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TRIGGERnometry

Comedian Simon Evans Learns the Life-Changing Truth About His Dad

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Simon Evans is an English comedian, writer and broadcaster. He has been an established figure in British comedy for several decades having made many TV appearances and six series of BBC Radio 4’s Simon Evans Goes to Market. He is a columnist for several publications including Spiked and the presenter of Headliners on GB News.
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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro
01:20 Bank Account Cancellations & Government Control
04:06 Are We at Risk of Authoritarianism?
05:16 Simon’s Commentator Role
06:35 Should Comedians Comment on Politics?
08:09 Simon Evans’ ‘Work of The Devil’
11:08 Having Testosterone Replacement
14:22 Simon Evans’ Comedy Persona
20:47 The Impact of Parenthood on Simon’s Work
28:55 Sponsor Message: Manscaped
30:17 How Did Learning About Simon’s Father Affect His Identity?
35:41 Nature Vs Nurture
43:03 Simon’s Relationship with his Biological Family
55:58 Sponsor Message: AG1
57:52 The Loss of Duty in this Generation
1:04:22 The Positive Psychology Movement
1:07:38 What Simon Has Learned from his Comedy Career
1:11:52 What’s The One Thing We’re Not Talking About?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

Huh?

0:30.7

In the show that I'm just winding up now, the work of the devil, which contained two major

0:35.7

revelations in the second half, one of which, the most famous one, and what it's sort of about,

0:40.5

it was the discovery that I was donor-conceived. And I learned through a DNA test that I was

0:46.5

actually conceived in a clinic in central London, run by one called Mary Barton and a husband

0:51.2

Betalt Visna, and the husband Betalt Visna was, it turns out, supplying the vast majority of

0:56.8

the sperm that was getting women pregnant over the course of about 22 years. It's thought

1:00.6

for a farther somewhere between 600 and 1,000 children, so I have all these half siblings.

1:04.8

The first time I went into that room, where they were all having lunch, the first big gathering,

1:09.3

there were 27 of them in there, and they were the first blood relatives I'd been in a room with,

1:15.4

ever. I mean, that's extraordinary, isn't it? At the age of what? 55 or something. I think the kind

1:20.8

of the core philosophical conundrum that you get to through recognising it and pondering on it is,

1:26.0

there is no alternative. It's not like I could have been this, or I could have, I would not exist.

1:41.9

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantinfician. And this is a show for

1:48.1

you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our terrific guest today returns to

1:54.1

the show for the third time. He's one of our favourite comedians here in Britain and has also

1:58.3

become a very prominent commentator as well. Simon Evans, welcome back to the show.

2:01.6

Thank you very much. I'm very excited to be doing my third show. I am looking forward to

2:05.9

wearing my badge. We'll have to design a badge. I think there should be one, maybe a tattoo or

2:11.0

something. I don't know. Oh, absolutely. On your forehead. It comes with a free bank account

2:15.2

cancellation. Oh, yeah. I've been reading about those. Yeah. They're spreading out now, aren't they?

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