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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

2. Henry Rollins (Artist) – Monogamy/Sexual Opportunism

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Is monogamy ridiculous? Does this change with age? What do we really want out of love and sex? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, we're joined by legendary hardcore musician and spoken word artist Henry Rollins. This clip from columnist Dan Savage launches Henry and host Jason Gots on an intense, personal conversation about love, big cities, and whether the two are incompatible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.2

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.2

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

0:10.9

Mmm, that is good.

0:12.9

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

0:15.8

Go all crisp in with walkers.

0:19.0

Delicious.

0:20.1

Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

0:28.4

Big Think is an online forum for the world's most interesting thinkers and doers to share mind-blowing ideas on video.

0:36.0

Since 2008, we've shared over 10,000 of them. On the Think Again

0:39.8

podcast, we surprise our guests and me, your host, with unexpected clips from these vast

0:44.9

and mysterious archives, and then we talk about them. I'm here today with Henry Rollins, a guy who

0:50.6

it looks to me like is pretty much doing exactly what he wants to do with his life.

0:55.1

He's been lead singer of the band's Black Flag and Henry Rollins Band,

0:58.8

toward the world as a spoken word artist, acted in Sons of Anarchy,

1:04.0

published a few books of words and photography.

1:07.0

A lot of people probably want to be you, Henry. Is that a bad idea?

1:12.2

Yeah. I think it would be better if they were themselves. There's a lot of my life that is

1:17.3

like yours and anyone else's, you know, incredibly unglamorous, unbelievably boring, and

1:23.5

something that one, like, must suffer through. But I do, you know, I have some, some good days, definitely.

1:30.5

You know, I saw you once perform many years ago.

1:33.9

I was a student at NYU.

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