38. Amanda Palmer (Musician, Author) – Privacy Is Weird

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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"As human beings we all have this flaw, which is to think that there’s a right way of doing things. And it’s just bullshit." – Amanda Palmer on Think Again Artist Amanda Palmer is a practitioner of radical trust –– On tour, she couch surfs with fans from all over the world. She's allowed fans to sign her naked body after shows. Through the online crowdfunding platform Patreon, she empowers her fans to support her work one "thing" at a time. On this week's Think Again, Amanda and host Jason Gots have a lively, free ranging discussion on the spectrum from unfiltered expression to highly polished art, #blacklivesmatter , Apple's privacy fight with the FBI, and whether or not and to what extent the internet is turning us all into a bunch of narcissistic idiots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:03.0	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.0	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:09.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious.
0:20.0	Hi there, I'm Jason Gautz, and're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.
0:29.7	Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas and little intense doses from some of the most
0:35.9	creative thinkers on earth.
0:40.3	The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone. We surprise our guests, all accomplished people in their fields
0:43.3	with ideas they're not prepared to discuss.
0:46.3	And I'm not prepared either. The ideas are a surprise to me too.
0:49.3	I'm very, very happy today to be talking with the multi-talented Miss Amanda Palmer, or Mrs.
0:55.4	Amanda Palmer.
0:56.4	She's a former human statue, a rock star under her own name and with her band the Dresden
1:02.0	Dolls.
1:03.0	She's the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Art of Asking.
1:06.9	Amanda's a champion of radical trust and vulnerability.
1:10.1	You might call her aggressively vulnerable.
1:11.6	She's an inspiration to all of us who are too cool or too shy to ask for what we really need from other people.
1:18.6	Welcome to think again, Amanda.
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