Howdy friends, welcome back. My guest today is Rutger Breggman, best-selling author of Utopia for realists

and today we are talking about his new book, Human Kind. Has the shocking revelation, the

unbelievable hypothesis that is at our very core human beings are actually quite nice.

We're not these evil malicious creatures that are trying to constantly get one over on each other, but actually we're

look at that. I need to go and get some aerial active pods apparently.

But yeah, we're quite nice, deep down at our core and we're given a host of examples from history,

including what happened when a bunch of Tongan boys were stranded on an island for 15 months

and it did not turn into Lord of the Flies how the British and Germans responded to their

cities being bombed during World War II, the volume or lack of bullets that are fired out of guns

by soldiers during war and a whole lot more. It's super interesting to see this different non-adversarial

view of humanity looking at survival of the friendliest, not survival of the fittest. In other news,

I fucked up on this podcast and I didn't turn my mic on. The whole thing from my side is from the

mic in the middle of my laptop, which actually isn't all that bad and I don't know why I've got all

of this kit because I could definitely should just use my laptop. But yeah, I'm sorry about that,

I didn't mean to do it and it's it's only mistake if you make it twice, right? That's the way it works.

In other other news, the long awaited Ultimate Lifehack's list is finally completed. It has taken me

nearly two months to finish this, but it is a complete compendium of every life hack we have ever

featured on this show. That's over 200 ways to upgrade your existence and I've finally finished it

and it will be available one week today. Monday 15th of June, this will be available to download

for free. I don't know if it's going to be free forever, but it definitely will be free next week.

So set your watches, get ready for that. Monday 15th of June, we will be releasing the Ultimate

Lifehack's list, the definitive guide to how to upgrade your existence, expect all of the

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