen · 01:38:25; #121 · Bryan Callen · 02:11:11

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13. 

    The Art of War

    孙武 (Sun Tzu)

    #2017 · Bryan Callen · 01:17:47

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14. 

    The Immortality Key

    Brian C. Muraresku

    #2017 · Bryan Callen · 02:05:16

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15. 

    The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi

    #1449 · Bryan Callen · 01:22:29; #861 · Bryan Callen · 02:56:35; #345 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:22:23

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16. 

    Why Nations Fail

    Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

    #1449 · Bryan Callen · 01:38:53

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17. 

    Behave

    Robert M. Sapolsky

    #1449 · Bryan Callen · 02:19:34

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18. 

    Brother Sam

    Bill Kinison

    #1404 · Bryan Callen · 01:32:58

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19. 

    The Sports Gene

    David Epstein

    #1290 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:51:40; #1088 · Bryan Callen · 00:10:17; #402 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:06:31

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20. 

    Long Day's Journey into Night

    Oneill

    #1269 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:37:15; #105 · Bryan Callen · 00:20:17

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21. 

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    #1269 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:08:36; #1088 · Bryan Callen · 00:27:16; #1045 · Bryan Callen · 00:10:38

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22. 

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

    #1088 · Bryan Callen · 00:39:55

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23. 

    Doughnut Economics

    Kate Raworth

    #1088 · Bryan Callen · 00:40:12

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24. 

    Homo Deus

    Yuval Noah Harari

    #1045 · Bryan Callen · 00:10:38

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25. 

    Blink

    Malcolm Gladwell

    #1045 · Bryan Callen · 00:19:31; #848 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:06:06; #824 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:44:26; #121 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:38:39

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26. 

    A Renegade History of the United States

    Thaddeus Russell

    #1045 · Bryan Callen · 00:23:14

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27. 

    The Happiness Hypothesis

    Jonathan Haidt

    #1045 · Bryan Callen · 02:43:32; #557 · Bryan Callen · 00:43:37

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28. 

    The Symposium

    Plato

    #899 · Bryan Callen · 02:11:23

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29. 

    Going Clear

    Lawrence Wright

    #861 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:39:11; #376 · Bryan Callen · 01:46:37

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30. 

    The Art of Learning

    Josh Waitzkin

    #848 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:06:06; #69 · Bryan Callen · 02:15:47

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31. 

    Skeptic

    Michael Shermer

    #848 · Bryan Callen · 01:07:34

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32. 

    The Art of the Deal

    Donald Trump

    #824 · Bryan Callen · 00:44:19

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33. 

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut

    #824 · Bryan Callen · 01:01:21

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34. 

    Our Inner Ape

    Frans de Waal

    #656 · Bryan Callen · 01:06:35

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35. 

    The Better Angels of Our Nature

    Steven Pinker

    #636 · Bryan Callen · 02:18:08

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36. 

    1491

    Charles C. Mann

    #402 · Bryan Callen · 01:29:00

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37. 

    1493

    Charles C. Mann

    #402 · Bryan Callen · 01:29:00

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38. 

    The Big Short

    Michael Lewis

    #376 · Bryan Callen · 01:14:01

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39. 

    The China Study

    T. Colin Campbell

    #345 · Bryan Callen · 01:47:28; #258 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:26:30; #251 · Bryan Callen · 00:01:17

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    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell

    #326 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:07:05; #251 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:41:46; #105 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:40:30; #38 · Bryan Callen · 01:25:07

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41. 

    The Sociopath Next Door

    Martha Stout

    #307 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:18:43; #251 · Bryan Callen · 00:31:02

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42. 

    Death in the Afternoon

    Ernest Hemingway

    #258 · Bryan Callen · 00:51:13; #89 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:15:16

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43. 

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    #258 · Bryan Callen · 02:06:26

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44. 

    The Straight-A Conspiracy

    Hunter Maats, Katie O'Brien

    #251 · Bryan Callen · 00:41:10

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45. 

    The 4-Hour Workweek

    Timothy Ferriss

    #172 · Bryan Callen · 01:10:16

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46. 

    The 4-Hour Body

    Timothy Ferriss

    #172 · Bryan Callen · 01:10:16

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47. 

    I Ching

    Traditional

    #172 · Bryan Callen · 01:18:54

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48. 

    How the Irish Saved Civilization

    Thomas Cahill

    #172 · Bryan Callen · 01:23:40

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49. 

    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    Irving Stone

    #172 · Bryan Callen · 01:30:20

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50. 

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Emil Frankl

    #121 · Bryan Callen · 01:28:42

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51. 

    The War of Art

    Steven Pressfield

    #121 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:12:41; #32 · Bryan Callen · 01:03:26

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52. 

    Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

    John Perkins

    #105 · Bryan Callen · 01:16:40

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53. 

    The Strain

    Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

    #38 · Bryan Callen · 01:30:25

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54. 

    Cujo

    Stephen King

    #38 · Bryan Callen · 02:06:44

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55. 

    On Writing

    Stephen King

    #38 · Bryan Callen · 02:07:59

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56. 

    The Dark Stuff

    Nick Kent

    #38 · Bryan Callen · 02:08:35; #32 · Bryan Callen · 01:11:40

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57. 

    Boomerang

    Michael Lewis

    #2257 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:08:36

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58. 

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

    #2257 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:28:25; #69 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:46:49

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59. 

    Where the Wild Things Are

    Maurice Sendak

    #1449 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:30:31

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60. 

    Raising Lions

    Joe Newman

    #1449 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:52:55

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61. 

    The Order of Time

    Carlo Rovelli

    #1404 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:02:47

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62. 

    Moonwalking with Einstein

    Joshua Foer

    #1290 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:10:05

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63. 

    America Before

    Graham Hancock

    #1290 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:44:38

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64. 

    Range

    David Epstein

    #1290 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:51:49

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65. 

    Bad Pharma

    Ben Goldacre

    #1269 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:40:02

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66. 

    Why We Sleep

    Matthew Walker

    #1269 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:43:32

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67. 

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    #1269 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:17:54

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68. 

    How to Fix the Future

    Andrew Keen

    #1088 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:19:18

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69. 

    The Internet Is Not the Answer

    Andrew Keen

    #1088 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:19:18

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70. 

    Scarcity

    Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

    #1088 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:39:26

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71. 

    Republic Lost

    Lawrence Lessig

    #1088 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:24:26; #376 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:19:35; #345 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:43:42; #307 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:31:16

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72. 

    The Strange Order of Things

    Antonio Damasio

    #1088 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:50:21

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73. 

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    #899 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:25:15; #848 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:06:06

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74. 

    Fit for Life

    Harvey Diamond, Robert Kaufman

    #861 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:39:30

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75. 

    Coyote America

    Dan Flores

    #848 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:45:42

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76. 

    1984

    George Orwell

    #691 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:38:13

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77. 

    Twilight

    Stephenie Meyer

    #636 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:44:09

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78. 

    Sex at Dawn

    Christopher Ryan

    #402 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:44:17

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79. 

    The Deep Self

    John C. Lilly

    #402 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:39:13

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80. 

    Currency Wars

    James Rickards

    #376 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:09:13

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81. 

    The Looming Tower

    Lawrence Wright

    #376 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:46:46

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82. 

    Meat Eater

    Steven Rinella

    #345 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:23:13

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83. 

    Epic of Gilgamesh

    Traditional

    #326 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:28:10

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84. 

    The 4-Hour Chef

    Timothy Ferriss

    #326 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:18:48

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85. 

    Conan the Usurper

    Robert E. Howard

    #307 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:01:04

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86. 

    The Paleo Solution

    Robb Wolf

    #251 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:00:57

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87. 

    The Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    #212 · Joe Rogan (host) · 02:24:55

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88. 

    Exodus

    Leon Uris

    #172 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:18:43

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89. 

    Trinity

    Leon Uris

    #172 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:18:43

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90. 

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    #89 · Joe Rogan (host) · 00:32:33

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91. 

    The Twelfth Planet

    Zecharia Sitchin

    #69 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:45:00

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92. 

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    #32 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:23:39

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93. 

    Babette's Feast

    Karen Blixen

    #32 · Joe Rogan (host) · 01:24:05

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