The Old Man and the Sea

This book by Ernest Hemingway has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Scott Kelly. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-11-09 and the most recent from 2021-08-23. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements.