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Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

9. Henry Rollins (Artist), pt. II – American Trauma/The Word "Genius"

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

Big Think / Panoply

Arts, Society & Culture

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2015

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Can anything cure what ails America? What's a "genius", exactly? In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, we air part two of our conversation with legendary hardcore musician and spoken word artist Henry Rollins. Interview clips from Paul Ekman and James Gleick launch a discussion of a nation divided and the character traits of "geniuses". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

0:04.0

Not much to it, is there?

0:06.0

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

0:11.0

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.

0:19.0

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

0:26.3

Since 2008, Big Think has been capturing bright ideas on video from some of the smartest people

0:31.6

in the world.

0:32.8

On Think Again, we revisit these ideas.

0:34.7

It's a total surprise.

0:36.2

My guest and I have no idea in advance which

0:38.4

interviews we'll be talking about. This is part two of my conversation with the legendary Henry

0:43.3

Rollins. In part one, we talked about monogamy and relationships. In part two, this conversation

0:49.0

continues with two more surprise subjects from Big Things producers. What's up next, Jonathan?

0:53.6

So this one is Paul Ekman on whether police should wear anger detectors.

0:58.0

The police are there to protect us.

1:01.0

They're there for our safety.

1:04.0

Now, occasionally, there will be a bad apple,

1:09.0

but my work with police has suggested that that's really exceptional.

1:13.6

The problem is they have a gun, so they can do a lot of harm quickly.

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