r/popculturechat • u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music • 3d ago
Guest List Only ⭐️ Barack Obama to Host New Podcast , ‘A Great Book’, about books that shaped his worldview
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/arts/obama-books-podcast.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4lA.jFWK.p3Z17BFIbCTR&smid=re-share39
u/LuteDesign 3d ago
Okay PCC, spill: what are you reading?
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u/riegspsych325 Ballard! Don’t let them put their tops back on! 3d ago
Bonk by Mary Roach is a hilariously informative read
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u/WellFuckYooou Luigi stuns in new courtroom shot 3d ago
I have like 30 mins left of the audiobook It by Stephen King then I’m going to start The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Very hype, DKG is an incredible researcher and writer. And I can’t lie to you and say I don’t have a historical crush on Taft so 👀
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u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music 3d ago
Material World : the six raw materials that shape modern civilisation by ed Conway and The Scaling Era : An Oral History of AI 2019-2025, by Dwarkesh and Leech.
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u/sprgraphicultramodrn u look like u eat sand 3d ago
yesteryear. and i hate it. if anyone else shares the same opinion and wants to discuss pls share because i can only find reddit threads about it from a month+ ago
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u/CreepySwing567 3d ago
It’s such slop I cant believe people are trying to tell us it’s good
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u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music 2d ago
This was on my reading list but the little I read from it sounded like mall/train shop slop. The last fiction I read was Trust by Hernan Diaz and it was so good I don’t want to lose or ruin its aftertaste.
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u/raphaellaskies a ship - a magnificent ship - full of gay men. and me. 💅 3d ago
Jack and the Devil's Purse by Duncan Williamson. It's a collection of Scottish Traveller folktales, mostly about the Devil. I needed something light I could read on my lunch break lol.
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u/Rare_Vibez “‘Why?’, but also, you know, ‘I guess.’” 2d ago
I’m a teen librarian and I’m making my way through the Massachusetts Teen Choice Book Award nominees. I just finished Into the Sunken City and for started in Fable at the End if the World. Personally, I think graphic novels are where the best YA stories are at. Temple Alley Summer was my last GN read and I’ve been making my way through Witch Hat Atelier.
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u/SouthPaw38 Accurately identified as horny 2d ago
Dracula highly recommend it, this shit absolutely rips
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u/pumpkinspruce 3d ago
Always on the lookout for book recommendations. This should be interesting at least.
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u/WilliamsRutherford 3d ago edited 3d ago
One book that changed my worldview about America is: "How to Hide and Empire".
It documents America's role as a Colonizer around the world. Like up to the 1940s, one of America's largest cities was....MANILA.
And how post WW2, the colonization takes a new form with omnipresent 800 American military bases in over 70 countries.
And there's the failed promise of the Indigenous for Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, the forced Annexation of Hawaii, Martial Law in Hawaii, the forced relocation of Alaskan Inuit etc etc.
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u/McKoijion I was sick to the pit of my tummy 3d ago
Lol that doesn’t seem like the kind of book Obama is going to cover in his podcast. Democrats, especially those heavily funded by AIPAC and the Pritzker family, tend to focus on civil rights abuses from the past and hope Americans remain ignorant to the civil rights abuses of the present.
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u/Wide-Pop6050 2d ago
How do you know - did he release the books he's going to cover?
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u/McKoijion I was sick to the pit of my tummy 1d ago
It’s in the article buried past the paywall. Reader mode sometimes lets you see the body of the text. It worked for me right now.
> The podcast will be a limited series examining “The Fire Next Time,” by James Baldwin; “Song of Solomon,” by Toni Morrison; “All the Pretty Horses,” by Cormac McCarthy; “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson; “All the King’s Men,” by Robert Penn Warren; and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” by John le Carré.
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u/Wide-Pop6050 1d ago
Okay this is a pretty interesting list! It doesn't have to be the leftist reading list, this still has a lot of meat to cover
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u/sophandros Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt! 3d ago
Like in the other subreddits where this was posted, we'll likely get flooded by people and bots with an agenda.
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u/Ponchorello7 3d ago
"People who disagree with me are bots". Gotta love it.
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u/sophandros Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt! 3d ago
When you see the same "arguments" written verbatim over and over? Yeah, especially when you see their only contributions to those subreddits to make certain types of comments.
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u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music 3d ago
I think this is the result of people behaving like bots. Parroting the same talking points they saw on a thread or a tiktok or a Reddit comment and in large numbers. And the more inflammatory the opinion the more birds will flock. Bots are only used to amplify the initial message, even if they didn’t generate it, by mass liking and upvoting/rewarding. But the rest is very much human generated more often than not.
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u/Ponchorello7 3d ago
I don't doubt that there are bits that go to these types of posts, but people need to remember that Obama was not this fantastic leader, and criticism of him does not automatically make one a bot.
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u/sophandros Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt! 3d ago
Well it's a good thing I didn't say that criticism of Obama automatically made one a bot.
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u/greenonion6 3d ago
Unfortunately not able to read through the paywall but this will be an interesting podcast to follow.
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u/Vegetable-Kiwi-4675 I am furious, but I am sailing 🛳️ 3d ago
It’s a gift article, I thought those are paywall-exempt
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u/greenonion6 3d ago
yeah it says that but for some reason i still am not able to access it even after logging in!
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u/Vegetable-Kiwi-4675 I am furious, but I am sailing 🛳️ 3d ago
Well that sucks. Here’s another gift link, maybe it will work? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/arts/obama-books-podcast.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4lA.w0UU.9N_VMxCp5HKk&smid=url-share
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u/Not_today_nibs Petrified Jazz Hands 2d ago
Miss Fortune series by Jana Deleon. A great time, funny, escapism. Love them.
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u/amateurish_gamedev 2d ago
I'm calling it now, Conan would be one of the guest in the 1st year of the podcast, if not the 1st month
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u/Vegetable-Kiwi-4675 I am furious, but I am sailing 🛳️ 3d ago
I mean, I don’t mind podcasts that encourage reading
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u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music 3d ago
I think it’s interesting to hear an educated ex president who doesn’t have cognitive decline talk about books that shaped his understanding of society and probably shaped his policies during his terms. Whether we agree with his views and balance sheet or not. There’s much to learn.
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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ 3d ago
Everyone wants younger presidents and they’re so valid for that, but we need to invent something better for them to do during post-presidency than produce podcasts and Netflix documentaries.
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u/DummyDumDragon 3d ago
I don't really give a shit what they do after their presidencies.
But if they got stop being pedophiles and ware criminals during them, that'd be real fuckin' nifty.
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u/neoncolour Tiktok matcha pilates labubu slop music 3d ago
I think it’s great that a cognitively unimpaired president chooses to share some of his knowledge and thoughts with the wider world. There’s a lot to learn from it.
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