5-4 Presents: If Books Could Kill - "Outliers"
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week, 5-4 invites you to check out an episode of If Books Could Kill, featuring Michael Hobbes, of Maintenance Phase, and 5-4's own Peter.
If Books Could Kill deconstructs the airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds. FromThe Game to Freakonomics, if an idea is bad enough, someone has written a book about it, and Peter and Michael are here to rip it to shreds. If you like the show, you can find more wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 1:17.5 | I am happy to share with you folks an episode of my other podcast, New Podcast, which I |
| 1:24.3 | am working on with Michael Hobbs of former You're Wrong About and current maintenance phase |
| 1:30.8 | fame, called If Books Could Kill. |
| 1:34.8 | We started it because we both had sort of a similar affinity for dumb ideas, and we |
| 1:42.5 | thought like, how are we going to explore the world of dumb ideas? |
| 1:48.6 | And we landed on airport books, like the schlocky Gladwell and Gladwell adjacent shit |
| 1:57.1 | that you see in airports, the sort of pop science that makes really mediocre people feel |
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