Between the World and Me

This book by Ta-Nehisi Coates was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Joe Rogan. The people who vouched for it on air: Josh Dubin. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country’s foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial history?

• “read Ta-Nehisi Coates's book between the world and me it's a fascinating tale it's a life altering book for me”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “it's a life altering book for me; it's a fascinating tale”
  Josh Dubin · The Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 202400:34:42

  Said during "Joe Rogan Experience #2228 - Josh Dubin". The episode features Josh Dubin: Criminal justice reform advocate and attorney affiliated with the Perlmutter Center and Innocence Project work, known for exonerations and resentencing cases. Innocence advocate Josh Dubin returns after a freed client's alleged murder, then unveils the Ohio 4 wrongful-conviction case.