Jared Diamond (geographer, historian, ornithologist)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Jared Diamond is an author, geographer, historian, and ornithologist. Jared joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what his thoughts are on the future state of the world, what motivated him to write books about human societies, and what factors contribute to the rise and fall of civilizations. Jared and Dax talk about why European societies were driven to compete with each other, why some people are obsessed with the "end of days" concept, and what it means to be considered a polymath. Jared explains how he got interested in birdwatching, how the spread of disease affected colonization throughout history, and how many languages he learned over the course of his travels. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Diamond and I'm joined by
0:05.8	Jared Padman. Hello. We have a fucking legend on today as somebody who have greatly admired for two decades now.
0:15.9	Jared Diamond he wrote one of the most landmarky books on this topic.
0:20.5	You want a Pulitzer Prize for it. Of course, it's guns, germs, and steel. I think I reference this book a lot.
0:27.0	You do. Yeah, it's an incredible book for anyone that's not read guns, germs, and steel.
0:31.0	And I'll argue that if you like Sapiens, it's in that world of a really comprehensive view of how we got here. It's so good. But he's got a ton of other books. He's got collapse, which I've read in his great,
0:41.2	upheaval. The third chimpanzee is first real work, and the world
0:45.6	until yesterday. Now the term polymath, which we learned once we were doing this show,
0:50.1	is someone who knows about everything.
0:52.6	Yeah, lots of different subjects.
0:54.1	He's a for real polymath.
0:55.4	He's a historian, a geographer, an ornithologist,
0:59.2	and he was the world's expert on how the gallbladder dealt with insulin.
1:04.3	That was how he got his professorship at UCLA.
1:06.6	He was teaching in the medical school.
1:08.8	Yeah, he's incredible.
1:10.1	I know.
1:11.4	Please enjoy Jared Diamond.
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1:27.1	He's an object expert.
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