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TRIGGERnometry

Dr Mike Martin: Why We Fight

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mike Martin is a former British Army officer, a visiting war studies fellow at King's College London and author of Why We Fight: The Cognitive Basis For War
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-We-Fight-Cognitive-Basis/dp/1849048894

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) 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.

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0:00.0

Hello and this is a show for you

0:03.4

Hello and welcome to trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantine Kitten and this is a show for you if you're bored with people arguing on the internet

0:12.3

over subjects they know nothing about.

0:15.0

At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.

0:18.1

We are the experts.

0:19.3

Our absolutely fantastic guests this week is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

0:24.0

He's a research fellow at King's College London, researching war studies.

0:28.0

And he is the author of this brilliant book, Why We Fight.

0:32.0

Dr Mike Martin, welcome to Trigonometry.

0:34.0

Hey, how you doing?

0:35.0

And I got your name right, as I didn't before,

0:37.0

as I didn't off camera.

0:39.0

Sorry, just for anyone who's watching this,

0:41.0

we're recording this the day after the election, so I'm incredibly

0:44.5

hung over. Francis is incredibly disappointed that UKIP didn't win.

0:48.7

So...

0:49.7

I had two hours sleep.

0:50.7

You've had to have sleep.

0:51.7

We're all going to be stumbling around.

0:54.0

But listen, man, your book is absolutely incredible.

0:56.9

Absolutely fascinating talking about why people fight.

0:59.1

But before we get into that, tell us a little bit about who are you, how are you where you are, what has been your journey through life?

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