Eric Jacobus on the Art and Science of Violence

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🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Stuntman and action designer Eric Jacobus joins EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a no-holds-barred discussion of the biological basis for violence and how to avoid the worst of it, the value of violence as spectator sport, and the vast superiority of duels to feuds--Alexander Hamilton notwithstanding.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is October 20th, 2021, and my guest is stuntman and action designer, Eric Jacobus.
0:44.8	He spends a lot of his time choreographic violence and action scenes and movies and video games.
0:49.8	Our topic for today is violence.
0:52.1	Based on a series of essays Eric has written that will link to.
0:55.6	And those are about helping us understand the how and why violence in human affairs
0:58.8	over the centuries.
1:00.5	And at the end, I hope to bring the conversation around how all of this infuses Eric's stunt
1:05.5	work and work with violence in the visual arts.
1:10.2	I want to start with a, so welcome, Eric, welcome to econ talk.
1:13.8	Thanks for having me on, Russ.
1:14.8	I've been listening for years, so it's exciting to be here.
1:17.6	That's great.
1:18.6	I want to start with a quote from the opening of the essay.
1:21.8	It's fantastic.
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