151 - Roger Nygard (TV/Film Editor, Writer, Director)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Arts, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2015

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Roger has worked in film and television as a director, writer, producer and editor. He's worked with lots of famous people (Larry David, David Spade, Leonard Nimoy) and has made a series of unique documentaries about fringe communities and thinkers: Trekkies, Suckers (about car salesmen), Six Days in Roswell (UFO enthusiasts), The Nature of Existence.

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0:00.0	Radio Mano, Papacango.
0:02.0	More than at any time in history.
0:31.0	One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
0:38.0	The other, to total extinction.
0:41.0	Let us pray that we will have the wisdom to choose correctly.
0:46.0	That's a quote from Woody Allen.
0:48.0	You might have to listen to it again to get the joke.
0:50.0	It sounds so serious.
0:52.0	Until you really wrap your head around it.
0:56.0	I opened the last chapter of the book with that.
1:00.0	Yes, we face a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen.
1:03.0	And one direction is despair and utter hopelessness.
1:06.0	And the other is total extinction.
1:08.0	Which way will we go?
1:10.0	I think there's a third option.
1:15.0	I'm not telling you what I'd put my money on.
1:17.0	But I do think that there are three options.
1:20.0	We are at a crossroads.
1:21.0	And any crossroads has three options.
1:23.0	Right?
1:24.0	Four, if you count going back exactly the way you came.
1:29.0	But you can go straight ahead.
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