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TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Francis, do you like books? |
| 0:02.6 | Only when they have pictures, all the waterproof ones I can take in the bath with me. |
| 0:07.0 | Alright, well for those of you who can read and enjoy reading satire in particular, we have just the book for you. |
| 0:13.5 | What satire? Shut up. |
| 0:15.0 | The book is called Work Fragility. It's a brilliantly funny takedown of Robin DiAngelo's white fragility and work culture more generally. |
| 0:23.0 | It will keep you amused through the small wee hours as civilization collapses all around you. |
| 0:28.0 | It's satire as it's meant to be, allowing you to laugh at things that powers it be have now deemed off limits. |
| 0:35.0 | We all know that comedy now is more toothless than Joe Biden after he's removed his dentures. |
| 0:40.0 | This is what you need to hit the funny bone in these demented times, and it's received an average of 4.4 stars on Amazon. |
| 0:48.0 | If you're already read work for Jill, given time order also has two other books out, the little book of work jokes and scary stories to tell the work in the dark. |
| 0:57.0 | I'll read that book, which one? The little one. Find his books on Amazon and enjoy a satirical book that's funny and playful. |
| 1:08.0 | You must know, as someone who used to work in politics, how toxic what you've just said is. |
| 1:14.0 | But someone's got to say it. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Constantine Kissin. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. |
| 1:33.0 | Our brilliant guest today is the author of Among the Monsters, who's saying welcome to Trigonometry. |
| 1:38.0 | Thank you for having me. It's a great pleasure to have you. We've had a bit of a chat before the interview started. |
| 1:42.0 | I can already feel this is going to be a really interesting and important conversation. |
| 1:46.0 | Before we get into it though, tell everybody a little about who you are, how are you, where you are. |
| 1:52.0 | I've messed up that question twice now. And what has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us? |
| 1:58.0 | My journey started here in London. I was born here to parents who came from two different countries, one from Arabia, and other that was then British India. |
| 2:08.0 | They came here in the 1950s, so the family's been here for decades. |
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