Films & shows recommended on top podcasts

Hardcore History

Dan Carlin

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve (inferred)

Chimp Empire

James Reed (inferred)

Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog (inferred)

Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki (inferred)

The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola

The Age of Disclosure

Dan Farah (inferred)

Slow Horses

Apple TV+ (inferred)

Contact

Robert Zemeckis (inferred)

Casino

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Chris Ware

Debbie Millman

Game of Thrones

HBO (inferred)

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

Werner Herzog

Her

Spike Jonze (inferred)

Landman

Taylor Sheridan

Severance

Apple TV+ (inferred)

South Park

Trey Parker and Matt Stone (inferred)

Trip of Compassion

True Romance

Tony Scott (inferred)

Yellowstone

Taylor Sheridan (inferred)

American Primeval

Peter Berg (inferred)

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola (inferred)

House of Cards

Beau Willimon (inferred)

Apocalypto

Mel Gibson

Babe

Chris Noonan (inferred)

Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers

Jeremy Corbell

Children of Men

Alfonso Cuaron (inferred)

Cosmos

Carl Sagan (inferred)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Larry David

Dealt

Ex Machina

Alex Garland (inferred)

Free Solo

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (inferred)

I Think You're Fat

AJ Jacobs

Icarus

Bryan Fogel (inferred)

Man on Wire

MobLand

Guy Ritchie / Paramount+ (inferred)

Moment of Contact

James Fox

Painkiller

Peter Berg (inferred)

Peaky Blinders

Steven Knight (inferred)

Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

Richard Pryor

The Beast in Me

Netflix

The Big Bang Theory

Chuck Lorre

The Insider

Michael Mann (inferred)

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Nintendo (inferred)

The Matrix

The Wachowskis (inferred)

The Smashing Machine

Benny Safdie (inferred)

The Substance

Coralie Fargeat (inferred)

The Tim Ferriss Show: Dr. Kevin Tracey episode

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller (inferred)

Uncut Gems

Josh and Benny Safdie (inferred)

Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood (inferred)

Waking Life

Richard Linklater

What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement (inferred)

When Stand Up Stood Out

Fran Solomita (inferred)

Interstellar

Christopher Nolan (inferred)

Beast Games

MrBeast (inferred)

Chef's Table

Netflix

Land Man

Taylor Sheridan

Miracle

Derren Brown (inferred)

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)

12 Monkeys

Terry Gilliam (inferred)

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick

30 Days of Night

David Slade (inferred)

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

Andrew Hickey

A Prophet (Un prophete)

Jacques Audiard (inferred)

Alone

History Channel

American Werewolf in London

John Landis (inferred)

Ancient Aliens

Prometheus Entertainment (inferred)

Arcane

Riot Games / Fortiche (inferred)

Avatar

James Cameron

Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul

Nacer Khemir (inferred)

Basquiat

Julian Schnabel (inferred)

Beat Saber

Beat Games (inferred)

Being There

Hal Ashby

Bigger Stronger Faster

Chris Bell (director)

Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker (inferred)

Blade

Stephen Norrington (inferred)

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott (inferred)

Bowfinger

Frank Oz (inferred)

Breaking Bad

Vince Gilligan (inferred)

Burden of Dreams

Les Blank

Chariots of Fire

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore (inferred)

Collateral

Michael Mann (inferred)

Crumb

Terry Zwigoff (inferred)

Elden Ring

FromSoftware (inferred)

Elvis

Baz Luhrmann (inferred)

From

Epix / MGM+ (inferred)

Gladiator

Ridley Scott (inferred)

Heavy Rhyme Experience

The Brand New Heavies

John Wick

Chad Stahelski (inferred)

Kingpin

Farrelly Brothers (inferred)

Kumare

Vikram Gandhi (inferred)

Limitless

Neil Burger (inferred)

Mob Land

Guy Ritchie (inferred)

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python (inferred)

Nosferatu (2024)

Robert Eggers (inferred)

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan (inferred)

Pi

Darren Aronofsky (inferred)

Plandemic

Mikki Willis

Pluribus

Vince Gilligan (inferred)

Prey

Human Head Studios (inferred)

Ray

Taylor Hackford (inferred)

Ready Player One

Steven Spielberg

Roger & Me

Michael Moore

Senna

Asif Kapadia (inferred)

Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)

Stand by Me

Rob Reiner (inferred)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Paramount (inferred)

Tetris

Alexey Pajitnov (inferred)

The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola (inferred)

The Hustler

Robert Rossen (inferred)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Amy Sherman-Palladino (inferred)

The Mission

Roland Joffe (inferred)

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers (inferred)

The Price of Everything

The Top Idea in Your Mind

Paul Graham (inferred)

Vision Quest

Harold Becker (inferred)

Wicked

Jon M. Chu (inferred)

Wild Wild Country

Maclain Way and Chapman Way (inferred)

World of Warcraft

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss

The Terminal List

Amazon Studios (inferred)

Bad Thoughts

Tom Segura (creator)

Desperado

Robert Rodriguez

From Dusk Till Dawn

Robert Rodriguez

Hamilton's Pharmacopeia

Hamilton Morris (inferred)

I Will Teach You to Be Rich (podcast)

Ramit Sethi (inferred)

Making Sense

Sam Harris (inferred)

MeatEater

Steven Rinella (inferred)

Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld (inferred)

Spawn

Todd McFarlane

X-Men

20th Century Fox (inferred)

1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly

All the Hacks (podcast)

Chris Hutchins

Bad Monkey

Apple TV+ (inferred)

Chappelle's Show

Dave Chappelle

Fear and Loathing in the New Jerusalem

Darryl Cooper

Fortnite

Epic Games

Founders Podcast

David Senra

Good Will Hunting

Gus Van Sant (inferred)

Huberman Lab

Andrew Huberman

Maestro

Bradley Cooper (inferred)

My Octopus Teacher

Netflix (inferred)

Plastic Detox

Shanna H. Swan / Louie (director, inferred)

Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar Games

Red Dead Redemption 2

Rockstar Games

The Drive (podcast)

Peter Attia

The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

Bethesda Game Studios

The Mandalorian

Disney (inferred)

The Push

Derren Brown (inferred)

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

Julien Nitzberg (inferred)

Think Like a Game Designer

Justin Gary

1,000 True Fans (essay)

Kevin Kelly

16 and Recovering

MTV (inferred)

1923

Taylor Sheridan

2000 AD

3 Body Problem

Netflix (inferred)

30 for 30

ESPN

30 for 30: the documentary on Andre Agassi

ESPN (inferred)

32 Sounds

Sam Green (inferred)

3D Pinball: Space Cadet

Cinematronics

80,000 Hours Podcast

80,000 Hours (inferred)

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Tom Hanks / Marielle Heller (inferred)

A Brave and Startling Truth (Universe in Verse poetry reading)

Maya Angelou

A Breakthrough in Alzheimer's Disease: The Promising Potential of Klotho (The Drive podcast episode)

Peter Attia

A Fish Called Wanda

Charles Crichton (inferred)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

Bart Sibrel

A Prophet (Un prophète)

Jacques Audiard (inferred)

A Quick Start Guide to Healing Trauma

Neil Strauss

A State of Mind

Abnormal Returns

Tadas Viskanta

Adam Neely (YouTube music theory channel)

Adam Neely

Adolescence

Netflix (inferred)

After All

Dar Williams

Age of Disclosure

Dan Farah

Airplane!

Alan Watts Talks

Alan Watts

Alien

Ridley Scott (inferred)

Alien (1979)

Ridley Scott (inferred)

All Drug Olympics

Saturday Night Live (inferred)

All That Jazz

Bob Fosse (inferred)

All-In podcast

Jason Calacanis (inferred)

Almost Home

Craig Morgan

Altered Carbon

Laeta Kalogridis (inferred)

AMA #30 / Episode 188: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies

Dr. Peter Attia (inferred)

Amadeus

Milos Forman (inferred)

Amazing Grace

Aretha Franklin

Amazon shareholder letters

Jeff Bezos (inferred)

American Movie

Chris Smith (inferred)

American Pain

Darren Foster (inferred)

An American Werewolf in London

John Landis

An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no Aji / The Taste of Mackerel)

Yasujiro Ozu (inferred)

An Honest Liar

An Inconvenient Study

Henry Ford Health (inferred)

An Irish Goodbye

Anchorman

Adam McKay (inferred)

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky

Apocalypse Now (Redux)

Francis Ford Coppola

Arrested Development

Assassin's Creed

Ubisoft (inferred)

At Fillmore East

The Allman Brothers Band

Atmospheric Calm (Spotify playlist)

Spotify (inferred)

Australian Survivor

Network Ten (inferred)

Autopsy

HBO (inferred)

Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness

Awestruck (Johns Hopkins Magazine article)

Johns Hopkins University Magazine

Bach Cello Suites (Pablo Casals recording)

Johann Sebastian Bach / Pablo Casals (performer)

Backyard Squirrel Maze 1.0

Mark Rober

Bad Boy Bubby

Rolf de Heer (inferred)

Baddest Man Alive

The RZA & Black Keys

Badlands

Terrence Malick

Baldur's Gate

Larian Studios (inferred)

Baldur's Gate 3

Larian Studios (inferred)

Barbie

Greta Gerwig (inferred)

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick

Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton

Billy Bob Thornton (inferred)

Baskets

FX (inferred)

Battlestar Galactica

Ronald D. Moore (inferred)

Battlestar Galactica (2004 reboot)

Ronald D. Moore (inferred)

Becky

Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion (inferred)

Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater (inferred)

Behind the Curve

Daniel J. Clark (inferred)

Bert Kreischer Netflix sitcom

Bert Kreischer (inferred)

Big Chief

Professor Longhair

Bigger and Blacker

Chris Rock

Bill Gurley presentation 2,851 Miles (on regulatory capture)

Bill Gurley

Bizarre (Super Dave Osborne)

Bob Einstein (inferred)

Black Doves

Netflix (inferred)

Black Hawk Down

Ridley Scott (inferred)

Blade II

Guillermo del Toro

Blas.com

Blas Moros

Blueprint for Armageddon

Dan Carlin (inferred)

Bobby Fingers (YouTube channel)

Bobby Fingers

Book of Enoch

Unknown (ancient text)

Braveheart

Mel Gibson

Bridge of Spies

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

Bring the Pain

Chris Rock

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill (inferred)

Call Me Lucky

Bobcat Goldthwait (inferred)

Call of Duty

Activision (inferred)

Casablanca

Michael Curtiz (inferred)

Charlie Munger interview on Acquired

Acquired (inferred)

Cheers

James Burrows, Glen Charles, Les Charles (inferred)

Chernobyl

HBO (inferred)

Chernobyl (HBO miniseries)

Craig Mazin / HBO (inferred)

Chimp Nation

Netflix

Choo-Choo Charles

Gavin Eisenbeisz (Two Star Games) (inferred)

Civilization VI

Firaxis Games (inferred)

Cleveland Clinic Empathy video

Cleveland Clinic (inferred)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

CNBC

Cocaine & Rhinestones

Tyler Mahan Coe

Cocaine Cowboys

Billy Corben (inferred)

Cocaine Cowboys 2

Billy Corben (inferred)

Colossus: The Forbidden Project

Joseph Sargent (inferred)

Columbo

Come and See

Elem Klimov (inferred)

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

Conan O'Brien Learns Korean and Makes It Weird

Craig Mod ambient field recordings / slow TV

Craig Mod

Crip Camp

Netflix (inferred)

Dan Gable: Competitor Supreme

Dance Me to the End of Love

Leonard Cohen

Dave Chappelle (Netflix special)

Dave Chappelle

David Hockney: The Art of Seeing (documentary)

Deadlock

Valve (inferred)

Deeper Well

Kacey Musgraves

Def Comedy Jam

Russell Simmons (inferred)

Defamation

Yoav Shamir (inferred)

Defiant Ones (documentary on Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine)

HBO (inferred)

Demeo

Resolution Games (inferred)

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang

(documentary)

Derek Poston: Don't Tell Comedy Special

Derek Poston

Design Matters podcast

Debbie Millman

Deutschland 83

Diablo III

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

Diablo Immortal

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett (inferred)

Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey

Dave O'Leske (inferred)

Disco Elysium

ZA/UM (inferred)

Do We See Reality As It Is? (TED Talk)

Donald Hoffman (inferred)

Doctor Zhivago

David Lean (inferred)

Don't Look Up

Adam McKay (inferred)

Dosed

Downfall

Oliver Hirschbiegel (inferred)

Downfall (Der Untergang)

Oliver Hirschbiegel (inferred)

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

Drink Champs

N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN (inferred)

Dune: Part Two

Denis Villeneuve (inferred)

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

Duolingo

Eddie Murphy: Delirious

Eddie Murphy (inferred)

Einstein's Quantum Riddle

PBS (inferred)

Eleeza (Eliza Ivanova) Instagram / art book

Eliza Ivanova

Eric Newcomer (venture capital Substack)

Eric Newcomer

Escape from New York

John Carpenter (inferred)

Everyday Astronaut

Tim Dodd

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Evolutionary Parenting

Excalibur

John Boorman (inferred)

Factorio

Wube Software (inferred)

Fall of Civilizations

Paul Cooper (inferred)

Fall of Civilizations podcast

Paul Cooper (inferred)

Famous Blue Raincoat

Leonard Cohen

Fantastic Fungi

Louie Schwartzberg

Fantastic Fungi (film)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Amy Heckerling (inferred)

Fast.ai course

fast.ai (inferred)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Terry Gilliam (inferred)

Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem

Darryl Cooper (Martyr Made)

Fear the Walking Dead

Fidenzas (generative art series)

Tyler Hobbs

Fight Club

David Fincher (inferred)

Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog

Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge (inferred)

Fleishman Is in Trouble

FX

Flow

Gints Zilbalodis (inferred)

Forensic Files

Medstar Television (inferred)

Forrest Gump

Robert Zemeckis (inferred)

Forza

Turn 10 Studios (inferred)

FoundMyFitness podcast (Rhonda Patrick)

Rhonda Patrick

Friends

David Crane, Marta Kauffman (inferred)

Fun Problems

Peter and AJ

Galaxy Quest

Dean Parisot (inferred)

Gangs of New York

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

Gasland

Josh Fox

General Magic (documentary)

Ghostbusters

Gilly and Keeves

Shane Gillis and John McKeever (inferred)

Give Yourself Permission to Be Creative (TED Talk)

Ethan Hawke

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson (inferred)

Going Clear

Alex Gibney / HBO (inferred)

Gone Girl

David Fincher (inferred)

GoodFellas

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

Graceland

Paul Simon

Graceland (album)

Paul Simon

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Rockstar Games (inferred)

Greenlights (audiobook)

Matthew McConaughey

Hacking Democracy

HBO (inferred)

Hail, Caesar!

Coen Brothers

Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Hamilton's Pharmacopoeia

Hamilton Morris (inferred)

Hamnet

Chloe Zhao (inferred)

Happy Gilmore 2

Adam Sandler (inferred)

Hardcore History (podcast)

Dan Carlin

Hardcore History interview with Elon Musk on the technology of World War II

Dan Carlin

Haters

Paul Graham (inferred)

Hear This Idea

Finn Moorhouse and Luca Righetti (inferred)

Hearthstone

Blizzard Entertainment (inferred)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Eleanor Coppola (inferred)

Heat

Michael Mann (inferred)

Heavy Metal (magazine)

Hell or High Water

Taylor Sheridan (inferred)

Helvetica

Henry Shukman Zen koan meditations (Waking Up app)

Henry Shukman

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

John McNaughton (inferred)

Hi Ren

Ren

Higher End (song)

Ren

Hinech Yafah (You Are Beautiful)

Etti Ankri (inferred)

Homeland

Showtime (inferred)

House of Numbers

Brent Leung

How I Built This

Guy Raz (inferred)

How I'm Feeling Now

Lewis Capaldi (inferred)

How to Be Ultra Spiritual

JP Sears (inferred)

How to Change Your Mind

Netflix (inferred)

How to Change Your Mind (Netflix miniseries)

Michael Pollan (inferred)

How to Do Great Work (essay)

Paul Graham

How to Human (Hello Humans podcast)

Sam Lamott (inferred)

How to Human (Sam Lamott podcast)

Sam Lamott (inferred)

How to Make Wealth

Paul Graham (inferred)

How Wolves Change Rivers

Hulk Hogan documentary

Netflix (inferred)

Human

BBC / PBS

Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow (inferred)

I Am Legend

Francis Lawrence (inferred)

I Am Woman

I Think You're Fat (Esquire article)

A.J. Jacobs

I'm Alive

Johnny Thunder

Icahn: The Restless Billionaire

HBO (inferred)

Idan Raichel song (here comes my bride / beloved)

Idan Raichel

Ill Street Blues

Kool G Rap

Immortal Beloved

Bernard Rose (inferred)

In & Of Itself

Derek DelGaudio

In and Of Itself

Derek DelGaudio

In Living Color

Keenen Ivory Wayans (inferred)

In Our Time

BBC (inferred)

In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried

Amy Hempel (inferred)

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates

Inside the Battle for Jerusalem

Vice

Into the Woods

Stephen Sondheim (inferred)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Philip Kaufman (inferred)

Invest Like the Best (podcast)

Patrick O'Shaughnessy

It's Getting Hectic

Gang Starr (inferred)

Itaewon Class

Netflix (inferred)

Jack and Jill

Adam Sandler (inferred)

Jake Kaminski (archery YouTube channel)

Jake Kaminski

Jane Goodall: The Hope

National Geographic

Jaws

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

Jerry Seinfeld's Duke commencement speech

Jerry Seinfeld

Jesus' Son

Alison Maclean (inferred)

Jew (Ari Shaffir special)

Ari Shaffir

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Jodorowsky's Dune

Frank Pavich (inferred)

Jonathan Lubecki MDMA/PTSD profile video

The Economist

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

K-pop Demon Hunters

Netflix (inferred)

Kamini Desai yoga nidra recordings

Kamini Desai

Kate McCannon

Colter Wall

Kerbal Space Program

Squad (inferred)

Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Videos (Fear the Boom and Bust / Fight of the Century)

Russ Roberts and John Papola

Kickstart My Heart

Motley Crue

L.A. Confidential (film)

Curtis Hanson (inferred)

La Jetee

Chris Marker (inferred)

Late Night with the Devil

Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes (inferred)

Law & Order

Lenny

Bob Fosse (inferred)

Let the Right One In

Tomas Alfredson (inferred)

Letters of Note

Shaun Usher (inferred)

Life Has No Goals No Purpose (audio clip)

Osho

Live from Blues Alley (Yma Sumac, incl. "Stormy Monday")

Yma Sumac

Live on the Sunset Strip

Richard Pryor

Lonesome Dove

Looper

Rian Johnson (inferred)

Loot (NFT game project)

Dom Hofmann

Love on the Spectrum

Netflix (inferred)

Lucky Me (song)

Jay-Z (inferred)

Madden NFL

EA Sports (inferred)

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Netflix (inferred)

Make Good Art

Neil Gaiman

Make Good Art (commencement speech)

Neil Gaiman

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Paul Graham

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (essay)

Paul Graham

Malcolm X

Spike Lee (inferred)

Marginal Revolution (blog)

Tyler Cowen

Mark Rober YouTube videos

Mark Rober

Martin Berkhan / Leangains intermittent fasting work

Martin Berkhan

Marvel Snap

Second Dinner (inferred)

Mass in B Minor

Johann Sebastian Bach (inferred)

Masters of Scale

Reid Hoffman

Masters of Scale (first episode, with Reid Hoffman and Brian Chesky)

Reid Hoffman (inferred)

Masters of Scale (podcast)

Reid Hoffman

May I Suggest

Susan Werner (inferred)

Mayor of Kingstown

Taylor Sheridan

McMillions

HBO (inferred)

Mean Girls

Mark Waters (inferred)

Metabolism and Energetics newsletter (University of Indiana)

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Midnight Rider

The Allman Brothers Band

Mind Pump

Sal Di Stefano (inferred)

Mindscape

Sean Carroll (inferred)

Minority Report

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

Mirage Men

John Lundberg (inferred)

Miss Virginia

R.J. Daniel Hanna (inferred)

Miss You (Chris Buck cover of The Rolling Stones)

Chris Buck

MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Monty Python (inferred)

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python (inferred)

Moonbound

Robin Sloan

Motherless Brooklyn

Edward Norton (inferred)

Mr. Pimp-Lotion & Oral-Bee

Mr. Pimp-Lotion & Oral-Bee

My Big Break

Tony Zierra (inferred)

My Favorite Murder

MyHouse.WAD

Mystery of the Sphinx

Boris Said / John Anthony West (inferred)

Narc

Joe Carnahan

National Geographic

National Geographic (article on ibogaine/iboga by Rachel Nuwer)

National Geographic

Needful Things

Stephen King

New York Times coverage of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy phase 3 trials

The New York Times

NewsRadio

Paul Simms (inferred)

Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard lectures 2019

Nima Arkani-Hamed (inferred)

No Body, No Crime

Taylor Swift (inferred)

No Reservations

Anthony Bourdain (inferred)

Nonviolent Communication (audio course)

Marshall Rosenberg (inferred)

Nosferatu

Robert Eggers (inferred)

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Werner Herzog (inferred)

Nothing Special

Norm Macdonald

Of Dollars and Data

Nick Maggiulli

On Being

Krista Tippett

Once We Were Brothers

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman (inferred)

One, Two, Three

Billy Wilder

Open the Gates

Zach Bryan

Orion (remastered)

Metallica (inferred)

Pachinko (Apple TV show)

Apple TV+ (inferred)

Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro (inferred)

Papaoutai

Stromae

Particle Fever

Mark Levinson (inferred)

Past Lives

Celine Song (inferred)

Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

Perfect Days

Wim Wenders (inferred)

Pimp Chronicles

Katt Williams

Pisces (track by Jinjer)

Jinjer

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

John Hughes

Planet Earth

BBC (inferred)

Plant of the Gods (podcast)

Mark Plotkin

Police State

Dinesh D'Souza

Postcard from Earth

Darren Aronofsky

Predator: Badlands

Dan Trachtenberg (inferred)

Prefontaine

Steve James (inferred)

Prescription Thugs

Chris Bell (director)

Primal Fear

Gregory Hoblit (inferred)

Primer

Shane Carruth (inferred)

Prince of Persia

Jordan Mechner (inferred)

Prisoner No More

Jeff Wolf (inferred)

prompthunt.com

Addison Kowalski (inferred)

Pushing Boulder

Mark Normand (inferred)

Put Me Down Easy

L.C. Cooke

Q: Into the Storm

Cullen Hoback (inferred)

Quarterback

Netflix

Quirkology (YouTube channel)

Richard Wiseman

Radar Love

Golden Earring

Radio Ga Ga (Queen Live Aid 1985)

Queen

Raging Bull

Martin Scorsese

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg (inferred)

Rancid (band, music)

Rancid

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa (inferred)

Rationally Speaking

Julia Galef (inferred)

Rats

Morgan Spurlock (inferred)

Real Genius

Martha Coolidge (inferred)

Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock (inferred)

Red Scare

Reign in Blood

Slayer

Return to Lonesome Dove

Rick and Morty

Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (inferred)

Ridiculousness

MTV (inferred)

Riding Giants

Stacy Peralta (inferred)

Ringers (generative art series)

Dmitri Cherniak

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Morgan Neville (inferred)

Rocky

John G. Avildsen (inferred)

Rocky IV

Sylvester Stallone (inferred)

Rome

HBO (inferred)

Ronin

John Frankenheimer (inferred)

Runnin' Down a Dream

Bill Gurley (inferred)

Saga

Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (inferred)

Sally Mann documentary (What Remains)

Steven Cantor (inferred)

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg

Scent of a Woman

Martin Brest (inferred)

Schitt's Creek

School for The Work (Byron Katie training)

Byron Katie

Scientific American

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Sean Carroll's podcast

Sean Carroll (inferred)

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Steven Zaillian (inferred)

Sensuous Sensuous (Isley Brothers)

The Isley Brothers

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa (inferred)

Sexy Beast

Jonathan Glazer (inferred)

Shattered Glass

Billy Ray (inferred)

Shaun of the Dead (film)

Edgar Wright (inferred)

Sicario

Taylor Sheridan

Sid Meier's Civilization

MicroProse / Sid Meier (inferred)

Silicon Valley

HBO (inferred)

Silo

Apple TV+ (inferred)

Sinners

Ryan Coogler (inferred)

Sisu

Jalmari Helander (inferred)

Skill of Stress (course)

Emily Hightower (inferred)

Slow Dance

David Weatherford

Sneakers

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson (inferred)

Sohn (musician)

Sohn

Solo Hunter

Remi Warren

Something About Mary

Farrelly Brothers (inferred)

Soul

Pixar (inferred)

Sour Grapes

Jerry Rothwell and Reuben Atlas (inferred)

Spellbound

Jeffrey Blitz (inferred)

Sputnik

Egor Abramenko (inferred)

Squid Game

Hwang Dong-hyuk (inferred)

Stand Up Stood Out

Fran Solomita (inferred)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Lucasfilm (inferred)

Stardew Valley

ConcernedApe (inferred)

Stars in My Crown

Jacques Tourneur (inferred)

STEM-Talk

IHMC

Stranger Things

Netflix (inferred)

Strawberry Letter 23

Shuggie Otis

Studying Studies (article series)

Peter Attia (inferred)

Stumbling on Happiness

Daniel Gilbert (inferred)

Sunday in the Park with George

Stephen Sondheim (inferred)

Super 30

Super Mario 64

Nintendo (inferred)

Supernatural

Within (inferred)

Survivor

CBS (inferred)

Sushi Go

Gamewright (inferred)

Taming the Mammoth

Tim Urban (Wait But Why)

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

Tehran

Apple TV+ (inferred)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James Cameron (inferred)

Tetragrammaton (Rick Rubin podcast episode with Jimmy Iovine)

Rick Rubin

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Texas Flood

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The Acceleration of Addictiveness (essay)

Paul Graham

The Agent

Wondery / Project Brazen (inferred)

The Alpinist

The Antisocial Network

Netflix (inferred)

The Arrival

David Twohy (inferred)

The Art of Asking (TED Talk)

Amanda Palmer

The Art of Nonfiction (Paris Review interview with John McPhee)

The Paris Review

The Art of Violence

Justin Gaethje (inferred)

The Battle of Polytopia

Midjiwan AB (inferred)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Birth of Saké (documentary)

The Body Electric (TED Radio Hour miniseries)

NPR / TED Radio Hour (inferred)

The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast

Bret Easton Ellis (inferred)

The Buddy Holly Story

Steve Rash (inferred)

The Caine Mutiny

The Carpenter's Son

Lotfy Nathan (inferred)

The Chase (2024 Cocodona 250 documentary)

inferred

The Chosen

Dallas Jenkins (inferred)

The Color of Money

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

The Counselor

Ridley Scott (inferred)

The Day of the Jackal

Peacock (inferred)

The Day the Universe Changed

James Burke

The Descent

Neil Marshall (inferred)

The Dissident

Bryan Fogel (director)

The English

The Eternal Pump (NFT artwork)

Dmitri Cherniak (inferred)

The Expanse

Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby (inferred)

The Fifth Element

Luc Besson (inferred)

The Fighter

David O. Russell

The Fly

David Cronenberg (inferred)

The Fountain

Darren Aronofsky

The Fountain (soundtrack)

Clint Mansell (inferred)

The Fugitive Kind

Sidney Lumet / Tennessee Williams (inferred)

The Future Is Unwritten

Julien Temple (inferred)

The Glory

Netflix (inferred)

The Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, Bach)

Glenn Gould / Johann Sebastian Bach

The Grapes of Wrath

The Great Courses

The Teaching Company (inferred)

The Great Courses (Arthur Benjamin's math course)

The Great Courses

The Heart of Consciousness (Annaka Harris audio documentary)

Annaka Harris (inferred)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (audiobook narrated by Stephen Fry)

Stephen Fry (narrator) (inferred)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (audiobook)

Douglas Adams (inferred)

The Huberman Lab Podcast (ketamine episode)

Andrew Huberman (inferred)

The Intelligent Plant

Michael Pollan

The Kids in the Hall

The Kids in the Hall (inferred)

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

The Last Boy Scout

Tony Scott (inferred)

The Last Dance

ESPN (inferred)

The Last Duel

Ridley Scott (inferred)

The Last of the Mohicans

Michael Mann (inferred)

The Last Temptation of Christ

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

The Last Waltz

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

The Laundromat

Steven Soderbergh (inferred)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Nintendo

The Lives of Others

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (inferred)

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)

Peter Jackson (inferred)

The Loudest Voice

Showtime (inferred)

The Making of Oprah

The Man Who Knew Infinity

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The McLaughlin Group

The Microdose

UC Berkeley

The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris

The Most Reluctant Convert

The Moth (podcast)

The music of Cesaria Evora

Cesaria Evora

The music of Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

The Northman

Robert Eggers (inferred)

The OA

Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (inferred)

The Occupation of the American Mind

Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp (inferred)

The Octopus Murders

Netflix (inferred)

The Office

Ricky Gervais (inferred)

The Office (UK)

Ricky Gervais (inferred)

The Orville

Seth MacFarlane (inferred)

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Clint Eastwood (inferred)

The Passion of the Christ

Mel Gibson (inferred)

The Pendragon Cycle

Jeremy Boreing / Daily Wire (inferred)

The Power Broker (99% Invisible miniseries)

99% Invisible

The Present Moment: A Retreat on the Practice of Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh (inferred)

The Pretense of Knowledge (Nobel Prize lecture)

Friedrich A. Hayek

The Princess Bride

William Goldman (inferred)

The Pursuit of Happyness

Gabriele Muccino (inferred)

The Quantified Scientist (YouTube channel)

The Random Show

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

The Resurrection of the Bayou Maharaja

James Booker

The Righteous Gemstones

Danny McBride (inferred)

The School for the Work (nine-day school)

Byron Katie

The Settlers

Louis Theroux (inferred)

The Shining

Stanley Kubrick (inferred)

The Simpsons

Matt Groening (inferred)

The Smashing Machine (documentary)

John Hyams (inferred)

The Songs of Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer

The Sopranos

David Chase (inferred)

The Soul of Success

Nick Nanton (inferred)

The Stanley Parable

Galactic Cafe (inferred)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Illumination/Nintendo (inferred)

The Surrender Experiment / Surrender course

Michael Singer

The Surrender Experiment course (Sounds True)

Michael Singer (inferred)

The Tail End

Tim Urban

The Tail End (blog post)

Tim Urban

The Tail End (essay by Tim Urban)

Wait But Why (inferred)

The Teaching Company ethics course (objective moral truth)

The Teaching Company / The Great Courses (inferred)

The Theory of Knowledge Podcast (ToKCast)

Brett Hall

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick (inferred)

The Three Body Problem

Netflix (inferred)

The Three Sides of Risk

Morgan Housel

The Tim Dylan Show

Tim Dylan

The Top Idea in Your Mind (essay)

Paul Graham

The Walk

Robert Zemeckis (inferred)

The Walking Dead

The West Wing

Aaron Sorkin (inferred)

The Witch

Robert Eggers (inferred)

The Work

The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling

Judd Apatow (inferred)

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson (inferred)

They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson

Think Like A Game Designer (Justin Gary episode with Elan Lee)

Justin Gary

Think Like a Game Designer (podcast episode with Richard Garfield)

Justin Gary (inferred)

Three Identical Strangers

Thriller

Michael Jackson

Tickled

David Farrier (inferred)

Tiger King

Netflix (inferred)

Tim Ferriss conversation with Steve Jurvetson

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

Tim Ferriss Show episode with Eric Schmidt

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

BBC (inferred)

Tires

Shane Gillis (inferred)

To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

Robert Mulligan (inferred)

To Live

Zhang Yimou

Top Gear

BBC (inferred)

Top Gun: Maverick

Touch of Evil

Orson Welles (inferred)

Trading Places

John Landis (inferred)

Trigonometry

Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster

Trip of Compassion (documentary film)

Troll 2

Claudio Fragasso (inferred)

True Lies

James Cameron (inferred)

Tyler Cowen interview with Paul Graham

Tyler Cowen (inferred)

UFC 3

EA Sports (inferred)

Ultima VII: The Black Gate

Origin Systems (inferred)

Unacknowledged

Steven Greer (inferred)

United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack

BBC

Van Neistat's book report on The Fourth Turning

Van Neistat (inferred)

Vernon, Florida

Errol Morris

Vikings

Michael Hirst (inferred)

Wait But Why

Tim Urban

Wait But Why (blog)

Tim Urban

Waiting for Guffman

Christopher Guest (inferred)

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson

Waking Up (app)

Sam Harris

WarGames

Warrior

Gavin O'Connor (inferred)

We Need to Talk About Cosby

W. Kamau Bell (inferred)

WeCrashed

Apple TV+ (inferred)

Weightless

Marconi Union

Weird Science

John Hughes

Welcome to Derry

HBO (inferred)

What About Bob?

When We Left Earth

Discovery Channel (inferred)

When We Were Kings

Leon Gast (inferred)

Where the Buffalo Roam

Art Linson (inferred)

White Boy (White Boy Rick documentary)

Shawn Rech (inferred)

White Men Can't Jump

Ron Shelton (inferred)

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Wilderness Cooking

Wilderness Cooking (YouTube channel)

Windy City Heat

Bob Zmuda (inferred)

Winning Chess series (Winning Chess Strategies, Winning Chess Tactics)

Yasser Seirawan

Without Limits

Robert Towne (inferred)

Woman Scorned

Oliver Anthony

Wrath of the Khans

Dan Carlin (inferred)

X-Men (film series, incl. the Wolverine movies)

Marvel / 20th Century Fox (inferred)

XKCD

Randall Munroe (inferred)

Year of the Dragon

Michael Cimino (inferred)

You So Crazy

Martin Lawrence (inferred)

You Will Marry the Wrong Person

Alain de Botton / The School of Life (inferred)

Young Sheldon

Chuck Lorre (inferred)

Zero Effect

Five Bullet Friday

Tim Ferriss (inferred)

Killer Joe

Tracy Letts (inferred)

True Detective

HBO (inferred)

Dallas Buyers Club

Jean-Marc Vallee (inferred)

Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater (inferred)

Missing 411: The Hunted

David Paulides

Mud

Jeff Nichols (inferred)

The Matt Walker Podcast

Dr. Matthew Walker (inferred)

A Time to Kill

Joel Schumacher (inferred)

Against the Rules

Michael Lewis (inferred)

Alita: Battle Angel

Robert Rodriguez

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Ari Shaffir: The End

Ari Shaffir

Australia

Batman/Spawn

Todd McFarlane

Beauty and the Beast

Bernie

Richard Linklater (inferred)

Black & White

Lionhead Studios (inferred)

Conan the Barbarian

El Mariachi

Robert Rodriguez

Four Rooms

Robert Rodriguez

Huberman Lab Podcast

Andrew Huberman

Legion of Skanks

Luis J Gomez (inferred)

Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh (inferred)

Oklahoma!

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Robert Rodriguez

Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical

B. Jeffrey Madoff

Pumping Iron

Red 11

Robert Rodriguez

Restrepo

Sebastian Junger

Sin City

Robert Rodriguez

Skankfest

Luis J Gomez / Gas Digital

Spy Kids

Robert Rodriguez

Stay Hungry

Sunset Boulevard

Tactical Empathy

Nick Nanton

The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

The Amazing Spider-Man

Marvel (inferred)

The Boy from Oz

The Drive

Peter Attia

The Faculty

Robert Rodriguez

The Leftovers

Damon Lindelof (inferred)

The Limit

Robert Rodriguez

The Music Man

The Paperboy

Lee Daniels (inferred)

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

The Terminator

Theme Park

Bullfrog Productions (inferred)

Twins

We Can Be Heroes

Robert Rodriguez

Wisdom from the Top (podcast)

Guy Raz