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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

448 - Rutger Bregman (Historian and Author of Humankind)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Rutger Bregman is a historian and author. He has published five books on history, philosophy, and economics. His books Humankind (2020) and Utopia for Realists (2017) were both New York Times Bestsellers and have been translated into more than 40 languages. He also dared to speak truth to billionaires at Davos and provoked Tucker Carlson to melt down into a pool of frustration and rage.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range, “Son of a Preacher Man,” cover by Menno Roymans.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano Papatzango

0:02.6

Hi Chris, Josh calling here from Adlaid in South Australia.

0:31.8

I'm just sitting in a beautiful open park area.

0:36.8

A tale end of summer at the moment.

0:38.8

So we're still getting beautiful weather down here.

0:40.8

And we've everything gone on the world.

0:43.8

We're not really into a full lockdown yet, but yeah, it looks like a teddy netway.

0:47.8

But I just wanted to comment on some of the positive things that are coming out of this.

0:51.8

We've already seen since the closure of gyms and indoor sporting facilities and a lot of retail shops.

0:58.8

I've just noticed so many people enjoying the outdoors more.

1:03.7

They look happier, not happier, but they look more entrenched in the outdoors and in being

1:10.3

in nature again.

1:11.3

And I'd really love to see that trend keep going.

1:13.6

I think it's a good thing.

1:15.3

I hope we take lessons out of this whole process and as it falls away that we hold onto

1:22.5

some things that we've adapted to through it.

1:25.4

I really love your podcast and I love civilised death mates.

1:28.2

It's meant a lot to me over the last six months and I really hope you keep doing what

1:32.5

you're doing.

1:33.5

I love you man.

1:34.5

All the best.

1:35.5

Hope you're well.

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