Money Talks: How to Write a Trashy Airport Book
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
For this Money Talks, lawyer/podcaster Peter Shamshiri, co-host of If Books Could Kill, reveals the secrets of junk nonfiction to host Emily Peck. He explains why “airport books” like The Secret, Hillbilly Elegy, and The Tipping Point tend to be rife with non-advice, pseudoscience, and outright junk, and what that means for our culture at large. He also tells how to get rich with your own crappy self-help book!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Money Talks. It's a special extra podcast from Slate Money |
| 0:14.4 | where we chat with brilliant and interesting people. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm also the co-host of Slate Money |
| 0:21.5 | and I'm here today with Peter Shamsheri. |
| 0:24.0 | Peter, welcome to Money Talks. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:27.0 | Peter used to be a lawyer now hosts at least two podcasts that I'm aware of. |
| 0:31.0 | That's right. |
| 0:32.0 | There's one about the Supreme Court called |
| 0:34.0 | 5.4 which has the great tagline of it's a podcast about why the Supreme Court sucks and |
| 0:40.0 | it's great but what I wanted you to talk about is your other podcast if books could kill, which I listen to. |
| 0:46.5 | And that's where you and Michael Hobbs basically read bad books. |
| 0:51.0 | We frame it as that we're reading airport books. It's probably a little broader |
| 0:56.3 | than that in reality, but books that we think are quite popular and are either pernicious in full or in part and we sort of try to |
| 1:06.4 | dissect that a little bit. So that's all coming up on Money Talks. |
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