{"podcast":{"title":"3 Books With Neil Pasricha","slug":"3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","podcast_index_feed_id":230850,"rss_url":"https://rss.libsyn.com/shows/117111/destinations/671382.xml","website_url":"http://www.3books.co","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/9/e/9/e9e9657d59ec593416c3140a3186d450/3Books_Logo_2022.jpg","author":"Neil Pasricha","episode_count":216,"summary":"3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 22-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Shirley The Nurse, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Angie Thomas, David Mitchell, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Mark Manson, Seth Godin, Judy Blume, and Quentin Tarantino. 3 Books is published on the lunar calendar with each of the 333 chapters dropped on the exact minute of every single full moon all the way up to 10:37 PM EST on April 26, 2040. 3 Books is an Apple \"Best Of\" award-winning show and is 100% non-profit with no ads, no sponsors, no commercials, and no interruptions. 3 Books has 3 clubs including the End of the Podcast Club, the Cover to Cover Club, and the Secret Club, which operates entirely through the mail and is only accessible by calling 1-833-READ-A-LOT. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bes…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T04:19:17.860573+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850"},"episode":{"title":"Chapter 154: Peter Kimani on conquering the curse of choreographed colonialism","slug":"chapter-154-peter-kimani-on-conquering-the-curse-of-choreographed-colonialism","published_at":"2025-11-05T13:19:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-154-peter-kimani-on-conquering-the-curse-of-choreographed-colonialism","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850","url":"https://threebooks.libsyn.com/chapter-154-peter-kimani-on-conquering-the-curse-of-choreographed-colonialism","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/threebooks/CH154_PK_Fullmix_audio_podcast_20251028.mp3?dest-id=671382","summary":"We're heading to Africa! Over the years we have taken the 3 Books podcast on the road many times ... from recording in ​ Judy Blume's bookstore ​ in Key West to to the ​ back of Jackie's Uber ​ in St. Louis to ​ Jonathan Haidt's kitchen ​ in New York we've gone where the stories take us. And for the first time we are going to the 55-country and 1.5 billion person continent of Africa. I am so excited to share the first of three chapters of 3 Books recorded in Nairobi, Kenya. I landed there and went whizzing down busy streets with colourful stalls, wandering goats, people pulling carts full of eggs, women carrying baskets on their heads, endless whizzing bodas (motorcycles). I visited the lovely home of novelist and professor ​ Peter Kimani ​ — where he lives with his wife Anne and their two boys. Peter is a huge mind and talented writer whose work spans New York Times Notable novels such as ' ​ Dance of the Jakaranda ​ ' to writing a poem for Barack Obama's presidential inauguration. Peter has studied at the University of Iowa—the Harvard of writing schools, perhaps!—and earned his doctorate at the University of Houston. He was awarded the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature, Kenya's highest literary honor, and is a professor at Aga Khan University in Nairobi. Let's sit down outside in his backyard garden, near the mango and orange trees, below the calls of the Pied Crows, and discuss normalizing abnormalities, decolonizing our minds, The Hardy Boys, writing as an extension of living, whitewashing conservation, Peter's 3 most formative books, and much, much more... Let's flip the page to Chapter 154 now...","meta_description":"We're heading to Africa! Over the years we have taken the 3 Books podcast on the road many times ... from recording in ​ Judy Blume's bookstore ​ in Key W…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8573,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/episodes/chapter-154-peter-kimani-on-conquering-the-curse-of-choreographed-colonialism/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/3-books-with-neil-pasricha-230850/chapter-154-peter-kimani-on-conquering-the-curse-of-choreographed-colonialism.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}