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The Status Game
Will Storr
“I highly recommend everybody checks it out; this one in particular is my favorite”
“of all these books, I love them all, but this one in particular is my favorite... So, I highly recommend everybody checks it out.”— Steven Bartlett
The guest's own work
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The Heretics
Will Storr
“my my my second book, The Heretics, was looking at why do otherwise smart people believe end up believing these crazy things?”— Will Storr
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Selfie
Will Storr
“Your book Selfie. Yeah. Um what was the I mean, I love the name. It was very of the time in 2017 as well.”— Will Storr
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The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr
“On that point of storytelling, you mentioned storytelling there in our um in our narrative. Your your book in 2019 was about storytelling.”— Steven Bartlett
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The Seven Basic Plots
Christopher Booker
“there's a brilliant story analyst called Christopher Booker who wrote this amazing book called The Seven Basic Plots.”— Will Storr
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
“the example he uses are the three ghosts in A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens Scrooge story.”— Will Storr
MediaReferenced
Big Brother
“I used to be a massive fan of Big Brother when Big Brother was on. And there was always a thing in Big Brother where somebody would behave completely obnoxiously.”— Will Storr
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The Last Dance
ESPN (inferred)
“what I saw in Michael Jordan's documentary where Michael Jordan would it would seem look for rivalries. He would so much so that he would make them up.”— Steven Bartlett
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Leica camera
Leica
“it's incredible to have a Leica camera that take amazing photographs. So so so you are you are getting something extra for your money”— Will Storr
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